Speakers

Sep 12, 2014
Julie Knight
Burleson FFA

Sep 19, 2014
Jeff Jamison
Weather Report

Sep 26, 2014
Don Newbury
Idle American?

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Upcoming Events

Meals on Wheels Golf Tournament

Sep 11, 2014 7:30 AM

Membership Seminar

Weatherford

Sep 20, 2014
8:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Rotary World

The Rotary Club of Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA, sponsored a float in a 1924 Loyalty Day parade. The history of Rotary's work with youth dates back to the 1920s, when many clubs took part in an international event known as Boys' Week. Read more.

Attendance report

In August, attendance at the Burleson Rotary Club averaged 86%. Good job, folks!

Board projects ramp up

Several service projects commanded attention at the BURRO Board's September meeting Wednesday morning. The Dictionary Project, United Way's Day of Caring, a possible Global Grant to provide medical supplies to Ukraine, and our Flags for Scholars project all were part of the discussions.

Providing dictionaries for third-graders continues to be a popular project, and preliminary steps are underway to continue it for this school year. Counting the students, ordering the books, applying the labels, and delivering the goods will involve a number of Rotarians over the next couple of months.

Saturday, October 4, is the Day of Caring. Last year, Rotarians, their family members, and other community groups joined to refurbish a home's exterior. The City of Burleson coordinated the project, and the city plans to identify a similar project this year. Watch for details, because October 4 is only three weeks away.

Brooke Justice continues his efforts to secure a Rotary grant to fund the delivery of laparoscopic surgical equipment to Ukraine. To complete the project, some $88,000 dollars will be needed, some of which must be raised by individual Rotary clubs. The majority of the money, however, will come from Rotary grants. Brooke's current task is to secure the cooperation of other clubs, both in our district and in others, to help raise the seed money.

Flags for Scholars, led by Ryan Richardson, is ironing out wrinkles as Boy Scouts assume the putting-out/picking-up operations of the project. Subscribers who are late to pay and an insufficient supply of flags are a couple of the problems Ryan is working to eliminate.

Board members voted some time ago to award $1,000 to a project chosen by the District Governor in honor of his service to Rotary. At this month's meeting, the board chose the Shelter Box project for that honor. The club will also send $100 to District 5790's Foundation Seminar to support a raffle at that event.

Treasurer Charles Kirk's hard work with last year's board to establish a budget has been a great boon to the board. Charles' presence on the board will be missed when he resigns at the end of the quarter.

Several red badgers attended Wednesday's meeting as they work to redeem the badge. Congratulations to all of them as they move forward with their involvement in the club. The next meeting of the board is scheduled for the second Wednesday in October (October 8), 7 a.m., at Our Place restaurant.

Planning meeting for golf tourney

The Floyd Walker - C.A. Roy Memorial Golf Tournament has emerged as a major fund raising event for both the Burleson Rotary Club and the Burleson Area Midday Rotary Club. To plan for next year's tournament, interested persons will meet on Wednesday, September 17 at Southern Oaks Golf Club for a lunch meeting. The meeting is open to any and all Rotarians who wish to help ensure the continuing success of the fund raiser.

Surely you jest

One day a traveling salesman was driving down a back country road at about 30 mph when he noticed that there was a three-legged chicken running alongside his car. He stepped on the gas but at 50 miles per hour the chicken was still keeping up. After about a mile the chicken ran up a farm lane and into a barn behind an old farm house.

The salesman had some time to kill so he turned around and drove up the farm lane. He knocked at the door and when the farmer answered he told him what he had just seen.

The farmer explained that his son was a geneticist, and he had developed this breed of chicken because he, his wife and his son each like a drumstick when they have chicken. This way they have to kill only one chicken.

“That’s the most fantastic thing I’ve ever heard,” said the salesman. “How do they taste?”

“I don’t know,” said the farmer. “We’ve never caught one.”

What disease did cured ham actually have?

Billy’s homework assignment is to think of a true story with a moral so he goes home and thinks about it all night and finally has one.

At school the following day, Suzy goes first. She raises her hand and says, “My dad owns a farm and every Sunday we load the chicken eggs on the truck and drive into town to sell them at the market. Well, one Sunday we hit a big bump and all the eggs flew out of the basket and onto the road.”

The teacher asks for the moral to the story. Suzy replies, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

Next is Lucy. "Well, my dad owns a farm, too, and every weekend we take a dozen chicken eggs and put them in the incubator. Last weekend only 8 of the 12 eggs hatched. The moral is, don’t count your chicks before they are hatched.’’

Billy is last to speak. He says, ‘’My uncle Ted fought in the Vietnam War. His plane was shot down over enemy territory. He jumped out before it crashed, with only a parachute, a bottle of bourbon, a machine gun, and a machete. As he floated down he drank the bottle of bourbon. Unfortunately, he landed right in the middle of 100 North Vietnamese soldiers. He shot 70 with his machine gun, but ran out of bullets so he pulled out his machete and killed 20 more. The blade broke on his machete, so he killed the last 10 with his bare hands.’’

The teacher looks in shock at Billy and asks if there is possibly any moral to his story.

Billy replies, "Don’t mess with Uncle Ted when he’s been drinking.’’

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Service Above Self