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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS ISSUEJULY 17, 2021
VOL. 2 NO. 3
AM FOOD IN THE PM
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
Please keep TommieM in your prayers as she recovers from injuries sustained in a recent auto accident. See Lori's email from Thursday for the details.
BradP reminds everyone that his guest this week will be State Senator Crowe.
We had 19 members in the house on
Thursday dining on breakfast for lunch, or, as DaveA prefers, brunch. It looked to be a popular call by Chef Bob and his crew. One wag was hoping for a Rotary g-bean omelet.
The first in the house honors go to MarkA, followed by MarkS and MarkV. Our 3 Marks, first to arrive, interesting.
MarkS pulling duty as club treasurer for the day.
We will be assisting the Sleep in Heavenly Peace project the afternoon of August 5th making beds for kids. Put it on your calendar. We start with lunch at Julia's before departing for the workshop which is located on the road to the right of the College Av. Comfort Inn in Alton. You do not have to have any wood working skills to assist, just a willingness to help. Our session will last 2.5-3 hours. Come and help as long as you can.The charity started in 2012 when Twin Falls, Idaho resident Luke Mickelson made a bed for a neighbor boy for Christmas. Out of the leftover wood, Mickelson built a second bed and put it on Facebook. Soon he had multiple requests from folks in need of a bed and others eager to help him build more. 2% to 3% of U.S. children do not have a bed to sleep in, and children and youth services departments will not place a child in a home, even with a relative, without a bed for them. Most of the deliveries are to families headed by single parents, and the beds are for ages 3 to 17.
Prez Lindsey shared with us three social media programs we will be using to grow Rotary awareness in our service area and recruit new members: Thankful Thursday, Rotary Fact Friday and Why Rotary will be rolling out soon. Everyone will be receiving a survey from Lindsey. Please fill it out and return ASAP. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
MarkA shared some of his family adventures while touring our first National Park as well as other stops during his 13 day western adventure. RodneyD was in vacation mode sporting an aloha shirt.
Foundation Treasurer MarkV reports that our foundation has assets in the amount of $182K.
It's last call for BaseballMania tickets. The game begin on July 26rh.
Birthday wishes tp JoeS on the 19th and DonnaK and JohnP on the 22nd. John also celebrates his 22nd year as a club member.
Happy Fines were paid by BradL who suggested we visit his daughter now slinging ice cream at Blue Ice and MarkV who announced that his son is doing great 10 years after being diagnosed with cancer.
There's a board meeting next week.
What do you know about an Amazon airport adjacent to I-255?? That's how rumors get started.
Not wearing blue, pay a $, so sayeth Prez Lindsey
Opening duties performed by DaveA, LeonardB and BillP.
Last in included line jumping PaulH, LeonardB and SandyS.
Let's review, last week LeonardB drew his own 50-50 ticket, but no joker. This week he doubled down and had his two tickets picked by PaulG, one of which won the $132 jackpot. Nice. Lori won the scratch-off.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend. Stay safe.
THAT'S A WINNER!
HOW DOES THIS THING WORK?
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Yandex devices will roll out at colleges this fall. To do what?
A-Connect classrooms for remote learning
B-Deliver pizza and other grub
C-Shuttle students across campus
D-Surveil dormitories
(Answer can be found at the end of the newsletter)
Today is World Emoji Day
Where is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the U.S.?
Louisiana
California
Missouri
New York
Cable-stayed bridges are roadways supported by strong cables that hang from one or more towers and run diagonally and parallel to one another. With a main cable-stayed span stretching 1,583 feet, John James Audubon Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the United States. Completed in 2011, the bridge crosses the Mighty Mississippi, carrying Louisiana Highway 10 between the Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes (north of Baton Rouge). The towers that support the cables stretch 520 feet high, so they're visible for miles around in the surrounding bayous.
Today in History-
1821 – The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.
1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1976 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal
1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Late-July 2018
PattiA introduced the WR program speaker Bo Grisham representing Ervin Cable Company.
Great Rivers and Routes President Brad Stawar presented the EA program. He spoke about the Small Business Revolution program and the upcoming Beach Boys concert.
The Back to School Bash distributed 1,200 backpacks at the recent event. Thanks went out to TommieM, JohnP, PaulG and PatrickA for their assistance.
