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MONTHLY SINCE 1995 R.C.L. BRANCH 98, SAINT LAURENT, QUEBEC, CANADA CANADA’S MOST RE-CYCLED LEGION BRANCH NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2006 “QUOTE…..UNQUOTE” GIVE A MAN A FREE HAND AND HE’LL RUN IT ALL OVER YOU. MAE WEST (1893 – 1980) VOLUME 13 NUMBER 10 - The American League of Physical Culture, the first nudist organization in the United States, was founded on December 4, 1929.
- The term, “hush money”, meaning a bribe to keep someone form revealing
scandalous or damaging information, was first used in the early 1700’s. - Cosmetics queen, Helena Rubenstein, provided the money to help artist, Marc Chagall and his wife flee the Nazis and move to New York City in 1941. - In 1892, Emile Berlinger, developed the master disc, from which several copies of a record could be made on vulcanized rubber. Before then, singers had to repeat a song for each copy of a recording. - The first known pizza shop, Port ‘Alba in Naples, opened in 1830 and is still open today. Gennaro Lombardi, opened the first pizzeria in North America, in 1905 at 53 1/3 Spring Street in New York City. - In the 1980’s, music executives estimated that within two weeks after an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” by a rock group, sales of its albums increased by 300,000 copies. - The raccoon derives its name from the Aboriginal word meaning “he who scratches with his hands”. - Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a titled ceiling. - The world’s largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 feet (7.3 meters) tall, is made of sheet metal, and could hold 150,000 8-ounce cups of coffee. - The Nile has frozen over at least twice, in 829 and 1010 A.D.
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RESERVE FUND
Donations to the Branch 98 RESERVE FUND are always more than welcome. There is a container located on the sign-in table before, during, and after each General Meeting. Please be generous.
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BRANCH 98 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
- Children’s Christmas Party, Sunday, December 17th starting at 1:00 pm. -The next Branch 98 General Meeting and Executive Election will be held on Saturday, January 27th, 2007 beginning at 11:00 am. Please make an extra effort to attend!! - Members are reminded that the Branch will be open regular hours during the Holiday Season, including Christmas Day, with all tips going to the Ste. Anne’s Veterans Hospital. - New Year’s Eve Dance, featuring “Ken and the Boys”, Sunday, December 31st, starting at 8:00 pm. Live Entertainment, Door Prizes, Cold Buffet and Champagne at Midnight. Donation of $15.00 per person is requested. - Branch 98 Senior’s Dart League, every Tuesday, starting at 1:00 pm. Enjoy a friendly afternoon of Darts for seniors 50 and over, a donation of $3.00 per player is requested. - Cribbage takes place here at the Branch every first and third Sunday of each month beginning at 2:00 pm. Trivia every second and fourth Sunday starting at 2:00 pm. Is a confidential, bilingual, listening support and referral telephone service offered to seniors who are victims of psychological, physical or financial abuse, as well as neglect. The line is also open to concerned family and friends who know, or suspect, a situation of abuse involving a senior. The line is open Monday to Thursday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Friday from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. Call (514) 748-6381.
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We would like to thank the following people for their valued contributions to this issue of THE 98 REVIEW and helping make it all possible: Margaret Shearer, Margaret Burnett, George Chmilnitzky, William MacNab, Marie Polney, Peter Polney, Freda Walters, Jock Affleck, Doug Walters Sr., William (Bill) Cooke, John A. MacDonald, Jackie Dunlop, Bruce (Too Tall) Taggart, Theresa Walters, Maggie Rabideau, Wolfgang Senf, Joanne Dawson, Yvon Deslauriers, Diane Sheehan, Doug Sheehan, Harold R. Coon, (Fabreville, Qc.), Donald “The Birdman” McNicoll, John Tremblay, Carol Rabideau, Morin Heights Legion (Branch 171), Julien (Cliff) Smith, Chomedey, Qc.), Roman Gural of (Branch 251), Ron Rabideau of (Branch 127), Helen Upland (Regina, Sask.), Sidney Firth (Georgian Bay, Ont.), Dick Newby, (Media, Pennsylvania),Norm Gaillard of (Branch 58), our Maritime correspondent.
