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Editors Note (Lion Len Walavich)
HELP WANTED!!!
This year the Lions are running a concession
stand at Centennial Park for the 3rd of July
fireworks display. Anyone willing to help
should contact Lion Red Fulte at
marionfulte@yahoo.com.
This year as 3rd Vice-President I am cochairman for the 4th of July parade. I am in
need of volunteers to help. I have a few
volunteers already but do need more. Please
let me know if you are able to help organize
the parade this year. You can contact me at lrw2868@sbcglobal.net.
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Awesome Facts
THE ROAR
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Dave Nellans
Don Erminger
Rusty Kunz
Len Walavich
George Shinkan
Chris Ylo
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Every time
you lick a
stamp, youre
consuming
1/10 of a
calorie
JUNE
14 Flag Day
20Fathers Day
21Summer Begins
26Full Moon
-There are no
penguins in
the North Pole
-The Saguaro
Cactus, found
in southwestern
United States
does NOT
grow branches
until it is 75
years old
____________
Americans will
spend more on
cat food this
year than baby
food
____________
Over 4.6
million
Whopper
sandwiches
are sold at
Burger King
every day
____________
A rodents
teeth never
stop growing
JULY
4Independence Day
26Full Moon
DID YOU KNOW.
Alaska - More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred
miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The
volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the
world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety
percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy percent
of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although
covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,
with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian
word meaning ' Big Village .'
Chicago - Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
Detroit - Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so
named because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Damascus, Syria was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was
founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
Los Angeles full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de
Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
New York City - The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of
the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to
play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
Ohio - There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is manmade.
Pitcairn Island - The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia ,
at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
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AWESOME FACTS
The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried
its head in the sand.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Horses cant vomit.
Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.