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

April 10, 2007

The Next 2007 Harvest Festival Committee will be held at 7:00 am on Thursday, April 19, 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
A p r i l
	1	2 (B) David Jessen	3 Meeting 6pm A.M. “Corky?Rey, MD for a discussion of Butte County Search and Rescue (B) Penny Chennel (B) Mike Wacker (Daryl Polk)	4	5	6 (B) Norm Larson	7
	8 (A) Penny Chennel	9	10 Meeting 6pm Vance Parker on "The Blue Angels" (Bruce Norlie/Jim Kirks)	11	12	13	14
	15	16	17 Meeting 6pm Durham School District (Penny Chennel)	18	19 Harvest Festival Committee Meeting 7:00am at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway	20	21 (B) Mike Crump
	22	23	24 Meeting 6pm Bruce Enyeart of Butte College (Clint Goss)	25 (A) Daryl Polk	26	27	28
	29	30
M a y			1 Meeting 6pm Gary Briley on Future of Energy (Kent Jackson)	2	3	4	5
	6	7 (B) Tom Knowles	8 Meeting 6pm Richard Carpenter who modifies vans for accessibility (Glenn Pullian)	9 (A) Bill Apger	10 (B) Phil Price	11	12
	13 (B) James Edward	14	15 Meeting 6pm Casey Sohnrey on the proposed remodeling of Durham Veterans Memorial Hall (Jim Paterson)	16	17 ¡@	18	19
	20	21 (B) Kent Jackson	22 Meeting 6pm Annual Hot Dog picnic at Durham Park (Jen Liu/Roy Ellis)	23	24 Harvest Festival Committee Meeting 7:00am at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway	25 (A) Joe Nock	26
	27 (B) Glenn Pullian	28	29 No Meeting Dark after Memorial Day	30	31

President Andy opened the meeting and called on Dave Mulqueeney to give the invocation. K.R. Robertson lead the flag salute.

[Thanks to Jim Kirks for taking notes for me at this meeting.]

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:

April 17^th: Penny Chennel will present a program on the Durham Unified School Dist

April 24^th: Clint Goss will present Bruce Enyeart of Butte College.

May 1^st: Kent Jackson will present Gary Briley speaking on the future of energy.

May 8^th: Glenn Pulliam

May 15^th: Jim Patterson.

May 22^nd: Jen Lui and Roy Ellis will present a Hot ‘Dog Picnic at Durham park with Interact, Camp Royal students and Students of the Month.

May 29^th: NO MEETING.

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

Then Pres. Andy asked Mike Crump to introduce the visiting Rotarians at his table. Mike introduced: Mike Moran and Jim Wilson of the Chico Club, and John Janns from the Paradise Club.

Next Dar Meyer was called on, but there weren't any visiting Rotarians at his table. Pres. Andy drafted Mike Crump to be acting Sergeant of Arms and he collected a dollar from members at Dar's Table.

Then was it Bill Apger who introduced Tom Knowles as a visiting Rotarian from Willows.

Finally Chris Hatch was called on and reported that his table was waiting for Dave Rush. However, that didn't pass muster.

Then Pres. Andy asked Chris to introduce guests and Chris introduced Peg Norlie the brains behind the Harvest Festival.

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

After dinner, Pres. Andy asked Mike Crump to talk about Rotary Clean Up Day on April 28th. Mike announced that Dave Jessen would lead the group in cleaning up the 4 corners area in Durham so it will clean for the Durham Parade in May. The sign up sheet was circulated. Please volunteer and show up at 9:00 am in April 28^th. It will last no longer than noon.

HARVEST FESTIVAL

The next monthly meeting of the Harvest Festival Committee will be on Thursday, April 19, 2007. That is NEXT Thursday! The meeting will be at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway, at 7:00 a.m. All committee chairpersons must be present.

THE NEXT MEETING

Penny Chennel will present a program on the Durham Unified School District.

Requests for Funds

Then Pres. Andy introduced Penny Chennel who requested funds from the Club for the Clean and Sober Graduation Party to be held at Fit One. The Club voted to contribute $1500. There was a question about whether Ducky Derby fundraising would be utilized by Durham High School students to help fund the party.

Penny also told about a deaf student at Durham High that had been selected for a Peoples Ambassador program. His name is Justin Edgerton. The student needs $5,000.00 to pay for a deaf interpreter (signer).

Another deaf student from Fairfield had written to request a contribution toward her Peoples Ambassador program.

Then Mike Crump got up to tell about the need to trim and shape up the Durham community Christmas Tree. $500.00 was requested to help fund this project.

