Gabe Jackson is a Sonoma County, California resident and Sonoma State University alumnus with a BA in History and BS in accounting. He is a CPA trained in audit and tax. He spent considerable time outside of work in the hobby world of home fermentation (beer, wine and cheese). Under the guidance of homebrew pioneers Byron Burch and Nancy Vineyard, as well as industry expert Bob Peak, he became a Beverage People teacher of home brewing and cheese making classes. He is a certified beer judge and has served in various volunteer positions with local homebrewing and cheesemaking clubs. In March 2016, he and his wife Jane purchased the home fermentation supplier, The Beverage People, on Piner Road.
He will be speaking on the subject of how to brew home beer.
The Agony and the Ecstasy was an Academy Award nominee in 1965. Its title could be the synopsis of our speaker Tim Jorstad, Accountant to many Bay Area Rock Band legends.
Music pioneers the like of Jefferson’s Airplane & Starship, Grateful Dead, Journey, Doobie Brothers to name a few have been served by Tim.
Tim credits his career survival partly on his sense of humor: Mental illness is hereditary; you get it from your rock group clients. Describing his strategy as akin to setting up a home/family office, Tim handles all the stuff in the best and worst of times. Buying cars and boats and planes, then selling cars and boats and planes. He was even asked to tell a client’s wife that he wanted to divorce her. Not all issues were obviously untoward. After having to tote equipment and guide musicians through a 20C Washington DC eve for an Inaugural booking, sometime later Tim and crew were invited to the Oval Office and relished a 30 minute sit down with President Obama for a private FAQ session. Rumor has it Tipper Gore even got to play drums with the Grateful Dead.
Concert touring musicians have a grueling schedule. Sleep between 4 AM and noon. 2 PM at the venue, 3 PM sound check, then a 90-120 minute show. As many as 100 technicians set up each show and the cast usually do not leave until 2 AM. Some sleep is on the bus/coaches, along with other extra-curricular activities. Tim described his role early on as a patriarch. “If you are earning 5 million for 6 weeks work, you owe it to your fans to perform at your best and not pass out or throw up on them.” In turn, Tim learned from his master music mentor Walter “Herbie” Herbert, himself taught by legendary Bill Graham, Herbie helped Tim advocate for poorly managed and under-compensated gifted performers. Digitalization of music transformed the industry. The onset of Napster and pirated music has resulted in reducing the revenue from the physical sale of music 67%. Live concerts now account for much more, and necessitate extensive accounting and tax filings both in the United States and abroad. Fees are best negotiated on an hourly basis, as too frequently a fixed percent of net (5%) is never realized during struggling years when net is $-0-. Artists object to a % later when their earnings are well into 7 figures.
Fame and success have cost rock stars dearly. All have had SA (Substance Abuse) cycles. Most are Hepatitis C positive, while most are now clean and sober. The fallout from these highflying lifestyles are well known to many regions. Just ask the dinner boat cruisers whose meal was rained on by a well known male musician’s coach driver who decided to purge the holding tanks while slowed on a river bridge!! Now those are really troubled waters.
On a regular basis, our resident photo pros Warren Smith and Jack Strange submit 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 and Ross! Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!
Past President Harry "Hawaii" Coffey (above) presents President Merle with hand delivered cookies from his recent visit to Hawaii. The ever generous Harry did disclose he had to sample one ~ or two of the confections in an airborne spate of the munchies. Harry knew Merle would like the balance.
Randy Seelye relates how he and spouse Katherine's birthday plans in Big Sur had to take a detour due do the wildfire in the area. Undaunted, the pair managed to revel at a local venue. Happy Birthday Katherine!!
SRKSEP Chair Shauna Lorenzen is excited as this year, Sunrise Rotary's turn to host Kagoshima Exchange Students comes within a week of their arrival. This twenty year plus Sister City exchange alternates odd numbered years to Kagoshima Japan, and even years with Santa Rosa high school students hosted in Kagoshima. A feature of the program is the reciprocal hosting agreement between participating student families. SRKSEP translates Santa Rosa Kagoshima Student Exchange Program. Last year Max & Venus Child's twin daughters travelled to Kagoshima. This year they will host.
Immediate Past President Eloise Tweeten takes a bow for her excellent volunteer organizing of the recent City Senior Center Picnic. About a dozen Sunriser's helped make the event a success, including smiling Ezbon Jen.
President Merle catches a resonant note from CPA to Rock Stars Tim Jorstadt with her closing thought: "You learn a lot about people when you listen to the songs that mean something to them. Where words fail, music speaks."
