April 12, 2006

This Week's Bulletin Was Written By Reid Marquand

THIS WEEK’S MEETING

The San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club was called to order right at 7:30am this 12th day of April by our President Maureen.  Jenny Goodman gave a nice invocation about “Taking Time” and Dave Ferguson led us in our Pledge. Jim Mulvaney and Rosalie Kramm led us in our short but sweet song, “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”. Pete McGuire introduced visiting Rotarians and Guests.

SGT. AT ARMS

Ø      Sgt. Larry Nuffer announced Jim Mulvaney as the $40 NCAA pool winner.

Ø      Sgt. Larry Nuffer also announced Scott Carr and Jenny Goodman as lucky pool winner’s from the Master’s Golf Tournament at $20 a piece.

Ø      Jim Mulvaney was the winner in the opportunity drawing and won another $35.

Ø      Chris Carstens was featured on the NBC Nightly News in a segment on, Internet Safety.

Ø      Dave Ferguson celebrated his [??] birthday on Sunday

Ø      Joe Ciokon celebrated 37 years of marriage.

Ø      Tom Sayer’s son took the wheel for the first time without incident.  Michael Whitehurst, on the other hand, just replaced his garage door!

Ø      Bobbi Spinner-Flack is the proud grandmother of an 8lb baby girl.

new member

In Jay Sener’s absence, Mike Jones and Susan Bleicher introduced new member Jeanne Merrill. Jeanne is a twin, married with 3 sons, lives downtown, and very involved in the community. She is the current Director of Development and Community Services for “SAY San Diego” Social Advocates for Youth. Former LEAD San Diego Class of 1990 ex-PacBell, Sharp employee, serves on the Balboar Theatre Foundation and loves golf committees. Hint, hint!!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ø      Vocational Services:  May 3rd venues at Salk Institute, San Diego Hospice and a Bus tour of the SD Courts (limited to 21 people). Sign ups will start next week.

Ø      Rotary Model UN:  Bobby Daniels announced the club sponsored two high school students as representatives of Russia in a conference in La Jolla. They will be here at last Wednesday this month to share their experience.

Ø      Special Guest, Eduardo Aguilar from the Mid City Rotary Club presented a certificate of thanks to our club for its donation towards their Immunization Program of “Vaccinate Your Staff”. We are invited to attend the April 26th quarterly awards recognition.

Ø      District Conference on May 27th for $50 includes ticket to Padres game and opportunity to participate in $10 raffle to throw out the first pitch at the game. Ron also modeled the Rotarians-At-Play baseball cap. Sign up Sheet was circulated.

Ø      Reminder to do your Sign In’s for breakfast for attendance.

Ø      Fundraiser: Dinner auction gifts deadline is April 15th. Looking for live auction items and sponsors.

Ø      Foundation Matching Grant: Ron Erbetta reminded us of the opportunity to get a generous match towards your Paul Harris fellow.

THIS WEEKS PROGRAM

Speaker:  Barbara Ayres, Program Director of CERT, Community Emergency Response

CERT San Diego is a cutting edge public/private partnership that was created by the City of San Diego’s Fire Rescue Dept. after the Cedar Fires disaster. In response, the San Diego Regional Fire Prevention and Emergency Preparedness Task Force established its first priority—to enhance public responsibility and preparedness.  CERT Teams are extensively trained and mentored by fire fighters, paramedics, and lifeguards to federal standards. In a disaster, authorities may not arrive for hours or days. CERT members learn how to save lives before emergency services arrive and ensure communities make it through the first few days and weeks.

A community outreach training program to help community members and citizens respond to emergencies.  Given the recent disasters and emergencies, Cedar Fire, 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, etc… this program has become very important to communities. Tuition free class for community members to earn their “green CERT jackets” as modeled by a few of our members. To learn more, you can go to www.certsandiego.org

Next week’s program will feature Carl Cohen, Ph.D, District Superintendent of Schools.  See you all there!

proposed new member

The following individual has been proposed as a new member of our Club and will be inducted under the classification listed below unless written objection is received by our Club Secretary within ten days of the date of this Bulletin:

Ø      Name: Terry S. Hall
Classification: Speaker/Trainer
Proposed by Ken Juen

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