IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK, April 6, 2011

Another Wednesday, another action packed meeting. There was a Scouting theme to this meeting as we were honored to share lunch with fellow Rotarian (from Pacific Palisades) Al Sakai, who is with the Crescent Bay District Boy Scouts, and three Eagle Scouts from our area. The Scouts handled the prayer, pledge, and patriotic song duties with grace and aplomb.

Besides Al and the three Scouts (who we will get to later), other guests in attendance were Carol Meyers, Linda Forman, Tim’s mother Carol Messmer and his brother Doug Messmer, and Luis Martinez, whose daughter was in the art contest.

Bob Thompson reported that Lyn Caron was still in the hospital after having suffered a fall but she should be getting home soon.

We had three visitors (Edna Vogel-Amezcua, Ahin Ju, and Della Martinez) from Culver City High School, who were the finalists for our Art Contest with the winner moving on to the District Contest. All three contestants had created beautiful pieces and it was very difficult to pick the winner. Della Martinez’s piece was judged to be the best although all three contestants received an award.

Next up was the monthly review of birthdays and anniversaries by Joel Forman. Joel always puts a lot of thought and research to make this a month monthly event.

President Linda mentioned that this year we will not be skipping a meeting for the Mayor’s Luncheon. The Mayor’s Luncheon is on Thursday, April 21^{st but our regular meeting on the 20th is still scheduled. Our last big push for Linda’s year is the Art Auction, also known as, Moonlight Merlot and Monet that will be held on April 27th at American Legion Hall. We need every member to attend and please bring at least two guests.}

Richard Marcus took over at this point for a presentation by three Scouts from Troop 113, the troop sponsored by our Club. Eagle Scouts Drake Myers and Timothy Baxendale and Eagle Scout candidate Tommy Trinkeller each addressed the audience, thanking the Club for our support while describing some of their Scouting projects.

Our speaker, Dr. Cathie Chung of the Angeles Clinic, spoke about advances in the treatment of breast cancer. Her presentation was very well received and prompted numerous questions.

The meeting concluded with a little humor from Cartwright Sheppard.