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The meeting was called to order by short-timer President Louie @ 12:30 on Monday 6/21/04. |
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The Pledge Terry Galazzo led us in the Pledge followed by a stirring albeit “long winded”...Rotary Moment by “I bill by the hour” President Elect Jim Hinton. |
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Coming
Up June 28th July 5th July 12th July 19th July 26th * * * * * * * |
The Rotary Moment
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The affable William “Hey Culligan Man” Fisher introduced visiting Rotarians. |
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| Guests of Rotarians included Louie’s wife Linda and son Louie III (aka “Par 3 Louie”) |
| Notable Guests: A visitor from “a Farha” former member Mary Farha was with us today, visiting from her home club of “older members” of the Rotary community. Mary first joined our club in 1988 and was sponsored by another former member Phil Sevier...pattern here? |
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Announcements:
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Gail Johnson informed us that our exchange student Sara is wrapping up her stay in the U.S. with a 12-day excursion of the Western United States, including Las Vegas. Gail also old us that our Outgoing exchange student was ready to begin his term in Sweden (poor boy). |
There will be a Board meeting 7/13 @ Josef's (Jims first)
President’s association 7/16
And just a reminder that we will be dark 7/5.
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Past President Mike Moore informed us that the debunking was going along swimmingly...hint hint...and Chef Kushnir was hard @ work on the secret menu. FYI Marigo...bring a sandwich. If you have not yet RSVP’d by the time you read this please don’t bother to call John Meislahn. He’ll just tell you it’s too late! |
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John Meislahn is in search of a location for July fireside. |
| The District Conference was held @ the Vineyard Creek
inn and was well attended by Santa Rosa West. Bulletin Editor and Club
Website Coordinator Jim Valinoti proudly displays our Club’s
latest 1st Place Award for the Best Web Site Large Club. If you haven’t
looked at our club’s rich history of winning awards lately, you can see
it by clicking here: www.sr-rotary-west.org/awards.html |
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If we have missed an award that was earned by our club during your year as a President, Director, or Board Member responsible for our club winning that award, please let me know - Ed
The Rotary Club of Santa Rosa West was also honored with The R.I. President’s Citation, Family of Rotary.
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Our own Jimmy Underhill was also honored for his 15 years of service to RYLA. Well done, Jim! |
President Elect Elect Elect Elect Elect Elect etc., Chris Rosell made grant presentations to:
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| Dave Fisher from the LBC. $1000.00 |
Alberta Zmarzly from the Roseland School Dist. $1500.00
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Blue badges were handed out to:
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| Barbara Larson, | Scott Weiss, and | Ralph Lassa |
Chris Young will be next week.
Recognition:
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Phil Talamantes for 6th anniversary. |
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Rich Pratt for a birthday and a loooooong vacation in France. |
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Ray Schofield for a recent photo in the paper. |
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Ron Street...why???? Not quite sure. |
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Bob Marigo for the only person in the world that can have TWO royal flushes in the same week and lose money. |
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PDG Mike Merrill...I think for being locked up with Rotary Leadership in Chicago. Mike also informed us that dues will be going up and that Rotary International has adopted strategic goals and objectives for the future. |
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Last but not least were Gil Lucas and David McDonald for newspaper items. |
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Bill Fisher has donated two tickets to B B King @ LBC. The tickets will be auctioned off next week. Be sure to bring your wallets.
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Our Rotarian of the Year Ginny Pitts stepped up to the plate and bought two tickets for this weekends NASCAR event for 125.00. These were donated by Tom Laengle...thanks, Tom. Louie also informed the Membership to be ready for a 36-page insert in the P.D. coming up in February, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rotary. |
Program:
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| Our Program Director Extraordinaire Susan Nowacki introduced our speaker for today: Robin Marrs. Robin has been a member of our club for the last nine years and spent the last seven months in France. Robin and his wife Elizabeth have a special connection with France, as that is where they were married 41 years ago. | ||
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| O.K. now, Robin told us about many of the wonderful places and villages they visited and tons of culture. They all sounded beautiful, but I can’t pronounce, much less begin to spell, them. |
Robin told us about the food: expensive; the architecture: everything is made out of stone; the politics: they really don’t hate us; and the best part: the bar.
I paid particular attention to this part - but the bars are a bit different than here. First off, they actually gather and talk. WHAT!!!! No ESPN???? And they really don’t serve food. WHAT!!! No wings either????
I guess this really wasn’t much like Hooters after all. Oh yeah, the wines. Like here, they are good in some areas and not so good in others.
In all seriousness, sounds like an excellent adventure, dude.
Meeting was adjourned and we were all reminded about the Debunking on Sunday.
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Your Bulletin Reporter, Ed “Soul Man” Burr |
Your Bulletin Editor, Jim Valinoti |
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| Internal Service Recognition Roster | |||
| June 21 | June 28 | July 5 | |
| Cashier: | Kim | Kim | DARK |
| Set-up: | Chris Y. | Steve W. | DARK |
| Set-up: | Chris Y. | Steve W. | DARK |
| Greeter: | Ray M. | Brian H. | DARK |
| Pledge: | Terry G. | Terry G. | DARK |
| Ticket Sales: | Jack B. | Ed B. | DARK |
| Moment: | Dave M. | JohnM. | DARK |
| Photographer: | Bob Harris | Bob Harris | DARK |
| Programs: | Susan Nowacki | Susan Nowacki | DARK |
| Bulletin Reporter: | Gary L. | Bill D. | DARK |
| Bulletin Editor: | Jim Valinoti | Jim Valinoti | DARK |
Changes or comments?
Contact Jim Valinoti
at valinoti@sonic.net or (707) 829-2300.
