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Announcements
As noted in the schedule, we are participating in the Division
2 and 8 Governors luncheon on the 26th. As a result
there is no luncheon meeting on the 27th.
There was a communication error involving last week’s scheduled
speaker.
Barbara Pioli regrets not being at the meeting. She is going to
be re-scheduled probably for sometime in June or July.
Look for U&I Kiwanian Volume 13 Issue 5 to arrive around June 1st.
In 1908 …
Federal spending:
$0.66 billion
Unemployment: 8.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
• Petroleum production starts in Middle East.
• Mysterious Siberian explosion levels
hundreds of square miles of forest.
Explanations include a comet, meteorite,
natural atomic explosion, or crashed UFO.
• President Roosevelt holds White House
Conservation Conference, which leads to
establishment of the National Conservation
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• Earthquake and resulting tsunami kill 70,000 to
100,000 in southern Italy and Sicily.
May 20th in History …
1506 - Christopher Columbus died in Spain.
1861 - North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop
transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the
Spirit of Saint Louis.
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the
first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1961 - A mob attacked a busload of "freedom riders" in
Montgomery, Ala., setting the bus on fire.
1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run
across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an
average of 45 miles each day.
1996 - In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado
measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from
discrimination.
2002 - East Timor became the newest nation. |
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Contact Information |
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Business, (C) Cell,(H) Home |
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President/ Newsletter |
Gordon Lewis, (C) 915-6228, (C) 706-4519, gclbowl@comcast.net |
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Past President |
Ron Howell, (W) 983-8000, (H) 397-2532 |
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1st
Vice President |
Dave Nelson, (B) 486-7855, (C) 918-7617 |
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2nd
Vice President |
Ed Tanner, (B) 524-2534, (C) 201-9908 |
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Secretary |
Mark Anderson (B) 568-9322 (C) 232-5560 |
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Board
Members |
Dave Nelson, Ed Rogers, and Ron Howell, Chuck Baker |
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