Rotary International

President:

William B. Boyd

Rotary District 5160 Governor:

Candice Pierce

Durham Rotary President: Andy Farrar

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Rowel Editor: Phil Price

January 23, 2007

The First 2007 Harvest Festival Committee will be held at 7:00 am on a date to be announced in February 2007 at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway. The 2007 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 16, 2007.

2007 Calendar for Durham Rotary
J a n u a r y
		1	2 No Meeting New Year's Holiday	3	4	5	6
	7	8	9 Meeting 6pm Juvenile Hall (Phil Price)	10	11	12	13
	14	15	16 No Meeting Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday	17	18 Crab Feed Committee meeting at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, January18ty, at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway	19	20 (B) Andy Farrar
	21	22	23 Meeting 6pm Golden Valley Bank, 190 Cohasset Rd, Suite 170 (K. R. Robertson) (B) Bruce Norlie	24	25	26	27 Crab Feed at Durham Memorial Hall (Chris Hatch)
	28	29	30 No Meeting Crab Feed Recovery	31 (A) Phil Price
F e b r u a r y					1 (A) Client Guss (A) K. R. Robertson	2	3
	4 (A) Dave Jessen	5	6 Meeting 6pm Paul McIntosh, Butte County CAO on Oroville Dam Relicencing Impacts (Mike Crump)	7	8	9	10
	11 (B) Bruce Miller	12	13 Meeting 6pm Valentine's Day Dinner (Jane Ziad)	14	15 Harvest Festival Committee Meeting 7:00am at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway	16	17
	18	19	20 No Meeting	21	22	23	24
	25 (A) Tom Vanella	26	27 Meeting 6pm Derek Wolfgram, Butte County Librarian (James Kirks)

President Andy called the meeting to order in the Founders Room of Golden Valley Bank. Rev. Jim gave a short invocation thanking God for Norm’s rich friends that built this beautiful bank.

Missed Meetings

This is a new feature, at the request of President Andy, to assist members in keeping up their attendance. The following members need to make up this week’s meeting: No list this week. But if you missed see below for makeups.

Make-ups can be had within two weeks of the meeting at:

Monday: Oroville, The Depot, 12 Noon; Orland, Kountry Kitchen, 12 Noon.

Tuesday: Oroville, The Depot, 7:00am; Chico, Elks Club, 12 Noon.

Wednesday: Marysville, Elks Club, 12 Noon.

Thursday: Chico Sunrise, Canyon Oaks Country Club, 6:45 a.m.; Gridley, Memorial Hall, 12:15 p.m.; Paradise, Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Rd, 12:15 p,.m.; South Yuba Linda, Eagles Nest, 7:00 a.m.; Willows, Franco's, 12:15 p.m.

Friday: Yuba City, The Refuge, 12:15 p.m.

E-Clubs:
http://www.rotaryeclubsouthwest.org;
http://rotaryeclub34.org/;
http://www.rotaryeclubny1.com/;
http://www.rotaryeclub7890.org/

FUTURE MEETINGS:

January 27^th: Crab Feed-Chris Hatch.

January 30^th. No Meeting. Crab Feed Recovery.

February 6^th: Roy Ellis.

February 13^th: Valentine’s Day Dinner by Jane Ziad

February 20^th: No Meeting

February 27^th: Brian Arntzen

Norm Larson explained that golden Valley Bank is a community bank. The investors are local businessmen and the building’s interior was designed and built by local craftsmen. Norm thanked Frank Spiteri for catering the dinner. Norm introduced Mark Sweeney who lead the Club on a tour of the Bank.

Pres. Andy introduced KR who asked Bruce Norlie to stand as Frank Spiteri presented him with a cake with two blazing candles. The group sang Happy Birthday, Bruce. Bruce advised that only his aunts call me Brucie.

Roy Ellis responded with "Cut the cake, Brucie."

KR told Bruce if you turn the cake around 65 turns into 56.

Mark Sweeney of Financial Services at Golden Valley Bank and Norm Larson were asked to stand and received a round of applause.

VISITING ROTARIANS:

Pres. Andy asked Glenn Pulliam to introduce visiting Rotarians. Glenn introduced Erin Norlie, Chico Sunrise Club, classification Manufacturing.

Bruce Norlie introduced his wife Peg, Son Eric, his daughter in-law and Sarah Harper, the 4 month old grand daughter.

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

THE NEXT MEETING

The next meeting will be the Crab Feed this Saturday, January 27^th. It is a meeting of record. All members must be present, not only because you should be present at a meeting, but because your help is needed for this important fundraiser. More below.

