On a regular basis, our resident photo pros Warren Smith and Ross Andress 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!
CHOICES, a partnership with the North Coast Builders Exchange and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is an interactive decision-making workshop that empowers teens to achieve academic success in pursuit of their career and life aspirations. In two hour-long sessions, business and community volunteers take students through real-world exercises on academic self-discipline, time and money management, and goal setting.
Developed in Seattle in 1985, this innovative program has spread to over 40 states and this year alone will reach approximately 140,000 students. Volunteer business and professional people are sent into classrooms and offer straight talk to young people about jobs that will be available to them (based on their educational achievement), goal-setting, time and money management, factors influencing their lives, and the consequences of the decisions they will make over the next four years.
One characteristic is stressed repeatedly: the key to success in anything they do is self-discipline. CHOICES has no hidden agendas, but simply encourages kids to think very carefully about the importance of graduating on time. Students are shown that being a high school graduate and getting further education or training will increase the number of opportunities available to them, have a positive effect on their career, and enhance their level of fulfillment over a lifetime.
Upbeat Times: "Where No Bad News is Good News" ~ and Business!
In his surprise opening sentence, “Upbeat Times” creator and editor Paul Andrew Doyle offered his audience of somewhat somnambulant Sunriser’s the opportunity to ask him questions first: “I am lyzdexic(sic), and often get things backwards.” The more clinically erudite caught Paul’s pun, and thus launched Paul’s very personal and disclosing path toward his early-recognized goal of producing a newspaper. Not just any paper, but one filled with good news!
Drawing on childhood memories on his family’s Candy Cane Lane Christmas Tree Farm in Sebastopol, Paul’s inspiration for building had origins in a six story tree house project, each story linked with rope swings and scrap lumber steps. Encouraged by his grandfather’s love of construction and tempered by his parent’s divorce and sibling companionship, with references to cartoonist Charles Schultz, Paul persisted in pursuing his dream of writing and publishing despite erstwhile disruptive detentions and assignments imposed by his fourth grade teacher, Miss McPherson. One involved writing to New York newspapers and actually receiving a reply. “That opened my awareness of a much wider world,” Paul revealed.
A wide variety of vocational sampling followed, including restaurant salad prep, dishwasher, waiter and carpenter. His waitering gift shined one sweltering day when Paul asked a heat-beleaguered customer if he preferred round or square ice cubes! A $3 tip ensued. From Carrows to Cattlemen’s, Paul gained confidence in customer service-sales and eventually the Sebastopol Times in mid-1990. It was there that Paul uttered, or at least thought of that frequently used and regretted phrase: Take this job and ~~~ it! His story on a local 87 year old’s retirement tribute censored, Paul decided it was time to take one step beyond his comfort zone and be an Editor himself.
Strongly believing the power of good new is what makes things work, Paul parlayed his advertising aptitude from Windsor and Healdsburg paper experiences and built what Sonoma County now knows as “Upbeat Times”, the regional monthly which is circulated free, aside from the reader’s smiles generated on each page.
Treat yourself to a dose: www.upbeattimes.com. “Where No Bad News is Good News.”
Paul joins in the classification of Real Estate Finance and was sponsored by his significant other, Penny Millar. He is Managing Director at Shoreline Commercial Funding and enjoys running, backpacking, gardening, camping and travel.
Paul is also the Sierra Service Project Coordinator for First United Methodist Church and Manager of the Stony Point Community Garden.
Rotarian Host families are needed for a May 2016 visit by Rotarians from District 3060 (State of Gujarat India). As part of this years RFE program, our District will host an 8 or 10 person Team from District 3060 Between May 3 - May 20 or 21.
We are looking for host families willing to host an Indian couple n their home for two or three nights during this time, from the three major areas in our District: Northern District clubs, Central and Coastal clubs and Southern District Clubs, including but not limited to the following cities: Napa, Sonoma. Santa Rosa, FT. Bragg, Mendocino, Arcata, Eureka, Sebastopol, Petaluma.
