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1 November 2013 Issue The Monthly Newsletter of the Yosemite Branch #179 Sons in Retirement non-profit organization for retired men devoted to the promotion of independence and dignity of retirement Visit Our website at Sign Up Now For Pheasant Run Golf Nov. 12, 9:00 am Call Buck Smith Charlie Martin at our October lunch made a big plea to keep our golfers program going. Charlie and our golf chairman will be meeting with the other branches to discuss possible solutions. On a lighter note, Charlie wanted to wish all of our members and their family s a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. Golfers!! Pay your NCGA Dues To SIRS 179 Send to Buck Smith 3518 N. Wolters Ave Fresno, CA Deadline 12/28/2013 $36.00 Please put your GHIN No. on your check Thank You December 11,2013 Don t miss our Christmas Brunch at Ft. Washington Country Club (All The Ladies Invited) Only $26.00 Per Person Please send your checks ASAP To Little Sir Dick Norstrom 1034 W. SAN MADELE FRESNO, CA 93711

2 Page 2 November 2013 Our November Speaker Will Be FSU Professor Steve White with the Downing Planetarium The Downing Planetarium has a 74-seat star theater with a 30-foot dome. The planetarium shows are run with a Minolta MS-8 star projector, two video projectors, and 36 slide projectors all controlled by a computer program. The star projector was newly installed in October, Visit Our Website At November 13, 2013 The Ramada inn Lunch Menu Baked Ham Roast Turkey Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Richard Ewell s SIR S SUNSHINE FOR OCTOBER Former Chapter 179 SIRS member Frank Daugherty passed away last month From Dennis Soliday My mom became sick and I lost track of my personal commitments. She is doing well, but will not recover. I will see you or at our next lunch. Please pass on that I saw Johnny Johnson at Horizon nursing facility, just so happened that I helped his wife in with a heavy bag. She was on a walker and I was suprized to find out that she was Johnny's wife.

3 Membership Strut Total Members: 116 October Lunch Attendance Page 3 Attendance & Directory Skip Howard, Card Games Richard Ewell Golf Chairman Marshall Garth Buck, we had only 58 members and 3 guests attend our October meeting. That is way down (only 50% of our members) from what we have had and should have at each meeting. Skip Howard Pool & Billards Cliff Hawkins Membership Chairman Charlie Martin, , Items Chairman Richard LaRue, Sunshine Richard Ewell, , richarde37@gmail.com Please call Richard regarding any illness Or deaths you might know of Travel Chairman Doug Hansen SIR 179 TRAVEL By Doug Hansen SIRS 175 Presents The Great Rivers Of Europe 16 Days Newsletter Buck Smith pwcbucksmith@sbcglobal.net 1. ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA... FLOOR. 2. ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION. 3. IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES? 4. THE MAIN REASON THAT SANTA IS SO JOLLY IS BECAU- SE HE KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BAD GIRLS LIVE. 5. I WENT TO A BOOKSTORE AND ASKED THE SALESWO- MAN, "WHERE'S THE SELF- HELP SECTION?" SHE SAID IF SHE TOLD ME, IT WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE. aboard Grand Circle Cruise s Pay by Oct. 18, to save 10% $4585 per person Call Press 2 For itinerary 6. WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUES- TIONS? 7. IF A DEAF CHILD SIGNS SWEAR WORDS, DOES HIS MO- THER WASH HIS HANDS WITH SOAP? 8. IF SOMEONE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES THREA- TENS TO KILL HIMSELF, IS IT CONSIDERED A HOSTAGE SITUATION? 10. WHERE DO FOREST RANGERS GO TO "GET AWAY FROM IT ALL?"

4 Page 4 October Golf by Marshall Garth Life Is Just A Game, Golf Is Serious November Tournaments Pheasant Run 9:00am SG Call Buck Smith Sherwood 9:00 am SG Call Buck Smith or Buck At pwcbucksmith@sbcglobal.net November Birthdays The following players won at Airways on October 8, We could only afford to pay the top two teams as there were only 18 players in the tournament. First Place Team was paid $8 each for a total of $32 Joe Russo, Gale Smith, Rich Degiovanni and Marshall Garth Second Place Team was paid $7 each for a total of $28 Dennis Soliday, Charlie Pepper, Stan Nappe and Paul Dehn Closest to the Pin were paid $7 each Hole # 7 Charlie Pepper 5 foot 7 inches Rich Degiovanni 13 Feet 1 inch Hole # 15 Dennis Soliday 7 foot 7 inches Bob Dickson 12 feet 10 inches me Welco ember, New M Bushore Randy Comercial d Retire Pilot a-doodle do c Cock-

5 Page 5 Congratulations Guys!!! October Birthday Lunch Winner Was Richard La Rue SIR 179 Officers, 2013 Big SIR Charlie Martin , Golfinggramps6@aol.com Little SIR Dick Nordstrom, , richard74@sbcglobal.net Treasurer Richard LaRue, Assistant Treasurer Harold Yick, , Secretary Steve Smith, , trekdude1958@yahoo.com Assistant Secretary John Levis, Executive Board Andy Bender, ; Wine Raffle Winners Are Ron Frye & Harold Yick Manny Contino, , mancon@att.net Cliff Hawkins, , Robert Huey, , almondguy@aol.com Charlie Martin, , golfinggramps6@aol.com Charles Ratliff, ; Regional SIR officers Dist. Director, Ed Dorn, edorn@att.net Regional Area Governor Doug Hansen State SIR officers Pres Jim Stedman, VP Richard Dettmer The George Lane Memorial Poker Club Seven Members Met In October at Bob McClosky s Home For A Great Evening Of Poker And the big winners were Bob McClosky and Buck Smith We Meet At Doug Hanson s For our November Game... Secty Michael Berry Negotiations between union members and their employer were at an impasse. The union denied that their workers were flagrantly abusing their contract's sick-leave provisions. One morning at the bargaining table, the company's chief negotiator held aloft the morning edition of the newspaper, "This man," he announced, "called in sick yesterday!" There on the sports page, was a photo of the supposedly ill employee, who had just won a local golf tournament with an excellent score. The silence in the room was broken by a union negotiator. "Wow," he said. "Just think of what kind of score he could have had if he hadn't been sick!"