Meeting Summary Jan 11,2011

Posted by Heather Stenshamn 
on Jan 15, 2011
 
 

President’s Sandi’s Greeting:  Welcome to the Best Rotary Club Ever!

Pledge of Allegiance: Jerylann Mateo

Thought for the Day:  Peter Early:  "Today is the First day of the rest of your life"

Song of the Day:  Walt Joyce led us in "If you are Happy in Rotary"

Introduction of Visitors:  Chuck Osborn. Three prospective members visiting: 1) Dominick from Minunte Man Press; 2) Kristin Wu, Attorney with Crist, Biorn, Shepherd & Roskoph; 3) welcome back Phoebe from HSBC bank.

 

Club Announcements:

Welcome back Jim Spangler and Fred Storek from the Orange Bowl with a win and a tattoo (temporary).

Alan Goodman congratulated Bob Williams on a good game (Ohio State & Arkansas) and both members donated $50 to our local Endowment Fund.

Thank you to Anita, Bert, and Jim Cochran for attending District mid-year meeting on January 8, 2011.  We were updated on various topics: training, membership, Foundation giving, Polio Plus campaign, The District Assembly and the District Celebration.  Also, learned a little about the new membership pilot program which will take place starting July 1 for three years. 275 clubs worldwide will be chosen to participate. More information to be provided in near future to decide if our club would like to participate.

A new member proposal has been approved by the board for Barry Cook from Peak Laboratories in Mountain View. If a member has an objection, please contact a board member in writing stating your reasons. If no objections are received within 10 days of the publication, the prospective member will be elected to membership.

The next board meeting is Wednesday, January 12th at YMCA at 5pm.

Save the Date – Celebration of Leaders to honor Chuck Osborn is Friday January 14, 2011 at the Four Season’s in EPA from 6-9pm. If you signed up to attend, the cost is $75/person and please make a check payable to MV Rotary Club and give to Fred.

Crab Feed – Alan Goodman has passed around the sign up for all hands on deck, January 29th. Keep selling tickets.  Please see Alan if you have a specific place you want to help out, otherwise he will assign youJ and plenty of room to choose two slots.

Please see Alicia Crank for needed raffle items for the crab feed. Reminder, donation of services is welcomed!

The district is looking for Rotary Talent for the District Conference in May. A sign up sheet with audition information was passed around.

Bruce Barsi has graciously invited the club to his cabin in Tahoe on March 24-28 for skiing & winter fun. Please see Bruce and sign up if you are interested as currently his cabin has room for 12-16 guests and also able to rest neighbor's cabin if large interest.

Polio Immunization Trip - PDG Brad Howard has 8 seats available to travel to Delhi, India on Feb 22 - March 3. Cost is $3300/person including airfare. Email Brad directly if interested.

Area Governor Ginny Lear is collecting this month's 100th issue of the Rotarian magazine to give to new members. Please bring them to our meeting when you are finished reading and Sandi to get them to her.

Youth Exchange: Bert shared that the club is supporting a Cupertino student to study in Germany for 2011-2012 school year.  Currently, we still need a host family for a German student to attend school here.  Please let Bert know if you or a friend may be interested in hosting. 

 

Documentary "The Other City": Monique shared the Los Altos Rotary AIDS Project is presenting Jose Antonia Vargas on Tuesday, Feb 8 7:00 to 9:00pm at The Eagle Theater of Los Altos High School.  This is a fundraiser for Child AIDS Prevention.  Price: $50 General, $150 VIP Seating & Reception, $25 Student with ID.

 

Fine Master – Judy Hannemann asked members to share their New Year's resolutions since the Bowl Game details were announced earlier.  Tom fined for his 13th anniversary celebration this week. Ken announced he will pay $20 for his experience to attend Cal State basketball as he received tickets from Fred.

Sandi announced and asked for applause for Judy's fine work of raising $4,000 so far this year. 

 

Speaker – Lisa Schmidt –Acterra’s Green at Home Program

Lisa Schmidt, owner of High Energy Audit, shared her upcoming project to assist the City of Mountain View in its project to reduce the city's energy consumption.  One key area is to reduce energy use by residential residents: 1) Base load energy - suggestion to reduce your consumption is to have hot water recirculation pumps, energy star appliances and unplug appliances when not in use. One key is to use the switch on a plasma TV to turn on/off rather than the remote.  2) Intermittent Loads: be aware of pools, hot tubs, and other outdoor energy use. It was noted air travel is a key contributor to energy consumption by Californian's.

Other suggestions:

·         Purchase a watt meter to test your own home

·         Use your smart meter to its potential:  sign up with PGE for an on-line account to view your own home's consumption through-out the day. It is free at:  http://www.pge.com/myhome/myaccount/myaccount/index.jsp   

 

Next week's Speaker - Dr. Seth Shostak from SETI Institute, "Looking for life in Space"

Next week’s greeter:  Gerry Felix

 

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