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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 19th, 2018
"NO! is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation!!!
For the Week of February 15th 2018
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Cynthia Bentley, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Steve Furney, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Gary Nelson, Lon Shell, Kelli Whigham, Rhonda White, Ted Breihan,, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Burns, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Glen Rydl, McBride Wilson, Gary Strunk. (23)..One Guest - Jeanne Balkman
Sorry Merwin Richards, whose name was drawn for Big Bucks, but he wasn't present. No more Big Bucks until March 1 (After the Pancake Day/Silent Auction) event!
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"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of March 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.
March 1.............Tracy Herman
March 8.............Charles Johnson
March 15...........Moe Johnson
March 22...........Rob Martin
March 29...........Francis Mendez
Birthdays in March
March 3..........Del Brown
Happy Anniversary to those in March
March 7..........Doug & Jeanne Balkman
March 22........David & Carol Chandler
Pancake and Silent Auction is Upon Us!
No more waiting, it's time to get to work. This Thursday will be our 79th Annual Pancake Day & Silent Auction. All of those delicious pancakes, plain and blueberry, those steaming hot sausages, with all the trimmings. Do you have your ticket? Have you gotten rid of all your tickets? Everybody should know what their individual jobs are, thanks to last Thursday's guidelines given by our President. Two serving times: the first from 11:30am to 1:30pm....the second serving time is 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Those who are helping to set up be at the Activity Center by 8am. We should be ready to start the second shift by 4:00pm.
Remember, every member is expected (if at all possible) to help set up and participate in the various tasks that will help make this a successful event.
"We All Can Use Prayers throughout Our Lifetime!
Let us continue to keep Glen and Marylou Rydl in our prayers. Also let us keep John Polk in our prayers as he begins radiation treatment on a newly discovered cancer above his eye. He will begin a 5 week series beginning tomorrow, Monday, February 19 in New Braunfels.
"Board Meeting will meet at CTMC Conference
Room on Wednesday, February 28th. It will be at 5:00pm.
Week February 16th to February 22th
February 16, 1935- - Entertainer and politician Sonny Bono was born in Detroit, Michigan. Following a career as a popular singer, he became mayor of Palm Springs, California, then became a Republican congressman, serving until his accidental death from a skiing mishap.
February 17, 1865 - - During the American Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina was returned to the Union after nearly a year and a half under Confederate control. The fort had been the scene of the first shots of the war.
February 18, 1892 - - American politician Wendall Willkie was born in Ellwood, Illinois. He was the Republican nominee for president in 1940, running against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
February 19, 1942 - - Interment of Japanese Americans began after President Franklin Roosevelt issued an Executive Order requiring those living on the Pacific coast to report for relocation. Over 110,000 persons therefore shut down their businesses, sold off their property, quit school and moved inland to the relocation centers.
February 20, 1943 - - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel broke through American lines at Kasserine Pass in North Africa as inexperienced U.S. troops lost their first major battle of World War II in Europe, with 1,000 Americans killed.
February 21, 1972 - - President Richard Nixon arrived in China for historic meetings with Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai.
February 22, 1956 - - In Montgomery, Alabama, 80 participants in the three-month bus boycott voluntarily gave themselves up for arrest after an ultimatum from white city leaders. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks were among those arrested. Later in 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated desegregation of the buses.
"Good Turnout for K-Kids"
On Tuesday morning, February 13, five Kiwanis members met with Brittany Antonelli for the meeting with her K-Kids. As you can see, it was well attended. Doug & Jeanne Balkman, Randy Cook, Chester Bank, and Del Brown represented our club. With our members sitting down with the children, some thoughts as to how they (the children) could help out with some community service, The children took it very seriously and the one main issue that came as their #1 priority was outing together some 'Care Packages' for the homeless children. There were other suggestions, all good, but they are going to concentrate on their first choice.
Also, the Kids were invited to come help a bit with our Pancake Day, and they were given forms to take home for their parents to give their permission. All in all, it was a very productive meeting. Looking forward to the next one.
"Trivia is Always Right for the Curious!"
(Answers at the end of this bulletin)
1. Who was the main actor in "Cocktail"?
2. Who was the main character in Superman?
3. Who did Madonna Marry?
4. Who sang "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"?
5. Name the two main actors in "The Sting"?
6. Who was the director of the film 'Psycho'?
7. Who did John Lennon marry?
8. Who wrote the song "Johnny Be Good"?
9. What was the first film with sound?
10. How many Oscars did Alfred Hitchcock win?
.........Well, I can tell that the riddles thus far have been way too easy, so here is one that might given you a challenge!
