BULLETIN:

TAX WEEK OBSERVANCE DAY

Monday, April 13, 1998

We are losing Bo Simons to the Healdsburg Club.   Steve Kay will take his place as Bulletin Editor.

The Santa Rosa Sunrise Club's golf tourney on May 15 still has some available spots. If interested call Jeff Lyon? 575-5200 or Steve Herron 524-3102. 

Windsor Rotary Club "ROTARY CHALLENGE" will be Golf Tournament Tuesday, June 30, 1998. Chairman is Brian Ling (son of our own Don), 795-0081 or e-mail: rtm bl@aol.com

Special Recognition Dept. (a.k.a.: fines!)
Marv Hyman (right), celebrating the birth of his 12th grandchild; he also treated us to a little "one-upsmanship" dialogue with our glorious leader (you had to be there) - $100 offered to Paul Harris.

Laurie Burmeyer (left) paid a 1% commission for a $5,000 photo in the paper - outstanding customer service award for sales in parts and service somewhere down on the "original auto row" - sorry, no commercials allowed. Guest Lee Geisenhoffer, founder of the SRWRC, was given special recognition without a fine. Welcome back!

Raffle

"Lucky" Terry Price picked the wrong colored marble that was somewhere in Jim's pocket.  Jim Underhill put his $20 winnings toward the pre-school.

News from Rotary International on World Community Service

Service and Fellowship on a Global Scale
World Community Service, or WCS, gives Rotarians an opportunity for fellowship with an important
difference -- humanitarianism.  Initiated in 1967, WCS allows Rotarians in two countries to join forces to help those in need. And Rotarians do, providing an estimated US$20 million in funds and donations-in-kind each year.

WCS encompasses a variety of Rotarian efforts. It includes international projects, where Rotarians in two countries have met, either through the WCS Projects Exchange, or at international conventions or other meetings, via Group Study Exchange teams, or through many other ways. It includes projects that have received Matching Grants from The Rotary Foundation and many that have not. It includes projects where partners have pooled funds, have shared donated goods, and have sent volunteers.

WCS has only three criteria --

1. the project must be humanitarian in nature;
   
2. Rotarians in two or more Rotary countries must be involved;
   and
3. one of those countries must contain the site of the project.

(The above message is from the Rotary International Website.  Check it out)

Program

Dr. Barry Silberg, a well known plastic surgeon and inventor with 18 years of local practice, discussed recent trends and techniques for facial modification, fat removal, and "nip and tuck" in general.    He showed several "before - after" slides, and saved the more dramatic and "graphic" photos until we had digested our meals.  He also helps the local economy by having out-of-town patients stay at our local hotels and dine at our favorite restaurants, and take home great Sonoma County wines to celebrate their weight loss or new nose.   Barry talked about his new Goretex mid-face implants.   He also discussed new techniques that involve more use of low frequency (1 MHz) / low power (3 watts) sound waves and less anesthetics than conventional surgical methods. His recent patented invention is code named EUA for External Ultrasound Assist.  This device is licensed to Wells Johnson to manufacture and sell for about $15,000 each. It uses an external transducer to help loosen fat cells, separate collagen cells, and absorb the right kind of energy in the right places. He used a lot of other terms that are difficult to spell, let along pronounce.

This Bulletin was written by Ray Mattison.

Santa Rosa West Rotary Club

Bo Simons (bo@sonoma.lib.ca.us), Bulletin Editor
Bob Harris (bob@hlenv.com), Secretary
P.O. Box 14744, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 (707) 524-7866
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