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The Pioneer's Club

The Pioneer’s Club Newsletter

Volume 7, Issue  7

August 2013

Rochester Picnic

August Events

       August 1st—Pioneer’s Picnic (Rochester)

       August 5th—Civic Holiday (Canada)

       August 26th—Summer Bank Holiday (UK)

Obituary Page

It gives me great pleasure that I know of no one who left us in July.

 

Web Site

 

 

August Birthdays

Getting Tired

I found one!!!

 

That’s a place to “host” our web site. I mean.

 

So if you want to check, almost everything should be working.

 

What I mean by “almost everything” is technical but basically it means that I use one product to write the web site and the host uses a different product to “host” it.

 

There are a couple of pages that don’t display when you ask. Do not fear, I am working on the problem (I’m rewriting them). They might look a little weird when I get all done but I’m trying.

 

 

To the early August Babies, I offer an apology to those who I missed this month because of this late Newsletter.

 

 

Arnie and I would like to thank everyone who attended. We again had close to 200 members attending.

 

The food was great the service was pleasant and everyone appeared to have a good time. I was asked why we don’t have any form of entertainment for the attendees?  Honestly, we can’t get the members to be quiet long enough to provide entertainment. They just want to “meet and greet” old friend and reminisce.

 

Arnie and I would like to thank Pat Francis and his wife for manning the 50/50 raffle table  and the Welcome Table Crew. Both these groups are responsible for making the picnic the successes it is every year.

 

The Annual Rochester Picnic is the only event that provides a source of income to sustain  the club. The Web site and Newsletter all cost money plus there are always unexpected expenses popping up.  

 

So if we answer the question  “If I don’t eat do I still have to Pay?” with a “damn right! You do!” That’s why. Let’s be real.

 

But again, we’d like to thank all of you for attending. If you were looking for a specific individual and they weren’t there, call them up and give them hell. Maybe they’ll get the hint…..

Because of the Pioneer’s Picnic most nations abstained from events in August (Yeah –Right)

Arnie and I were talking after the picnic and we realized that we had been at this for 7 years. So it’s time for a change.

 

We would like to transition our jobs to some new faces and new ideas.

 

If you would like to volunteer or at least see what we do, email Arnie or me.

 

It’s time.

 

Tom—thclegg@thclegg.com

Arnie—astocksl@rochester.rr.com

Rochester Pictures

By clicking on this link you will be redirected to a professional Photographers web site. This site features Rochester. I’m featuring this site more to remind those of us who moved away, what they left.

 

Those of us who stayed are reminded that there are more things about this area than snow.

 

 

Sheridan Vincent Photography

 

 

Old Pictures

 

 

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920

The last known picture of Adolf Hitler, April 30, 1945

Eisenhower’s Inauguration on January 20, 1953

Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light c. 1937

Marilyn Monroe performing for troops stationed in Korea, February 1954

The last known picture of Albert Einstein, taken in March, 1955

Mugshot of Joseph Stalin held by Okharna: the Tsarist Secret Police, 1911

One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler’s bunker (Führerbunker) in 1945 by Allied soldiers

Hindenburg over Manhattan on May 6, 1937, hours before disaster

Before alarm clocks there were knocker-upper’s. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. Limehouse Fields. London

On this day, seventy-nine years ago, citizens in a bar celebrate the end of alcohol prohibition in the United States . December 5, 1933

A Native American looks down at a newly-completed section of the transcontinental railroad. Nevada , about 1868

Wedding. Egypt – 1923

Liberated Jewish man holds NAZI soldier at gunpoint during WWII

NYC Grand Central Station, 1929. The sun can’t shine through like that now because of taller buildings

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

Two Civil War veterans from both sides shake hands at Gettysburg -1913