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Newsletter for October 3,
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coming soon: Forrest leads the flag pledge.
Thought for the Day:  Tricia quotes Nelson Mandela: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous.” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us…and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our prescence automatically liberates others.” PVR guests:  Andrew Kern, estate attorney. Paul Berringer, Forrest’s son-in-law. Stu, Terry’s fiancé. Dolores, Dawn Davis’ mom. Larry P. and Howard Fisher, Gulala Rotary,37 years perfect attendance! Bruce’s aunt, Janice Frank Schuler, speaker, Art Trails. Announcements: Oct 9, Community Rotaract, 1310 Redwood, CFW building, 5:30-6:30 pm. Oct 6 Gualala Arts Festival Oct 10 Petaluma Sunrise Club Steroids in Sports Discussion 7-9 pm, 512 B Street at Petaluma Womens Club. Oct 13, Rotary Youth Exchange San Francisco Trip. Need help with dinner Saturday nite at the Fairgrounds. Contact Terry. PVR received a letter from Rotary Youth Exchange student Kaitlyn who is in Chile now. First Annual Best Bloody Mary and Golf in the North Bay will be the new Cotati Club’s first fund raiser. More info to follow. Oct 20 PVR's OctoberFest event. Next Wed after regular PVR meeting OctoberFest meeting. Buy your beer from Luckys to help with Octoberfest sales! Laguinas donated beer too, so buy their beer at Lucky’’s. Need more volunteers to sign up for the event. Help needed for OctoberFest ticket sales at Petaluma Chamber Business Expo. Note: Lucky’s donated an authentic German dinner party as an auction gift. Shop Lucky’s! Fines: Maureen Frances celebrates her birthday with her kids. Bruce celebrates his 41st birthday with his parents and a soccer team. Sue and Walt’s son Clinto  n celebrates his birthday.Julie celebrates her 7th aniversary running the 12k Bridge to Bridge run and with a dinner in San Francsico.. Debra Matteri celebrates her 2nd club anniversary. Mike Levin celebrates his new granddaughter. Nice picture Mike! and Forrest's son-in-law, Paul, celebrates his birthday with us! Pamela Tuft and Jo Thornton make it back from Uganda, yea! Pam passed out goodies: brought back hat for Jim O’Grady from Heathrow Airport, meeting make up tickets from a Uganda Rotary club, a Ugandan sun hat, a beautiful Ugandan flag for the podium club, returned borrowed binoculars (not needed since hippos were 3 feet away!), banners from Ugandan clubs, beautiful woven collection bucket for club dues, a gavel with a screw on its face (to open beer bottles), exquisite sculpted Ugandan candles for Sally, and a cool Ugandan bark bag. She also told us snippet stories: gaggle of lion juveniles loitering closer to a road repair crew, watching fourteen movies total on al the plane flights, getting mobbed for photos in the villages, a humbling meeting with a 81 year old matriarch of a village, traveling 8 hours a day on bumpy roads with fifteen Rotarians from California and Oregon plus one crazy Canadian, and remembering the many village welcome dance of 50-60 Ugandan women. Pam and Jo will share these and many more stories in a future meeting.   Raffle: Bob draws but alas no luck Speaker: Frank Schuler, Sonoma County Sculptor, representing Art Trails October is Art Month Art Trails is an event held on the second or third weekends in October and is in its 22nd year of which Frank has done 20 years. Art Trails features a road map of open studios within Sonoma County. The event gives the general public a chance to see how artists live and do their work. This year 138 artists are involved in the event, including many husband and wife teams. A mandatory evaluation from the artists after the event is used to check the impact of Art Trails. The first event drew 600 visitors: now it is up to 6,000-7,000 visitors over the two weekends, raising about $600-$700 thousand to the art community. Many visitors are from out of the area and most visitors see about seven studios with about half buying artwork. In addition to the art community, these visitors impact the local tourism economy.  Frank then showed many slides of his many abstract works. He himself uses non-traditional materials such as PVC plastic, wood, and metal combinations, and has lived in Paris and Osaka, locales from which a lot of his art is inspired (ie Kimono, setting suns, etc). There were many wonderful pieces and renderings, some made quite ingeniously such as the miniature Eiffel tower made of a computer hard disk armature. He has a local gallery featuring his work which includes inside and outside art. Great talk and slides. Thank you for sharing your art and Art Trails, Frank! Adieu.
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