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BREAK TIME ISSUE JANUARY18, 2025
VOL. 5 NO. 21
ZOOMING FROM ESWATINI
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
it's time for a mid-winter break. Your Eastender News will resume publishing in early March. Keep pushing our Trivia Night. See you in a bit.
On Thursday RodneyD hosted a Zoom meeting from Eswatini Africa. We heard about the National Health System in the country. Rodney is looking for help with getting our Eswatini medical project off the ground. Let him know if you have an interest or Q's.
Early birders included-RodneyD, KyndraG, AllenH, DarrenC and BillP. They were greeted by a jazzy soundtrack provided by RodneyD.
On Thursday JoeS provided a couple of Trivia Night updates-Our goal is to have 40 teams in the house and encourage everyone to recruit at least one table for this fun event. 8 teams are currently on board as well as 6 round sponsors. Joe suggested each member send an image of our flyer to everyone in your phone contact list who might be interested. MarkSm is looking for liquor bottles and items for the silent auction. Mark has managed to gain administrative control of our public facing Facebook page and will be using that platform to promote the event. A sign-up sheet for event night help will be circulating soon. Our Movies & Music Trivia Night is scheduled for February 8th. It's at Julia's, doors open @ 6, trivia @ 7. $200 for a table of eight. Round sponsors are available for $100. JoeS is handling the event logistics, MarkSm is covering the event night details. Reach out to either of these members for additional info.
Upcoming club service anniversaries-GeorgeT-53 years, TommieM-30, MarkV-27, ChrisH-18, JeanK-16, SandyS-11, SherryT-11and RobinK-6.
KyndraG is pretty sure no doctor at Memorial has told a patient that if they do not eat some on her gumbo they will die. If you know otherwise, let her know. By the way, her gumbo travels very well with a DoorDash driver.
SandyS arrived @ 12:19. SherryT, GeorgeM and DaveA a bit earlier.
There was a KyndraG meet member DarrenC moment.
We are pretty sure Prez Bill violated the 4-Way Test when welcoming DarrenC. Topping that, Bill thumped DaveA up the side of his head with the 50-50 bucket. No blood, no foul!
Our January 30th meeting will be held at the WR Rec Center. Lunch, followed by a pickleball session. Dress for success!
Prez Bill fined everyone not at the previous week's meeting and for not clearing snow from your driveway.
February Birthday greetings go out to -PattiA-February 3, MarkSp-4th, VirgilM-8th, ScottL-24th, ErinP-25th and GlennB-27th. Happy birthday to y'all!
We had 17 members dining on breakfast for lunch.
The $58 50-50 rolls after LoriP and RickH failed to find the joker. BillP won the scratchie.
Opening duties were covered by DarrenC and MarkV.
74% of Eastender News subscribers opened the last newsletter.
TRIVIA TIME
BETTER LUCK NEXT WEEK!
BREAKFAST FOR LUNCH BUNCH
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Tiger Woods and fellow superstars launched a futuristic new golf league. what's the big deal?
A-It combines simulator golf with live action.
B-Every ball contains an embedded camera.
C-Viewers can bet on every stroke from home.
D-Play occurs on the moon.
(The answer is found near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Use Your Gift Card Day
Which U.S. city is nicknamed the "Ice Box of the Nation"?
West Yellowstone, Montana
Green Bay, Wisconsin
International Falls, Minnesota
Bismarck, North Dakota
Located on the Canadian border, the city of International Falls, Minnesota, trademarked the title “Ice Box of the Nation” in 2008 International Falls has a record low of -55 degrees Fahrenheit, and its average January temperature is just 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
January 2011
The EA club celebrated their first meeting at Julia's. BradP and PaulH found the new meeting site. CoryG went to the Keasler Rec Center first.
The WR Mouse Race was scheduled for January 15th. JohnP was looking for volunteers.
The EA club heard a presentation about the Service Corps of Retired Executives (S.C.O.R.E.) program.
