Vol 2. No 8 September 29, 2015

On 9/18 Keith Sweet assisted by Phil Giurlani had a very nice and well attended fundraising for the improvements of the Museum of Jackson. 9/21 I had an interview at Home Town Radio, talking about Rotary , the goals of our Club and the upcoming visit of our District Governor, before that I was at the 7:00 AM 9/11 TSPN TV program and at the morning news at 11:00 AM at the National Hotel followed by an excellent lunch offered by Stan. 9/22 Marv was also interviewed at Home Town Radio. After his interview he came to help me set up the meeting room for the Governor’s visit. Thank you Marv for the great help. Also thanks to Aaron May who did a great job making the new Rotary Jackson banner. On September 22 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM we had our lead-ership Meeting with D.G Gail Ellingwood and DGA Roberta Picket. A heartfelt thank to all my Chairs, PE,

PP, Treasurer, Board Members and Directors for their input about the club necessary

to inform our DG in the best way possible. We talked about our projected 4-Club Markeling Plan

We mentioned E-clubs and DG advised to get in touch with the District. I know several young profes-sionals who would like to be Rotarians if they had a way to participate in our service projects without having the weekly frequen-cy. Mary Wald started the preliminary contacts for an International Project helping orphans in Sudan. At 6:30 it was time for our regular meeting and din-

ner where we had the pleasure to have Lee Trav-ers and Joanne and several family members, to receive the well deserved award “Be a Gift to the World” as well as Debbie Mathia who had to hide from Red why she wanted to be present at the

meeting. Doreen Lukowicz made a very special effort, just one day after her cataract surgery, to be pre-sent with her daughters Kelly

NOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Rotary Club Of Jackson, CA

Board Meeting Minutes

Teresa’s Jackson, CA

September 8th, 2015

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBERS

Irene Perbal, President Rick Sprenkle

Mike Flagg, President Elect Anne Platt

Richard Campbell, Treasurer Sharon Hampton

Marv Hampton, Past President Keith DesVoignes

John Sullivan, Executive Secretary Rich Muller

Bruce Platt, Secretary Stan Lukowicz

Pat Crew, Foundation Chairman

All board members present with exception of:

Richard Campbell, John Sullivan, Rick Sprenkle and Stan Lukowicz

Others in Attendance: J. Wilmarth as (Treasurer), E. Methard, Eric Johnson, D. Benson, D. Wentling,

A. Long, B. Long, Tom Thompson, M. Bork-Watts

Call to Order By President 5:01 PM

Roll Call – Confirmed Quorum Present

Approve Current Agenda MSP P. Crew/R. Sprenkle

Approve August 2015 Minutes MSP P. Crew/D. Campbell

President’s Report /Correspondence

District Governor’s visit on 9/22 emphasized - 4 PM Meeting with Board and meeting after with all who wish to attend. Special Brazilian Dinner 9/23 with DG.

Desire to get 4 clubs to work together on PR locally

Treasurer’s Report – By Jim Wilmarth in lieu of Richard due to Richard’s recent accident. (Report On File) MSP Pat Crew/ Mike Flagg

>>Con’t on Page 3<<

>>Con’t from Page 2<<

Old Business

Sponsor night – Art Long said march will be the best time for that event.

Jackson Gate Sign Project Up date by Art Long – The site is ready, waiting on digging by Amador Transit (Plan Mid October). $100 contract is set.

11/7/15 Trivia Challenge - Update by Art Long – Posters are going out to business’ to post

New Business

Interfaith Food Bank Thanksgiving Project - MSP to fund greater of $900 or what we gave last year. Pat Crew/ Anne Platt

Hospice Art Auction request – No Action indefinitely tabled.

Area 7 Clubs Representative assigned – Tammy Crabtree for this responsibility

Interact/Rotaract – Mentioned to see if we can have the meetings in small banquet room at Thomi’s

President Irene Perbal mentioned she has had favorable response regarding the Integrated Solar Cookers

MSP to designate Dirk Wentling to Board position of expired Board position held by Alan Rob-erts MSP Rich Muller/Mike Flagg

Director’s Report(s) -

Jim Wilmarth mentioned Interact meeting had 13 attendees. A very successful new begin-ning for Interact. Meets 1

st Monday night of

the month.

October 3rd

is the Bowl – A – Thon

A very BIG thank you goes to Marv H who

will be covering for Bruce in his capacity

as our Club Secretary during his absence

from October 7th through October 20th

and Pam when Stan was granted the major club award “Service Above Self” for his 41 years of dedicated service to Rotary. September 23 we could thanks to Phil Giurlani, have an informal “Wine and Cheese” in honor of the Governor. My very special gratitude to Rick, Joann and Alan Sprenkel who in the absence of the regular staff at Teresa’s where present everywhere needed for the event. We might consider nominating Rick “Bartender of the Year”. We welcomed members from Ione and Up-Country Rotary Clubs and even had the pleasure to have our ex-change student Leopold. In spite of the weak frequency of our club we had a great time and all had the oppor-tunity to chat informally with our dynamic District Governor. Let’s GO TEAM VIRUS. Our Interact Club is taking shape, Adelaide Cahill, our former RYLA student sent me an e-mail sorry she could not help me with the Rotary Room set-up for their meeting on Monday 9/28 but indicated two of her friends Kyle Welche and D’lynn Zagami who offered to help. Bravo Interact!

