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CUSP OF IDES ISSUE MARCH 11, 2023
VOL. 3 NO. 30
THE BUCKS STOP HERE
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
We're back, let's get with it.
Thursday's program presenter was Cindy Durr, DO. She currently works for the Cardinal Glennon Children's and Anderson hospitals.Her presentation provided a historical and informative backstory on polio. It's estimated that there are currently 300,000 people alive in the US who have had polio. She highlighted several successful people who contracted polio as a youth and went on to have great careers in a variety of fields. After showing a slide displaying dozens of iron lung machines, Cindy told us about the confirmed case of polio in a New York man last year. In case you were wondering, similar to Covid-19, you can be an asymptomatic Polio carrier/spreader. Some sobering stuff, but it helps to understand how important it is to be vaccinated and how Rotary's contributions to eradicate Polio on a global scale are needed.
It's spring training for our beloved Redbirds (and for JohnP's Cubbies), can Baseball Mania be far behind? Coming soon!
RodneyD arrived looking like Tool Time Tim and proceeded to cover for Prez Robin.
SandyS and JoeS shared some fond memories of Bad Santa. You probably had to be there.
SAA LeonardB and lugmeister TylerL collected a few $$ from anyone who joined Rotary since women were welcomed as members in the early 80's. We had two scooters-MarkV and PattiA. Mark paid a tax deductible $, Patti forgot.
Early arrivals included AllenH, DaveA and RodneyD.
SandyS pointed out that the March issue of the Illinois Business Journal has a great cover story about downtown Wood River. Check it out http://www.ibjonline.com
Birthday greetings go out to RodneyD-today and JeanK on St. Patrick's Day.
20 members dined on spaghetti with meaty sauce, Rotary g-beans, garlic bread, build your own romaine salad and mini cup cakes.
JoeS read an thank you note from the EA Park and Rec department for our $100 contribution.
Be thinking about joining the fun of Rotary Spring Training on March 25th.
Recent emails from LoriP provided info about the Amare fundraising banquet and the Riverbend Family Ministries open house.
BradL hit the food line at 12:23, looking all undercover. Proceeding him were fellow laties GeorgeM and LeonardB.
After a sinus cavity cleanup SherryT has regained her sense of smell. She now realizes how good cooking garlic smells.
Opening duties were handled by RodneyD, DaveA and JohnP.
SandyS/SherryT and WendellR turned up their noses at the $400 +/- jackpot. MarioS won the scratch-off.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend.
Au revoir!
THE 50-50 JACKPOT GROWS
COMING THIS FALL
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
A new breed of bowling pins has sparked ire to spare. Why?
A-They are harder to knock down
B-They are easier to knock down
C-They are plastic rather than wood
D-They are made in Russia
(Answer is found near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Oatmeal Nut Waffle Day
Outside of Alaska, which national park is the least-visited in the U.S.?
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
North Cascades National Park, Washington
Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
National Park of American Samoa
Found in the Great Lakes region of Michigan at the northern tip of Lake Superior, just 25,798 visitors enjoyed the forested beauty of Isle Royale in 2018. The National Park of American Samoa received 28,626 visitors the same year, while the North Cascades had more than 30,000 and Dry Tortugas topped 56,000. For comparison, the most popular National Park is the Great Smoky Mountains, with more than 11 million visitors. Should you include Alaskan parks, the attendance drops even more dramatically: The Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, the northernmost national park in the U.S., had just 9,591 visitors in all of 2018.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Mid-March 2018
LeonardB reminded all WR members to vote tomorrow.
AllenH had big plans to lead fellow EA members in singing "Roll Rotary".
The WR club welcomed two Junior Rotarians from RHS-Taylor Whitehead and Dickson Wong.
WendellR told everyone within earshot where to find the best corned beef in the Riverbend.
ScottL, BillP and AllenH all let jackpot opportunities slip through their fingers. At least CoryG won the scratch-off.
JeanK reminded the WR club that Disco Bingo was scheduled for March 24th.