Your participation as a host will be a rewarding and enriching multi-cultural experience. You will make great friendships and have and increased opportunity to go on a future RFE exchange. Clubs can learn about this program and inform their members by having a speaker from the RFE program talk at your club.
Kids Cool Summer Camp, an experience for youngsters seeking to gain outdoor experience they might otherwise not find, got a lift from Sunrise Rotary.
Steve Zwick presents a check for $1,425, enough for three campers to enjoy a week of outdoor education at the camp's Cloverleaf Ranch location of Old Redwood Highway.
Your support of Sunrise Rotary's fundraising makes these camperships a reality and lifetime memory.
R.I President Ed Cadman draws the name of Rortary’s one millionth man – Jean-Paul Moroval of Thionville, France – from the names of 10,087 Rotarians admitted to membership during 17-23 February, Rotary’s 81st anniversary week.
Rotary International has scored a membership milestone with the admission of the world’s one-millionth Rotarian. He is Jean-Paul Moroval of the Rotary Club of Thionville, France. His sponsor is Jean Bertrand, past president of the Thionville club.
Rotarian Moroval joined the Thionville club during the week of 17 February. He was selected the one millionth Rotarian by R.I. President Edward F. Cadman in a random drawing in April from the names of all new Rotarians admitted during that week – a grand total of 10,087.
Rotarian Moroval, age 40, is chief engineer of Unimetal, a steel manufacturing firm. He and his wife, Danielle, have two daughters; Ajathe, age 10 and Anais, age 6. He will be honored on 1 June at the R.I. International Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
Watch for more about Rotary’s one millionth man in the August issue of The ROTARIAN.
Institute equips regional leaders to advance Rotary’s story
Regional leaders from around the globe gathered at Rotary World Headquarters for a four-day training institute in early March
Regional leaders from around the globe gathered at Rotary World Headquarters in Evanston in early March for training they will use to inspire members in their respective areas.
Several participants - most of whom will begin their term on 1 July - noted that the true measure of the institute's success will be how well the information they learned is transmitted to Rotary members.
"We have to realize that training doesn't stop at the district level," said Michael Boyer, a Rotary public image coordinator from Pismo Beach, California, USA. "We train people really well to be governors and club presidents but we have to realize that we also have to train our members in how to talk about Rotary."
Boyer said his goal is to ensure that members can discuss Rotary's brand in a clear and compelling way. "We have to make our club presidents understand they can't just stand in front of their club and say, 'Go invite members.' They actually have to train members in how to ask and what to say," he said
A major goal of the four-day regional leaders training institute was to equip these leaders -- regional Rotary Foundation coordinators, Rotary coordinators, Rotary public image coordinators, and endowment/major gifts advisers -- to help club and district leaders strengthen club membership, focus and foster Rotary's humanitarian service, and enhance the organization's public image.
Many participants were impressed to learn about new tools available on Rotary.org, which they practiced using during multiple workshops.
"I have used Rotary.org for years but I have realized these past couple of days how much more advanced it has become," said Alasdair Seale, an endowment/major gifts adviser from Edinburgh, Scotland. "I didn't realize, for example, that there are alumni reports that include Group Student Exchange students, vocational training teams, Ambassadorial Scholars, and Rotaractors. They are all clearly a target for membership."
Patrick Coleman, a regional Rotary Foundation coordinator from Luanshya, Zambia, said members need to be encouraged to use Rotary.org.
"(What we are learning) is very exciting because we are bringing Rotary into the 21st century," Coleman said. "We have members who brag about being born before the age of computers. But that's a bit like saying, 'I was born before cellphones so I am not going to use one.' We're here, we need to use these tools."
Sherri Muniz, a Rotary coordinator from San Antonio, Texas, said the value of the institute for her was being able to share ideas.
"The program itself is designed to teach us teamwork," Muniz said. "But we are building connections with people who have success stories, with people who have similar challenges, and those connections will last us far beyond the end of the institute."
By Arnold R. Grahl
Rotary News
16-Mar-2016
Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Sunrise - Founded June 30, 1986
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