IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK November 3, 2010

Posted by Daniel Cavanaugh Jr.

By Don Trepany

At 12:15 the gavel less Prez started the meeting. She called upon Andrew Sisolak to give the invocation and Ernie Garza led us in The Pledge of Allegiance. Andrew was called back up to lead us in singing "God Bless America".

After a 15 minute pause, Cy Pierce introduced our visiting Rotarian and our guest speaker Richard Kawasaki from the Lomita Club. Cy also had a guest, Diane, from the YMCA (sorry I did not catch her last name). The Welcome Song was led by Dieter Holberg.

Next on the list was health updates and Andrew Sisolak (there he is again) reported that Richard Marcus has lost 35 pounds and his blood pressure and cholesterol are much improved - good job Richard! Bryon Mooney is under the weather with pneumonia - get well soon Bryon - we miss you.

Then it was time for birthdays and anniversaries and Andrew Sisolak (again!) stood in for Joel Forman. Cy Pierce and Craig Ferre celebrated their birthdays recently and the Francuz's and the Gardner's celebrated their wedding anniversaries.

Ann Murakami was up next and she reminded us about the Paul Harris celebration this Sunday November 7^{th and the District Breakfast which is held on Tuesday November 9th. She also told us about bringing food for the LA Food Bank - we can drop the food off at Janet Chabola's office. Our leader Linda read a letter from our District Governor Doug Baker thanking us for the fun meeting and our President embellished a bit on some of the letter. Cy Pierce announced that our Foundation's meeting is at Cy's office on Thursday, November 11th @ 7:30. Linda announced that the Board (bored?) meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month instead of the 3rd Tuesday. Buffy Francuz let us know that "our" guide dog graduated and is now working.}

Uh, oh FINE TIME!!! Jim Machado was the first victim because he bought a truck from Captain Kangaroo and Jim was fined $25. Keith Jones painted his building and got fined $50. Andy Weissman let the fine master Linda know that Craig Ferre was a double winner in the World Series pool. Too bad for Linda that Craig was sitting at the fine free table today...wait 'till next week!!

Our speaker, Richard Kawasaki, spoke on the early farm days of Palos Verdes.

After our speaker was finished we had a raffle and Kathy Haworth won some candy and Craig Ferre won some wine. Cartwright Sheppard finished the meeting with a joke.

REMINDER: next week we are at the Culver Hotel.

Have a great week Rotarians!