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FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 29th 2017
"The Two Most Important days in your life is the day you were born and the day you find out why!"
Attendance for May 25th 2017
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Rob Martin, Gary Nelson, Lon Shell, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, Garry White, Tracy Herman, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Merwin Richards, Glen Rydl, Gary Strunk, Lucky Bovo. (21)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of June 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.
June 1...........Frederick Chase
June 8...........James Collier
June 15...........Pam Cook
June 22.......Randy Cook
June 29........Beverly Crumley
I'll have to admit that I don't think this has ever happened before, but the winner of this week's Big Bucks was McBride Wilson, whose name was drawn two weeks in a row. But McBride was not present. Sorry!
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2017"
June 28..........Veronique Hahn
June 30..........Francis Mendez
THOSE WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES IN THE
MONTH OF JUNE, 2017
June 7...........John & Mary Polk
June 9...........Steve & Suzy Furney
June 30..........Del & Marie Brown
.Memorial Day Flag Display was well attended.
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. The holiday which is currently observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers. By the 20th century. competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service.
It also marks the start of the unofficial summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries. Our Kiwanis Club considers Memorial Day a very important day to display the American flag.
Those of our club who put out flags this Memorial Day were: Glen Rydl, Del Brown, Ted Breihan, Francis Mendez, Moe Johnson, Randy Cook, James Collier, Doug Balkman, Gary Strunk, Lon Shell, Frederick Case, Gary Nelson, Charles Johnson and Randal Grizzle. If your name was omitted, please forgive your editor.
Our Program for May 24, 2017
Once again, Glen Rydl brought Susan Smith from the San Marcos Public Library to share with our club the latest programs that the library has for children, tees, tweens, youth and adults. Since the recent bond issue passed, the library will be enlarging in size as well as additional programs. Everyone needs to stop in at the library and see what is happening there. There doesn't seem to be a single moment that something isn't going on to tickle the interest in those who come. Our library isn't just for checking out books, or sitting down at a table to read, but there are so many activities that will make everyone to come back time and time again to engage in something new.
Remember that every time we put up flags , that the money that businesses pay to have a flag put up at their establishment during special patriotic holidays($30) per year, our club sets aside $2500 each year to help with the Children's Summer Reading Program at the library.
The photo to the right shows Glen Rydl giving Susan this year's support check and we know it will be put to good use.
The Program for this coming Week, June 1, 2017
Tracy Herman will be bringing the program for this coming week. She will be bringing Charles Johnson, our very own member who will be doing another travelogue, this time about Spain. Charles's wide range of different places always stimulates a lot of curiosity, so let's not miss this one. It will be exciting, you can be sure.
Scholarship Recipient tells how grateful he was to get one of our scholarships.
Jesus Alvarez came to our meeting last week and gave our club a rundown on his high school experiences, and how he had worked hard and despite difficulties in learning a new language managed to make great achievements and graduated with honors. He was one of five students who were awarded a $1,000 scholarship from our club. He will be attending University of Texas in the fall and will be pursuing further studies in the field of Biology.
"You name it!" we'll make it!" was the big sign outside the new restaurant on 13th Avenue. "There is no food we can't make for you!" "Excuse me sir", said a man with a heavy Russian accent to the waiter, "I vould like please, A Garden Salad vith Russian dressing." "RUSSIAN DRESSING?! Screamed the head cook, "I'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF RUSSIAN DRESSING! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO GIVE THIS BUY? "Don't worry," said the owner to the cook, "I'll take care of everything, you just make the salad." And that's how it happened that two minutes later the waiter walked out with a big Garden Salad and a picture of a Russian man putting on his pants."
"Read the question carefully, see if you get the answer before looking at the answer at the end of the bulletin."
1: When was William Shakespeare born?
2: On what date did the Battle of Culloden take place?
3: Who was Henry VIII's first wife?
4: Which famous battle between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy took place on 21 October 1805?
5: Who became the British Prime Minister after Winston Churchill in 1955?
6: When did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister?
7: When did the Cold War end?
8: Who was the architect who designed the Millennium Dome?
9: When did the Eurostar train service between Britain and France start running?
10: When was the euro introduced as legal currency on the world market?
"TO HANG ON BY THE EYELASH!
"To be just barely able to retain one's hold on something, literal or figuratively; to be in a precarious condition. Our ancestors, back in the seventeenth century 'hung (something) by the eyelid,' rather than the eyelashes, indicating that they meant to keep that thing or subject in suspense. Later, about a hundred years, 'to hang by the eyelids' came into vogue with the meaning of our present expressions. One fighting to retain a spark of life, or one barely able to stave off financial disaster is, with equal impartiality, ''hanging on by his eyelashes.""