Have you paid your PHF sustain-

ing member payment yet? So far

23 of 61 members have made

their payment this year. Watch as

our thermometer grows to 100%

MEMBERSHIP NEWS On Sunday, Oct. 4, critically acclaimed songwriter Damon Wyckoff of Forever

Goldrush and award-winning journalist Scott Thomas Anderson, author of Shadow People, will team-up for an acoustic performance/spoken-word event at Sutter Creek Provisions tap house. Wyckoff and Anderson both grew

up in Amador County, and both are known for exploring the hard, hand-to-mouth life that defines rural communities in the West. Beginning at 4 p.m., the two will take turns sharing the stage as Wyckoff unveils songs from his upcoming solo album and Anderson reads passages from his new book, The Cutting-Four-piece, and discusses working behind the scenes at the Angola Prison Rodeo. There is no cover charge for this event. Sutter Creek Provisions is owned by locals Darin and Casey Sexton. The tap house has been making a name for itself as having one of the best beer selections in the entire Mother Lode. Casey Sexton is also a noted aficionado of Roots-Americana music, hosting the weekly Highway 49 Radio Show on KVGC. The Shadows on the Range show is meant to feel like a party thrown by Cormac McCarthy, Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt’s dy-ing liver. Sutter Creek Provisions is located at 78 Main Street, Sutter Creek.

Interact Students planning their Bowl-A-Thon

teams and ordering their T-Shirts at the

meeting of September 28th

All Hail King Leopold… Crowned Ar-

gonuat HS Homecoming King 2015!

Six more PHF Sustaining payments

made at last week’s meeting

Chris W showed up in uniform, lead the pledge of allegiance and then gave a report

regarding the Butte Fire from his perspective. The resulting report brought a standing

ovation from the members in attendance as well as a $400 contribution towards his

PHF from the members at the front table which included Pat C, Stan L & Eric J

The “Quiet Rotarian” Citation

The “Be A Gift” Citation

The “Service Above Self” Award

DISTRICT GOVENOR GAIL “VIRUS” ELLINGWOOD’S VISIT

Tuesday, Sept 29th Justin Mendoza: Amador County Triathelete Champion

Tuesday, Oct 6th Barbara Long- Speaking on be half of Hi Cap

Tuesday, Oct 13th Trivia Challenge run through by Art Long and Committee

Tuesday, Oct 20th Ruthella Turner: Read Across Amador

Tuesday, Oct 27th Halloween Party ((Details to follow?))

Tuesday, Nov 3rd Vic Slaughter, PDG: District Foundation Chair-

man

Saturday, Nov 7th Trivia Night Sutter Creek Community Center

Tuesday, Nov 10th Gary Halvorson: World War I & II

May 13-15, 2016 2016 District Conference at Atlantis Convention

Center in Reno

CLUB CALENDAR: SAVE THE DATE

THANK YOU

We appreciate the assistance offered by the

following members in creating this week’s

newsletter:

Dirk Wentling—Editor , Photography and

Content

Irene Perbal—Content

Rick Sprenkle—Content

Ashley Carnicello—Photography

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING SOLAR COOKING PROGRAM I have been asked to provide solar cookers for the fire victims in Calaveras but I think it is premature. They don’t know where to start, don’t know where they are going to live and if they have no instructions will not know how to use the solar cookers. Many victims will probably end up in trailers, in that case the rocket stoves and hay baskets will be an inexpensive, practical way to cook their food. What I am going to do is start classes to make the solar cookers, beginning on Oc-tober 9 at the Calaveras Health and Human Service Agency in San Andreas. The West Calaveras Rotary Club of Valley Springs asked me to do a demonstration during their "Oktober Fest" on 10/17. The weekend of 3 and 4 October, two couples of Rotarians from Fresno will be visiting our region. They have information and a video about the different modalities of Rocket Stoves and would have liked to do a brief presentation at our club meeting. But they will have to leave on Monday having to work on Tuesday. In order to have the opportunity to see the presentation without interfering with our Bowl-a-Thon, I offered to have a session at our, now official, Rotary Room (former Thomi’s small banquet space) Sunday October 4 at 10:30 AM. I will provide coffee, cake and cookies and hope several of our members will attend.

These Rotarians from Fresno have been our mentors when we started the Solar Cook-ing, they received is very well at their club in Fresno and even came to our house in order to instruct us before we started. I really want to make the feel welcome at Rotary Jackson