Rotary International President: Dong Kurn Lee Rotary District 5160 Governor: Jim Campbell Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	October 28, 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
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President opened the meeting.  He asked Jim Kirks to lead the flag salute, which he did.  Jim Patterson then gave the invocation.   President Glenn passed around Thank You letters from Betsy Leverenz, for the Durham Intermediate Library, and the Krishner Wildlife Foundation, for our donations (books to one and money to the other).   President Glenn told a story about the Rotary Pin and encouraged all members to wear theirs.   Barbara Gaskin was asked to come to the podium.  There her Red Badge (new member) was replaced with her permanent Blue Badge.  It cost her $10.

 

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

November Program Chairperson is Mike Crump   November 3rd:  Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes.   November 4th:  No Meeting.  Elections-Election Project.   November 11th:  Dave Jessen   November 18th:  Norm Larson   November 25th:  Tom Knowles     December 2nd:  Dar Meyer   December 8th:  Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes.   December 9th:  No Meeting.  BCCC unavailable.   December 16th:  Christmas Party   January 24th:  Crab Feed

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Kent Jackson, Tom Vanella, Mike Crump and Andy Farrar were asked to introduce visiting Rotarians and guests.   Visiting were: Dino Corbin and Wolf Rosenberg of the Chico Club,  Pat Pillsbury and Mark Stuenkel of the Chico Sunrise Club, and JoAnne Townsend and Cat McIntyre of the Oroville Sunrise Club

 

Andy forgot to introduce himself and forgot to mention the classification of Pat Pillsbury.  He contributed $5 for each oversight.

 

 

NEXT MEETING

 

 

 

NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THIS.  The next meeting is a Monday Night Football meeting.  The meeting is at  Mountain Mike’s Pizza at 1722 Mangrove Avenue, Chico  It is MONDAY night, not Tuesday.  Dar has made the arrangements, and will have his chart for the football pool.

 

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Election Help Project

 

At the end of last week’s 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 last week he passed around a signup sheet for members to volunteer.  Tonight he was seeking one more volunteer.  I believe he got one, but if anyone else wants to volunteer, call President Glenn.  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 was contained in the letter attached to last week’s Rowel.  There has been a change in the time since last week’s Rowel.  President Glenn indicated that the latest information he has received from Candy is that the volunteers should be there by 7:00 p.m., an hour earlier than reported last week. 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.

 

Red Bluff Meeting Follow up

 

In a follow up on the District Information Exchange Meeting in Red Bluff, Andy Farrar is working with the Willows Club and the Orland Club to join them in a water well project in Mexico.  The cost to send a well drilling rig and a retired well driller to do the work is estimated to be $5,000.  Apparently, we can join the project by contributing 1/3 of the cost. 

 

Christmas Party

 

Dave Mulqueeney reported that Jim Kirks has arranged for the Durham High School Symphonic Band and Music Teacher Ed Banes to provide Music for the Durham Rotary Christmas Party on Dec. 16, 2008.

 

Here is a copy of the latest message from Ed Banes:

 

“Hello Mr. Kirks,

I received your phone message yesterday. Thank you for arranging for
the chairs. As far as an honorarium goes, we always play for free.
Rotary is so generous to our school at graduation I feel that we are
giving back to our community by performing for you. We are, however,
trying to raise money for our performance in Disneyland this spring.
Any contribution that your group feels appropriate would be greatly
appreciated, but not necessary.”

 

Dave Mulqueeney also reminded members to get their donations to the silent auction to him. 

 

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.

 

Students of the Month

 

Roy Ellis introduced Carter Knowles and Ricahrd Galvin as the Students of the Month for the months of September and October.

 

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Glenn noted that Chris Hatch contribution last week, for his anniversary, made him a Bell Ringer, so he got to ring it.

 

President then asked Mike Crump, Tom Vanella, Mike Wacker and Roy Ellis about their missing last week’s meeting.  Mike W and Roy promised to makeup so were allowed to sit down.  Mike C and Tom each contributed $10.

 

Phil Price was assessed $20 for talking to Ged about the December 9^th meeting, while President Glenn was talking.  Me, talking too much?????

 

PROGRAM

 

Chris Hatch held a Club Assembly on the Crab Feed.  It was agreed by the membership that the price this year will remain at $40 per ticket.  Each member will be responsible for selling 4 tickets.  You are encouraged to sell more, so ask for more tickets if you can sell them.  But it is important to get unsold tickets (beyond the 4 you are responsible for) back to Steve Greenwood early.  The return date hasn’t been set, but probably will be the first meeting in January.  Last year, because of late return of unsold tickets we didn’t sell 35-40 tickets.  That would have been 100% profit.  Roy will have the tickets available at out November 11^th meeting, so be prepared to get them sold early.  We have 275 tickets to sell.

 

DRAWING

 

Norm Larson was not present to win the drawing of that name.

 

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.