Meeting August 4, 2016

President Husam announced to the club that we will be starting the business portion of our meetings 15 minutes earlier and ending our meetings 15 minutes earlier.

President Husam thanked our greeter Tim Blackwell.

Rich Stewart then led us in the Flag Salute.

President Husam introduced guests and visiting Rotarians. Our guests were our speaker, David Fukutomi and Sharon Daley. Guest of Husam Hishmeh was Matt Lavear.

Tom Hasbarger gave our Inspirational Message.

President Husam announced that our raffle prize was a $50 gift card to Trader Joe's.

President Husam announced that we needed to be at the assembly point for the Fair Parade by 9:00. Many thanks to Jim Emch for organizing this for us.

President Husam told us that Downtown Rotary would be doing their Back Pack for Kids program at the VUSD Headquarters on Saturday from 9 - 12. It will be nice if we can get some club members out for this.

Bob Pazen gave our joke of the day.

President Husam said that August is Membership Month so we should think about inviting potential new members.

President Husam spoke about the Trombone Shorty concert in Santa Barbara on November 11th to benefit End Polio.

John Borneman led us in a song.

Happy $'s: Alison Thompson, Rich Stewart, Jim Word, John Masterson, Sam Marsh, Bill Hicks, Husam Hishmeh.