Santa Rosa West

Coming up

March 29
"The Life of a Teen News Hound"
Alex Stone, Senior from Montgomery H.S.

April 5
Conserving Open Space in Sonoma County
David Katz, Exec. Dir. of Sonoma Land Trust

April 26
Project Amigo
S.R. Downtown Rotary Help for Mexico: Will Haymaker

March 22, 1999

Speech/Audio/Visual Contest

Opening

Chris Rosell (aka The Shark) was our smiling Greeter and introduced visiting Rotarians. Several Club members were still reeling from being hustled in billiards by Chris during the St. Pats Party at the Ale Works. Thanks to Mark Decker for coordinating the party. It is always fun to get together without the constraints of the lunchtime clock and over a cold beer.

Announcements

Alex Perez, the son of Joe Perez, was introduced to the Club. Alex will be a Rotary exchange student to Denmark in the 1999-2000 school year.

"Rapp in Rotary Assembly" being held by Maureen and Mike Merrill focusing on the roles and possibilities for partners, family and friends of Rotarians, with discussion about how to get involved in Rotary, and the chance to ask questions about how family can participate in Rotary activities. It will be a fast paced activity on Saturday April 17- 8:30-2:30PM. Call Chris Parr at 544-7286 for more information.

International Committee – meetings are generally held monthly at Mistral 12:00 noon – To volunteer your time and get more information, call Paul Schwartz at 543-8300. The GSE team is leaving March 26^th for the Philippines for a month. Neil Silverman, GSE Team Leader needs small lightweight gifts such as promotional items to take along. A similar GSE from Luzon City will be visiting this country April 24^th to May 24^th.

The Santa Rosa-Kagoshima Student Exchange Program is accepting applications for students to travel to Japan for 4 weeks over the Summer of 1999.   The trip is subsidized by the Santa Rosa Sunrise Group as well as Rotary Groups from Hiroshima and Kagoshima Group, Friends of Kagoshima and Santa Rosa Businesses. The cost for each student is only $1,900.00. Applications must be in by April 16, 1999.   Contact Mary Haller at 538-0950 or Fern Harger at 539-8030 for more details.

Its On the House if SRWest members attend the upcomming District Assembly, SRWest will pick up the registration fee.  This is Mike Merrill's year and it is important that we make a good showing at the Assembly.  Contact Bob Harris or Rich Standard for Details.

The Bob Lucas "Celebration of Life" Fund Raiser

Will be April 18, 1998, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Friedman Center, 4676 Mayette Avenue. Tickets are available from World of Carpets or from Janet Codding. There will be Rex Allen’s Swing Express and many, many surprise celebrity guests. Includes Hors D’oeuvres and opportunity to win a pre-owned Walnut Hammond H100 Console Organ $600 value, some lessons included (Donated by Music Exchange). DONATION $20.00 (checks payable to the Santa Rosa West Rotary Community Fund). SPECIAL SPONSOR TICKET: $100.00 which includes all the above plus special reserved VIP seating with all refreshments and libations at the event served to you at your table.  WISH LIST:  Raffle prizes with value between $25-$100 (can be gift certificates or anything!). We will sell the raffle prizes at the event. Cups, napkins, small paper plates, people to pass out flyers and spread the word and sell tickets, places to sell the tickets, we have Music Exchange and World of Carpets (Arnie sponsored the tickets, too! Thank you Arnie!)

For anyone interested in helping Bob in another way, I will make donations from the sales of Internet connections, phones and long distance service that I sell up to the time of the

Recognition:

Phil Talamantes announced he has 2 new grandchildren. He donated $100 to the Bob Lucas fund in honor of his grandchildren.

Brian Herndon just spent much time in Mexico and Hawaii. Apparently he preferred Hawaii, and was asked to pay a paltry sum of $20 for his travels. Being a bleeding heart (where ever did that term come from), he passed his fine on to his friend Jeff Ray (Such a friend Brian is).

Bob Marigo was recognized for his recent travels, and he passed his fine on, to whom I do not know.

Raffle

Rick Marino from El Molino High School had the right raffle ticket number to get a shot at drawing the orange marble. He was unsuccessful at winning the $960, much to the delight of each and every other attendee. And the "pot" keeps growing (no pun intended!) every week.

Preston Smith, member of the Windsor Rotary Club, won the $25 consolation prize. Not being familiar with Santa Rosa West custom of donating that $25 to some worthy cause, Preston kept the cash. Ignorance is bliss!

Program

Mike Moore gives Joe the business.

Joe Perez (left, on the right) then took the podium and introduced the program for the day, a special speech/audio visual contest for local area high school students from Piner and El Molino on the subject of "the future of volunteerism in our community". There was prize money awarded to each participant in the competition. The students were given the choice of presenting an audio visual/video on the subject, or giving a short speech. There were approximately seven presenters with a winner in each category.

There were three judges of the contest: Ed Beebout, TV50; Rob Singleton (KZST Radio), and Chris ? from the Press Democrat (last name escapes me). Thanks to Ken Dansie and Bob Zeni (below) of Price "Watermark" for their valiant efforts ot tally the votes while the entire Club was waiting for the results. Also, thanks to audio visual projection manager Alex Perez (he has learned a lot from his father) and timekeeper Paul Stychno.

Contestants in the Speech/Audio/Visual Contest.

Ken & Bob tally the votes.

The two teachers form the respective high schools who helped bring the applicants to the competition were Rick Massell of El Molino and Brigette Mansel of Piner High School. The winners of the competition were Gian Valinoti of El Molino in the audio visual division and a young lady from Piner in the speech division. The student from Piner (sorry I do not have the name) told of her experience losing her home to fire and how volunteers came to the aid of her family.

She gained great hope and faith in people and the importance of volunteers through her personal trauma and now volunteers her time for numerous things.The message we heard from all of the students was that volunteering must come from the heart and that their is a greater need for volunteers today than ever before. The future of volunteerism looks bright, as we see expressions of this in our lives and schools every day. Congrats to all of the students and thanks to Joe and his team for putting this together.

New Member Update

The following people are presented as new member nominees to our club. Anyone having questions or concerns should contact the nominees' sponsors or Teri Evans.

This Weeks Writer is Paul Schwartz.

New E-mail address or Fax number?

Let me know at DRBjork@thegrid.net or
phone (707) 576-7632 or fax (707) 576-7672.

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