May 26, 1940.....The Dunkirk evacuation began in order to save the British Expeditionary Force trapped by advancing German armies on the northern coast of France. Boats and vessels of all shapes and sizes ferried 200,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers across the English Channel by June 2d.!
May 27, 1837......Legendary Wild West figure, Wild Bill Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois. He was a frontiersman, lawman, legendary marksman, army scout and gambler. On August 2, 1876, he was shot dead during a poker game by a drunk in the Number Ten saloon in Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory. In his hand he held a pair of eights and a pair of aces which became known as the 'dead man's hand'
May 28, 1961.......Amnesty International was founded by London lawyer Peter Berenson. He read about the arrest of a group of students in Portugal then launched a one-year campaign to free them called Appeal for
Amnesty. Today Amnesty International has over a million members in 150 countries working to free prisoners of conscience, stop torture and the death penalty, and guarantee human rights for women.
May 29, 1865.......Following the American Civil War, President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation granting general amnesty to Confederates. The amnesty excluded high ranking Confederates and large property owners, who had to apply individually to the President for a pardon. Following an oath of allegiance, all former property rights, except slaves, were returned to the former owners.
May 30.1943......During World War II in the Pacific, the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska were retaken by the U.S. 7th Infantry Division. The battle began on May 12 when an American force of 11,000 landed on Attu. In three weeks of fighting US casualties numbered 552 killed and 1,140 wounded. Japanese killed numbered 2,352, with only 28 taken prisoner, as 500 chose suicide rather than be captured.
May 31, 1862......During the American Civil War, the Battle of Seven Pines occurred as Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Army attacked Union General George McClellan's troops in front of Richmond Virginia and nearly defeated them. Johnston was badly wounded. Confederate General Robert E. Lee then assumed command, replacing the wounded Johnston. Lee renamed his force the Army of Northern Virginia.
June 1, 1801.......Founder of Utah and patriarch of the Mormon church Brigham Young was born in Whittingham, Vermont. Called the "American Moses" he led thousands of religious followers across the wilderness to settle over 300 towns in the West, including Salt Lake City, Utah.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL( Exploring some of the 'Beauty' spots in our country!
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
The Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242, 756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The Park is managed by the National Park Service.
The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres of the park as a designated wilderness area and is the site of the reintroduction of the black footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America.
The South Unit, or Stronghold Unit, is co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe and includes sites of 189s Ghost Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table, the park's highest point at 3,340 feet.
Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. It was re-designated a national park on November 10, 1978.
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.....How do you throw away a garbage can?
2......How is it possible to have a 'civil' war?
3......Why are highways build so low to the ground?
4......How long is the arm of the law?
5......How many weeks are there in a light year?
6......Why aren't there ever any guilty bystanders?
7......If a candle factory burns down, does everyone just stand around and sing "Happy Birthday"?
8......If a food processor slices and dices food, what does a word processor do?
9......Why do pigs have curly tails?
10....If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
1......The hair perm was invented in 1906 by Karl Ludwig Nessler of Germany?
2.......Leonardo da Vinci never built the inventions he designed?
3........The Monopoly game was invented by Charles Darrow in 1933. He sold the rights to George Parker in 1935, then aged 58. Parker invented more than 100 games, including Pit, Rook, Flinch, Risk and Clue.
4.........One hour before Alexander Graham Bell registered his patent for the telephone in 1878, Elisha Gray patented his design. After years of litigation, the patent went to Bell.
5..........Thomas Edison filed 1,093 patents, including those for the light bulb, electric railways and the movie camera. When he died sin 1931, he held 34 patents for the telephone, 141 for batteries, 150 for the telegraph and 389 patents for electric light and power?
6...........The first fax process was patented in 1843?
7............Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century.
8..........In 1894 Thomas Edison and WKL Dickson introduced the first film camera.'
9..........In 1895 French brother Auguste and Louis Lumiere demonstrated a projector system in Paris. In 1907 they screened the first public movie?
10.........The first electronic mail, or e-mail, was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
For this Week's Questions for May 29th 2017!
1. April 23rd 1564
2: April 16th 1746
3: Catharine of Aragon
4: Battle of Trafalgar
5: Sir Robert Anthony Eden
6: 1979
7: 1989
8: Richard Rogers
9: November 14th, 1994
10: January 1st, 1999
"As often as we are counseled to "take risks" by the successful people of the world, that's about as often as that counsel is ignored. For the vast, vast majority of people, taking risks is just too, well risky. If we don't take risks, however, it's doubtful we'll ever get to our Dream"
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May 26, 1940.....The Dunkirk evacuation began in order to save the British Expeditionary Force trapped by advancing German armies on the northern coast of France. Boats and vessels of all shapes and sizes ferried 200,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers across the English Channel by June 2d.!
