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The Dulcimer Projects

Call to order:

By President Mike at 12:25PM

Pledge:

Completed by Janet Codding

Rotary Moment:

Sumner Carson was called upon for this duty but he was absent, so the "Bill Gittins Table" helped out by telling us - "First Things First..." Enough said.

Visiting Rotarians: Tom Laengle gave a humorous greeting to our visiting Rotarians of which there were many.

John Palmer introduced his son, Scott Palmer, Caroline Fox brought Keith Wright, and Gail Johnson introduced us to Jaffa, one of the Rotary Exchange Students in the district.

President Mike then had Jaffa come up to the front for a little kiss...and he also gave her a birthday present. (Hmmm...sounds very Presidential -Ed J)

Sunshine Report:

Susan Nowacki's report was mainly on those present. Jeff Ray is back from a little hospital stay and stent surgery. President Mike asked him to eat better so as to not miss our Golf Tournament next year. Phil Talamantes was back in high spirits from gall bladder surgery, and our Prez asked Phil, " Since your gall is gone, are you still a Democrat?"

Chuck Stark was industriously handing out the new rosters.
(Boy, I could sure use one of those -Ed)

Chris Parr announced we have a Crab Feed meeting after the luncheon, and Louie Capuano is now selling corporate tables for the big feed January 25th, 2003.

Gail Johnson is having a New Member Party at her house on November 7th from 5:30-8:30 PM. She resides at 365 Gemma Circle in SR. ALL MEMBERS and spouses are welcome to attend and get to know the newbies.

Ginny Pitts reminded us we are dark on November 4th as the 2nd Annual Honor Our Vets Luncheon Meeting will be held on November 7th at 11:30-1:30 at the Vets Building.
$15 tickets sold in advance from Ginny.

President Mike got an email from RI that mentions we could open our wallets and take out a $3 bill to send to them to sponsor the Rotary Rose Parade Float. His comment on this was comparing RI to the Catholics...(and as a fellow fallen Catholic, I concur -Ed J)

Bob Marigo mentioned we are hosting the Sonoma County Rotary Association Dinner (the old President's-Secretary's Meeting for us more mature members -Ed) on October 24th at the Wild Oak Club. Club members can eat and drink for free if you just show up.

The topic will be our "How To Pull Off A Successful Fundraiser"...not unlike our very own Crab Feed. The club is looking for a donation valued at $100 for the event.

Harry Rubins is selling raffle tickets for $10 each to win a $1000 prize. The proceeds will go to the Polio Plus Eradication and the winner will be announced on November 9th at a party for $50 each.

Janet Codding is having a New Member Meeting at her house this date. It is always the First Monday of the month at her house. (And since this is already old news, just remember that next month the meeting will be on November 4th -Ed)

Rick Rybicki (who you ask?) made a rare appearance at our meeting to discuss the program of Student Fishing in the City. (Do we have a new email address for Rick yet? -Ed)

Finally the fines:

Louie Capuano was asked to stand again to receive recognition on winning an award at the Geothermal Council meeting in Reno. He was apparently the best at digging the deepest....he contributed $203 to the Polio Eradication.

Rich Pratt was called on to comment on his ad in the paper on being a Registered Investment Counselor (although his main bread and butter is from being a CPA). He also confessed to a trip to Alaska, NY, and upcoming a trip to Paris…but not with Ginny. He paid $20.

Chris Parr missed a meeting last week due to celebrating her 2nd anniversary at Sea Ranch. She was there with the Sea Ranch Sisters and we guess her husband, too, but she didn't mention that. $20 fine for this trip. (Uhhh...Ok, I'll bite. Who are the Sea Ranch Sisters? -Ed).

Joe Perez then piped in that he had no fine basket and barely remembered to bring the microphone around. No fine was asked of him.

Von Von Der Mehden (and for those of you who are new, or confused, or old and permanently confused, or just don't think that my spellchecker works, Von's real first name is Henry -Ed) was asked to stand to talk about a recent trip to Alaska.

President Mike commented that it is just as difficult to extract info from Von as it is Dale Sipes. He then went to great lengths discussing how impossible it is to get them to talk. Von told him to shut up, the crowd applauded and Von said he spent 7 days of fishing with one good one. All rain and 7 or 8 15-pounders, Prez asked for $75 but Von was slippery and got the fine reduced to $50.

One of our members came in First Place at the Harvest Fair 3K….??? it was Bill Fisher, who explained he was just going to get money in his car but was chased by a bunch of people around the city and he happened to come across a finish line first. Great job, Bill!

 (OK...one of those "had to be there anecdotes" -Ed)

Raffle:

Bryan Fikes had the lucky ticket but not the marble.		Louie got the bottle of wine.

Program:

Our President then introduced our own Richard Standard as the guest speaker. Rich has had many vocations and settled recently on Storytelling in the schools. He also plays the dulcimer (a flat looking guitar-like thing that is played while it rests on your knees) and gave a short history of the instrument and the benefits of live music performed for children.

Rich will go into the classrooms and have 5th graders build their own dulcimer out of cardboard in four days and then teach them how to use it. He showed us a video of a class he did this in and the children put on a performance for the school at the end.

Rich then told us a story of the "Hunter and the Parrot" while playing the dulcimer. He gets corporate and individual sponsors to help enter into the classrooms, as the Arts and Music funds have been stripped from the budgets.

Your Bulletin Reporter: John Meislahn

Your Editor: Jim Valinoti

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