After discussion, the President appointed a four member Finance Committee to review the requests and make a recommendation. Roy Ellis will Chair the Committee. The members are Penny Chennel, Glenn Pulliam and Mike Crump.

District Family Fun Day

The District Rotary Foundation Family Fun Day will include held on May 5, 2007, from 11 am to 3 pm, at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum, 5848 State Highway 12, Suisun City, CA 94585. The price is $25 per adult and $15 per child (under 2-free). It is a western theme so come in your western clothes and bring chairs and blankets. Also bring money for the silent auction. Tom Vanella will obtain a case of 4 pound cans at a reasonable price for our clubs donation to the silent auction/raffle. There will be a BBQ picnic, music, raffle prizes, a bounce house, a silent auction and train rides.

The Western Railway Museum gives visitors the opportunity to ride historic streetcars and interurban electric trains from all over California and other western states. Streetcars loop the shaded picnic grounds. Interurban cars run over the restored main line of the old Sacramento Northern Railway. With over 50 historic cars on display, railway exhibits, the Museum Store and Gift Shop and the large, shaded picnic grounds, the Western Railway Museum is ideal for family and group outings

^{Meet the outgoing}^GSE^{Team going to}^Chile^{and the
4-Way Speech Contest Finalists!}

^{Rotary
Foundation Fundraiser in}^Redding

^{This
elegant affair entitled “Moonlight
On The River” will be held} on the Sun Dial Bridge and Turtle Bay Arboretum, in Redding, on Saturday, June 30, 2007, beginning at 6:30 p.m. You will be sipping champagne while strolling on the Sundial bridge and having dinner in the garden patio, as the sun is setting and the moon is rising overhead. It will be put on by the Redding and Anderson Clubs jointly. It will include a gourmet dinner, part 2 of the raffle ticket drawing, silent auction, music and much more. The price will be $125 per person or $1500 fpr a table of 8. Reservation details will be forthcoming soon! For more information contact Marlene Woodard, Event Coordinator at 244-4320 or office@aplannedaffair.net.

Joint Club Social Event of Chico Rotary and Chico Sunrise Rotary Clubs

Monday, May 21, 2007 at 1:00 pm with a shotgun start, at Canyon Oaks Country Club. $90 for green fees, cart, range balls, prizes and Pasta Night Dinner following Golf (BBQ hamburger lunch included). $25 for dinner only. Call Ray Block – 879-4228 or Hugh Mattingly – 895-7552.

International Convention

In spite of President Andy’s understandable disagreement with the mayor of Salt Lake City, we must announce that the Rotary International Convention will be Sunday 06/17/07 09:00am - Wednesday 06/20/07 09:00pm in Salt Lake City. The Rotary convention, often compared to a mini-United Nations conference, will attract Rotary club members from around the world to the state-of-the-art Salt Palace Convention Center. Rotary conventions held in the United States typically draw about 25,000 registrants.

RECOGNITIONS

Pres. Andy asked Penny Chennel-Carter if she had celebrated an anniversary recently? Penny proudly displayed the Grinder and announced that she and her husband celebrated their first anniversary. Also Penny announced that she had a birthday and asked Durham Rotarians to sing.

PROGRAM

Jim Kirks introduced Vance Parker by first thanking Bruce Norlie and Mike Moran for suggesting inviting Vance to speak to Durham Rotarians. Vance was born and raised in Ft. Worth, Texas, the son of an American Airlines pilot. After attending the University of Texas, Vance entered the Navy’s flight program in 1968. His assignments included front-line F-4 Phantom fighter, VF-32, two deployments aboard the USS Kennedy. He was selected for the Blue Angels in 1973 flying opposing solo pilot in 1974 and lead solo in 1975. His next assignment was to the F-14 Tomcat and trained at the Naval Air Station Miramar in 1976. When a Blue Angel solo pilot was killed in training, Vance was reassigned to the Team and again flew as a solo pilot in 1977. After the 1977 air show season, he was reassigned to the F-14 at Miramar. Vance served as operations officer, and maintenance officer of VF-213. Then he was assigned to VF-124 as an F-14 instructor pilot. He served as operations officer, executive officer and attended the Navy’s “Top Gun” school Vance was selected for command, and served as Executive Office and Commanding Officer of Fighter Squadron One (VF-1) with major deployments aboard the USS America and USS Ranger. In 1988 he was assigned as Navigator of the USS Independence. His final Navy assignment was as Fighter Wing One Operations Officer, at NAS Miramr.

