Santa Rosa West Coming up

May 17
Drug & Alcohol Abuse Center (DAAC)
Michael Spielman
Director

May 24
Grandparents
Parenting Again
Ann Pierce

May 31
DARK
Memorial Day

May 10, 1999

Conspiracy Theory

Opening

The meeting was called to order at about 12:30 by the soft whisper of president elect Patsy Barnes who was performing her "trial run" meeting. Today’s greeter was Mr. Jim Valinoti who introduced the visiting Rotarians, many of whom were from the Downtown Club. Bob Marigo lead the pledge and the words of wisdom were given by Paula Wrenn.

Announcements

Jim Hinton reminded everyone we need a couple more host families for incoming students from Chile. Let Jim know if you are able to help out.

SRW Community Fund Board of Directors will meet Wednesday, May 19th at 7:30 a.m. at Marie Calender's Restaurant. Board members should check their email for details.

Where Your Rotary Dollars Go

The Board approved $675.00 to go to the Montgomery High School to support 15 students with tickets to project Graduation this year.

The board approved $1700 dollars of Raffle money to be put up in $100 increments as matching funds for any $100.00 contributions to the RI Foundation through the end of this Rotary foundation year. These will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Raffle

The magic money marble is still at large.  Tune in  next week for more details.

Proposed New Members

The following are proposed new members:

Questions, concerns or comments should be directed towards Teri Evans or the sponsor of the proposed new member.

Program: "They" Are Controlling What We See & Hear

Our enthusiastic speaker, Dr. Peter Phillips of Sonoma State University, gave a very informative speech concerning the censorship of our media. According to Dr. Phillips, America is the least informed most entertained society. He is a professor at Sonoma State University and has published a series of books under the title Censored 97, Censored 98 and, of course Censored 99.

In the last decade the number of major media sources has consolidated to less than 11. The result of this is a lack of diversity in the media we see and read. Dr. Phillips showed us a short video that is airing on PBS regarding the sharp increase in the selling off of our military equipment. Prior to the Clinton administration we have sold or given away 3 percent of our military equipment per year. During the Clinton administration that figure jumped to 64%. The video also cited the Clinton administration as having given away several hundred brand new tanks at a cost of 1.4 million a piece. The price was right; simply for the cost of postage and handling. That’s ok, we’ll just raise the taxes again. Bill Clinton’s excuse was this was done to create more jobs (so we can give more away). Dr. Phillips found this interesting since millions of military equipment jobs were cut last year. It was a informative speech full of conviction.

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Internal Service Recognition & Reminder

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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