Today’s Meeting
Board Meeting Today at 11:00 a.m., somewhere on the premises of the hotel where we regularly meet! Board members, please attend, others are welcome to come to the meeting and use it as a make-up!
Kelly Ventimiglia will lead us today in the Pledge of Allegiance, and Mike Barber offer us the invocation. Our speaker today is Gina Jaeger, CEO, Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast.
Last Week’s Meeting
We had a very interesting presentation last week by Ruby Talbot and Patrick Mullin (the other Patrick Mullin) of the Mullin Automotive Museum on the museum’s collection of Bugatti family art, which consists not only of vehicles, but paintings and sculpture. The museum has dozens of rare and exquisite vehicles, but concentrates primarily on French cars from 1920 - 1940. The museum is available for group events and scheduled private visits. The collection is priceless and housed right here in Oxnard!
There Are Dark Days Ahead
We will be dark on:
Tuesday, December 3 - XMAS party is that evening: 6 p.m. at the Kitchen in Oxnard (529 South ‘A’ Street, Oxnard) Tuesday, December 24 - Christmas Eve Tuesday, December 31 - New Year’s EveFor those of you keeping count, that means we only have two more meetings to be together before the end of the year!!
Upcoming Meetings
December 10 will be the date the club will conduct the election of officers for the 2014/2015 year. The slate of officers will be: President - George Benz; President-Elect - Phyllis Throckmorton, and; Vice President - Kendall VanConas. We will also have our Bake Sale and Santa to the Sea Toy Drive that day.
This Day in History
On this day in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. 17th century New England customarily recognized the day, and President George Washington was the first president to proclaim the day as a holiday — a Tuesday, November 26, 1789. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to fall on the last Thursday of November, and the modern holiday was celebrated nationally.
With rare deviation, every subsequent president followed Lincoln’s lead, until President Roosevelt departed from tradition and declared it to fall on the next to last Thursday in 1939. Considerable controversy surrounded this deviation, and some Americans refused to honor Roosevelt’s declaration. For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, 1941, he admitted his mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday in November the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving: Fun Facts
- Turkeys will have 3,500 feathers at maturity
- Male turkeys gobble. Hens do not. They make a clucking noise
- In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations
- Each year, the average American eats somewhere between 16 - 18 pounds of turkey
- First President to pardon a turkey?? That is a matter of some dispute, but it is widely accredited to President Harry Truman
- Most popular Thanksgiving holiday traditions? Turkey, football and the parade of course! Your bulletin editors: dressing up the table for the meal . . .and the automatic four-day weekend!!
Whatever your tradition, please have a happy, healthy and safe Thanksgiving holiday!!