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BIG WORDS ISSUE JULY 16, 2022
VOL. 3 NO. 2
PAUL PRESENTS SERVICE AWARDS TO ALLEN (45) & ROD(40)
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
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JohnP provided the program on Thursday, a Sesquipedalian quiz. (That's fancy talk for big words.) Each table had a few minutes to solve 20 Sesquipedalian phrases. One table claimed they got 19 correct. On the whole, we did real good!
Early arrivals included DarrenC, RodC, and AllenH.
PaulH presented service awards to AllenH (45 years), RodC (40), BradP (30), LoriP (20), ChrisH (15) and BradL (10).
Prez Robin told us to stay tuned for an email outlining upcoming Rotary training opportunities later this month and early August. She would like at least two members to attend each session.
RhondaB is selling Christmas in July tickets for $10. The raffle is sponsored by Freer Auto Body and all proceeds benefit the Community Christmas program. The top three prizes are worth $2,500 each.
SAA LeonardB and Lugmeister BradL collected Happy Fines from Prez Robin and Leonard. Not wearing your barge? Pay a $. Leonard took a deep dive with his Q for AllenH.
On July 13th you received an email from past District Governor Brian Barnstead regarding the upcoming Cards vs Yankees game on August 6th. Tickets are $45 and are located in Big Mac Land @ Busch. Proceeds benefit our literacy program.
Rumor has it that the Robert "Bob" Sanders sanitation company has been sold, say it ain't so!
Opening duties were perform by Prez Robin, LoriP and BillP.
EA Mayor DarrenC has issued a semi-official proclamation renaming the Defense Area "The Villas of East Alton".
RhondaB returned from her gulf coast and NOLA vacation sporting a tropical shirt and reminded us that there are mentoring opportunities available at several MadCo junior and senior high schools. It's 30 minutes a week providing a big brother/sister type roll model and sound advice to help steer students at risk in the right direction. If you have an interest, she has the details.
Keep BarbO in your prayers and thoughts as she recovers from injuries sustained in a fall.
Birthday greetings go out to JoeS on the 19th and DonnaK on the 22nd.
If you have been using eastaltonrotaryclub.org to access our web site, that link is no longer valid, use riverbendeastrotaryclub.org
If you are still holding Baseball Mania tix make sure that you turn them in by July 24th so they are eligible for the first week's drawing. To date, LoriP has received $$ for190 sold tickets with a net of $1345.
The chatter at one lunch table focused on the 'joys' of home remodeling and the 'fun' of owning rental property.
Happy Rotary anniversary to JohnP-22 years.
Prez Robin told us about the Go Fund Me page that will help the folks injured in the vehicle accident that was fatal to the owner of My Just Desserts. Several local businesses are donating a day's receipts to the fund.
22 members dined on Bob's burgers and fries, salad and pound cake.
Among the last to arrive included MarkV, RhondaB, PaulH and BradL.
GeorgeT pulled LoriP's 50-50 ticket not once, but twice. She got close with a king...AllenH won the scratch-off.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend.
Au revoir!
DAVE & PATTI WORK ON THE SESQUIPEDALIAN QUIZ
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee celebration culminated in a golden coach carrying the queen-in what form?
A-A wax model
B-An inflatable likeness
C-A microchip bearing the royal DNA
D-A hologram
(Answer is found at the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Corn Fritters Day
What state shares no common letters with its capital?
South Dakota
Maine
Rhode Island
Iowa
Of all 50 U.S. states and their corresponding capitals, there is only one pairing that shares no common letters between them: Pierre and South Dakota. It also happens to be the country’s second-smallest state capital by population (after Montpelier, Vermont) with just over 14,000 residents. Before Pierre became the capital — in fact, before South Dakota even became a state — Yankton was the capital of the Dakota Territory, which covered both North and South Dakota. Of course, Yankton would share several letters with its state, if only the capital had stayed put. However, it moved to Bismarck in 1883 (the current capital of North Dakota) and, six years later in 1889, the Dakotas split in two, with North Dakota retaining its capital. South Dakota chose Pierre as its temporary replacement, being that it stood in the middle of the state. After going to a public vote, Pierre became the permanent capital in 1890.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Mid-July 2011
New WR club officers included ScottL, JimH, GeorgeM and GeorgeT. New EA officers included LoriP. and CoryG.
