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1ST ANNIVERSARY ISSUE JANUARY 8, 2022
VOL. 2 NO. 22
WHAT'S THE ORLANDO TEMP?
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
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Break's over, let's get after it...
On Thursday RhondaB shared her "classification talk". We found out that she is a native of Calhoun County (where everyone knows your name) and helped with her family owned orchard. She played softball (a two-pitch specialist) and basketball in high school.She has a marketing degree from Quincy University. Rhonda has three children, two boys and a girl, that she is very proud of. She began her banking career at the Bank of Kampsville with fond memories of sorting processed checks to be returned to bank customers. She was employed for a bit at the Payless Shoe store in the St. Louis Center and found out that it was owned by May Company, the same company that owned Famous-Barr Department stores. Thursday marked her 19th anniversary in banking where she now serves the small business community at Busey Bank. Rhonda is grateful for the opportunities the banking business has given her to be involved with community service. That's a win for her and for our club.
During the final quarter of 2021 our foundation received $32.49 from Amazon as our share of sales from shoppers that selected our foundation as part of the Amazon Smile program that benefits non-profit organizations. If you would like to participate, find our East Alton Rotary Club Foundation in Smile.Amazon when you check out. We receive .05% of every purchase. Our foundation has received over $450 during the past several years as participants in this program. That's found money for us.
Several members readily agreed that children can make parents do some strange things.
As JoeS and PaulH prepare for their annual golf pilgrimage to Orlando, Joe was proud to announce that the current temp in the "Land of Mickey" was 71 degrees F. Good-bye!
Our meeting on the 20th will provide an overview of our website, Facebook and Instagram accounts. Feel free to bring your phone, tablet or laptop and follow along with the presentation by BradP, Prez Lindsey and RickH who hope to provide everyone with some basic information about our online presence. Julia's has a strong WiFi signal for all your devices.
BillP covered for for Prez Lindsey and began the meeting, and the start of our second year, with a mighty bang of the bell.
Opening duties were provided by DarrenC, BradP and BillP who shared some thoughts about the Epiphany.
RhondaB announced that our "Color Run" committee will meet next week.
Early arrivals included DarrenC, BillP and BradL.
SAA LeonardB forced BillP and PaulH to share a few jokes(?) and puns. he posed four trivia Q's, we wiffed on three of them.
JoeS observed that you never had to guess what RhondaB thought when they shared a bleacher while watching their daughters play softball.
Congrats to CoryG for his 16 years of service.
15 members braved the teen-ish temps to dine on some fine Italian beef, cheezy noodles, Rotary g-beans, rolls, salad and chocolate cake.
Last in included JohnP, LeonardB and BradP.
PaulH and GeorgeM will wait until this weeks' meeting to see if they won the 50-50 jackpot. RickH found out that the scratch-off was worth zilch.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend. Stay safe.
HERE'S RHONDA!
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
The fastest human-made object that has been clocked at up to 365,000 miles per hour. what was it?
A-A student fleeing campus for Christmas break
B-NASA's Parker Solar Probe
C-The Mars 2020 spacecraft
D-The Millennium Falcon
(Answer is found at the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Bubble Bath Day
Which of these states is closest in area to Puerto Rico?
Tennessee
Connecticut
New Mexico
Illinois
Puerto Rico is about 3,515 square miles in area, meaning that if it were a state, it'd be the third-smallest in the U.S. Just ahead of it would be Connecticut, which is 5,543 square miles. Puerto Rico is larger than both Delaware (1,982 square miles) and Rhode Island (1,214 square miles). Though it would be a tiny state, Puerto Rico is the largest of the U.S. territories — beating the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. And in population, Puerto Rico ranks higher than 21 states in the Union with its 3.2 million residents — roughly the same amount as Utah.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Early-January 2017
JohnP won the WR $475 jackpot by pulling the Queen of Hearts.
EA members thanked "Captain" BillP for coordinating the Winter Wonderland event and RhondaB, PattiW and BillP for hosting the Christmas party at the Alton Sports Tap, where the autograph hunt was a popular game. Exchange student Dani Fuentes was on hand and gifted a pair of earrings and some $$.
