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FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 31st, 2017
"When God designed the plan for your life, it wasn't dependent on you being perfect. Your mistakes are not a surprise to Him."
Attendance for July 27th 2017
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Veronique Hahn, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Lon Shell, Kelli Whigham, Rhonda White, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, Glen Rydl , Cynthia Bentley (soon to join) (16)
"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 3............Tracy Herman
August 10...........Charles Johnson
August 17............Moe Johnson
August 24............Del Brown
THOSE WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES IN THE
MONTH OF AUGUST 2017
Lon & Phyllis Shell..........August 18
McBride & Elsie Wilson.......August 31
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 2017"
August 3...........Rob Martin
August 10..........Beverly Crumley
August 21..........Glen Rydl
August 28..........Pam Cook
Well, I'll be hornswoggle! Chester Banks's name was drawn again for Big Bucks....$8.00....and Guess what? HE KEPT IT!
Visitors are always welcome!
We were very pleased to have Courtney Taylor visit our club last Thursday. She has recently moved to San Marcos from Fargo North Dakota where she was a member of their Kiwanis Club. She is quite enthusiastic about our club and look forward to her becoming one of us. Welcome Courtney!
Our Program for this coming Thursday, August 3, 2017.
There will be a change in programming for this coming Thursday. Moe Johnson will be bringing the program instead of Andrew Gary. Come and enjoy our program!
San Marcos Chamber of Commerce Business Exposition Just Around the Corner.
President Tracy informed us last week's meeting, that on August 8th of this year, the San Marcos Business Exposition will be held at the Embassy Suite (Same as last year).
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. All of us are expected to pitch in, so come to the meeting this week and learn how you can help.
July 28, 1932 - - The Bonus March eviction in Washington, D.C., occurred as U.S. Army troops under the command of General Douglas McArthur, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower and Major George S. Patton, attached and burned the encampments of unemployed World War I veterans. About 15,000 veterans had marched on Washington, demanding payment of a war bonus that had been promised. After two months' encampment in Washington's Anacostia Flats, forced eviction of the bonus marchers by the U.S. Army was ordered by President Herbert Hoover.
July 29,1929 - - Jackie Kennedy was born in Southampton, New York (as Jacqueline Bouvier) She was married to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and after his death later married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
July 30, 1975 - - Former Teamster Union leader James Hoffa was last seen outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. His 13-year federal prison sentence had been commuted by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971. On December 8, 1982, seven years after his disappearance, an Oakland County Judge declared Hoffa officially dead.
July 31, 1776 - - During the American Revolution, Francis Salvador became the first Jew to enter the conflict. He had also been the first Jew elected to office in Colonial America, voted a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress in January 1775.
August 1, 1944 - - Anne Frank penned her last entry into her diary. "I keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if......there weren't any other people living in the world." Three days later. Anne and her family were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Anne died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on March, 1945, at age 15.
August 2, 1776 - - In Philadelphia, most of the 55 members of the Continental Congress signed the parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence.
August 3, 1492 - - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. Seeking a westerly route to the Far East, he instead landed on October 12th in the Bahamas, thinking it was an outlying Japanese island.
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.........Is a small pig called a hamlet?
2.........Is a sleeping bull a bull-dozer?
3..........Is it OK to use the AM radio after noon?
4.........Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
5.........Is the nose the scenter of the face?
6.........Are female moths called myths?
7.........Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?
8.........Can you get cavities in your dentures if you use too much artificial sweetener?
9.........Did Noah keep his bees in archives?
10.......What makes cheese so confidential that we actually need cheese shredders?
"To Put One's Foot in It"
"If your wife kicks you under the table or otherwise make it plain to you that it would be best not to go on with what you were about to say, you may, she hopes, understand that she's trying to head you off from 'putting your foot in it,' from committing a social blunder or doing something that had best be left unsaid or undone. The figurative phrase was in current use in the latter part of the eighteenth century, but what the original allusion was is anyone's guess. There is an old phrase that mkight help, and that is an old rancher's literal description of a cow hand he had recently hired: 'I declare, he's such an (blankety blank) that if there was just one cow-flop in a ten acre field, he'd be sure to put his foot in it.'"
