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FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 7th, 2017
"Some times we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens!"
Attendance for August 3, 2017
Chester Banks, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Veronique Hahn, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Gary Nelson, Lon Shell, Kelli Whigham, Rhonda White, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Tracy Herman, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Gary Strunk, Glen Rydl (20)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of AUGUST 2017
If you are scheduled to be Greeter for a particular Thursday, try to arrive at Grins by about 11:30am, put on the special Greeter's badge and then greet each and every member and visitors as they come in.
August 10...........Charles Johnson
August 17............Moe Johnson
August 24............Del Brown
We are very sorry, but McBride Wilson's name was drawn from Big Bucks, but he was not present, because he is still recuperating from some surgery. Maybe next time, McBride.
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 2017"
August 10..........Beverly Crumley
August 21..........Glen Rydl
August 28..........Pam Cook
THOSE WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES IN THE
MONTH OF AUGUST 2017
Lon & Phyllis Shell..........August 18
McBride & Elsie Wilson.......August 31
"Kiwanis Criminal Background Investigation"
"As your Club Secretary, it is my duty and concern that every member of our club apply for a CBI, and I am informing all our members that this is not just a "maybe" thing, but a "must" I am enclosing the names of those who have not applied for their CBI yet
If you plan to participate in a Kiwanis Sponsored Project when youth & children are involved, you 'must' have a Favorable Criminal Background Investigation (CBI). This CBI request is available only line. Go to www.txokkiwanis.org, put your cursor on Member Resources, click on Forms & Reports and Scroll down to Background Checks. The top 2 listings are for CBI's, click on the Online button to access the form. DO NOT use any other form than this one. If problem, call Lee Shuey, District Secretary, 1-817-640-7711.
We do not have records for the following: Cynthia Bentley, Chad Burns, James Collier, Tracy Herman, Moe Johnson, Charles Johnson, Francis Mendez, Gary Nelson, Mervin Richards, John Roppolo, Courtney Taylor, Garr4y White, Rhonda White, and Caleb Williams.
As your Club Secretary I hope you will comply with at your earliest convenience. (Glen Rydl, Secretary)
San Marcos Chamber of Commerce Business Exposition , Tomorrow, August 8th.
We are a member of the Chamber, and therefore, we all need to pitch in and help set up, and man our booth throughout the day. Last year, we talked with a lot of individuals about our Club, and once again, it is a tremendous opportunity to let people know about what Kiwanis stands for, who they help, where our funds go, and most important, are KIDS,KIDS, KIDS. Even if you don't have a slot to work the booth, come on out, in your Kiwanis shirt, and proudly represent your club.
Our Program Last Week was very informative!
Thanks to Moe Johnson and Councilwoman Jane Hughson, many questions were asked on a variety of subjects, roads, parking, what does the future hold for the city of San Marcos. There were too many questions for Councilwoman Hughson to field them all, but her comments were very positive and she was more than willing to discuss, as far as her knowledge would allow her to be upfront and positive in her addressing some of the concerns. Thanks so much Jane for being with us, and thanks Moe for bringing her as a program. Jane knows she is welcome in our club anytime.
Visitors are always welcome!
It is always a grand time when visitors come to our noon club meeting. Last week, Francis Mendez brought Lucian Visinesvcu, and Veronique Hahn brought Sarah Lee Underwood. Welcome to both of you and would welcome you back anytime.
The Program for this coming Thursday, August 10, 2017
John Polk will be bringing the program this week, and believe you me, it will one you won't want to miss. He is Charles Walts, who served more than twenty-six years in the U.S. Army and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1988. Subsequent to his retirement from military service, he served for seven years as the Information Technology Strategic and Disaster Recovery Planner for the Texas Education Agency.
In 1997, he became a professional business continuity and disaster recovery consultant for a large BCP/DR consulting firm. He developed more than 300 business and governmental agencies continuity and disaster recovery plans for organizations in the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and Puerto Rico before becoming an independent contingency planning consultant in 2009.
