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SMW ALOHA CHAPTER 25 March 2013 MARCH GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING The Oahu Veterans Center will be an interesting site of attention and action on 16 March 2013 when members of SMW, Aloha Chapter 25, gather for their monthly membership meeting. Our 10:30 A.M. starting time will remain steady so come early and enjoy extra social time with other members. We are scheduled for a different kind of fun program this month. The luncheon will be catered and the entertainment will be furnished by our Chapter President Joy Vane and Chapter Vice President Jan DeRego..... The ladies will be demonstrating how to cook for “one.” There are... without a doubt....a number of “ones” .......meaning you live alone and usually just fix meals for yourself. Of course, it is easy enough to multiply by two or however many you may need, but this should provide helpful hints and ideas on how to better prepare meals for just one. Jan is also planning a Bar with special drinks...(nutritional, I am sure). The luncheon price is $25.00 each. Send your reservations to GERTRUD LYNAGH at 1161 NAMAHEALANI PLACE, Honolulu, HI 96825. Make your $25.00 checks payable to “SMW, Aloha Chapter 25.” Include your checks & names of any guests you are bringing. Reservations MUST BE made and RECEIVED no later than Wednesday 13 March 2013. WALK-INS on the day of the event without reservations cannot be accommodated. You’re responsible for payment of your own & guest reservations. If you have made a reservation & then find you are unable to attend, be sure to notify Gertrud at 395-3455, promptly. Reservations may be canceled if she is contacted before the final count has been submitted. Otherwise, you are obligated to pay for all final reservations.
MARCH 2013 1 - Aloha Chapter Board Meeting, OVC Oahu Veterans Center 3 - Girls’ Day 8 - Mongolian BBQ, KMBH 10 - Daylight Savings Time Begins 16 - SMW General Membership Meeting Oahu Veteran Center 17 - St Patricks Day 20 - Spring Begins 24 - Palm Sunday 29 - Good Friday 31 - Easter Sunday HAVE YOU PAID YOUR DUES? If you really don’t remember, check this list below. The following members HAVE paid theirs. If your name is not listed, you need to send them in now. A - Anthony, Aque, Austin B - Ballard, Batungbacal, Boyette, Bred C - Cabral, Carney, Corrigan, Czerwinski D - DeRego, Detwiler Send Dues to Membership Chair E - Evans Polly Leigh F - Ferguson, Fierce, Foster, Fowler, Frizelle 95-575 Wailoa Lp. G - Gabrielson, Gee, Georgiev Mililani, HI 96789 H - Harris, Harrison, Hashimoto, Hering, Hipp Telephone 623-9710 I - Iwaida K - Kapaona, Keanu, Kekoa, Kyser L - Leigh, Lynagh M - Marshall, McColgan, McKee, Meyer, Mitchell, Montgomery N - Nathaniel, Nevelle, Neves P - Parmley, Perske, Petersen, Phillips R - Rodenhurst, Rolston S - Sasaki, Schlicher, Shoup, Sigurdsson, Sikorski, Stone, Sullivan V - Vane W - Watson., Wells, West, Williams, Wolfe Y - Yamada-Kendall, Yoshikado HOW TO REACH US - SMW Aloha Chapter 25 Contacts: Joy Vane, President - (H) 621-1782 [email protected] Polly Leigh, Membership Chair (H) 623-9710 [email protected] Marion Parmley, Editor (H) 395-1946 [email protected]
LET ME INTROUCE YOU: This delightful lady was married to a Navy
man and had a wonderful time following him around to his various
assignments where she always found interesting jobs to do. At a Naval
Base in Massachusetts she even trained and worked as a welder on a
ship. Eventually, at what was to be their most unusual location, she
held a civil service job at her husband’s next assignment in the
1960s.... another Naval Base Station .......... Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
They remained there for about two years and life was pretty laid back
and relaxing. As she describes it: they would go to the club, and/or the
pool and then to movies...lots of movies. The weather was very warm.
Their expenses were incredibly low. Their son attended Samson High
School there.
Shortly after their departure from Guantanamo Bay, her husband
received a new assignment and thereafter was medically discharge
from the Navy. They decided to move to Hawaii where she had no
trouble finding a number of job positions, including five years in the
Catering Office of the Hale Koa Hotel. This, in addition to numerous
volunteer jobs in between. She has lived in Hawaii for 40 years and
loves it.
