Your Weekly Get Up & Go Has Been Updated
Posted by Meaghan Likes on Apr 14, 2017
Weekly News & Views by: Jim Belenis (again!)
Photographs by: Bud Harmon
Manny Carbahal called the meeting to order at 7:05. We were upstairs since it was Student of the Month. Full house. Rotarians and guests had buffet  choices of scrambled eggs with vegetables, scrambled eggs with bacon, hash browns, fresh fruit, chocolate chip scones, juice, and coffee. Last week I mentioned the fat calories of bacon. Today I will let you know that the orange juice we have has 31g of sugar per serving. Coca Cola has 39g. Just trying to be informative. Carbahal quickly introduced Nancy Storm who then let our guests know about all the good Rotary does in Davis and around the world. Currently there are  over 1.2 million members around the globe. There were only 5 students today from 4 schools. I guess teachers are getting the end of school year blues. Sad. After the 5 students were honored, Storm then had photographer Bud Harmon take photos of each student for the Davis Enterprise. Carbahal got the meeting back on track at 7:22. David Morse introduced his guest. Don Morrill introduced Randy Yackzan who is coming back into the fold (I don’t remember being asked my opinion). Post Cards were passed around. Clay Brandow sent one from Orland, Roy Kroener from Mexico, and Mr. Personality from Philadelphia (rumor has it that Mr. P is really a grump). Announcements started with Larry Olsen saying that the Jay Gerber event had a nice crowd with good food and libations. He also thanked Brodie Hamilton for allowing us to have it in the bike cave. He thanked the numerous people who helped make the event a success. Vanessa Errecarte said she is having a boozefest for a member get together this Friday April 21st at 5pm (no word on playing Twister yet). She lives at 2521 Regatta Court just inside the Republic in South Davis. Mitch Mysliwiec had something but John Morgan’s cell phone started ringing and I missed it. Sergeant Rick Stromberg was up next and he wasted little time fining Yackzan as a welcome back into the billfold. Happy Bucks first came from Don Winters for turning 68 (he seemed so much older than me when he was a teacher at DHS), Irena  Asmundson was happy for her friend, Emily Henderson, for getting the Gerber Award, Olsen forgot to thank Asmundson for being the MC and Gretchen Peralta for doing a bang up job helping him look good at the Gerber event (is that even possible??), Meaghan Likes was happy that her reporters are all so good on the GUGO (always!), and Brandow for his daughters 29thbirthday. Then Stromberg’s mean side came out when he asked Dick McCapes what Davis was like 100 years ago when the city was incorporated on March 28, 2017. He had Skunk Island pony up $20 for that fine (Coach, those guys are all on social security income!). Our first speaker was member Sean Yao making the RI Foundation pitch. You can go to www.rotary.org/en/about-  for a Paul Harris award. He showed how you can do this automatically by going to the website above. Olsen then talked about our clubs endowment account. We currently have roughly 64k in it. Once we get real money and interest rates are a bit higher this will fund local projects. There will be a June check writing fundraiser. Come have a free glass of wine and write a check. Simple! Just like the IRS. Dave Heard did draw of the day. Pot was up to $79 bucks. Heard said that Treasurer Tom Read said the club will kick in $200 once we hit $200. It only took the clubs higher ups 20+ years to realize they were being fleeced and subsidizing the very short list gambling bosses in our club (don’t forget the $15 free breakfast chit each week the club pays). Mysilwiec won breakfast and lost the pot by not coming up with the joker (which will be put back into the deck when we hit $200!). And that is what I think I heard at the meeting. |