""Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." (Booker T. Washington)
Have You Ever Heard the Phrase, 'A Pain in the Neck'?
"Not an actual physical pain, nor is it located so much in the neck as in the head. That is, the pain is mental, rather than physical. One who is the cause, who is the pain or gives the pain, is just persona non grata to the recipient. Others may consider him or her a pleasant and entertaining person, even well informed, but to the sufferer he or she is an unmitigated bore. The cause of the pain may also be inanimate; that is, a house or a picture or a newspaper, or anything which one regards as contemptible or lacking in merit. The expression is American slag of the past fifty years, a polite variation of a pain previously associated with another part of the anatomy."
Attendance on September 12, 2019
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown,Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Moe Johnson, Gary Nelson, John Roppolo, Charles Walts, Kelli Whigham, Ted Breihan, Beverly Crumley, Andrew Gary, Garry White, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Glen Rydl, Ronda Young, Tim Tippets, Kelly Layne. (21) Guests: John Clifford (Trustee for Region 10)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of September 2019
September 19.......Everyone Greets: It's the Installation Banquet!
September 26........Kelly Layne
Aw Shucks!!!! John Roppolo's name was drawn for Big Bucks.....but he wasn't present!
Happy Day to these whose birthdays are in the month of September
September 17............McBride Wilson
The Program coming up this coming Thursday
There will not be a program this coming Thursday, but we will be all be going to Mamacitas Restaurant to join in our annual Installation Banquet. Beginning with September 26, we will have a whole new slate of officers. Husbvands and wives of our members are urged to attend. If you haven't paid the $22.00 a person to Randy Cook, be sure and bring it with you Thursday evening at 6pm.
Once again, those who will be installed will be: President(Rhonda White); President Elect (Moe Johnson), Secretary (Beverly Crumley), Treasurer (Doug Balkman), Board Members: Andrew Gary, Lon Shell, Charles Walts.
How About a Great Big Thanks for our Flag Displayers!
This month we've had two holidays (Labor Day and 9/11) Our club faithfully gets up early in the morning, drives their vehicles up to Ted Breihan's shop, where he has faithfully stored our flags. Then each group picks out their flags and loads them in either their truck or their sedan, and then goes and delivers the flags to the many businesses that are helping through their annual contribution and then post their flag on flag holders that our club furnishes and put up by Gary Nelson. Then between 4:30pm & 5:00pm, our flag members go back and pick them back up and take them back to Ted's place. We are proud of our flag people who have faithfully dedicated themselves to this task throughout the year. Our flag bearers are: Francis Mendez, Glen Rydl, Randy Cook, Gary Nelson and Randal Grizzel, Del Brown and Frederick Case, Moe Johnson and Lon Shell, Doug & Jeanne Balkman, Randy Cook, James Collier, Charles Johnson and Charles Walts. And we couldn't do it without Ted Breihan's cooperation in storing our flags. Thanks to all of you
A VERY DISTINCTIVE PRIVILEGE!
At last week's meeting, John Clifford, Trustee for Region 10 in our Kiwanis organization came to our club. He has served for three years and is shown here passing on the banner, appointing Frederick Case to be his replacement for the next 3 years. Picture here shows John presenting his Home Club banner to Frederick, who is very well qualified to be the next Trustee for Region 10. Congratulations Frederick and Good Luck and thanks for a great job well done to John.
Installation Banquet coming Up.
This year's Installation Banquet will take place at Mamacitas Restaurant on the evening of September 19, 2019. By now, you should have signed up for yourself as well as your spouse or other that will be coming with you. You are requested to be at Mamacitas by 6:00PM. If you have not already paid for the meal be sure and give Randy the money the night of the Banquet.
From September 13 to September 19
September 13, 1788 - - The U.S. Congress chose New York as the Federal capital of the new American government.
