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Newsletter for August
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 convened by President Sally theme for the year “Rotary Shares”. Forrest led the Pledge of Allegiance. Thought of the Day: If there is a God she must be an African black woman, because they are the hardest-working, long-suffering people on earth. (from a Rotarian who has been there to see)  INTRODUCTION
OF ROTARIAN GUESTS: Paul Berringer (son-in-law of
Forrest); Sara Mills-Gaines (home equity specialty, guest of Tricia
P.); Pat Brulow (Bank of Scotland merchant services, guest of Rickie).
Christine Lund (guest of Deni); Will Johnson (husband of President
Sally).VISITING ROTARIANS: Al Kaplan (underground construction, Petaluma); Daymon Doss (health care administration, Petaluma Sunrise); Dale Knight, Assistant DG (insurance, Rohnert Park-Cotati); Sherri Berland (counselor, Petaluma); Bruce Blinn (consultant, Marin); and Jim Suver (new Administrator from PVH, Past-President, Gridley). ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS. Oktobert fest meeting and Rotaract meeting 1:30 PM right after our Club meeting (call Chairperson if you missed it to get updated information); August 19th – shelf building workday, meet at 1:30 PM at Polly Hannah Klaas center, then out to the trailer on Bailey Avenue to build shelves; SCARC August 30th in Healdsburg (sign up through Walt). Rotary on the River, reservation deadline is August 20th, call 887-2027; paperwork will be provided and returned to Connie. Relay for Life, September 15 & 16th, Casa Grande High School track – lots of volunteers are needed. GSE team going to Nigeria, team leader is Susan Cole from the Windsor Club. Applications are due September 12th, 24 – 40 years of age. Get the information out, opportunity to spend a month between middle of April and  end of May 2008 in Nigeria; more
information is available from Dale Knight .........HAPPY DOLLARS, FINES, ETC.: Deni celebrated her birthday with lunch with daughters and dinner with her family; a secret came out – she moved one block over and combined offices (got hit again with a fine). John Burns traveled to the east coast to celebrate with family and paid a fine. Tabitha celebrated her sons’ birthdays (10 and 16); one party was quiet, the other was a riot (pizza boxes everywhere); Mike Rabette celebrated his daughter’s 12th (going on 18) birthday with a fitting fine to match her age; Linda P. celebrated Gracie’s 6th arrival to her family (tabby cat) by finishing up her (Linda’s not Gracie’s) Harold Alexander Gold. Tabitha got caught with a trip to Jamaica and other islands – no money left. This week’s Argus Courier included an article on Rotary Walks featuring Libby and Derek (with Derek’s name spelled wrong), fines will be levied next week. President Sally got caught for her wedding anniversary $42 for 42 years.  Moe J. read lovely
postcards from Paris and Japan from President Sally’s world-traveling
gavel. The Past-Presidents all stood to represent the lost gavel
and fined the President.Rickie R. gave a happy dollar for grand-daughter Brianna’s 3rd birthday. Bruce S. celebrated his attendance at the Giant’s game during the 756th homerun hit by Barry Bonds. Jim F. recognized his son’s birthday and attendance at the sa  me game.
Tricia P.
celebrated her 23rd wedding anniversary with a donation to her Paul
Harris. Sheila B. scrounged up some change and gave a happy
dollar that Gardner’s medical report (no amputation of the neck needed)
and he’s looking for a new plane (they totaled the one he flipped in
OshGosh); Elly L. found $1 in her garage – first time in 27 years of
marriage that she can actually park in her garage (yoorah!); Will
Johnson paid $10 happy dollars for being married to President Sally;
Moe celebrated a trip to San Diego with his two young grand-children
(great story about them not sitting with him on the plane).Update on Chuck Hartley – complication with what was a small sore, now a big problem with his ankle (infection); love to Chuck and Loretta, we miss you and are ready to start the chauffeur service at any time. Sandra C’s son swam to Alcatraz and ran 7 miles; visiting Rotarian Al Kaplan got a new car and voluntarily paid a fine (in recognition of past fines for his new cars). Two Raider tickets for this Saturday’s game were donated to Rooster Run (donated by Connie T.). RAFFLE: 50/50 raffle ($226) the wrong color marble was selected by Daymon Doss. PROGRAM: Jim Suver, Hospital Administrator for Petaluma Valley Hospital since May 14th. He comes to Petaluma after 9 years with the Fremont-Rideout Health Group system located in Yuba City. He served as administrator for Biggs-Gridley Hospital. Prior to that, he worked for Catholic Health Care system for six years and Sutter Health for 9 years. His first hospital work was at Novato Community Hospital. He holds a Master Degree in Health Administration from the University of Southern California and undergraduate degree in accounting from Chico State University. A Paul Harris Fellow, Jim served as President last year for the Gridley Rotary Club. He is also a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Masons, and the Moose. He is hoping to get involved with Petaluma organizations. He has relocated to Petaluma in the Theatre District along with his 14-year old black lab, Guardian.  Jim is a fifth-generation California and his family still farms walnuts, kiwifruit and cattle-ranches in the Sacramento Valley. He enjoys reading and his motorcycles (he already makes weekly trips to the coast). Story about hosting a GSE team member – thought he was talking to a “baker” who was really a “banker”, thank God Jim found out fairly soon – since he didn’t know much about baking. Jim gave great statistics on the efforts of Petaluma Valley Hospital to serve our community and to improve it’s ranking and standing in the profession. Jim updated the Club on the progress in expanding the birthing facility. He mentioned the new equipment at PVH and the piloting of the Electronic ICU; which provides linking to regional hospitals such as Stanford. Nation-wide trend to have Intensivists (doctors who specialize in intensive care patients). Work is progressing on bring the new 64-slice CT-scanner into PVH to allow whole body imaging. Toshiba has just come out with a scanner with over 1,000-slice system. PVH has already made improvements to meet seismic bracing requirements. Jim shared information on hospitals in the area willing to keep building to serve a greater region. We need to make sure we keep a facility in the community to serve the community. Great questions and a few compliments from Club members.  Meantime.....the First Friday Social was held at Sally Johnson's house (with a little help from husband Will) A good time was had by all....well, all who attended! Meeting Adjourned |