LoriP, SherryT and SandyS were all MIA from the EA meeting (in Florida perhaps??)
The WR Color Run was scheduled for June 3. Online registration would be available by the end of the month.
JoeS reported that the early inquiries about leased space in the newly refurbished Eastgate Shopping Center bode well for its success.
PaulG was busy setting up a social night in mid-April for the Pump House.
Wearing blue at the EA meeting? Pay a $.
EA members welcomed Dale from the WR club.
ScottL announced that scholarship applications would be collected in early April.
NEW WORDS
Words that were listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the first time in
An FYI-Rotary produces podcasts on a variety of topics that are available via Spotify or this link http://on.rotary.org/podcast happy listening!
Partnering with parks department yields Miracle Field
Editor’s Note: In 2010, the Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Foundation, which is supported by five Rotary clubs in the Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, USA, area, raised 100 percent of the funds needed to build a Miracle Field in Moorhead. Keith Brokke shares how they were able to make an impact with their project.
By Keith Brokke, past governor of District 5580 (Minnesota, North Dakota, USA) and a member of the Rotary Club of Fargo-Moorhead AM
In the spring of 2010, a Rotary member came to us with the idea to build a Miracle Field, a special field with a rubberized, barrier-free turf that allows children with disabilities to play baseball safely. We had previously built a universal playground five years before in Fargo to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Rotary. We felt a Miracle Field was a good fit for our Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Foundation.
Since we had worked successfully with the Fargo Park District in the earlier project, we decided to approach the Moorhead Parks & Recreation department for the Miracle Field. We knew that it is important early in the planning process to design a project for results. Part of a well-planned project is working closely with partners who also have a stake in the outcome. We learned that the Moorhead Parks and Recreation department had already done a needs assessment and wanted to build a Miracle Field, but faced budget constraints. They were ecstatic when the Fargo-Moorhead Foundation offered to build the field.
Part of a well-planned project is working closely with partners who also have a stake in the outcome.
Back in 2005, the Fargo park district had promised to finance our universal playground interest-free and provide maintenance if we raised all the funds to build it. We got a similar agreement with Moorhead. We were able to raise 90 percent of the $254,000 total needed by June 2010. To continue reading, link herehttps://tinyurl.com/4da9w35h
AND I QUOTE
If you aren't happy with what you've got now, what makes you think you'll be happier with more?
"Life must be understood backwards. But … it must be lived forwards.” -Søren Kierkegaard
The low bidder is usually someone who is wondering what he left out.
"You never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."-Lou Holtz
SMILE
I can't take my dog to the pond anymore because the ducks keep attacking him. Guess that's what I get for having a pure bread dog.
What do you call it when you mix alcohol and American Literature? Tequila Mockingbird.
My friend Jack claims he can communicate with vegetables. Jack and the beans talk.
I recently took a pole and found out that 100% of the people in the tent were angry when it collapsed.
Why did the chicken go to the gym? To work on his pecks.
BY THE NUMBERS
Almost 1/3 of today’s pickup owners rarely or never use their truck for hauling, while two-thirds rarely or never use it for towing-Strategic Vision
Tips at full-service restaurants are up about 25% compared with a year ago, and tips at casual places are up 17%-Square
In December remote jobs made up 13.2% of postings advertised on LinkedIn—down from 20.6% in March.
Small companies (fewer than 250 employees) have been responsible for all of the net job growth in the U.S. since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and account for nearly 4 of 5 available job openings-Wall Street Journal/Jefferies
U.S. viewers streamed the equivalent of 19.4 million years of content in 2022, up 27% from a year earlier-Nielsen
A study in Harvard Business Review suggests workers are switching from app to app, website to website, nearly 1,200 times a day. That so-called "toggling tax" amounts to a total of 9% of an employee's annual work year.
(Trivia answer-A)
THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
First:The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
Second: High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
Third: The application of the idea of service in each Rotarian's personal business, and community life.
Fourth: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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