Rotary International President: Dong Kurn Lee Rotary District 5160 Governor: Jim Campbell Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	November 11, 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 Dave Mulqueeney to lead the flag salute, which he did.  Jim Patterson then gave the invocation.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

November Program Chairperson is Mike Crump   November 18th:  Norm Larson   November 25th:  Tom Knowles   December Program Chairperson is K. R. Robertson   December 2nd:  Dar Meyer   December 8th:  Monday Night Football at Mountain Mikes.   December 9th:  No Meeting.  BCCC unavailable.   December 16th:  Christmas Party.   December 23rd:  No Meeting   December 30th: No Meeting   January Program Chairperson is Chris Hatch   January 6th:  Bruce Miller   January 13th:  Dave Mulqueeney.   January 24th:  Crab Feed

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Jane Ziad, Phil Price and Kent Jackson were asked to introduce visiting Rotarians and guests.   Jane introduced Craig Hastain, Dar Meyer’s guest.  Kent introduced Stan Thompson of the Chico Club.  Phil introduced former member, Rick Farley and his wife, Rian.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Norm Larson is keeping his program close to the chest.  He was talking about a program on trapping wild pigs, but that only took 2 minutes to tell, so I expect it will be something else.

 

INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBER

 

Bill Apger conducted the induction of Ryan Sutton as a new member of Durham Rotary.  Ryan is the sales manager for Chico Nisson.  He was sponsored by Dan Davis.  After the induction, President Glenn presented Dan with a sponsorship pin.

 

Welcome Ryan!

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Girl Scouts Nut and Candy Sales

 

Jane Ziad will have a Durham Girl Scout Troup at our meeting next week, November 18, 2008, to sell cans of nuts and candy to us.  We sampled them at the last Monday Night Football meeting.  Bring your money and help the Girl Scouts out.

 

 

Christmas Party

 

Remember to get your donations to the silent auction to Dave Mulqueeney. 

 

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.

 

Crab Feed

 

Steve Greenwood passed around a list of the banners we have for the Harvest Festival.  Those who sponsored us at the Harvest Festival this year are in bold.  Lets try to get those who did not to sponsor the Crab Feed.  Contact those you  have contacted before.

 

Roy Ellis had the tickets to pass out and may have gotten some out, but not to all members.  I assume they will be passed out to all members at the next meeting.  Each member will get 4 that they will be responsible to sell.  Members are encouraged to take and sell more, but if not sold they must be returned by the Christmas Party meeting, December 16, 2008.  That does not include your required 4 tickets.  You cannot return those.  Any extra tickets you retain after December 16^th, you have bought.  We are trying to avoid what happened last year, when it was thought that all tickets had been sold and then members returned unsold tickets too late to sell them.

 

A live auction is also being planned for the Crab Feed.  Start thinking about your donations to the auction

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Glenn passed around a picture K. R. Robertson which had been published in the newspaper.  It was also noted that he had won two quarters at the last Football meeting.  He contributed $25.

 

Clint Goss contributed $25 for missing meetings.

 

Norm Larson was assessed $10 for missing a meeting while elk hunting (without success), making him a Bell Ringer.

 

President Glenn assessed himself $10 for not wearing his badge.

 

President Glenn then recognized Dan Davis for his 16^th anniversary.  He contributed $16. 

 

Roy Ellis had won the bidding for the Grinder last month, but didn’t get it.  President Glenn gave it to him for an additional $45, which is the cheap price he got it for on October 7^th.

 

PROGRAM

 

Ged Andrusaitis on behalf of Dave Jessen, who couldn’t be here, introduced Rick Farley with photographs of  the restoration of the helicopter he had at the Harvest Festival and the group doing it.  He explained that it belonged to the Northern California Veterans Historical Association.  The members of that organization have been restoring it from parts scrounged from all over.  They don’t intend to make it operational, but are still looking for an engine so looks complete.  They use it for educational purposes, taking it to schools, even the juvenile hall in Redding.

 

DRAWING

 

Bill Apger was present to win the drawing of that name.

 

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