Rotary International President: William B. Boyd Rotary District 5160 Governor: Candice Pierce Durham Rotary President: Andy Farrar _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	April 17, 2007	The Next 2007 Harvest Festival Committee will be held at 7:00 am on Thursday, May 17, 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
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	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 Bill Apger to give the invocation.  Mike Wacker lead the flag salute.

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 24th:  Clint Goss will present Bruce Enyeart of Butte College.   May 1st:   Kent Jackson will present Gary Briley speaking on the future of energy.   May 8th:  Glenn Pulliam   May 15th:  Jim Patterson will present Casey Sohnrey speaking about the remodeling project at Memorial Hall.   May 22nd:   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 29th:  NO MEETING.

 

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

President Andy asked Steve Greenwood to introduce the visiting Rotarians at his table. Steve introduced Mike Drakulic of the Chico Club.  The Phil Price was asked to introduce the visiting Rotarians at his table.  He introduced Tom Knolls of the Willows Club, soon to be a member of this club.  Although he now lives in Durham, I assume he is still technically a member of the Willows Club, until we induct him.  Anyway, it worked.  Dave Mulqueeney was then called on, but there were no visiting Rotarians at his table, so it cost them $1 each.  Speaking of Dave, welcome back. 

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

PARADISE CLUB’S FUNDRAISER

 

Andrew Solis from the Paradise Rotary Club spoke at the beginning of the meeting about their 2^nd fundraiser concert.  This will be this Saturday at the Paradise Performing Arts Center.  They will present Norton Buffalo.  This is part of the Paradise Clubs efforts to raise money for the Water For Life program.  Tickets are $55 (if you want to participate in the party with Norton), $35 and $25.

 

ROTARY CLEAN UP DAY

 

Mike Crump again reminded members of the Rotary Clean Up Day scheduled for April 28th.  Dave Jessen will lead the group in cleaning up the 4 corners area in Durham so it will clean for the Durham Parade in May.  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, May 17, 2007.  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

 

Clint Goss will present Bruce Enyeart of Butte College.

 

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

 

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

 

None tonight! 

 

PROGRAM

 

Penny Chennel introduced Jacqueline Lincoln, a teacher in one of her schools.  Jacqueline teaches the GATE program.  She introduced her winning team of 6 children.  The team participated in a GATE program of divergent thinking called “Odyssey of the Mind”.  This program present 7 problems worldwide annually.  This group selected the geography program which was “Geography Around the World in Eight Minutes”.  The had to select three locations around the world, one near a pole, one other real place and one place in the imagination.  Then they had to develop a skit with a story traveling to each of the places in eight minutes.  Jacqueline’s group won the regional competition and place 4^th in the state competition.  The presented their program to us.

 

 

Must  Be Present To Win Drawing

 

Penny Chennel was present to win the drawing. 

 

District/International Legislation

 

The balance of the meeting was used by President Andy to go over the list of proposed Rotary International legislation listed in the District Governor’s letter published in the Rowel last week.  The club expressed opposition to changes regarding meeting requirements.  There were mixed views expressed regarding e-clubs.  The members agreed with selecting Safe Drinking Water as a Rotary International project after the polio project is completed.  The members were opposed to adopting a fifth avenue of service.  Youth are adequately taken care of under existing avenues of service and Paul Harris’ creation of the avenues of service shouldn’t be tinkered with.