Rotary International President: Dong Kurn Lee Rotary District 5160 Governor: Jim Campbell Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	March 31, 2009	The  2009 Harvest Festival  will be held on September 13, 2009.

2009                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
M a r c h
	1	2	3 Meeting TBA (Mike Wacker)	4	5	6	7
	8	9	10 Meeting Girl Scout and their cookie presentation --- Ken Grossman on Sierra Nevada Brewery (Jane Ziad)	11	12	13	14
	15	16	17 Meeting Steve Bertagna on State of Chico (Bill Apger)	18	19	20 (A) Steve Greenwood	21
	22	23	24 Meeting Site Visit to PFC Lighting (Dan Davis)	25	26	27	28
	29	30	31 Meeting Paul Gosselin, Director of the County’s Water and resource Conservation Department (Mke Crump)
A p r i l				1	2 (B) Dave Jessen	3 (B) Mike Wacker	4
	5	6 (B) Norm Larson	7 Meeting Membership Social (Roy Ellis)	8	9	10	11
	12	13	14 Meeting North Valley Community Foundation (Glenn Pulliam)	15	16	17	18
	19	20	21 Meeting Presentation from an Olive Grower (Clint Goss) (B) Mike Crump	22	23	24	25 (A) Daryl Polk
	26	27	28 Meeting Jacob Kley from TOR Broadcasting/Colusa Industrial Properties speaking about the Sutter Buttes New Communications Tower Installation. (Steve Greenwood)	29	30

 

President Glenn called the meeting to order at Butte Creek Country Club.  He asked Mike Wacker to lead the pledge of allegiance, which he did.  Jim Patterson gave the invocation.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

April Program Chairperson is Jim Patterson   April 7th:  Roy Ellis-Membership Social   April 14th:  Glenn Pulliam will present either Lee Laney, Program Officer, or Alexa Valavanis, assistant, of the North Valley Community Foundation.   April 21st:  Clint Goss will bring an olive grower   April 28th:  Steve Greenwood will present Jacob Kley from TOR Broadcasting/Colusa Industrial Properties speaking about the Sutter Buttes New Communications Tower Installation.   May  5th: Chris Hatch   May 12th:  Dave Jessen   May 19th:  Norm Larson will present the Carnitas Feed at the Durham Park.  The District Governor will attend.   May 26th:  Tom Knowles.

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Steve Greenwood introduced Pat Pillsbury of the Chico Sunrise Club.  Dan Davis’ table had no visiting Rotarians or guests, so each member at the table contributed $1.  Mike Crump’s table also had no visiting Rotarians, but he had his program as a guest, and so escaped the $1 assessment.  It was noted that it was also President Glenn’s table?????

 

NEXT MEETING

 

This will be Roy Ellis’ Durham Rotary “Membership Social”.  Your job is to bring one or more prospective member(s).  Think about the Harvest Festival and how much easier it will be to do if we had just 10 more members.  So bring someone to the meeting.  It is to your benefit.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

BOARD MEETING NEXT WEEK

 

There will be a meeting of the Club Board of Directors at 5:00 pm , before next Tuesday’s meeting.

 

Camp Royal

 

Roy Ellis announced that the students selected for Camp Royal this year are:

           Girls:   Nikki Pyle and Julia Herring

           Boys:  David Hodge and Shane Strick

 

Camp runs from June 14th thru 20th this year. Roy is hoping some of our Rotarians can make a day trip up this year.

 

Work Day

 

President Glenn again reminded members  about the Rotary Community Work Day on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Absent any other ideas, it appears that our project will again be at Ravekes Park in Durham.  This is where we have done work in the recent past.  It still needs a concrete slab.  We need to dig the footings for the slab.

 

This is a worldwide Rotary event where members join forces to tackle community service projects in their neighborhoods, from planting to painting, from reading to renovating.  It is for the Club to get a little publicity.

 

District Conference

 

President Glenn announced that the annual District Conference will be held this year at Lake Tahoe on October 1^st – 4^th.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

Steve Plume auctioned the Grinder for the month of April.  Jim Kirks had the successful bid at $50.  He reported that he will be traveling to Germany.

 

Mike Crump reported that he would make up for missing the meeting last week.

 

Steve Greenwood reported that late work caused him to miss last week’s meeting and contributed $10.

 

Roy Ellis also contributed $10 for missing last week’s meeting while constructing his wife’s second wardrobe closet.

PROGRAM

 

Mike Crump presented Paul Gosselin, Director of the County’s Water and resource Conservation Department.  He discussed County water related issues, including the effect of the current drought, that these droughts are cyclical and will end (when is uncertain), the political attacks on the concept that people located at the source of the water should have first call on it, and other matters.  It was very informative.

 

“Must be Present to Win” Drawing

 

Andy Farrar was present to win the drawing of that name.

 

The Paul Harris Foundation and Points

 

Here is an email from Mark von Hoetzendorff, District Foundation Chairperson:

 

District Club Foundation Chairs: Many of you have had questions about the Foundation Recognition Point (FRP) changes recently announced by the TRF Board of Trustees. I asked for clarification based on some of your questions. The following is a good review and clarification of the Current FRP Process, and that which starts 7-1. Please review, and of course if you have any questions read again. If you still have questions call me.

Thanks,

Mark 

 

And the response (edited):

 

Dear Rotarian von Hoetzendorff,

 

Thank you. Your e-mail was received by The Rotary Foundation Contact Center. 

Points result from cash contributions.  If an individual makes the contribution, then that person accumulates the points; when the club sends the contribution on behalf of itself, then it gets the points, the same with a district.  Points are like a two-for-one "coupon" and can only be transferred by that donor entity to an individual.  Contributions must be made to The Rotary Foundation in order to receive Paul Harris recognition, points and tax receipts.  Club presidents may transfer club points and  the DG may transfer district points.

The biggest changes after 01 July will be:

• that transfers will need to be done in amounts of 500 or more
• that the points of DECEASED donors (unless they are Major Donors) will expire
• that the points of TERMINATED donors will need to have that person's signature (rather than the club president as is currently done)
• that the medallion (on the ribbon) will be an item for purchase rather than automatically included with a new PHF

After the spring Trustee meeting when all decisions are finalized, the changes will be posted on the website and communicated to district leaders.

 In summary:

 1. Points may be transferred FROM an individual, or FROM a club, or FROM a district but only TO an individual. This will not change in July.

2. Contributions made to the Annual Programs Fund by clubs or by individuals or districts (or to the restricted categories within the APF of Polio or Matching Grants with number) will accumulate "points." This will not change in July.

3. When points are given to someone, it does help increase their recognition total, but it does NOT ALSO give them points to use later.  Therefore, once points are given, they remain with that person.  This will not change in July.  

Please note, points are a result of contributions, so when a person RECEIVES points, that person will not also gain new points to use.       

Kind regards.

Deidra

 

To be continued:  There were two attachments to Deidra’s email, one setting out the current process and the other setting out the proposed changes.  I will include those in future Rowels.

 

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.