The Voice of the Vineyards The Weekly Electronic Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Healdsburg

“The mission of a bulletin is inform the membership, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”

Author: Joe DiSalvo

Photographer: Rick Tang

Editor/Publisher: George Heath

March 6, 2017

WELCOME

President Lynda Guthrie called the meeting to order and

asked Barbara Rosen to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

QUOTE OF THE DAY Prez Lynda…. “Action is the foundational key to all success.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. Success consists of going from failure to failure

without loss of enthusiasm.” Author notes: I don’t think the gold fish made it.

VISITING ROTARIANS:

Mark Decker introduced our visiting Rotarian, Linda

Reid.

GUESTS of ROTARIANS

Julie Andersen, Speaker of the day

~~~ Oui Cater served luncheon of tossed salad, cous cous salad, sautéed green beans, polenta

cake, focaccia and BBQ pork rib. We finished off lunch with lemon bars and brownie bites.

Yums: 4.5 (Yum scale 0 to 5, with 5 being excellent.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Prune Packers Baseball game on July 13. Pre-game warm up party at Rich Bottarini’s

house at 806 University Avenue at 4:30 pm. Game is scheduled to start at 6:00 pm. For

more information, please contact Rich.

May 25, 2017 is the Healdsburg FFA Parade. We will gather at the Healdsburg Museum

for BBQ sausages with the Healdsburg Sunrise Rotary Club. Please bring a side dish to

share.

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards June 18-22 at Westminster Woods, Occidental CA.

Our Club will be serving lunch on June 20.

Nita Parker gave us a report on the District

Conference that took place at Hyatt, Lake Tahoe.

President Linda presented Phil Luks with his past due

Red Badge. Congratulations (again) Phil!

Prez Linda and Nita presented President-in-

waiting, Kate, with her first Rotary shirt. Very chic and

snazzy!

Henk Peters thanked the twenty Rotarians who

volunteered to make Freedom Day a huge success.

All the students received a water bottle and a flash

drive. Good job to the Club!

RECOGNITIONS

Al Loebel donated $20.00 to Green Hair Day

to honor his and his lovely wife, Elizabeth’s

20th wedding anniversary which was

celebrated in Hawaii. Mahalo, Liz, for hanging

in there.

Brad Pender donated $20.00 to his Paul Harris

after returning from Zion National Park.

Dr. Dave Anderson donated $25.00 to the

Education Fund to celebrate his 50th

graduation anniversary.

RAFFLE

John Avakian was the lucky winner of the raffle and took

home a bottle of delicious Bertapelle Wine. Cheers John!

PROGRAM

Barbara Rosen introduced Speaker

Julie “Brain Lady” Andersen. Her

interesting topic was “Want

Success? Use Your Brain!” Julie

gave us insight on how our brains

operate and gave us an exercise to

perform that required our group to

get up and move in the meeting. My

take on this is that we have quite a

few chiefs or “bosses” in our Club.

A very intriguing presentation

explaining our brain quadrant

dominance. I seem to be “short-

circuited” since I came out with the same number in all four quadrants.

CLOSING

Prez Lynda thanked visitors and guests for coming, and rang the bell.

NEXT WEEK

DARK. Enjoy your Memorial Day by celebrating our great country and remembering the

people who died while serving in the armed services for the United States.