Health Volunteers Overseas is a private non-profit organization dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care in developing countries through the training and education of local health care providers.

Along with her extensive education and experience as a neonatal nursing professional and educator at Children's and Lutheran Hospitals in Denver, and Poudre Valley Hospital, O'Linda has also served on the Poudre Valley Hospital and the Poudre Health Services boards.

She will be talking about their experiences as health care volunteers in Africa, including HVO and another Uganda facility partially funded by Rotary International, which treats the majority of the pygmies in Uganda.

When on home soil Magsamens still find ways to volunteer through their avocations as educators and gourmet cooks. O'Linda particularly want to show what the average educated person can be a caring representative of the USA in a world that seems to dislike this country except for our money.

The Great Loudini said he started doing magic at the age of ten because of his uncle, Max, was a magician and who could walk around any corner and turn into a bar. The Great Loudini told us that magic is simply an optical illusion, the eye fools the mind and he said that it would be easy to do to some of us. He got us warmed up with a catsup bottle trick, that his uncle taught him and that he said all of us could use at a restaurant. It was a now you see it, now you don't trick which we all thought was a spoof until the bottle really disappeared.

Next came the three rope trick, where the short, medium and long rope pieces become three of the same size. After getting audience members to inspect the three lengths including some good humor, he shows us that the three are really the same length. It is amazing how the short rope piece disappears and the long rope, which is exactly twice the length of the medium rope, and the medium rope become three ropes of the same length, really good slight of hand movements. This was followed by rope cutting tricks. Myra Monfort helped The Great Loudini show that when you cut a rope in half, really cut off a piece of end, and tie the two parts together, really tie the small end piece to the middle, you can magically, with great slight of hand, put the two pieces together again into one long piece of rope. Myra helped by cutting and then blowing off the knot to show the original one piece of rope.

Myra Monfort

Chuck Rutenberg

Tanis Roeder

The Great Loudini then introduced Mr. Magic who also performed three tricks. Mr. Magic asked for volunteers and when Chuck Rutenberg suggested Susie Ewing, Chuck was picked. Tanis Roeder also helped Mr. Magic do a "Cut Card" trick where both helpers pick a cut card from separate decks and magically when put together, they become one card. Mr. Magic then did a trick called the "Magic Chinese Sticks." He said that this trick was developed by a Chinese man called Foo Ling You. At the point in this trick when you think you know how the strings from one stick are controling the string on the other stick, Mr. Magic separates the sticks. He ended his routine with what he called the "Slight of Tongue" trick where he magically inserted a colorful handkerchief between two previously tied single color handkerchiefs while the knot was in his mouth.

The show was ended with another trick by The Great Loudini. Bonnie Titley helped him with his "Remote Viewing" routine. Bonnie was asked to pick one of two books, tell him the number of pages in the one she picked, tell him the number of words on the top line of one page, pick a different page and tell him the number of lines and finally pick a different page and pick a word on that page that was longer than eight letters and was an object. After she did all of that and told him the first two letters, he magically correctly wrote the word she picked, underwear, on a board with his remote viewing skill. This trick ended the very entertaining program.

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