Newsletter 2-12-13

                       Rotary Club of Needham
                       Meeting 2/12/2013
                       Needham Sheraton

**REMINDER: TOMMORROW'S MEETING AT NEEDHAM COMMUNITY CENTER AT    570 HILLSIDE AVE. NEAR ROSEMARY**
President Charles opened our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance; Bob Cocks led us in America the Beautiful, and, Darrell gave the Invocation.

Announcements:
• No speaker today.
• Bill Paulson announced that the Pancake Breakfast would be moved to early May so the combined baseball-softball organization could join us and we would take advantage of the 1100 kids to canvass the town.
• Ted Shaughnessy announced the refusal of St. Sebastian to allow the carnival. So he is going to pursue General Dynamics. He also gave us a positive update on the latest Gift of Life recipient
Guests:
None (whoops)
Happy $
Ken Davis gave a happy $ because he had to leave early; Roberta for the blizzard being over;
Doug because his daughter and son-in-law were going to the Cayman Islands (happy for them or happy to be alone?); Deb K to have survived two blizzards; Kathy HTBH; Bob Cocks was happy to be a part of Louise’s Valentines Party for the Charles River Center; Dan enjoyed the snowy weekend; Brenda was happy to be able to shovel herself out; Chris T. was glad to be able to make it; Scottie was happy that none of his trucks got stuck in the storm; Karen rubbed it in being able to enjoy the storm from sunny Florida; Erica for a great weekend in Vt.; George Hoffmeister for a great day; Chuck Buyer HTBH, along with Bill Paulson; Darrell Minnich for the plow operator that saved his back and muscles; Ryan Damaso HTBH; Glen for his cookies (Computer or Girl Scouts?); Greg Cronin for getting closer to Spring

50/50:   056 was the winning number for George but he didn’t win the $603 pot. Maybe he didn’t put enough happy dollars in!

Birthdays: Bob Cocks and George Hoffmeister born on the same actual day many February 14th’s ago;
Bill Rosenthal also on the 14th but much later. Ken Davis for a birthday last week.

Humor: Fred and Ethyl, two elderly church goers, were praying during reflection time at church when Ethyl passed a note to Fred. “I just passed silent wind, what do I do?” to which Fred replied, “replace your batteries in your hearing aid.”
There were three pigs, the straw pig, the stick pig and the brick pig. They had home made out of the materials in their name. One day the big bad wolf came to the straw house and did his thing. “Little straw pig. Let me in or I’ll huff and I’ll puff and blow your house in”. True to the story, he blew the house in whereupon the straw pig ran off to the stick pigs house. Again the same scenario happened. Those two pigs ran off to the brick pig’s house. Just as they got inside the wolf arrives. This time after the wolf’s demand, the brick pig made a call.
Soon after up comes a big black Caddy and out pops two very big pigs in black overcoats and Fedora hats. They beat the tar out of the wolf, kill him, tie him to a cement block and throw him in the ocean. The two scared pigs asked the brick pig, “who were those guys?”
The brick pig answered “Those are my cousins, the Guinea Pigs!
Sorry Ryan