September 14, 1812 - - Napoleon and his troops first entered Moscow as the retreating Russians set the city on fire. Napoleon found it was impossible to stay through the winter in the ruined city. He then began a retreat from Moscow which became one of the great disasters of military history. Fewer than 20,000 men with him survived the Russian campaign.
September 15, 1916 - - Tanks were first used in combat, during the Allied offensive at the Battle of the Somme, in World War I.
September 16, 1620 - - The Mayflower ship departed from England, bound for America with 102 passengers and a small crew. The ship weathered dangerous Atlantic storms and reached Provincetown, Massachusetts on November 21st. The Pilgrims disembarked at Plymouth on December 26th.
September 17, 1908 - - The first fatality involving powered flight occurred as a biplane piloted by Orville Wright fell from a height of 75 feet, killing Thomas E. Selfridge, his 26 year old passenger. A crowd of nearly 2,000 spectators at Fort Myer, Virginia, observed the crash of the plane which was being tested for possible military use. Wright himself was seriously injured.
September 18, 1947 - - The U.S. Air Force was established as a separate military service.
September 19-20, 1985 - - Earthquakes in Mexico City killed an estimated 5,500 to 20,000 persons and left more than 100,000 homeless, causing $4 billion in damage. The quakes registered 8.1 and 7.3 on the Richter scale.
Alaska's Nickname
"Alaska's nicknames are America's Ice Box and The Frozen Wilderness because it is partially covered with snow and ice all year-round."
Know Your Presidents . . James Polk
"James Polk was often called the First Dark Horse because he was unexpectedly elected. Martin Van Buren had been eliminated as a candidate at athe Democratic Convention of 1844, and Polk became the party's presidential candidate. He was commonly called Young Hickory because like Andrew Jackson ('Old Hickory') he was raised amid the hardships of frontier life, and he shared Jackson's political views and policies."
"Slapout, Oklahoma"
"This tiny town located at the east end of the Oklahoma panhandle was renamed in the 1930's by construction workers who were installing a highway for the Works Progress Administration. They would often go to a store in Nye, a nearby town, to get supplies. When they came back empty-handed, they would say the store was 'slapout' of supplies. Thus the area becamd known as Slapout instead of Nye"
"The president receives the news that his government is divided between optimists and pessimists. 'Who are the optimists?' the president asks. 'They are those who believe that we will be eating grass by the end of the year,' says the adviser. 'And the pessimists?' 'They are those who think that there won't be enough grass for everybody'!
"Oh Well!!!!!
1...……Is 'tired old cliche' one?
2.........Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
3.........Is a small pig called a hamlet?
4.........Is a sleeping buill a bull-dozer?
5.........Is a halfback more valuable than a quarterback?
6.........You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
7.........Is drilling for oil boring?
8.........Is it OK to use the AM radio after noon?
9.........Is that a flying saucer or a pie in the sky?
1..........Is the nose the scenter of the face?
Here's Some more 'Myth Information"
"When originally drawn, the Mason and Dixon line had nothing to do with the boundary between the North & South during the Civil War. It was, in fact, initially a short 244 mile-long regional border set nearly a hundred years before the Civil War began.
Following a border dispute between a Maryland and Pennsylvania family, two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, laid out a boundary between 1763 and 1767. The line established the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and was extended seventeen years later to the full length of Pennsylvania's southern boundary.
For over fifty years, the Mason and Dixon line had no connection with the slavery issue. In 1819, when the slavery debate began, John Randolph and others began referring to this line as the dividing point between free and slave states. Following the Missouri Compromise in 1820, the line was extended south and west along the Ohio River and across the northern border of Missouri.
It was at this time that the Mason and Dixon line took on it's now familiar identity as the dividing line between free and slave states and, during the Civil War, as the border between the North and South. But the Mason and Dixon line had a much innocuous beginning in American history."
'A Pain in the Neck'?
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Happy Day to these whose birthdays are in the month of September
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"Oh Well!!!!!