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CHILI TIME ISSUE
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
YOU TAKE WHEELS, I'LL TAKE WINGS
BradP introduced guest presenter Annette McClellan. she is the Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis vice-President of Program and District Operations. They offer programs serving K-12 students, focusing on work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. The in-school programs are all presented by volunteers. JA currently serves about 20,000 students on both sides of the Mississippi. Since 1943, more than 3.6 million people have participated in JA in the metro area. 41% of JA alumni credit the program with influencing their career choice and 1 in 3 say they they work in the same career as the JA volunteer who taught them as a student. For additional information or to volunteer link to http://www.jastl.org
Wood River's "Uncle" Leonard was in the house touting his club's cash raffle. $10 gets you in the rotating bin with an opportunity to win one of three prizes-$1,500, $250, $100
Speaking of winning, $250 Baseball Mania winner ChrisL claims that he "earned It".
What will our Cardinals be doing this time next week??
Don't forget to give MarkS your Chili $$. He would like to see us net $1,500, as of Thursday he reported break even income. Set-up starts today @ 2:30. Dinner is served from 4-7. Please drop your dessert offerings by 3PM at EAWR high school.
Sherry slid on in and promptly inspected the grub line. (She may be working undercover for the MadCo Health Dept.) She found Salisbury steak, boiled/quartered/seasoned redskins, Rotary g-beans, rolls, salad, cookies and cake.
Randy loves Lori's M & M machine. Go check it out and let me know what it looks like. Halloween...
Able fill-in "Bullpen Bill" took the gavel.
Allen, Dick and Lori were the first in the house. Late arrivals included Paul, MarkV, Patty and Chris X 2.
Dick has now made two meetings in a row. Next week he is off to Branson to scout for his new Andy Williams Christmas sweater.
Bill warns that any loose dollars will be claimed by a preacher. Amen!
Opening duties were flawlessly handled by Dick, Patty and Dave.
Sherry reports that Sandy continues to do well with her knee surgery recovery. In fact, Sherry suggested something that would not pass the 4-way test, so it won't be repeated here! Hope to see Sandy soon.
The sign-up sheet for the Steak Fry on October 17th is making the rounds. If you submitted your registration on-line, skip the hard copy option.
SAA Chris wrangled Andrew to collect the $$. Not here last week? Pay a $. Rick had an announcement about the Ken Burns/PBS country Music documentary. Dave spoke about the Wings and Wheels program taking place today (9-2). For the second week in a row a Wood River Rotarian poached a correct trivia answer, this week about fictional presidents. (Better than Ricks bogus answer the week before).
Sherry and BradP had zero luck finding the joker. Wendell did win a couple of bucks on the scratch-off.
That's it, have a fine and dry weekend. Ciao!
LET'S REVIEW
HAPPY CAMPERS
TRIVIA
Utah's "Mights Five" ad campaign for a quintet of national parks has brought a flood of tourists. which of these isn't among the five?
A-Bryce Canyon
B-Capital Reef
C-Canyonlands
D-Great Basin
Today is National Ghost Hunting Day
What is the largest college campus in the U.S.?
Harvard University
Princeton University
Michigan State University
Berry College
The largest college campus does not belong to any of the Ivy League schools, or even a member of the Big 10, as you might guess. Instead, little-known Berry College in Georgia at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains has the largest contiguous spread in not just the U.S. but on Earth as a whole. At over 27,000 acres (larger than Manhattan), Berry enrolls around 2,110 students a year, meaning if each student laid claim to an equal part of land, there’d be 13 acres per student
On This Date-
1066 – William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
1781 -American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
1971 – The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
2008 – Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Current members serving in a leadership role: Rhonda, Lori, Cory, Paul, BradL, MarkA, Rod, and Rick
Cory introduced Melissa Crockett, who told us all about the Jacoby Arts Center
23 members dined in Julia's front room on ham and mac 'n cheese
Pat had a make-up from Florissant
Paul took care of the 4 way test
MarkS took a shot at the meager $10 jackpot
Do you remember Rose Sebastian
JUNE 2013
DATELINE:RI
MOCK INTERVIEW PROJECT
By Cathy Bisaillon, President & CEO of Easterseals Washington, and a member of the Rotary Club of Silverdale, Washington
When I shared with my fellow Rotarians last fall that 70 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed or under-employed, in spite of a national labor shortage, we decided to take action. Our club has a diverse membership, and it values a diverse workforce. By pulling from District 5030’s Partners for Work Program, we organized a high-energy mock interview during our club’s meeting on 31 January.
In the months leading up to the project, I reached out to organizations in our area that assist people with developmental disabilities in finding employment. They all knew one or two job seekers who were ready to work, but who needed help talking to people and connecting with employers. “If they can just sit at the table with business leaders, they will convey their value,” my colleagues urged.
I prepared our club members for the mock interviews by having them sit at seven tables, one for each of the job seekers we would be helping. I told them to approach the interviews in the same way that they do in their businesses, but to be ready to repeat questions and to allow ample time for responses. The employment consultants at the different agencies coached their job seekers on appropriate interview attire and prepared them for specific questions. Everyone was ready. To continue reading link herehttps://bit.ly/2nxpXfR
AND I QUOTE
"By doubting we come to truth."-Cicero
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."-Charlotte Bronte
"Advertising is the art of convinging people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."-Will Rogers
"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe."-Albert Einstein
SMILE
These are taken from the police blotter in the Kalispell, MT area
A breakup wasn’t going well.
A man called 911 to report that there was a guy crawling around his front yard on his hands and knees.
Two armed men burst through a door looking for a Kalispell man. They were unable to find him.
A bald man was causing trouble at a local store.
A man got into a physical altercation with an ATM after it took and kept his debit card.
Two drunk teens, a male and a female, were stumbling through Kalispell with a dog.
Someone saw two teens and thought they were up to no good. Turns out they were just fixing their skateboards.
A Kalispell resident called to report that there was someone lying in the middle of the road. Turns out they were just stargazing. The person was advised to stay out of the way of traffic.
A Kalispell man said his phone was “blowing up” because of some false rumors being spread about him.
Someone reported that there were people “spinning donuts” in an area parking lot. A Kalispell police officer went over to talk to the donut spinners who reported that they were filming a movie. The officer told dispatch that it “seemed legit” and went about his other duties.
A woman reported that another woman almost beat her up for looking at her dog.
A drunk man was “going off about the government and other things.
BY THE NUMBERS
In a survey of U.S. adults: 33% reported anxiety when they don’t have their phones, 63% use phones to avoid social situations, 82% say they use their phones in bed-SureCall/SurveyMonkey
Between 2008 and 2017 drivers struck and killed 49,340 people who were walking on streets in the U.S.-smart Growth America
The World Arch Database lists 9,316 natural arches, 49% of them are in Utah.
Homeownership among people ages 24 to 32 fell 9 percentage points, to 36% from 45%, between 2005 and 2014. While many factors affected the homeowner rate, 2 percentage points, or about a fifth, of the decline was tied directly to student debt. That translated into 400,000 borrowers who could have owned a home by 2014 but didn’t because of student loans-Federal Reserve
Almost three quarters of U.S. workers face some kind of caregiving responsibility. Of those, 32% say they have left a job because they couldn’t balance work and family duties, and more than 80% say their responsibilities at home keep them from doing their best at work-Harvard Business School
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