The Spoke - Archive  Aug 5, 2008

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And the winner is..... no winner

• Your own Salem Rotary Club Softball team beat Beverly for the second week in a row, a 10-1 drubbing!  The team will be off to Lawrence next week for the semi finals in a best 2 out of 3 showdown.
• Frank Campbell gave us softball team update and announced a fellowship event coming up soon at Rich Blazo's home (details are below).
• Jim Cobb paid a fine for publishing the SPOKE but failing to distribute it via the club email distribution list.
• Gig Michaud went up north in Kangamanga's and did some jet skiing, tubing, hiking and smacking of his own head - received a mild concussion (I sat next to him, he seems fine).
• Tim Clarke spent a week in St. George, Maine with family.  He is currently reading a very large book, 1100+ pages and has quite a ways to go.
• Jeff Shribman paid a small fine for parking in President Dave's prime parking spot at the Hawthorne Hotel.
• Roberta Cantor spent four days in Nova Scotia.
• Juli Lederhaus paid a fine for having the parking lot at the hotel repaved on the same day as we meet at her establishment and not getting an email out till just a few minutes before the meeting to inform us all.
• Rinus Oosthoek reminded us all of the events coming up sponsored by the Salem Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA Pizza Contest, Heritage Days and the Essex Street Fair - go to http://www.salem-chamber.org/cgi-bin/calendar.pl for more details on each event.
• Deb Amaral admitted that her internal doppler radar may have been off a bit; she is still working on honing her meteorological skills.  She stated that the D.S.S. cookout could have gone on as planned.  Details on the reschedule and time are below.  Deb also celebrated her foster sons 7th birthday at Chucky Cheese.
• John Neely met an old friend last week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Alive Day".  This is the day he and his mate returned from Vietnam intact.
• Jim Haskell spent 5 days in Ohio and visited the N.F.L. Hall of Fame in Canton.

Program for the August 5th Meeting:  No program

And now a few announcements....  

August 11th - The D.S.S. cookout will be held at 6 p.m. rain or shine.

August 12 th - District Govenor Tom Elliot will be visiting our club.  He will meet with the board at 11:30 a.m., and speak at the luncheon between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m.  President Dave has requested that the following members be present at the board meeting to give an update on Committee Projects, etc.

August 22nd - Fellowship Event At Rich Blazo's

$25 per person - BBQ chicken, ribs, burgers, hot dogs & open bar will be provided - the event will be catered by Ken Rothwell and his team.

Address - 6 Brookhead Avenue, Beverly, MA

Time - 6:00 p.m.

                          Please visit the calendar section of our web site

                                       for additional important dates.  

Quote of the Week

"To know that you do not know is best.

To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease"

                                                                 - Loa-tzu                                                              

Stumpers  

This week's stumper:

 What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away ?

Last week's stumper:

 This is an unusual paragraph.  I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it.  In fact, nothing is wrong with it!  It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

Answer to last week's stumper:

 The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.

Happy Birthday to:   Bob Cushman, August 11th   

Please email all announcements to be added to the Spoke  and/or feedback to salem_rotary@yahoo.com by Noon on Wednesday.  Also, feel free to contact any of the committee members listed below.

Committee Chair:  Jim Cobb

Editors:  Jim Cobb

Photos: John Quinn (Jay Cue), Trip Mason and File

Graphics and Photo Editing:  Rich Eisner

Members:  Denise Flynn, Jim Haskell, Sandy Heaphy and Brenda Smith