The Year of Service That Never Ends

This year's Fireball Classic medallion is impressive. The event is slated for July 4 in Wintersmith Park in Ada.

Today Ada Sunrise Rotary presented the 2023-24 President appreciation plaque to me, which was an honor to receive. And while I did serve as Sunrise Rotary’s President for a year, it was fun and productive, and, for anyone familiar with civic clubs, another chapter of, as the Rotary International motto says, “Service Above Self.” I…

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Words of Wisdom

Every Friday morning, Ada Sunrise Rotary, my civic club, meets at the Aldridge Hotel Banquet Room starting at 7 a.m. Meetings start with a ringing the ceremonial brass bell, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, a non-denominational prayer, introduction of guests, announcement, “Words of Wisdom,” a guest speaker, singing the “Friday Song,” an appeal to…

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Words of Wisdom, July 15, 2022

There is a scene towards the end of Richard Attenborough’s 1982 movie, Gandhi, where the late Om Puri, playing the role of a Hindu man whose son had been killed by Muslims, bursts onto a terrace where Gandhi, weakened by weeks of fasting, is lying on a bed. The man throws a chapati at Gandhi and shouts, “Eat!…

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Words of Wisdom, April 22, 2022

“I would rather have questions I can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” ~Richard Feynman “He who fears he will suffer already suffers because he fears.” ~Michele de Montaigne “The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.” ~Lao Tsu “Strive not to be a success, but to be of value.” ~Albert…

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