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A
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The meeting was called to order by President Louie
promptly at 12:30.
The Pledge
Terry Galazzo was a no show for the Pledge so it was led by Bill
Dodson in her absence.
The Rotary Moment
John Meislahn gave the Rotary Moment in which he honored
President Reagan who passed away this weekend.
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Visiting Rotarians
 Phil Talamantes introduced our visiting Rotarians with member
from Winterhaven Florida traveling the furthest.
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Rotarian of the
Year The meeting got a bit out of order at this point as President Louie
was so excited to hear who had won the Rotarian of the year award.
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Ginny Pitts and Scott Bartley went to the stage to make
the announcement.
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Ginny began to introduce the recipient mentioning that she
worked in the Wine Industry, loved to travel and cook gourmet cuisine, and
that she went to the University of Arizona (Ginny of course knowing,
that she was giving us the bio of her very good friend and traveling buddy,
Tarina Hall, but after a few moments of that…………. |
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Scott interrupted her and let her know that some of
the information she had about this year’s winner was not accurate……………. that instead of attending the University of
Arizona, she had actually attended the University of Michigan (where indeed
Ginny went to school!) |
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With that, it became all too apparent to everyone who
knows Ginny and certainly herself, that indeed she
was this years Rotarian of the Year!
Always the clever one, Scott let
her think she was announcing her very good friend Tarina. |
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Ginny was speechless, and quite moved, but did manage to express her
gratitude for this honor! |
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A very deserving recipient our Ginny. Congratulations on a
well deserved award! |
Kudos to Scott
who had this one dialed in to the nines! He even invited Ginny’s Husband
Bob and 3 of her kids to help celebrate
"Tarina’s" recognition!
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Announcements Many guests were then announced and with that
Chris
Rosell took the stage to introduce some additional recipients of the
funds raised at our annual Crab Feed. |
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Jim Corbett of Mr. Music received
$1500.
He has used the money to start a music program at Roseland/Shepherd
school. They have not had a music program for over 10 years. |
Michelle Heck accepted $1500 on
behalf of YMCA.
These funds were used for their Summer Splash Program. |
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The Children’s Language and Learning Center was represented by
Dr. John Samples and received $2000. |
Richard Lopez of Double Punches Boxing
Club received $1500.
His organization helps keep people off drugs by
providing alternative activities. Each person involved in Double Punches
also has to pay a membership fee. |
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Dennis Hansen appeared on behalf of
FISH.
FISH will be able to continue its good works feeding the poor with the
$4000 they received. They have been providing their services for over 30
years and fed 48,000 people in 2003. |
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 Craft
Talk
We were then entertained with a craft talk by new member
Scott Weiss.
He is into both real
estate sales and is a manufacturers sales rep selling high tech goods.
Welcome Scott!!
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More Announcements Tarina Hall announced that there would be a crab feed meeting next
Monday. It will be for a half-hour right after the regular lunch meeting.
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Brian Herndon would like everyone to call him or Jim
Hinton if they are planning on attending next year’s convention in
Chicago. He will help make sure everyone stays in the same hotel or at least
on the same side of town. |
| President Elect Jim Hinton let us know that his trip to
Osaka was a great adventure and he was very grateful to the club for sending
him. The opening of the convention had 47,000 people from over 150 nations
in attendance! |
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Recognition
President Louie did a mass fining of all the members that had not yet
been fined.
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Janet Codding had her
picture in the Business Journal (that she didn’t even know about)
and got
fined.
Chris Young had a birthday.
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 John Withers’
grandson continues to
do great as a track star. |
| Raffle There was no winner for the drawing so be sure to buy lots of tickets
next week!
The pot will be over $600!!!
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The Program
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Study Exchange Team visiting District 5130 from Sao Paolo,
Brazil.
They were introduced of course by
Chris Parr, who always does an excellent job of welcoming them to our club.
Thanks for your hard work Chris!
GSE was started in 1955 and the
group consists of one Rotarian as team leader and 4 members that are not
Rotarians. |
President Elect Elect, and Past District Group Study Exchange
Team Leader & Committee Chair
Chris Parr introduced the program today.
(Whew! The length of
the title is matched only by the amount of dynamite this lady packs with her
incredible enthusiasm for Rotary! J -Ed) |
This year the Team Leader is Joa
Quim, a businessman and English Language Teacher, from the Rotary Club
of Ferraz de Vasconcelos. The team members (pictured left to right here)
consist of Karen Voss a German & English Teacher, Presidente’ Lou,
Team Leader Joa, Braulio Barbosa Pires, and engineer,
Fabiola Settani, a dentist, and Katiuscia Sutti Ribeiro, an ESL
teacher. They were a warm and friendly group with a great sense of humor.
They told us many interesting things about their city and country and also
let us know about Rotary in Brazil.
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President Lou presided over his last official Board
Meeting this past week. He expressed his appreciation for all the hard work
we had done the past year and his gratitude for our cooperation in making
his year a most successful one. Thanks to you too Lou! – Ed
Your Bulletin Reporter,
Jeri Arnold |
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Your Bulletin Editor,
Jim Valinoti |
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| Internal
Service Recognition Roster |
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June 7 |
June 14 |
| Cashier: |
Kim |
Kim |
| Set-up: |
Jack B. |
Chris Y. |
| Set-up: |
Jack B. |
Chris Y. |
| Greeter: |
Phil T. |
Ray M. |
| Pledge: |
Terry G. |
Terry G. |
| Ticket Sales: |
Steve W. |
Jack B. |
| Moment: |
John M. |
Dave M. |
| Photographer: |
Bob Harris |
Bob Harris |
| Programs: |
Susan Nowacki |
Susan Nowacki |
| Bulletin Reporter: |
Jeri A. |
Gary L. |
| Bulletin Editor: |
Jim Valinoti |
Jim Valinoti |
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