Meeting 4/5/2016

Posted by Julie Haff 
on Apr 07, 2016
 
 
Today's speaker was Kevin Foster from the Boulder Creek CERT, a part of the overall Santa Cruz County CERT.
 
Kevin Foster
 
 
 
Minutes of Rotary Club of SLV
April 6, 2016
 
Members in attendance: Judy, Don, Janet, Linda, Joe G, Julie, Mary, Cameron, Heather, Mike, Charles, Ken, Karen, Carol, Brenda. Guests: Bill Anderson (visiting Rotarian) and Brian King; Interact students: Lauren, Logan and Sidney.
 
Guest Speaker: Kevin Foster, Boulder Creek CERT and Brian King
 
President Mike opened the meeting with the flag salute, introductions and Thought for the Day.
 
Announcements: May 6 is a retirement dinner for Sam Farr; April 24th from 10:00-2:00 is the cleanup at Felton Community Hall and MCR; May 25th is Stop Hunger Now event in Watsonville; Human Race is in May and pledges will be enhanced by other donations. Linda will bring forms next week; Janet and Mike will be gone next week and Karen will be leading the meeting; April 30 at 2:00 is the memorial for Joe Busa at his home in Ben Lomond. Karen will bring directions to the next meeting.
 
Detective: Karen killed us with difficult baseball questions. First time the club scored 100% - wrong!!
 
Happy Bucks: So many happy stories but the topper this week was Cameron’s. He shared a story of his most recent April Fool’s Day joke at the office. He hired a street performer who proposed to one of his employees in the middle of BFCU.
 
Guest Speaker: Kevin Foster, CERT Trainer
CERT stands for community Emergency Response Team and is committed to doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Kevin is trained as a CERT trainer of trainers. Kevin holds monthly meetings in Boulder Creek that are open to the public. At each meeting they have speakers and hands-on activities to help community members know how to respond in an emergency. Bouldercreekcert.org is the website where you can see the video of the latest monthly meeting. The next CERT training is in Felton and they are getting ready to offer a new training in Boulder Creek. Kevin has involved over 100 volunteers in neighborhood teams. Kudos to Kevin for leading this effort!
 
Drawing: Joe left early but his lucky ticket was drawn. Sorry Joe, you did not win the pot!
 
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30. 
 
Minutes respectfully submitted by J. Haff