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HOME SWEET HOME ISSUE
AUGUST 8, 2019
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
SPRITZ BEFORE YOU PLATE
After an almost five month hiatus, we returned to Julia's on Thursday to resume our "new normal" meetings. It felt good to return and see a few new faces we had not seen during our three week restart at JJ"s. 15 members were in the house. The early arrivals included Darren, Alex, Lori and MarkS. Post-nooners were represented by BradL, Rhonda and BradP.
We sat four to a table. The buffet line had hand sanitizer (that did not smell as nice as Sherry's work version). A few members wore masks when not eating. It's all a work in progress.
After Lori put her glasses on and realized that the Rotary g-beans were not fried chicken, we all dined on ham, cheezy taters, pasta, salad, cake and cookies.
BradL covered for ChrisL at the podium, ready to cover the bases after his four month end of term vacay.
Rhonda had the most colorful top and MarkS wore the most interesting themed mask.
Alex was happy to see Sandy and Sherry and told us that two of our scholarship students had requested tuition funds to attend McKendree and LCCC. In lieu of a physical appearance, he has asked the students to draft a short recap about their career path that Alex can read at an upcoming meeting.
I had to talk with a person at my bank last week. Her business card listed her title as "Universal Banker" Does that mean she deals with a galaxy far far away? Can one of our bankers enlighten me about this job title?
Lori announced that Football Mania will replace the baseball version.
If someone leave you a bag of tomatoes on your stoop, it may be Wendell, the "tomato fairy".
A birthday shoutout to Prez Chris and Randy.
Alex came prepared with trivia Q's, the members were ready. We went 4 for 4!!
Opening duties were performed by BradL, MarkV and BradP
Wendell, AKA as Virgil, drew the 50-50 tickets. Wendell and Paul need to hang on to their tickets for next week. Sandy didn't have that problem with the scratch-off. She won $3. Way to Go!
Have a fine and dry weekend and stay safe. Ciao!
HOME, AND NOT ALONE
TRIVIA
Mysterious seeds, many seemingly from China, appeared in U.S. mailboxes, potentially as part of a "brushing" scheme. What's that?
A-A way of weaponizing invasive species
B-A disposal plan for surplus Chinese sunflower seeds
C-The use of fake transactions to boost a merchant's online reputation
D-Selling toothbrushes by first giving away foods that stain teeth
Today is National Garage Sale Day
What is the least rainy state in the U.S.?
Arizona
Utah
New Mexico
Nevada
Nevada takes the top spot as the driest state with an average yearly rainfall of only 9.5 to 10.3 inches. One key reason for this is that moisture from the Pacific Ocean is blocked by the Sierra Nevada mountain range. For many residents, major sources of water include the Colorado River Basin and Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the country. Located in the extremely dry Mojave Desert, Lake Mead owes its existence to the impressive Hoover Dam.
On This Date-
1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1786 – Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1988 – The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field
1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
AUGUST 11, 2011
Current members serving in an official capacity-Prez Dave, Lori, Cory, Paul, MarkA, Rod, Rhonda and Rick
Our program was presented by two ladies associated with the Greater St. Louis United Way. They told us about the resources available by dialing 211
31 members and guests were in the house dining on roast beast
Jeny lewis was inducted as our newest member
Three of our scholarship students were in the house to accept their checks. We paid a total of $9,800 in scholarship awards this year
Rhonda was away on vacay
Rod and Paul passed on the $128 jackpot
Allen covered the 4-way test
Do you remember Eric Barger?
JUNE 2013
DATELINE:RI
Supporting the environment becomes an area of focus
Rotary has a new area of focus — supporting the environment — after a unanimous vote by The Rotary Foundation Trustees and the RI Board of Directors. Rotary has long supported activities that sustain the environment, and in the past five years we have allocated $18 million to such projects through global grants tied to other areas of focus. Adding the environment as a distinct cause formalizes our longtime community-based efforts and will give Rotary members more ways to increase our global impact and expand our reach.
The Foundation is developing the eligibility criteria for grants in this area of focus and will have more information beginning in October. It will begin accepting global grant applications focused on the environment on 1 July 2021.
.AND I QUOTE
"Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it."-Anon
"Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: finding the right person and being the right person."-Carrie P .Shaw
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."-Lao Tzu
"Fishing is the sport of drowning worms."-Anon
SMILE
I used to think I was indecisive. But now I'm not so sure
I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but then I turned myself around
Did you hear about the bread factory burning down? They say the business is toast
My wife said, " Why don't you write a book instead of your stupid word play jokes?" I said, "That's ... a novel idea."
WARNING: there is an email going around offering processed pork, gelatin and salt in a can. If you get this email DO NOT OPEN. It's spam
I lost my mood ring today. I'm not sure how I feel about it
BY THE NUMBERS
After donating blood 34% of those aged 20-39 return within one year, as opposed to 62% of those over 55-Vitalant (2nd largest U.S. blood donation company)
In the mid-2010’s U.S. summer camps were an $18 billion industry serving 14 million campers each year-American Camp Association
A Stanford University survey of 2,500 Americans in June and July found that 67% said that the ability to work from home two to there days a week in a post-Covid world was equal to getting at least a 9% pay increase
Some 46% of consumers said they did a landscaping, gardening or outdoor-living update in the last three months, topping the list of home-improvement projects. Over 25% of survey respondents said they bought a grill in the last two months-Bank of America survey of 1,054 consumers in June
Online sales of appointment-book planners in June grew 23% from the year before to $2.9 million-NPD Group
