Bulletins - 2008 - 03/26/2008
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Jenny Goodman
After President Whitehurst called the meeting to order, Peter McGuire provided the morning's thought and reminded us that the people who matter most are not always the most credentialed. Jenny Goodman lead the pledge and in honor of our speaker, we sang Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Sheila Hardin paid a fine for her birthday. Chris Carstens announced he is a grandfather again but asked for positive thoughts for the baby, Amelia, who was born premature. Tom Sayer's son's lacrosse team is 7-0. Paul Marsh advised us that the San Diego Enforcers have their last game of the season this coming Saturday. Mary Engles announced she is happy to be back in San Diego after spending a day in Anaheim. Rosalie reminded us that the May 10th fundraiser is coming up and that cash is king. Melissa Chapman and Nancy Vaughan paid big bucks for autographed baseballs from Randy Jones. Melissa paid extra to get a special inscription.
Mayor Jerry Sanders, whose better half Rana spoke to the club about a month ago, gave a quick stump speech for his re-election campaign. He wants everyone to take a realistic look at where we're at right now and realize that the changes he has been implementing to make our city fiscally sound are not going to result in overnight fixes. He said that San Diego was nearly ready to go back out on the bond market and that the city had completed an unprecedented four audits in one year. He expects to be completely caught up with the audits by the end of the year. He gave kudos to Rotary for the work we do which he says is a critical part of the success of any city.
Larry Nuffer made a special monetary presentation to the Barrio Logan College Institute which helps disadvantaged students prepare for and succeed in college. There have been 27 graduates of the program so far.
Bobbi Spinner-Flack and Steve Seligman made a presentation to the United Through Reading program which was founded in 1989. This literacy program serves military and incarcerated parents. The participants are filmed reading books for their children and then the videos are sent to the kids. This helps establish a bond between the absent parent and the child and helps ease the homecoming transition.
We had many guests this morning including a Rotarian from Germany, Big Wave Dave Nuffer, and a guest from the Sacramento Rotary Club.
- Paul Downey announced that International Services Committee will be organizing a tour of the Children's Hospital in Tijuana.
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There is a Padres game outing planned for June 22nd.
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April 26th is Rotarians at Work Day as well as Tijuana Homebuilding.
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There is a red badge event tomorrow night at teh East village Tavern & Bowl.
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AIDA opera night is coming up soon.
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District Assembly is April 5th. You can sign up on the District website.
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Martin Blair is hosting a special Wounded Warriors event at the Kansas City BBQ on March 31st at 1:30 p.m.
George Mullen in full fro, introduced our speaker, Randy Jones. Randy was a Cy Young pitcher for the Padres and a hall of famer. Randy says life is great and that he is not bitter that he got a 40K raise when he won the Cy Young while Jake Peavy got 52 million. Randy gave us his take on the Padres this coming season. The pitching rotatation looks strong but the hitting is unknown. National press says we have the worst outfield in the major league. We need to stay healthy and continue to build from within our organization. Randy reminisced that the first big league hits he gave up were to Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. The toughest hitter he faces was Steve Garvey when he was with the Dodgers. His only criticism of Petco Park is that they need to have a bigger BBQ area and he thinks the venue is great. He talked a little bit about his radio show with Phil Nevin and Darren Smith noting that Phil is a gruffy old guy. Randy really would like to see Mark Prior make a comeback. Randy also talked about how steroids are a huge mistake and kids are getting the wrong message. Roger Clemens should have just kept his mouth shut. Randy also entertained us with various run-ins he has had with umpires. He said that he permed his hair just to change up his luck and since it worked, it kept it permed for the rest of his career. It was the 70's afterall.
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