Rotary International President: Dong Kurn Lee Rotary District 5160 Governor: Jim Campbell Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	October 21, 2008	The  2009 Crab Feed  will be held January 24, 2008.

2008                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
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 TBA (Chris Hatch)	29	30	31
N o v e m b e r							1
	2	3 Meeting Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes	4 No Meeting Election Day	5	6	7 (A) Dan Davis	8
	9	10	11 Meeting Rick Farley and his helicopter (Dave Jessen)	12	13	14	15
	16	17	18 Meeting TBA (Norm Larsen)	19	20	21 (B) James Patterson	22
	23	24	25 Meeting TBA (Tom Knowles)	26	27	28	29
	30

 

President opened the meeting.  He asked Phil Price to lead the flag salute, which he did.  Andy Farrar then gave the invocation.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

October 24-25:  District Conference.   October 28th:  Chris Hatch will have a Club Assembly on the Crab Feed.   November Program Chairperson is Mike Crump   November 3rd:  Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes.   November 4th:  No Meeting.  Elections   November 11th:  Dave Jessen   November 18th:  Norm Larson   November 25th:  Tom Knowles     December 2nd:  Dar Meyer   December 9th:  No meeting at BCCC, but there was talk of a club assembly at Golden Valley Bank?????   December 16th:  Christmas Party   January 24th:  Crab Feed

 

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Chris Hatch, K. R. Robertson, Tom Knowles and Ged Andrusaitis were asked to introduce visiting Rotarians and guests.   Visiting were Will Wilbur, Georgie Bellin, Rick Leland, and Chuck Loshe of the Chico Club.  K. R.’s table had no visiting Rotarians so President Glenn gave him the opportunity to avoid the $1 each fine by answering a question from the Rowel, which was, who won the “Must Be Present to Win” drawing last week.  K. R. finally came up with the right answer, with a lot of help from his table.  For his not knowing without a lot of help, he was assessed $5, the amount the 5 members at the table would have contributed.

 

Also introduced was Ryan Sutton, who has been proposed for membership by Dan Davis.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Chris Hatch will have a Club Assembly on the Crab Feed.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Election Help Project

 

At the end of this Rowel is a letter received by Stan Thompson, Assistant District Governor, from Candy Grubbs, Butte County Clerk, seeking help on Election night.  President Glenn determined that this would be a good club project and passed around a signup sheet for members to volunteer.   President Glenn reported that the volunteers from our club should report to DESS/Butte County Employment Center, 2445 Carmichael Drive, Chico.  The details and an explanation of the jobs is contained in the letter below.  President Glenn indicated that the volunteers should be there by 8:00 p.m. however, I note that in the letter, Candy request you be there by 7:30 p.m.  The date is, of course, Tuesday November 4^th, a date we will not have a meeting, because the BCCC is a polling place.  We will be meeting on Monday at Mountain Mikes.  I believe President Glenn determined that volunteering will constitute a make-up.  If anyone else wants to volunteer, call President Glenn.

 

Red Bluff Meeting

 

President Glenn reported on the District Information Exchange Meeting in Red Bluff last week.  He attended along with K. R. Robertson, Jim Kirks and Andy Farrar.  They learned about projects other clubs in the District are working on.  Some are projects that our club could share in. District Information Exchange Meeting in Red Bluff

 

Christmas Party

 

Dave Mulqueeney announced that he will be receiving silent auction donations at each meeting from now on.  Please bring your donated items to him.

 

Dave Mulqueeney with K. R.’s help are moving ahead on the planning for the Club’s Christmas Party on December 16^th.  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.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Glenn asked Chris Hatch weather he had been recognized for his anniversary last month.  Chris admitted that he hadn’t.  So he contributed $41 for his 41^st anniversary.

 

President Glenn then recognized Steve Plume.  You may recall that several weeks ago Steve wanted to delay the recognition of his birthday until Tom Knowles was present to sing “Happy Birthday” to him.  Tom did and Steve contributed $25 therefore.

 

President then asked Bill Apger, Steve Greenwood, Tom Knowles, Jane Ziad, Dave Mulqueeney and Dave Jessen to stand.  Each had missed a meeting.  All but Dave Jessen promised to makeup so were allowed to sit down.  Dave Jessen contributed $10.

 

PROGRAM

 

Steve Greenwood introduced Rick Leland who again gave us a slide show and video of his experiences during Hurricane Katrina.  Still interesting the second time around.

 

DRAWING

 

Dave Mulqueeney was present to win the drawing of that name.

 

Letter from County Clerk to Stan Thompson

Hello Stan:

 

As we recently discussed, the Butte County Elections Office is seeking help from the Chico Rotarians in the following positions for Election Night support on November 4, 2008.   They will be assigned to one of the Chico receiving centers (addresses below).

 

Ballot Runners ~ 8 people:  4 drivers, 4 passengers:

Each driver needs a car and one passenger.  At the receiving center, ballot runners load Voted Ballot containers, Memory Card bags and the Return bags into their vehicle.  They then deliver the Voted Ballot containers and Memory Card bags to the main Elections Office, 25 County Center Drive, Oroville.  Then, they deliver the Return bags to the Elections Warehouse, 205 Mira Loma Drive, Oroville.  There is a possibility of two or more round trips that evening. 

 

Election Supply Loaders ~ 12 people:

Responsibilities are to remove election supplies and touch screen units from precinct officer vehicles and load them into the U-Haul moving vans.  They need to be able to lift approximately 50 pounds.  Recommend men work in this position.

 

Check In Assistants ~ 4 people: 

At each receiving center site, we will need 2 people to assist our elections staff with check in of each precinct’s Voted Ballot container, Memory Card bag and Return bag. 

 

Coordinator ~ 1 person:

            Coordinator is responsible for ensuring Rotarians show up on election evening as scheduled and be the primary contact person with the Butte County Elections Office.

 

Pay rate: 

Ballot Runners:  Drivers $8.50/hr plus mileage at $.585/mile; Passengers $8.50/hr

Elections Supply Loaders and Check In Assistants:  $10.00/hr

 

Time: 

Arrive at assigned receiving center location at 7:30pm.  Ballot Runners could be finished at approximately 10:00pm; Election Supply Loaders could be as late at 10:30pm.

 

Receiving Center Sites: 

Masonic Family Center, 1110 W East Avenue, Chico

DESS/Butte County Employment Center, 2445 Carmichael Drive, Chico

 

Once again, thank you for your interest in assisting us with the Election Day process.  I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Very truly yours,

CANDACE J. GRUBBS, County Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters

 

 

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.