IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK

By Capt. Tim

If one didn't know better they would have thought that they were at a Rotary Club meeting in Texas, what with all the hats, boots and buckles being shown off.

Linda our gavel less President kicked off the meeting in her best Texas twang (I'm told that it's real, Linda was raised in Texas – poor girl) welcoming everyone to the BBB Ranch.  Bigger, Better, Bolder!  They must not have had much in the way of electrical contraptions in Linda's youth because she sure has a lot of fun making her power point presentations.  Like a kid in a candy store!  It sure has livened up our meetings and gives us a lot of good laughs.  It alone is worth the price of admission.

After the invocation I was surprised that the patriotic song was not "Texas, Our Texas" which we all know was adopted by the Legislature in 1929 as the state song of you know where.

We had a great turn out of members that was almost eclipsed by the number of visiting Rotarians and guests.  The Trail Boss, District Governor Doug Baker, led his crew consisting of Joe "Pepe" Vasquez, sporting a Big Hat and even Bigger Mustache, Roger Civalleri, and Valeria Velasco.  From the next spread over, Melody St John, President of the Hollywood Club joined us.

Guests included Dr. Rose Marie Joyce, Interim President of West Los Angeles Collage, and John Nachbar, City Manager for Culver City.

We did have more Visiting Rotarians and Guests and my apologies for not mentioning them - my notes were in my saddlebag when some no good horse thief made off with my Stallion.

Linda jumped into fine time only to find out that her Fine Hat had been rustled and was being held for ransom.  Deputy Dog Ron Foster was on the case and brought forward the ransom note listing the demands for a safe return.  To make sure that Linda got the message, one of the rustlers managed to slip another note into the power point show for all to see.

 The purpose of today's meeting was two fold - (1) to bring all of the members up to date on the progress of our Club, and (2) to give our District Governor time to observe our Club and to address us.

Since everything is Bigger in you know where, Linda called upon her Board to give a Texas size PowerPoint presentation.  This was so Big that it left our District Governor only 3 minutes to speak. Who said Texans aren't crafty?

 DG Doug told us a very poignant story about RYLA and the ability to impact the lives of the kids that are able to attend.   Our ability to sponsor a student to RYLA is a great opportunity and is not limited to Interact students.