He along with another author, Tommye White, they have written a book, 'Rest In Peace'. This book does a thorough planning for when all of us, at some time in our lifetime will find out that life on this earth is not permanent. He does an excellent job of providing all of the things that you would need to prepare for that time. I won't say nothing more about this because this is a book that all of us should have in our library. Let's have a full house this coming Thursday, and learn about things that perhaps all of us have either put off or not even thought of when it comes to the departure from this earth.
The Age of Imponderables! - (There are no answers to these imponderables, but if you think of a good answer, let me know and I will put it in?
1.........Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawnshop?
2.........Crime doesn't pay....does that mean my job is a crime?
3.........Do blind dogs have seeing-eye humans?
4.......Do boxer shorts box?
5.......Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
6.......Do clowns really wear big socks?
7.......What is "Soft Liquor"?
8.......Do pilots take crash courses?
9.......Do steam rollers really roll steam?
10.....What kind of fruit is in Juicy Fruit gum?
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August 4, 1964 ----Three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were found murdered and buried in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had disappeared on June 21 after being detained by Neshoba County police on charges of speeding. They were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to increase black voter registration. When their car was found burned on June 23, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the FBI to search for the men.
August 5, 1583 ----The first British colony in North America was founded by Sir Humprey Gilbert, a British navigator and explorer. He sighted the Newfoundland coast and took possession of the area around St. Joh8n's harbor in the name of the Queen. He was later lost at sea in a storm off the Azores on his return trip to England.
August 6, 1945 ----The first Atomic Bomb was dropped over the center of Hirosima at 8:15 am., by the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay. The bomb detonated about 1800 feet above ground killing over 105,000 persons and destroyi8ng the city. Anoth8er estimated 100,000 persons later died as a result of radiation effects.
August 7, 1964 ----Following an attack on two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam, the U.S. Con gress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolation, granting President Lyndon B. Johnson authority "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
August 8, 1945 ----Soviet Russia declared war on Japan and sent troops into Japanese-held Manchuria.
August 9, 1945 ----The second atomic bombing of Japan occurred as an American B-29 bomber headed for the city of Kokura, but because of poor visibility then chose a secondary target, Nagasaki. About noon, the bomb detonated killing an estimated 70,000 persons and destroying about half the city.
August 10, 1874 ---- Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President was born in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first President born west of the Mississippi.
What do we Know About Other States in our 'Beautiful America?'-----Let's Start With the State of "MAINE"
1.........Joshua L. Chamberlain born in Brewer, Maine, received the only battlefield promotion to General during the Civil War. He was also the last Civil War soldier to die of wounds incurred in the War.
2.......Maine produces 99% of all the blueberries in the country making it the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States.
3........Approximately 40 million pounds (nearly 90%) of the nation's lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine.
4........90% of the country's toothpick supply is produced in Maine.
5........Senator Margaret Chase Smith stood up in the senate and gave the famous Declaration of Conscious speech, speaking out against the McCarthy era. Senator Smith was the first female presidential candidate.
6.........With a total area of 33,215 square miles the state covers nearly as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
7.........Located in Thorndike Village, the Bryant Stove Works and Museum displays an eclectic collection of antique cast iron stoves, parlor heaters, roadsters and touring cars. In addition, the museum features antique layer pianos, pipe organs and music boxes, calliopes, nickelodeons, and hurdy-gurdys.
8..........Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was considered the most influential poet of his day. The writer was born in Portland, on February 2, 1807. His most popular works include, "The Courtship of Miles Standish", "Evangeline", and "Hiawatha".
9..........The nation's first sawmill was established near York in 1623.
10........Maine's government entities are comprised of 16 counties with 22 cities, 435 towns, 33 plantations, 424 unorganized townships and 3 Indian reservations.
(Next week, we will go to New Hampshire)
"TO BE CAUGHT HOLDING THE BAG!"
