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Retirees Club Newsletter Retirees Club Newsletter HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2018 OCTOBER 2018 ~ Coming Events Retirees (HR) Board Monthly Meeting 12:00 pm 10/17 Retirees (HRC) Monthly Meeting 1:30 PM 10/17 Minnregs Monthly Meeting 5:30 PM 10/17 Minnregs Monthly Meeting 5:00 PM 10/19 COMMENTS BY PRESIDENT, THOM DUPPER Wow! What a great meeting to kick off the fall season! We conducted some real business. – changed the by-laws to elect our officers for a term of two years – planned a Christmas Emporium for our November meeting We heard a very interesting presentation by Colette Florido about the medicinal benefits of hemp extracts. Colette was answering questions and demonstrating her products well past 4 pm!These are the types of presentations that make these general meetings well worth the time. Next month, we will shift to the entertainment side, with the appearance of Helmut Drews, a professional musician who appears regularly at the German American Club. Helmut is the real deal, and we expect a rollicking good time with some sing-alongs, maybe a polka or two, and lots of beer. Mark your calendar and make your plans. Grab your Lederhosen and your steins, invite a friend and celebrate with us on October 17 at 1:30. Prost! I can’t tell you how proud I am to serve as your president. Looking out on all your smiling faces, hearing you chuckle at my bad jokes, seeing how you enjoy our speakers, and witnessing the true fellowship for the entire time we are together – all of these make all our planning work worthwhile. Thank you for that. Now a favor – think about someone from your Honeywell days, someone you still associate with, and invite them to join you for Oktoberfest. Who could turn down an offer to get a free lunch (first time visitors), all the beer they want, and a great time catching up with folks from their Honeywell days? Sometimes, all it takes is a gentle nudge. Offer to pick them up. Let’s see if we can add at least a dozen new members between I named my two dogs Rolex and Timex. They’re watch dogs. 1 now and the end of the year. Now don’t put this off – think about someone right now and grab your phone. I am very encouraged by the budding relationship between the HRC and HI. We can now post notices on the bulletin boards, promoting our organization and our events. Every wall has a few cracks. May this crack grow into a mutually-beneficial relationship for both organizations. On our end, this will start with volunteering to work on the new version of Honeywell Old-LIMP-ics on Thursday, October 18 from 11 am to 3 pm. This will be a great opportunity to help revive a great tradition while we demonstrate our commitment to provide volunteers for Honeywell events. Best part – you get a free t-shirt. Please contact Mary Reffelt - [email protected] to volunteer today. All in all, a great time to be an HRC member. Looking forward to a lot of new, smiling faces for our next meeting. Peace HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH By Gene Shank What to Take With Your Water to Avoid Heat Stroke More than 155 people died in the Phoenix area last year from one cause. It’s a new record in a place where the number of deaths from this one cause has been steadily rising. Former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton deemed it a public health crisis, and the city has launched an overhaul of how it prepares for and deals with the problem. But, it’s not just a problem for Phoenix. And here’s the thing. The problem is 100% preventable. What is it? If you guessed heat stroke, you’re more than just hot – you’re right. And heat stroke is not just limited to Phoenix. Already, more people die from heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other weather disasters. And, as with other disasters, the most vulnerable are infants, the elderly, and the sick. So, it’s one more reason for us all to stay strong and healthy as we pile more and more candles on our birthday cakes. Heat stroke results from prolonged exposure to temperatures over 100 degrees combined with exertion and dehydration. These conditions basically lead to body temperatures that overwhelm our temperature control systems. The early signs of impending heat stroke are lightheadedness, dizziness, lack of sweating despite the heat, dark urine, weakness, muscle cramps, nausea, and rapid heartbeat. And, it can sneak up on you. So be careful. Besides dehydration and heavy exercise, here are other factors that make you more vulnerable to the heat. People with heart, lung, or