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FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 1, 2018
"May Light Always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you, May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire."
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of JANUARY 2018
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.
JANUARY 4, 2018..............FREDERICK CASE
JANUARY 11, 2018............PAM COOK
JANUARY 18, 2018............RANDY COOK
JANUARY 25, 2018............BEVERLY CRUMLEY
Those who have Anniversaries in the MONTH OF JANUARY, 2018
JANUARY 8..............FRANCIS AND DELIA MENDEZ
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2018
JANUARY 18..........GARY NELSON
JANUARY 24..........RANDY COOK
Pancake Day is a Little Over a Month from Now!
Randy and Pam will be handing out Pancake Day tickets and Merchant Donor letters and forms at our upcoming meeting, January 4th. Randall Grizzle is furnishing the tickets as he did last year and the year before. That makes 3 years in a row he has helped us out with tickets. Thank you so much Randal. This is our annual fundraiser and everyone is expected to help. With a new year facing us, we can use what took place last year and make it even better. We have the leadership, and we have the members, so everyone needs to participate.
Flags to be Displayed on Martin Luther King Day
Those who are putting up flags, remember, Martin Luther King is on January 15th. Meet at Ted's place at 7am and pick up displayed flags and return to Ted's between 4:00 & 4:30pm.
SEE EVERYONE NEXT YEAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 2018.......Beverly Crumley will be bringing the program for this meeting. Be sure and start off the New Year by attending as many noon meetings as you can.
"Auld Lang Syne.....What does Our New Year's Mean?"
"The most commonly sung for English-speakers on New year's Eve, 'Auld Lang Syne' is an old Scottish song that was first published by the poet Robert Burns.
It is often remarked that this song is one of the most popular songs that nobody knows the lyrics to. It is literally translated as 'old long since' and means 'times gone by. The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten and promises to remember people of the past with fondness, 'For auld lang syne, we'll take a cup o'kindness yet.'
The lesser known verses continue this theme, lamenting how friends who once used to 'run about the braes, and pou'd the gowans fine' (run about the hills and pulled up the daisies) and 'paidl'd in the burn/Frae morning sun till dine' (paddled in the stream from morning to dusk) have become divided by time and distance - - 'seas between us braid hae roar'd (broad seas have roared between us). Yet there is always time for old friends to get together - - if not in person then in memory - - and 'tak a right guid-willie waught' )a good will drink).
But it was Guy Lombardo, and not Robert Burns, who popularized the song and turned it into a New Year's tradition. Lombardo first heard 'Auld Lang Syne" in his hometown of London, Ontario, where it was sung by Scottish immigrants. When he and his brothers formed the famous dance band, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, the song became one of their standards. Lombardo played the song at midnight at a New Year's eve party at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in 1929, and a tradition was born. After that, Lombardo's version of the song was played every New year's Eve from the 1930's until 1976 at the Waldorf Astoria. In the first years it was broadcast on radio, and then on television. The song became such a New Year's tradition that 'Life magazine wrote that if Lombardo failed to play 'Auld Lang Syne,' the American public would not believe that the new year had really arrived.'"
Week December 29th 2017 to 4th January 2018
December 29, 1170 - - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting on orders from England's King Henry II.
December 30, 1803 - - The Stars and Stripes was raised over New Orleans as the United States took formal possession of the territory of Louisiana, an area of 885,000 square miles, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. This territory had been purchased from France for approximately $15 million.
December 31, 1781 - - The first bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, received its charter from the Confederation Congress. It opened on January 7, 1782, in Philadelphia.
January 1, 1776 - - During the American Revolution, George Washington unveiled the Grand Union Flag, the first national flag in America.
January 2, 1905 - - The Russians surrendered to the Japanese after the Battle of Port Arthur during the Russian-Japanese War. A peace conference was later held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with President Theodore Roosevelt serving as mediator. In September of 1905, the Russians agreed to the Treaty of Portsmouth yielding Port Arthur and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan. Russia also agreed to evacuate Manchuria and recognize Japan's interests in Korea.
January 3, 1946 - - An Englishman known during World War II as "Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) was hanged for treason in London. Joyce had broadcast Nazi propaganda via radio from Germany to Britain during the war.
January 4, 1974 - - President Richard Nixon rejected subpoenas from the Senate Watergate Committee seeking audio tapes and related documents.
"Trivia is Always Right for the Curious!"
1..........In England and the American colonies the year 1752 only had 354 days. In that year, the type of calendar was changed, and 11 days were lost!
2..........In the Holocaust between 5.1 and 6 million of Europe's 10 million Jews were killed. An additional 6 million 'unwanted' people were also executed, including more than half of Poland's educated populace!
3..........Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has ever appeared on a U.S. currency note. Her portrait was on the face of the $1 silver certificate issues of 1886 and 1891, and on the back of the $1 silver certificate of 1896. Sacagewea and Susan B. Anthony are the only women pictured on a US coin. Both were honored on a dollar coin!
4..........Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits!
5..........Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's 7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim!
6..........Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February 1826!
7..........On December 10th, 1901 the first Nobel prizes were awarded. Literature-Rene Sully-Prudhomme; Physiology - Emil von Behring; Chemistry - Jacobus van't Hoff; Physics - Wilhelm Roentgen; Peace - Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy.
