Bulletins - 2009 - 08/05/2009
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Sandra Schrift
THIS WEEK’S MEETING
President Karen Green called the meeting to order at 7:30am in her usual spirited way. Mel Gallegos gave us his iphone invocation; Chris McCain led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Jim Mulvaney led us in an off key version of “The Grand Old Flag.”
SGT. AT ARMS
Scott Carr handled the raffle tickets and Bitches and Brags.
GUESTS
Pete McGuire announced our guests and the seven students from the International Youth Symphony. Our District Governor, Marge Cole, Assistant DG, Dan from Coronado and Larry Sundrin also visited us today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Karen explained that our goal for this Rotary year is for our Club to raise $1000 for Polio Plus which will be matched with another $1000 donation. (total $2000) So our new female, Pauline the Pig was passed along with Paul the Pig. There is now a competition between the boys and girls in our Club as to who will raise the most money! So bring your polio bucks to our next meeting.
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Claire reported on Community Service Committee – the focus is on hunger, Senior Services, and the Homeless.
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A 50 variety wine-tasting is planned at Melissa Chapman’s store, Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m. Call or e-mail Jonathan Stone if interested in attending.
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Dave Ferguson reminded us about the Holes for Heroes Tournament and Auction is only one month away. (September 25) So sign up to play, get players and/or auction items.
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Susan Bleicher – who led the district hosting committee for our International Youth Symphony students, brought up 6 of them who spoke to us in English as they expressed their appreciation for the warm hospitality they received from 3 of our members. (Susan, Jane and Gary) The students were from Germany, Venezuela, Italy, Israel and Holland.
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DG, Marge Cole, presented Gary and Karen Greene (each) with their multiple Paul Harris pins.
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Amanda from the Communications Committee announced our Club’s entry on Facebook and LinkedIn. So check this out and “join” the group.
- Maureen Eberly spoke about the new International Scholars who will arrive shortly. She also shared some of the social activities that is planning. Contact Maureen to join in some of the fun.
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Jonathan Stone introduced our speaker, DG, Marge Cole, who began her talk with “Our Journey begins high in the Himalayas . . . and the future is in our hands.” A nice way to move in to the Rotary theme for the year. The PowerPoint journey begins in East Africa, District 5340, in Kenya. Our district contributed to the first Rotary Well in Takunga, Uganda as well as Isla Trinitaria in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Marge noted the work of Father Simon who saves abused youth in Guayaquil. They are served soy milk 2X a day from the Mechanical Cow that our District provided. We saw photos of the National Immunization Day in India to eradicate polio. Some of the monies from our November 7th Gala will be donated to our Polio Plus drive. Marge reminded us that Bill Gates pledged a total of 355 million to Polio Plus. Rotary needs to match 255 million of that amount. Our District contributed 95 thousand in 2008! Only 4 countries left for Polio eradication and less than 1500 cases reported. In Central Mexico, Tasco area, there are ugly slums and low income schools. Rotary has been supporting a new program in the district called LEAD which sends middle school youth to camp to learn about ethics and leadership. The exciting news for District 5340 is that we were one of 100 districts world wide to be chosen for a pilot program called Future Vision. District 5340 qualified for this prestigious participation because of our outstanding record in the International Community that includes volunteer service and monetary fund raising. Marge also spoke about an anyominous donor in our Rotary District who is contributing 1 million to water projects. |