Sorry, but no one got last week's riddle. The Answer was Nothing!
Here's the one for this coming week!"You do not want to have me. But when you have me, You do not want to lose me. What am I?
"Ballyhoo!"
Even though the word isn't used a lot today, it was a few years ago. Basically it means a big fuss over something in public usually by political candidates. But, it could mean a new product on the market as well. The term comes from Ballyhooly, Ireland where the residents became well-known for arguing over everything to the degree as if the world depended on it. Soon the British Parliament used Ballyhooly as a way of criticizing their arguments saying that they were as bad as Ballyhooly. Somewhere, in America the "ly" got dropped and the term Ballyhoo became associated with exaggerated fuss over nothing."
"Medicine Time"
"The veterinary prescribed daily tablets for our geriatric cat, Tigger, and after several battles my husband devised a way to give her the medication. It involved wrapping Tigger kin a towel, trapping her between his knees, forcing her mouth open and depositing the pill on the back of her tongue. David was proud of his resourcefulness until one hectic session when he lost control of both cat and medicine. Tigger leaped out of his grasp, paused to inspect the tablet - which had roiled across the floor - - and then ate it!"
"Life's Imponderables
1..........Why is that rain drops but snow falls?
2..........Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
3..........Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darkens our skin?
4..........Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?
5..........Why doesn't the glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
6..........If all is not lost, where is it?
7..........Why do steam irons have a permanent press setting?
8..........You know how most packages say, 'Open here', What is the protocol if the package says, 'Open somewhere else'?
9..........Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
10.........How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
"The Great State of Missouri"
1..........Missouri is known as the 'Show Me State'!
2..........The 'Show Me State' may have begun in 1899 when Congressman Duncan Vandiver stated that 'I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me'!
3..........The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis. In three hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925 leaving a 980 foot wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees, and overturned cars. It left 823 people dead and almosrt5 3,000 injured.
4..........Also at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the ice cream cone was invented. An ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream.
5..........Missouri ties with Tennessee as the most neighborly state in the union, bordered by 8 states.
6..........The present Capitol completed in 1917 and occupied the following g year is the third Capitol in Jefferson City and the sixth in Missouri history. The first seat of state government was housed in the Mansion House. Third and Vine Streets, St. Louis; the second was in the Missouri Hotel, Maine and Morgan Streets, also in St. Louis. St. Charles was designated as temporary capital of the state in 1821 and remained the seat of government until 1826 when Jefferson City became the permanent capital city.
7..........In 1889, Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented at St. Joseph, Missouri, was the first self-rising flour for pancakes and the first ready-mix food ever to be introduced commercially.
8..........The tallest man in documented medical history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from St. Louis. He was 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall.
9..........During Abraham's campaign for the presidency, a dyed in the wool Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and his chin whiskers went unshorn from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet six inches.
10........."Madonna of the Trail" monument in Lexington tells the story of the brave women who helped conquer the west and is one of 12 placed in every state crossed by the National Old Trails Road, the route of early settlers from Maryland to California.
America the Beautiful - Harry S. Truman Historical Site
The Truman Home (earlier known as the Gates-Wallace home), 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Missouri was the home of Harry S. Truman from the time of his marriage to Bess Wallace on June 28, 1919 until his death on December 26, 1972. Bess Truman's maternal grandfather, George Porterfield Gates, built the house over a period of years from 1867 to 1885.
After Bess's father, David Willock Wallace, committed suicide in 1903, she and her mother and brothers moved into the house with Bess's grandparents. At the time Harry & Bess married in 1919, Harry was putting all of his money into his business partnership, a men's clothing store called Truman & Jacobson, so living at the Wallace home made good financial sense.
After Truman's haberdashery failed in 1922, he and his wife continued to live in the house to save money while he paid his debts. After being elected to the Senate in 1935, he moved to Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter. Whenever they came back to Missouri, the house at 219 N. Delaware was their home.
"My Final Thoughts!"
"Mistakes show us what we need to learn. They indicate what we must study in order to have success. When we make a mistake, it's a golden arrow saying, 'Study this if you want Success!"
Answers to Imponderables:
(1)..Tom Cruise...(2)..Christopher Reeves...(3)..Sean Penn...(4)..Bing Crosby...(5)..Paul Newman & Robert Redford...(6)..Alfred Hitchcock...(7)..Yoko Ono...(8)..Chuck Berry...(9)..The Jazz Singer...(10)..None.
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Harry S. Truman Historical Site