Newsletter - Archive  Oct 29, 2009

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Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter

A Day Without Laughter is a Lost Day

The Smallest Deed is better than the Greatest of Intentions

Steve Kawa opened our meeting with three telling proverbs, followed by the Flag Salute led by President-Elect Greg Mills and  the song, "Take me out to the ball game" to commerate the Angels great season that ended just short of making the world series, Damn Yankees.

Guests: Introduced by Greeter Greg Mills

Pete Moriarty- transferring to the club next week

Stan Van Den Berg- incoming new member

Daryl Hok- VPHS Interact Co-president

Diane Marcus- VPHS Interact Co-President

Rick Barnett- here to talk to us about the adopt a Marine for Thanksgiving program

Aniko Lengyel- our speaker and naturopathic physician

Announcements:

Our new Paul Harris banner with all the new class of 2009 inductees was displayed by President Joe Brand-  We will get a 100% Paul Harris Banner at the upcoming Foundation Dinner on November 7th.  Congratulations to all the new inductees.

Foundation Dinner will be next Saturday Night Novermber 7th at the Airport Hilton in Irvine, Keynote speaker LA TV Weatherman and comedian Fritz Coleman is a must see.  Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased on-line at the www.rotary5320.org website.  Black Tie optional.  Starts at 5:45 PM with cocktails and fellowship.  We've got 8 people commited so far, lets step up and get 2 more so we can have a table of 10 representing our club.  Members attending so far:

Joe Brand, Steve and Lainey Stern, Lesslie Giacobbi, Bryan Nash and guest, Jay and Terry Applebaum. 

Oktoberfest Update:  So far we calculate that Oktoberfest generated $30,000

Don't forget to give us the names and addresses of your guests so thank-you letters can be sent.

Greg Mills introduced our VPHS Interact Co-presidents to the group- Diane Marcus and Daryl Hok

Happy Bucks:

Ken Meyer spoke at a local womens group and recieved $137 to go for shipping DVDs to the

troops.

Diane Rothi- thanked Millie Alexander for sponsoring the trolley tour of Old Town Orange last Saturday afternoon.  The tour included a lunch at Jalpena's Restaurant, a carmel apple from the candy store and Ice Cream.  Thanks to Millie and Craig Alexander and Al Ricci.

Steve Kawa announced he will be sending out the quarterly dues statements next week-

his proverb for this should be NO PAY NO PLAY 

Pam Dunn announced that the repair of the bench by the centennial clock is scheduled and that there are 3 more spaces available for sponsors at $300 each- those sponsors will have their names printed on the bench.  Jay Applebaum, LInda Olsen-Bartrom and Greg Mills agreed to sponsor the bench.

Tom Davis took the opportunity to thank Jane McDonald and all the people that helped in the recent "Love Pack"  project- 500 backpacks filled with school supplies, toys and personal hygeine items + farm tools, books and a sewing were dropped off this week at the Sante Fe Springs warehouse for shipment to Liberia. Jane plans on doing another 500 "Love Packs" in the near future.

Lesslie Giacobbi reported a pleasant visit with her grandkids in San Diego- which included a beach outing; "It was a beautiful day" according Lesslie.

Steven Pollack announced he is heading out this morning to Baltimore and will also spend some time in Florida with his mother and sister.

Pam Dunn reminded the group that tomorrow night is Halloweenfest and we will be cooking hot dogs and brats.  She wanted to thank all those members and spouses who agreed to help out.

Teri Brooks made an announcement about the Toys for Tots program the Marines run to give toys to the needy.  She asks that the members bring in an unwrapped gift for a boy or girl.  Joe Brand will collect them and bring them to the President's Dinner in December.

Rick Barnett-  talked about the Adopt-a-Marine for Thanksgiving Program and also about the Secret Santa Program that helps needy Marine families purchase Christmas/Holiday Gifts for their families.

He will forward us a flier about the program that will be sent to you in a separate e-mail.

Drawing- Steven Pollack drew a KIng.

Speaker:  Aniko Lengyel PhD.

Dr Lengyel specializes in Functional Medicine and has a practice at the Villa Park Medical Group Offices.  Her approach to medicine is to maximize system functionality.  Her topic today was how to stay healthy during the ongoing Flu pandemic.  She is not an advocate of the flu vaccine, but prefers to do things that will strengthen the body's immune system.  She advocate drinking clean water, hand washing, healthful nutrition, regular exercise for at least 30 minutes per day and getting 7-9 hours of sleep nightly.  She spoke briefly on each of these areas and advocated taking vitamens- antioxidants, Zinc and Vitamin D3.   It was an interesting talk with lots of good information.  Dr Lengyel will send me more information and I will forward it to the group.

Next week we will induct new member Sr. Pastor Stan Van Den Berg and transferring members Pete Moriarty and Linda Dorn.

Happy Halloween.  See you next week.