Rotary International President: Wilfrid J. Wilkinson Rotary District 5160 Governor: Stan Smalley Durham Rotary President: Daryl Polk _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	April 29, 2008	The  2008 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008.

2008                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
A p r i l
			1 Meeting Janet Brinson will speak on the Chico Unified School District budget. (Glen Pulliam)	2 (B) Dave Jessen	3 (B) Mike Wacker	4	5
	6 (B) Norm Larson	7	8 Meeting North Valley Health Education Foundation (Dar Meyer)	9	10	11	12
	13	14	15 Meeting Brian Shul - Retired SR71 Pilot (Daryl Polk)	16	17	18	19
	20	21 (B) Mike Crump	22 Meeting John Anderson of New Urban Builders who will speak about the Meriam Park Project and Planning Issues (Tom Knowles)	23	24	25 (A) Daryl Pole	26
	27	28	29 Meeting Margot Harry to speak on "Northern California Land Trust" (Dave Mulqueeney)	30
M a y					1	2	3
	4	5	6 Meeting Chuck Cabral to give us a tour at the newest huller in operation in the Durham area…..the address for the huller is 9051 Aguas Frias Rd, Chico, CA…..  Will discuss where we can eat (Daryl Polk)	7	8	9 (A) Bill Apger	10 (B) Phil Price
	11	12	13 Meeting Texas Hold’em Poker tournament (Ged Andrusaitis) (B) Jim Edwards	14	15	16	17
	18	19	20 Meeting Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park with Interact, Camp Royal and Students of the Month (Roy Ellis) (A) Steve Greenwood	21 (B) Kent Jackson	22	23	24
	25 (A) Joe Nock	26	27 No Meeting Day after Memorial Day (B) Glenn Pulliam	38	29	30	31

President Daryl opened the meeting at the BCCC.  He asked Andy Farrar to lead the pledge.  He did.  Jim Patterson offered the invocation.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

May 6th:  Daryl Polk will take us on a tour of the newest huller operation in Durham at 9051 Aguas Frias Rd.   May 13th:   Ged Andrusaitis will hold a Texas Hold’em Poker tournament.   May 20th:  Roy Ellis – Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park with Interact, Camp Royal and Students of the Month.   May 27th:  Day after Memorial Day- No meeting   June  3rd :  Carnitas Feed.   June 10th : Club Assembly with the President Elect.   June 17th :  Bill Apger will present “Steve Bertagna Uncensored.”   June 24th:  Demotion.

 

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Steve Plume introduced Barry Sherwood of the Chico Club.  Glenn Pulliam introduced George Brownridge, also of the Chico Club

 

NEXT MEETING

 

NOTE THAT THE MEETING WILL NOT BE AT THE BCCC.

 

Daryl Polk will take us on a tour of the newest huller operation in Durham, at 9051 Aguas Frias Rd.  Meet at the huller.  From Durham take the Durham-Dayton highway to the Dayton Four Corners.  Turn left onto Agua Frias Road.  From Chico take Dayton Road to the Dayton Four Corners.  Continue straight ahead onto Agua Frias Road.  About 1 ½ miles down Agua Frias you will see a sign on the east (left) side of the road with 9051.  The huller is on the west (right) side set back a ways.  Look carefully. 

 

Here is our dinner plan for the meeting on May 6:

 

 

 

NOTE:  I will not be available to put anything in the Rowels for May 6^th and May 13^th .  They are already prepared, and in Jen’s hands.  If there is anything that needs to be announced in one of those Rowels, get it to Jim Kirks or directly to Jen Liu and ask that they add it.

 

Ged Andrusaitis reported that the Texas Hold’em Poker tournament  to be held at the May 13^th meeting will be conducted like the World Series of poker conducted in Las Vegas.  Everyone will get a free buy-in of chips.  There will be no limit, but if you loose all your chips you are out.

 

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

CLUB BYLAWS

 

Now that K. R. is back, it is the time to report to him your comments about the Bylaws he distributed in December, which you have, I am sure, reviewed as he asked.  We cannot find the Bylaws for the Club and need to adopt new ones.  Speaking of K.R., Jim reports that he is getting some use of his hands back.

