January 2024 Ears Newsletter
WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS
Karen Howard
Paula Knapp
Sharon McNown
Valerie Remley
Besty Burke Smith
Still in Need of Officers for 2024!!!!
Those of you who have been to our recent meetings have heard our plea for help from you, the members, to please consider stepping up and taking one of the several vacant offices on the Board.
Our present Board members are:
President: Liz Summer, Pro tem through May 2024
2nd VP - Membership: Mary Zellhart
Recording Secretary: Elaine Kowalik
Treasurer: Erika Coday
Your Ears Editor has volunteered to take on the President duties through May only; Mary Zellhart and Elaine Kowalik have exchanged offices but we still would like some new blood on our Board! We still need a Program Chair and Ways and Means. There are other appointed offices but until we have an elected President those will stay vacant unless one of you steps up to volunteer! Roxie Lindsay has done that and is our new Chaplain. Other appointed offices include Lunch chair, Legislative analyst, and Parliamentarian. If any of these interest you contact any Board member and we will be thrilled to give you more information.
NOTE!!!
We have the chance to repeal the horrible "Death Tax" which reassess property after the death of the owner so when it is inherited by the heirs the property tax will rise and rise a huge amount in many cases. Petitions to get the repeal on the ballot can be downloaded at repealthedeathtax.com. We strongly encourage ALL MEMBERS to download and circulate this petition among friends and family.
Saw this on Facebook and just had to share it. Came from a page called "Casual Christian Comedy". Hope you get a laugh out of it. I certainly did!!
The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine will.
At the Baptist church, the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistry. The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistry and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim, so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later, the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide.
The Episcopalians tried a much more unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do.
But the Catholic church came up with a more creative strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter.
Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel since.
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FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY 2 GROUNDHOG DAY
FEBRUARY 10 CHINESE NEW YEAR
FEBRUARY 13 MARDI GRAS
FEBRUARY 14 ASH WEDNESDAY, VALENTINE'S DAY
FEBRUARY 19 PRESIDENT'S DAY
FEBRUARY 26 SRVRWF MEETING WITH PAUL CARTER, AUTHOR OF RICHARD NIXON:CALIFORNIA'S NATIVE SON