Sunfield Area SPY's Report---9/10/09

Adopt-A-Highway Trash Pick-Up
This Saturday

* Attention all SPY's and anyone else interested in lending a hand! The final Adopt-A-
Highway trash pick-up of the season will take place this Saturday, September 12th. We will
be meeting at the Sunfield IGA parking lot at 9 AM. The SPY's pick-up trash along M-43
from Round Lake Road on the west side of town to Shaytown Road on the east side of town
three times a year in conjunction with a Michigan Department of Transportation program.
With eight people it takes just about a half an hour. With more, it's even faster. For more
information call our project chairman, Scott McWhorter (566-7377). See you there!

* The Sunfield Area Sponsors of Programs for Youth would like to acknowledge some recent
contributions to the Scholarship Fund. They came in from the following fine folks---

+ LeRoy Jackson & Elaine Merryfield made donations in memory of Irene Hankins Plunkett; Frank Ferkler, Jr.; and Patricia Schulte.

+ Clare & Darlene Sampley gave in memory of Uwe Walliczek.

+ Ilah M. Hough contributed in memory of Uwe Walliczek.

Thank you all for using this means to help us help kids!

* Trivia Question-Of-The-Week: What was the cowboy actor Roy Rogers real name?
(Answer later in this column).

* The Calendars are in! The Calendars are in! The 40th. annual edition of the Sunfield Area
SPY's "Community Celebration Calendar" is in! If you placed an order for one, it will be
coming your way soon, if it hasn't been delivered already. If you didn't get your order in but
would like to get one of these great community building / kid's programs supporting items,
just contact project chairman Rosie Best at 566-8858, or you can pick one up at the Sunfield
IGA. The cost is still just $4.

* I want you to think about something---You’re at a golf course, (Centennial Acres to be
exact)---You are playing golf on a nice day with your wife---Because it is a nice day, the
course is busy and play is slow---You run into a bottle-neck on the #8 Midday tee---There is a
foursome in front of you waiting to hit their tee shots into the par 3 hole---Suddenly---without
cause or warning---one of the gentlemen(?) in the foursome in front of you turns and faces
you and your wife---drops his pants and begins rearranging, tucking, or whatever, right in
front of you!!!!!!! Shocking!!!!! I still can’t understand why Rod “The Full Monty” Lake
would do such a thing. What a way to meet new people!

* Thought #1: Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

* The SPY’s fabulous 50’s / 60’s Dance returns on Saturday, October 10th for it’s 33rd. BIG year! Tickets are available now and are still only $10 per person in advance, or $15 at the door. You can lay in your supply of tickets from any of the following:

Juaise Peabody (566-8547)
Janet Keefer (649-8878)
Denny & Luanne Shoemaker (566-8391)
John & Sandy Fisher (566-8278)
Craig & Jackie Mulholland (566-8859)
Joel & Deb McDowell (616-374-7705)


* RECYCLING FACTOID #1: 80% of all trash is recyclable, but we only recycle 33% of it.

* Andy Woodman’s Sports Trivia Question-Of-The-Week: Who was the only major league baseball player to get hit by a pitched ball and die?
 (Answer later in this column)

* “Honest Roy’s” Quote-Of-The-Week: “ I called my stockbroker this morning and asked him what I should be buying?
 He said "Canned Goods and Ammunition".

* The “Sports Trivia Just For Ward ‘Smarty-Pants’ Mac Cready Question-Of-The-Week: Who is Chief Wahoo and who does he honor? (Answer later in this column).

* Swede’s Groaner Corner: Every night, Jimmy Z would go down to the liquor store, get a six-pack, bring it home, and drink it while he watched TV. One night, as he finished his last beer, the doorbell rang. He stumbled to the door and found a six-foot cockroach standing there. The bug grabbed him by the collar and threw him across the room, then left. The next night, after he finished his 4th beer, the doorbell rang. He walked slowly to the door and found the same six-foot cockroach standing there. The big bug punched him in the stomach, then left. The next night, after he finished his 1st beer, the doorbell rang again. The same six-foot cockroach standing there. This time he was knee'd in the groin and hit behind the ear as he doubled over in pain. Then he left. The fourth night Jimmy Z didn't drink at all. The doorbell rang. The six-foot cockroach standing there. The bug beat the snot out of Jimmy Z and left him in a heap on the living room floor. The following day, Jimmy Z went to see his doctor. He explained the events of the preceding four nights. "What can I do?" he pleaded.
"Not much" answered the doctor. "There's just a nasty bug going around.”

* NOTICE: The SPY’s next Texas Hold ‘Em event at Tripper’s in Lansing will be coming up Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 12th. thru 14th. Sam Coan has taken over as chairman of these events for us. He will be looking for volunteers to do a shift or two. Why not give Sam a call at 566-7182 and let him know you’d like to help.

* RECYCLING FACTOID #2: It costs $304,479 per acre to build a landfill.

* Louie “Trouble-Shooter” Trowbridge’s Tip-Of-The-Week: Consult your dealer before you have work done on a catalytic converter or emissions parts on your vehicle. Some of these items carry a very long warranty, and free replacement is often required by law.

* Recently, members of the Best family took a trip to Alaska. I have heard reports of the trip from two different sources. Oren’s version of the trip varies greatly from Rosie’s. Oren will show you books of pictures taken on the trip---He will tell you about the great outdoors----The fantastic fishing---Etc. Etc. Etc. However, when you talk to Rosie about the trip, all you hear is whining about some pet mouse that she killed that didn’t sit too well with the locals, (it seems there isn’t much to look forward to in Alaska and that mouse was all they had). When she finally gets done telling you about her “big game hunt”, she then goes into how Oren tried to do her in by putting treble-hook fishing lures in her sleeping bag. I think I see separate vacations in the future, how about you?

* Trivia Question-Of-The-Week Answer: Leonard Sly.

* Andy Woodman’s Sports Trivia Question-Of-The-Week Answer: Raymond Johnson Chapman was a professional baseball player, spending his entire career as a shortstop for Cleveland. In August of 1920, Chapman was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays. His death led Major League Baseball to establish a rule requiring umpires to replace the ball whenever it became dirty. His death was also one of the examples used to emphasize the need for wearing batting helmets (although the rule was not adopted until over thirty years later). His death was partially the reason MLB banned the spitball after the season.

* The “Sports Trivia Question Just For ‘Smarty-Pants’ Mac Cready Question-Of-The-Week Answer: Chief Wahoo is the Indian caricature logo for the Cleveland Indians baseball organization. According to the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo, was not created to offend American Indians, but to honor them. The team says both the team name and Chief Wahoo pay homage to an early baseball player, one of the first American Indians to play professional baseball. He was a full-blooded Penobscot Indian from the state of Maine. He was Louis Francis "Chief" Sockalexis, nicknamed The Deerfoot of the Diamond. Sockalexis played professional baseball in the National League for three seasons; he spent his entire career (1897-1899) as an outfielder for the Cleveland Spiders. A Native American from the Penobscot tribe, Sockalexis is often identified as the first person of Native American ancestry to play major league baseball.

* To find out more about the SPY’s organization, download forms or applications, or catch-up on past issues of the “Dirt Sheet”, go to the SPY’s website at www.sunfieldspys.org.

* Our nation’s new slogan---“Quo Vadimus”.

* MDXXXXVII