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Fri. Aug. 12, 2016 Service Above Self Port Isabel Texas Rotary Club District 5930, Area 9 Est. 1936 pirotary.org http://portal.clubrunner.ca/8285/ MARCELLO’S ITALIAN RISTORANTE FRI. AUG. 12, 2016 SERVICE ABOVE SELF ROTARY BOARD 2016-2017 (Debbie High District Governor) Bettina Tolin President John Magee Treasurer Jacqui Dempsey Youth Service DeeOnda Ahadi Past President Diana Delgado Secretary Cristin Howard Club Service Roberto Rodriguez President Elect/Vocational Service Jim Enholm Community Service Sherman Lee International Service [TBA] President Elect Nominee Bob White Sgt. At Arms Aux. Board: Ralph Ayers Pilot, Lonnie Gillihan Print/Distribution, Norris Fletcher Programs/Calendar, Albert Perez Foundations, Paul Cardile Song Master ROTARIAN SPEAKER NEXT WEEK’S ROTARIAN of the Jaime Pena, (Gladys Porter Zoo) George Riley WEEK TOPIC REMINDERS & NOTICES Jerry GPZ Conservation Project Club Social Next Thursday Adams Blackbeard’s 5:30 pm LAST WEEK Last week’s Rotarian of the Week cancelled at the last minute. Club member Albert Perez filled in with a very informative talk on the ramifications of the Affordable Care Act on businesses, detailing problems employers face and responses they must prepare for going forward. Thanks Albert for stepping into the breach on such short notice. Past President DeeOnda belatedly presented(for the past year) Diana Delgado with a Paul Harris award and John Magee with an award as Rotarian of the Year. Congratulations to both. CLUB NEWS George and Ginny Riley will be moving soon to the San Antonio area and vacating their positions as members of the Vocational Service and Community service lanes respectively. If you have not yet signed up to participate in a lane (there are at least 5 or 6 who have not yet committed), please give serious consideration to a lane you’d like to assist, and speak to the lane chairs ASAP. [Community Service - Jim Enholm, Club Service- Cristin Howard, Vocational Service - Robert (Chiefie) Rodriguez, International Service - Sherman Lee, Youth Services - Jacqui Delgado] There is a Club Assembly scheduled for September 16, and we need to have everyone assigned before then. Thanks for your consideration and all that you do. Did you know that in the 80 years since our club’s founding in 1936, we’ve now had 82 presidential terms with only 79 people serving? Two served for only ½ year each and one (Bettina) has been president three times. PICTURE of the WEEK PROGRAM AND EVENTS CALENDAR CELEBRATIONS AUGUST ANNIVERSARIES 18 - Club Social, 5:30pm, Blackbeard’s, None 18 - George Riley 26 - Jim Enholm SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS 1 - Board Meeting, 5:30pm, Marcello’s 9 - Alejandra Hughes 2 - Round Table, Labor Day weekend Today, 1929 - Buck Owens 9 - District Governor’s visit Sherman TX. Country singer 11 - Flags Out - Patriot’s Day (HeeHaw) 15 - Club Social, 5:30pm (Loc. TBA) 16 - Club Assembly 23 - Tom Plumb 30 - Ebbie Ahadi THOUGHT for the DAY: Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. JOKE of the WEEK: A man went for a job interview and the manager handed him his laptop and said, "I want you to try and sell this to me." So he put it under his arm, walked out of the building and went home. Eventually the manager called his mobile and said, "Bring it back here right now!" He replied, "$100 and it's yours." QUOTE for the DAY: “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” (Unknown) STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW August 13, 1934: The ''Li'l Abner'' comic strip by Al Capp first appeared in papers running until 1977. It featured hillbillies in the impoverished Dogpatch, USA, the first strip based on southern culture. (Capp was from Connecticut) Read by 60 million people 900 American and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries, it profoundly influenced the way the world viewed the American South. Li’l Abner was a perpetually 19 year old, naive, simpleminded and sweet natured hillbilly who sometimes earned a living as a “crescent cutter” for the Little Wonder Privy Co., pursued by the virtuous, voluptuous, blonde and barefoot damsel, Daisy Mae. He lived with his parents, Mammy ( highly principled "sassiety" leader and bare knuckle "champeen" of Dogpatch) and (Lazy, never