Club Bulletin August 11, 2015

 

The new normal of partly sunny, super duper humid.

 

Sandos, chips, potato salad, green salad, cookies.….

 

Thanks to Lorraine Sterkel for leading us in the pledge…

 

Thanks to Past Prez Nick for our invocation…

 

Sadly no…

 

Not today.

 

Fish Fry is scheduled for August 29^th.  No presale tickets, so please provide the flyer to all your friends and even those you may not appreciate because everyone needs to eat.  Still room on the placemat for ads.

 

Board meeting on August 13^th at 7:30 a.m. at Grill Hut.

 

 

Dani Tope, former Morro Bay member, visited us from Paso Robles

Chris Tibbs, former Morro Bay member, visited us from Atascadero

Carol Stern, our speaker today is a guest of Seneca Jacobson’s

Courtney Pask was a guest of John Weiss’s

Hank Roth was a guest of Rick Grantham’s (heck, he could have been a guest of any of ours!!!  We love our Hank!!)

 

Nope!   People – you are encouraged to bring guests!!  Especially those that you feel might enjoy being a member of the Club!!

 

Lots of way wonderful news from our club members today.

 

Carol provided a Rotary moment about Safe Drinking Water for Children in Pakistan.

 

Not today.

 

**More dates upcoming**

 

None that I can remember – hope I don’t get fined for not remembering…

 

Carol Stern of the SLO County Genealogical Society was our speaker today.  She is originally from the Bronx and has a large family.  Her great aunt, some years ago, made Carol sit down and learn about her family and how they died.  When she moved from the San Fernando Valley to Los Osos, she re-discovered her notes and genealogical information.  Her family was comprised of Jewish immigrants and by conducting a genealogical survey she found about her background.

 

She has realized that sharing genealogical information with stories makes it very interesting to both young and old.  She has put her information in the form of a resume which she hopes will be of interest to her children at some time.

 

She also shared that she had a box of photographs, started by working on a Family Tree and took a class on genealogy.  She started by just adding the information that she knew, and encourages others when they begin this venture - “write down what you know”.  Also interview people you know or interview yourself, recording voices – making family stories and family history – leaving stories for others.  Then identify the holes that are missing and search/research for that information.

 

Carol provided a number of handouts and websites to begin your own search.  There best sources to begin are Ancestory.com, Genealogy Club and Family Search

 

Carol reminded the club members that there were boxes to mail to the troops for $15.09 each and to please make sure they all were picked up today

 

We continued with the new process for the 50/50 pot is $173, Doug Riddell had the winning ticket and had a chance to draw the white poker chip and win the pot, or draw the black poker chip and have the pot continue to next week – unfortunately Doug was a loser and the pot was a winner.  We’re looking at big bucks next week!!!