WORD OF THANKS
And that was a look at the world during the month of December 2006 through the eyes of all of us here at The 98 Review. We sincerely hope that you have enjoyed reading this edition of The 98 Review, and we thank you all for your continued support. We would like to remind you that we are now available online at, www.legion98.com. We will return on January 27th 2007, with another almost award winning edition of The 98 Review. Until then, please be good to each other and keep a happy J.
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Trivia returns to Branch 98 on the second and forth Sunday of each month, starting at 2:00 pm. Come and enjoy a fun-filled afternoon of Trivia. A donation of $5.00 is requested per player.Teams are selected by random draw with all monies returned to the winning teams.
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
On behalf of the Executive of Branch 98, I would like to wish all members of the Branch and readers of The 98 Review a very “Merry and Healthy Holiday Season”. I would like to also thank all members for their support and would like to remind everyone, that the Branch will be open regular hours during the “Holiday Season”. Again, “Happy Holidays”, and please don’t drink and drive. Signed: Yvon Deslauriers President Branch 98 (Saint-Laurent)
WELCOME TO THE BRANCH SENIORS DART LEAGUE 50 PLUS
The Branch 98 Seniors’ Dart League is a well-balanced, mixed Dart League for seniors 50 years old and over. It takes place Tuesday afternoons from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm. (Holidays and special Legion functions excluded). The cost is a minimal $3.00 per week, and you DO NOT have to be a member of the Royal Canadian Legion to play Darts with us. Come on and try something new. Who knows, you might even be good at it. Every Tuesday starting at 1:00 pm. Hope to see you there!! On behalf of all members of Branch 98, we wish to welcome both Brenda Smith, (Associate) and Michael Pequeno, (Non-voting) to the Branch.
THE FIRST CHARITY CHRISTMAS CARD?
The first charity Christmas card was produced by UNICEF in 1949. The picture chosen of the card was painted not by a professional artist, but by a seven-yearold girl. The girl was Jitka Samkova of Rudolfo, a small town in what was then Czechoslovakia. The town received assistance from UNICEF after World War
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II, inspiring Jitka to paint some children dancing around a maypole. She said her picture represented, “joy going round and round”. -Triviatime
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Yes, bad things happen to good people. Bad things sometimes also happen to famous people. In a 4 part series, we feature some well-known people with something unusual in common: they all accidentally killed someone.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF WORLD WAR II
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: BARMAKIAN CONSTRUCTION (Note: These are by no means the definitive accounts of these people, but rather a thumbnail look at their place in World War II and how they were perceived.) GENERAL REINHARD HEYDRICH (1904 - 1942) After joining a “Free Corps” group in 1918, Heydrich learned the practices of gang fighting during post-war Germany, then joined the Navy in 1922. He became a lieutenant, but resigned in 1931 so he could concentrate on his newfound interest: the Nazi Party. Hitler made him chief of the political department of the police in Munich, which also gave him control over the concentration camp in Dacha. In 1934, he was made Berlin’s SS chief, and during the war he took the job of suppressing the numerous uprisings in the Reich, where he ordered countless executions of his enemies, earning him the nickname, “The Hangman”. On May 27, 1942, he felt the wrath of those he sought to oppress as Czech partisans attacked his car on the way to Prague, where he died a week later. In retaliation, the Nazis liquidated the town of Lidice and stepped up their brutality.
CHRISTMAS TRIVIA ?