 

 

 

HARVEST FESTIVAL

 

 

 

At the April 22^nd meeting Steve Greenwood passed around Durham Rotary 2008 Harvest Festival Sponsorship Forms with a list of the sponsorship levels list.  Get the forms to all the sponsors you know of.  Steve wants the forms back by early July so we can get the T-Shirts ordered and the lists of sponsors printed.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Daryl forgot to bring the Bell tonight, so he fined himself $40.

 

The Grinder was auctioned off for May.  Mike Wacker was the successful bidder at $60.00.  He reported that he is only going to Berkeley where his son is getting his MBA degree.

 

PROGRAM

 

Dave Mulqueeney presented Jamison Watts, Executive Director of the Northern California Regional Land Trust.  He made a power point presentation on "Agricultural Conversion and Irrigated Farmland Protection in Butte, Glenn and Tehama Counties"  He described the process by which the Trust purchases from farmers of qualified agricultural property agricultural conservation easements.

 

DRAWING

 

Ged Andrusaitis was here to win the “Must Be Present to Win” drawing.

 

Membership Teams

Mike Wacker reported that Team One has accumulated 13 points while the remaining teams have only 1 point each.

 

Team One - Captain Roy Ellis. Members, Dar Meyer, Dan Davis, Steve Plume, Norm Larson, Jim Patterson, Dave Mulqueeney, and Glenn Pulliam.

Team Two - Captain Tod Kimmelshue. Members Steve Greenwood, Bruce Miller, Clint Goss, Daryl Polk, Dave Jessen and Joe Nock.

Team Three - Captain Mike Wacker. Members Chris Hatch, Jen Liu, Kent , Jackson, Mike Crump, Jim Edwards, Jim Kirks and KR Robertson.

Team Four - Captain Jane Ziad. Members Bill Apger, Phil Price, Tom Knowles, Tom Vanella, Andy Farrar, and Bruce Norlie.

 

From Rotary International’s Web Site:

 

Rotary will match grant, dollar-for-dollar within one year

(Evanston, IL - USA: February 2008) Rotary International received $3.5 million from The Google Foundation, a non-profit managed by Google.org, in support of Rotary’s top philanthropic goal to eradicate polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease that still paralyzes children in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East and threatens children everywhere.

The humanitarian volunteer service organization will raise funds to match The Google Foundation grant, dollar-for-dollar, over one year.  The grant will directly support polio immunization activities carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a partnership spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF.

Polio eradication has been Rotary’s top priority since 1985. Since then, Rotary has contributed $650 million to the eradication effort, a figure which will rise to more than $850 million by the time the world is certified polio-free. 

Tremendous progress has been made.  To date, the number of polio cases has been reduced from 350,000 children annually in the mid 1980s to approximately 2,000 cases in 2006.   Although the GPEI has succeeded in slashing the number of polio cases by 99 percent over the past two decades, the wild poliovirus still persists in four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.

“This grant comes at a crucial time for the initiative, as more funds are needed to reach children in the most challenging regions of the world,” said Wilfrid J. Wilkinson, President of Rotary International.  “We have the technical tools to beat polio, and we’re almost there.  All we need is for the rest of the world to follow The Google Foundation’s lead in supporting the effort to eradicate this vaccine preventable disease once and for all.”

Founded in Chicago in 1905, Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary’s global membership is approximately 1.2 million men and women who belong to more than 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.

Google.org is a hybrid philanthropy that uses a range of approaches to help advance solutions.  They can operate in a traditional manner by supporting partners’ work with targeted grants. But they can also invest in for-profit endeavors or lobby for policies that support their philanthropic goals. Additionally, Google.org can tap the company’s innovative technology and, most importantly, its inspired workforce.

For more information visit: www.rotary.org , www.google.org or www.polioeradication.org

 

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

Note:  If any of you have anything to place into the Rowel fax it to Phil at 343 7251 or  E-mail it to "pbhlaw@sunset.net", before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.