Newsletter - Archive  Jan 7, 2010

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Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter

Welcome 2010!!

Good Morning Villa Park Rotarians.  Our meeting began with an invocation by Bill Baker who encouraged our nations leaders to do the right thing.  Jay Applebaum led the pledge and reticent song mistress Teri Brooks led us in God Bless America.  Greg Mills began a new tradition of leading the group in a reading of the Four Way Test.

Guests:

Rick Barnett - gave the group positive feedback on the Thanksgiving Day event with the Marines.

                      Everyone involved felt it was a wonderful experience and a great way to honor the

                      Marines for their service to our nation.

Wayne Silzel-  a guest of Jim Glenn

Steve Lopushinsky- a frequent and most welcome visitor from the Orange Club.

Announcements:

New Year's / New Decade Party- Next Wednesday January 13th -

                    Place:  PJ's Abbey-  182 South Orange St.   Orange, CA

                                                       6-9 PM - 

                              Bring a CD or DVD for the Troops in lieu of a gift exchange.

                     Note:  We will not be dark on the 14th. 

Ronald McDonald Dinner on January 20th-  Jay Lieberman and Lesslie Giacobbi scheduled to cook and host.

                             May Dinner-  Jim & Lorraine Glenn

                              June Dinner- John & Jean Broussard

                     servers are needed for both dates.

Pam Dunnread a thank-you letter from the VP Women's League for our $500 contribution to the recent Holiday Home Tour from Sherry Zackowicz

and auctioned off a donated floral arrangement from the Flowery- Nagi Ibraham had the winning bid of $30

Birthdays and Anniversaries:

Ken and Lisa Fischer celebrated their wedding anniversary

Craig and Millie Alexandercelebrated their 34th wedding anniversary with a trip to Monterey

Tom Davis celebrated a birthday

Jim and Lorraine Glenncelebrated their 55th wedding anniversary with dinner at Mr Stox

Bob Kreisberg celebrated his birthday on January 1st- he enjoyed a visit from his mother and brothers.  In honor of his birthday he collected two boxes of DVDs for the troops and food for the Friendly Center.

Anita Jameson celebrated her birthday at Sun City and is proud to qualify for Social Security benefits

Happy Bucks:

Jane McDonald-requests we bring in warm clothes to donate to Mercy House- Jane will collect them at next weeks meeting.

Bob Meyer- asks we bring in old blankets to donate to the animal shelter- again, he will collect them next week-  He also updated us on Ken's experiences in Texas where the job market is tough and the salaries are very low in comparison with California-

Teri Brooks- was happy to share her mom' s 81st birthday on January 5th.

Mark Schmidt- spent Christmas in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his family

Lesslie Giacobbi- spent 2 weeks in Sun Valley Idaho skiing with her family

Nagi Ibraham- reminded us that today is the Greek Orthodox Christmas

Steve Lopushinsky- spent the holidays with his family in Washington State sledding and building snowmen.  He bought his brother a sausage stuffer and they made sausage and says his hands still smell of garlic and other spices.

Steve Kawa happily announced that the ladies soccer team from Santiago Canyon College is now the National Champions in their division and is ranked #1 in the Country.

Eric Sense- had two weeks of not having to rush the kids off to school during the winter break.

Marsha Leeg- got a new dehydrator and is happily making duck jerky.  Unhappily Marsha is planning to transfer to the rotary club close to her home in Nevada.

Joe Brand attempted a joke, but it went badly.

Ron Accornero picked the number for the drawing and miracle of miracles pulled his own number.

He went on to pull a Queen from the deck

Speaker: Teri Brooks

Teri who has been associated with Villa Park TV for 18 years talked to us about the recent developments regarding the city and the TV station.  The station which is run by volunteers and students from Villa Park High School is going to be taken over by the city and run by another group that the city has contracted with.  The problem is that the station, which is a 501c3 non-profit, will have to turn its assets and monies over to another 501c3 in the city by virtue of its bylaws and the city is challenging this, threatening to fire the board and appoint other board members.   Bill Bakerand Wayne Silzel who were founding members of VP TV along with Pete Moriarty,who has experience with dissolving 501c3s,  made comments to the effect that the city is acting inappropriately in this manner.  Teri has contacted the CA State Attorney General's Office for final authority in the issue and her take is that the bylaws will prohibit the city from taking the assets from the station.  City Council member Brad Reese gave a brief view of the issue from the city council's point of view and seemed sympathetic to the issues at hand, but took a non-commital stance.  If the assets from VP TV come to the club we would get all of the equipment and about $46,000 in cash.  Teri estimates it will be mid-spring before the issue is resolved.  This was a very interesting presentation, but it seems the city is bound and determined to take over the running of the station. We'll just have to see how this plays out over the next several months.

Summary of Holiday Events:

Tree Nursery Workshop

Villa Park Boat Parade

Christmas Eve at Ronald McDonald House

Upcoming Holiday Party at PJ's Abbey - Jan 13th- 6-9 PM- see ya there.