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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5TH 2018
"The Pain You Feel today is the Strength you feel Tomorrow. For Every Challenge Encountered There is Opportunity to Grow!"
For Club Meeting, February 1, 2018
Chester Banks, Cynthia Bentley, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Steve Furney, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Gary Nelson, Lon Shell, Charles Walts, Kelli Whigham, Rhonda White, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, Tracy Herman, John Polk, Glen Rydl (20)
(One Guest: Gary Jeffres, friend of John Polk)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of February 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.
February 8...........Andrew Gary
February 15.........Randal Grizzle
February 22.........Pancake Day....everyone are greeters.
John Polk........February 5
Charles Walts..........February 11
James Collier...........February 17
"Sorry, but there was no 'Big Buck's' drawn last week. Our president had the jar, but he was home, 'under the weather'. Get well Doug!
Week February 2nd to February 8th
February 2, 1848 - - The war between the U.S. and Mexico ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In exchange for $15 millions, the U.S. acquired the areas encompassing parts or all of present day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas. The treaty was ratified on March 10, 1848.
February 3, 1865 - - A four-hour peace conference occurred between President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The meeting was unsuccessful as President Lincoln insisted there could be no armistice until the Confederates acknowledged Federal authority. The Confederates wanted an armistice first. Thus the Civil War continued.
February 4, 1861 - - Apache Chief Cochise was arrested in Arizona by the U.S. Army for raiding a ranch. Cochise then escaped and declared war, beginning the period known as the Apache Wars, which lasted 25 years.
February 5, 1917 - - The new constitution of Mexico, allowing for sweeping social changes, was adopted.
February 6, 1933 - - The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted. It set the date for the Presidential Inauguration as January 20th, instead of the old date of March 4th. It also sets January 3rd as the official opening date of Congress.
February 7, 1795 - - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting the powers of the Federal Judiciary over the states by prohibiting Federal lawsuits against individual states.
February 8, 1587 - - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay, England, after 19 years as a prisoner of Queen Elizabeth I. She became entangled in the complex political events surrounding the Protestant Reformation in England and was charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth.
"K-Kids to hold a meeting in their classroom"
Randy Cook got a message from the K-Kids faculty sponsor, Brittany Bouzard Antonelli telling us that they will be holding a K-Kids meeting, at DeZavala Elementary School on Tuesday, February 13 from 8am - 8:30am.
Brittany has some wonderful plans she would like to share with us, so it would be great if we could have 4 or 5 Kiwanis members attend that meeting in her classroom. We have 2 maybe 3 already signed up, so let's show these great kids that we are behind them 100%.
Our Program from Last Week - April 1, 2018
John Polk is to be commended for not only bringing us an extraordinary program last week, but it was a program that challenges our club when it comes to fundraising projects, sort of like' chartering new waters'. Hermin Perez and Karen Bisset and a good friend of John, Gary Jeffres were our speakers, representing the possibility and schematics for having a 'Casino Night" with our club being the sponsor, as a major fundraiser.
They all did a fantastic job of explaining what all is involved in putting this on, the pros and cons. They were upfront with questions from the club. Other social clubs have held these and have done very well.
When we think of fundraisers, the thought of what all the money raised can do to help children and youth, our primary purpose for being Kiwanians, and the more money that can be raised means that much more we can help the children, youth and young adults with scholarships and the like. Thank you John for bringing us to thinking 'outside the box'.
Our Program for this Thursday, April 8, 2018
Everyone just come and see! Don't forget your pin. You might win Big Bucks!
Another Ramp Has Been Built - Another Person has been given a new lease on Life!
Ramp Built for: Robert Echols
824 Bandera St, San Marcos, TX
Date: February 3, 2016
Team: Construction Standard Association
Size: 43 feet
Members Participating: 16
Team Leader: Daniel Hesse
Time of built: 8:30am - 11`:30am
"Trivia is Always Right for the Curious!"
(Answers at the end of this bulletin)
1........What bird was domesticated first?
2........Where is the Suez Canal?
3.........Where is the Pyrenees?
4.........How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?
5..........How much bigger is the suin than the earth?
6..........Which planet is closer to the sun?
7..........What is the sun made out of?
8.........How old is the earth?
9.........Which planet spins the fastest?
10........Which planet spins the slowest?
.........Boy! You are getting good with guessing these riddles.....Moe Johnson got last weeks right off the bat! OK Here goes another one! (or maybe two)
No. 1: "Two fathers accompanied by their respective sons go fishing. Each person catches a fish. Yet only three fish are caught." How come?
No. 2 "Nostradamus announced the following: On Wednesday 2 February 2000, a world event will take place for the first time in over a thousand years, not seen since 28 August 888"
(Moe Johnson got ,last week's riddle. The answer was: 'You first cross the river with the goat and leave it on its own, while you cross back. Then you must bring over the wolf and come back with the goat. You leave the goat and cross over with the cabbage. Lastly you return along to the bank you started from and take the goat back over.
"Oh No....Not Again!
