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FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 17th, 2017
"The Brave whofocus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world."
Attendance for April 13th 2017
Doug Balkman, Del Brown, Steve Furney, Charles Johnson, Gary Nelson, Lon Shell, Kelli Whigham, Rhonda White, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, John Polk, Glen Rydl, Gary Strunk, Lucky Bovo (14)
THOSE WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES IN THE
MONTH OF APRIL, 2017
April 24............Andrew & Carol Gary
April 26............Frederick & Margo Case
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of April, 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.
April 20...........Del Brown
April 27............Lucky Bovo
Hey Club Members!!!! Remember these pictures from last year? Yep! This was the Terrific Kids Award Ceremony on May 20. Well.........It's that time again and we need your assistance.
The Terrific Kids from DeZavala School will be recognizing their new "T-Kids" on May 12, 2017 at 2:00pm.. It will be held as usual in the cafeteria area, and we can use anywhere from 10-12 club members to help hand our 'donated goodies' given by our city to some mighty special kids. This is where our working with kids really starts - in the elementary schools. The kids are so appreciative for pencils, pens, notebooks, coin purses, stickers, etc. This is so important! So let's gather at DeZavala at about 1:45pm, sign in at the office, and join your compadres in the cafeteria.
I know that I missed a good meal and great fellowship at Freddy's last Friday. You know, one of these fundraiser events, my wife and I will go, I know I missed a great time and great food at Freddy's. We did have some of our club members there, and if I leave anyone out, please email me and see me personally and I can correct it.
Those names that were given me were: Kelli & Steve Whigham; Pam Cook; Doug & Jeanne Balkman; Steve & Nancy Strunk; and Darryl & Rhonda White, Please let your editor know if you were there and I didn't get your name. Thanks!
Our Program Last Week, April 13, 2017.
Our program last week was certainly well received. Glen Rydl brought Diane Insley, Head Librarian of San Marcos Public Library, and she really knew her facts and figures with regards to the new bond issue that is coming up with plans to expand the current library, so that it will create more personal space and make the library able to meet any demands which the city of San Marcos might ask for. It will be very extensive and will probably not be completed, (if approved) for several years. A little bit at a time. Diane has been with the Library system for 28 years, came up through the ranks and certainly is well qualified to lead this very expansive renovation. Thanks to Glen for bringing Diane last week.
Our Program for this coming Thursday, 20, 2017.
Our Program for this coming Thursday will be our own Gary Nelson, and his subject will be to bring us up to date on the Ramp Building that just a few of our members are involved in.
It's amazing how many handicap requests are coming in, not only in San Marcos, but also surrounding communities. If you are not handicapped, just praise the Lord that you don't need assistance in getting in and out of your living quarters, but if you are handicapped, it only stands to reason that anything that can be done to ease the physical and mental condition of the handicapped person. Ramps do just that. Our club used to have this as a regular project, but then we slacked off on it, but Gary and a few others have taken up the gauntlet and are making it possible that requests for a ramp will be answered. The only problem right now, is that there is only 3 or 4 of our regular members that have taken on this project. Gary will lay out details and how others can get involved with this. Be sure and be there!
"Hear Ye! Hear Ye!...Mark your Calendars if you are a member of the Board of Directors.
There will be a Board meeting of Directors on Thursday, April 27 at 5:30pm at Brookdale San Marcos North. Remember, our Board meetings have changed from the third Thursday to the fourth Thursday. See you there.
"Read the question carefully, see if you get the answer before looking at the answer at the end of the bulletin."
1: Name the largest freshwater lake in the world?
2.: Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility?
3.: What is someone who shoes horses called?
4: What item of clothing was named after its Scottish inventor?
5: What kind of weapon is a 'faichion'?
6: Which word goes before vest, beans and quartet?
7: What is another word for lexicon?
8: Name the seventh planet from the sun?
9: Who invented the rabies vaccination?
10: Which is the only American state to begin with the letter "P"?
April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded while watching a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. He was taken to a nearby house and died the following morning at 7:22 am.
April 15, 1912 - In the icy waters off Newfoundland, the luxury liner, Titanic with 2,224 persons on board sank at 2:27 a.m. after striking an iceberg just before midnight. Over 1500 persons drowned while 700 were rescued by the liner Carpathia which arrived about two hours after Titanic went down.
