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FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 26th 2017
"Ten Years from now make sure you can say that you chose your life. You didn't just settle for it"
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of June 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.
June 29........Beverly Crumley
Attendance for June 22nd, 2017
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Gary Nelson, Lon Shell, Kelli Whigham, Ted Breihan, Andrew Gary, Tracy Herman, John Polk, Merwin Richards, Glen Rydl (& Dr. Tina Cade, former member) (17)
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2017"
June 28..........Veronique Hahn
June 30..........Francis Mendez
THOSE WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES IN THE
MONTH OF JUNE, 2017
June 30..........Del & Marie Brown
"I-Lead Training Session"
The District 'I-Lead' Officer's Training Session for our Hill Country Divisions was held last Saturday, June 24 at Round Rock. The training was excellent and thorough and those who went from our Club was John Polk, Frederick Case and President Elect Doug Balkman. Both John and Frederick gave classes.
LastWeek's Program!
Well you can readily see what our program was last week, and Lon Shell did an outstanding job of going back into the history of our club and not only talked about it, fielded questions, listened to input from all of the present members, but also did a marvelous job of putting all of the information about our club on our ClubRunner website. And it is so easy to get to.
When you pull up this issue of the bulletin, click on the Home page at the upper right hand corner. When you get the Home Page, look on the left side of the page, and you will see a list of site pages. Drop down to 'About Our 'Club, click on it, and you will see three subpages....'Welcome' , 'Charter Members' and 'San Marcos Club History'. Click on that one, and a beautiful power point scenario will be yours to preview. For awhile, this had been lost from our computer, but it is now back in. We are working on the other two categories, Charter Members, and Welcome.
Thank you so much Lon, for taking us back in history. You know, we should never lose track of our history. That's the only thing that we can pass on to future generations.
Well, we did have a winner at our Big Bucks drawing. It was Rob Martin, and he had everything on that he should have had, but he didn't keep it, he gave it back to give to our Flag Fund. Congratulations Rob.
Program for This Week, June 29th, 2017
Gary Strunk will be bringing the program for this coming Thursday, June 29th. He will be bringing Mr. Jason Mock, current president of our San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber is a leading membership organization that collaborates with stakeholders to develop an environment where businesses thrive, leadership is encouraged, students excel, housing is ample and attainable, all members are active and quality of life is a priority.
The San Marcos Chamber has continued to impact the community by focusing on issues that concern San Marcos businesses.
The San Marcos Area of Commerce moved to its present location at 202 N. CM Allen Parkway in 1978. Over the years, the Chamber's continued leadership in such vital areas as economic development, tourism, workforce developme3nt, education, transportation and public policy development, has been critical to San Marcos' long-term success and sustainability. Our Kiwanis Club has recently joined the Chamber and look forward to many ongoing developments where our Club can make a good impact.
Note! Because of conflicting schedules, the Board meeting had to be cancelled for last Thursday, June 22, but it has been rescheduled for this coming Thursday, June 29, at 5:00pm at Brookdale.
June 23, 1865 - - The last formal surrender of Confederate troops occurred as Cherokee leader and Confederate Brigadier General Watie surrendered his battalion comprised of American Indians in the Oklahoma territory.
June 24, 1948 - - Soviet Russia began a blockade of Berlin. Two days later the Allies responded with an emergency airlift to relieve two million isolated West Berliners. During the Berlin Airlift, American and British planes flew about 278,000 flights, delivering 2.3 million tons of food, coal and medical supplies. A plane landed in Berlin every minute from eleven Allied staging areas in West Germany. The Russians lifted their blockade of Berlin on May 12, 1949, however the airlift continued until September 30th.
June 25, 1950 - - The Korean War began as North Korean troops, led by Russian-built tanks, crossed the 38th parallel and launched a full scale invasion of South Korea. Five days later, U.S. ground forces entered the conflict, which lasted until July 27, 1953, when an armistice was signed at Panmunjom, formally dividing the country at the 38th parallel into North and South Korea.
June 26, 1893 - - Illinois Gov. John P. Altgeld issued a controversial pardon for three anarchists convicted after the Haymarket Riot. The riot had occurred in Chicago in May of 1886, after 180 police officers advanced on 1,300 persons listening to speeches by labor activists and anarchists. A bomb was thrown. Seven police were killed and over 50 wounded. Four anarchists were then charged with conspiracy to kill, convicted and hanged while another committed suicide in jail. Three other were given lengthy jail terms, then pardoned by Gov. Altgeld in a move that likely cost him his political career.
