May 30 2017-Rotary Forum

PROGRAM: May 30, 2017: Pismo Beach Chief of Police Jake Miller and K-9 Ofc. Chris Siglin-“German Shepherd Goose” Pres. Greg Baker opened the meeting at 12:34 PM with his usual this day in history: the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification on June 4, 1919; the inaugural running of the Indianapolis 500 took place on May 30, 1911; and the Beatles released “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on June 1, 1967. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Terry Fibich asked for volunteers for next Saturday to accompanying him for his last Highway cleanup at 7:30 AM. Andrea Lugar requested volunteers to email her to help distribute the Youth Literacy books to third graders at the last 2 remaining schools. Jeff King announced that we should start bringing two bottles/person of high quality wine to be auctioned off during Summer Sizzle. Pres. Greg asked for a show of hands for those attending the last board meeting of the year at Steve Curry’s ranch. He also stated that next week he will be gone for two weeks to attend the Rotary International Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Sharon Ellis will be taking over next week’s meeting, which Ashlea Boyer announced will be devoted to the scholarship winners.FINES:Pres. Greg fined Dick Dannells $75 for his June 1 wedding anniversary with Rae. He fined Mary Ann Reese and Jeff King $50 and $75, respectively for their birthdays.PROGRAM: Pismo Beach Chief of Police Jake Miller and K-9 Ofc. Chris Siglin-“German Shepherd Goose” Jim Lewis introduced our speakers with Chief of Police Jake Miller who praised Ofc. Chris Siglin for being Ofc. of the Year. Ofc. Chris Siglin introduced Goose who has been on the force since February when he went through 5 weeks of basic training. He is a 3 ½-year-old 100% German Shepherd that takes all of his commands in German and only knows a few English words. The Pismo Beach police have had a K-9 unit since the 1980’ s, but for the past 5 years they have been without such a unit after their previous dog retired. Ofc. Chris has been the agitator while Goose went through training. During such training, Goose would attack without aggressively biting hard on the padded protection. This is in contrast to the Belgian Malinois, which is higher strung and will aggressively attack even during training. This was type of police dog that mauled a Grover Beach man to death. The police department takes their liability responsibilities very seriously and keeps Goose under lock and key at the kennel when it’s not on duty with its handler. Ofc. Chris demonstrated his use of a hand signal to get Goose to bark, because Goose is normally very quiet. Goose has been involved in 2 arrests. Goose located the suspect that ran into the woods after a car chase. The other was an incident on 101 in which the California Highway Patrol could not control a violently drunk individual until Goose came onto the scene. It was estimated that the suspect in that incident came close to being shot if it had not been for Goose. In answer to a question, about 12 police dogs are used by police departments in the area and a considerable number of other dogs are employed by the state park system. Goose will undergo extensive drug training in a few months after they determine whether possession of marijuana will be a crime or not. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY BY KAREN ZAPPIA“If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative. Know when to close the account..”

PROGRAM: May 30, 2017: Pismo Beach Chief of Police Jake Miller and K-9 Ofc. Chris Siglin-“German Shepherd Goose” Pres. Greg Baker opened the meeting at 12:34 PM with his usual this day in history: the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification on June 4, 1919; the inaugural running of the Indianapolis 500 took place on May 30, 1911; and the Beatles released “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on June 1, 1967. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Terry Fibich asked for volunteers for next Saturday to accompanying him for his last Highway cleanup at 7:30 AM. Andrea Lugar requested volunteers to email her to help distribute the Youth Literacy books to third graders at the last 2 remaining schools. Jeff King announced that we should start bringing two bottles/person of high quality wine to be auctioned off during Summer Sizzle. Pres. Greg asked for a show of hands for those attending the last board meeting of the year at Steve Curry’s ranch. He also stated that next week he will be gone for two weeks to attend the Rotary International Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Sharon Ellis will be taking over next week’s meeting, which Ashlea Boyer announced will be devoted to the scholarship winners.FINES:Pres. Greg fined Dick Dannells $75 for his June 1 wedding anniversary with Rae. He fined Mary Ann Reese and Jeff King $50 and $75, respectively for their birthdays.PROGRAM: Pismo Beach Chief of Police Jake Miller and K-9 Ofc. Chris Siglin-“German Shepherd Goose” Jim Lewis introduced our speakers with Chief of Police Jake Miller who praised Ofc. Chris Siglin for being Ofc. of the Year. Ofc. Chris Siglin introduced Goose who has been on the force since February when he went through 5 weeks of basic training. He is a 3 ½-year-old 100% German Shepherd that takes all of his commands in German and only knows a few English words. The Pismo Beach police have had a K-9 unit since the 1980’ s, but for the past 5 years they have been without such a unit after their previous dog retired. Ofc. Chris has been the agitator while Goose went through training. During such training, Goose would attack without aggressively biting hard on the padded protection. This is in contrast to the Belgian Malinois, which is higher strung and will aggressively attack even during training. This was type of police dog that mauled a Grover Beach man to death. The police department takes their liability responsibilities very seriously and keeps Goose under lock and key at the kennel when it’s not on duty with its handler. Ofc. Chris demonstrated his use of a hand signal to get Goose to bark, because Goose is normally very quiet. Goose has been involved in 2 arrests. Goose located the suspect that ran into the woods after a car chase. The other was an incident on 101 in which the California Highway Patrol could not control a violently drunk individual until Goose came onto the scene. It was estimated that the suspect in that incident came close to being shot if it had not been for Goose. In answer to a question, about 12 police dogs are used by police departments in the area and a considerable number of other dogs are employed by the state park system. Goose will undergo extensive drug training in a few months after they determine whether possession of marijuana will be a crime or not. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY BY KAREN ZAPPIA“If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative. Know when to close the account..”