august 22, 2017
AUGUST 22, 2017 We meet every Tuesday of the month from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Fort Collins, CO Senior Center on Raintree Drive. Coffee & Donuts at 8:30 a.m. ALL ARE WELCOME Our mission Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time. OFFICERS
President John Brubaker President-elect Jeff Stewart Past President Dave Marvin Secretary Brent Reeves Treasurer Harold Boyer Directors: Allen Green Vacant Nancy Brown Steve Armstead Bill Fennone
Send newsletter info, stories, jokes, etc. to: [email protected] DEADLINE is Thursday for the next week’s issue.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
CLUB MEETING PRAYER
Today’s Program- "Mike Holmes-Part 2 Oil & Gas industry (Bill T. host)
Aug. 22—Carroll Morony Aug. 29—Doug Murray Sept. 5—Bob Fromme
Aug. 29—Scott Kemper-Cutthroat Trout in RMNP (Jim G.) Sept. 5—Al Van Nice’s son-inlaw Jared -Starting a new church Sept. 12—Dave Hamm on Hypnosis.
BIRTHDAYS Aug. 23—Hugh Price Aug. 24—Larry Jones Aug. 26—Don Christensen Aug. 28—Red Doering
Dick Toledano
ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK.
Carroll Morony Bill Fennone
LAST WEEK’S MEETING 51 Members; 1 Guest, Geri Stutheit.
Aug. 22-Peggy & Brent Reeves-#53 Confused?
I become confused when I hear the Welfare of members and famiword “Service” used with these lies: agencies: John Milne’s wife Roberta has had a stroke and also developed a clot Internal Revenue Service on the lung. Kathryn Locke US Postal Service (Charles) has been coping with Cable TV Service Membership cancer and now has a pain pump to Civil Service Lists help her cope. Federal, State, City & Don Edminster Public Service Club Stuff… Customer Service Grocery Cards 6 our members went to Laramie for Harold Boyer an Interclub last week: Don EdThis is NOT what I thought minster, Bob Kingsbury, Nancy “Service” meant. Food Bank Brown, Kent Brown, Bill Tosch, Steve Henry Bauer But today, I overheard two farmers Armstead talking, and one of them said he had Toy Project... Reporting Com- Assembly of the toys is underway. bought a bull to Service his cows. munity Service Check out the sign up sheet at the BAM! It all came into focus. Now Hrs: back of the room or talk to Dave I understand what all those agenMarvin. cies are doing to us. If it is easier for you, please report your service Ole & Lena… hours to Carroll’s Ole is trying a new diet. He is only supposed to eat when Lena isn’t talkemail: ing. He lost 10 pounds...just the first week. jancar68@ @comcast.net Ole says, “Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.”
CLUB COMMITTEES
(chair & co-chair) HOUSE
COMMUNITY SERVICE
SPIRITUAL AIMS & MEMBER CARE
Al Van Nice Don Edminster MEMBERSHIP
Nancy Brown PROGRAMS
Jim Goettl SOCIAL
Dick Toledano CHILDREN & YOUTH
Kent Brown INTERNATIONAL
Wil Stutheit INTERCLUBS
Bill Ferguson Byrd Curtis TOY PROJECT FUND RAISING
Lloyd Wilson
Read or print our newsletters online: http://poudregoldenknewsletters.blogspot.com/ Printed courtesy of PrintIt!, 154 W. Mountain Ave, Fort Collins, (970) 221-5444 Find our Club’s website at: https://www.facebook.com/.
OUR CLUB’S SUPPORT AT PROJECT SMILE’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
DO YOU KNOW?????? WHY DO WE SAY “NOT A RED CENT”? Remember the days of yore (whatever the heck “yore” is!) when U.S. coinage was made of real, identifiable metals? Pennies used to be made out of copper, but now are an alloy of copper, tin, and zinc. The “red” in “red cent” was a reference to the hue of the original copper penny; the current allow contains reddish but also golden and brown hues. AND SPEAKING OF THE COLOR OF MONEY…..
Why Is Money Paid to Prevent a Secret from Being Exposed Called Blackmail? Blackmail is a Scottish expression that dates back to the sixteenth century. Northern areas of Scotland were subject to the plundering of pirates and other freebooters. Highland chiefs used to exact a tribute from landholders in exchange for protection against the looting of freebooters. The word mail had long meant "rent" or "tribute." Even today, a Scottish tenant is called a "mailer." But why blackmail? Two different forms of "mail" were made by tenants: Whitmal (i.e, whitemail) was payment in silver; blackmal (blackmail) was payment in labor, cattle, grains, or produce. As silver was considered a more desirable commodity than sacks of corn, blackmail seems to. be another example of the use of black to denote "lower" or "inferior." Many renters still feel that their monthly payments are more tribute to the landlord than fair compensation for worthy value, but today the word blackmail, has different connotations. The original Scottish term describes what we would now call a protection racket. The connotation of blackmail as the threat of exposure of a secret, and the payment as a bribe or hush money, was not widespread until the nineteenth century.
