Nut Tree: The Serendipity of a Successful Business
Part time resident of Petaluma and farmer in Suisun Valley California. Retired superintendent of Old Adobe Unions School District. Her family started the Nut Tree restaurant and she grew up in the business. She started out selling toys at 12 years of age. Her book (Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design, Food, and Hospitality Icon) tells of the entrepreneurial success of her family and chronicles the success of a unique 20th century business.
Our speaker was Jennifer Roberts, an accomplished Environmental Educator and Landscape Designer. She spoke on wildfire prevention landscape guidelines. Jennifer works with the Resilient Landscapes Coalition; a group of non-profits formed in response to the 2017 Tubbs and Nuns fires that work with city and state fire agencies. They are funded by the County. They found there was a lot of fear and the knee jerk reaction of some homeowners ripping out all the trees and shrubs that sustain us. The coalition focuses on sustainable and biodiversity-friendly landscaping practices. They created guidelines to define defensible space around your homes, starting from 0-5 feet Ember Defense Zone, then the Thirty-Foot Zone and the Beyond Zone. It doesn't have to be a "moonscape." You can create islands of native plants separated by non-combustible materials such as decorative rocks and pathways.
Click HERE to view a limited time recording of Jennifer's presentation.
On a regular basis, our resident photo pro Warren Smith, submits pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.
Thanks for all the great pictures Warren!Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!
As one of her first official actions, new president, Lori Rodrigues, drew the names of three Rotarians, inviting them to join her for a cup of coffee, this week: Merle, Brian and Ralph. This "One on Three" outreach is designed to enrich individual appreciation of the unique ties that bind us all.
On Friday, a “last minute, Ooops we forgot to invite everyone else, multi club event” in Healdsburg took place when Paul and Penny had a fun evening with Jim and Cindy Brenton and Nita Parker from the Healdsburg Rotary Club watching the Prunepackers.
It was a great game with the locals beating the Solano Mudcats 3-2 on a three-run home run that still hasn’t landed, although the ninth inning was a nail biter. A fun evening was had by all (except the Mudcats).
Who composed it? When was it adopted by Rotary International? What inspired it?
These questions and more will be the subject of a continuing back-story series.
Simply stated, Herbert John Taylor was the composer of what Rotary International promotes as the Four Way Test of the things we think say or do. This is the very abridged, abbreviated credit of authorship. In fact, the four questions resulted from considerable soul searching and collaborative discussion, initiated by Taylor.
When and where did Taylor find himself so inspired to need this ethical compass? In addition to leaving a very attractive compensation to accept a "challenging opportunity" at a fraction of his secure position? Have you heard of the Jewel Tea Company? Maybe if you are over 55 ~ it was an expanding regional grocery enterprise. A demonstrated successful salesman, Taylor was well on the way to top level leadership and resulting rewards.
Have you heard of the Club Aluminum Products company?
Next week more about them, then, and their intersection with the heart and mind of Herbert Taylor.
Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose convention speech inspired Rotary’s secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best
Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best, Rotary’s official mottoes, can be traced back to the early days of the organization.
In 1911, the second Rotary convention, in Portland, Oregon, USA, approved He Profits Most Who Serves Best as the Rotary motto. The wording was adapted from a speech that Rotarian Arthur Frederick Sheldon delivered to the first convention, held in Chicago the previous year. Sheldon declared that “only the science of right conduct toward others pays. Business is the science of human services. He profits most who serves his fellows best.”
The Portland gathering also inspired the motto Service Above Self. During an outing on the Columbia River, Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, talked with Seattle Rotarian J.E. Pinkham about the proper way to organize a Rotary club, offering the principle his club had adopted: Service, Not Self. Pinkham invited Rotary founder Paul Harris, who also was on the trip, to join their conversation. Harris asked Collins to address the convention, and the phrase Service, Not Self was met with great enthusiasm.
At the 1950 Rotary International Convention in Detroit, Michigan, USA, two slogans were formally approved as the official mottoes of Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and Service Above Self. The 1989 Council on Legislation established Service Above Self as the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best was modified to They Profit Most Who Serve Best in 2004 and to its current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves Best, in 2010.
A name badge from the 1928 Rotary International Convention features Rotary’s mottoes.
Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Sunrise - Founded June 30, 1986
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