One notable medieval English Christmas celebration featured a giant, 165 pound pie. The giant pie was nine feet in diameter. Its ingredients included 2 bushels of flour, 20 pounds of butter, 4 geese, 2 rabbits, 4 wild ducks, 2 woodcocks, 6 snipes, 4 partridges, 2 neats’ tongues, 2 curlews, 6 pigeons, and 7 blackbirds. (Fine dining wouldn’t you say folks!!). December 25th was not celebrated as the birth date of Christ until the year 440 A.D. The popular Christmas song, “Jingle Bells” was composed in 1857 by James Pierpont, and was originally called, “One Horse Open Sleigh”. In Britain, the “Holy Days and Fasting Days Act” of 1551, which has not yet been repealed, states that every citizen must attend a Christian church service on Christmas Day, and must not use any kind of vehicle to get to the service. -Triviatime
THE BRANCH 98 CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY
The date for the Branch 98 “Children’s Christmas Party” has been changed. It will now take place on Sunday, December 17th at 1:00 pm. We would like to thank everyone for their support of this event.
PLEASE DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE.
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HARD TO BELIEVE BUT TRUE
MIDNIGHT ZAMBONI RUN PROMPTS FIRINGS Two employees of the city’s ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An anonymous tipster reported seeing the two big ice-resurfacing machines chug through a Burger King drivethrough to the rink around 12:30 a.m. on November 10, 2006. The squat, rubber-tired vehicles, have a top speed of about 5 mph in all. The Zamboni operators, both temporary city employees whose names and ages were not released by the Park Department, had to negotiate at least one intersection with a traffic light on their late-night creep from Idaho Ice World. “They were fired immediately”, said Parks Department Director, Jim Hall. “We’re pretty sure it was just the one time after we interviewed them, they didn’t seem to be too concerned about it. I don’t think they understood the seriousness of it”. Hall said neither of the $75,000 Zambonis, nor their $10,000 blades appeared damaged, but the city could charge the two ex-employees with operating an unlicensed motor vehicle on a public street. –By John Miller, Associated Press Writer
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(Yes, bad things happen to good people. Bad things sometimes also happen to famous people. In this 4 part series, we feature some wellknown people with something unusual in common: they all accidentally killed someone.) Running from trouble with the law over his illegal drug use, William S. Burroughs left New York for Texas in 1946. He sent for his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer Adams, and together they lived in Texas until 1948, when they moved to New Orleans. Again in trouble with the law over narcotics charges, they moved to Mexico City in 1949 and continued to fuel themselves with booze and Benzedrine. On September 6, 1951, during a party of sorts, William decided to show off his pistol skills and called Joan to help him with his “William Tell Act”. She placed a glass on her head and turned to the side and William fired the pistol. The bullet hit Joan in the head and killed her, and William was charged with criminal imprudence, then was released on bail. He sent his infant son to stay with his parents in Florida, and he lit out for South America and Tangiers. Burroughs later claimed that he never would have become a writer had he not shot Joan in the head.
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IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM (BILL) WHITLOCK 1914 – 2006 AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING…
MONTHLY FEATURE
DINOSAUR NEST SELLS FOR $420,000 A 65 million year-old nest of dinosaur eggs has sold to an unnamed buyer at auction in Los Angeles for $420,000. The nest contains 22 broken eggs, 19 of which are in embryonic form, with some of the tiny raptors clearly visible. The nest was discovered in Guangdong, southern China, in 1984, and scientists there had appealed of Bonhams not to allow the auction. A Chinese dinosaur expert quoted on state new agency Xinhua, said the nest should be returned for research. RESTORED The top estimate by auction house, Bonhams & Butterfields, for the nest was $220,000, but it almost doubled that. The name of the buyer would not be released, the auction house said. The nest, encased in sandstone, dates to the Cretaceous-era and was sold in 2003 to an American collector, who restored it. Xing Lida, a dinosaur expert with the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, had urged Bonhams not to proceed with the auction. He said Chinese fossils were often broken up to make them easy to conceal and carry out of the country, destroying important scientific information. Xinhua quoted a dinosaur expert at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Gerald Grellet-Tinner, saying the nest should be housed in a museum in China. –BBC News
MARITIME DISASTERS OF WORLD WAR II
By George R. Duncan CITY OF GUILDFORD (March 27, 1943) Ellerman Lines passenger/cargo ship of 5,157 tons, en route from Alexandria to Tripoli, North Africa, carrying aviation spirit and munitions, was sunk by the U-593 (Kotit, Gerd Kelbling, Knights Cross) near Derna. Sixty-eight of her crew, 11 gunners and 46 passengers were lost, a total of 125. There were 13 survivors. The U-593 was sunk on December 13, 1943 in the Mediterranean by depth-charges from USS Wain and HMS Calpe. All her crew survived.