"Two guys were out walking their dogs on a hot day, when they pass by a pub. The first guy says, "Let's go in there for a pint." second guy, says, "They won't let us in with our dogs." First guy: "Sure they will, just follow my lead."
He goes up to the pub and sure enough the doorman says, "I can't let you in here with that dog." He replies, "Oh, I'm blind and this is my seeing-eye-dog." The doorman says, "Ok then, come on in." The second guy sees and does the same thing. He goes up to the pub, and sure enough the doorman says, "I can't let you in here with that dog." He replies, "Oh, I'm blind and this is my seeing-eye-dog." The doorman says, "Ok then, come on in."
The second guy sees this and does the same thing. He goes up to the pub, and the doorman says, "You can't come in here with a dog." He replies, "I'm blind and this is may seeing-eye-dog." The doorman responds, "You have a Chihuahua for a seeing-eye-dog?" The second guy stops for a second, and exclaims, "They gave me a Chihuahua?"
"Why is an Acre 43,560 feet?"
"Acre" is an Anglo Saxon word that means, literally the amount of land plowable in one day. The term was used before the tenth century, the acre originally referring to the area that could be plowed by a yoke of oxen in one day. The actual footage of the acre varied from region to region.
In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Edward I and Edward III tried to codify English measurements, Although the quantity of land that could be plowed in one day was obviously variable, depending on such factors as the durability of the animals pushing the plow, the plowing equipment and the topography of the land, there were obvious advantages to standardization. By the reign of Henry VIII, there was universal agreement that an acre should be 40 poles long by 4 poles wide (or 160 square rods). These nice round units of measurement (one rod = 16.5 feet; one pole =one square rod), popular in agricultural societies, translates exactly to our current standard of the acre as 43,560 square feet. With modern machinery, any farmer can plow considerably more than one acre in a day, but the acre has proved to be an enduring unit of measurement."
The Great State of Louisiana"
1..........The world famous 'Mardi Gras" is celebrated in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is an ancient custom that originated in southern Europe. It celebrates food and fun just before the 40 days of Lent, a Religious time of prayer and sacrifice!
2..........Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties. Its political subdivisions are called parishes!
3..........Louisiana has the tallest state capital in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
4..........In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault!
5..........Louisiana's first territorial governor, William C.C. Claiborne had great admiration for the awkward bird that inhabited the Gulf Coast region. The pelican, rather than let its young starve, would tear at its own flesh to feed them. The Governor's great respect for the Pelican led him to first use the Pelican symbol on official documents!
6..........Saint Joseph's Cemetery, the only known United States cemetery facing north-south is in Rayne!
7..........Winnsboro, the "Stars and Stripes Capital of Louisiana" is one of the most patriotic cities in America. On Memorial Day, July 4th, Veteran's Day, Labor Day, and other special occasions, approximately 350 American flags fly proudly along highway 15!
8..........The City of Ponchatoula is the oldest incorporated city in Tangipahoa Parish. Ponchatoula derives its name from the Choctaw Indian language meaning "hair to hang" because of the abundance of Spanish moss on the trees surrounding the area!
9..........In 1803, the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory. 8218,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States!
America the Beautiful - - "Butler Greenwood Plantation, St. Francis Louisiana"
This plantation was created by Dr. Samuel Flower, a Quaker physician who relocated from Pennsylvania during the 1770's when the area was British territory. Later, when Spain gained control, he gave medical treatment to Governor Manuel Cayoso.
When Dr. Flowers died in 1813, the year after Louisiana became a state, his eight heirs would divide thousands of arpents of land in the Felicianas, Rapides Parrish, along Bayou Manchac, and in the Mississippi territory.
Now the home of the seventh and eighth generation of the family, author Anne Butler and her daughter Chase Poindexter, Butler Greenwood is a simple, raised cottage style plantation house filled with oil portraits, Brussel carpet, gilded pier mirrors, Mallard poster beds, fine china and silverware, a French Pleyel grand piano, and the area's finest original Victorian formal parlor, its twelve matching pieces still in their original upholstery. The house is surrounded by formal gardens and extensive groves of live oak trees. The original detached brick kitchen dates from the 1790's, the garden gazebo from the 1860's.
"My Final Thoughts!"
"Selfing means doing for one's Self, in the larger sense of Self, as in True Self, or 'To thine own self be true.' It means fulfilling the dreams, goals and aspirations inherent within us. It means living our life 'on purpose.'"
ANSWERS TO TRIVIA
1...The first bird domesticated by man was the goose!
2....Egypt
3....Between Spain & France.
4....Approximately 8 minutes and 18 seconds.
5....The Earth is about 13 thousand kilometers (8000 miles) wide, whereas the Sun ios roughly 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) across. If the Sun were a hollow ball, you could fit about one million Earths inside of it!
6....Mercury
7....The Sun is at present, about 70% hydrogen and 28% helium by mass everything else amounts to less than 2%!
8....The earth is about 4.5 billion years old!
9....Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system rotating on average once in just under 10 hours!
10....Venus is the slowest spinning planet in the solar system. It rotates only once every two hundred forty-three Earth days!
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