Here are some brief highlights from recent past meetings.
February 12
We heard from Audrey Lindhe about the challenges one faces dealing with ADHD in everyday life as well as professional, on-the-job situations. Audrey herself was diagnosed at age ten and employs various techniques to achieve satisfactory inter-personal relations. After earning a BA in Psychology at the University of Washington, she went to earn a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University. She is the author of several books on topics around ADHD and autism, the latest being I Swear I Didn't Mean to Interrupt You.
Audrey Lindhe
Our speaker was Lisa Krigsman. Her topic was Managing Your Photographs. Now that everyone has hundreds of photos, we need to become systematic about their management. It was a lively discussion and Lisa recommends using this three layered classification scheme: 1) No Brainer, keepers for sure, these need to be protected & displayed in proper albums; for digital photos make sure you maintain multiple backups; 2) Box Worthy, not heirloom quality, but you'd miss them if they were gone, keep 'em; 3) Can Throw These Out, your cute pet cat photos are in this category.
Lisa Krigsman
March 18
Today it was Jeff Zurschmeide who addressed the group about setting up your retirement in the country of Spain. Jeff has walked the US Route of the Camino Santiago which runs along the northern stretches of Spain from Portugal into the interior. Jeff had a career in writing automotive magazine articles and books and plans to make the move to Spain soon. Jeff likes the compactness of the cities there, most are walkable, access to the entire EU is effortless, and there is currently a stable government.
Jeff Zurschmeide
March 26
There were two ceremonies in the meeting tonight. First our visiting Rotarian from Long Island brought his club's trading banner and we swapped for one of ours. Here's a photo of Cindy making the exchange with Dan Berger from New York. Then President Eugenio presented three new Paul Harris recognition awards, one each to Cindy Sekkel, Cameron Haste and president-elect Eric Brown.
These were followed by speaker Ann Thryft presenting the case for retaining the copper-wire based land line telephones maintained by AT&T in the SLV. AT&T wants to back away from "carrier of last resort" in Santa Cruz County as they have been doing all over the country.
Dan Berger & Cindy Sekkel Eugenio, Cindy, Eric & Cam
Ann Thryft
April 9
Chris Finnie from the Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center gave the group and update and overview of this excellent resource and facility in Ben Lomond.
Chris Finnie
April 15
President-elect Eric Brown brought three groups of high school and middle school student that he is mentoring in the field of robotics. The students are constructing their own water-going robots with remote control. There are lots of things to be dealt with in building a robot, plus the groups have a couple of members identified as "management" and even marketing. So more than building and operating robots they are looking into the business aspects of the work. Here are the three groups.
April 29
This morning we met "CJ" King, Carolyn. She is the Administrative Coordinator of the organization PeopleFirst. The group deals exclusively with the homeless population in the County of Santa Cruz. The group provides direct services as well as referral to available assistance in the county to any who need it. She brought some of her pamphlets that are jam-packed with references to housing assistance, medical assistance, job-training, legal, education and so on.
CJ King
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