East Palestine Rotary News

May 7, 2007


"There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens."  Elizabeth Berg

FUTURE PROGRAMS:

May 14th Roger Linsley
May 21st Dave Powers
May 28th Club Assembly
June 4th Shirley Prater

Click here to see the complete 2006-07 program list

 

  • Distinguished Guests: Daniel and Dan Wilkovich

  • Dan Wilkovich won the drawing

  • Happy/Sad Bucks: Sondra gave a HB for her new granddaughter and a SB for being back at work; Diana gave a HB for being back to work, a SB for her surgery and a SB for the loss of Scott Rauch at work; Bob gave a HB for another successful trip to Atlantic City

  • Please sell your tickets for the Atlantic City Trip.  Each Rotarian is asked to sell or buy 25 tickets.  All proceeds will be donated to the Rotary Foundation.  Money from ticket sales should be given to Roger or Bob.  All money & tickets must be turned in by June 4th.

  • Doug and Dave took the GSE team for an afternoon trip to Pittsburgh last week.

  • THIS SATURDAY will be DOG Day.  Please meet at the Community between 8-9 AM.  We will be installing new benches along the walking trail.

  • The Rotary District Spring Assembly will be next Saturday, May 19th at the Foltz Center in East Canton from 8:00-noon.  Brad will be driving, so if anyone needs a ride contact Brad.

  • The Post Office will also be conducting it's annual canned food drive on Saturday.

  • The Cancer Relay for Life in 2007 will be on June 15-16 in Salem. 

  • NEW MEMBER NOTICE:   Dan Wilkovich has been proposed for membership.  Dan is a former member of our Club, and is the owner of Aunt Annie's Antiques & Collectibles on Market Street.  Any objections must be submitted in writing to the Club secretary within 10 days of the date of this newsletter.

 

Our speaker today was our exchange student, Daniel Borda from Bolivia.  Daniel is from Santa Cruz, a city of 1.5 million population.  His host Rotary Club was founded by 25 former exchange students.  This fall both Josh Dowd and Sarah Downey from East Palestine will be exchange students in Bolivia.

We wish Daniel the best of luck in all his future endeavors.

 

Joke of the Week

Technology Terms for Country Folk

1. LOG ON: Makin a wood stove hotter.

2. LOG OFF: Don't add no more wood.

3. MONITOR: Keepin an eye on the wood stove.

4. DOWNLOAD: Gettin the farwood off the truk.

5. MEGA HERTZ: When yer not kerful gettin the farwood.

6. FLOPPY DISC: Whatcha git from tryin to carry too much farwood.

7. RAM: That thar thing whut splits the farwood.

8. HARD DRIVE: Gettin home in the winter time.

9. PROMPT: Whut the mail ain't in the winter time.

10. WINDOWS: Whut to shut wen it's cold outside.

11. SCREEN: Whut to shut wen it's blak fly season.

12. BYTE: Whut them dang flys do.

13. CHIP: Munchies fer the TV.

14. MICRO CHIP: Whut's in the bottom of the munchie bag.

15. MODEM: Whut cha did to the hay fields.

16. DOT MATRIX: Old Dan Matrix's wife.

17. LAP TOP: Whar the kitty sleeps.

18. KEYBOARD: Whar ya hang the dang keys.

19. SOFTWARE: Them dang plastic forks and knifs.

20. MOUSE: Whut eats the grain in the barn.

21. MAINFRAME: Holds up the barn roof.

22. PORT: Fancy Flatlander wine

23. ENTER: Northerner talk fer "C'mon in y'all"

24. RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY: Wen ya cain't 'member whut ya paid fer the rifle when yore wife asks.

25. MOUSE PAD: That hippie talk fer the rat hole.

 

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