June 27, 1859 - - American musician Mildred J. Hill was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She composed the melody for what is now the world's most often sung song, Happy Birthday to You
June 28, 1919 - - The signing of the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. According to the terms, Germany was assessed sole blame for the war, forced to give up Alsace-Lorraine and overseas colonies, and pay reparations of $15 Billion dollars. The treaty also prohibited German rearmament.
June 29, 1972 - - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that capital punishment was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment." The decision spared the lives of 600 individuals then sitting on death row. Four years later, in another ruling, the Court reversed itself and determined the death penalty was not cruel and unusual punishment. On October 4, 1976, the ban was lifted on the death penalty in cases involving murder.
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:.......Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
2:.......If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
3:.......If our knees were on the backs of our legs, what would chairs look like?
4:.......Why does a grapefruit look nothing like a grape?
5:.......Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear pants?
6:.......Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!?
7:.......Why does it take 15 minutes to cook minute rice?
8:.......If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
9:.......If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?
10:......If Superman is so smart, why does he wear his underpants over his trousers?
To Have Up One's Sleeve!
"To have (something) in reserve in case of need; an alternative. Usually it is some bit of testimony, evidence, argument, plan, or project, or something like that. Having something up one's sleeve in readiness to spring or act upon if or when the original proposal turns out unsuccessfully. Or in a bad sense, it may be that the villain in the play may have a scheme up his sleeve ready to spring and cause one's undoing. The illusion traces back to the costumes of the fifteenth century. In those days a man's garments were not made with the numerous pockets that modern man considers indispensable; in fact, there were none. Though some essential items were commonly hung from a belt, it was a godsend when some genius found that by making his often detachable sleeves slightly fuller between elbow and wrist he could tuck various necessities into those new found pockets. The fashion went to ridiculous extremes, of course, with capacious sleeves sometimes almost scraping the ground. But while it lasted, until new styles came in with Henry VIII, man could conceal any variety of things up his sleeve."
"How to get off to a good start....."
'Having just moved into his new office in Whitehall, pompous, newly promoted Lieutenant Commander Rodney Grant (Royal Navy) was sitting at his desk when Leading Seaman Jones knocked on his door. Particularly aware of his new position, the commander quickly picked up the phone, told the seaman to enter, then said into the phone, 'Yes, Admiral, I'll be seeing him this afternoon and I'll pass along your message. In the meantime, thank you for your good wishes, sir.'
Feeling as though he had sufficiently impressed young Jones man, he asked, 'What do you want?' 'Nothing important, sir,' Jones replied without batting an eyelid, 'I'm just here to connect up your new telephone.'"
1....In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak!
2....About 3,000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
3....Dr Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the expression for ignominy: "His name is Mudd"
4....In the great fire of 1666, half of London was burnt down, but only six people were injured.
5....Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
6....In Egypt around 1500 B.C., a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
7....George Lumley, aged 104, married Mary Dunning, age 10, Nortallerton, England on August 25, 1783. She was the great-great granddaughter of the woman who'd broken her engagement to Lumley eighty years before.
8....In Elizabethan England, the spoon was so novel and prized that people carried their own folding spoons to banquets.
9....A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 set hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
10....Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
"America the Beautiful
Young Pond Park and Field:
This beautiful park and pond is most popularly known as a haven for four-legged friends. Youngs Pond Park is a vast 48.57 acre facility featuring open space, a softball field, hiking trails and of course a pond. It's easy to spend an afternoon inside the forest, trail walking and exploring. At the park entrance on Blackstone Ave, in Branford, Connecticut, you'll find a trail map for reference provided by the Young Park Commission, which features three nature walks highlighting trees and shrubs. If you're not much into hiking, take a seat on the bridge that crosses the pond and watch the two resident swans as they gracefully glide along the surface of Young Pond. Dogs are not required to be leashed and the park is self-contained by a stone wall where it boarders the road. While dogs are encouraged to fun freely, signs warn guests that dogs must be off the ball field during games. Dog owners are required to carry a leash when taking dogs through the trail system.
I've mentioned in this column at the end of the week's bulletin some thoughts that you probably will read after you've read the rest of the bulletin (Hope you have), but if I haven't mention the subject of comfort zones, let me give you some thoughts on that. The comfort zone in our lives literally is all of the things we have done enough times to feel comfortable enough to do it again. But whenever we do something new, it just might fall outside the barrier of our comfort zone. Sometime, if we even contemplate a new something or other, we become uneasy, and maybe even feel fear, guilt, unworthiness, hurt feelings, and, heaven help us, even a bit of anger. We are much more comfortable in those things that don't leave us with guilt feelings, so we usually will try to stay away from those emotions that we generally think of as 'uncomfortable'.....Have a great week!
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