BULLETIN - FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Rotary Club of Morro Bay
Bulletin – February 3, 2015
WEATHER
Warm sunny, golfing weather.
LUNCH
Chicken sandwich, a lovely salad with just abit of dressing (yea), pasta and apple pie and ice cream – welcome Morro Bay Rotary Club to the Golf Course.
PRESIDENT NICKS TIE COLOR
President Nick wore matching shades of blue!
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
The lovely and talented President Nick
INVOCATION
The lovely and talented Ken Stilts
SONG
Clearly Sid no longer loves us, no Sid, no song.
VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS
Former MB Rotarian and member of the Lake Oswego Club in Oregon – none other than Skip Barnhart
Jan Lewis (Elsie’s friend)
John LePlante (Forest’s friend)
Lori French (becoming a member TODAY)
Hankmo Roth
Honorary Rotarian Maya
Mary Helen Keller from the Palm Desert Club
NEW MEMBER INDUCTION
We were pleased to formally induct Lori French who was formerly with the Eco Rotary Club. Lori is heavily involved in the Morro Bay Fishing Community, she is married to Jeff, a second generation commercial fisherman and has two sons, Loren who is an architect waiting to be hired and working commercial fishing in the meantime and Drew who is a computer engineer. Lori has a lot of interests including swimming, avocado wrangling and chicken ranching. In her spare time (haha) she writes for National Fishermen Magazine.
PAUL HARRIS QUARTET AND PRESENTATIONS
None today.
EXEMPTION
Not Today
CLUB BUSINESS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
~Jamie B announced tickets for Evening at Heart were sold out, but you could probably score one on eBay.
~Rick Grantham asked for people who would be willing to occasionally drive the Fenderson’s to the doctors.
~President Nick talked about the Steps Conference and the Rotary Foundation Gala, where his wife won her very own Paul Harris fellow. He also announced the Goleta ~Daytime Club was going to continue the work Morro Bay Club started in Sri Lanka.
~We also celebrated birthdays of John Weiss, Debra Garcia, Heidi Kimbrell, Jack Barrett and Bryan Griffiths.
QUOTE OF THE MEETING
John LePlante had too many to write down!!! Still laughing...
UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS
March 2015 – 4-Way Essay Test, District Assembly
April 11, 2015 – Business Planning & Project Management (Embassy Suites, SLO)
April 17-19, 2015 - RYLA
May 1-3, 2015 – Morro Bay Car Show
May 8, 2015 – Golf Tournament at Morro Bay Golf Course
June 2015 – Demotion/Induction Party
August / September 2015 – Fish Fry
FINING
None today.
PAUL HARRIS BOARD DRAWING
No action here.
PROGRAM
Forest Ratchford, spoke about being in the Peace Corps. He had two tours, one in Romania and one in St. Lucia. The Peace Corps promotes world peace and friendship, working on training locals of developing countries, promoting both our culture and their cultures. There are many areas the Peace Corps focus on including education, health, and youth in development, environment and economic development. Peace Corps is in 140 countries with over 220,000 volunteers. The application process takes about 1.5 years and once in the Peace Corps you can leave at any time, without any questions asked. The attrition rate is about 25%. John LePlante then followed Forrest and talked about his experience in the Peace Corps.
CLOSING
President Nick closed the meeting, Happy Trails All!