April 2005
Al Stimac, President, wel-comed members and guests to the meeting on February 3rd, 2005. Dick Carpenter led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Al made the following announcements in support of our club. Frank Holman has agreed to take the role of Club Secretary. We therefore need someone to take Frank’s place as Volunteer Chairman. We Still need a historian/club photographer to take over from Dick Hosler. Anyone interested, please contact Al or Stu Mitnik. Al continues to solicit ideas from the members on speakers for our meetings. Anyone with ideas should contact Al or George.
GREAT NEWS – Mike Peterson has agreed to become the club webmaster. Thanks, Mike.
REMEMBER, the Rock Springs outing is scheduled for Tuesday April 12, 2005.
Frank indicates the Central Arizona Project has agreed to provide a tour for Honeywell Retiree's on Wednesday, April 20th @ 1:00 PM in the afternoon. The CAP facility is located just north of the 101 on 7th Street and have also offered to conduct a tour of the Lake Pleasant pumping facility for those interested. The CAP facility tour will take approximately 1 1/2 hours. If attending the subsequent tour of the Lake Pleasant facility, plan on spending the entire afternoon with the CAP hosts since it will require us to carpool to the facility at Lake Pleasant. Note: CAP has requested a list of names of people that plan on attending this tour. Please advise your desire to attend, and submit your name to Frank in person at the next meeting in April, at the Rock Springs event or by email (frankholman@earthlink.net) so that he can prepare a list of attendees to submit to the CAP.
We can always revise the list anytime prior to the tour but it may be more difficult to add your name at the last minute since name badges will be made out in advance. Everyone knows the drill with badges, correct??? I think they will provide an inter-esting tour for the group.
Also, Frank proposes the group meet at Manuel's (28th Street & Indian School) for lunch prior to the tour and for those interested we can carpool to the CAP. I don't think this is an issue but at the present time the CAP is restricted to those with US citizenship.
Our featured speaker was Mark Carpenter, Crime Scene Specialist for the Scottsdale Police Depart-ment. His primary theme was that the real world of CSI and the TV world of CSI are significantly different. Mark is a specialist in shooting reconstruction and blood pattern interpretation. It requires 2 years to be come fully trained. The Scottsdale Crime Scene department consists of 9 positions and a supervisor, but currently has only 6 members. This department is also the only nationally accredited CSI team in Arizona. The role of a crime scene specialist is to:
· Process the crime scene for recognition, collection and preservation of evidence
· Assist investigators
· Write technical reports
· Draw sketches and diagrams
· Testify in court
He also showed slides of some actual crime scenes.
50/50 winners were Jim Lambert and Wil Coe.
Our next month’s speaker will be Bob Johnson, President Aerospace Honeywell International. He will give us the latest on the state of the company and aerospace.
Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 7375 East 2nd Street (2nd Street and Civic Center Drive.) The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September - May, except for December – our Holiday Luncheon. We have a social hour beginning at 1:00pm, the presentation starts at 2:00pm and adjournment is at 3:00pm.
The officers hold their board meetings prior to the regular meeting and all members are invited to attend. We welcome any input you may have and please send the editor any items that may be of interest to our members.
This month’s charity donations were given to the St. Mary’s Food Bank and the Salvation Army. A Thank You Note was received from The Crisis Nursery.
NEWS YOU CAN USE
Did you catch the photo of police volunteer Paul Streich on a recent front page of the PV Independent?
The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, had a recent sports section article about Amphitheater basketball coach Pat Derksen, son of AiResearcher Larry Derksen.
From Gene Rowley:
Silver Sneakers Program is an exercise program designed to make seniors healthy offered at Community Colleges and YMCA's here in Arizona.
I don't know if any other insurance offers it, but some PacifiCare Secure Horizons Retiree Plans do. There are trained people at the Community Colleges and YMCA's to help seniors set up a program tailored for them.
Attached is a generic letter that I am going to send to the Honeywell Retirement Service Center. Those of you who are members of Secure Horizons medical plan and may be interested in the Silver Sneakers Program are welcome to petition Honey-well Retiree Medical using the attached letter (see last page). Those of us with other retiree medical plans (CIGNA etc.) may have to wait to see what success the Secure Horizons folks have before petitioning for inclusion.
