Rotary International President: John Kenny Rotary District 5160 Governor: Earl Kilmer Durham Rotary President: Mike Crump _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	September 29, 2009	The  2010 Harvest Festival  will be held in September 2010 on a date to be announced

2009                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
S e p t e m b e r
			1 Meeting Bill Sure on Jesus Center (Craig Hastain)	2	3	4	5
	6	7	8 No Meeting Day after Labor Day	9 (A) Chris Hatch	10	11	12
	13	14	15 No Meeting after Harvest Festival	16 (B) Jim Kirks	17	18	19
	20	21	22 Meeting Rick King at Chico Rotary	23	24	25 (B) Stephen Plume	26
	27	28	29 Meeting Club Assembly (Mike Crump)	30
O c t o b e r					1	2 (B) Dar Meyer	3
	4	5	6 Meeting Chico Sunrise will visit with the GSE team from Mexico (Chris Hatch)	7	8	9 (A) Mike Wacker	10
	11 (A) Bruce Miller	12	13 Meeting Rian Farley on History of Durham (Dave Jessen)	14	15 (A) Roy Ellis	16	17
	18	19	20 Meeting Mike Bury the Chairperson for Youth Exchange (Norm Larson)	21	22	23	24
	25	26	27 Meeting Errol Keene will talk about making a Bomb Robot. (Chris Hatch)	28	29	30	31

President Mike called the meeting to order.  He asked Andy Farrar to lead the pledge of allegiance, which he did.  Jim Patterson gave the invocation.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

October Program Chairperson is Chris Hatch.   October 6th:  Chico Sunrise will visit with the GSE team from Mexico.   October 13th: Dave Jessen.   October 20th: Norm Larson   October 27th:  Errol Keene will talk about making a Bomb Robot.   November Program Chair: Dar Meyer   November 3rd:  District Governor Visit.   November 10th:  Dave Mulqueeney   November 17th: Jane Ziad   November 24th: Dan Driscoll   December 1st:  Bob Woods will present a slide show on Ishi.   December 8th:  Steve Plume   December 15th:  Christmas Party

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Roy Ellis was asked to introduce the visiting Rotarians and guests at his table.  He introduced Tom Knowles.  Actually Tom is a member who has been on a leave of absence to take care of his young daughter and hasn’t been here a while.  Welcome back Tom.

 

Dan Driscoll, doing his first introduction, introduced guests Casey Sohnrey, Travis Edsel and Floyd Miller.  He also introduce Terry Allread of the Chico Club.  Dan was asked to contribute $15 for some problems in his introductions.  At this point in got so noisy that I am not sure of the names, but at the next table Micheal Bury of the Chico Club was introduced along with guests Kirk and Rhonda Michael and Jim Gabner.  There was also a member of the Paradise Club whose name I believe was Fred.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Next Tuesday will be the visit of a Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from Monterey, Mexico. They are firemen and paramedics.  Mike Bury of the Chico Club spoke briefly tonight about the visit.   They will visit the CalFire station at Forest Ranch, the Antelope paramedics, the Butte College Fire Training class, the Durham Volunteer Fire Station and they will have breakfast at a Chico Fire Station.  They will also visit a rice field and finish up at the Sierra Nevada Brewery.  In between they will visit the Chico Rotary Club and our Club.

 

President Mike will be present at the Durham Volunteer Fire Station at the time of the visit, next Tuesday, at 4:00 pm.  He invites all members to join him.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Board Meeting

 

President Mike announced that due to his visit to the Fire Station the Club’s Board of Directors will not meet before next week’s meeting.  Instead they will me at 5:00 pm before the October 13^th meeting.

Camp Royal Program Needs a Chairperson

 

Roy Ellis  announced that he needs a member to take over the Camp Royal Program.  He indicates that the interviews come at the same time as he is dealing with the scholarship interviews an he can no longer do both.  If you are interested call Roy.

 

Trip To Monterey Mexico to Deliver Wheelchairs

 

From Bradford R. Howard, Rotary District 5170 Governor, 2002-2003:

 

Since 2004, Rotarians from District 5160 and 5170 have been traveling to Monterrey, Mexico to deliver wheelchairs, support matching grants and create lasting friendships.  Almost 200 people have made this trip, and in the process this trip created many new “Rotarians.”  The purpose of this correspondence is to invite you, your club members to join this year’s reunion trip.

