PT Reporting
Coming soon to a meeting near you:
Nov. 8, 2006 – Bob Ostroff, M.D., South Sonoma County Physicians Medical Group
Nov. 15, 2006 – Polio Plus, Russell Rice
Nov. 22, 2006 – Our exchange student...Capucine
Nov. 28, 2006 – Dark
CLUB CALENDAR:
Tour of Live Oak School – 11/9
Festival of Brotherhood – 11/3 – 11/9
PVR Board Meeting – 11/14
SCARC Meeting – 11/16 – Sebastopol
Holiday Party – 12/1 – More Details to Come
Meeting convened by President Russell (‘a steamed’) Rice- The theme for the year ‘Lead the Way’.
Mary C. was the greeter for the day and provided the Thought for the Day (multi-tasked perfectly).
Thought of the Day: “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
INTRODUCTION OF ROTARIAN GUESTS: Matt Rourke (son of Rickie); Lindsay Merget with the Sonoma Marin Fair District (guest of Pamela who paid for the really inadequate introduction); Carol York with the Bank of Marin (guest of Shadi), Ray Hussey (very special grandson of Sue and Walt).
VISITING ROTARIANS: From the Petaluma Club: Nit Anderson, Larry
Jonas, Alden Hennings, Ralph Sartori; from the Russian River Club: Jim
Tuck; and from Sonoma Valley: our very own Oktoberfest auctioneer
Marshall Harwood.SUNSHINE & SHOWERS: Forrest updated us on Laura’s progress (hope to have her home sometime this weekend); Dawn updated us on Connie, who is back at the Club and looking very much like the real Connie who has been dearly missed for some time; Harvey Frietley is not doing well, card going around; Russ Freudenberg’s Mom passed away; Austin’s son was in the hospital (as was Austin) earlier this week (Austin's bedside humor was booed enthusiastically).
ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS.
RI Convention coming up next year, June 17 to 20, 2007 – Sally has reserved rooms, looking forward to a fun time to be had by all who attend; make sure you pay Sally for the room deposits if you’ve signed up to go.
Horse Racing Trip (aka: Day at the Races) – January 12th with the three Clubs, more info to follow including sign-ups; this has been going on for a number of years – fun bus trip (no levi’s in the beautiful Jockey’s Club room, ask one of the long-time members about that funny story!). $65 per seat, great food, giggles, gambling, and views of the racetrack.
Sunrise Club has a cioppino feed coming up on December 2nd, 5pm to 9pm, Hermanson's Hall. $40 will ge
t you a killer cioppino feast,
some Italian music and the usual silent auction for us shopaholicsPVR’s Holiday Party – December 1st – sign up going around; bring the family, great food, fun time.
Larry Jonas – updated the Club on a trip this weekend to Ensenada to help work on an orphanage.
Past Presidents will be meeting next Monday to prepare the recommended nominations for President-Elect-Elect for 08-09, to follow Sally Johnson.
Mary C. gave her craft talk: born in Humboldt County, 3 children
(daughter 29 years old, son 27 years old, daughter 11 years old;
grandmother to 2 (hard to believe, isn’t it??). Mary has
been in banking for nearly 30 years, presently Manager of Sonoma
National Bank branch at the G&G Market, Sonoma Mountain
Parkway. HAPPY DOLLARS, FINES, ETC.: President Russell recognized Chuck Hartley’s birthday; John Strong’s son Carl had a 40th birthday, he celebrated with a donation to Carl’s Howard Alexander; Jennifer Carter celebrated her sister’s new daughter (Josephine Linnea) with a gift for President Russell; Marshall Harwood recognized his grand-daughter’s article in the Press Democrat; Connie Tuck recognized her son Jimmy’s birthday with a gift to Sonoma State University (new Rotaract Club coming soon) to establish a scholarship (a check from Moe augmented the start-up funds).
RAFFLE: 50/50 raffle the wrong color marble was selected by Austin. Liz M. won the $10.
PROGRAM: Moe introduced the speaker, Tomas Kendrick. Tom was a sea urchin diver for 22 years, recently published author of Blue Water Gold Rush. Tom started his talk with capturing all of our attention with verbally painting a picture of a Fall 1992 dive into an underwater room, clear visibility and his encounter with a 15’ Great White Shark (more to come later….).
In 1962, at the age of 11, Tom moved to Hawaii with his family. Surfing became his passion. Sea Urchin Roe (uni) was originally in great demand from Asian restaurants but has evolved into a world-wide demand. Tom started working as a sea urchin diver by accident when someone didn’t show up to work one day (surf must have been down or he would have been out paddling his board). Entering the arena at just the right time, 1978, Tom spent 22 years building his very successful business. His interest focused on the red sea urchin. Each urchin is hand-picked, a typical boat will pull in 3 – 4,000 pounds a day, although the record was in excess of 6,000 pounds in one day.
Finally, Tom finished the shark story…..so sorry you missed it, but he’s here to tell the story. In his life, he has had 6 friends attacked by sharks: 4 recovered fully, 1 was permanently maimed, and 1 was killed. Tom’s retired now, continues to surf as often as he can, dives recreationally and is now doing book tours for his new book.
Lots of questions came from the Club, which Tom answered with great humor and honesty. Great speakers program this year – we haven’t had a dud all year. It was fun to see so many visitors to the Club, keep coming, we love to see you.