From the Honeywell Health and Wellness Center –
Want to know more about Naturopathic and Holistic Health? Join us for our monthly wellness seminar featuring Dr. Stacy Riseborough, an Arizona board certified Naturopathic Doctor, as she discusses di-gestive issues such as IBS, bloating and difficulty diges-ting food and how naturo-pathic medicine may help support the body’s natural healing process.
Dates and Locations: All seminars are from 11:30am – 12:30pm
Phoenix:
Thursday, April 7th Kachina CR 503-2 (Lobby) Call 602-231-7746 to sign up!
Tempe:
Wednesday, April 13th Ponderosa CR 1207-2 Call 480-592-1519 to sign up!
Sky Harbor:
Thursday, April 14th R&O CR 2101-2 Call 602-365-3512 to sign up!
Honeywell Health and Well-ness Center memberships are available for retirees and their spouses at just $10 per month per person. Get together with some of your buddies! Call us! Phoenix 602-231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389.
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Other Stuff
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
What is the difference be-tween Mechanical and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
A Science graduate asks, "Why does it work?" The
Engineering graduate asks, "How does it work?" The
Accounting graduate asks, "How much will it cost?" The Arts graduate
asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
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Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7"
Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."
Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact De-parture on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?"
Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern. We've already no-tified our caterers."
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Four Catholic mothers were having coffee together and discussing how wonderful their children are.
The first mother tells her friends, "My son is a priest. When he walks into a room, everyone call him 'Father'."
The second Catholic woman chirps, "Well my son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room, people say, 'Your Grace'."
The third Catholic woman says smugly, "Well not to put you down, but my son is a Cardinal. Whenever he walks into a room, people say, 'Your Eminence'."
The fourth Catholic woman sips her coffee in silence.
The first three women give her a subtle "Well...?"
She replies, "My son is a handsome, 6'2", hardbodied, Chippendale's stripper. Whenever he walks into a room all the women say, 'Oh, my God!'
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He was sitting quietly reading his paper when his wife walked up behind him and whacked him on the head with a rolled up magazine.
"Ouch!! What the hell was that for?" he asked.
"That was for the piece of paper in your pants pocket with the name Mary Lou written on it," she replied.
"Two weeks ago when I went to the races, Mary Lou was the name of one of the horses I bet on".
"Oh honey, I'm so sorry," she said. "I should have known there was a good explanation.
Three days later he was watching a ball
game on TV when she walked up and hit him in the head again, this time with
an iron skillet,
which knocked him out cold. When he came to, he asked, "Now what
the hell was that for?"
She replied, "Your horse called."
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Central Arizona Project Tour Safety Guidelines for our Visitors:
No firearms or weapons of any kind are allowed on this site or in motor vehicles parked on site.
No hazardous substances as defined in any Federal, State or Local law or regulation, maybe brought on this site without prior approval.
Visitors must sign in at the CAP reception area. You will receive a “Visitor” badge that must be returned at the end of your visit.
At Pumping Plants, your group coordinator must sign in and indicate the number of people in your group.
Obey all posted signs.
Stay with your group at all times.
You may take photos in designated areas only.
Prior to beginning a Pumping Plant tour, your CAP host will conduct a safety orientation. In an emergency, your CAP host will direct you to the nearest exit and/or shelter area.
In a Pumping Plant, you must wear a hard hat at all times and hearing protection in some areas. Your CAP host will provide the necessary protection.
Suitable shoes covering the heels and toes of the foot, preferably made of leather, are required before entering
any operations area.
Long or loose hair, hanging jewelry, ties, scarves and other loose clothing must be contained when entering an operations area.
CAP is a tobacco-free facility. You may smoke or use other forms of tobacco in designated areas only.
Certain CAP operations areas are not mandated to be com-pliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Notify CAP prior to your arrival of anyone needing special accommodations.
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Honeywell Retirement Service Center
2601 Research Forest Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77381
Subject: Silver Sneakers
Dear Sir:
Some PacifiCare Secure Horizons Retiree Plans offer Silver Sneakers, an exercise program at Community Colleges and YMCA’s, but only for Arizona State retirees. This program is designed for participants to get and remain healthy through exercise.
Honeywell’s group retiree plan with Secure Horizons does not include Silver Sneakers. As a member of Honeywell’s Secure Horizons Retiree Plan, I am requesting that you add Silver Sneakers to our plan.
Sincerely,