Rotary International President: John Kenny Rotary District 5160 Governor: Earl Kilmer Durham Rotary President: Mike Crump _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	November 9, 2009	The  2010 Crab Feed will be held on January 30, 2010

This was a Monday Night Football meeting at  Mountain Mike’s Pizza.  President Mike dispensed with all formalities.  The members enjoyed football and pizza.

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

November Program Chair: Dar Meyer   November 17th: Jane Ziad   November 24th: Dan Driscoll   December Program Chair: Jim Patterson   December 1st:  Jim Kirks will present Bob Woods will have a slide show on Ishi.   December 8th:  Steve Plume   December 15th:  Christmas Party   December 22nd: No meeting             December 29th: No Meeting   January Program Chair: Daryle Polk   January 5th:  Phil Price   January 12th:  Glenn Pulliam   January 18th:  No Meeting   January 26th:  K. R. Robertson   January 30th:  CRAB FEED

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

President Mike introduced his guest Pam Hospers,
Paul Taylor, guest of Clint Goss,
Pam & Brian Gray of Paradise Rotary,
Mary Bellfay, President, Paradise Rotary, and her guest Paul Bellfay,
Larry Bradley, Oroville Noon Club, and
Ged Andruisaitis, guest of Daryle Polk

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Jane Ziad will present the program.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Camp Royal Program Needs a Chairperson

 

Roy Ellis  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

 

NOTE:  This is one of the things that Rolando Chavez talked about during the program on October 6^th.

 

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 

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

 There were no recognitions

 

 

PROGRAM

 

The program was the football game between the Pittsburg Stealers and the Denver Broncos.  Pittsburg won 28 to 10.

In Dar's football pool, the winners were:

Pittsburg  Denver 

    0        3    -- First Quarter:  Steve Plume
    7        3    -- Second Quarter: Jim Kirks

  14        10    -- Third Quarter:  Travis Edsall
  28        10    -- Fourth Quarter: Larry Bradley 

 

Must be Present to Win” Drawing

 

There was no "Must be Present to Win" Drawing.

 

From Rotary International:

 

 Message from the chair

  

 

November 2009

Make an impact with a gift to the Foundation
 

My wife, Mary, and I have three children and eight grandchildren. Looking back on many happy years of raising a family, I recall most clearly the days that stood out in some way from the others. I remember the day my son had his tonsils out -- and ate a cheeseburger the same night! I remember the weddings, the graduations, and the births of each child.

But when I talk to my children about what they remember of their own childhoods, the answers are so surprising. They remember events that Mary and I have long forgotten -- the simple moments that happened as part of normal life yet still created profound memories. These are the moments that define who we are. What we see, what we hear, and what we experience as we grow older shape the person we become. Everything we do as parents has an impact, whether we realize it at the time or not.

As Rotarians, we have a similar responsibility to consider the consequences of our every action. We cannot predict how significant our words and decisions will be. But we do know that everything we say and do has an impact. Our responsibility is to ensure that the cumulative effect is a positive one.

When we give to our Rotary Foundation, we know that the result will be positive. When I served as RI president, I saw the truth of this in so many ways. The poorest parts of the world are the places where the local clubs have the fewest resources. By giving to our Foundation, we bring help to the places where Rotary is needed the most -- and fulfill the Foundation’s mission of Doing Good in the World.

Glenn E. Estess Sr.
Foundation Trustee Chair

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