8..........Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later!
9..........President George Washington created the order of the Purple Heart in 1782. It's a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers!
10.........Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office - either through illness or assassination - were elected at precisely 20-year intervals!
.........This is a new column. I am going to put in a riddle when I send the bulletin out. When you read the bulletin and can answer the riddle, I will ask you for the answer the next club meeting. Ok? Here's the Second Riddle. Read it carefully.....
"You ask yourself this: "I am a man. If the son of this other man is the father of my son, what is the bond of kinship between this man and myself"
"TO TAKE DOWN A PEG!"
"To pull one off his high horse; to knock one off his perch; to humble one; to lower one in his own or another's estimation. This is found as far back as the sixteenth century, but the original allusion has been lost. Shakespeare, in Love's Labor Lost (1592), Act V scene 2 has, 'Master, let me take you a button-hole lower,' by some interpreted to have the same meaning as our present phrase, but by others as meaning, 'Master, let me speak confidentially.' Yet 'peg' appears at about the same date ion the work of debated authorship. It would seem to be the majority of thinkers, that 'peg' was originally connected with some game, possibly with one that preceded the introduction of 'checkers' in America.'"
"Have You ever Had a Forgetful Dog?
"A dog walks into a butcher shop and the butcher asks, 'What do you want?' The dog points to steak in a glass case. 'How many pounds?' The dog barks twice. 'Anything else?' The dog points to some pork chops and barks four times. So the butcher wraps up a two-pound steak and four pork chops, and places the bag in the dog's mouth. He then takes money from a purse tied around the dog's neck, and sees him out.
A customer, who has been watching in amazement, follows the dog to a house several blocks away, where it rings the doorbell to be let in. As the owner appears at the door, the customer says, 'What a remarkable dog!' 'Remarkable?' snorts the owner. 'This is the second time this week he's forgotten his keys.'"
"Why Are There No Seams On M&M'S?
M&M's are coated by a process called "panning." After the individual pieces of chocolate are assembled, they are placed in a revolving pan that looks like a clothes dryer. As they rotate, the chocolates are sprayed with colored sugar. Cool air is blown into the pan to harden the coating. After evaporation, an even layer of dry shell is formed. The process is repeated several times to achieve the thickness that Mars desires. No seam shows because the coating is uniform and no cutting or binding of any kind was necessary to form the shell."
"America the Beautiful.......Michigan"
1..........Detroit is known as the car capital of the world.
2..........Elsie is the home of the world's largest registered Holstein dairy herd!
3..........The Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit manufactured the first air-conditioned car in 1939!
4..........In 1817 the University of Michigan was the first university established by any of the states. Originally named Cathelepistemian and located in Detroit the name was changed in 1821. The university moved to Ann Arbor in 1841.
5..........The Mackinac Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. Connecting the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, it spans 5 miles over the Straits of Mackinac, which is where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet. The Mighty Mac took 3 years to complete and was opened to traffic in 1957.
6..........The Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek the Cereal Capital of the World. The Kellogg brothers accidentally discovered the process for producing flaked cereal products and sparked the beginning of the dry cereal industry.
7..........Vernors ginger ale was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in the United States. In 1862, pharmacist James Vernor was trying to create a new beverage when he was called away to serve our country in the Civil War. When he returned, 4 years later, the drink he had stored in an oak case had acquired a delicious gingery flavor!
8..........Michigan is the only place in the world with a floating post office. The J.W. Westcott II is the only boat in the world that delivers mail to ships while they are still underway. They have been operating for 125 years!
9..........Indian River is the home of the largest crucifix in the world. It is called the Cross in the Woods!
10.........Grand Rapids is home to the 24 foot Leonardo da Vinci horse, called II Gavallo, it is the largest equestrian bronze sculpture in the Western Hemisphere!
America the Beautiful...."Cross in the Woods"
"The Cross in the Woods is a Catholic shrine located at 7078 M-68 in Indian River, Michigan. It was declared a national shrine by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 15, 2006.
With the largest crucifix in the world (31 feet high for the statue), it has become one of the most famous and most frequently visited shrines in Michigan. The highlight of the shrine is a large wooden cross and bronze figure of Christ by sculptor Marshal; Fredericks. The site also includes outdoor and indoor churches, numerous smaller shrines, and a nun doll museum. The Cross in the Woods is open 365 days a year and the Church built at this location holds Masses every day, year round. Each year between 275,000 and 325,000 people come to visit the Cross in the Woods Shrine.
Marshall Fredericks, a renowned Michigan sculptor, agreed to create the figure of Christ for the Cross. The process took four years from sketches to plaster mold. The figure was then cast in bronze at the Kristians-Kunst Metalstobori Foundry in Oslo, Norway. Weighing seven tons and 28 feet tall from head to toe, it was one of the largest castings to ever be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Workers raised the sculpture into place August 9, 1959, and attached to the Cross with 13 bolts 30" long and 2 inches in diameter. The formal dedication occurred seven days later"
"My Final Thoughts!"
"Make New Year's goals. Dig Within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come"
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