President John Brubaker President-elect Jeff Stewart Past President Dave Marvin Secretary Brent Reeves Treasurer Harold Boyer Directors: Allen Green Vacant Nancy Brown Steve Armstead Bill Fennone
Send newsletter info, stories, jokes, etc. to: [email protected] DEADLINE is Thursday for the next week’s issue.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
CLUB MEETING PRAYER
Today’s Program- "Mike Holmes-Part 2 Oil & Gas industry (Bill T. host)
Aug. 22—Carroll Morony Aug. 29—Doug Murray Sept. 5—Bob Fromme
Aug. 29—Scott Kemper-Cutthroat Trout in RMNP (Jim G.) Sept. 5—Al Van Nice’s son-inlaw Jared -Starting a new church Sept. 12—Dave Hamm on Hypnosis.
BIRTHDAYS Aug. 23—Hugh Price Aug. 24—Larry Jones Aug. 26—Don Christensen Aug. 28—Red Doering
Dick Toledano
ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK.
Carroll Morony Bill Fennone
LAST WEEK’S MEETING 51 Members; 1 Guest, Geri Stutheit.
Aug. 22-Peggy & Brent Reeves-#53 Confused?
I become confused when I hear the Welfare of members and famiword “Service” used with these lies: agencies: John Milne’s wife Roberta has had a stroke and also developed a clot Internal Revenue Service on the lung. Kathryn Locke US Postal Service (Charles) has been coping with Cable TV Service Membership cancer and now has a pain pump to Civil Service Lists help her cope. Federal, State, City & Don Edminster Public Service Club Stuff… Customer Service Grocery Cards 6 our members went to Laramie for Harold Boyer an Interclub last week: Don EdThis is NOT what I thought minster, Bob Kingsbury, Nancy “Service” meant. Food Bank Brown, Kent Brown, Bill Tosch, Steve Henry Bauer But today, I overheard two farmers Armstead talking, and one of them said he had Toy Project... Reporting Com- Assembly of the toys is underway. bought a bull to Service his cows. munity Service Check out the sign up sheet at the BAM! It all came into focus. Now Hrs: back of the room or talk to Dave I understand what all those agenMarvin. cies are doing to us. If it is easier for you, please report your service Ole & Lena… hours to Carroll’s Ole is trying a new diet. He is only supposed to eat when Lena isn’t talkemail: ing. He lost 10 pounds...just the first week. jancar68@ @comcast.net Ole says, “Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.”
CLUB COMMITTEES
(chair & co-chair) HOUSE
COMMUNITY SERVICE
SPIRITUAL AIMS & MEMBER CARE
Al Van Nice Don Edminster MEMBERSHIP
Nancy Brown PROGRAMS
Jim Goettl SOCIAL
Dick Toledano CHILDREN & YOUTH
Kent Brown INTERNATIONAL
Wil Stutheit INTERCLUBS
Bill Ferguson Byrd Curtis TOY PROJECT FUND RAISING
Lloyd Wilson
Read or print our newsletters online: http://poudregoldenknewsletters.blogspot.com/ Printed courtesy of PrintIt!, 154 W. Mountain Ave, Fort Collins, (970) 221-5444 Find our Club’s website at: https://www.facebook.com/.
OUR CLUB’S SUPPORT AT PROJECT SMILE’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
DO YOU KNOW?????? WHY DO WE SAY “NOT A RED CENT”? Remember the days of yore (whatever the heck “yore” is!) when U.S. coinage was made of real, identifiable metals? Pennies used to be made out of copper, but now are an alloy of copper, tin, and zinc. The “red” in “red cent” was a reference to the hue of the original copper penny; the current allow contains reddish but also golden and brown hues. AND SPEAKING OF THE COLOR OF MONEY…..
Why Is Money Paid to Prevent a Secret from Being Exposed Called Blackmail? Blackmail is a Scottish expression that dates back to the sixteenth century. Northern areas of Scotland were subject to the plundering of pirates and other freebooters. Highland chiefs used to exact a tribute from landholders in exchange for protection against the looting of freebooters. The word mail had long meant "rent" or "tribute." Even today, a Scottish tenant is called a "mailer." But why blackmail? Two different forms of "mail" were made by tenants: Whitmal (i.e, whitemail) was payment in silver; blackmal (blackmail) was payment in labor, cattle, grains, or produce. As silver was considered a more desirable commodity than sacks of corn, blackmail seems to. be another example of the use of black to denote "lower" or "inferior." Many renters still feel that their monthly payments are more tribute to the landlord than fair compensation for worthy value, but today the word blackmail, has different connotations. The original Scottish term describes what we would now call a protection racket. The connotation of blackmail as the threat of exposure of a secret, and the payment as a bribe or hush money, was not widespread until the nineteenth century.