MY INCONCLUSIVE TRAVEL PLANS FOR 2013 You may have already heard of my travel plans, but with my memory, I may have forgotten to tell you. I HAVE been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I HAVE never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there. I HAVE, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport... you have to be driven there. I HAVE been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go. And I try not to visit there too often. I’VE BEEN in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm. SOMETIMES I am in Capable, and I go there more often as I get older. ONE OF MY favorite places is in Suspense. It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart. et. I MAY HAVE been in Continent, but I don’t remember that country. They tell me it is very wet and damp there. TODAY is one of the many National Mental Health days.
IF YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT AT THE TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER (TAMC) AND CANNOT KEEP IT, BE SURE TO CALL IN ADVANCE AND NOTIFY THEM TO CANCEL IT!
HANDBAGS…Have you ever noticed girls who set their
handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the
table?
Happens a lot! It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress.
Sometimes 'what you don't know will hurt you'!
Read on.............Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their
handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always
said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.
It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's
inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside? Women carry
handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor of the car. Most
women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about
where your handbag goes during the day.
'I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a lot,' says one
woman. 'On the floor of my car, and in toilets.'
'I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet,' says
another woman 'and of course in my home which should be clean.'
We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test
them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, and then we set out to test the average
woman's handbag.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their
handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables
and counters where food is prepared.
Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags
were at least a little bit dirty.
It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested
them was shocked.
Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags tested
were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can
cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and
salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.
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In one sampling, four out of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. 'There is fecal contamination on the handbags' says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.. People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception. The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. 'Some type of feces, or possibly vomit' says Amy. So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop. Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes. 'If you think about putting a pair of shoes on your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag on the countertops.' Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have walked, sat, sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc.! Do you really want to bring that home with you? The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help. Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.
Pisces – Two Fishes, February 19 to March 20
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ….. Doris Wolfe - February 27, Nola Marshall- March 5, Vivian Larrere – March 12, Lavonne West –March 26, Gisela Miyamoto – March 29
A natural caretaker, you are always ready to help. You always lend a hand. Good nature, pure, practical, and idealistic – what a combination! You love to travel and make a delightful travel companion. Your ambition and enthusiasm inspire those around you. You have strong convictions, a strong mind and a strong will. You know exactly what you want.
Copy of letter from Lehua McColgan, our Legislative Chair to Hawaii Congressional Leaders……
25 February 2013
The Honorable Brian E. Schatz United States Senate G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Schatz: As military widows associated with the Society of Military Widows, Aloha Chapter 25, Hawaii, we are asking for your help in not supporting the ranking of a new medal for cyber warriors. There are some of us whose husbands have been awarded the distinguished service awards for battlefield services. We are disappointed in the new medal for cyber warriors establishing it as a new Distinguished Warfare Medal for drone pilots and others away from the battlefields, that are being recognized “extraordinary achievements that directly impact on combat operations, but do not involve acts of valor or physical risks that combat entails”. We disagree with the ranking of this new medal above the Bronze Star Medal with Valor device and the Purple Heart Medal. We request a reconsideration of the medal’s precedence in giving this new medal a proper ranking below combat valor awards. Mahalo Nui Loa for considering our request and doing so much for our veterans. Sincerely LEHUA MCCOLGAN Legislative Rep SMW, Chapter 25 1355 8th Ave. Honolulu, HI 96816 (808) 734-5490 Email: [email protected]
SERAPIS FLAG…. An unofficial flag. The Serapis Flag (also known as
the John Paul Jones Flag) was used on board the captured British ship, Serapis, in 1779. This ship was captured following the famous sea battle between the Serapis and the American ship, Bonhomme Richard, captained by John Paul Jones in which the latter’s flag staff was blown away. The Bonhomme Richard was so badly damaged that it sank with its colors flying. After docking the Serapis in the Dutch port of Texel for refitting, the British authorities in the Netherlands demanded Jones be arrested as a pirate since he flew no known flag. The Dutch replied that they would consult their archives. Eventually they replied to the British that they had evidence in their files that the flag used on the Serapis was a recognized flag and that Jones would be allowed to refit. In addition to the unconventional use of blue stripes as well as white & red, this flag is also nearly square in shape. Did You Know? When two flags are flown at the same time. The American Flag should always be flown higher?
