First
Annual Jerry McIntyre
Memorial Golf Tournament
In honor of my husband, and our father, son, brother,
uncle, cousin, and good friend, Jerry, we are planning
a golf tournament fundraiser to benefit two of Jerry’s
many labors of love – the Holy Ghost/St. Francis
Schools and the Jersey Community Hospital Foundation.
Through the years he served on and helped guide both
the school and hospital boards and lent his construction
expertise to their numerous building projects. It is
our hope that you will use this method to assist both
of these organizations, which were dear to his heart,
and keep Jerry’s community spirit alive, while
enjoying a whole day of unique and fun “Jerry-inspired”
activities!!!
With Sincere Appreciation,
The McIntyre Family and Friends
The first annual Jerry McIntyre Memorial Golf Tournament
will be on Saturday, August 28, 2010 at Westlake Country
Club. Scheduled tee times run from 8 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Events will include lunch, a special BBQ dinner, various
golf contests, and a silent auction. All proceeds will
go to Holy Ghost/St. Francis Schools and Jersey Community
Hospital Foundation. Dinner and completion of the silent
auction will begin at 6:30 p.m.
We
are looking forward to celebrating “Jerry”
with you on August 28th!!! Be sure to call Jan or Tim
at Westlake CC (618-498-2011) to schedule your tee time
today!! (Rain date – 9/4/10)
Why is it that the federal government is having such a hard
time policing the border with Mexico? Why is it we can stop people
from getting on a boat and sailing to the US from distant ports?
We have hundreds of thousands of miles of coastland were they
could easily come a shore. Why is it that the majority of illegal
immigrants are from Mexico and not other countries in South America?
The true answer is most likely very complicated but it can be
summed up in one word. Remittances!
In case you don’t know remittance is when a foreign person
comes to your country, works, then sends the money back home.
In the case of legal immigrants who are here working in the US
they are taxed on their income. But illegal immigrants almost
always work for cash and none of their income is taxed in the
United States.
So what’s the big deal you might ask, how much money can
a group of illegal immigrants make in the US and send back home.
It can’t be that much, right? Wrong according to most experts
and the Mexican government it adds up to over 20 billion dollars
a year. According to http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000911.html
remittances to Mexico was to surpass Mexico’s oil revenue
in 2005. And this does not include the illegal drug trade, which
is worth far more than the remittances that Mexicans send back
home.
Because of this incredible stream of revenue, the Mexican government
(the Key Master) is careful to protect this lucrative human industry.
The Mexican government is also careful to stop people who are
not Mexicans from entering the United States. If you are a immigrant
from Honduras or Bolivia or any were else in the world, good luck
getting to the very lucrative and much protected US border. That
is why Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups have not had any success
in entering the United States from Mexico. The Mexican Federal
police guard this border with a very heavy hand, and they do not
want no terrorist screwing up the lucrative business of Remittance.
The United States Federal Government (the gate keeper) has the
power and assets to shut this border off and seal it up for good.
However the current government like many in the past has not the
will to do so. No one really knows for sure why the federal government
will not do it. It is certain that the state department has a
say in things, plus there are powerful interest in the banking
business who make large profits in the transfer of this remittances
money back to Mexico.
But for now things will remain the same. Border states will
have to bare the burden of taking care of illegal immigrants until
the Mexican and US governments have the will to close down the
border.
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Dog days of summer
Bees hold policeman hostage
Dog days of summer
Summer time in southern Illinois can be hot and sultry. And
sooner or later the fun carefree days of summer eventually turn
into the dog days of summer. But what are the dog days of summer.
And when does it officially begin or end. The Webster dictionary
defines the dog day of summer as this.
1 : the period between early July and early September when the
hot sultry weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere
2 : a period of stagnation or inactivity
This seams to sum it up pretty neatly but I don’t think
you can give it a specific date or time when it begins. The dog
days of summer are not really a specific time or even a place.
It is more of a state of mind for the individual. It is when a
number of things happen at about the same time.
Below I have listed the top 10 things that might indicate that
you are in the dog days of summer.
1. When it is too hot to go out side and play
2. When it is time to go back to school
3. Getting tired of picking and eating garden ripe tomatoes
4. Too hot to swim
5. You don’t have to mow the yard as often because it is
turning brown and dying
6. Complaining about the heat and humidity
7. Shopping for fall cloths
8. Christmas sounds nice again
9. Getting tired of playing golf every weekend
10. Kids are complaining that they are bored
These are but just a few things that might indicate that you are
in the dog days of summer. But don’t worry it will soon
pass, and the greatest season of them all is just right around
the corner. Autumn.
A SWARM of bees held a California policeman hostage
in his car for three hours after tens of thousands of the stingers
escaped from a broken-down truck, his colleagues said today.
The incident occurred yesterday near the town of Raleigh in North
Carolina when policeman Brandon Jenkins responded to calls about
a vehicle stopped on the side of the road, police said.
The truck, as it turned out, was transporting 60 beehives to fertilise
some orchards.
Such journeys are routinely done at night so the bees stay in
the hives, but on this occasion, due to the breakdown, the insects
flew out when they sensed light and the warmth of the day outside.
"They were confused, without their queen, they swarmed the
police car probably because that was the biggest thing around
that they could find," said Wake County sheriff's spokeswoman
Phyllis Stevens.
Between 30,000 and 50,000 bees were removed from the white exterior
of the police car, which had largely disappeared under the swarm,
she said.
Officer Jenkins, who did not venture outside, called his superiors
and was told to remain where he was and not make the situation
worse by dispersing the bees.
"We had to be very cautious," said Ms Stevens. "Schools
are closed and there are many children around."
Jennifer Keller, a beekeeping expert from North Carolina State
University was called in to help.
"I had never seen anything quite like that," she said.
"The bees had nowhere to go. I guess they used the car as
a resting spot."
Ms Keller sprayed sugar water on the bees, which started licking
each other and regrouping so rescuers could return them to their
hives.
Freed from the swarm, Officer Jenkins then continued on his way.
"I got one sting. I struck a bee, so it was my own fault,"
said Ms Keller.
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Annual Jerry McIntyre 