"To be left in the lurch, or in an awkward or ludicrous position not of one's own devising; to be made the scapegoat for faults committed by others; to be the victim of a mean trick. As stated in A Hog on Ice, this expression was in use, and apparently well understood, back in the time of George Washington, having been used in a comedy produced in 1787, but the expression was likely the result of what is called 'a snipe hunt'. In fact, your editor and maybe you too have been victims of this act.
If you are not familiar 'the snipe hunt', this is the procedure: a group of boys, initiating a new boy in a community, invite him to join them some night on a 'snipe hunt'---generally where snipes have never been seen. They take him far into the woods, unfamiliar to him, armed with lanterns ( or flashlights today), and burlap bags. At a likely spot the new boy is handed one of the lanterns (or flashlights), and given one of the bags. He is instructed to keep the bag open, with the light above it, while the rest of the crowd go off into the brush to scare up the birds. The birds, he is told, seeing the light, will make for it and be caught in the bag. Of course, the rest of the crowd actually reassemble at some appointed spot and return hilariously to town and their own warm beds, leaving the poor neophyte, shivering and alone in a strange place, 'holding the bag' for birds that will never appear.
Incidentally, among the Pennsylvania Dutch, the hoax is known as elbedritsch, and it may have other names elsewhere in the country.
"The Religious Horse!"
There is this guy who had been lost and walking in the desert for about 2 weeks. One hot day, he sees the home of a missionary. Tired and weak, he crawls up to the house and collapses on the doorstep. The missionary finds him and nurses him bgack to health. Feeling better, the man ask the missionary for directions to the nearest town. On his way out the backdoor, he sees this horse. He goes back into the house and asks the missionary, "Could I borrow your horse and give it back when I reach the town?"
The missionary says, "Sure but there is a special thing about this horse. He is a religious horse. You have to say 'Thank God' to make it go and 'Amen' to make it stop.
Well not paying much attention, the man says, 'Sure, OK.'
So he gets on the horse and says, 'Thank God' and the horse starts walking. Then he says, 'Thank God, thank God,' and the horse starts trotting. Feeling really brave, the man says, 'Thank God, Thank God, thank God', 'thank God, 'thank God', Thank God,' and the horse just takes off. Pretty soon he sees this cliff coming up and he's doing everythi8ng he can to make the horse stop.....'Whoa, stop, hold on!!!!!'
Finally he remembers, 'Amen!!' The horse stops 4 inches from the cliff. The man leans back in the saddle, wipes his face, takes a deep breath and says'THANK GOD!'"
1.......A shrimp's heart is in its head!
2........A snail can sleep for three years!
3........The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead!
4........Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure and even protect the child from injury. They are not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack!
5.........A pregnant goldfish is called a twit!
6..........Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants!
7..........There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all three are deadly poisonous!
8..........It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky!
9...........Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
10.........A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds!
"America the Beautiful
....Bass Harbor Head Light...Mount Desert Island, Maine"
" Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse located within Acadia National Park in the southwest portion of Mount Desert Island, Maine, marking the entrance to Bass Harbor and Blue Hill Bay.
This history of Bass Harbor Light dates to 1855, when it was determined that there was sufficient reason for a lighthouse at the mouth of Bass Harbor. In 1855, the U.S. Congress appropriated $5,000 for construction of the lighthouse. In 1876, construction was completed on a fog bell & tower, since removed. A much larger 4,000 pound bell was placed inside the tower in 1898. The house of the light keeper remains in its original configuration with the exception of a 10-foot addition that was added in 1900..
Today the house is a private residence for a local Coast Guard member and his family. Tourists can get close to the bell and light via a concrete path, but most of the grounds remain private. There is a short walk which takes one to a series of wooden steps that lead down onto the many granite boulders that provide a great view of the harbor side of the lighthouse."
"Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence! Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" (Calvin Coolidge)
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oung civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were found murdered and buried in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had disappeared on June 21 after being detained by Neshoba County police on charges of speeding. They were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to increase black voter registration. When their car was found burned on June 23, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the FBI to search for the men.
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