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HAPPY NEW YEAR ISSUE JANUARY 6, 2024
VOL. 4 NO.20
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NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
Happy New Year, we hope that your 2024 interactions with customer service staff go better than BradL's.
On Thursday TylerL gave us his hot take on youth activities-it's more than just sports. He feels strongly that we need to offer more non-sports activities to engage our young folks. Tyler encouraged questions from the "peanut gallery" and received several which led to a broad discussion about youth sports. Tyler's career has led him to observe that he wishes that there was some test/license required before procreation takes place.
Congrats to CoryG on his 18 years of Rotary service.
BillP was our bell ringer while Prez Rodney was off visiting kin in Springfield, MO.
Early arrivals included AllenH, BradL, LoriP and BillP.
The slide right in crew includedold pro DaveA, JohnP, ChrisH and PaulH.
Remember, there is no longer a tip box.The tip is now included in your weekly meeting charge.
Opening duties were handled by JohnP, ChrisH and BillP.
SAA Patti was back in the house after spending several weeks with her mother in South Carolina. Mom suffered a serious injury while on vacay and had to be flown home via a medical jet service. Patti now sees the value of having travel insurance. Fines were levied for not doing something charitable doing the holidays.
17 members were in the house to dine on ham 'n yams, Rotary g-beans, rolls, salad and sweet treats.
Last to arrive LeonardB @ 12:10. Earlier post-nooners included PaulH (newly retired. No excuse. Old habits are hard to break?), GeorgeM and TylerL.
JohnP and LoriP tried to to find the joker, didn't happen. GeorgeM won the scratch-off.
HOW ABOUT A NO COST LEASE?
CHRISTMAS WISHES
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
A key U.S. dietary panel is considering uprooting potatoes from the vegetable category and classifying them with what?
A-Dairy
B-Fruits
C-Legumes
D-Grains
(Answer is found near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Shortbread Day
Which European capital is known as the “Eternal City”?
Rome
Paris
Madrid
London
It was Tibullus in the 1st century BCE who is credited with first naming Rome the "Eternal City." With an ever-expanding empire, the Romans believed their capital city was the pinnacle of society. It was eternal because they thought that Rome could never fall. The phrase "Eternal City" (or "Urbs Aeterna" in Latin) was further popularized by Virgil, Ovid, and Livy to ensure it became indelibly linked with Italy's capital city. Rome is also known as the "City of Seven Hills" due to its hilly location.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
January 2010
Current members serving as club officers: ChrisH, GeorgeM, LoriP, ScottL, CoryG and GeorgeT.
WR members were mourning the passing of long-time member Carl Timmins, Boy Scout executive, club president, treasurer and editor.
JoeS presented a "State of the Village" program.
The WR club made a $250 donation to the Riverbend Community Food Pantry. The EA club made a $125 donation to the Roxana After Prom committee.
RHS Junior Rotarians Katelyn Miller and Tyler Austin visited the WR meeting.
MarkS announced that club foundation has funded $34,000 in scholarships.
DaveA and GeorgeT were part of a committee that recommended renovations of the building at the East End Park.
Scholarship coordinator Charlie Kunz suggested that additional funding may be available via the Gates Foundation.
PaulG won a buck, but failed to win the $204 jackpot.
RodC told fellow EA members that the next international project would be water related. GeorgeT fined anyone who failed to shovel snow or wear a Rotary lapel pin.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
DATELINE:RI
A PREVENTABLE KILLER
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.
Women diagnosed with cervical cancer are almost twice as likely to die than those diagnosed with breast cancer. Yet cervical cancer is a disease that is preventable and treatable. What's going on?
About 90 percent of the women killed by cervical cancer - more than 340,000 in 2020 - live in low- and middle-income countries, where access to prevention, screening, and treatment is severely limited. And reproductive care remains a taboo topic, even when ti means people are dying as a result.
The Rotary Foundation has awarded more than $10.3 million in global grant funding for cervical cancer projects since 2014, and other Rotary projects, such as an initiative in Alabama,
have tackled this issue outside of global grant funding. In addition, $2 million was awarded to United to End Cervical Cancer in Egypt as part of the third annual Programs of Scale competition. The Foundation awards these grants to evidence-based programs that align with at least
one of Rotary's causes and are ready for expan- sion to create larger-scale change.
The four-year program in and around Cairo will vaccinate more than 30,000 girls ages 9 to 15 to prevent infection with the human papilloma- virus, which causes the disease. tI will provide cancer screenings for 10,000 women - allowing for early detection and treatment - and launch
a public awareness campaign to reach 4million people, helping address cultural misconceptions that may deter people from seeking care.
AND I QUOTE
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."-Oscar Wilde
"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it."-Jerry Seinfeld
"The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary."-Arthur Schopenhauer
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."-A.A. Milne
SMILE
Let's start the new year by scanning the police blotter in Flathead County, Montana-
3:56 a.m. A man was walking in the center of the road, waving a roll of toilet paper.
6:48 p.m. Four Christmas inflatable lawn decorations were stabbed to death.
5:21 p.m. A Whitefish resident suspected a nearby neighbor shot out a streetlight, and then shot a neighborhood deer.
2:52 p.m. A woman was concerned the microwave that was left by the side of her house was full of drugs.
5 a.m. A man was detained for hitting his truck with a crowbar after it broke down.
9:41 a.m. A woman kept leaving her cat outside her apartment and it was slowly going feral.
11:08 p.m. A woman was very upset at the way staff at an auto shop spoke to her.
3:07 p.m. A man was unsuccessful in his attempt to shoplift an entire cart of supplies from a hardware store.
3:26 p.m. After being confronted by law enforcement about her dogs repeatedly pooping in neighboring yards, a woman said it was excusable behavior because one was a puppy and the other is a service dog.
10:03 p.m. Three youths who were ding-dong ditching houses told officers that stopped them that they were definitely not playing ding-dong ditch.
BY THE NUMBERS
A record 79% of e-commerce traffic was on mobile phones from Nov. 21 to Nov. 27, up from 76% in 2022-Salesforce
On average, food-service sales accounted for about a quarter of in-store sales for convenience stores but well over a third of in-store gross profits, according to industry group NACS. At Casey’s, the gross margin on prepared food and beverages is about 60%, while its margin on fuel is closer to 10%.
An increase of a single star in an overall rating on review site Yelp.com boosts a restaurant’s revenue by 5% to 9%-Harvard Business School
The number of annual average daily walking trips dropped 36% in the contiguous U.S. between 2019 and 2022-StreetLight Data
The national average cost of a wedding was $30,000 in 2022, up $2,000 from a year earlier, according to the Knot
2023 was the first time that sales of lab-made and natural mined loose diamonds, primarily used as center stones in engagement rings, were split evenly- Tenoris
In 2022 there were roughly 312 million recreational visits to 395 national parks that track attendance, a 15 million increase over 2021. The most visited park was Blue Ridge Parkway, which received 15.7 million visits last year, edging out the Golden Gate National Recreation Area by slightly more than 72,000 visits.
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