"A mangy looking guy walks into a very classy restaurant and orders a steak. The waitress says: 'I'm sorry, but I don't think you can pay for your meal.' The guy admits, 'You're right. I don't have any money, but if I show you something you haven't seen before, will you give me my supper?'
The waitress, both curious and compassionate, says, 'Only if what you show me isn't risqué.' 'Deal!' says the guy and reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a hamster. He puts the hamster on the floor and it runs across the room, directly to a piano. The hamster then proceeds to climb up the piano, and starts playing Gershwin songs. The waitress says, 'You're right. I've never seen anything like that before. That hamster is truly good on the piano.' The guy sits back and enjoys a fine steak supper with all the trimmings.
Shortly thereafter, he asks the waitress, 'Can I have a piece of that fine blueberry pie I see on the dessert cart over there?' 'Only if you got another miracle up your sleeve', says the waitress. The guy reaches into his coat again and pulls out a frog. He puts the frog on the table, and the frog starts to sing up a storm!
A stranger from a nearby table runs over to the guy and offers him $300 for the frog. The guy says 'It's a deal.' He takes the three hundred and gives the stranger the frog. The stranger runs out of the restaurant with dollar signs in his eyes and a big smile on his face.
The waitress says to the guy 'Are you some kind of nut? You sold a singing frog for $300? It must have been worth millions!' 'No', says the guy. 'The hamster is also a ventriloquist.'
1.......Playing cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards!
2........Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs!
3........The first mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating about 2,500 B.C. The soap was made of water, alkali and cassia oil!
4.........Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, on May 1, 1840. Hence UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin!
5..........The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, Missouri. in 1912!
6..........On 21 June 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane!
7..........The world's first skyscraper was the 10 story Home Insurance office, built in Chicago in 1885 (During Roman times buildings were up to 8 stories high)
9...........Slugs have four noses!
10........Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water!
"America the Beautiful....Pine Creek Gorge, Pennsylvania.
Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania is a 47 mile gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania.
It sits in about 160,000 acres of the Tioga State Forest. The canyon begins south of Ansonia, near Wellsboro, along U.S. Route 6 and continues south. Its deepest point is 1,450 feet at Waterville, near the southern end. At Leonard Harrison and Colton Point State Parks, it is more than 800 feet deep and the distance rim-to-rim is about 4,000 feet.
Pine Creek had flowed northeasterly until about 20,000 years ago, when the receding Laurentide Continental Glacier dammed it with rocks, soil and other debris. Glacier meltwater formed a lake near the present town of Ansonia, and when it overflowed the debris dam, the creek flooded to the south. Ultimately, it carved a deep channel on its way south to the West Branch Susquehanna River.
Pine Creek Gorge served as a major route of travel for American Indians. They hiked up and down the gorge for thousands of years to a seasonal hunting camp near Ansonia. Ansonia was named for its founder, Anson Phillips, who built a lumber miss that drew the first settlers to the town.
Before the arrival of William Penn and his Quaker colonists in 1682, up to 90 percent of what is now Pennsylvania was covered with woods: more than 31,000 square miles of eastern white pine, eastern hemlock, and a mix of hardwoods. The forests near the three original counties, Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester, were the first to be harvested, as the early settlers used the readily available timber to build homes, barns and ships, and cleared the land for agriculture. Lumber then became one of the leading industries in Pennsylvania.
"A primary reason people don't do new things is because they want to be able to do them perfectly ----first time. It's completely irrational, impractical, not workable ----and yet, its how most people run their lives. It's called The Perfection Syndrome."
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....Pine Creek Gorge, Pennsylvania.
