Club Bulletin August 25, 2015

 

 

The new normal of partly sunny, super-duper humid with a touch of breeze.

 

Hammies and hotties, potato salad, green salad and COOKIES.

 

Thanks Don

 

Thanks Jude

 

You are my SunShine belted out by the finest Rotary Club in the whole world.

 

Not today.

 

Dan was proud to announce that Galen has graduated from his Red badge, congrats to Galen.

 

Sarah from the SLO Club announced their Fundraiser – a Home Tour in SLO.  She left flyers on the tables and encouraged participation.

 

Gil Inglehart and Sherry Sim from the Rotary Club of Cayucos announced their fall concert series beginning September 19 and ending on Halloween.  The concerts are noon to 5 p.m. and they are looking for Rotarians to help with the events. 

 

Final reminder about the Fish Fry 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. 

 

Jude reminded us about the District Conference and is fishing for possible attendees to this Bakersfield event. 

 

Mike Pond announced that Eduardo the Rotary Exchange student arrived on Sunday and was in good spirits.  We are still looking for a third host family and they need not be Rotarians.

 

Ferris Zoe announced that she was working to help the woman, daughter and child that she brought to Rotary a few weeks ago, as a result there was going to be a brief Rotary Board meeting at the end of the meeting. 

 

Gary Owens announced that Camp Hapitok was the receipt of 10K from the KSBY contest for favorite local charities.    

 

Jamie continues to send around the sign-up for the Avo/Margarita and you’ll need to SIGN-UP. 

 

Sherry Sim, Rotary Club of Cayucos

Gil Inglehart, Rotary Club of Cayucos

Sarah, Rotary Club of SLO

Bryan Swartz, Eco Rotary of Morro Bay

Greg Hardcastle, Rotary Club of Visalia

Nancy Retchless, long lost member of Rotary Club of Morro Bay

Rochelle Johnson, KPIG, friend of Galen

Jane Peterson

The lovely Linda Costley, wife of Dan

Larry Peterman – speaker

 

Nope!

 

Not today.

 

Dan shared a Rotary moment regarding A Rotary Exchange student. 

 

There was something really funny, but I just can’t remember it.

 

**More dates upcoming**

 

Doug Riddell was fined for an errant phone call – shame, shame, shame

 

Larry Peterman of Hotlix was the program today.   Larry began by giving the history of his business, starting out in Pismo Beach by buying an existing beach front candy store.  The store originally used the leftover caramel syrup from their caramel apples to make suckers.  Larry got a Cal Poly Senior Project student to design some molds to add variety.  On his way to eat/drink at the Harbor Hut one evening, Larry decided to do a tequila favored sucker with a worm in the middle.  He reported that he waded through a significant amount of research and development as well as objections from groups like Mothers against Drunk Driving and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as well as letters from extremists.  We got the feeling that Larry really felt like there was no such thing as bad publicity.  He also received some very positive exposure from a number of newscasts, Newsweek, local, regional, and international exposure.  He shared that he just met “head on” any issues and addressed them, which seemed to work well. 

 

Larry also shared that he was careful not to overcommit his product as he witnesses several other companies/organizations that went out of business as a result.  He has never had to advertise, but does attend a number of trade shows.  This was a great and informative program that ended with treats including the sour cream and onion flavored crickets that I will be giving my husband as an early Christmas present. 

 

We continued with the new process for the 50/50 pot is $300+, Jill (thank goodness it wasn’t Matt Franklin again) 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 Jill was a loser and the pot was a winner.