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DG IN THE HOUSE ISSUE
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
DG MAURA PRESENTS LORI HER PHF + PIN
District Governor Maura Donnelly (and Highland Rotarian since 2006) was in the house to share her vision for the pandemic influenced Rotary year. She urged us to think outside the box when it comes to adding members during her Power Point presentation. RI provides a template for at least six types of non-traditional clubs. Creative fundraising and service projects are items that she urged us to think about. At least one district club is hosting a virtual trivia night. If you are on Facebook, Maura wants you to find and follow the district 6460 page.
Birthday wishes to Bill on the 15th!
Lunch featured pulled pork w/ sauce, jumbo seasoned curly fries, corn, salad, and two types of cake.
Prior to the regular meeting DG Maura pow-wowed with board members Prez Chris, Lori, Rod, Paul, Rhonda and Alex via Zoom.
Rhonda indicated that the November trivia night will probably not happen. The question is how to handle the 10 $100 gift certificates that we purchased from local merchants?
Can we pick up some trash as a safe outdoor service project?
DG Maura presented Paul Harris Fellow plus awards to Lori and Rick.
14 members dined in person and two Zoomies.
Brad P will be providing a Zoom link for all September meetings.
Lori has Football Mania tickets. Winning opportunities begin on October 29th.
Alex is moving ahead with scholarship interviews using Zoom. East Alton-Wood River students are first up. Roxana students to follow.
The merger committee had their first confab after the meeting. And away we go...??
Sherry served as the alternate SAA and recruited Sandy to serve as the lugmeister. We "sang" the birthday song to Rod in honor of his 79th! We correctly answered questions about Harry Potter, Donald Duck and language. We wiffed on one about bones, in your body, not the TV show.
Opening duties were performed by Paul, MarkV and Bill, who asked us to remember the anniversary of 9-11 on Friday.
The $5 jackpot was refused by Lori and Allen. Sherry won the scratch-off.
Have a fine and dry weekend and stay safe. Ciao!
LET THE MERGER TALKS BEGIN
SLIDE SHOW PREP
TRIVIA
During the pandemic, demand for which form of beverage packaging has boomed?
A-Aluminum cans
B-Glass bottles
C-Plastic bottles
D-Kegs
Today is National Chocolate Milkshake Day
Which of these U.S. cities was named after an ancient Egyptian capital?
Memphis
Tucson
Omaha
Anaheim
The fact that Memphis, Tennessee, shares a name with the ancient capital of Egypt is no coincidence. Before he was president, general Andrew Jackson was one of the three people who founded the city in 1819 and coined the name based on its geography. Memphis was the ancient capital of Egypt because of its prominent location on the Nile River Delta. Its American counterpart was also located on the delta of an important river — the Mississippi, which was sometimes referred to as “the American Nile.”
On This Date-
1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players.
1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1962 – President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276
1990 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
SEPTEMBER 5, 2015
Our annual cookout was scheduled for September 10th
David Benke was going to tell us about cosmic Bingo at our meeting on September 24th. The event was scheduled for October 24th.
Chili will be served at Roxana HS on October 9th.
17 members dined on noodles in white sauce.
Lori, Pat and Allen made up our early arrival corps.
Bill was happy to sit with Sherry and Sandy.
Lori reported a net of $1085 for selling Baseball Mania tix.
MarkA reported that 32 folks were signed-up for the cookout.
There was some talk about co-hosting an inbound exchange student with the Wood River club.
Rhonda indicated that there were two students who volunteered to assist with our Soap Box Race crosswalk duties.
Birthday greetings were offered to Rod.
Sherry and Wendell missed their opportunity to claim the $9 50-50.
OCTOBER 2011
DATELINE:RI
NO USE CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK
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By Martin Cohn, past president of the Rotary Club of Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vermont dairy farmers were in trouble. With the close of colleges and restaurants, there was too much supply of milk. This excess was headed to be spilled into mudholes. At the same time, the need to help food-insecure families was increasing. How could food that was being wasted reach people who needed food?
That’s when I heard about a project where the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets was coordinating an effort to recover raw milk from being disposed of while creating a new, temporary food supply for Vermont Foodbank. In collaboration with the Vermont Community Foundation, $60,000 was made available to purchase this milk for the benefit of Vermonters. These efforts were particularly important as Vermont’s dairy industry, like all sectors, had been challenged by COVID-19 but remain essential to the state’s food supply. However, more money was needed.
When I heard about the need, I sprang into action. I sent out emails to fellow Rotarians and within days an additional $10,500 was raised. These monies came from eight Rotary clubs, a donation from the District 7870’s Youth Exchange, and the District 7850 Foundation. This helped cover the cost of 32,000 gallons of milk, ingredients, and processing to create 48,000 cups of Green Mountain Yogurt, 11,500 gallons of Hood Dairy 2% Milk, and 440 pounds of Ploughgate Creamery butter. To continue reading, link here https://bit.ly/35hS0DW
.AND I QUOTE
"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."-TS Eliot
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere."-Erma Bombeck
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."-Bob Marley
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."-Mark Twain
SMILE
Why do eggs come in flimsy styrofoam containers and batteries come in a package only a chainsaw can open?
Did a little mechanics work today. Put a rear end in a recliner.
No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.
Never trust an atom, they make everything up.
Stuck at home? Call a random number in India and ask them about their extended car warranty.
For the first time in history we can save the human race by laying in front of the TV and doing nothing.
BY THE NUMBERS
By the end of August retailers have added back 1.7 million of the 2.4 million jobs they shed in March and April-Department of Labor
55% of people under the age of 30 who went to college took on some debt for their education-Federal Reserve
More than 40% of U.S. workers say they are spending more time on video calls, emails and other work application since the start of the pandemic-Wall Street journal/SurveyMonkey
Almost 14% (7 million) of public school students receive specialized instruction and some form of related services-National Center for Education Statistics
An average of 21% of household paper products were out of stock at U.S. stores as of August 9-IRI
89% of companies employed a chief experience officer or an equivalent role in 2019, up from 61% in 2017-Gartner Inc.
1934-Campbell's cream of mushroom soup is launched, helping to create that 70's staple, green bean casserole.
