This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Jenny K. Goodman
THIS
WEEK’S MEETING
Marty Hess began our meeting with a salutation to the morning. In that same theme, we sang a verse of Oh What a Beautiful Day.
GUESTS
Amanda Scott from Rotaract joined us this morning along with several other guests and visiting Rotarians.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jonathon Stone and Dave Ferguson promoted the Holes for Heroes Golf Tournament. Several fantastic prizes will be available including a street legal golf cart. If you just want to come for dinner the price is $50.
Jonathon also gave us an update on Jeff Hogue. He had some residual paralysis after his surgery but is improving each day. Your continued positive thougths are appreciated.
A sign up sheet for a tour of the Monarch School on November 13th was passed around. See Mana for more information.
On Saturday, October 25th, we will be doing a club project of helping to clean up Washington Elementary School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please join us.
Chris Carsons reminded us of the social event planned for November 1st. Come join us to watch a the unbeaten USD football team play conference powerhouse Dayton at 6 p.m.
Amanda Scott from Rotaract announced an alternative event on November 1st. The Rotaract Club will be doing a wine tasting event from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. See our calendar page for more information.
Mike Whitehurst sent around the polio pig to scoop up loose change you might have to help eradicate polio.
The annual Christmas Party will be held December 13th at Melissa Chapman's house.
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Karney Stefan introduced this week's speaker Robert Jubach who was filling in for the director of the Hydrologic Research Center who had laryngitis. Thanks for filling in Robert! Robert is a Penn State alum and expressed his happiness about the resurgence of the Nittany Lions in football. The Research Center focuses on research and science cooperation with a staff of extremely talented college professors. They perform work globally with an annual budget of approximately 1.2-1.4 million. They help the world with its water problems and its water resources management practices. Their research helps make more efficient use of the water we currently have in our reservoirs and increases the efficiency of water use. They are one of the few facilities that can do wave models which help in the prediction of flash floods and tsunamis. Can look at satellite images and ascertain flash flood prone areas and take other data such as rainfall and provide the country with that analysis. The biggest problem here in San Diego with regard to flash floods is not the water, but the debris float from the burn areas. Robert talked about the on-site data gathering that goes on and talked about all the diverse areas of the world he has been in. Urban flooding issues are even more difficult to address. For example, in Calcutta flooding occurs because over 250,000 people actually live in the storm drains so their belongings will immediately clog the drains when there is heavy flooding. We may look into partnering with Robert's organization in the future for one of our water projects so this was a great opportunity to make a good connection.