April 16, 1995 - Iqbal Masih, a young boy from Pakistan who spoke out against child labor, was shot to death. At age four, he had been sold into servitude as a carpet weaver and spent the next six years shackled to a loom. At age ten, he escaped and began speaking out, attracting worldwide attention as a featured speaker during an international labor conference in Sweden.
April 17, 1989 - The Polish labor union Solidarity was granted legal status after nearly a decade of struggle paving the way for the downfall of the Polish Communist Party. In the elections that followed, Solidarity candidates won 99 out of 100 parliamentary seats and eventually forced the acceptance of a Solidarity government led by Lech Walesa.
April 18, 1906 - The San Francisco Earthquake struck at 5:13 a.m., followed by a massive fire from overturned wood stoves and broken gas pipes. The fire raged uncontrollably for three days resulting in the destruction of over 10,000 acres of property and 4,000 lives lost.
April 19, 1993 - At Waco, Texas, the compound of the Branch Davidian religious cult burned to the ground with 82 persons inside, including 17 children. The fire erupted after federal agents battered buildings in the compound with armored vehicles following a 51-day standoff.
April 20, 1914 - Miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were attacked by National Guardsmen paid by the mining company. The miners were seeking recognition of their United Mine Workers Union. Five men and a boy were killed by machine gun fire while 11 children and two women burned to death as the miners' tent colony was destroyed.
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 - Do Hummingbirds hum because they don't know the tune?
2: What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?
3: What was the best thing before sliced bread?
4: What ever happened to preparations A through G?
5: What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped?
6: Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
7: When day breaks who fixes it?
8: When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
9: When night falls who picks it up?
10: When people lose weight, where does it go?
"How's Your Exercise Program?
"At the urging of Harry's wife and doctor, 60 year old Harry finally made it to the gym. After consulting with one of the trainers, Harry decided to try out a steep treadmill. 'OK', said the trainer 'I'm going to set it for ten minutes, if you want to go longer, just press start again.' At first Harry was doing fine but after 5 seconds he started getting tired, and after a minute he jumped off gasping for breath. Walking to the side to sit down, he passed by a friend of his, 'Man', said Harry. 'I could barely last a full minute on that treadmill.' 'Alright, alright!' said his buddy, 'no reason to brag'"
1.........In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit his first and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants!
2.........Retired basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike workers in Malaysia combined.
3.........The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
4..........The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
5..........Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
6..........In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
7...........A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.
8...........There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
9...........The moon is moving away from the earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.
10.........The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were the size if a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house.
The Morgan Library & Museum
A complexof buildings in the heart of New York City began as the private library if financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837 - 1913), one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States.
as early as 1890, Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated literary and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints.
Mr Morgan's library as it was known in his lifetime, was built between 1902 and 1906 adjacent to his New York residence at Madison Avenue and 36th Street. Designed by Charles McKim of the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, the library was intended as something more than a repository of rare materials. Majestic in appearance yet intimate in scale, the structure was to reflect the nature and stature of its holdings. The result was an Italian Renaissance-style palazzo with three magnificent rooms epitomizing America's Age of Elegance. Completed three years before McKim's death, it is considered by many to be his masterpiece. In 1924, eleven years after Pierpont Morgan's death, his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr (1867-1943) known as Jack, realized that the library had become too important to remain in private hands. In what constituted one of the most momentous cultural gifts in U.S. history, he fulfilled his father's dream of making the library and its treasures available to scholars and the public alike by transforming it into a public institution.
For this Week's Questions for April 17, 2017
1: Answer: Lake Superior
2: Answer: The Moon!
3: Answer: Farrier
4: Answer: A Macintosh
5: Answer: A sword
6: Answer: String.
7: Answer: Dictionary
8: Answer: Uranus
9: Answer: Louis Pasteur
10: Answer: Pennsylvania
"When you ask some people why they're not living their dreams, they usually respond with a listing of unavailable methods, not enough money, looks, information, contacts, breaks, etc. All these are just methods. They may sound like rational reasons, but they are, in reality, just rational lies!"
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Our Program Last Week, April 13, 2017.
1.........In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit his first and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants!
