Our Future is in Good Hands
Rotary Club of Cayucos-Seaside
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Call to order @7:05
Flag Salute
Invocation
Cambria Noon Club Viva Las Vegas Night Report from Brad: Silent auction, food buffet, live auction, gave away fantastic prizes, bigger club, a lot of fun. Thank you for representing our club Brad! We will take this as a learning tool for our club. It's always great to see other clubs in action.
Tonight at Hoppe's is the social for Anil Garg. 5:30-7:30. Can't wait to hear all the details.
Foundation Seminar: Dan is representing our club at the Santa Maria Inn on October 25th. Report back with details.
Harbor festival feedback is needed from members who participated. Please jot down some positive and negative aspects of our involvement so we can make plans, or not, for next year.
Brad has been active and busy this week in Rotary. He is also researching filed trip ideas. One idea is a field trip to the Abalone farm-40 years in business with a rich history. Brad is trying to work out a time for our involvement. Keep us posted!
Beach clean-up in conjunction with Cayucos School takes place next Wednesday, 1-2 October 29th. Red Ribbon Week.
Groups 10 and 11: Cambria, Morro Bay, and group 10 from San Luis to discuss membership. October 30th 5:30 Embarcadero Grill in Morro Bay.
Guests: Welcome Cayucos School Students. Cayucos School students are getting involved at a young age. In addition to their rigorous academics and sport commitments, these young men have commited themselves to serving their community and school by volunteering their time to wash cars at a fundraiser, to getting up early to attend their first Rotary breakfast. You are our future leaders, and we welcome you!
Each students gave a quick speech about themselves.Casey Carlton- 8th grader, enjoys sports, future Rotarian in the making!
Holt Alden-8th grader, president of the Middle School, enjoys playing soccer.
Marco Maffioli- 8th grader, has attended Cayucos School his whole life, enjoys sports and hanging out with friends. He likes math and Ms. Peterson is his favorite teacher. (well, of course!!)
Michael Rarig- 8th grader, enjoys sports and playing sports with his friends.
Thank you for coming and bringing your positive attitudes.
Craft Talk by Emily Campbell: Emily's passion is animals. Emily brought home many strays as a young child. Always wanted to open an animal sanctuary. Buy some property so she can build a state of the art facility for unwanted pets. Too many cats and not enough love and care for them. Kitty season is upon us and Emily agreed to foster kittens at 2 weeks old. Started bottle feeding them. Had a close call with some female kittens, proud to say they are all doing wonderful. Oscar and Harry have now gone to Woods Animal Shelter to be adopted, and Bella has been adopted and Emily has kept the two others, Oliver and Gidget. She also has a special needs dog Billy-born blind and deaf.
Emily envisions her future to have a sanctuary with room for volunteers and staff. Kennel coordinator said there are so many kittens that need to foster and bottle feed, kittens have to be euthanized if not enough space or care for them. This is a sad fact, but it's a reality concerning the plight of animals in this country. Thank you for being such a passionate advocate for our animals.
Other announcements:
Joyce-Chamber of Commerce New Years Eve Party, in the planning stages, Texas Hold um, Kareoke, 179.00 package deal, entry will be about 60-70 dollars, food, entertainment.
Check your e-mail to check which days we will go dark: dark means we do not have a meeting. We would like to have a social in conjunction with a meeting so keep dates in mind. Thursdays evenings are good.
Board of Directors meeting at the school 5:30 p.m. on November 10th.
8th Grade President Holt Alden pulled the winning Raffle ticket: Raffle money into the pot for next week.
Meeting adjourned @ 8:00