MEETING NOTES

President Denny presented this day in history with these facts: 

1935:  The board game Monopoly goes on sale for the first time.  A fun family game, with the goal of driving all of your Thopponents into bankruptcy, is now licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages.  The game actually played a role during WWII when British Intelligence created a special edition that was sent by fake charity groups to POW's held by the Nazi's.  Inside these games were maps, compasses, real money and other objects useful for escape.

1971:  Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron that he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit 2 golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first and only person to play golf on the moon.  The first shot actually hit a beer cart!  However, his second shot was estimated to have traveled over one mile by the moon's reduced gravity environment giving him the unofficial record for the longest drive in history. 

2014: After 22 years, Jay Leno hosted his final Tonight Show.  To put that into perspective, Leno said 'when he started hosting in 1992, marijuana was illegal and you could smoke cigarettes anywhere you wants.'

 

Thank you to our greeters  and to Jim Wingert for the Invocation. 

 

Tuesday, February 14th:  Children's Hospital at 6pm to do crafts and other fun activities with children and families visiting siblings/children in the hospital.

Thursday, February 16th:  Board Meeting @ 5:30.

Tuesday,February 21st:  Golf Committee meeting @ 5:00 at 21993 E. Ridge Trail Circle in Aurora at Mark Johnson's home.

 

Nominees for the Board were announced and Jeff Kaes made a motion to accept the nominees as read.  Betsy Jansen 2nd the motion and the motion passed.  Congratulations to all the new Board members!

 

Al Horton shared the results of the football pool.  We raised just over $450 which will go right to work funding our various programs.  Winners:  Miles Edwards, Al Horton, Bev Essex and Betsy Jansen!  Congratulations!  And way to go Patriots!  (Sorry Falcon fans!)

 

We got lots of Valentine Day Quotes - but let's save those for next week's newsletter!

 

Joe Taylor joined us from Century Elementary and expressed his gratitude for all we do for his school as well as a thank you to the students from Rangeview HS who helped make Peaceful Schools a success.

 

And thank you to Ryan, Leo, Vincent, Hawi, Grace, Nina and Lexi who joined us!  Thank you!  How great to see so many youthful faces at our meeting!