Durham Rotarians were fascinated by the broken tail hook that Vance brought to illustrate his experience with catching the tail hook on a cable connecting two high tension towers. Although he almost pulled the ejection lever twice due to losing power, the cable eventually snapped free from the hook and Vance’s jet zoomed out of danger. Another interesting object was the Blue Angels helmet with a gold coated visor that allowed pilots to look directly into the sun when following the lead pilot through intricate maneuvers. During the dinner and during the program Mike Wacker and then Jen Liu played DVDs of Blue Angels air shows. Vance gave a running commentary on the amazing close formation aerobatics performed by the team.

Must Be Present To Win Drawing

Clint Goss selected his own name to win the drawing.

District/International Legislation

The following is a letter received by President Andy from District Governor, Connie Crawford. President Andy will be seeking comments from members on the items of proposed legislation and pass them on the Connie. Please review it and make your comments known to Andy.

Dear Club Presidents,

In a couple of weeks I will be heading for Chicago and the Council on Legislation (COL). I am honored to be representing our district and am grateful for your clubs’ selecting me as our representative.

Having read the 357 resolutions and enactments, I would like to share just a few of them with you and if you or any of your members would wish to express your opinions, I will be happy to consider them. Also, if you asked for the Proposed Legislation, Volumes 1 and 2, and wish to express your opinions on other items, please send them to me via e-mail up to Friday, April 20.

First, some of the model clubs in a pilot program have submitted some enactments that would change “Club Meetings.” These clubs have not been bound to the traditional schedules and there are several proposals on meeting schedules.

07-01 proposes that clubs be allowed to meet either weekly or twice per month. I like the word allowed rather than “will.”

07-07 proposes that clubs meet weekly or twice a week.

07-10 would allow clubs with not more than twenty members to cancel up to 12 regular meetings per year. Why? Do any of our small clubs cancel many meetings? Ours goes dark twice during the Christmas and New Year season.

07-13 prohibits the discussion of business matters or private disagreements during club meetings.

07-15, regarding attendance, would require members to attend 50% of regular meetings in each half year, 25% of which shall be the regular meetings of the member’s club.

07-22, -23, -24 There is also much proposed legislation regarding interactive club website activities. These e-clubs meet electronically and actually have one more year in the pilot program.

From these proposals, I think they are trying to attract today’s young potential Rotarians, especially those whose careers require much traveling.

07-49, regarding club officers, is a request for the RI Board to consider proposing legislation to the next COL requiring club secretaries who serve three or more consecutive terms to attend PETS at least every two years. Interesting.

Under Membership, there are many proposals to create more categories. If you wish, I will fax you the one-page listing of 07-51 through 07-67. Just let me know.

07-70 and 07-71, under General, request the RI Board to consider focusing on safe drinking water and endorsing the Blue Planet Foundation’s Blue Planet Run and Water Project Activities. Sounds like a possible partnership and I’m interested in learning more. The second proposal requests the RI Board to consider conducting clean water and sanitation programs after polio eradication.

07-79 requests the RI Board to consider supporting a campaign to stop the practice of child slavery. A part of this would be Rotarians refusing to shop at stores whose products are made by children in sweat shops (this is my interpretation).

07-81 requests dedicating the month of March to water.

07-82 requests dedicating the month of July to Humanity and the month of May to the environment.

07-83 requests dedicating the month of May to Women in Rotary.

07-84 requests dedicating the month of May to friendship.

07-87 and -88 request adding a fifth avenue of service: Service to Youth.

07-98, under Structured Programs, requests the RI Board to consider adopting the Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) as an official RI program.

Under the Rotary Foundation:

07-127 requests the Trustees to consider broadening the Group Study Exchange qualifications for ages 25-40 to 25-50. I like this since we are still “young” after 40 in this day and age.

07-128 requests the Trustees to consider allowing students (at least 25 years of age before entering their professions) to participate in Group Study Exchange.

07-189, under RI Operations, would allow for joint subscriptions to the official magazine. This is for those Rotarians whose spouses/partners are also Rotarians. It would cut back on revenue somewhat.

07-206 requests the RI Board to consider encouraging all Rotarians to learn another language in order to promote RI’s internationality and to facilitate international meetings.

07-221 requests the RI Board to consider gradually introducing Esperanto as a second language to all Rotary club international service committees.

Some of the proposed legislation I find important and some I find interesting. How about you?

That’s All Folks!!!

Yours in Rotary Service

Connie Crawford

District 5160 Representative

Council on Legislation

District Governor 2003-2004

4197 Patricia Way

Dunsmuir, CA 96025

R: 530-235-0210

F: 530-235-4227

E: ccrawford@snowcrest.net

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

District 5160 is: www.rotary5160.org

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

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