There will be NO MEETING on January 30^th, because the Crab Feed takes the place of this meeting date.

The next meeting after the Crab Feed will be February 6^th, at the BCCC.

CRAB FEED

The Durham Rotary Crab Feed is Saturday, January 27^th. All members will be assigned a task. The work schedule is repeated again at the end of this Rowel. Please check what you are scheduled for and be there on time. If any member cannot attend, let Chris know, to be assigned a pre-event task.

Chris Hatch advised that all tickets need to be sold because the cost of crab and shrimp has increased significantly. So get to work and sell them. The menu will be the same as last year. The tickets are $35.00 each. This has become our second most important fundraiser. But it is important that all the tickets be sold. The profit is on the last tickets sold.

PAUL HARRIS SOCIETY

Pres. Andy asked if members knew what the Paul Harris Society is. He indicated that it is meeting at the Benicia Yacht Club. It includes Rotarians who donate $1,000.00 per year to the Paul Harris Foundation.

Rotary Ski Challenge

The Roitary Club of Tahoe City presents the 31^st Annual Dick Linkey Rotary Ski Challenge on Friday, March 2, 2007. They tout this as the largest gathering of skiing Rotarians in the world. For more information go to their web site at: www.tahoecityrotary.org. The completed registration package must be completed and delivered to them by February 23, 2007. They also mentioned their Tahoe Cup Challenge at the Coyote Moon Golf Course on June 14, 2007. Register for this at: www.tcgolf,golfreg.com.

RECOGNITIONS

Pres. Andy called on Daryl Polk. He asked Daryl about his family and how proud he was of them. Daryl responded that he has four daughters in college. One is in England working on a Masters in English, one is at San Jose State University, one is at CSU Chico, and one is a senior at High School and attending Butte College. He has another daughter in High School and his youngest daughter is in Junior High School. Daryl donated $50.00 in recognition of his outstanding family.

Pres. Andy called on Kent Jackson who said he had nothing going on. Pres. Andy replied that a void is very costly. Kent offered $10, but it was turned down. Kent then offered $40 and it was accepted for the recognition.

KR was the last to be recognized by Pres. Andy. KR responded with "KR Class of 85 excused." He claimed that he worked all week and barely had enough funds to get back across the bridge. He explained that his wife Sharon is working hard to support the homestead. Pres. Andy learned that KR had recently sold his 65 Mustang to his son. KR claimed he lost money on the deal. However, Pres. Andy recognized KR for $65 and explained that he was trying to help KR become a double or even a triple bell ringer.

PROGRAM

Pres. Andy introduced KR as the program chair for tonight’s meeting. KR immediately introduced El Jefe who announced that once every 20 years the Durham Rotary Club passes on its Service above Self Award. Bruce Norlie has justified Service above Self from an early age. He was directing traffic on El Camino Real in Redwood City at age 3. Bruce explained that his father worked where ever carpentry jobs were available and there was work at that time in Redwood City.

Then the family moved to Stirling City. Bruce at an early age could identify the trucks in this logging community by sound of the engines and horns. Also, Bruce would only eat peanut butter.

When the family moved to Chico, Bruce attended a 2-room school located at the site of what is now John McManus Elementary School. Bruce continued getting his education in Chico and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Chico State.

Bruce met Peg at a teenage dance. It was love at first sight and now they have been married over 40 years.

Bruce patented a machine for baggage handling at the then new Sea-Tac Airport. Bruce went on to explain the difference between a # 1 and a # 2 baggage handler. A # 1 destroys the contents of the bag and one can tell this by looking at the bag. A # 2 destroys the contents of the bag but one can’t tell by looking at the bag.

Then Bruce moved on to Norfield Industries, where he has remained until his retirement today.

During this time Bruce formed a group of chief executives of industries in the area. He was one of the founders of CEPCO.

In 1979 Bruce was Treasurer of the Durham Rotary Club and noticed that there was no money in the treasury. Peg suggested holding a craft fair to raise funds. There were 25 crafters at the first Harvest Festival. The next year Lindey Robinson and Greg Scot had a tub of hot water, hot dogs and a TV to watch football games at the Harvest Festival. Then it was decided to have a pancake breakfast. Next the Capt. Bob Pancake Wagon was added to the scene when the County Sheriff was a member of the Durham Rotary Club.

Next old tractors were added and then the antique car show, and later the Kirshner Wildlife exhibit. All through the years, Peg & Bruce guided the Harvest Festival. Then they decided that others in the Durham Rotary should take over this important event. It is now run by multiple committees.

