Blackhawk Golden ‘K’ General Meeting
Minutes
March 25th, 2026
President Richard Johnson presided, and called the meeting to order with a ring of the bell at 9:30AM.
An Executive Board meeting occurred today.
Richard Johnson led with the singing of America, the National Anthem, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Invocation: Carl Cramer, mentioning the strength to help us be a positive light in the world, and the children.
Raffle: Maury Frey oversaw the ticket sales and drawing this week.
The weekly pot was $9 and the big (Joker) pot was $32.
Dave Figi drew a ticket from the bucket, ticket number 797. Congratulations to the winner, Greg Turco.
The deck of cards has 51/53 cards remaining. Greg Turco drew the K♣.
Richard Johnson thanks greeters Dave Calverley and Dave Figi, invocator Carl Cramer, rafflemaster Maury Frey, and server Glenn Disrude.
Happy Box: Luci Cramer announced she is happy because it is the Cramers’ 53rd wedding anniversary.
Greg Turco announced he is happy because he won the raffle, and is donating the proceeds to the club!
Jokes: Joker Steve Skelly had a good joke.
Member Health: Linda Bontly had a status update on Bruce Jorenby, who is here!
Linda Bontly had a status update on Jerry Burhans, who has passed away.
Richard Johnson had a status update on Ron Shuler, who will buy a house in town with his son.
Other Announcements: Linda Bontly spoke upon Easter Lilies Saturday, the day before Easter, needs sign-ups. The Easter Seals is a charity in support of Camp Wawbeek.
Greg Turco spoke upon Truck on Ice-related letters of thanks, from Asbury United Methodist Church, and one from WCLO, who sent the check back to us!
Two other letters arrived, one of thanks from the BTC Foundation, and another from the Pregnancy Helpline.
Committee Reports: John Janes announced 31 days until the Tree Sale!
Bob Knudson announced the board decided we should vote on singing. The vote was ayes! for once monthly.
The day’s speaker played hide and seek. We were treated to a video about Kiwanis, and another about the highlights of different locations in Wisconsin.
Richard Johnson adjourned the meeting with a ring of the bell at 10:50AM.
On this day:
31 Christians celebrate the first Easter, according to calendar maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 City of Venice is founded, at noon on a Friday
1655 Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn’s largest moon, Titan
1807 The first fee-paying passenger railway began operating in Wales, which was eventually known as Mumbles Railway. It became the longest-running locomotive line in the world.
1882 First demonstration of pancake making held at a department store in NYC
1919 Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
1936 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1939 Billboard Magazine introduces the hillbilly (country) music chart
1943 Akira Kurosawa’s debut film “Sanshiro Sugata” is released
1951 Edward Mills Purcell and Harold I. Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 RCA manufactures the first color TV set, featuring a 12.5-inch screen and costing $1,000
1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
1960 US Court of Appeal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan, in New York City, rules D.H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is not obscene, overturning ban imposed by US postal Service
1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph’s defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime
1961 Elvis Presley performs live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial; his return to the concert stage after a stint in the US Army raises $60K and worldwide awareness of the project
1961 Explorer 10 launches into a highly elongated Earth orbit of about 177 by 181,000 km
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1967 The Turtle’s “Happy Together” goes #1
1967 The Who and Cream make their US debut at Murray the K’s Easter Show
1969 Beatle John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono stage their 1st bed-in for peace, at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1974 Chipko forest conservation movement begins in Reni Village, Western Himalayas, India, when local woman Gaura Devi hugs a tree to prevent its logging
1979 Space Shuttle Columbia arrives at Kennedy Space Centre to prepare for its first launch, which would eventually happen in 1981
1986 Canadian Kurt Browning becomes the first figure skater to land a quadruple jump
1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station
1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
1996 US issues a redesigned $100 bill
On American Red Cross Giving Day, which takes place during American Red Cross Month, financial gifts are given to provide food, shelter, relief items, emotional support, and other assistance for those who have experienced disasters, to help them recover. Money given is tax-deductible and supports relief from disasters big and small, such as house fires.
International Waffle Day is observed around the world but is most prominently celebrated in Sweden, the country where it started and where it is simply known as Waffle Day. It takes place on the same day as the Feast of Annunciation, a holiday that celebrates Jesus’ conception, which occurs nine months before Christmas. In the Swedish language, Vårfrudagen means “Our Lady Day,” another name for the Feast of Annunciation. It sounds similar to Våffeldagen, which means “Waffle Day.” International Waffle Day got its start after the Swedes started called the Feast of Annunciation “Waffle Day” and started eating waffles to celebrate. The day then spread to other countries.
Minutes by Ryan Lewis.
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