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REBATE ISSUE
MARCH 24, 2018
NEWS, NOTES & NONSENSE
SCHMOOZING DGE BRIAN
Chris2 introduced speaker Allen Oertel. He told us about the Mustard Seed Project. Take a look at the video.
This week the chicken entree was baked. It was accompanied by baked taters, mexicorn, salad, rolls and cookies.
Rotary District Governor-Elect, Brian Barstead (Springfield Sunrise Club) paid us a visit and made several announcements. At the top of his list was that Rhonda would be serving as an Assistant District Governor for the next 3 (or 10) years, a roll once held by our beloved "Uncle Leonard". Rhonda's a great get. Brian also announced that there would be a district dues moratorium next year ($39 pp). Let's call it a "tax cut".
Chris2, Darren and Allen were the early vanguard. The back of the bus crowd included Mark2, Chris1, Rhonda and Nathan.
We welcomed back Sherry, Nathan, Dave, Lori and Mark1. Good to see one and all.
Allen is busy. And there's that.
Sherry has been serving as a public servant for the early voting crowd. She does have a problem giving Dum-Dums candy to voters. Sherry reminded us that during the Illinois early voting period you can vote at any of the MadCo sites.
Mark1 presented five make-ups from his Florida tan & siesta sabbatical.
Dave is looking for a fireworks sponsor(s).
Do you know how to fluff a baked potato? Sherry can show you.
SAA "Queenie" recruited Nathan as her bag guy. If you were not in the house last week or not attending bingo, pay a $. Trivia topics included the NFL, military, history events and the supreme court. Announcements were made by Brad2, Bill, Lindsey, Sherry and Dave.
Cosmic Bingo is tonight (Saturday). According to Rhonda, we should have close to a full house. She has received 35+ baskets and 23+ round sponsors. if you signed up to work or play, see you tonight.
Paul and Dave went deck diving for the joker. No luck. Lori received the scratch-off.
Opening duties were performed by Mark1, Rhonda and Dave
That's all from here, have a fine and dry weekend.
LOOK WHO'S BACK
TRIVIA
(The answer can be found at the end of the newsletter)
Where do some Navy and Marine medics go for experience with battlefield-type wounds?
A-Yemen
B-Sao Paulo
C-Chicago
D-Hollywood
March 24 is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day
88% of owners say they have ongoing conversations with their pets all the time.-Healthy Paws Insurance survey of 836 U.S. pet owners
Riddle-Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
Answer:There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!
MARCH 31, 2011
Current members in a leadership position: Prez Chris1,Dave, Lori, Cory, Paul, Rhonda, Rod and Rick
The program was presented by Salvation Army representative John Wagner. Pat was the program host
Virgil and Dave presented make-ups
Rod was recognized for his Telegraph appearance
Lori and Rhonda were caught texting across the room
Paul and Dave failed to claim the jackpot
The three club combo meeting was scheduled for April 27th
We budgeted $1000 for a school rebuilding project in Columbia that Wendell was coordinating
Rhonda was looking for Business of the Year nominees
Do you remember Eric Barger?
DATELINE:RI
WATER FLOWS FROM NEW BOREHOLE IN BASARI AKURA
By Johnson Pewudie, Rotary Club of Hohoe, Ghana
Basari Akura is a predominantly farming community in the Volta region of Ghana. The nearly 1,000 people that live there lack access to sufficient clean water, undermining health, education, and productivity of both adults and children. My club, the Rotary Club of Hohoe, is working with USAID and the government to extend the benefits of the Rotary-USAID Partnership water, sanitation and hygiene program in Ghana to Basari Akura.
On 27 July, I visited Basari Akura with the partnership program leaders in Ghana: Ako Odotei, chair of the project management committee and Theophilus Mensah, the project manager. We were also joined by a member of the Rotary Club of Ho, the other Rotary club in the Volta Region, and a local representative from our USAID partner, Global Communities.
We went with community leaders to the site of a new borehole that Rotary and USAID are drilling about 500 meters from a stream that inhabitants depend on for water. The project manager made us aware that the water test and pump test results were satisfactory. The chair of the community’s water and sanitation committee (WATSAN) who was with us expressed his joy at the addition of a new water source, which in his words, will ease the pressure and struggles for clean water. To continue reading, link herehttps://bit.ly/2ub9Oj1
AND I QUOTE
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep: I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."-Alexander the Great
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting."-Peter Abelard
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense of you."-Neil deGrasse Tyson
SMILE
Flynn staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Mary.
He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful.
Managing not to yell, Flynn sprang up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood. He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.
In the morning, Flynn woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Mary staring at him from across the room.
She said, "You were drunk again last night weren't you?"
Flynn said, "Why you say such a mean thing?"
"Well," Mary said, "it could be the open front door. It could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs; it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house; it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly ... it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror."
THE BOTTOM LINE
South Korea, which has one of the longest workweeks in the world, is reducing the maximum number off hours someone can work in a week from 68 hours to 52 hours.-Qz.com
So many people are moving away from the San Francisco Bay area, largely because of soaring housing costs, that renting a U-Haul for a one-way trip from San Jose to Las Vegas now costs roughly $2,000, compared with $100 for a truck going in the other direction.-SFGate.com
Uber and Lyft drivers in the U.S. make a median profit of $8.85 per hour before taxes, according to an MIT study.-The Guardian
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