 

In January, 2010, were are going back to Monterrey to delivery wheelchairs, continue our humanitarian efforts and make new friends in Rotary.  The Rotary Club of Danville/Sycamore Valley (District 5160) has organized the trip and already signed up 20 people on the trip.  They have asked us to invite other Rotarians would like to join them and be a part of one of these experiences.  The basic information of the trip is:

 

Depart:  Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Return:  Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cost of Program:  $1,539, double occupancy – which includes roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations, all meals, wheelchair delivery, sightseeing, Rotary events, etc.

 

Attached is a PDF file that will give you all of the information about the trip (dates, time, cost, etc.)  If you, or members of your club would like to join us, simply complete the enclosed application and return it to my office with a deposit and we will help you the rest of the way.

 

This is an extraordinary experience, filed with emotion, purpose and tremendous international fellowship.  As a club president, you can change the lives of people in your community and throughout the world.  But the greatest effect you can have is to change the lives of your members.  Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do unless they were in Rotary, and it will get them more deeply involved in your club. 

 

In addition to the delivery of wheelchairs, we will spend time, one on one, with the Monterrey Rotarians in their homes and in their communities to see the service and experience fellowship that only Rotary can bring.  Since we began making these trips, more than 30 matching grant projects have been completed.  A wonderful part of this process is that the Rotarians can put someone into a chair and see how they respond as their life is changed. We invite you and the members of your club to join us. 

 

Although the majority of funds have been raised for this container of wheelchairs, if your club would like to partially sponsor a container, you could have YOUR members deliver the chairs YOUR club funded.  Please announce this program in your club, and encourage two or three of your members to take a trip of a lifetime, and represent your club.  Ideally, you should make the trip and ask some of your members to join you!

 

For further information contact:

 

Bradford R. Howard

Rotary District 5170

Governor, 2002-2003

516 Grand Avenue

Oakland, CA  94610

Phone:  (510) 834-2260

FAX:  (510) 834-1019

E-mail:  Bhoward@HowardTours.net 

New Member Posting   The Board of Directors has voted to approve Eric Horn as a new member of Durham Rotary.  He is proposed by Daryl Polk.  His classification will be Business Insurance Sales.   New Member Induction.   Bill Apger conducted the induction of Floyd Miller as a new member.  Floyd is member Bruce Miller’s father and known as the Glass Man.  He was formerly a member of Chico Rotary for many years.  Welcome Floyd.

Harvest Festival Awards

 

Jim Kirks, the Harvest Festival Raffle Ticket Chairperson, presented the Second Prize of $500 to Raffle winner Jim Gabner.

 

He then called Bill Apger to present the First Prize, which he had donated. It was a week in Cabo.   He presented it to winners Kirk and Rhonda Michael.

 

Jim then called up Tom Knowles to present the Grand Prize, which he donated.  It was a flight to Shelter Cove and a three day stay.  Tom presented it to the winner Casey Sohnrey.

 

Paul Harris

 

Steve Plume was presented, by President Mike, with the Paul Harris membership for Cynthia Plume.  Thanks to Steve for the contributions to the Paul Harris Foundation.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Mike tried to recognize several members for things they were recognized for during his absence on September 1^st.  But he did get a contribution from Steve Plume in the amount of $20 for his birthday, after the club, led by Bill Apger, sang “Happy Birthday” to him.

 

Chris Hatch volunteered $41 for his 41^st anniversary.

 

Sergeant at Arms Kent Jackson assessed President Mike $20 for not being in the picture of members at the storage lockers following the Harvest Festival.

 

PROGRAM

 

The program was a Club Assembly.

 

Dan Davis reported that, due to weather, the economy and competition, attendance, and hence, proceeds for the Harvest Festival this year was down from prior years.  He doesn’t have the final figures yet it appears that we made $3,400 from the raffle, $13,900 from the concessions, $3,500 from the car show and $4,150 from the sponsors. 

 

Jim Kirks, Community Service Chairperson reported consideration of a computer program for schools to help with students with learning disabilities.  It will probably cost about $500 and require members donating time in the schools.

 

Andy Farrar, International Service Chairperson reported giving $750 debit cards to the sisters for use on their trip to Peru.

 

Jim Patterson, Membership Chairperson, discussed further efforts to improve membership.  It was suggested that we have another membership meeting where we invite prospective members.  It was also suggested that we look at the parent of scholarship winners.

 

Roy Ellis, Vocational Service Chairperson, discussed the youth programs and his need for a chairperson for the Camp Royal program (see above).

“Must be Present to Win” Drawing

 

Jim Kirks was 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

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