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Scenes from the 1997-98 Year End Celebration

Coming up

August 10
Vote on Bylaws Changes

August 24
District Governor Address, Lou Del Sol

August 22-23
Pacific Coast Air Museum Gala

August 31
Adventures in the Ukraine, Robin Marrs

Monday, July 27, 1998

A VISION FOR SANTA ROSA

King Richard Gets in the Rhythm

King Richard got us off and running at the tone of the bell. Scott Bartley led us in the pledge. Martin Miller-Hessel introduced 17 visiting Rotarians and was blessed with no hard names. Bill Dodson invocated us with another one of his soon to be patented poems on a card.

Announcements

Random acts of kindness: Janet Codding received a beautiful and sincere thank you card from an anonymous Rotarian. She reported to the editor that these sort of acts should be regularly encouraged.

Paul Schwartz announced the international service team is getting geared up. Call Paul at 566-2200 for details.

Ken Kushnir announced the passing away of a fellow Rotarian, Ed Jacopetti. Also Gerald Ayers, a member of the Downtown Club but known to many here on the West Side, has also recently passed on.  Both men made great contributions to this community in business and through Rotary prior to moving away after retirement.  Ed, who was the general manager of the  Pepsi Bottling Company here in Santa Rosa, was best known in Rotary for his talent for livening up meetings through mispronunciation of the names of visiting Rotarians. 

Responding to a desperate plea of assistance in writing the Bulletin Jim Hinton, Ginny Pitts, Ron Street and Bob Leland volunteered to fill up the roster of fine writers brought to you exclusively by the Bulletin.

Dream Vacation Raffle Ticket Sales: Robin Marrs, Arnie Carston, Ginny Pitts and Bob Miller each picked a lotto ticket in recognition of their outstanding raffle tickets sales. None of them have been willing, as yet, to disclose their winnings.

Disposing of the Evidence: Arnie Carston was given the opportunity to purchase back from King Richard the negatives from Hawaiian Shirt Day for $15 which he immediately seized upon.

The Pacific Coast Air Museum will be putting on their 1998 Air Show on August 22^nd and 23^rd from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sonoma County Airport. Call 575-7900 for more info. Or on the World Wide Web, go to http://metro.net/pcam/.

New Blue: Fred Zmarzly became the proud recipient of Santa Rosa West Rotary's newest blue badge. Congratulations Fred!

Induction Again

For the second week in a row we inducted a new member. Richard Pratt introduced us to Mike Levison who is sponsored by Arnie Carston. Arnie has known Mike since they were roommates at Sacramento State back in 1863. Arnie shared with us his recollections of being with Mike in those days, driving cross country, being escorted from Little Rock, AK by local law enforcement. These touching reminiscences brought tears to the eyes to some of our more sentimental members, like Louis Capuano.

Past Presidents Corner

John Palmer was president of this club in 1982 -- 1983, the year we established a sister club relationship with Langedijk Heerhugowaard. John noted that while we had lost a lot of members since that time, we still had Phil Talamantes and Jim Sullivan so things would probably be okay.

Hi, I'm Mike, Fly me

Mike Moore generously donated flight certificates good for anywhere in the Continental United States for the purpose of an impromptu raffle. Pete Lamonica fought through an intense bidding war to win out in the end to the tune of $500.

General Recognition Dept. (a.k.a.: fines!)

Ken Dansie recently purchased the ultimate driving machine, version 528, for which an additional tax of $52.80 was levied by King Richard with the assistance of Mike Moore. Lori Burmeyer, Fred Zmarzly, Gil Lucas and Bob Leland were all recognized, without fines, for their birthdays.

Patsy Barnes (right) was recognized for her 50th wedding anniversary and allowed to share $10 of her fine with Phil Talamantes whom she found on his honeymoon, like a needle in a hay stack. Dale Sipe was assessed a $20 travel tax for his recent journeys to Las Vegas and Scottsdale. Raffle $1080.00 was on the line. Twenty-two marbles, one of them orange, which was the key to fame and fortune. Jim Sullivan stepped to the plate and, as the crowd awaited breathlessly, he drew a green marble. Jeff Ray got the $25 consolation prize and graciously donated it to the community fund.

Internal Service Team Recognition

Thanks to:  Dale Sipe for set up and take down; Martin Miller-Hessel for greeting visiting Rotarians; Paul Stychno for selling raffle tickets; Scott Bartley for leading us in the pledge; Bil Dodson for our Rotary Moment; and to David Bjorklund for this Bulletin. 

PROGRAM:
"City Vision," Santa Rosa Urban Design Project

Bill Dodson introduced Scott Bartley who was actually Mitch Conner. Mitch Conner introduced Scott Bartley who had changed his name to Bill Dodson. Bill Dodson sat down and ran the overhead viewer and pretty much muttered quietly to himself for the remainder of meeting.

Santa Rosa is the primary population center north of San Francisco in California. Its growth plan has been, to this point, primarily suburban rather than urban. Opinions as to what should be done to revitalize the city's core business area (downtown) abound and are vastly diverse.

For one point, however, there seems to be a general consensus. That the downtown area has a tremendous potential that it is currently not reaching. Based on a premise that those of us who live here may be too close to the situation, members of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects put together City Vision or the Santa Rosa Urban Design Project.  Their endeavor is an effort to bring to Santa Rosa a Regional/Urban Design Assistant Team (R/UDAT) to provide Santa Rosa with an objective study and blueprint to reach its potential as a social, business and cultural center of Sonoma County and Northern California.

The application process has been completed. The R/UDAT team will be coming in September or October. Nobody really knows what they will come up with. The R/UDAT team is a collection of experts from a variety of specialties including architects, transportation engineers, economic development specialists, law enforcement advisers, tourism consultants and other professionals. Each of the R/UDAT experts is volunteering time for the love of what they do and the desire to be of service. The R/UDAT study offers Santa Rosa a rare opportunity to move toward achieving its potential. R/UDAT teams have achieved tremendous success in over a hundred cities nationwide since the program began.

The essential ingredient for achieving success not only for the R/UDAT study, but for implementation of any subsequent plans and goals is grassroots support. The experts who make up the R/UDAT team have two things in common, none of them are from this area and none of them stand to benefit or lose monetarily from the work they put in here. The R/UDAT team will not do the hands on work to make Santa Rosa into what it can be. If our city is going to change for the better, we will be the ones to make it happen. So, get involved. To find out how call City Vision at (707) 576-7799.

Off the Wall

Bartley Bash is good to go at Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club. According to our recent Profit and Loss statement, the weekly raffle grossed $7,500 last year as opposed to $1,300 the previous year. The idea of having some of our members become certified through the Community Media Center so that we could produce our own videos was batted around.

This edition of the Bulletin has been brought to you by David Bjorklund

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

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