B U L L E T I N. SIR# 172 Twain Harte, CA March 2018 Website: PO Box 1143, Twain Harte, CA 95383

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1 B U L L E T I N SIR# 172 Twain Harte, CA March 2018 Website: PO Box 1143, Twain Harte, CA Charles Column Now that many of the early housekeeping items for 2018 are out of the way, we can all concentrate on the approaching Spring and the fun activities it offers. Spring, or Vernal Equinox, falls on Tuesday, March 20 this year. It is then that the Sun crosses the celestial equator on its way north. All over the world, days and nights are just about equal. The name equinox comes from the Latin words which mean equal nights. Until that time arrives, I do hope we will see some more rain and snow before our mild winter is over. Speaking of seasons, I will soon be traveling to Australia where I will experience their early Fall. I would like to thank Dick Chimenti and the entire BEC for all they will be doing while I am away. Remember, one of our goals this year is to increase the membership in our chapter. If you have a retired friend or neighbor, please invite them to one of our luncheons to enjoy our camaraderie. Little SIR Blog If you're not already doing so, I encourage you to get involved in our activities. We re the envy of many other branches for variety of things available to us. Remember that the SIR mission is "...to improve the lives of our members through fun activities and events - while making friends for life." For the more adventurous among us, there are hiking, kayaking and biking. But if want something a bit less strenuous, there are horseshoes, golf and pinochle. And of course we have the theater and technology groups which always include dining with members, spouses and friends. What better way to enjoy yourself and make new friends?" MARCH BIRTHDAYS Dick Anderson Sprague Edwards Bill Otts Dick Bezerra Lynn Felber Fred Petersen George Brown Ron Hawke Jerry Redfern Darrell Cannon Dennis Hebert Dennis Rizzi Ronald Clark John Martin Donald Walton Bill McManus LUNCH SCHEDULE Lunches are noon the first Thursday at the Elk s Lodge with No-Host Refreshments at 11:00am. Lunch cost is $ THURSDAY - - Mar 1, 2018 Menu Corned Beef & Cabbage Diced Red Potatoes Carrots, Green Salad Cake - - THURSDAY - - Apr 5, 2018 Menu Swiss Steak Mashed Potatoes Green Beans, Green Salad Sherbert - - THURSDAY - - May 3, 2018 Menu Baked Ham Candied Yams Mixed Vegetables, Green Salad Tapioca Pudding Can t Make Lunch? Call Please read Rule 100 and 101 pertaining to lunch attendance in the Member Information section on the last page FELLOWSHIP Get well cards were sent to: No Sirs in February. Good news Please contact Sprague Edwards (sprague2@sbcglobal.net / ) if you are or know about an ailing fellow Sir

2 BEC MEETING BEC members enjoy breakfast at 8:00am and the BEC Meeting starts at 9:00am. The next meeting will be on Monday, February 26, 2018 at the Pine Tree Restaurant. Board Members, Group Chairmen and all members are invited Lunch Speakers Then, on March 1st, we ll hear from Scott Viets, Artistic Director of the Sonora Repertory Theatre. We enjoy plays at both venues and Scott will update us on the theater and future plans. Our April 5th speaker will be Ron Patel, CEO of the Black Oak Casino Resort DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME This year, move your clocks AHEAD really early on Sunday morning, March 11th The time-honored ritual of setting clocks forward an hour is coming in the spring, as daylight saving time (sometimes erroneously called daylight savings time) will kick in. The springtime clock-change continues the long ACTIVITY GROUP NEWS Bike (Steve Happel, ) Rides are planned for the THIRD TUESDAY each month March s Third Tuesday, March 20th, is the date for our next ride. We ll ride the of Ditch from Mt. Elizabeth to the Learning Center and back weather permitting. Meet at Twain Harte Market parking lot at 8:30am lunch afterwards at a local restaurant. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Please let me know if you plan on attending Golf (Doug Peters, ) The games are underway all happening on Tuesdays. Golf Date Day Course Tee Time 6-Mar-18 Saddle Creek Shotgun 10-Apr-18 Greenhorn Creek Shotgun 8-May-18 Castle Oaks Tee Time 12-Jun-18 Pine Mountain Lake Tee Time Tuesday 10-Jul-18 The Reserve Spanos Tee Time 7-Aug-18 TBD Tee Time 11-Sep-18 La Contenta / TBD Shotgun 9-Oct-18 Sequoia Woods Tee Time - 2 -

