the rotary club of santa maria

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THE ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA MARIA

Bob Frias 2010-2011 President

THE ROTATOR AUGUST 17, 2010

Craft Talk Schedule

None Scheduled

Last Meeting’s Notes

Visiting Rotarians

Steve Dastic of the Santa Maria “South” Rotary Club and co-presenter of The Zambia Project

Visitors

Stephanie Goldberg, daughter of Joe Goldberg.

Jane Trapp of CASA

Christi Williams, our program presenter about The Zambia Project.

Elliott Kirk of Solar-ponics

Upcoming Projects

Dictionary Project

Meeting Stats

Total Members in Club = 58

Club Members Present = 28

Attendance Percentage = 48

As a special treat, Tuesday the 17th, we will induct our soon to be “Newest Member”, Jane Trapp. We

will have a short Bio and pictures next week. Jane’s sponsor is Susan Rees. Great going Susan.

At the last meeting, I was questioning why we bother to invest time, money and energy into Rotary. It sure would be easier not to! The simple answer is we do it to make a differ-ence. We make a difference in the lives of people, some we know and many we don’t. We can help save the lives of children in Zam-bia by helping to provide safe drinking water. We can help save lives in our community by bringing attention to the perils of distracted driving. We raise money to help the hungry and the needy and the abused and the ne-glected and the illiterate. So get involved and help us to make a difference!

“DISTRICT GOVERNOR TO ATTEND NEXT MEETING, AUGUST 17th !

Please attend the next meeting to help us wel-come our District Governor Deepa Willing-ham. She is a dynamic speaker and an amaz-ing person.

As you know, District Governor Deepa Willing-ham will be our special guest at next week’s meeting and I guarantee you this is a meeting you don’t want to miss. If we haven’t seen you in a while, this is a great opportunity to get to a meeting! Also, bring a guest. Please help fill the room.

Thanks,

Bob

To my Special Family I call “Rotary”

"Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine."

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you for your prayers, best wishes, help, and support over the last few days. This is yet another journey of my life that has been made special because all of you have been part of it. God in HIS/HER infinite

wisdom chose not to give me an ordinary cold or cough but a “freaking” brain tumor…but we Rotarians know how to overcome all obstacles, don’t we? What is a minor brain tumor? We are IN-SPIRED to banish of Polio and to eradicate extreme poverty! How can a minor setback hold me back when I have my sister Vicki and all of you on my side? So hang in there my friends…with all of your help, this OCIW (One Crazy Indian Woman, as coined by the 2010-2011 President Elect’s) will be up and running in

no time.

In the meantime please know

that it gave me great strength to know that, in my time of need, not only did I have my own family and close friends, but also the collective power of a worldwide network of caring and concerned people to support my emotional and physical needs. Again, please accept my deepest thanks for all your support and expres-sion of genuine love. I am in-deed, humbled and fortunate to be a member of such a wonderful organization we call “The Family

of Rotary”.

With love,

Deepa

The following was in the May 18th Rotator but I have included it here because it gives us an insight into

Deepa and her love and passion for Rotary and Deepa’s love for “The Family of Rotary.”

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THE ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA MARIA

The Rotary Club of

Santa Maria

Board of Directors

2010-2011

President:

Bob Frias

President Elect:

Laura Mohajer

Past President:

Susan Rees

Club Administration:

Roy Dugger

Membership:

Frank Culley

Public Relations:

Frank Culley

International:

Fred Pratt

Club Service:

Camille Edie

The Rotary Foundation:

Tom Martinez

Secretary:

Ruth Moran

Treasurer:

Doug Kimberly

Rotary Calendar

Bulletin questions or comments? E-mail [email protected] or call 805-934-7091

CONTRIBUTIONS

Membership, Frank Culley

Rotator, Frank Culley

Web Site, Frank Culley

AUGUST 2010

8/17 - District Governor

Deepa Willingham’s Visit

8/28 - Membership & PR Workshop

September 2010

9/17 - Soccer: UCLA vs Cal

Poly

9/25 - Master PRLS - 4

9/28 - Driscoll’s“Offsite”

