Building Trust Through Rotary 9/4/13

Posted by Jory Rosen 
on Sep 04, 2013
 

Greetings all,

Below is a review of this week's meeting and upcoming Playa Venice events. Remember to read all the way through for this week’s Note from the Universe. 

 





 

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

To Start:

A huge Thank You to everyone for being so welcoming to Lillie Grace on her third birthday. She was so glad to be there and the singing of Happy Birthday was a special part of her day. In fact at bedtime we asked her what the best part of her day was and she said the singing with the flowers (and we had a great day)! So thank you all. Lillie will now be starting the Pre-School division of Rotary. :) Lillie asked me to send everyone her favorite picture of her and her dog Homie as a way to say Thank You!

Image

 

Guests this week included:

  • Lillie Grace – 3 years old and enjoying her breakfast out.
  • Brad Robinson and his wife
  • Ass’t District Governor Sam Bingham
  • John Ash – A visiting Rotarian from Eureka who has decided to join our club
What Happened this Week:
  • Reminder that 9/11 is bring a friend to Rotary day. We are at 51 are looking to continue growing.
  • October 6th will be the District Picnic. There will be a chili cook off and cardboards boat race
  • October 22 is the Cultural Dinner. The goal is to raise $15k after expenses. Key areas of need right now is seeking sponsorships and auction items.
  • Paul Harris dinner in on 11/9 and Raffle - Remember to sell your tickets. Good way to get fellow points. 12 tickets are only $100.  Our next meeting will feature a drawing to see who will be attending this year.
  • Reminder that the Pacific Division Police Dept is having a Pancake Breakfast on 9/7. There will be station tours. Only $5 and all proceeds go to youth programs. 9am to Noon. Lillie’s party does not start until Noon, so you can easily do both.
  • Rememeber it is almost time for the3 -hour tour on a boat named Disappearance with Peter. Hmm? Champagne breakfast is included. Food by Howard and booze by Peter. $125 a ticket. This week’s auction winner of two tickets was Gail.

 

Today’s Speaker:

Speaker was past District Governor Brad Robinson.  He spoke about the upcoming Rotary Humanitarian trip to Columbia in March of 2014. He showed us some great pictures from past trips (there were some sightings of members from our club in the pictures).

ImageImage

 Happy Bucks for this week:

  • Jory $50 – Lillie Grace’s birthday, Happy Rosh Hashanah and to celebrate the fact that Lillie was an amazingly well behaved 3 year old during breakfast.
  • Peter - $25 for the return of family and grandchild from Bangkok.
  • Gail $50 – Excited to see Brad come and speak to us again


 No 50/50 raffle winner this week, so the pot carries over to next week. 

Save the Date:

Sept 29 On the Water With BodyGlove (Peter Smyth)

Oct 6 District Picnic (Tom Carson)

Oct 13 Midnight Mission (Tom Dixon)

Oct 22 Cultural Dinner (Gwen Vuchsas, Lisa Schwab)

 

And now, a Note from the Universe:

"Enjoying short-term pleasures at the expense of long-term dreams is just about as silly as pursuing long-term dreams at the expense of short-term pleasures.

Pursue both. Kind of like, have your cake and eating it too.

 

I do."

The Universe

All Notes from the Universe are courtesy of TUT's Adventurers Club


Have a great week,

Jory