Monday Noon, Los Robles Lodge
925 Edwards Ave., Santa Rosa, California

Moore Than We Bargained For!

The meeting was called to order by President Elect Elect Michael Moore ('02-'03) at exactly 12:30PM as Pres Chuck and Pres Elect Brian were at the Rotary International Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

The Pledge

Pledge: was performed by perfectly by John Meislahn proving you can write the bulletin and perform the pledge at the same time. (I left that exactly the way you wrote it John, just so that you would know how perfectly perfect you really are J --Ed.)

Thought of the Day: came from Past President Bill Gittins ('96-'97) who reminded us this was the same anniversary as Custer's Last Stand, and if Mike did not do a good job the arrows might come at him.

Visiting Rotarians and Guests

Terry Galazzo introduced the visiting Rotarians which included a contingency from the Downtown Club and the infamous PDG John Strong from the Petaluma Valley Club.

Guests: There were none today.

Caroline Fox announced there will be a Crab Feed Meeting for all committee chairs on Thursday June 28 at 7:30AM at the Los Robles Lodge.

Jeff Ray spoke about our upcoming 5th annual Golf and BBQ social on September 14 at the Bennett Valley Golf Course. $40 includes 18 holes of golf (or 9 holes) and BBQ dinner at 6PM afterwards at Galvin Park next door. Rotarians can come to either or both. Dinner is only $15, contact Jeff (skiray007@aol.com) or Louie Capuano (lcapuano@cds1.net) to sign up.

Bill Gittins reminded us about the Debunking this Saturday night June 30th at the Wikiup Swim Club from 5-8PM. Casual attire unless you are Chuck and then you need swimwear.

Lori Burmeyer is still signing up people for the Crushers Game on July 8th. The cost is $15 per person and you need to contact her ASAP if you want to attend.

Louie Capuano was called to stand and talk about his recent purchase of a non-working power plant at the Geysers. Apparently he got a heck of a deal but it will not reduce our power bills. He donated $100 towards a Paul Harris Fellowship for his daughter Dawn.

Past President Don Ling ('79-'80) was then acknowledged with his partners in travel Phil Talamantes and Bryan Jamar. They and 15 other Santa Rosans traveled on a chartered flight to British Columbia for a little fishing excursion. Don tried to tell the fledgling President Elect Elect that he had paid his limit this year. Mike's response: "I don't give a hoot!". Bryan thought it would be fair if everyone pitched in $20.

Bill Dodson just got back from a 3 week trip to France where he traveled down a river, drank some wine and ate a lot of oysters. He had a great trip and decided to pay $1 an oyster or $40. Now we know why the French are so romantic....

Ron Allen was called to the stand to retrieve a long-sought goal: his blue badge. It appears that Ron has had a red one for over 2 ½ years and has just completed all the requirements. Some of the blame might go to his sponsor, Paul Stychno, but regardless of that, Ron paid $10. (Sounds like we have sort of a new record of longevity here...reminiscent of the Jeff Marcus "Longest Craft Talk" record --Ed.)

The Raffle

The Raffle was drawn and the lucky person was Louie Capuano who was unlucky in his pull of the marble. But Bill Dodson walked away with the wine.

Janet Codding then presented a check to our speaker Barbara Barney for $1050. The check will send 3 kids to Cool Kids Camp sponsored by District 5130.

The Program

Ron Street introduced Barbara Barney again, who is from the Rotary Club of Sebastopol. Barbara was here today to tell us more about Cool Kids Camp at Westminster Woods.

The camp was started last year by Tom Farrell (also in the Sebastopol club) to give abused and neglected kids a place to go and just be a kid. The Sebastopol Club sponsored the event last year with 45 kids from the ages of 8-12 and this year the District will sponsor the event with 65 kids.

The kids will meet at the Occidental camp from August 20-24 to swim, hike, be a part of the Sherwood forest experience and just unwind. The camp raises the youths self esteem and takes their mind off the troubles that they encounter in the real world. A portion of the kids are returning from last year and the counselors all see improved attitudes when the 5 days are over.

Now up to this point Mike had run a near flawless meeting. But as our speaker was setting up a video to watch,  Mr. Pres Elect Elect decided to intervene and mention that it was Marv Hyman's anniversary this week. Marv told the crowd the date was two weeks ago and he was already acknowledged for it.

We saw a great video production on Cool Kids Camp and were encouraged to come and take part in August.

Overall Mr. Moore receives a grade of B+ for an entertaining and organized meeting. We look forward to having him at the podium in 2002.

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Your reporter for this meeting was John Meislahn
Your editor is Jim Valinoti

STANDBY BULLETIN WRITERS ARE:
John PALMER & Tom LAENGLE

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