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BEDTIME ISSUE
OCTOBER 10, 2026
VOL. 7 NO. 10
RHS SOS STUDENTS BEN & BAILEY
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
Thursday is our Sleep In Heavenly Peace workday. The next Eastender News will coming your way on October 24th.
RHS Service Above Self students Bailey Schallenberg-Decker and Ben Gehrs joined us and were presented their certificates by Prez Patti.
On Thursday we heard a prresentation from developer Matt Pfund, President of Pfund Construction Company. After developing several projects in Edwardsville his company is now working on projects in Wood River (their corporate HQ), Litchfield, Pana and Creve Couer (1/2 of the former Monsanto/Bayer complex). Matt's company likes to do adaptive reuse projects that are supported by locally provided gap financing. Many of the projects include a residential component.
It's time for a road trip. Let's head to Springfield for the District Conference on November 14th. It's a day to gather with fellow Rotarians from throughout our district for fellowship and learning opportunities. There's no charge!! See LoriP's email from October 1st for all the details.
Early arrivals included AllenH, KarenJ and LoriP.
The Turkey Fund jar is now circulating. All donations will be given to Operation Blessing. If you plan to donate via check, please make it payable to Operation Blessing. Thanks for your generous support. $70 was donated the first week.
Next Thursday is our Sleep In Heavenly peace workday. We will gather @ noon in the Alton facilty to nosh on pizza before proceeding to the workshop for a bed building session. See your October 1st email from LoriP for additional details.
Slide-right-inners-GeorgeM, MattK, GlennB and ChrisH.
JoeS announced that the sign-up sheet for the November 14th basketball tournament is now making the rounds.
Birthday wishes go out to WendellR on the 21st.
In case you are counting, our attendance has been at or above 60% 4 out of the past 6 meetings. The more folks in the house the better the energy.
Prez Patti announced that the date for our Christmas party is set for December 17th. She is looking for someone to coordinate the games/entertainment that evening. We also need someone to coordinate our Salvation Army bell ringing day in December. Let Patti know ASAP of your interest.
DianeS announced that our new Interact club will have its kickoff meeting on October 20th. She tells us that interest in serving our communities is high amongst the high school students that plan to be involved. Let's do what we need to do to support our future community leaders and, hopefully, Rotarians.
Thinking about getting married?? SheryyT sez you can't beat a beach wedding (just stay away from the hurricanes.)
Opening duties were covered by MonicaB, MarkA and BillP, who was thankful for the kickin' tenders.
Post-nooners included GeorgeM, MattK, GlennB and ChrisH.
22 members dined on Kaden's Kickin' Chicken tenders, fried taters 'n onions, rolls, salad and cookies.
SAA RickH recruited MarkSm as the Finemaster. After several Happy Fines/ shameless plugs we hit a trivia wall. We only answered 2 out of 6 Q's correctly. Not helping at our Chili Supper? Pay a $
The jackpot rolls after MarkSm and Prez Patti wiffed on the joker. DianeS won the scratchie.
TENDER LINE
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Ford has announced a first year goal of selling 100,000 units for a planned electric truck-called what?
A-The Charge
B-The Amp
C-The Fathom
D-The Probe
(Find the answer near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Cake Decorating Day
What is the largest privately owned home in the United States? Biltmore Estate, North Carolina Hearst Castle, California Graceland, Tennessee Oheka Castle, New York
Located in Asheville, North Carolina, the 175,000-square-foot, 250-room Biltmore Estate was built for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson, George Vanderbilt, in 1895. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the mansion took six years to build.
GRILLERS SUPREME!
FINISH LINE FRIVOLITY
CHOWIN' DOWN
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Eastender News, Make-Up and Banner newsletters
October 2022
MarkSm encouraged everyone to sell their Chili Dinner tix and bring a dessert to the event.
Julia's was not available for our November 10th meeting. We gathered at Mr Poncho's that day.
Birthday wishes went out to WendellR.
The Turkey Fund container was making the rounds. Thanks for your generous support for Operation Blessing.
It was time to lend your business name to the basketball tournament t-shirts.
BillP covered for Prez Robin.
ScottL arrived sporting a walking boot.
MarkA reminded everyone about our upcoming Family Cookout.
BillP and RickH let the $179 jackpot roll.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
DATELINE:ROTARY
2027 RYLA DATES ANNOUNCED
Mark your calendars for RYLA 2027 happening April 9th-11th at Lake Williamson in Carlinville! Registration will open on January 1st and close March 26th.
You don’t have to wait until registration opens to start thinking about your students! With the school year now underway, it is the perfect time to make connections with potential RYLA students. Whether it’s reaching out to your local high school, attending an Interact Club meeting, or connecting with school counselors, starting early gives students a chance to get connected with Rotary before RYLA and build relationships that can continue long after the weekend.
RYLA is more than a weekend of leadership activities. Students experience Rotary’s mission and Service Above Self firsthand while building leadership skills, developing friendships with students from across the district, and learning about opportunities like Interact and Rotary Youth Exchange. For Rotary clubs, it’s also a chance to identify and invest in the next generation of leaders in your community.
REGISTER TODAY!
AND I QUOTE
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."-Sara Blakely
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."-John D. Rockefeller Jr
“If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person."-Russell Simmons
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."-Caterina Fake
SMILE
What do you call a factory that makes OK products? A satisfactory
I only know 25 letters of the alphabet. I don’t know y
Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? They just wanted a bit more space
Sundays are always a little sad, but the day before is a sadder day
Why do bees have sticky hair? Because they use a honeycomb
I’m worried about the calendar. Its days are numbered
THE NUMBERS
63% of teens use Instagram and 31% use Facebook, compared to 92% for YouTube and 68% for TikTok. Twenty-one percent of teens say they use TikTok almost constantly and 17% say the same for YouTube, versus 12% for Instagram and 3% for Facebook-Pew Research Center
A recent survey of 3,000 managers by Checkr, a verification platform, found that 59% of managers suspected job candidates had help from AI tools to misrepresent themselves during the hiring process.
Two-thirds of DoorDash users haven’t decided what they want to order when they sign on, and one in five have ordered more than three times in a single day-Chief Marketing Officer Tim Castree
Losses due to cybercrime have increased from $1 billion per year to $21 billion over the past 10 years-FBI
Sunroofs are now equipped on more than 50% of vehicles produced for the U.S. market, up from 35% a decade prior-Omdia
Morgan Stanley projects that within a decade, more than a third of all batteries produced in the world will use sodium, not lithium (Trivia answer-C)
