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Collaborative Law

Call to Order

President Mike brought the meeting to order at 12:30 pm. Where was the set-up team? Uh-oh….at least the bell and the flag are present.

Led by Joe Perez and our….

Rotary Moment

Was given - by our President? What’s going on? Where is everybody? Must be the weather? June is busting out all over and is playing havoc with everybody’s allergies.

Our greeter, the fabulous Bob Marigo, introduced our guests. A visitor from afar, former member Ed Burr was introduced. Sorry, I didn’t catch everyone’s name, but this is what happens when you have unscheduled volunteers doing the Bulletin.

Thanks to Bob Zeni for handling the cash!

Announcements

Janet Codding, the only member of our club to attend the Association Dinner last Thursday evening announced The Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation Ag Trust Event this weekend, June 7 at Richard’s Grove & Saralee’s Vineyard located at 3575 Slusser Rd., Windsor. This is a benefit for the Warren G. Dutton Jr. AG Pavillion. Also, the next Association Dinner will be on July 31st at Dutton Ranch. This is a fun one and a great place to visit.

President Mike expressed his and the club’s appreciative thank you to Ginny Pitts for hosting our best attended Crab Feed Appreciation Party ever. We had about 85 members and their mates in attendance. Ginny congratulated us for only drinking 6 gallons of margaritas and numerous bottles of wine. Don’t you just love catered affairs? Thank you Pete Lamonica for the suggestion. Why didn’t you show up? And yes, you have great looking legs. Must be the tennis? Anyway, let’s do this again real soon. Thank you, Ginny, you are the hostess with the mostess. It’s always a pleasure to attend a party at Harvest Moon Vineyards. And many thanks to Randy Pitts who handed out bottles of his wonderful zinfandel as party favors. Wow and yum! What a class act Ginny, Randy and Bob Pitts!!!

Dueling Desktops?

No, actually those are laptops of course. You really want to know what this is? It’s probably the only time you will see two rotary secretaries joined at the hip. Janet Codding (Former Secretary extraordinaire from The Rotary Club of Windsor) and Sitting Secretary (literally) of The Rotary Club of Santa Rosa West, Fred Zmarzly. Janet, of course, has graciously volunteered to take over the duties of Club Secretary for the upcoming “Year of Louis The First.” What’s going on, is a transference of information....Janet with her light speed “Planet Janet modem” and Fred with his 16bps (on a good day) modem. J

Fine Times

Only one fine today and what a doozy! Doug Dilley!!! What were you doing? Riding around in a 1958 Porsche, without a care in the world, on your way the Feed Party at Harvest Moon Ranch, only to have it break down just one block from Ginny’s driveway. Not knowing where you were, you climbed a knoll in order to call for help, from a friend in Cloverdale????? Doug!!!! You could have walked to Ginny’s. You were looking at her back yard while you were on the knoll. Sorry you missed the Crab Feed Appreciation Party, and we hope that the next time you venture out, you will have better luck. $50 Thank You.

Craft Talk

Dennis Kelley grew up in Sacramento. He is a graduate of economics of UC Davis. He became a CPA with Touche Ross in Sacramento. Met his wonderful wife, Clare, and decided to look for a smaller community in which to raise a family. He joined National Bank of the Redwoods as the CFO. After 13 years there, he joined Bank of Petaluma as the CFO. In 2001 he joined AG Edwards as an Investment Broker. He enjoys bringing his investment knowledge together with serving people in helping them obtain their financial goals. He and Clare have four children, all born in Santa Rosa.

Jack Bill says he was tutored by President Mike to “be funny but tell the truth”. If that doesn’t work, “embellish”. Jack has been married so many times that all of his married years still don’t add up enough to compete with Dale Sipe and John Withers, which is a good thing Jack, otherwise you would have been married for over a hundred years!!!!

Jack wanted to thank Paul Stychno for introducing him to the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa West; Janet Codding for having fun membership meetings (it was fun seeing her mirrored water bed); Bill Dodson for helping him to learn the cashier process for the lunches, and to Bill “Water Boy” Fisher for standing up with him as a new member and giving him his red badge. Jack was born in Pittsburg, PA and attended/graduated from LaSalle University. He has a son named John who lives with his wife, Nancy, and daughter in Kentucky. His proudest educational achievement was when he received his CPCU designation.

Congratulations to both of you for your fun and informative craft talks and your dedication to earning your blue badges.

Gifts of Money

Chris Rosell, Chairman of the Money giving Committee. Is there a formal title for this committee? (Yes, it is the Projects Committee –Ed J) was ready with checks in hand to give to the following recipients:

Karen Arter of Bloomfield School reported that the $800 gift will be used for the Literacy Program that benefits children from South Park.

Peggy Mulhall from Luther Burbank Center of the Arts will use $1,000 gift to expand their school shows and school visits by artists and their workshops.

Aimee Goodwin from Mountain Shadows School was awarded $$ that would be used for field trips. She also mentioned that the school has earned the coveted award of being named a Calif. Distinguished School. Only two schools in the state are given this distinction. Congratulations!

Michelle Head representing the YMCA received $3,000 for a chairlift for the warm water pool. This allows many people with disabilities an easier time in physical therapy.

It is so nice to see how our funds from the CRAB FEED are being spent. All are such worthy causes and I know that Chris and his committee had a difficult time determining who should get what and how much. Thank you to all of you serving.

We ran out of time for fun and games, but President Mike announced that Linda Kittler would be introduced next week as our newest member. We want to do a proper job. Welcome, Linda!

Raffle

Nobody won a chance to win half of the cash pot. How did that happen? Hmmmm? Lucky lady, Ms. Caroline Fox won the bottle of wine.

Speaker

Paula Wrenn introduced our guest speaker, Andrea M. Ponticiello, Attorney/Mediator.

Ms. Ponticiello along with the help of her friends gave us three vignettes explaining the difference between “how the law usually is” compared to how it can be with “Collaborative Law”. With Collaborative Law you can maintain CONTROL, be CREATIVE and keep the COST down. Collaborative Law facilitates all concerned parties by assisting them in the communications process allowing them to get the big decisions done before going to court. (I hope that I have this concept right, if not, please let me know.) Options for going to court are litigation, mediation and collaborative. Please call Ms. Ponticiello at (707) 541-3820. She will be happy to enlighten you.

This is my last bulletin I’m doing for President Mike. Thank you for the opportunity to serve and thank you for your leadership and a great year!

Your Bulletin Reporter: Chris Parr-Feldman		Your Editor: Jim Valinoti

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