Bulletins - 2009 - 06/10/2009
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Jai Varadaraj
The Invocation was an inspiring Biblical prayer by Carlton Woodring and William Meade delivered the pledge. Mary Engels sang the Star Spangled Banner and the rest of the club joined in.
Paul Marsh brought out the raffle with a total kitty of $1200+. Pam Russell had the winning ticket, but decided to go ahead and pick the marble, unfortunately she did not pick the right one! The next winning ticket was Jeramy Sullivan and the same thing happened. The money was rolled over for next week.
David Ferguson announced that the Holes for Heroes golf tournament is scheduled on the 25th of September at a fee of $250 per player. They had a few more spots left and the entire proceeds were being donated to GUIDON that supported the children of wounded warriors.
Gary Green applauded both Dave Ferguson and Pam Russell (DG) for their wonderful contribution to Rotary.
david Ferguson bragged about the his sons upcoming performance at the Belly up on the 18th of June.
Steve Seligman announced his sons 30th birthday. Karny Stefan applauded a record fund raising of $60k.
We had several distinguished guests this morning: District Governor, Pam Russell and Incoming District Governor, Marge Cole. Leslie ……… and Katherine……….. from the Deaf Community Services of San Diego, guests of Bobbi Spinner. The Ambassadorial Scholars: Patrick Wadri from Uganda, Giovanni Castellazi from Italy, Rebecca Lim from S.Korea, Quiwan Zhao from China and Kate Meyerowitz from South Africa.
Tanya Reid brought a guest John Philips and Judy Bambace introduced her guest Anthony De laurentis.
From Rotaract we had Michael. Christian Dick from Swinerton Corp. was our speaker.
Next week we are dark since we have a Demotion dinner on Tuesday June 16th at 5.30 pm at The University Club.
Frank De Francesco auctioned the vegetable garden and this time it was Zucchini.
GaryGreen asked for volunteers to assist with the Stand Down 2009-program to assist homeless veterans, event scheduled between July 17-19 2009.
Dave Fergueson announced that the plaque commemorating the services of Ron Erbetta was installed at his memorial.
Michael Whitehurst invited the club to attend the Internatinal Services Committee meeting at 4pm on the 11th June at his office.
Bobbi Spinner introduced Leslie and Katie from the Association of deaf community Services and presented them with a Check for $1000 from the club. The Association supports several community programs for the deaf and disabled such as: Food bank for the deaf, given that several of them are underemployed , unemployed and destitute. The food bank program is set up in conjunction with Food America; Shelter for deaf women who are victims of domestic violence in collaboration with the YWCA, presently such a facility is not available; Shelter for Sr. citizens. Both Leslie and Katie were grateful for the donation and support from our club, since they have had several cutbacks from the State due to budget cuts.
Maureen Eberle is visiting Brazil for the wedding of Daniel Figuiredo , who was an ambassadorial scholar, who has now gone back to Brazil and become an active Rotarian. Maureen and Sandra Shrift asked for participation from the club and members to get some donation to give to Daniel’s club to support the cause of a school for the blind and Down syndrome afflicted children, on the occasion of Daniels wedding. Great idea!.
 Maureen invited Pam Russell (DG) to the Podium. Since the District Council meeting and our club Demotion dinner dinner dates were in conflict, DG Pam Rusell and Incoming DG Marge Cole attended our club meeting today to present our club and members with special awards.
- The Rotary Foundation District Service Award is given to Maureen Eberle in recognition of her efforts in organizing the Foundation Gala dinner. The attendance from our club was the highest in the District.
- The District Rotarian of the year award was awarded to Maureen Eberle in recognition of her work with the ambassadorial scholars.
Congradulations to Maureen on an “AWESOME” achievement (as she would put it!). Maureen was overwhelmed and thanked the club, DG, the scholars and everyone for their support.
Next, DG, Pam Russell presented the Club with the RI presidential citation of patches that could be put on the club banner. Then, she presented our club with the District Distinguished Club Award which has been given to 7 clubs out of the 60 clubs in the district . This award is given based on the achievement of 8 goals set by Rotary some of which are:
- Increase membership by 2 members- our membership went from 95-102 (+7)
- Increase annual giving by 10% per member-our target was $149.44 and we achieved $151.26, surpassing our target.
- A total of $1000 for Polio Plus- we achieved $1263.99
- Attendance increase of 10% our goal was 45 and we achieved 113 at the Foundation Dinner .
 Induction of the new president:
Karen Green was inducted as the new president of our club by Marge Cole. Mel Gallegos thanked everyone for their support during his office and congratulated Karen Green.
 Karny introduced the speaker for the day Christian Dick an expert on Green Building and Solar power generation. Christian is a resident of San Diego and Certified in Urban Design from Harvard. He is currently an Executive at Swinerton Corporation. Christian Dick spoke about Commercial Solar cell use and renewable energy. The following points were highlighted and discussed…
- Advantages of going solar instead of conventional.
- The govt. grants available to industry for encouraging the use of renewable energy.
- The challenges faced, such as the type of building, space, cost, usage, credit worthiness etc. that determined the feasibility of installation.
The conclusion was that this was the best time to invest in solar technology since companies had a large inventory due to the economy and were willing to work out great deals that would make the project economically feasible. Given the grants from ARRA, the project size has increased from $2-4 million to a billion in the last 1 year and continues to increase.
The meeting concluded with a few questions to our speaker and with the announcement that next week was dark and the Demotion dinner was scheduled on the 16th of June, Tuesday at 5.30 pm at the University Club. | 
