Dong Kurn Lee

Rotary District 5160 Governor:

Jim Campbell

Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam

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Rowel Editor: Phil Price

October 7, 2008

The 2009 Crab Feed will be held January 24, 2008.

2008 Calendar for Durham Rotary
S e p t e m b e r
		1	2 No Meeting Labor Day (A) Bruce Norlie	3	4	5	6
	7	8	9 Meeting Presentation on Oroville Dam (Dar Meyer)	10	11	12	13
	14 Harvest Festival	15	16 No Meeting	17	18	19	20
	21	22	23 Meeting Harvest Festival Club Assembly at the Durham Park (Steve Greenwood)	24	25 (B) Stephen Plume (A) Glenn Pulliam	26	27
	28	29 Monday Night Football at Mt. Mike Pizza 1722 Mangrove Ave. Chico	30 No Meeting
O c t o b e r				1	2 (B) Dar Meyer	3	4
	5	6	7 Meeting Greg Johnson on Far West Rice (Barbara Gaskin)	8	9 (B) Mike Wacker	10	11
	12	13	14 Meeting Roger Aylworth of the Chico Enterprise Record. He has a new book out and always has a funny story to tell. (Barbara Gaskin) (B) Barbara Gaskin	15 (A) Roy Ellis	16	17	18
	19	29	21 Meeting Rick Leland will give a slide show of his experiences during Hurricane Katrina (Steve Greenwood)	22	23	24	25
	26	27	28 Meeting Club Assembly on Crab Feed (Chris Hatch)	29	30	31

Back at the Butte Creek Country Club, President opened the meeting. He asked Steve Plume to lead the flag salute, which he did. Andy Farrar then gave the invocation.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

October 14^th: Barbara Gaskin will present Roger Aylworth of the Chico Enterprise Record. He has a new book out and always has a funny story to tell.

October 21^st: Steve Greenwood will preset Rick Leland who will give a slide show of his experiences during Hurricane Katrina.

October 24-25: District Conference.

October 28^th: Chris Hatch

November Program Chairperson is Mike Crump

November 4^th: No Meeting. Elections

November 11^th: Dave Jessen

November 18^th: Norm Larson

November 25^th: Tom Knowles

December 16^th: Christmas Party

January 24^th: Crab Feed

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

Dan Davis, K. R. Robertson and Barbara Gaskins were asked to introduce visiting Rotarians and guests. Visiting were Don Beatty, a new member of the Chico Club and Pat Pillsbury and Al Lotspeich of the Chico Sunrise Club.

Also introduced was Angie Giuffre a guest of K. R.

NEXT MEETING

Barbara Gaskin will present Roger Aylworth of the Chico Enterprise Record. He has a new book out and always has a funny story to tell.

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

District Information Meeting

There will be a District Information Exchange Meeting in Red Bluff on October 14, 2008 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. President Glenn thinks this is a meeting he and other interested members should attend, even though it is a meeting time for us. He will be attending it with K. R. Robertson and Andy Farrar. Anyone else who wants to attend should contact him. Among things to be discussed are joint projects between clubs, such as the pump project which has been previously discussed, which may be too big for one club, but could be handled jointly by two or more clubs.

Since he will be gone next week, the meeting will be conducted by President Elect Mike Crump.

Treasurer’s Report

Steve Plume reported that all accounts, including the Foundation’s, combined total $34,655 less a check he just wrote to Camp Royal in the amount of $2,500. We still have Scholarship obligations for this year of $2,000, which will be paid in January.

Christmas Party

Dave Mulqueeney with K. R.’s help are moving ahead on the planning for the Club’s Christmas Party on December 16^th. Start thinking about your donations to the Silent Auction. Also tell your spouse about it and get in on his or her calendar now. Let’s do a better job of getting spouses and significant others to the party. It is also a good time to bring a guest, with spouse or significant other, who would make a good member. That is how I got Norm in the club.

BYLAWS APPROVED

Upon a motion by K. R. Robertson, the proposed bylaws for the Club that he passed around at the last meeting, were approve upon a vote of the club. If you didn’t read them before you voted, you had better read them now. The now govern our club.

New Members Proposed

The following have been proposed as new members:

Ryan Sutton, Chico Nissan, Auto Sales

Angie Giuffre.

RECOGNITIONS

President Glenn recognized Jane Ziad for her birthday, which was missed last August. She elected not to have a song and paid $10.

President Glenn also tried to recognize Steve Plume for his birthday in September, but Steve said he wanted Tom Knowles to sing and since Tom wasn’t here he elected to pass until next week. Better practice up, Tom.

Then President Glenn got around to Bill Apger who missed his cooking duties at the Harvest Festival. He agreed to contribute $100 to the Club (he was already the only Bell Ringer for the year so is now a double Bell Ringer), plus another $50 to his Paul Harris for his recent trips, including one to Mexico,.

Steve Greenwood auctioned the Grinder for the months of October and November. Roy Ellis got it for $45, which is pretty cheap.

PROGRAM

Barbara Gaskin presented Greg Johnson of Far West Rice (and a member of the Durham School District Board). Gregg showed slides and spoke about the Far West Rice operation near Nelson. The operation was begun by his father, Bill Johnson, an old friend of mine. What was fascinating about the operation was the large solar panel array which is producing much of the power the milling plant uses.

DRAWING

Dan Davis was present to win the drawing of that name.