Tying Sonoma County Together

Nov. 16, 1998

King Richard called the meeting to order and directed Lori Burmeyer to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Chris Rosell was pressed into duty on short notice and put forth a gallant effort in delivering the Rotary Moment. Guests Attending with Rotarians Connie Wolf, Phillip Frankle, Linda Tessier, Capt.. Phillip Lum, Stephanie Beer, David Del Castillo, and Noel Buhler.

Announcements

Crab Feed Handouts were passed out, including:  1. Crab feed donation form. Copies available from Ginny Pitts.   2. Crab feed committee roster.  3. The Crab feed newsletter.

Harry Rubins announced another winner in the Foundation Dinner Raffle. This week Ray Mattison had the winning ticket drawn at the Foundation dinner. Congratulations Ray. Don’t forget the Paul Harris Fellow contributions they are a great tax break for late in the year.

Bob Harris is in the process of updating the Membership Roster.   If you have any changes or updates to your info, contact Bob ASAP.  Also, if you have updates to your e-mail address or fax number, contact David Bjorklund.

The XMAS FAIRE which benefits the SOS Program will be held Dec. 4-6 and Dec. 11-12. They are seeking raffle gift donations as well as volunteers to sell raffle tickets and provide other assistance as well.

The cost of lunch will increase from $11.00 to $12.00, starting January 4, 1998. The additional dollar will be used to cover the costs for guests who attend our meetings.  Previously, we had a rebate system arranged with Los Robles Lodge wherein a portion of each lunch that was collected went to the club for this purpose.  However, when they increased the price of lunch they did not add the rebate into the new cost.  Please direct any questions or concerns regarding this matter to Richard Standard or Bob Harris.

Birthday boys were Bill Fisher, Joseph Keller, Ray Schofield, and Roger Olson. All were recognized with a $5.00 fine.

Potential New Members

Teri Evans noted that six, that's right six individuals are being considered for membership by the Board at the 11/10/98 Board meeting. They are:

More Local Programs Benefit from Your Rotary Donations and Good Deeds

Jim Valinoti presented three local groups with grants for their projects. The projects funded were a play area at the local jail for children with incarcerated parents , Handy Capables and the Salvation Army Children's Summer Camp Program. Stephanie Beer accepted a check for $1,000.00 made payable to the Pastor's Prayer Fellowship for a children’s play area at the county jail.The play area will accommodate the over 250 children that visit the county jail per month and are left without much to do while moms visit dads in jail.

A check for $1,500.00 was presented to Dave Del Costillo, of Handy Capables to assist with their effort to give shut-ins some time out of the house for a meal and entertainment. They provide transportation to local events and eating locations. The third check in the amount of $1,000.00 was given to Capt. Phillip Love of the Salvation Army for their children’s summer camp program. The gift will sponsor eight children to camp helping them to experience working together and learning camping first hand.

General Recognition (aka Fines) Dale Sipe was back in town from a cross-country venture that took him through 18 states. Says it was a Navy convention. (maybe Tailhook!) President Richard collected $20.00 for the 6 week trip.  Ron Street didn’t fair as well with his visit to Mexico. Ron insisted it was his Navy reunion like Dale. Several suggested it was the Mexican Navy. Pres. Richard firmly separated $25.00 from Ron’s wallet much to his dismay. Arnie Carsten was next with destinations to Hawaii and Vienna. President Richard extracted only $20.00 for the trip. Such a good buy.

Jim Valinoti traveled to Fort Lauderdale for an immersion into "the corporate world’s management indoctrination". He said it was all work and no play. But he did have time for just one prank (a requirement for graduation). Over 4000 Dixie cups full of water ended up on the CEO’s floor. He had to drink his way into his office. The fine levied by Pres. Richard was $35.00.

Raffle

Linda Tessier (Tom’s new wife) was the latest person miss the big money pot. The marbles tally goes to 6. Go luck to all next week. Bob Lucas won the $20.00 next ticket award and promptly donated it the Community Fund.

Program - "Who's on First?" Fellow Rotarian Joe Perez was gracious to step in when our speaker was a no show. Joe gave a great program on his full-time job as Asst. Communications Manager at the County where he manages the communications network and the thousands of communication devices needed to link law enforcement agency's, the DA office, the Court house and public safety officers together.

Sonoma County’s mountainous terrain makes communications with officers in the field a challenge and expensive to maintain. A new micro wave system was installed to make communications with remote sections of the county more reliable. The county has over 4,000 communications devices in the field and over 2000 PC in it’s inventory. Joe and his staff are kept real busy just keeping track of the equipment let alone maintaining it.

Good job Joe.

Your Writer for this Weeks Bulletin was Mark Decker.

Santa Rosa West Rotary Club

David Björklund DRBjork@thegrid.net, Bulletin Editor

Bob Harris bob@hlenv.com, Secretary

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