MORRO BAY ROTARY MEETING
Oct. 31, 2017
Invocation: Melissa
Flag Salute: Megan
Joke: Pete
Visiting Rotarians: Dick Mellinger is a Member of Passport Rotary, but he also wanted to talk about “Pawsabilities For Veterans”. This organization buys puppies, trains them and when they are ready, gives them to soldiers with PTSD. They will have a fund raiser featuring two local bands on November 10th from 5 to midnight at the Siren.
Guests of Rotarians: Scott Harp, guest of new member, Peter S; and Lou Dubnow, guest of Andrea
Dan Costley: announcement about help needed for the new Santa House. We need spare pieces of lumber and red or white paint. We can use decorations if you have extra at your home, and we will need help on Nov 18 and 19 to get the Santa House put together, painted and decorated. Contact Dan if you’re available.
We will be receiving a check in the amount of $5,900 because of the hours we put in working at the Avocado/Margarita Festival. Good Job!! And Thanks to those who put in those hours....it means we had enough hours to be paid 10% of the gate. Get geared up for next year!!!
Pete updated us on Max... he went to LA this weekend with Pete and Kathi and also went to Disneyland with a friend. This weekend he is going to Hollywood with friends. He has a water polo play-off game tonight at 5:00pm.
Kudos to all those who dressed up for Halloween!!! 
Pete had a few Halloween questions for the group:
Gary Englund was asked - What do you call a single vampire” Batchelor.
Mike Williams was asked - Why didn’t the skeleton cross the road? No guts.
Sarah Ketchum - Why are cemeteries noisy? All the coffin
Halloween is the day before what celebration? All Saints Day? Chuck missed it and was fined.
We have a couple of new members coming in so there will be an Orientation at 5:30 on the 9th at Lolo’s – please feel free to join us.
Presentation today was on Rotary International Foundation and Rotary Club of Morro Bay Foundation.
Chuck was the first speaker.
There are many programs that the Rotary International Foundation supports and of all the money
Rotary receives, 91% is spent directly on these programs.
The money in the Morro Bay Rotary Foundation only comes from our club. The Board of the
Foundation consists of six past presidents whose mission is to provide college scholarships.
Our Foundation has given a total of $148,250 to 115 students. The board independently goes
through the applications to determine who the scholarships should go to. Need, service,
scholarship, activities, and intangibles are what they are scored on. This year Chuck gave a
perfect score to one individual who is blind....he said it was very rewarding to see her come up
to receive her scholarship.
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Sarah was next and she spoke about a plan to give to Morro Bay Rotary Foundation. Donating a stock that might not be doing well is a good idea since you can deduct your loss as well as 50% of the value of the stock. Talk to your CPA about what is the most efficient way to leave money to your family or to a charity.
Ken gave some of the history of Rotary....There are four ways
to receive a PHF..... 1) Donate $1,000; 2) Join a Paul Harris quartet;
3) Buy one or more squares on the PHF board; 4) Participate in
our March Madness Brackets.
Kasey thanked those who came to Garden House BBQ Luau. The fundraiser raised approx $4,500.
Nine bags of weeds were taken out of the roundabout by Mike and Pete.
Heidi won the 50/50
Next week’s program will be USN Captain Bob Christenson speaking on “The Evacuation of Saigon”. Sounds like a great program especially since Veterans Day is Nov. 11.
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