GMW Reporter--DJ photog
Jan. 31.... Richard Herman, dickherman communications: Sonoma County Specialty Manufacturers
Business Gems in our Community
Feb. 7....Maureen Middlebrook, Open Space Dist. Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District
Feb. 14....Pat Landrum, Director of HC2 Environmental Approaches to Preventing High Risk Drinking Need Projector
Feb. 21....Mike Bierman, Petaluma City Manager The State of the City of Petaluma
Feb. 28....Mary Stompe-Bill Fishman, PEP Housing Senior Housing in Petaluma
Forrest leads the pledge.
Thought for the Day: Carol York “Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.”- Oscar Wilde
Guests
Al Kaplan, Petaluma Club
Jeannette Clark, Petaluma Club
Alden Hennings, Petaluma Club
Dave Pitchford, Ignacio Club
George Wagner, Petaluma Sunrise Club
Debbie Matteri’s nephew, Devine
Julie Restad, Chiropractor, Folsom Club
Moe’s wife, Beverly
Terri’s fiance, Stuart
Cappuccine, Rotary Exchange student
Dan Swanson, Liberty Mutual
Sunshine and Showers
Liz Marquart is recovering well from her procedure
Connie is hosting a celebration of life memorial for Jim Tuck, this Saturday
at 2pm in Oddfellow’s Park main club house, Guerneville. Use ‘ #8549 ‘ to get in gate.
Announcements
Jim Furuli, on Day at the Races event
On the bus ride back, he was in and out of bathroom fourteen times! Small bladder J
im?!Jennifer Carter, First Friday at Pazzos, some drunk guy talking to Jennifer wanted to go to the bathroom with her husband Matt who politely declined. Bullet dodged!
Osukuru Village Report: Sheila- awaiting forms to be completed and comminiques from the local Ugandan Rotary club to be answered.
Just then, Derek Stefan makes an appearance, to the delight of all and becomes the poster child for the new Missing Rotarians program, labels to be found on the back of popular wine bottles.
Al Kaplan announces the Petaluma Club’s crab feed on Feb 9th, with $8000 prize raffle tickets available.
Tueday Feb 13 Board meeting, 7:30am
Lend A Hand to Education: Libby reports that all of checks were distribute to the schools with $7071 funded with $2400 from the OKTOBERFEST and $2078 from new members here and Sunrise Club. Excellent work guys!
George Wagner announces the second annual Easter Egg Hunt put on by the Sunrise Rotary Club, March 31 at Lucchessi Center. Looking for donation prizes to auction off.
Sandra Campbell announces Dash for Cash has been renamed Cash for Cash- appointment of appointing committe heads and team leaders expected soon. The raffle drawing will be at the golf tournament April 24th.
President Russll give a nod to those who helped on Opportunities Nite recently interviewing High School kids. Way to grill guys.
Fine Fun
Deni has it easy, her husband wants to go to Pinkies Pizza to celebrate- now that’s an easy date!
Ron Johns celebrates wedding anniversary number 35 on a San Francisco excursion to watch the Jersey Boys.
Philip celebrates his daughter’s 13th birthday.
Linda P. is in the Argus, again, this time blogging.
Sheila got blogged too in the Argus, her place is one to go to for cheap eats.
Terri contributes to Gardner Brides Paul Harris for give her grandsons a plane ride around the area.
Rose Parrish is busy with her twin granddaughters and her daughter’s birthday.
Sandy Campbell gets touched for her new Mercedes.
Derek celebrates Erika’s birthday.
Raffle
Prize up to $713 bucks!
Linda P. draws but alas no luck. Mr. Moe gets the ten spot.
Sooo Close!
Speaker of the Day:
Our own Rotary Exchange Student Cappucine de Hedaville
Cappucine, 17, comes from France, from the town of Pontoise (lit. bridge over the Toise river). She is one of 10,000 Rotary Exchange students who are between 15-19 years old in a program that began in 1927. She speaks today about her life in France and showed some great slides.
Pontoise, France is in northern France, about 40 miles from Paris. In her family there are four children of which she is second oldest. She has a grandma that lives in southern France as well. Her oldest brother attends a university in Paris studying drama, and she has 15 and 7 year old brothers and a 12 year old sister. Her father remodels houses while her mother does home day care which means her house always a beehive of activity! Her parents are active in the local Catholic church.
Pointoise has about 30,000 people and is a third century old city which has a local castle once occupied by a famous king. During the time of the plague, the population dropped dramatically and a new nearby town arose, Cergy. Today the area is a suburb of Paris, popular for its less expensive housing than Paris which is 40 minutes away by train.
Lycee Camille Passarro is her school. Classes in France move up together thru the school years. She showed us picture of friends. Interestingly, cigarettes and alcohol are legal for teenagers in France. School curriculum is split up into History, Economics/languages, and Sciences emphasis.
Capucine turned 17 in August to practice English and came on the exchange program learn about Americans (many in France don’t like Americans- she tends to be a contrarian). She likes to do things differently from her peers, like taking Russian (after 3 years she still doesn’t speak a word). She likes drama as a way to express herself. She is very involved in her church with theater dramatic programs. She is into Girl Scouts since she was 8 years old. In fact thru scouts, she learned to plan and implement a program to finance a trip to an Austrialian Jamboree.
When asked about her favorite experience in US: she like visiting a lot of places, especially Yosemite and Tahoe. When asked about her impressions about America, she said "Don’t judge America by its presidents" (big round of applause there- no she mean you Russell). Also everything in America is big- for example American cars are much larger than smaller French cars. When she goes back to France, Cappucine will do her senior year in France to pass her exit exams. She has found schools here are very easy and she didn’t study a lot here so somewhat worried about exams in her senior year. When asked about what she wants to do as an adult, Cappucine stated that she wants to open a candy store (she loves Wonkas!). Viva la France and adeiu.
