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CHRISTMAS PARTY ISSUE
DECEMBER 9, 2017
NEWS, NOTES & NONSENSE
POST-MEETING POSTULATING
Bill's high school classmate, Riverbend Rotarian and Alton Memorial Hospital Development Specialist Jeanne Truckey provided Thursday's program. She shared a bit of the hospital's history via a series of questions. Take a look.
Please continue to keep Roger's wife, Bev, in your prayers. Patty and Randy noted that she is currently showing slight improvement, but with a long way to go.
Chris 1 is circulating the donation box and wish list for our adopted family.
Look for the next ROTARY BANNER on December 23rd.
Allen, Dick, Sandy and Sherry were the early arrivals. Patty was the last of 26 members in the house, following Randy and both Brad's.
Mark 1 wanted to know if Bill had some money for him?
Don't forget, no noon meeting next week.
Ty shared info about his brother's MMA fight, Sherry talked about the holiday program at her Riverlife Family Church, Bill told everyone about the Salvation Army Porksteaktacular, Nathan shared that The Telegraph offices will be moving to a Belle Street address and Rick shared an update on Mark 3's knee replacement surgery.
Our Christmas gathering will be next Thursday. We will commence fellowship at the Bluff City Grill on Broadway (Alton) @ 6PM, buffet dinner will be served around 6:30. For easy access, park on the top level of the garage and walk directly in to the banquet facility.
Don't forget about responding to the December 5th email from Lori about the Poinsettias for Seniors program.
Did you know that this is our 32nd year of ringing bells for the Salvation Army? We will be at Shop 'N Save all day today (Saturday). There are still plenty of additional ringing opportunities in the Riverbend area. If you are interested in volunteering, you may sign-up via this link http://bttr.im/iw8tw
Our Winter Wonderland gig is tomorrow (Sunday.) Arrive at 4:30 for the 5PM opening. Will Deisy or Chris 1 serve as Santa? HO, HO, HO!!!
Sandy decided that she is no longer intertested in running for Mayor of Madison and now wants to be appointed as a Walmart greeter.
The lunch buffet featured meatloaf, mystery mashed potatoes w/gravy, corn, salad, brownies and a dessert roll.
SAA Lindsey drafted Nathan as the "envelope guy" (who took the bag?) She fined Bill for poaching the shameless plugs. Trivia topics included Game of Thrones, heartbeats, Finland and Alfred Nobel. Dy-no-mite!
Lori and Chris 1 refused the $83 50-50. Allen took the scratch-off home to Pam, perhaps as an early Christmas gift? Lori observed that she's already a winner, she has Rodney.
Opening duties were performed by Virgil, Paul and Dave.
That's all from here. Have a fine and dry weekend.
RHONDA'S RECRUITS
TRIVIA
(The answer can be found at the end of the newsletter)
Buffalo Wild Wings agreed to be aquired-by whom?
A-Pritikin
B-Burger King
C-Arby's
D-McDonald's
December 9 is National Pastry Day
15 technicians install the 75,000 LED lights on the National Christmas Tree. The lights weigh almost 1,000 pounds.-Installed by Hargrove Inc:provided by GE Lighting
Riddle-The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer:Footsteps.
December 4, 1997
Current members in a leadership position: Allen, Paul and Rick
Former District Governor Clyde Jones spoke about the radio station he owns, WBGZ. He claimed that the best programing feature was the afternoon stock report provided by Dick Thompson. Would Clyde lie?
SAA fines were still levied in quarters. The good old days!
We were contemplating adding additional students to our scholarship program.
Pat reported that we had received approval from Rotary International to establish our non-profit foundation.
Nomination for 98-99 club officers were now open.
The Thompspon's would host our Christmas party at their high on the hill home on Shady Lane next Thursday.
We would ring the Salvation Army bells from noon-5PM at the Revco Drug store.
Do you remember Scott Smith?
DATELINE:RI
How Rotary is assisting recovery in Puerto Rico
By José Lucas Rodríguez, governor of Rotary District 7000 (Puerto Rico)
Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, which is distinguished by its natural beauties, the talent of Puerto Ricans in music, arts, and sports, and above all for the warmth of its people.
But the so-called island of Enchantment was transformed by what already has been classified as the most catastrophic event in the history not only of Puerto Rico, but of the United States. More than a month after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, our people are still struggling to recover from the impact of this natural phenomenon, which left so much desolation in its wake.
Rotary members deliver supplies to families in need in Puerto Rico.
Thousands of families have lost their houses totally or partially, either by winds of more than 185 miles per hour (295 km/h) or by the heavy rains that caused landslides that obstructed a lot of major roads, and overflowed all of our rivers and lakes. The force of the winds snatched the greenery out of our mountains, demolished much of our trees, and caused millions in damages to the infrastructure of the country. To continue reading, link herehttp://bit.ly/2A5iwBV
AND I QUOTE
"Teenagers are the toughest audience, because they need to hear the truth more than anything."- Robin Benway
"Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times. But curiosity is available to everyone."-Elizabeth Gilbert
"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."-Margaret Mead
SMILE
Murphy's Technology Laws
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he/she knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it, and he'll have to touch to be sure.
Murphy's Technology Law #8: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
New systems generate new problems.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
THE BOTTOM LINE
British band Coldplay completed its 114-date Head Full of Dreams world tour last month in Argentina, earning $523 million in ticket sales. The tour was the third-highest-grossing of all time, behind only U2’s 360 tour, which grossed $784 million from 2009 to 2011, and the Rolling Stones, who grossed only slightly above Coldplay with their Bigger Bang shows a decade ago.-The Guardian
Mid-tier U.S. graduate business schools are struggling. The 30 schools ranked 21 to 50 in the nation reported a 42 percent decrease in recruiting by companies in 2016. Wake Forest, the University of Iowa, and Virginia Tech have all recently discontinued their full-time MBA programs.-Axios.com
Mumbai International Airport last week set a record for the most flights ever handled by a single-runway airfield in one day, with 935 takeoffs and landings. Due to a shortage of land, Mumbai’s airport has two crisscrossing runways that cannot be used at the same time, instead of parallel runways such as those found at other major global hubs.-Bloomberg.com
