A Young Rotarian at Work

· Membership forms distributed to all members. Feel free to e-mail or give a shout to any member! · District Awards were bestowed upon our new Rookie club. · Board of Director's Meeting was very informative. Some key issues: Jan has been passed all the Treasurer materials. · Club By-laws have also been e-mailed. If you have any questions get in touch with Dan. · Need a Sergeant at Arms-Please step up and get involved! You get to lay down the law and exercise your power. · Club Events: Step-down this Sunday from 3-6. · Cookbook recipes are due next week. If you need another form, e-mail Hilary for more. · July 16th we are dark due to the evening mixer in conjunction with Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce. 5-7 at the Sea Shanty-be there to mix it up! · July 21st 5:00 p.m. is the next Board of Director's Meeting. · Sunday, August 9th is the next beach clean up at the pier. 10-11 a.m. · You have to give to receive and we are. Many donations going out, Coast Union scoreboard donation as well as sponsoring a student from Morro Bay. · The convention next year June 20-23rd, 2010 in Canada. If you are interested guess who to contact?-Dan!! 295.00 is the cost. · Paso Robles has a winemakers cook off on August 8th 6-9. · Guest Speaker: Nalani · Kasanoff Learned about different forms of racism and prejudice and Darfur. · Was involved because of a project to raise money so she can send it $30.00 is the cost of the cooker. The supplies are sent to the women in order to prevent them from traveling many miles. Through travel, women would be raped on their journey and the cooker will eliminate this extra travel. · Gathering firewood has been the women's job for generations. Solar cookers Jewish WorldWatch has started a campaign to provide solar cookers in order to cook food. All 5,000 families have been furnished with these cookers. More camps are now in the process of receiving these necessities. · Video presented titled, The Women of Iridimi. Showed how the cooker has made a positive impact and cut down on violence and abuse. · Thank you for sharing this important project with us-You are a future Rotarian in the making and already a humanitarian at the age of 12. · Step-Down party 3-6 this Sunday, June 28th, 2009. 30 people in attendance. Beer, wine, appetizers, Remember this is roast and it's all in good fun. Don't take anything personally, a roast is the tradition so just go with it. · Next meeting will be informal. Talk about 5-year vision plan for our club. Dan will discuss his expectations etc… · Look on our website on Friday and if you can spot the new change, Dan will pay for your breakfast. · 50/50 drawing: money goes to the club.