Posted on Mar 08, 2018
MORRO BAY ROTARY CLUB BULLETIN
MARCH 6, 2018
 
Meeting called to order by Prez Pete
Invocation by Dan
Flag Salute by Pete
We recited the 4 Way Test
Jokes by Prez Pete....Bank Robber and Teacher jokes
 
Visiting Rotarians:   Sherry Sims from Cayucos; Lisa from SLO Rotary visiting to announce their upcoming Spaghetti Western event which is being held on March 24th 5:30-8:00 at the Vets Hall in SLO.  Tickets are $25.00...children under 12 eat free. 
 
Guests of Rotarians:   Glad to have Police Chief Greg Allen visiting along with Max, our foreign exchange student, as well as Heidi’s mom.   John Weiss introduced Ryan from Pacific Premier Bank and our Jr. Rotarian, Stella, was also with us today.   
 
Rick Grantham said he was so glad to see John Weiss looking healthy....and also glad to have the hard working police chief with us. 
 
John Weiss talked a few minutes about what is going on around the district and also encouraged us to attend the District Training in Oxnard this weekend; there will be just 2 morning classes including the initial Basic PRLS class. 
 
We are very thankful to have the Police Chief and the Fire Chief as sponsors of the Sept. 15th conference on Human Trafficking which will be held at the Morro Bay Community Center.
 
Deepa will be having her fund raising event this year on April 28 at the Terra Mia Vineyards.  Tickets will be $100.00.  Save the Date!!   She will be at the Morro Bay Sunset Rotary meeting Thursday night.
 
Pete and the board is encouraging everyone to give $100.00 to our Morro Bay Foundation during the month of March this year.   We want to build up our cash balance to enable our account to grow every year.
 
CRAB FEED is being held on April 7th.  We need everyone to sell tickets as well as participate that evening.   A Sign-up sheet was passed around.
 
GOLF TOURNAMENT also coming up on May 11th.   We need sponsors, golfers and workers for that day.   Sign up on the sign-up sheet please.
 
NCAA March Madness is coming - next week we will be able to sign up and choose a bracket for $20.00.   Winner will get a PHF.
 
Max brought us up to date with what is going on in his life, including good grades.   He wanted to thank everyone with helping him go to the Warriors game....his favorite team for a long time.   He entered his film in the SLO Film Festival and it will be showing at the Fremont Theater in downtown SLO on the 14th.   Let’s all go to show support for our Max and also to see what his creative mind has done.   We will meet at 5:00; go to watch the film and have dinner.    A fun evening with friends.......join your club at this social event!!
 
Our speakers today were Doris Diel and Sandra Hansen, mother and daughter bee keepers.   They have been learning about and raising bees for ten years after being concerned about the amount of bees that are dying every year.   The bee hive has an elaborate hierarchy starting with the Queen Bee, who the other bees will always follow.   Ninety percent of the bees are “worker” bees, are female and do most of the work.   And then there are the male “drone” bees who make up the other 10%.   In the winter there will be 20-30,000 bees in a hive....in the summer up to 80,000.    When the Queen Bee gets old, the worker bees will feed royal jelly to a new hatchling to develop a new Queen.   We are losing many bees because of pesticides they drink from blossoms and even more bees are dying from a mite from Asia that attaches itself to a bee and takes its life.   Very interesting talk.....we would love to have them back.
 
 
 
 
Keep Jack Barrett in your thoughts and prayers as he may need emergency surgery.    
Don Doubledee won the 50/50
JOIN US FOR THE MARCH SOCIAL.....MAX’ FILM AND DINNER.