CELEBRITY STALKING ?
The first-ever recorded case of a celebrity being stalked and attacked by an obsessed fan occurred in1949. A baseball player named Eddie Waitkus was gunned down in his hotel room. The assassin was a woman, who had set a place for him at her dinner table every night, though she had never met him. Celebrity-stalking attacks were still uncommon in the U.S., except for those involving government leaders or political activists, until the 1980 murder of former Beatle, John Lennon in front of his New York apartment by Mark David Chapman. And then, according to researcher, Tom O’Neill, “all hell broke loose”. –Triviatime
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ON THE LIGTER SIDE MAN FINED FOR TOSSING PIG AT HOTEL
WATCH OUT FOR FLYING…..? Two men in a Dodge Neon were seriously injured in a rollover accident on Interstate 75 near Toledo, Ohio, in October after a red bra flew from the radio antenna of another car, startling the Neon driver and causing him to swerve and lose control. The Ohio Highway Patrol later learned that the owner of the bra had hung it from the aerial after she realized that it had broken due to her dog’s having chewed on it earlier that day. A prosecutor said a misdemeanor littering charge would be filed against the woman, but was exploring whether there had been out-the-window socializing between the cars’ occupants before the rollover. –Toledo Blade. West Point, Miss.- When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has been fined $279.00 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point. Pugh pleaded guilty in city court to a charge of disturbing the peace. West Point Police, Lt. Danny McCaskill, said Pugh didn’t know the employees of the hotel. There was no evidence intoxication was a factor. No one was hurt, including the pig, officers said. “This was the silliest thing I’ve ever seen”, McCaskill said. “Almost every officer we had was involved, because the incidents kept happening at different hours”. McCaskill, said Pugh was accused of walking into the hotel and throwing the 60-pound pig over the counter. “He said it was a prank”, McCaskill said. “It must be some redneck thing, because I haven’t ever heard of anything like it”. McCaskill said there have been four late-night incidents involving animal-tossing at West Point businesses. Twice a pig was tossed and two of the incidents involved possums. Pugh is accused in a second animal-throwing incident at a Hardee’s restaurant. He has pleaded innocent to disturbing the peace in that case and will appear in court in December. –CBS News, Associated Press TO ALL MEMBERS / A TOUS LES MEMBRES
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MEDICAL CONCERN ? An elderly couple go to the Doctor. He asks the husband if sex is still good, and if he has any questions. “In fact, I do”, said the old man. “After having sex with my wife, I am usually hot and sweaty, and then, after I have sex with her the second time, I am usually cold and chilly”. Surprised he can still do it twice, the Doc then sees the wife. After examining the elderly wife, the doctor said, “Everything appears to be fine. Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?” The lady replied that she had no questions or concerns. The doctor then said to her, “Your husband has an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually hot and sweaty after having sex with you the first time, and the cold and chilly after the second time. Do you know why?” “Crazy old fart”, she replied. “That’s because the first time is usually July and the second time is January”.
MERRY CHRISTMAS JOYEUX NOEL
PATRICIA CRICHTON (HOCHELAGA DISTRICT COMMANDER) (COMMANDANT DE ZONE D’HOCHELAGA) PAULETTE COOK (PRESIDENT QUEBEC PROVINCIAL COMMAND)
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National Maritime Museum. In a period of 5 months this cat survived three sinkings! Now do you believe a cat has 9 lives?
