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July Programs
July 8 - Andrea Hawkins
Blood Donor Recruitment Coordinator-NCMC
July 15 - Jeff McVay
North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization
“Transportation Choices for Northern Colorado”
July 22 - Peggy Ford Waldo
Research and Programming Curator, Greeley Museums
“Historical Anecdotes: Greeley and Weld County”
July 29 - Three Junior Chautauquans
Elias Van Loo, Tamara Smalley, Roxanne Jaramillo
(a.k.a. “Roald Dahl", "Alma Rose", “Molly Brown”)
“High Plains Chautauqua 2010”
Thanks to Bernie Kinnick for July programs
Next Board Meeting:The next regular meeting of the club's Board of Directors will be Wednesday, July 21, at 6:45 am, Egg & I on W. 10th Street.
Important: Please go to the Members Only page and download the current Krier.
Prayer List:
Call Bill Crews at 351-0733 if you want someone on the prayer list. As of July 11. Bob Johnson was in NCMC
Thoughts to Ponder...
THOUGHTS ON A BUNCH OF STUFF
"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
~Paul Engle
"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."
~Willem de Kooning
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
~Fred Allen
"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
~Orison Swett Marden
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
~Marie Curie
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
~Paul Gauguin
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New Words for this month from Doctor Dictionary:
eschew \es-CHOO\, transitive verb:
To shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful).
In high school and college the Vassar women had enjoyed that lifestyle, but afterward they had eschewed it as shallow.
-- Nina Burleigh, A Very Private Woman
While teaching in Beijing, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang in the late 1920s, he helped launch what became known as the "new poetry" movement, which eschewed traditional forms and encouraged topics based on everyday life.
-- Bruce Gilley, Tiger on the Brink
pecuniary \pih-KYOO-nee-air-ee\, adjective:
Relating to money; monetary.
Consisting of money.
Requiring payment of money.
He lacked the finer element of conscience which looks upon Art as a sacred calling, she remembered, and because of "pecuniary necessities" he "scattered his forces in many different and unworthy directions."
-- James F. O'Gorman, Accomplished in All Departments of Art
The young man of the house was absorbed in his vegetable garden and the possibilities for pecuniary profit that it held.
-- Samuel Chamberlain, Clementine in the Kitchen
assiduous \uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\, adjective:
Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive.
Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, "assiduous labor."
traduce \truh-DOOS; -DYOOS\, transitive verb:
To expose to contempt or shame by means of false statements or misrepresentation; to represent as blamable; to vilify.
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