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March 3, 2010

Newsletter

 

 

 

Just a reminder to treat those that serve us at the Sizzler well and remember to leave a tip for them before you leave.

Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium. ** Board meeting is the 1st Wednesday of every month and is held at 1:00 pm at the Sizzler.     

WED 03/03

Utah-Idaho District Governor,

Brent Ashworth

1:00 Board Meeting
WED 03/10 Jonathan E. Johnston, III, President of Overstock.com
WED 03/17 Round Table
WED 03/24 Haroon & his wife, Speaking on how they do their business
WED 03/31

Jeff Hatch, Salt Lake County Auditor/  Speaking on the Auditors Office's role in the County Budget Process.

WED 04/07

Speaker and Topic TBA

1:00 Board Meeting
WED 04/14 Speaker and Topic TBA
WED 04/21 Round Table
WED 04/28 Speaker and Topic TBA
WED 05/05

Speaker and Topic TBA

1:00 Board Meeting

WED 05/12 Speaker and Topic TBA
WED 05/19 Round Table
WED 05/26 Speaker and Topic TBA

 2003 - New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.

 

In 1931 …

 

President: Herbert C. Hoover

Vice President: Charles Curtis

Population: 124,039,648

Federal spending:   $3.58 billion
Consumer Price Index:   15.2
Unemployment:   16.3%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

 

• Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion (freed in 1939; dies in 1947).

 

• Scottsboro trial begins, exposing depth of Southern racism.

 

• Spain becomes a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII.

 

• British parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, legalizing dominion equality with Britain.

 

• Mukden Incident begins Japanese occupation of Manchuria.

 

• The planned capital of New Delhi opens in India.

 

With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.  Chinese Proverb

 

The journey is the reward.  Chinese Proverb

 

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin proverb

 

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. English Proverb

 

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.  French Proverb

 

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home. Australian Aboriginal Proverb

 

On March 3rd

 

1845 - Florida became the 27th state in the United States.

 

1845 - The U.S. Senate passed legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time.

 

1875 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics.

 

1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.

 

1918 - Germany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

 

1931 - The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.

 

1991 - Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.

 

2000 - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.


Contact Information


B) Business, (C) Cell,(H) Home

President

Dave Nelson, (B) 486-7855, (C) 918-7617

Immed Past President/ Newsletter

Gordon Lewis,  (C) 915-6228,  (C) 706-4519, gclbowl@comcast.net

1st Vice President

Ed Tanner, (B) 524-2534, (C) 201-9908

Secretary

Mark Anderson (B) 568-9322 (C) 232-5560

 Board Members

Dave Nelson, Ed Rogers, and Ron Howell, Chuck Baker