Club Bulletin for June 2, 2015

Warm, warm, sunny, sunny, breezy, breezy – the new weather.

 

Soft shell tacos, chicken, beans, rice and cookies!

 

President Nick looked pretty darn spiffy in his yellow tie with psychedelic mushrooms on it placed against a starchy white shirt.

 

The lovely and talented President Nick.

 

The lovely and talented Jude.

 

So our fine President Nick continues to veto Row, Row, Row Your Boat…hmm, so we get to sing songs like Bye Bye Blackbird – which I believe has some deep and hidden meaning.

 

Forrest Ratchford

Sweet Melissa

Bruce Harwood

 

Nope!

 

Taking a brief break from this.

 

Not today.

 

Dan Costley let us know that Rotarian Jack Barrett was still in ICU but expected to get out on Friday.  He is up for visitors and doing much better.  Apparently he has also befriended all the female nurses in the ward.

 

Rotary is dark on Tuesday, June 9^th.

 

The demotion is scheduled for Thursday, June 18^th at the Golf Course @ 530pm.

 

July 7^th is Camp Hapitok Day.

 

John Weiss was kindly given 5 minutes to talk about all the things that the Rotary Club does for other organizations in addition to providing donations, those groups included:

Scholarships for college

Scholarships for trade schools

Assistance League

Project Surf Camp

Hands of Nepal

RYLA

Rotary Youth Exchange

Home Build Projects in Mexico

Interact

Rotaract

1^st Tee Program

 

Mike Pond reports that we are still looking for a host family or two for Eduardo from Ecuador.

 

President Nick announced that Ron Reisner has donated $250 to Rotary.

 

 

June 18, 2015 – Demotion/Induction Party

Project Surf Camp – July 18^th

late August / early September 2015 – Fish Fry

 

I don’t recall any fining.

 

Nope.

 

We were treated to two program today, beginning with Madge Morningstar who was from Big Brothers and Big Sisters.  She shared about the program and that the SLO Chapter had both the male and female winners for the state awards.  She explained that the “bigs” spend time with the children they mutually chose, approximately 6 hours each month.  They can do exciting things or just routine things; they just enjoy being out and about.  The program is supported through donations and they are always looking for adults to be matched with a child.  Madge shared there were currently 134 children waiting to be matched.

 

John Taylor was the next speaker; he is the creator of Project Surf Camp, a program designed to get special needs children in the water.  Project Surf Camp was started in 2008 and in 2014 boasted 300 campers and 450 volunteers participating.  They collaborate with a number of other organizations and also have several agency volunteers.  There are 4 ways to help with Project Surf Camp and they include Fundraising, Volunteering, Marketing and Equipment.  He encouraged everyone to check out their website at projectsurfcamp.com.   

Jan Lewis won the 50/50, President Nick closed the meeting.