Newsletter - Archive  Jul 30, 2009

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 "All The News That's Fit To Print and Some Not So Fit"

The day began with an Invocation by Steve Stern, the Pledge of Allegiance and a rousing version of "Zippity Do Dah" aka the "Song of the South".

Guests:

District Governor Bret Gerdes and wife Natalie

District Governor Elect Johrita Solari

Craig Beinlich- up for new member after attending 3 meetings

Pete Moriarity- new Villa Park resident from Alexandria, Louisiana- presented the club with a banner from the Alexandria, LA Rotary Club- we gave him one of our club banners and a VP Rotary Mug.

 Pam Dunn welcomes Pete Moriarity to Villa Park

Announcements:

Steve Kawa- bad news- time to pay quarterly news; good news dues have been reduced to $210 per quarter from $265

Greg Mills- Oktoberfest- Greg gave a thourough discussion on our upcoming fundraiser.

Eric Sense- passed the hat and collected $214 towards the purchase of Angel Baseball tickets for the August 29th End Polio Now Angels vs Oakland As baseball game- Tickets are $28 and a part of the monies raised will go to meet the $355 Million dollar Gates Challenge.- thanks to all who contributed.

Steven Pollack reminded us its time to start thinking about inviting Marines from Camp Pendleton to Thanksgiving dinner- many members committed to have Marines share their Thanksgiving- once again thank you for your generosity.

Tonight is opening night for the play, "Bell to Bell"  at Mission Viejo High School. The show features our own Eric Sense as Coach Buzz Nutter and was written by Milt Stamos' son John.  Pam Dunn announced a dinner and wine tasting at Rockwell's prior to night's show- carpooling is available. "Break a leg Eric".

Birthdays/Anniversaries:

Lorraine Glenn is celebrating a birthday

Jay and Gail Lieberman are celebrating their 42nd wedding anniversary with dinner at the White House Restaurant.

Happy Bucks

Steve Stern announced that his wife Lainey had her last chemotherapy infusion and is now cancer free.

Bill Baker was happy that the new Outdoor Education Center had its Grand Opening for the Boy and Girl Scouts-  Greg Mills' daughter attended in her Brownie Uniform

Public opening of the new $30 million  facility will be in August

Bill was also happy for Kirk Parker(inside joke)

John Broussard was hosting guests from Temecula

Teri Brooks told us her daughter's poster for Harley Davidson Motorcycles  was the 3rd all time best seller- she promised a signed copy for the club

JIm Brodsky was happy to announce that Bill Baker's cholesterol levels were normal

Lesslie Giacobbi thanked Pam Dunn for hosting the Oktoberfest Meeting at her home last monday-

12 members attended and Lesslie has prepared a donation letter that can be personalized and sent to corporations for donations

Jane McDonald reported on the International Service Meeting last Tuesday evening- she reports a spirited discussion and that the committee is moving in a very postive direction; they have committed to sending out 1300 "Love Packs" this year so stand by.

Secret Greeter - Linda Bartrom

Oppotunity Drawing- Steven Pollack drew a 4--

Speaker:

District Governor Bret Gerdes

DG Bret Gerdes and his wife Natalie joined us for breakfast.  Bret talked about the global relationships that are part of Rotary.  He noted the four things Rotary has to offer:

1. Global Networking

2. Social activities

3. Learning and practicing leadership skills

4. "The Feel Good Factor" - knowing you've given others a hand up

He also reported on things that the District 5320 staff is doing for us this year.

1.  New on-line club directory- members can access and update their information

2. Monthly President's Dinners- with teaching, fellowship and promised surprises this year.

3. District Awards- no more awards books- each club will be assessed by the Assistant District Governors who will write up 1-2 page summaries of club events and activities and awards will be given based on these evaluations.

Joe Brand has committed to get club membership up to 50 members this year and the district will do everything it can to support our growth.

On the Rotary Foundation - the world needs us to have a strong foundation to support our global efforts to eradicate Polia, provide educational opportunities and clean water

On Polio- there are still four countries that still have active Polio- we need to keep up our efforts to eradicate the disease- Bill Gates has increased his donation to $355 Million- so attend the Angel Game on August 29th and help meet our goals.

Our new District Governor also asked us to support all the major District events this year and attend the International Meeting next June in Montreal, Canada.

 President Joe Brand welcomes new District Governor Bret Gerdes and wife Natalie