kidney disease, people who are overweight or underweight, and those with high blood pressure, diabetes, sickle cell trait, alcoholism, and sunburn are more vulnerable. Alcohol, antihistamines, diet pills, diuretics, sedatives, tranquilizers, stimulants, seizure medications, heart and blood pressure medications (especially beta-blockers and vasoconstrictors), and antidepressants and antipsychotics can also make you particularly susceptible to the heat. 2 So, if you have any of these conditions and/or are taking any of these drugs, be extra careful. That’s the bad news. But, here’s the good news. As I said above, it is 100% preventable. Just don’t let yourself become dehydrated. Make sure that on a regular basis you drink at least two liters of water every day whether you feel thirsty or not. If you’re going out in the heat, drink twice that much. Don’t wait until you have symptoms or feel thirsty. And, because heat stroke can't result from salt and electrolyte depletion, make sure to add some electrolyte salts to your water.A really good electrolyte combination is called Lyteshow. You can get it online. If you plan on exercising in the heat, make sure that you drink 24 ounces of water with electrolytes before you start. And drink another 24 ounces every hour. This Lyteshow is available on Amazon. The taste can be a problem so just dilute it. "Here's To Your Health" Grounds Report By Ben Carter The crew and I planted about 70 flowers on the east side of the hall, I was able to salvage these from the maintenance crew at Regency Oaks They have a liberal budget and keep their place looking first rate by replacing older plants on a regular basis. Almost all of our plantings have revived and are looking good. Check them out. It’s been raining a lot which has been good for the flowers, but not good for our grounds. A lot of very deep tracks in the backyard. It will take 6 to 8 months for all the ruts to smooth out. Then it’s the monsoon season again, and it all starts over. It’s very frustrating, but that’s why the crew and I make the Big Bucks!!! October Sports Predictions Here it is. You get a letter in the mail predicting the winner of a heavyweight championship match a few weeks before the event. There's no other information in the letter, just the prediction. You receive subsequent letters predicting the winners of events a few days before they happen. The letters correctly predict the winners of, like I said, a heavyweight championship bout, the World Series... Shortly after the Rose Bowl, you receive a letter stating that after you send--you knew this was coming--10 grand to a certain address...and he will tell you the winner of the Super Bowl. One week before the Super Bowl, you'll receive a letter with the winner of that event. What’s going on here? Answer for September: The paragraph does not contain the letter “e” – once the most commonly used letter ​ in the alphabet. Now that’s the “w” as in www.domainname.com! Don’t you love it when people come to visit you and they see the cat’s litter box and they say, “Oh, it’s for the cat”? , “No, it’s for company”. 3 YESTERDAY Refrigerator Refrigerators in the 1910s were sprawling appliances that took up a good part of the kitchen, with multiple different compartments. They looked more like a set of cabinets than the fridges we know. Today, our refrigerators are much more compact, and some of them can tell us what’s inside without us even having to open the door. Washing machine Washing clothes in the early 1900s was an ordeal. Whereas now we just throw our clothes into the machine, add some detergent, press a button, and go. People 100 years ago had a very complicated machine (it did have a spin cycle, though) that took hours. (for instance, yes, your great-great-grandmother did spend an ​ ​ entire weekend doing laundry). I found out if you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital. 4 You were so ugly when who were born, the doctor threw you out the window and the window threw you back. 5 WHO STOPS TO SMELL THE FLOWERS? By Tyrone Berry When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father "I'm sorry. We did everything we could do, but he pulled through" 6 Honeywell Retirees Club Luncheon Oktober 17, 2018 ​ 1:30pm Lunch $5.00 Sausage & Sauerkraut Potato Cakes Baked Beans Salad/Roll Beer, Wine, Soda OKTOBERFEST ENTERTAINMENT: Helmut Dres is a professional musician who appear​s regularly at the Germa​n American Club. We expect a rollicking good time with some sing-alongs, maybe a polka or two, and lots of beer.
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