May 21, 2007 Spokesman
President Steve Brown
opened the meeting at 6:30 p.m and promptly asked one of the five visiting boy scouts to conduct the boy scout flag ceremony and they then led us in the flag salute.
Visitors/Guests:
David Hunnicutt brought three guests with him and Patti Smith introduced Dr. Sudhir Calla, who is the President of the club in
Announcements:
President Steve
announced that one of his goals had been met and thanked
Tom Sturgell for compiling and distributing the hard copy Member Directory. He also indicated that there are still a lot of shirts and vests available for sale so please contact Gary Bruner.
July 2nd meeting
is cancelled due to the full day Rotarians will be putting in on the Fourth of July
Vice President 2007 -2008 :
Jim Feek has accepted the position of Vice President and was congratulated by the Club
Miracle League
at
District Assembly
on Saturday the 19th of May was attended by a few Rotarians and some good ideas were picked up from other Clubs and members.
John Muir school volunteers appreciation day:
Dave Aubry mentioned that Rotarians are invited to attend the thank you to community volunteers tea at 9:30am this Thursday the 24th of May at
4th of July Picnic
Dianne Santeford announced that Patti Smith has agreed to co-chair the Picnic this year. Sign-up sheets were distributed on the tables - if you don't know what you would like to do or would like more information about the possible tasks on the Fourth of July, please contact Dianne or Patti. We need a few more volunteers so the event is successful and boosts our Duck Dash dollars. Many hands make light work!!
Duck Dash sales
: Bob Webb announced that the site sales are in need of a few more people. Please sign up or send Bob an email. Or call up a Rotarian and ask them to join you for a couple of hours of fun one weekend.it's how the community gets to know us!
If you need tickets to sell, contact Rick Ostrander
If you have tickets and money to hand in, write your name in the Organization blank, and
give them to Joanne Primavera.
Fourth of July parade:
Meet at the Shinstrom Sr's home to decorate cars, and assembly to walk in the parade. Contact Steve Shinstrom for more details.
Golf Tournament
on June 11th at Mt.Si.
:
Please
remember to pre-pay at the front desk by June 4th or ask
Al Hoviland
for more details.
$65 per person for golf and dinner $9.50 extra for a box lunch
$25 for dinner only
The Foundation Boys,
Jim Feek and Rich Bergdahl, brought in their Smiley Faces board to reiterate that it would be great if everyone in the Club would contribute to the Rotary Foundation. WHY? Because that is how we leverage our dollars to do more in our community: we were able to buy twice as many Accelerated Reader programs for John Muir last year AND this year we will be writing another grant to petition dollars from the Foundation to double our dollars for a collaborative international and community World Vision project that you will be hearing more about shortly. Contact the Foundation Boys for more information on how and why to give to the Foundation.
Classification talk:
Tom Gant great his classification talk this evening and told us about his Canadian beginnings in the field of medicine, three grown children with successful careers who all live in the area, and his marriage a year ago to Lynn. Tom is a retired physician and an artist. He was sponsored by Jim Feek, whom he met through Jim's wife, Kathy Feek, who he met through the Kirkland Arts Commission. Gary Bruner was Tom's mentor. He received his blue badge this evening.
PROGRAM:
Our Program was introduced by Rotarian,
The lucky ticket was held by
Cheryl Bloodworth
, but she did not select the "blue" marble. Her name will go in the "second chance" drawing.
President Steve adjourned the meeting at 7:40 p.m.
Submitted by your Scribe for the Night: Rachel Knight