Meeting January 28, 2016

 

 

John Borneman gave our inspirational message.

 

Midge Stork announced that our raffle prize was a gift card to Marie Callendar's donated by Bob Noville.

 

Midge Stork had Sue Hayes with her today as her guest.

 

Tim Hughes gave our joke of the week.

 

President Bruce showed us a picture that Juan Mendoza took at the Fair Parade. Juan printed the picture in black & white and then mounted it on a board. Juan also announced that he now has a job working security at Lynda.com!

 

President Bruce also told us that Vocational Minutes will be making a return. Our first presenter will be Gregg Frye in a couple of weeks.

 

Jason Ribibo spoke about what's happening with the Stock Markets. Jason said the short answer is "a lot!" The Stock Market has been growing without any major pull back so what is happening now is natural and healthy for the market. The economy is growing, but not quickly. Job growth is happening, but the types of jobs will not help grow the middle class. The long and short, things will get tougher before they get better, but hang in there and we should recover. Stick with value and if you have cash, keep it.

 

Announcements:

Joe Strohman said that our next employee of the quarter will be coming soon. John Masterson has nominated an employee from CMH. We are also looking for two directors for the club Foundation for the term 2016-2018.

 

Kathy McGee said that we have 10 people going to see Bill Spellman in his play on Saturday. Kathy also reported that the ball is rolling for the Rotary Ventura Botanical Garden's project. A 501(c)3 has been formed so that money can be collected and have tax benefits for the donors. Kathy also said that Richard Spurlock will be designing our spot and that this sight will be the biggest location in the gardens.

 

President Bruce reminded us that the next board meeting will be Wednesday February 3rd at the McGee's. Meeting and dinner ... what can be better.

 

Programs are being rotated by month. Tom Hashbarger will be doing February, Joe Strohman for March, Daryl Cruzer for April then Tom Swan for May.

 

President Bruce again told us we need a PEN. Nobody in the club is stepping up and being a part of Rotary means we need to step up when asked and support the club!

 

Tim Blackwell spoke about membership. Tim is reading the book "The One Thing". If we followed Tim's formula, we would double the size of the club by the end of Bruce's term. As we all have heard, we don't have a membership problem, we have an inviting problem.

 

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Husam Hishmeh!

 

John Masterson announced that he is organizing the tours of the new CMH hospital and he has 6 opening for the February 17th tour. The tours start at 3:30 and last about an hour.

 

Juan Mendoza told us that his birthday was last week and that he brother's, Cesar, birthday was today!!!