Rancho Bernardo Rotary September 28, 2017 Meeting Minutes & Images by James Kaspar

Posted by RZ Norris on Oct 04, 2017
Ronald McDonald House
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Tue Oct 17
 
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Rancho Bernardo Rotary Club
Meeting, Thursday, September 28, 2017
 
President Mike Fuqua called the meeting to order, again re-affirming the Rotary motto. Brian Flaherty said he was “Proud to stand and lead the Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag”.  Scott Lawn, in his inspirational message, noted that “love and passion from all” leads to healing. Maguy Feghali welcomed our visitor and guest speaker, and Gary Saks lead the club in our Welcome Song.
President Mike thanked the Volunteers for today: Joel Doss and Kathleen Smith at the front desk, Paul Donick and Judy Lutticken, our trusty set up crew, Rz Norris for scribe and James Kaspar, photographer par excellence.
 
There were many announcements:
 
-Karen Stelman noted that the Safety Fair benefit on October 22nd has been moved to Webb Lake Park, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Our Club will have a booth there.
 
-The Halloween Fair on October 13th , at Ed Brown Senior Center from 4:00 to 8:00 pm, has a number of Club Volunteers to help with set up and activities.
 
-Life Fair, the Senior Health fair, will be held at Ed Brown Senior Center on November 8th, from 9:00 to 1:00.  Vern Cook is looking for volunteers from our club to help with the fair, along with volunteers from the RB Sunrise Rotary Club.
 
-Doug Dawson has four tickets remaining for the Gulls Hockey game on October 19th.
-A reminder for the Semper Fi poker night on October 5th , benefitting our military.  Club members may sponsor players.
 
-Requests for Rotary Grants should be made by October 19th.
 
President Mike announced that our club has collected $4,000 for the hurricane relief fund. $2,000 has been committed to Texas after Harvey.  The Foundation has also committed $2,000 toward relief.
John Goodrich thanked all of the members who helped make the Foundation Seminar such a success.
Joe Gandelman received his gold badge following his “Who Am I?” presentation. His sponsor is Gary Saks.
John Adashek was inducted as a new Club member. His sponsors are Scott and Alex Lawn, his mentor is Dick Norfolk.
Fine Master John O’Neil was absent today, but his job was successfully handled  by Gary Saks. No fines were given, but LOTS of Happy Bucks were presented by club members.
President Mike introduced our speaker, Scott Carr, our District Governor of Rotary District 5340, mentioning his extensive career in Rotary.  The Club welcomed Scott with a rousing, specially written version of “Hail To Chief Carr”.  Scott praised our Club as being “an All Star Club”.  The focus of his talk was encouraging club diversity.  In keeping with our club’s explosion of new membership, Scott was presented with the book “Eruption”, to be given to Bernardo Heights Middle School in Scott’s name.
President Mike closed the meeting by quoting Thomas Jefferson: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”