ROTARY MEETING
October 17, 2017
President Pete called meeting to order
Invocation by Dan Costley
Pledge to the American Flag: Pete
Song: Take me out to the Ball Game
Joke: By Prez Pete ”Where did we come from?”
Guests of Rotarians: Andrea invited Lou Dubnow, a Sales Associate with Coldwell Banker. Judy introduced our speaker, Kenneth Foran and his wife, Gretchen.
An update on a few of our members: Seneca is doing well and has joined the Morro Bay Sunset Club, Syd Symington is doing narration for audio books in a studio in his home, and Sid Bennett and his wife are busy taking care of each other. Steve Carnes will be out for a few weeks with knee replacement surgery.
Andrea Turnquist was given her yellow badge!!! She has has proven to be quite the active member!!! Thanks Andrea!!
Pete passed out an email about a Rotary Tour of New Zealand which will be in April of next year. They had a successful tour in 2017 and would like to do it again with Rotarians from California and Texas.
The survey has come to us via email again. The results of the last survey were a +65 satisfaction result. We had 13% participation and would like to have more than that, so please take a couple of minutes to fill it out next month and make a comment if you would like.
Judy said the Maritime Museum has finished most of the requirements from the City and will soon be breaking ground . They will be having a celebration aboard the Chablis Friday night for the 1542 Club. Dan and Linda will be going to represent our Club.
Congratulations to Chuck and Liz who have been married 61 years. Wow!! You are an inspiration to all of us!!
Pete had lots of baseball questions to ask members and guests. Lou batted 1000% on his questions, Mike Williams not so good and Ken Casida was fined $20.00 for his incorrect answer.
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Our speaker today, Kenneth Foran is a World Master Model Builder, who creates scratch built models including horse drawn vehicles, aircrafts, boats and automobiles.
He has built a detailed model of the abalone diving boat “Dirty Dozen” which will have its home in the Maritime Museum. The boat, which was too badly deteriorated to save, was to be destroyed in June of 2016 so Judy contacted Kenneth to ask him if he could make a model of the “Dirty Dozen”. He agreed to do it and the day before it was to be torn apart, he spent two hours measuring and photographing the boat so he could make an identical model. He brought the model to Rotary in complete detail, including nets, abalone, men, and divers helmet, so we could enjoy getting a closer look. It was amazing; and we are so thankful we will be able to have it displayed in the Maritime Museum.
Kenneth said he has been interested in making models since he was 10 years old. He has written a book on the art of model making, and has instructive videos as well. It was a fascinating program……Thanks to Judy for bringing the Forans.
We passed around a tin and collected $145.00 to help with the Santa Rosa fire relief efforts.
Nancy won the 50/50
Next week’s program will be Ann Kitajama with the National Estuary Program. Her topic will be the “Health of the Bay”. Come join your Rotary friends for this program.