3 ACTIVITY GROUP NEWS Hike (NEED CHAIRMAN) Monthly HIKE dates will be established when we have a new chairman This year s hikes are suspended until a member steps us to take over as group chairman. Please see Dave Goldemberg or Charles Luke if interested. Horseshoes (Cas Munoz, ) Games are planned for the LAST Thursday each month April through October The 2018 Regular Season begins on Thursday, April 26 th and will continue through October. Spring Training, an afternoon getting rid of the Spring Rust is scheduled for Thursday, March 29 th. Shoes are tossed at the Tuolumne Horseshoe Pits The final game takes place on Oct 25 Kayak (Dave Kenney) Trips are planned for the FOURTH Tuesday each month We have Kayak trips planned for the 4 th Tuesday of each month from April through November. All adventures this year will be to Pinecrest Lake where we will all meet. We usually have a BBQ lunch afterwards at the lake. Don t have a kayak? Not to worry! Arrangements will be made for anyone who wants to enjoy this exciting sport. Remember, ladies are always welcome. There must be a life jacket on board for each person. (davehikes98@gmail.com) Lunch Schedule 2018 Month Day Date Month Day Date January Thursday January 4, 2018 July Thursday July 5, 2018 February Thursday February 1, 2018 August Thursday August 2, 2018 March Thursday March 1, 2018 September Thursday September 6, 2018 April Thursday April 5, 2018 October Thursday October 4, 2018 May Thursday May 3, 2018 November Thursday November 1, 2018 June Thursday June 7, 2018 December WEDNESDAY December 5, 2018 Pinochle (Bob Morrison, Branch 136, , robertmrrsn@yahoo.com) Games are planned for EVERY Monday each month Cutthroat Pinochle each Monday at 1:00pm at the Pine Tree Restaurant. Entry fee is $3.00 and dates are March 5, 12, 19 and 26. We normally play on any 5 th Monday but it doesn t count for the monthly score totals. Propane (Roy Gray, ) Roy will announce the latest prices at each luncheon Tech (Richard Nedbal, Meetings are planned for 2 nd WEDNESDAY every ODD month The next meeting is on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 5:30pm at the China House in Twain Harte and should end before 8:00pm My is (richnedbal@msn.com) and I would like to hear from you. Let me know what s bugging you about computers, downloading and anything else. Future meeting dates are May 9, Jul 11, Sep 12 and Nov

4 Theater (Sprague Edwards, ) Go to the SRT website to read more about these great plays. Thursday Play Play Theater Host Date Million Dollar Quartet 26-Apr Fallon House Beauty and the Beast 21-Jun Fallon House Baskerville, A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Dennis Honeychursh Dennis Honeychurch 20-Sep Fallon House TBD TBD Intimate Apparel 18-Oct E. Sonora TBD TBD Co-Host Sprague Edwards Bill Bamford Holly Jolly Christmas 13-Dec E. Sonora TBD TBD Travel (Paul Halek, ) An updated list of the European cruises and North & South American trips are on our website. SIR Twain Harte New Member Here s our newest member inducted on Feb 1 Norm Osborn Sponsor: Dick Chimenti TECH TALK This Month s Tech Topic: JUNK S DON T OPEN S IN YOUR JUNK MAIL FOLDER!!! The subject may sound interesting, but, that s what hackers hope you fall for. Many browsers sort suspicious-looking s putting them into JUNK or SPAM folders and those browsers are getting better doing this sorting. An containing a VIRUS cannot hurt you as long as you don t open it and definitely don t click on attachments. If you don t know the SENDER avoid it. If it sounds legit, look at the SENDERS ADDRESS. I do 5 sit-ups every morning. That may not sound like much, but there are only so many times you can hit the Snooze Button! A doctor told a discharged patient, You re completely cured. I must tell you, it was your incredible will to survive that saved you. Thanks, Doc, the patient replied. Remember that when you write up my bill. I received one asking me to verify bank information stating this was part of an annual process. IT ISN T. It even had the name of my bank as part of the senders address. It was bogus because Banks and services will not ask you to do anything like that via . Another bogus from a national bank said, you have 1 unread secured message, Click Here To Sign On. Sounds harmless, doesn t it? However, the senders address was [karl.foret@gdc.ga.edu]. Does that seem suspicious? Absolutely and nothing on the should be clicked