bathed, illiterate, dull-witted, gullible) Pappy Yokum. A supporting cast included: Moonbeam McSwine - an unkempt, shapely, impossibly lazy, delectable, corncob pipe-smoking, flagrant (and fragrant), raven-haired, earthly (and earthy) goddess who preferred the company of pigs to suitors. Stupefyin' Jones: A walking aphrodisiac, Stupefyin' was stunning—literally. So drop-dead gorgeous that any male who glimpsed her froze (stupified) in his tracks. Senator Jack S. (Jackass) Phogbound- a satire on elected officials. Fearless Fosdick, a satire on Chet Gould’s Dick Tracy, and many more. Commenting on the post war, indulgent, American consumer, Capp introduced the famous Shmoo in 1948, “ fabulous creatures that bred exponentially, consumed nothing, and eagerly provided everything that humankind could wish for. Besides producing both milk (bottled, grade A) and eggs (neatly packaged), they tasted like pork when roasted, chicken when fried, and steak when broiled. Ironically, the Shmoo's generous nature and incredible usefulness made it a threat to capitalism, civilization itself.” Stuffed Shmoos, figurines, greeting cards and more, sold like hot cakes. The Kigmies, were masochistic, aboriginal creatures who loved to be kicked, satisfying all types human aggression... until they went on a rampage of retaliation. (The Kigmy story line was a metaphor for racial and religious oppression.) Then there was Kickapoo Joy Juice, a lethal brew that everyone in Dogpatch consumed and regretted. And don’t forget Sadie Hawkin’s Day, a gender reversal event where girls chase boys, that so caught on it is still celebrated annually in many places. Li’l Abner was made into a Broadway show, movies, animated cartoons, radio plays and more. Al Capp appeared regularly on many TV shows, more than any cartoonist in history. Today’s politically correct, overly sensitive culture would no doubt find fault with much that Al Capp created, but perhaps we could all use a healthy dose of Dogpatch logic and wisdom in the crazy world in which we live. USELESS FACT OF THE DAY: It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. ROTARY SERVING HUMANITY MINUTE Every Tuesday at 1 p.m., students at Andong Yeongmyeong School wait for their Rotarian friends to arrive. Occasionally, they play sports or go on field trips such as attending a baseball game. But the real reason they get together is to work in a greenhouse, planting seeds and harvesting lettuce leaves. Later, they take the tenderly plucked leaves to a restaurant owned by another Rotarian. With the money they earn, the students invest in more seeds and equipment.... The Rotarians from clubs in Andong, 200 kilometers southeast of Seoul, are mentors at the school through a training project for students with autism and intellectual and emotional disabilities that they launched in 2014. The students learn crop cultivation, starting with the fundamentals of growing lettuce indoors, then learning to package and transport crops, and, finally, selling vegetables to businesses around Andong.... The project was supported by a $32,500 global grant from The Rotary Foundation. The Rotarians have funded the construction of the horticultural facilities where the training takes place, financially supported the instruction provided by faculty at the school, and volunteered as mentors for the students and business consultants and monitors for the project.... Their aim is to lay the foundation for students to pursue careers in horticulture and gain financial independence, says project leader Chi-Su Sin. Their accomplishments also boost their confidence in social situations. In 2015, 49 students were trained, and in 2016 there are plans to train 45 students. And the district is thinking even bigger. ... “We’re working to expand the program beyond students and provide vocational training to adults with disabilities,” he says. “We’re working to give them hope for the future and help them feel that they, too, can build an economic foundation for themselves. My hope is that this type of project will keep expanding and bringing great benefits to communities so that we can build a world in which people with disabilities can stand shoulder to shoulder with everyone else.” Excerpt from the June Rotarian Magazine .
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