District Governor Gordon Jumper visited the WR meeting. 1st Mid-America Credit Union representative Greg Worthen talked about fraud at the EA meeting.
JimH provided a recap of the Installation of Officers Banquet at the WR meeting.
Long-term exchange student (2000) Angela Rose visited the EA meeting to talk about her current job in NC working for an electronics company as a Japanese interpreter.
Carly McCleland, Victoria Sever, Kiley Herndon and Drew Bollinger received scholarship checks at the WR meeting.
RhondaB was so late to the EA meeting that she wasn't even there.
GeorgeM and JimH received Presidential Awards of Appreciation at the WR gathering.
MarkV introduced his business partner at the EA meeting.
DaveA, LeonardB, JimH, TommieM and JohnP received perfect attendance awards at the WR meeting.
CoryG was presented with his 5 year membership certificate by PaulH at the EA meeting.
The WR club approved a $500 donation to the Joplin tornado Relief effort sponsored by the Daybreak Rotary Foundation.
Dick Bell visited the EA meeting.
ScottL was the WR meeting program chair.
JoeS served as the substitute EA SAA and MarkA led the birthday song in honor of AllenH.
NEW WORDS
Words that were listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the first time in 1970
A woman from Africa and her six children will soon have a new home in Lincoln, Nebraska, thanks to our Rotary club and Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln.
Construction will begin soon on the home for Martha and her children, giving them a place to live that isn’t cramped and even with a yard for the family to enjoy. Martha’s salary can only afford a two-bedroom apartment, but with the help of nearly $40,000 from our club, Habitat for Humanity will be able to construct a three-bedroom home on a lot in Lincoln that she can afford to buy.
The co-chairs of our annual fundraiser, Rise.Shine.Give, were overwhelmed at the support and donations that came in. Kate Holman and Penny Johnston note that sponsorships, silent auctions, and a lottery drawing resulted in more than $86,000 raised at our event on 12 February. After a year off because of COVID-19, nearly 150 people gathered at Nebraska Innovation Campus for the event.
We have a custom of donating half of the money raised to a charity of the club president’s choice. Club president Christina Usher said she selected Habitat because “it is an organization that is focused on building community and helping provide affordable housing.”
The annual event began several years ago when then president, Mark Stephens, asked club members Erin Dobesh and Brett Ebert to put together a brunch event. They conceived a plan to seek corporate sponsorships, silent auction donations, and a lottery drawing for a special prize. In recent years the event has provided funding to refurbish a playground at a local elementary school, support our local South of Downtown project, help build a home in one of our neighborhoods, and provide a new HVAC system for a local nonprofit organization. To continue reading, link here https://bit.ly/3IyEeyc
AND I QUOTE
"Don't misinform your doctor nor your lawyer."- Benjamin Franklin
"If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble."-Betty White
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."-Freya Stark
"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it."-Anon
SMILE
Two things to make your day better-Don't watch the news. Stay off the scale.
Just failed my drivers test. When the examiner asked me "What sign would you expect to see down a narrow country road?" Apparently, 'fresh eggs for sale' wasn't the answer.
I just cleared out some space in my freezer sounds a lot more productive than I just polished off another pint of ice cream.
The longest drum solo was 10 hours and 29 minutes and was performed by the child sitting behind me on Delta flight 963 from LA to Tokyo.
A cars weak part is the nut holding the steering wheel.
Cop: You were going fast. Me: I was just trying to keep up with traffic. Cop: There isn't any. Me:I know! That's how far behind I am.
BY THE NUMBERS
In 2013, 47% of Americans got their news from print sources. In 2022, that fell to 15%-Reuters/Oxford
Government spending on net interest costs in the fiscal year that began last October totaled about $311 billion through May, a nearly 30% increase from the same period a year earlier-Treasury Department
New EVs have nearly 40% more problems than internal combustion cars and trucks, according to J.D. Power's latest annual survey on initial vehicle quality
Unused or expired gift cards cost consumers, and earned companies, more than $14 billion in 2020-Mercator
Some 300,000 public-school teachers and other staff left the field between February 2020 and May 2022, a nearly 3% drop in that workforce-Bureau of Labor Statistics
More than 350 Covid-19 vaccines are in development globally-World Health Organization
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