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February— think sweet surprises, love and kindness. For the shortest month of the calendar year, it is jammed with days of importance— the Super Bowl, Presidents’ Day, Black History Month, Mardi Gras,
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Kindness Day and, of course, Valentine’ s Day.
Many of us will receive a gift of chocolate on Feb. 14. Chocolate dates back to the 16th century when the Europeans took cacao beans back to their shores from South America. Early chocolate was bitter, so the Europeans used readily available mint to improve the flavor and so began the pairing of chocolate and mint flavoring. Chocolate mint ice cream was invented by a culinary arts student, Marilyn Rickets, in 1973. It was so popular that royals, Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, served it at their wedding. Now, if it is good enough to be served to royalty, certainly you will want to attend the CWGA Winter Luncheon on Feb. 19 to celebrate National
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These are our winter golf warriors.
Chocolate Mint Day. To entice you, Butteville Store will serve mint chocolate chip ice cream. Jordan and Kathy not only make their own homemade ice cream, but they make their own chocolate chips. Should we have our dessert first that day? This is the second of our winter luncheons. We will meet in the Charbonneau Country Club Dining Room at 11:30 a. m. The sign-up notebook will be on the Pro Shop counter beginning Feb. 2, with the deadline to sign up at 11:30 a. m. Feb. 16. The cost of the luncheon is $ 25.
As members you are well aware that there is a line on our applications asking for you to consider donating to the Scholarship Fund. If you donated, you made a difference in five people’ s lives. On Dec. 27, financial awards were given to: Avree Doney, Max Ellerton,
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Danica Harrison, Kaydence Meikle and McKenna Rump. Our three golf organizations, Charbonneau Men’ s Club, Charbonneau Women’ s Golf Association, Charbonneau Niners and the Charbonneau Country Club‘ s Community Foundation, raised $ 6,009 to be distributed to these remarkable students who also happen to be employees of Charbonneau Golf Club. As you see these smiling young faces and hear them speak of their aspirations, know that your dollars are being well spent. Their goals include majoring in nursing, sports marketing, business / marketing, film and TV vocal performance and psychology. Their futures look bright, and our various clubs should be proud that we have invested in our youth and not only their futures, but ours as well.
Tuesday and Thursday Winter Golf
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has allowed the hardy to golf through wind, rain, sleet and other adverse weather conditions. There have been 64 CWGA members who signed up for playing, and on average there have been 12- 24“ Winter Warriors” who have been willing to get out there and keep their swing tuned-up for the spring golf that will soon be here.
Feb. 17th is Random Acts of Kindness Day. Surprise someone with a spontaneous, unplanned good deed ranging from small gestures, like smiling at a stranger, holding a door open for someone or letting someone go ahead of you in line. The day is designed to spread positivity and improve well-being by a simple act of kindness. As stated by Dr. Seuss in“ The Grinch,”“ To kindness and love, the things we need the most!” May your month be sweet!
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Gary’ s Grins By GARY NEWBORE
One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.
My wife and I decided to never go to bed angry. We’ ve been awake since Tuesday.
An elderly couple is sitting on the couch watching TV. The wife says,“ You only hear what you want to hear.” The husband replied:“ I’ d love a cold beer.”
My wife said,“ That’ s the fourth time you’ ve gone back for dessert. Doesn’ t
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it embarrass you?” I said,“ No, I keep telling them it’ s for you.”
Being old is when you don’ t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’ t have to go too.
At a wedding reception someone yelled:“ All married people, please stand next to the one person that has made your life worth living.” The bartender was almost crushed to death.
I now know how it will end for me. One of my kids will unplug my life support to charge their phone.
Yesterday I bought a world map, gave my wife a dart, and said,“ Throw this and wherever it lands I will take you on vacation.” We’ re spending three weeks behind the fridge.
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Wife,“ Would you please stop yawning when I’ m talking to you.” Husband,“ I’ m not yawning. I’ m trying to say something.”
Nobody told me that when you get a husband the ears are sold separately.
On a very cold morning, a wife texts their husband,“ Windows frozen, won’ t open.” The husband texts back,“ Pour some lukewarm water over it and then gently tap it with a hammer.” Ten minutes later the wife texts back,“ Computer really messed up now.”
A reverend, during the wedding vows, says to the young man,“ You are supposed to say I do, not I’ ll try.”
Store—“ For an additional $ 4 we can provide you with a receipt that matches
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what you are going to tell your spouse.” We are so old that many restaurants ask for a 50 % deposit when we order.
I went on an elderly dating site and a lady responded. I asked her for her number and she said 130 over 75.
A lady was out walking her dog and saw another lady coming the other way.“ Cute dog,” the lady said.“ Thank you,” said the dog walker.“ I got him for my husband. I think it was a fair trade.”
My wife caught me on the bathroom scale with my stomach sucked in.“ Ha,” she said,“ That’ s not going to help.”“ Sure it is.” I replied.“ It’ s the only way I can see the numbers.”
I combined a laxative with alphabet soup. I call it,‘ letter rip’.
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