Coming Soon:
April 11..RYLA Alumi…Kyosi Cuyane, Cassidy Emge
April.18..Terre Haute A’Cappella Vocals
April 25..Club Assembly—International   Project


Russell opens the meeting.                            Two "shooters" today!  Dave gets a good one of Todd

Ron Jons leads the flag pledge.

Quote for the Day by Debra Matteri....."Sand and Stone"
“When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand, where winds of forgiveness an erase it away.  But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind an ever erase it.  Learn to write your hurts in sand and to carve your benefits in stone.” –anon


Guests:

 Tommy Neidecker, our Swiss PVR Honorary member.
 Maureen Swane, Jon’s assistant.
 Steve Powell, Petaluma Club.
 Michael Caruana, Petaluma Club
 Doug Johnson, Petaluma Club
                                       Lew Steinberg, Petaluma Club
                        John Fitzgerald, Libbys personal trainer.




Sunshine and Showers
Sadly, Chuck Lewis’ wife Jeanne passed away recently- service was Friday 11am at Parent Sorenson funeral home..

Also give your prayers to Sue’s daughter, Amber who, in a week before her wedding, was in bad car wreck and now in Memorial ICU. (Update as of 4/7/07....Amber is out of the ICU and doing well...she has been transfered to Kaiser Hospital in Santa Rose. Word is there will be a bedside wedding on Easter Sunday)

Announcements
4/21    Rebuilding Together, Sheila, PVR team signups.  We will be helping Cinnabar theater. 
4/24     Board Meeting 7:30am at Sunrise Assisted Living.
4/14    District Assembly
4/?    SCARC
4/29    Great Petalujma Chili Cook-off and Beer tasting for Cinnabar theater.  PVR will be selling raffle tickets there.
4/29    Rotary Center for International Studies Annual Seminar
           UC Berkeley, 10am., 2315 Durant Ave. $35 with lunch.
5/12    Marcia Miller will be leading the upcoming Rotary Walks.  There will be a walk each month with new trails.

Libby gives thanks for all who helped in successful Interact dance last Saturday.  The kids said there were too many chaperones- ha, we all know one would have been too many!


Happy $$$$
Elly gave thanks to Shadi’s company for undewriting the recent actors wage increase.

Jennifer and Matt Carters veterinary hospital remodel has open house next Thursday 5:30pm.

Thanks to Janet Roselle for her vote-winning artwork of our new club flag.

Mike Levin gives dollar for a most enjoyable Mad Hatter ball.

Pass the Hat raises $87 for Capucine spending money for the prom.

Cash 4 Cash Raffle
Elly’s team sold 73 tickets.
Jerrie's sold six more today.
Sally Johnsons, $1400 tickets-
............Debra Matteri is the best seller with her catchy Email to friends, which you can use as well! (see below) :

“Greetings.
The Petaluma Valley Rotary is having its annual “$5,000 Cash for Cash” raffle fund raising event.
Proceeds benefit Rotary projects, Cinnabar Theater, and Mentor Me Petaluma.
Tickets are $25 each, but wait—there’s more.
Buy four tickets for $100 and receive a fifth ticket FREE.
That’s right—the fifth ticket is free—so it’s really 5 tickets for $100.
Tickets need to be purchased by Tuesday May 22nd.
The grand prize is $5000 CASH.
But wait—there’s even more.
Buy your tickets early- by Tuesday April 24th- for a chance to win even more cash.
                                           The ‘early bird” special means your ticket is entered TWICE.
                                           Once in the “early bird” specal drawing for $500 cash prize,
                                           And then again in the regular drawing for the $5000 cash prize.
                                           Please see me for detail (and tickets).
                                           Cash and checks are gratefully accepted on the behalf of Rotary.
                                           Thank you very much.”

 Shadi sold $500 worth of tickets too!  Keep up the good work gang!

Fines
Joanne Pozzi pays for being in the Argus today on preserving a local bakery.
Shelia gets gigged for not fining last meeting, as well as celebrates her 33rd wedding anniversary. Congrats to her and Gardner.
Elly gets fined for Argus article regarding employees pay raises- puts $2O towards Paul Harris.
Moe celebrates 16th club anniversary- gives towards Elle’s Paul Harris as does Russell for his vacation and new car.

Raffle: for $250- Phil draws but alas no luck.

Guest Speaker:
Michael Caruana.........Drinking the Wind: Arabian Horses

Michael Caruana of the Petaluma Rotary club shares his love of Arabian horses, While a 9 year old Maltese immigrant in 1953, it was on a school vacation that he looked for a book to read at Detroit library.  A kindly librarian, in a small gesture of kindness, gave him “The Black Stallion”.  He read all the books in this series within a month- while looking for more, that librarian recommended he write the author for next book.  Today, he and wife have a small ranch in east Petaluma where they raise, train, and breed several Arabian horses.

Around 1500 BC, nomadic Bedouins began breeding these distinctive horses. Arabian horses are the pures of all purebred horses originating in the Syrian and Jordanian deserts.  Wrapped in religionous and superstitious overtones, these horses were bred for desert warfare.  Arabians have a noticible short head, a long dished nose, small muzzle, wide jowls, short back, a high tail carriage, and fifteen percent more lung capacity than other horses.  Arabians are known for their endurance and speed- bred for war and sport as in raiding neighboring tribes raids or racing (with the loser losing his best horses).   There were five main Bedouin tribes, each nursing a family of Arabian horses.

Today, most modern thorough-bred horses can be traced thru three Arabians lineages.  The mares determine the family blood lines.  Michael then showed a film of a foal’s birthing and the foals development form ungainly first steps to dashing colt.  The film also showed training techniques and best of all, footage of the stately, prancing and dancing gait of the Arabians.  Thanks Michael for teaching us to appreciate these beautiful creatures more. 
 
Arrivederci till next time.

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