5 ACTIVITY GROUP HAPPENINGS Twain Harte SIRs BIKE Group February 2018 Ride Knights Ferry Pinochle Results February 2018 Our BIKERS left to right: John Morton, Norm Osborn, Rich Brandau, Bill Bamford, Steve Spangler, Dave Kenney, Steve Happel, Dick Chimenti, Fred Petersen and Dennis Honeychurch GOLD 9 Medals Mikaela SHIFFRIN Ladies' Giant Slalom Chloe KIM Ladies' Halfpipe Jamie ANDERSON Ladies' Slopestyle United States of America Ladies' Team Sprint United States of America Men Figure Skating Shaun WHITE Men's Halfpipe David WISE Men's Ski Halfpipe Redmond GERARD Men's Slopestyle United States of America Women s Hockey SILVER 8 Medals Mikaela SHIFFRIN Ladies' Alpine Combine Jamie ANDERSON Ladies' Big Air John-Henry KRUEGER Men's 1,000m Kyle MACK Men's Big Air Chris MAZDZER Men's Singles Alex FERREIRA Men's Ski Halfpipe Nick GOEPPER Men's Ski Slopestyle United States of America Women BRONZE 6 Medals SHIBUTANI Maia & Alex Ice Dance Lindsey VONN Ladies' Downhill Arielle GOLD Ladies' Halfpipe Brita SIGOURNEY Ladies' Ski Halfpipe United States of America Ladies' Team Pursuit United States of America Team Event Player Branch Average 3 Monday Session Players Roland Patton Art Bartee Bob Morrison Al De Neveu Sonny Tome Monday Session Players Henry Beltran Dave Goldemberg John Salmon Bill Lewis Monday Session Players Del Rotelli Jerry Morrow Jim Turner Loein Smith Bert Kronnick Bill Burnes Jerry Kopyn Weekly First Place Winners Date Player Score Branch# 5-Mar Sonny Tome Mar Art Bartee Mar Al Deveneu SIR vs SIR vs SIR Branch Average Scores - Jan thru Feb Branch Average Score

6 BRANCH OFFICERS BRANCH REPORTS The Branch BANK Feb 2018 Begin Cash Balance $4, Receipts $ Disbursements $ Ending Cash Balance: $4, LUNCH ATTENDANCE REPORT Feb 2018 Attending Members 115 Speakers, Visitors, Guests 4 LUNCH ATTENDEES 119 Non-Attending Member Info No Call Members 4 Inactive & Called-In Absence 33 NO SHOW TOTAL 37 MEMBERSHIP REPORT Feb 2018 MEMBERS Begin Active Member Count 151 New Members 0 Resignations, 1 Terminations. TOTAL ACTIVE 150 TOTAL INACTIVE 9 TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 159 Branch, Area, Regional Officers POSITION NAME TELEPHONE Big SIR Charles Luke celuke@gmail.com Little SIR Dick Chimenti casachimenti@gmail.com Secretary Robert Fisher fisher@goldrush.com Assistant Secretary Open Treasurer Steve Happel linste@sbcglobal.net Assistant Treasurer Dave Perry drdragster@aol.com Membership Paul Halek sierra.red@sbcglobal.net 2nd Year Director Art Bartee artb@mlode.com 2nd Year Director Mel Johnson mel.johnson@juno.com 2nd Year Director Bill Parson waparson38@gmail.com 1st Year Director Clark Beerman piman5@aol.com 1st Year Director Jerry Kopyn jkopyn@gmail.com 1st Year Director Stu Heller lakewooddancers@goldrush.com STATE OFFICERS President Derek Southern Dereck.Southern@gmail.com Vice President Ed Benson ebensonbwa@aol.com Regional Director - Region 2 Jerry Morrow jerdan@sonnet.com Area Governor - Area 5 Jim Johnson jlj32@sbcglobal.net MEMBER INFORMATION SIR BRANCH ATTENDANCE RULES (abridged) Planned Absence & Guests Monthly Lunch If you can t attend lunch, you need to call our Hotline ( ) as soon as you know before the lunch. If you re bringing a Guest please call our Hotline before noon the day before our lunch with your guest s name. We advise the caterer of anticipated attendance. Rule 100. A member may be terminated for any of the following: (a) Missing three consecutive regular luncheon meetings without having been excused prior to the meeting date. (b) Did not attend one-half of the regular luncheon meetings within the previous twelve consecutive month period. Rule 101. Certification of attending another Branch meeting will be considered as a credit to his attendance record. LEGAL NOTICE Non-Responsibility Declaration: All activities arranged for or by, or sponsored by, Sons In Retirement, Inc, and its Branches, are for the convenience and pleasure of members and guests who desire to participate. Sons In Retirement Inc. and its Branches do not assume any responsibility for the well being or safety of the participants, or their property, in any matters pertaining to said activities (Rule 345). Checks, money orders or credit cards for travel for one day or less (no overnight), where a bus/busses is/are used as the primary means of transportation may be made payable to the branch sponsoring the event. All other checks, money orders or credit cards for travel must be made payable to the travel agency (Rules 420 & 421). Rule 13: Sons In Retirement shall not support, promote or otherwise act to benefit, directly or indirectly, any other entity, cause, or crusade; or any charitable or civic project no matter how worthy, including donations to the Red Cross, blood banks and the like. Speakers at luncheons or other meetings of the Branch or State shall be made aware of this position so as to avoid any semblance of soliciting contributions or business, or endorsing any political, religious or ideological concepts. CHANGING YOUR PHONE#, OR ADDRESS Contact your Membership Chairman