AUGUST IS MEMBERSHIP MONTH
Yes, August is membership month in Rotary worldwide. As far as we are concerned, every month is membership month so let us know who that prospect is you’ve been meaning to call and invite them to any one of the many events we host monthly (a lunch meeting, a happy hour, a fireside, a softball game, one of your Golf for Kids foursome) and let’s get acquainted!
And how about your Rotary softball team? Another victory …. A “come from behind”12 - 5 win over Point West. We are on a roll!
Hosted by Jim “Yosemite” Phillips, eleven Rotarians, friends and yours truly enjoyed a scenic hike to May Lake and “Jim’s perch” for spectacular views under sunny skies and a profusion of every imaginable High Sierra wildflower. Youth Incentive Program (YIP) student Precious Ramirez (along with her mentoring parents Bob and Shirley Rosenberg) was amongst the ranks enjoying her first visit to the High Sierra, learning to trail blaze and the art of an effective snowball. Our day concluded with an ice cream social at the trailhead (packed in dry ice all the way from Jim’s Groveland home) and dinner on the deck at the Pine Mountain Lake Country Club under a rising full moon. (And thanks Jim for making good on your pledge as a “Hiker”).
Mead Kibbey provided a wonderful “California History Minute” this past week with tales of the first ice shipments to California around the horn from the East. Yes…ice! (See Mead for the full account if you missed this fascinating story) More to come monthly.
Past President Bob Cole reflected on the history of the “oldest philanthropic project in Rotary worldwide”, our very own Golf 4 Kids, now in its 89th year, and by the way, in Bob’s 89th year. Many thanks to Bob for this great snippet of history and his contribution in honor of the event founders, Rotarians, Ernie Chappell and Gus Olson.
Your RCS Foundation Trustees are diligently perfecting this year’s operating budget in light of the roller coaster stock market and economy.
Don’t miss the Inaugural Rotary International Zone 25 & 26 Peace Conference being held Sunday November 13, 2011 at the Palm Springs Convention Center hosted by grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Mr. Arun Gandhi, RI Foundation President Bill Boyd and RI President Kaylan Banerjee. For details email PDG Dee Fairbanks at deefairbanks@gmail.com.
Many thanks as well to Emperor Yee in recognition of his new tenant Sunflower Markets and his daughters acceptance to Stanford Law School, to David Lowe and KVIE for bringing mobile TV to you first, to Steve Fleming for River City Bank’s most profitable bank rating and of course to Jennifer Barber, God bless you dear, I trust that was an important phone call! A generous group by any measure this week.
Now if I can just get everyone’s name straight (begging forgiveness from Elena Naderi and Keith Pershall) life will be good and thanks for the banner Keith from the Rotary Club of Venice, Italy (with a membership of two!).
Welcome to the Club new members Nate Black and Tim Maurice!
Enjoy a terrific week, strive for those summits!
Ken Noack, Jr.