In his spare time, Bruce rebuilt a 1932 Ford roadster and restored a Skicraft fiberglass boat with a 1960 Ford V8 engine. He enjoys making furniture and designing homes which his brother-in-law have built for them in Chico and at Lake Almanor.

Bruce has served on many boards for community groups. Now he is President of the Far West Heritage Association which operates the Patrick Ranch and Chico Museum.

Suddenly, El Jefe announced "Bruce enjoys cross dressing." The club suddenly became very attentive. Bruce responded that he has shown up at work as Capt. Silver, an eagle, Capt. Kirk and even Minnie Pearl. During the last 12 months he has planned with his wife Peg what character to appear as at monthly Norlie Industry meetings. Not only is the costume planned in detail, there is music to set the stage for Bruce to come into the meeting room to have fun and get the group to think outside the box.

Among the awards that Bruce has received are recognition by the State of California, Leadership in Industry Award, the Pat Lapin and the Web Awards from the Chico Chamber of Commerce.

El Jefe presented Bruce with a jar of peanut butter as a symbolic award from Durham Rotarians. KR told Bruce that a plaque for his office is in the works.

Bruce was invited to say a few words. When Peg became Durham correspondent for the Enterprise-Record, Bruce became aware of the Durham community. By joining Durham Rotary he became part of the Durham community. Their sons Erin and Eric attended Durham schools. It has been very enjoyable, but now he is transitioning and will be spending much time at Lake Almanor. Bruce asked Norm Larson if there was any office space at Golden Valley Bank as they don’t want him any longer at Norfield Industries and Peg doesn’t want him at home all the time. Bruce thanked the Club for the recognition. Then he asked if members should be recognized for not having a badge to wear as he was wearing his badge and so was Pres. Andy.

Club members asked Pres. Andy "Where’s the bell." That ended the discussion about the badges.

Must Be Present To Win Drawing

No drawing tonight.

Thank you to Jim Kirks

Jim Kirks took notes for me at this meeting (I was only in Yreka on business, Andy). Thank you Jim. The rearranging of the order of the notes, and the meeting as you may remember it, to fit my usual Rowel format was all mine.

2007 Durham Rotary

Crab Feed Fundraiser

January 27, 2007

Committee Chair Meeting – Thursday, January 18^th, 7:00am, Italian Cottage

Chairman: Chris Hatch

Co-Chairman: Steve Greenwood

Dave Mulqueeney

Committees and Chairs:

1.) Kitchen Committee: Set Up 4:30 PM, Pick Up Food 3:30

a) Bill Apger -Chair

b) Committee Members:

1) Mike Crump

2) Chris Hatch

3) Bruce Norlie

4) Bruce Miller

5) Spiteri’s Deli

2.) Serving Committee: Set Up 5:00 PM

a) Dave Mulqueeney-Chair

b) Jim Patterson-Co-Chair

c) Committee Members:

1) Penny Chennell

2) Roy Ellis

3) Clint Goss

4) Dave Jessen

5) Tom Vanella

6) Dar Meyer

7) Jim Edwards

8) Norm Larson

9) Interact Club

3.) Set up Committee: Decorations/theme, order Rotary Brochures for 1 at each place. Have cards made indicating Rotary’s value to Durham. Set Up Tables at 4:30 PM

a) Glenn Pulliam - Chair

b) Phil Price – Co-Chair

c) Committee Members:

1) Jim Edwards

2) Jim Kirks

3) Norm Larson

4) Don McNelis

5) Jane Ziad

6) Interact Club - 4

4.) Bar and Soft Drink Committee: Set Up at 4:30 PM

a) Jen Liu-Chair

b) Steve Greenwood-Co-Chair

c) Committee:

1) Todd Kimmelshue

2) Dan Davis

3) Don McNelis

4) Kent Jackson

5.) Ticket Sales Committee: Could possibly hand the Rotary Brochures and Scholarship donation here. Set Up at 5:00 PM

a) Mike Wacker-Chair

b) Daryl Polk-Co-Chair

c) Committee:

1) Joe Nock

2) K.R. Robertson

3) Steve Plume

4) Dianne Farrar

5) Louise Collier

6) Andy Farrar – Greeter / MC

6.) Clean Up - ALL

The Rotary International web site is: www.rotary.org

District 5160 is: www.rotary5160.org

The Durham Rotary Club site is: www.durhamrotary.org

The Rowel Editor may be contacted at pbhlaw@sunset.net

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