MEETING NOTES - Feb 26 & March 5, 2014

 
ANNOUNCEMENTS:   We still NEED SPONSORS for Ducky Derby.  Send the pledge form and letter to all your contacts.  Special thank you t:  Coastal Business Systems ($500), Sheryl Baumbauer ($1,000) and Blue Shield (drum roll please ----- $5,000).  Our new goal is to keep getting these wonderful partners and then give 125% back to the kids.
 
The Poker Tournament and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner will be held on March 8th.  It’s going to be a full day of Rotary!  Sign up for Poker with Chris Haedrich and Guess Who’s with Marge Remedios.
 
Debbie DeCoito reminded everyone about our new fundraiser, the Dam Bridge Ride (visit: http://thedambridgeride.com/ng/index.cfm/b021b0c/regPages/pages/?p=124256).  We will need all the volunteers we can get that day!  Mark May 3rd on your calendar now.
 
RER is working with former RER member Terry Hanson on the Henderson Open Space project and will be working to help raise $70,000.  Look for more details on this community project in the future.
 
Who Am I?  President Carter needs more photos (preferably when you were a baby to age 18) and three facts about you no one would know!  These are really fun presentations at our meetings, so send in your info and photos.
 
Special Olympic Basketball is coming and Jerry Peters is looking for sandwich makers and servers.  This is a really fun and rewarding community service event that takes very little of your time.  If you can make sandwiches on March 29 or serve lunch to the athletes on March 30, please give Jerry a call.
 
NOTES FROM THE FEBRUARY 26TH MEETING:
 
RECOGNITION: Kelly Nickel, International Educator, took a selfie during his training in Temple City, CA.  So far he has reached 80,000 kids!  He paid $100 and he got his BIG BOY BADGE!
 
Carla Barrett was honing her decoration skills at Meeks, where she made a bird feeder, and paid $50 for that project.
 
Tom Smith, who last week admitted to stealing the sign in pen, admitted this week to forgetting his driver’s license at the pool hall after his team social.  He paid $25 for that goof and $25 for the pen.
 
Evan Delgado was in a photo at Club Cougar, dressed quite sharply by the way, and he paid $100.
 
Bev Stupek has met her commitment, so she just got to brag about her first grandchild, Claire.
 
Patric Lassiter gave his Craft Talk.  He is the owner of Solar Universe in Redding.  He is a Redding native and went to Shasta High, Shasta College and Chico State.  He went into environmental work in the Bay Area, then to Eureka, where he joined Rotary in 1995.  He said he joined thinking it was to build business, but he got excited about Rotary and what it all stands for and has been in it for all the right reasons.  H e left Eureka to go to Nevada to go back into Geology, his major in college, and got into mining.  He left mining in 2007 to go into consulting and was out of the country more than home, so he left that and bought the Solar Universe franchise for the Redding area and is home.
 
FIVE NEW MEMBERS WERE INDUCTED TODAY!  Yeah!  Please welcome Amy Morin, Angela Jones, Collin Bogener, Jennifer Haynes and Kelly Ankeny.
 
Last week we had a great presentation from the Shasta Dam Little League Challenger Division.  This is a division for kids with special needs and is just awesome.  This year RER has sponsored the group and they have invited us all out to their Jamboree on May 18th in the City of Shasta Lake.  There is also a big game at Big League Dreams on May 3rd.    Check with President Carter for details.
 
Mr. Rotary, Jim Salini, gave an outstanding presentation on the history of Rotary and what our club is really all about.  Great information for new and old members!  Did you know that Rotary has grown from four members to 1.2 million members in 109 years?  We are members of a great organization.
 
The 50/50 top was won by Keith Ritter and the gift by Tom Price.
 
NOTES FROM MARCH 5TH:
 
Today’s meeting was sort of brought to us by Team 6, but their leader was missing and they sort of faked their way through it!  They even got razzed by a visiting Redding Rotary member.
 
RECOGNITION:  Steve Hosler gave confession of going to Hawaii and paid $100.
 
Tom Price has been fishing and paid $100 for that.  Watch out if you don’t do much, you pay for it!
 
Bev Stupek gave us a rundown on the Turtle Bay Hotel situation and then was humiliated with a distorted photo of her in her cheerleading uniform.  Now, we all know that if Bev could still fit in her uniform from high school, she was not as big as the photo depicted!  She fined President Carter $100 for distorting her photo.  Apparently Julie Kaplan, Frank Strazzarino and Ed Harrison were involved in this photo horror.  Frank was fined $7.49 by Bev, but not sure about the others.
 
The 50/50 was again tried by Keith Ritter and he won another top.
 
HUGE applause was given to Steve Williams for his donation of the Giant Giant’s Fan package for Ducky Derby.
 
REMINDER:  If you haven’t paid your dues, etc.  Pay Up!
 
Today’s speaker was Chris Dell from North State STEM, a program to encourage local kids to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.