EA Prez PattyW introduced the first new member of her term, Dave Scott. His grandfather was a member of the 70's band Backside.
An oversized check was presented by Prez JohnP to CherylM that would be used to upgrade Emerick Park. The check represented the proceeds of the Color Run. Thanks to the Color Run coordinators LindseyH and PattiA.
VirgilM was sporting shorts at the EA meeting.
Treasurer GeorgeM was a wee bit concerned by the WR balance sheet as the club began a new Rotary year.
BradL and AllenH were seen splashing in Julia's fountain.
Happy Fines were paid by JohnP and PaulG.
PaulH presented a 10 year service award to DaveM.
WR VP BarbO introduce meeting guests.
BillP announced that he and Brenda have been married for 38 years.
WR SAA DaveA fined those that did not have the correct answer to a question taken from the recent Rotarian magazine.
The $242 50-50 jackpot was missed by JohnP and the EA $42 jackpot was missed by MarkA.
DATELINE:RI
MASKS TO BRICKS
By Abdullah Al Fahad, Rotaract Club of Dhaka Orchid, Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with a new environmental challenge. Every month, more than 120 billion disposable masks and gloves are being thrown out, with some of them polluting our land and water.
Our Rotaract club, like many, is concerned about the environment. Emboldened by Rotary’s newest cause, protecting the environment, we decided to do something about this problem. We began a recycling effort which we called our Clean Earth project to collect masks that were littering our streets, parking lots, and other common areas and find a way to reuse them.
Medical experts have said that the virus can survive up to three days on an object. We place the masks that we pick up in a locked room for three days. Then we bleach them and wash them with detergent over a period of 24 hours. We dry them in sunlight, then tear them into smaller pieces and mix them with cement. We use this mixture to create planting containers filled with soil, which we plant trees inside.
We have also made bricks with the mixture and find it stronger than regular bricks. We are planning to use the bricks to build toilets in rural areas. We are working with other clubs to expand our effort, perhaps creating a recycling center where people could bring their used masks, and we could employ other people to help us turn them into bricks and other products.
As much as 13 millon tons of plastic makes it way into our oceans every year. Masks often contain plastics such as polypropylene with a lifespan of hundreds of years. Rotary members are creative and innovative, and we are sure that with some thought, other clubs could join us in finding ways to convert glove and mask waste into usable commodities. Let’s protect this planet of ours while we embrace Rotary’s newest cause.
AND I QUOTE
"What would men be without women? Scarce, mighty scarce."-Mark Twain
"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."-Madeleine L'Engle
"I would rather walk with friends in the dark, than alone in the light."-Helen Keller
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."-Cicero
SMILE
My doctor asked if anyone in my family suffered from mental illness. I said, "No, we all seem to enjoy it."
My bucket list: keep breathing.
Camping: where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person.
Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say: "close enough."
Being an adult is the dumbest thing I have ever done.
I'm a multitasker. I can listen, ignore and forget all at the same time!
I don't have grey hair. I have wisdom highlights.
Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.
I don't trip, I do random gravity checks.
Hold on while I overthink this.
Losing weight doesn't seem to be working for me, so from now I'm going to concentrate on getting taller.
Some people are like clouds, once they disappear it's a beautiful day.
Common sense is not a gift. It's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
BY THE NUMBERS
The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives well enough to be considered "thriving" on Gallup's Live Evaluation Index reached 59.2% in June, the highest in over 13 years of ongoing measurement and exceeding the previous high of 57.3% from September 2017
One in five Americans live in a community governed by a homeowners’ association (HOA)
60% of job seekers say they would not consider working in a bar, restaurant, hotel or other hospitality industry position for their next job-Joblist
Government data indicates that graduate students are on track to have borrowed as much as undergraduates in the 2020-21 academic year
The Prudential survey found 34% of millennials plan to seek a new employer after the pandemic versus 24% of Generation X workers and just 10% of baby boomers
53% of Americans would switch to a role in a new industry if they had the opportunity to retrain-Pulse of the American Worker Survey
From Consumer Reports-In 1938 electric ranges had many accessories to "suit the housewife's fancy," including special racks, built-in alarm clicks, custom colors, and even cigarette lighters
