Minutes of Meeting for December 20, 2018
Call to Order: Bill E. led us in the Pledge and then we sang God Bless America.
1. Hostesses: Barb L. and Susan D. Barb reports 45 in attendance today.
2. Vice President: Debbi S.: We are at 118 members.
3. Secretary (temporary in Kristi’s absence): Everything was OK with the minutes.
4. Treasurer: Walt R.: Walt confirmed that the check for $200 had been written for Clint at The Station and Bill presented Clint with the check at the meeting. All the checks to the four local charities had been sent. This left us with $291 in the bank and $6.02 in petty cash.
Please people, remember to put your money in the pot for coffee, etc. It’s $2.00 for a cup of coffee which includes all refills; $1.00 for iced tea and $1.00 for sweets. Even if you just have a glass of water, please put a little something in the bucket.
$116 had been collected and donated to the food bank.
For Gifts for Tots, we collected 80 toys and 18 gift cards!
5. Coordinators’ Reports:
Sunshine: Marie Moore was in Northwest hospital with a lung infection (after the meeting, it was confirmed that it may be pneumonia).
Historian: Magda Q.: Magda told us that in her culture, the starting and finishing time of our party on Tuesday would have seemed strange. In Mexican culture, parties tend to start at 10pm and finish around 5.30am!
Activities:
There were 56 people at the party on Tuesday night. Thanks to Jorge for the entertainment and Val and her helpers for the lovely table decorations.
See activities listed below. Note: When you sign up for an activity, please let whoever oversees that activity know whether you’ll make it. It’s embarrassing if you tell a place that 30 or 40 folks are coming to a function, so they set up for that, get extra help for that and then only 20 or so show up. Please remember to RSVP if you are going to attend something and to let the person in charge know if you can’t make it. This is particularly important when we have something like the Opry in February which has 40 people signed up AND a waiting list! Thanks.
6. Group Concerns/Good of the Group
ü Julie Gazdzik is collecting coupons from newspapers and magazines to send to troops and their families abroad. In the commissaries, they will accept coupons six months beyond the expiry date! Julie is trying to partner up with a US base in the UK so that we can send the coupons direct to the base. Here are the rules for clipping the coupons:
· From manufacturers for individual products; examples include items like soup, pasta, or toothpaste.
· Not for individual stores - coupons for individual stores cannot be used.
· Clipped out individually.
· Packaged in sandwich or quart-size plastic bags
· Separated into food, non-food, baby, and pet baggies (the military advises they will recycle unsorted coupons due to lack of manpower).
ü Wally and Julie Gazdzik are still collecting gently used towels and blankets for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Julie read where they need these for all the rescued and abandoned pets that they get there. So please go through your linen closets and see what you can come up with for a very worthy cause.
ü Dennis Foster is still collecting your empty pill bottles for the Pima Animal Care facility. They need them to give out to folks who may adopt or foster dogs/cats who may need medication when they leave their facility. PACC have confirmed that they only want the small prescription bottles.
ü Madga is still collecting tabs from mainly soda cans. At this time last year, she had 7 bags. This year, she has only 5 bags!
ü A rattlesnake has been seen recently. Please be careful when picking up anything in your yard – the snakes also like to go under the house during the winter. Wally recommended the product called Snakeaway and said that he had spoken to the staff at Home Depot in Marana who had been very helpful.
ü Continental Ranch Community (and surrounding areas) has a Veterans club that meets monthly. All military veterans are welcome to join us for fellowship and friendship. We meet the third Sunday of every month at the Continental Ranch Community Center, 8881 N. Coachline Blvd., from 6pm to 8pm. We usually have a guest speaker every month. Our next meeting is 20 Jan 2018. Our guest speaker of the month will be the folks that train the service dogs for veterans. They plan to bring one of their student dogs. For further information contact: Keith Jones, Vet group VP at (520) 490-7880
7. Various jokes from today’s meeting:
FASCINATE IN A SENTENCE
A teacher asked her students to use the word "fascinate" in a sentence.
Mary said, "My family went to the New York City Zoo, and we saw all the animals. It was fascinating."
The teacher said, "That was good, but I wanted the word fascinate."
Sally raised her hand. She said, "My family went to the Philadelphia Zoo and saw the animals. I was fascinated."
The teacher said, "Good, but I really wanted the word fascinate."
Little Johnny raised his hand. The teacher hesitated because Johnny was noted for his bad language. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate" so she called on him.
Little Johnny said, "My sisters sweater has 10 buttons, but her boobs are so big she can only fasten 8."
NOT SO LONG
Two old men – Bert and Harry – were sitting quietly in a bar.
‘When was the last time you made love to a woman?’ Bert asked Harry.
‘1956’, replied Harry.
‘My goodness!’ exclaimed Bert. ‘That’s a long time ago.’
‘Not really’, said Harry, glancing at his watch. ‘It’s only twenty past eight now’.
8. Adjournment: Bill E.: Bill adjourned the meeting at 10:15 AM.
