By Dan Dauw
Geneseo Current
Love Pancakes & Trimmings
The Geneseo Boy Scout Troop 100 will host their 52nd Annual Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, February 16, 2025, from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
This breakfast fundraiser will be held at the Geneseo Moose Lodge. Besides delicious pancakes you get sausages, fruit, eggs, orange juice, milk and coffee.
It is a big event so get there early in case they might run out of an item or two. Well, not hardly, but just saying! It’s only $7.00 per person with kids age 5 & under, free!
Keep in mind that all proceeds stay here locally enabling scouts with their various projects.
Kiwanis Pancake Day
Time for some more pancakes and trimmings? Well, stop by the Geneseo Moose Lodge, Sunday, March 2, 2025, for the Geneseo Kiwanis “Pancake Day.”
This event is from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Kiwanians will be serving up pancakes, sausages and all the trimmings. Carry-out meals will also be available.
The cost is $7.00 per adult and children, age 10 and younger, just $3.00. Proceeds go to help serve the Kiwanis projects of the greater Geneseo area.
Record 2024 Soybean Crop
According to a report from Tony McCombie, State Rep., Dist. 89, our Prairie State had a harvest soybean record crop of 688 million bushels. The Illinois Soybean Association reported Illinois farmers had harvested beans from 10.75 million acres of Illinois land.
It works out to a yield of about 64 bushels per acre. Illinois is one of the largest concentrations of food-related businesses in the world. Soybean products can also be used to make products such as soy-based biodiesel fuel.
Deer me, time for a Drink
One of my former and good USPS bosses, John B., sent me a couple of photos of some whitetails he recently had in his backyard. He said he doesn’t feed deer, but does have a heated fountain which offers water for deer and I suspect birds, too!
Deer & Walleye
Two bucks battle it out in John B's backyard.
For Christmas our daughter gave me a 1941 published booklet on the Illinois Game and Fish Regulations. It showed that deer hunting was illegal.
So, I looked it up on the computer when deer were allowed to be hunted in Illinois. It was not allowed until October 1-15, 1957, and bow & arrow only. Only 220 deer were harvested.
In 2023, Illinois deer hunters were allowed to use a single-shot rifle and only certain calibers allowed. Ha! So, leave your .22 at home!
An Illinois hunting license in 1941 was $1.50. An Illinois fishing license that same year was .75 cents. A few places in the booklet it mentioned certain fish species. It showed walleye spelled, “Wall-eyed Pike.” Walleye and northern pike are two different species.
I remember The Cellar used to list “walleye pike” on their menu. I pointed out the mistake to server “Cindy”, and she promptly hit me over the head with a bread roll. No matter how they spelled it, it sure tasted good!
Another buck seemed to say, "Guys, you can fight
Michael Madigan
Remember this former Illinois House Speaker? I always thought he had more power than the governor. He’s going through some battles with prosecutors on bribery schemes and other deals.
So, do you think he’ll serve time? Don’t hold your breath! The crooked pathway to and from the Windy City and Springfield is a worn one!
For Seniors
I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up ‘n down and perspired for a good hour. However, by the time I got my sweats on, the class was over.
Humor
Why was the snowman looking through the carrots? Ans: He was picking his nose.
What do you call rubber bumpers on yachts? Ans: Shark absorbers.
Why won’t sharks eat clowns? Ans: Because they taste funny.
Quote of the Week
“I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.”
Abraham Lincoln