JUNE 16, 2004

This week’s Bulletin was written by Victoria Bourus

 

this week’s meeting

The meeting this week started at 7:35 am with a rousing “Good Morning” from Frank.  The Pledge was started off by Mel Gallegos.  Frank gave a moving invocation about how we cannot chose so many things in our lives, but we do chose how we live.  Our songmeisters, Jim Mulvaney and Linda Jalving were not present today, and our group song suffered through what must have been the worst rendition of “Happy Trails” ever heard.  After we recovered, several guests were introduced.

Announcements

Ø      June 22nd: District Council and our club will be receiving a Presidental Citation.  Guest speaker:  Frank Devlyn, RI President 2000 -01.

Ø      June 23rd: This will be Frank’s last meeting as President and will be held at the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, 6845 University Avenue (near 70th Street). Patricia Cowett passed out a sign up sheet for attendance next week. 

Ø      June 29th: Demotion Party for our honorable outgoing President Frank at 6:00pm at the San Diego Yacht Club.  The sign up sheet for this event was passed around at this meeting, so if you missed it and want to attend, please send an email to Ron Erbetta at:  RONERBETTA@aol.com.

Ø      July 17th: Is the annual “Stand Down” event for veterans.

Ø      July 18th: District 5340 annual gala and Rotary Centennial celebration.  Ron Erbetta passed out invitations to the event at the Hotel Del Coronado. 

Ø      Gary Green announced that he is still waiting for donations to the International Rotary Foundation and that he will match funds up to $15,000!!!

Ø      Sergeant at Arms, Bill Poirier, raffled off a gift certificate to Staples and another book from his private collection, “Brain Droppings” by George Carlin.

Ø      There were many Bitches and Brags, the highlight of which was Tom Sayer showing off his blinking flag pin, a sighting of Duane Horning at Petco Park and Frank announcing that the Mighty 1090 has hired a CTO (Chief Technical Officer). 

Ø      Ron Erbetta gave a presentation on his extensive trip to Japan and the Rotary Convention in Osaka.  He passed around pictures and discussed the wonderful charity work that is being done by the Rotary overseas.

This Weeks Speaker

Frank, Al Pavich and Nancy

Joe Ciokon introduced Commander Al Pavich, USN, RET, who is the President and CEO of the Vietnam Veterans of San Diego.  Al started off by letting us know that the VVSD location on Pacific Highway will be re-named Veterans Village of San Diego and is currently in phase 1 of an extensive remodeling and expansion project.  Al gave a passionate speech about how people staying in the center are working to rehabilitate their lives and how much improving one life impacts so many others. As the “Founders of STAND DOWN” and “Homeless Court”, they operate 7 locations and 218 beds to successfully help homeless veterans and their families restore their lives and become productive citizens.  Al thanked our Rotary club for its support of the “STAND DOWN” event.  At last years “STAND DOWN” 12% of the veterans who attended took beds that night in a shelter to enter into the program.  This is a great organization working hard to help people who want to help themselves!

Nancy presented an annual Rotary donation to Al at the end of the meeting.

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