AVENUE ROBERT-BOURASSA THE 98 REVIEW LAUGH OF THE MONTH
(The following article appeared in the “Mirror” in the month of December 2006.) Seems people power doesn’t count for shit in this town. Despite the tens of thousands signatures and warnings by the mayor’s own local councilors, City Hall decided to go ahead and vote to rename Parc Avenue, after an okay-ish premier 10 years in the grave. Amazingly, the mayor managed to corral his troops into getting the motion passed 40 votes to 22, and ditch a 123 year-old, perfectly serviceable and completely appropriate name. Forget the fact that hundreds of thousands of people, many of them immigrants, grew up on and around Parc and remember the name fondly; this move is a gross example of abuse of power, and should be remembered come re-election. Long live Parc Avenue! AN ACCIDENTAL ENCOUNTER A man is in a hotel lobby. He wants to ask the clerk a question. As he turns to go to the front desk, he accidentally bumps into a woman beside him and as he does, his elbow goes into her breast. They are both quite startled. The man turns to her and says, Ma’am, if your heart is as soft as your breast, I know you’ll forgive me”. She replies, “If your penis is as hard as your elbow, I’m in room 436”.
MAN IMPERSONATES COP TO GO BOWLING
Savannah, Ga.- A Savannah man went to jail for impersonating a sheriff’s deputy so he could go bowling. Jeffrey Eugene Ferguson, 46, pulled up to a gate at Hunter Army Airfield, and showed a guard a driver’s license that was cracked in half, police said. When the guard requested a second form of ID, Ferguson pulled out a Chatham County sheriff’s lieutentant badge. The guard called SavannahChatham Metropolitan Police, who responded and discovered Ferguson’s license had been suspended for failure to pay child support, according to police Sgt. Mike Wilson. Ferguson, who was jailed on charges of impersonating a police officer, later told authorities he found the badge at a work site. He told them, he was not trying to get any special police privileges, just to get on the military post to go to its bowling alley. – Associated Press, ABC News
FROM THE BISMARCK TO THE ROYAL NAVY !
(The following was published in the German-Canadian paper “Das Echo” in December 2006. Translation provided by Wolfgang Senf.) The story of “Oskar”, the cat mascot on board the Bismarck. On May 27th, 1941, 700 miles from the French port of Brest, the Bismarck was sunk. From the 2200 souls on board, only 115 were rescued. One of the survivors was spotted on a piece of wreckage. It was a cat. The crew of the “Cossack” rescued the cat, and named him “Oskar”, On the 10th of November 1941, the “Cossack” was also sunk. Well yes, you guessed it. The cat survived again. After that, the crew of the “Ark Royal”, adopted the cat, and he became a member of the Royal Navy. But his stay on the “Ark Royal” was short lived, when she also was sunk by U81, not far from Gibraltar. There was one fatality. No it was not “Oskar”, he survived again. He became the pet of the harbor Master in Gilbraltar. Later, he became the mascot at the home of seaman in Belfast, where he finished his days and died in 1955. There is a picture of “Oskar”, in the Greenwich
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Merrillville, Ind.- Instead of impressing “Honey Bunny” on Christmas morning with a 42-inch plasma television, “Big Papa” is facing of theft. Richard Perez, 43, of Lake Station, was charged with stealing the TV and a Sleep Number bedding system from a hotel where he worked as a a security officer. Security video showed Perez, walking into a room at the Radisson Hotel with an empty luggage cart, then leaving minutes later with a full cart covered with cloth, Merrillville police Detective Donald Toth said. Police said they searched Perez’s Lake Station home and found the Sleep Number system installed on Perez’s bed and the TV underneath the tree, wrapped in green, Santa-themed paper. The attached card was addressed to “Mom, Honey Bunny from Big Papa, Daddy”, Toth said. “I’m not sure if he’s the Grinch or I’m the Grinch, because I’m the one who took the items back”, Toth said. Perez, who has been fired from his hotel job, was released after posting a $10,000 surety bond. –Associated Press, ABC News
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Henry Cavendish, one of the great scientists of the 1700’s, was painfully shy and could barely speak to one person, never to two. He was so timid in the presence of women, that he communicated with his female servants by notes only. If one crossed his path in his house, she was fired on the spot. He built a
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