October 2010


10/23 - District Conference - Buellton

November 2010


11/6 - CaliforniaDreamin Fun Raiser

December 2010

12/4 - Rotary Christmas Pa-rade of Lights


12/21 - Kids Christmas Party

12/28 - Tom & Jerry Party

August Programs by Carl Engel

August 17

District Governor

Deepa Willingham’s Visit

August 24

D’Ann Bartley – Prudential California

Santa Maria Association of Realtors Association President

August 31

TBA

The Rotary Club of Santa Maria

September Programs by Gayle Pratt

September 7

TBA

September 14

The Natural Oil Seeps in Santa Barbara County - Bob Poole, WSPA

September 21

Santa Maria Bonita School District Phil Alvarado, Superintendent

September 28

Off-Site Tour of Driscoll Strawberry Facility

http://www.rotaryclubofsantamaria.org/

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2010

MEETING GREETER RAFFLE TICKET SELLER

NAME MONTH NAME MONTH

VICTOR TOGNAZZINI AUGUST CINDY McKELLAR AUGUST

FRANK CULLEY SEPTEMBER JOE GOLDBERG SEPTEMBER

RICK HAYDON OCTOBER LEAH WEST OCTOBER

NOVEMBER TOM ROSS NOVEMBER

BILL LIBBON DECEMBER CARL ENGEL DECEMBER

2011

JANUARY TOM MARTINEZ JANUARY

GILLIAN COLE - ANDREWS FEBRUARY DOUG KIMBERLY FEBRUARY

RICHARD SHERMAN MARCH VICTOR TOGNAZZINI MARCH

CARL ENGEL APRIL RICK HAYDON APRIL

SCOTT DUNN MAY ALICE PATINO MAY

RON NANNING JUNE CAMILLE EDIE JUNE

THANK YOU FOR HELPING YOUR ROTARY CLUB

ALL GREETERS & TICKET SELLERS, PLEASE PLAN ON BEING AT THE MEETING BY 11:50

Contact Bill Libbon for any questions on meeting greeters & ticket sellers at [email protected]

Our thoughts and prayers are, as always, with Tara Nelson. We really miss you Tara. We wish you would come back and see us. Oh yea, Bring that Ken fellow too. We miss him also. Tuesday would be a great time while DG Deepa Wil-lingham is here.

Please remember Francine Rickett in your prayers. Francine is having a rough time with Ned and needs our thoughts, prayers and support.

Program Chairperson, Carly Engel, has received a confir-mation from British Petroleum engineers that they will come to our club within the next two months to discuss the events and eventual capping of the recent oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They promise to give a live demonstration of how pouring heavy mud and cement down the throats of

Rotarians can curtail the spewing of toxic emissions. Don’t miss this one!!!

Thanks to John Henning for this heads up

mailto:[email protected]

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2010 - 2011 2011 - 2012

Bob Frias President Laura Mohajer

Susan Rees Past President Bob Frias

Laura Mohajer President Elect

President Elect. Nominee

Ruth Moran Secretary

Doug Kimberly Treasurer

Frank Culley Membership Chair

Tara LeFranc Membership Co-Chair

Ron Nanning Membership “Induction”

TBA Membership “Orientation”

Carl Engel Membership Committee

Terri Lee Coleman Membership Committee

Scott Dunn Membership Mentor

Camille Edie Membership Mentor

Rick Hayden Membership Mentor

Fred Pratt Membership Mentor

Tom Martinez Membership Mentor

Yvonne Biely Membership Mentor

Roy Dugger Club Administration

Frank Culley Publicity

Fred Pratt International

Camille Edie Club Service

Tom Martinez Rotary Foundation

Carl Engel Programs

Frank Culley Website

Joe Goldberg Sergeant-at-Arms

Scott Dunn “At Large”

Laura Mohajer “Fun Raiser” Chair

Joe Goldberg “Fun Raiser” Sponsor Committee

Positions in “Bold Red” are “Board” positions

Editor’s Note: I have finally learned how to do “imbedded hot links.” In the past you would see the full URL address to the Website. Now you will see verbiage such as “The Rotary Club of Santa Maria” which you can know is a hot link as your cursor will turn into a little hand as you hover over the link. In addition “links” are usually blue in color and underlined. I

hope this makes your reading of The Rotator, on line, more enjoyable and rewarding.


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MONDAYS

6:00 P SANTA MARIA SOUTH

THE HISTORIC SANTA MARIA INN

12:10 SAN LUIS OBISPO

MADONA INN

TUESDAYS

7:OOA SLO DAYBREAK

FAIRWAYS RESTAURANT

CAMBRIA SUNRISE

LAS CAMBRITAS

SOLVANG BREAKFAST

ROYAL SCANDINAVIAN

TEMPLETON

MCPHEE’S

12:00 THE ROTARY CLUB OF

SANTA MARIA

THE HISTORIC SANTA MARIA INN

PISMO BEACH

PELICAN POINT

MORRO BAY

THE MORRO BAY GOLF COURSE

WEDNESDAYS

7:00 A GROVER BEACH

SPYGLASS PISMO

NIPOMO

BLACK LAKE GOLF RESORT

PASO ROBLES SUNRISE

PASO ROBLES COUNTRY CLUB

12:00 ATASCADERO

LAKESIDE PAVILLION

SAN LUIS DE TOLOSA

MADONNA INN

12:10 SANTA YNEZ VALLEY

ROYAL SCANDINAVIAN

6:00 P LOMPOC ROTARY CLUB

LOMPOC EMBASSY SUITES

THURSDAYS

7:00 A SANTA MARIA BREAKFAST

SANTA MARIA INN

12:00 PASO ROBLES

PASO ROBLES COUNTRY CLUB

ARROYO GRANDE

STEAMERS PISMO BEACH

FRIDAYS

6:45 A VANDENBERG VILLAGE

VILLAGE COUNTRY CLUB

7:00 A LOS OSOS

MARE BLU RISTORANTE

12:00 CAMBRIA

THE BRAMBLES


"cyber make-ups"

Rotary District 5240

A reminder that several back issues as well as the current issue of The Rotator can be found on our Website. I also have every issue I have done since September 23, 2008 if there is a specific issue you may

want. The Rotary Club of Santa Maria

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all

concerned?

Will it build GOOD

WILL and BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL

to all concerned

http://www.rotarydistrict5240.org


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President Bob

Now you Know Where Zambia is.

Christi Williams of “Seeds of Hope”

The Zambia Project

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Steve Dastic, International Service Chair, Santa

Maria Rotary South

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