Author David Morse
News and Views – By Dave Morse
August 20, 2021.
President David Copp started our hybrid zoom/in person meeting ringing the club bell at 7:06 am; we sang “Smile” and “American the Beautiful,” led by Chuck Snipes. Our in person/Zoom meeting included 20 plus members participating via Zoom. Please use a microphone so the Zoom participants can hear what you have to say.
Visiting guests:
Larry Green introduced Matt Yancey. Dick Berry introduced son #1 Brian from Las Vegas. Chuck Cunningham introduced guest Steve from San Diego.
Announcements:
Every member is asked to bring a guest to a meeting before Thanksgiving. Lori Raineri suggested October 15 is a good day because the international Committee will be discussing our club’s international projects.
David Copp suggested that September 3 is also a good day for guests; our club will have a joint meeting with our sister Club, the Nakuru Club.
Haiti Earthquake: President David members can contribute to “Shelter Box” which is a Rotary affiliated NGO. You can make contributions directly to Shelter Box or send a contribution to the club’s foundation to Dennis Lindsay.
John Morgan mentioned that our club expects to get a District Grant to install a solar powered pump at SOAR Kenya. Also
, member contributions assisted with replacement of broken tank and shade for the tank.
Brodie Hamilton: the club’s annual Oktoberfest fundraiser will be at Sudwerk, which can be used for in person or drive through options. Brodie asked members to show hands if they would attend an in-person event, an in-person event with only vaccinated participants or an only Rotarians event.
Gretchen Peralta is looking for 30 pies; if we have a drive through event, pies will be purchased from Ikeda.
Marc Thompson, will be sending an email blast, he is looking for sign-ups for Meals on Wheels.
We now have a compost bin for our breakfast waste and for our breakfast leftovers, thank you Frances McChesne and Gretchen Peralta.
Andrew Newman shared his “who am I” story. Andrew is the son of Jewish immigrants who escaped Austria and settled in South African. Andrew was “embarrassed” by his situation compared to others in SA. As a student at a Jewish Day school, he took a bus to tour to Soweto, looking at poor people, like a tourist. In 1982, he came to the US with traveler checks stuffed in his socks. He went to Boston University, worked in movie theaters, came to California working in banking and became a CPA in 1994. Andrew loves movies; he has 15 movie projectors in his garage and many films including one of the “Herbie” movies. “I believe everyone has some rights.”
Sgt. of the day Matt Crider called for Happy Bucks:
Vanessa Errecarte is happy to know she can contribute to Haiti Earthquake relief.
Keith Watenpaugh mentioned that Afghanistan students are using the “Backpack” digital tool to securely keep their academic records, which would likely be destroyed by the Taliban. See https://human-rights.ucdavis.edu/news/afghanistan-emergency-resource-information.
Mack Walker is happy to be back, I couldn’t hear the rest of the story.
Carolyn Stiver is looking forward to an upcoming road trip to fresh Oregon, ocean air.
Vannesa Errecarte was fined for not wearing UC Davis attire to celebrate her new job as a UC Davis lecture.
Lucas Frerichs was fined for being a candidate for Don Saylor’s position as Yolo County supervisor.
Dan Carson was fined for the City’s temporary ban on leaf blowers.
Marc Thompson was fined because his new RV does not have a “slide out.”
Gretchen Peralta was fined. Sgt. Matt Crider explained that a nurse recently quit her job because she was making more money on the “fan only” site. Gretchen noted that even though she has retired as a nurse “I can still cut off your pants.”
Lucas Frerichs introduced our guest speakers who have programs on KDRT, FM 95.7 noting he has known Rob Moseanko going back to Buffalo Wing sauce.
Autumn Labbe-Renault, Rod Moseanko and Dirk Brazil - National Radio Day Program - KDRT
Autumn, advocates that radio is not obsolete. Radio is a “bread” that sticks together. KDRT is a volunteer project and community access with many programs. Autumn interviews authors and active members of our community. She also did a program on Beatlemania.
Rod Moseanko noted he has a voice for radio. He pulled his transistor radio from a bag. I listen to this all the time, KNBR for Giants games. I bought this radio in 1989, I’m a Lori Clayton fan. The Wolfman Jack radio bits were a key theme of the movie “American Graffiti.”
Dirk Brazil
What was I going to do after retiring as Davis City manager? Check out his weekly program: “Twang Thang” Sunday 8 am to 10 am, Monday 10 am to 12 pm and Wednesday 8 pm to 10 pm.
I listened to radio as a kid on my “clock” radio. There are little stations everywhere. “The best local stations are in the lower FM # s.” “We are a small station, if you drive pass Pole Line Road our station is going to fade out. However, the Internet has expanded our reach. I had 3,700 hits from the Midwest, and recently 5,000 hits from Ohio.”
President David’s puzzle for next week: The paradox of the surprise exam test.
A teacher says to the class that there will be a surprise exam next week, so the students need be prepared. Student Smart Alec starts thinking:
- The teacher can't wait until Friday, because then the exam won't be unexpected. So it can't on Friday.
- Since we've removed Friday list of possible days, the same logic applies to the day before Thursday
- By applying 1) and 2) we remove all the days from the list of possible days.
- So, it turns out that the teacher can't give a surprise exam at all.
What’s wrong with Smart Alec’s logic?
Draw of the day $280, Chuck Cunningham won a free breakfast.