Forty years ago, a man named George Campbell, the owner of the company I worked for, invited me to join Rotary. Back then, that was a common practice in the United States. Your boss invited you to join Rotary because he thought it would be good for business and good for the community, and you said yes. It’s not surprising that our membership surged during that period.
George warned me not to use Rotary as an excuse to slack off at work. Even so, I always had time to attend lunch meetings and serve on committees. I never had to worry that taking a long lunch once a week would hurt my advancement, or what my boss would think about the occasional Rotary phone call at work.
Today, things are different. Companies are less generous about time, and not every manager looks favorably on community service. It’s hard to enjoy a Rotary meeting when you’ve got emails piling up on your phone. It’s harder than ever to balance work with Rotary – and the model that gave us so much growth a few decades ago is part of what’s holding back our growth now.
That’s why the recent Council on Legislation adopted some innovative measures that allow clubs to vary their meeting times and expand their pool of prospective members. Clubs have more flexibility now to respond to the needs of their members and to clear away as many barriers to membership as they can. But there’s one barrier to membership that only you can remove, one thing that every prospective member needs to become a Rotarian: an invitation to join a Rotary club.
Whenever I tell a group of Rotarians that we need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our work forward, everyone applauds. But those hands, hearts, and minds won’t magically appear in our clubs. We have to ask them to join. And an invitation to Rotary is something that only you can give. An invitation is a gift. It’s saying to someone, “I think you have the skills, the talent, and the character to make our community better, and I want you to join me in doing that.”
I’m the president of Rotary International, but the only club I can invite someone to join is the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tenn. I can’t make your club or your community stronger. Only you can do that – by inviting the qualified people you know to join you in Rotary Serving Humanity.
Often called a city of transplants, Atlanta has a food scene that's suitably eclectic. Sure, you can find your share of traditional Southern fare. But the eateries that locals flock to put creative twists on the classics. For example, if you're looking for straight-up barbecue when you're in town for the 2017 Rotary International Convention, 10-14 June, local standbys D.B.A. and Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q – each just a short car ride away – have got you covered. Heirloom Market BBQ offers a marriage of Southern and Korean flavors like a spicy Korean pork sandwich and ribs marinated in hot and sweet chili paste (closed Sundays and Mondays). Just east of downtown, celebrity chef Kevin Gillespie – of Top Chef fame – has borrowed from Asian culture as well. Inspired by Chinese dim sum-style dining, Gunshow allows diners to choose dishes as they're passed around on carts and trays. West Midtown's Miller Union and Decatur's Cakes and Ale use sustainable, Georgia-born ingredients as a foundation. At Miller Union, these building blocks transform into updated Southern staples, such as sorghum glazed quail with sunchoke, smoked beets, and grilled vidalias. At Cakes and Ale, the Southern influence may not be as heavy, but the farm-fresh food is fashioned so simply, it keeps Atlantans coming back for more. Register for the 2017 Rotary Convention in Atlanta.
Our Rotary Foundation depends on a strong and thriving Rotary membership. It is, after all, our members who provide the generous support that enables our Foundation to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems. As important as that support is, it’s not the only contribution Rotarians make to our Foundation.
The Rotary Foundation has an unusual business model. Like many charities, we receive donations that we use to address a host of critical issues. Unlike most other nonprofit organizations, we depend on our members to develop relevant and effective service projects. Your volunteer labor stretches our contribution dollars and helps The Rotary Foundation to do much more with less.
The typical global grant requires hours of planning and budgeting before even one dollar is received or spent. Then the sponsors must purchase supplies, seek donated goods, set up bank accounts, organize volunteers, write reports, and monitor the project’s progress, all while working with Rotarians in another part of the world. Fortunately, our clubs have a wide variety of professional skills and talents to call upon throughout this process.
Smaller clubs may not have the financial or human resources to sponsor a global grant, even if their members share a strong commitment to the Foundation’s mission. Imagine what those clubs could accomplish with two or three times as many members.
As we celebrate Membership and New Club Development Month in August, let’s not forget the importance of quickly engaging new members in Rotary service. Make sure they know about the many opportunities our Foundation offers members to pursue their service interests, from promoting better health to providing training and education to bringing peace and stability to communities in need.
Through The Rotary Foundation, our members have a chance to use their skills to make a real difference. First, we need to bring those talented people into our ranks and engage them in our Foundation’s vital work to create a better world. And only we, the Rotarians, can bring in those new members. So it is up to us, really, isn’t it?
Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Sunrise - Founded June 30, 1986
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