Coming soon to a meeting near you:
9/12 -- Janice Lever, A Former missionary’s perspective on Uganda’s people and culture
9/19 -- Grant Livingston, Perspective of living in Brazil and the Amazon
9/26 -- Club Members, Craft Talks – A great opportunity to learn interesting facts about your fellow
club members. You will not want to miss this one!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 convened by President Sally - theme for the year “Rotary Shares”.
Forrest led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Thought
for the Day: offered by Pamela Tuft -~~ This
week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about
PolioPlus. By the time the world is certified polio-free, Rotary’s contributions to the global polio eradication
effort will exceed US$600 million. This is the largest private sector donation to this initiative and second only
to the US government in total contributions. PolioPlus has made the world take notice of Rotary and what
we
can achieve. We now have respected partnerships with such groups
as UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC). We have earned their respect and are seen
as instrumental to this initiative. In the words of Carol
Bellamy, former executive director of UNICEF: “Rotary's presence
has been vital for the PolioPlus effort. Without Rotary,
everything would have been different."
INTRODUCTION OF ROTARIAN GUESTS: Grant Carl (Fit & Furry); Forrest introduced his son-in-law Paul Barringer.
VISITING
ROTARIANS: Gail Cardaropoli (Petaluma Rotary); Nit Anderson
(Petaluma Rotary); Bob Tuttle & Bill McNicols both members of
the Marin Evening Rotary
ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS:
Have
you missed a PVR meeting??? Rotarians who have missed a meeting
and have attended other meetings be sure to get that information to
Walt or Liz. The make-up must be 2 weeks before or 2 weeks after
the date of the missed meeting. Examples of make-ups are:
Interact meetings, PVR Board meetings, meetings at another Rotary Club,
and eClubs just to name a few. Walt is a great source if you have
questions.
PVR Board Meeting – September 18th – Sunrise Assisted Living @ 5:15PM (Yes, this counts as a make-up)
SCARC
September 27th in Petaluma (Yes, this is our club’s turn – let’s have a
good showing! + Yes, this counts as a make-up)
Relay
for Life, September 15 & 16th, Casa Grande High School track – lots
of volunteers are needed. People are needed to man the stations –
(please contact Sally for more information.)
A
little change for the 1st Friday Social, it will be on the 2nd Friday –
Sept 14th at Adobe Winery. Pull your old cars out of storage,
come to the car show and have fun.
Jo and Pam – leaving
in a short time to go to Uganda – packing is a problem as they
have too much to get into their suit cases of the donated items we were
sending. Sally presented a check for $400.00 from the club to
purchase items such as postage for the school children to send letters
back to their pen pals. Money donated in the table buckets this meeting will be used to purchase supplies when Pam & Jo are there. Next week they will fill us in on what they will be doing on this trip.
Derek Stefan came in – “Welcome”, what did you do for your recent birthday? A wonderful trip down south including
The San Diego Zoo, Hollywood Bowl, and more – great trip a lot of
fun – glad he is still in the 30’s club.
Jim
O’Grady – anyone who plans to attend the International Convention in
LA: we need to start registering and getting the reservations for
the hotel rooms. You will need to register fairly soon to be
assured of getting one. You can always cancel if necessary.
Also, the first 10 people to register who have never attended a RI
Convention our club will pay your Convention Registration. (A
value of almost $300) June 14 – 18, 2008. If more than 2% of the
club goes we get a rebate. The location is close enough to us
that there is no reason that we can’t do this. Remember that
often this is held in other countries.
Bob and Bill presented information concerning the Aviary Project at Casa Grande High School. 
Handouts detailing the Avairy Project Plan were provided on each table
while they talked about the action plan and how they will build one
building at a time with a total of seven buildings over the next
year. They hope to get more people involved such as: community
members, students, & Rotary. The Avairy Project will not
include birds of prey because they are too dangerous. The first
inhabitants will be ducks, parakeets, and cockatiels. Later
stages will include banding the birds – catch and release.
Students are developing the program.
HAPPY DOLLARS, FINES, ETC.
Coodos
to John Burns – another missing Rotarian – Editor for the Argus
Courier, which puts out the Petaluma Magazine. For those who
haven’t looked yet there is an article about our Million Dollar Golf
Tournament on page 89, with pictures Tigger! Rickie was fined –
however, Sally gave her the copy since she lives in Sonoma and doesn’t
get the paper.
Another
Rotarian in the paper was Jo when she won the Cash for Cash prize of
$5,000 and pictured with her is Jerrie who was being hugged. $$ in the
bucket to take with her to Africa.
Dianne Zimmerman was in
another news article in both the Argus Courier and Press Democrat
concerning the first schools in Petaluma to accomplish something – I
missed what it was.
Todd was the photographer so he was fined
for doing his job of taking the pictures in the magazine. Boy you
can’t get away with anything these days!
Linda was interviewed
for the Art in the Park event being held September 8th. Come down
to the event and experience the talent of Petaluma.
This is Nit’s first meeting at our club since Sally has been president and in celebration she presented Sally with gift.
RAFFLE
TIME – With $328.00 in the pot and only 4 marbles left, anticipation is
high. The lucky ticket belonged to Jim Furuli, but alas he did
not draw the blue marble – maybe next week will prove a winner.
Red
Badge to Blue Badge - Lane and her sponsor, Sheila, were
about to go to the front for the pinning when Lane confided that, oops!
she has not done her makeup yet. A great example of “Is it
the Truth?” 
SPEAKER – -- Shawna DeGrange,
Cool
Kids Camp was hosted at a different place this year, and might not have
happened if not for Shawna DeGrange and the Cloverleaf Ranch.
Since
1949 Cloverleaf Ranch's facilities have been home to summer programs of
wholesome, enjoyable ranch life for boys and girls. Cloverleaf has
provided kids around the world with a safe and fun summer to remember
with day camp, overnight camp and residence camp programs.
Cloverleaf
Ranch is a year-round working ranch, whose facilities have been adapted
for summer programs of wholesome, enjoyable ranch life for boys and
girls. In summertime, Cloverleaf becomes a little bit of the
California West of many years ago. It is 160 acres of oak tree
dotted hills and grazing land, the perfect setting for fun. It is
located just off Highway 101 at the northern edge of Santa Rosa.
Cloverleaf
Ranch has been a family-owned and operated ranch camp since 1947. The
second-generation ranch owners, Ron and Ginger DeGrange, have a
long-standing commitment to the development of youth, and continue the
tradition of quality instruction and program development.
Missions
Statements include: To create and maintain a safe environment at
all times, To provide adequate supervision (i.e., 1:5 staff to
camper ratio), To deliver a happy and fun filled summer
holiday, To increase the campers' social skills with peers and
adults, To develop the campers' mental and physical health,
To develop the campers' confidence, trust and self-esteem, To
demonstrate a sense of responsibility in camp, camp activities and
personal living skills, To develop a sense of responsibility in
campers for making their own program decisions, To develop
leadership through physical, moral and intellectual activities,
To develop a sense of honesty and fair play, To become more
self-reliant and independent, To make new friends, To
acquire a greater understanding of the care and management of
horses, and To expand in physical skills.
Nit was inspired to donate $100.00 towards next years’ Cool Kids Camp. Thank you!
Meeting adjourned.