PattiA made a presentation about her Anderson's Imprinting business.
Under the guidance of DaveA the WR club distributed dictionaries to third graders at Lewis & Clark, Hartford, Central and South Rox elementary schools. GeorgeT was thanked for helping put Rotary decals on each book.
CoryG agreed to remain as the EA club treasurer while nomination for prez-elect were being sought.
Bags of Green Mountain coffee were available to be bought and sold.
Applebee's was hosting a fund raiser for the RHS after prom party.
The $419 WR Queen of Hearts jackpot went unclaimed.
The proposed Spring Lawn and Garden show was a topic of discussion at the EA meeting.
ScottL provided the meeting invocation while DaveA lead the singing.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
DATELINE:ROTARY
Samantha Cristoforetti longed for space travel since she was a kid. Now, she’s sharing the cosmic awe with her fellow earthlings
By Diana Schoberg
In some ways it’s just like any other Rotary meeting.
Dozens of members of the Rotary Club of Köln am Rhein gather on a pleasant Monday evening at one of the famous Kranhäus office buildings, architectural gems shaped like upside down L’s over the Rhine River with the towers of Cologne Cathedral visible in the distance. The night’s speaker, an out-of-this-world member of the club, is scheduled to give the Rotarians a virtual tour of her workplace. The Wi-Fi connection on her end is finicky, and they wait eagerly.
At last, she appears, and that’s when this meeting takes a decidedly different turn. Because Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, is floating.
Cristoforetti is four months into her second stint on the space station, a research vessel about the size of a six-bedroom house that orbits the Earth every 90 minutes. Her hair set loose from the confines of gravity in a way that would make an ’80s metal rocker jealous, she takes questions and wows club members with the cosmic views. “Most of the time I try to take meetings from the cupola, because then you can show people the Earth from the windows,” she says in an interview with Rotary magazine. To continue reading, link herehttps://shorturl.at/sXydL
AND I QUOTE
"I don’t call them New Year’s resolutions. I prefer the term “casual promises to myself that I’m under no legal obligation to fulfill.”-Jim Hunt
"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger."-Mia Hamm, American soccer player
"I decided to break all my resolutions early, so I can start enjoying the rest of the year."-Glen and Gary McCoy
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."-Albert Einstein
SMILE
Let's head west and check out some recent entries in the Flathead County, Montana police blotter:
A black Lab escaped the yard to help the neighbor with fence improvements.
Two loose dogs looked like they were “off a scary movie.”
A building manager was playing their trumpet in an apartment building.
A Kalispell dog was on a mission to have the neighbor’s chickens for breakfast.
A man called law enforcement to report that he’d shot a dog that killed his pig.
A naked man was pushing a refrigerator down the sidewalk.
Six goats had been hanging out in a Kalispell yard for two days.
A dead elk was blocking a lane of traffic on the highway.
Someone lost both sets of their wedding rings.
A landlord was using a megaphone to communicate with his apartment tenants from the parking lot.
A truck driver had a brief road rage incident after the car in front of him stopped to let a pedestrian cross the street.
A woman accidentally called 911 while out grocery shopping.
BY THE NUMBERS
The average ticket price for the top 100 tours in North America in 2024 rose to $136.45, nearly double from a decade ago-Pollstar
In fact, U.S. sales of cottage cheese have increased more than 50% over the past five years, They were up 16% in 2023—then another 17% in 2024- Circana
Consumers last year returned an estimated 16.9% of items they purchased, valued at $890 billion and more than double the percentage of goods returned in 2019-National Retail Federation and Happy Returns
Through last fall, U.S. consumers spent over $30 billion on fresh beef, up 9% from the previous year-National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
26% of younger people who bought homes in 2024 say they used family cash for down payments, up from 23% in 2023-Redfin
The monthly median percentage of premium streaming video subscribers who rejoined the same service they had canceled within the prior year was 34.2% in the first nine months of 2024, up from 29.8% in 2022
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