EA-WR HS Junior Rotarians Brenden Allen and Marrisa Morrison visited the WR meeting.
AllenH told the EA members that he was happy to get back to work after his holiday break.
LeonardB paid a WR Happy Fine.
The EA meeting featured a host of substitutes-BillP for SherryT, RickH for BillP and JoeS for CoryG.
JeanK provided details for the WR & EA hosted Disco Bingo event on March 11th.
SherryT was headed to South Florida and promised to wave at EA members MarkS and MarkA on her way past Orlando and Tampa.
WR Treasurer GeorgeM demonstrated his post-holiday scrooginess by announcing that members would soon be receiving their quarterly dues notice.
JoeS told the EA members that he enjoyed his time in "Big D" and taking in a Boys football game in "Jerry's playpen".
WR Prez MikeK announced that the club's Visioning effort was making progress.
TommieM made-up at the EA meeting.
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WORDS
Words that were listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the first time in 1995-
By David Higgs, president, Rotary Club of Henderson, Texas, USA
When I was asked to serve as president of our local Rotary club, I knew I needed to focus on recruiting new members during my term. Our club was down to about 20 members and far too often we would have less than a dozen at our weekly meeting. So, I took some of the ideas I learned at Presidents Elect Training Seminars and molded an approach to enlisting new members.
The strategy was simple. I challenged our club to move our annual installation of officer’s banquet to a noon event. I also challenged our club to open the event up to the public. Then, I challenged our members to work together as a club to have 100 people in attendance. Ten professionally printed invitations were given to each member to invite guests. I made it clear members were expected to bring guests. I invited the mayor and other city officials who were happy to attend. Some of our members invited leaders from the school district and County. Almost everyone is up for a free lunch.
Acting in faith, we had the facility set up for 100 people and ordered food accordingly. When the day arrived, I was excited to see that every member brought guests. Our club had never had a meeting with 100 people in attendance. Some members brought one or two guests, others 10 to 12. The excitement was palpable.
During the luncheon, we shared with the guests what Rotary was about and then gave them the opportunity to join. They were given an offer that our club would pay their dues for the first six months. At the appropriate time we passed out applications and dedicated three minutes for guests to complete the form. I was convinced we could double our club during that 60-minute luncheon. And by the time the luncheon was over we had 14 new members!
These new members have brought a breath of fresh air to our club. We have had several projects since, where the new members have had a chance to get to know one another better.
The bottom line is, if you put in the effort and encourage club members to get on board 100 percent, you can increase your club size during an installation banquet or some other special event. You can do it!
AND I QUOTE
"You can, for you ought to."-Goethe
“Not for ourselves alone are we born."-Cicero
"Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it."-Thomas Paine
"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."-George Washington
SMILE
Stopped by a roadside stand that said lobster tails $2. I paid my $2, and he says, once upon a time there was this lobster...
The person that invented the Ferris wheel never met the person who invented the merry go round. They traveled in different circles.
The rotation of earth really makes my day.
Nothing tops a plain pizza.
What happens when frogs park illegally? They get toad.
Last night I dreamed that I was a muffler. I woke up exhausted.
BY THE NUMBERS
On Pollstar’s ranking of 2021’s top music tours Harry Styles was No. 1, with 669,051 attendees at his arena shows
The earnings of the top five dead celebrities in 2021-Roald Dahl-$513 million (his estate sold all rights to Netflix), Prince-$120 million, Michael Jackson-$75 million, Charles Schulz-$40 million, Dr. Seuss-$35 million-Forbes
In November, nearly 87% of all new vehicles bought by individual customers sold at or above the sticker price, compared to the the pre-pandemic average of about 36% of sales-J.D. Power
In 2021 60% of restaurants reported reducing their menu size-Dataesential
Americans' use of "buy now, pay later" options increased 438% between November 2019 and November 2021-Retail Dive
The U.S. men's personal care market is expected to grow from $47 billion in 2019 to nearly $78 billion by 2027-Grand View Research
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