ROTARY CLUB OF WEST COVINA

TRUMPET

VOLUME 56 NO. 08 November 1, 2010

Bob Weinreib, Editor Emeritus

Toni Villanueva, Editor

Tony Song, President

Tim Walbridge, President Elect

Toni Villanueva, Vice President

Phyllis McDonald, Secretary

Yulanda Davis-Quarrie, Treasurer

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR ROTARY

INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

RI President Ray Klinginsmith is encouraging all Rotarians to join him in the Reach Out to Africa

(ROTA) initiative. Information on international service projects for Africa and the ROTA initiative can be found at www.reachouttoafrica.org. In addition, our president has imple-mented Ray’s Rotary Reunions to be held in Cape Town February 3-5 and Rotary Project Safaris. Both of these events are designed to encourage increased international service pro-ject involvement and financial assistance through our clubs. More information is available at www.rotary.org/president.

A MESSAGE FROM OUR DISTRICT GOVERNOR The Club Builder Award is a new and exciting award program created by the Rotary International Board of Directors. The purpose of the award is to recog-nize Rotarians who have made a tremendous impact

on their club. Only one candidate will be nominated by their Dis-trict Governor and must meet specific award criteria. For more information, please contact Roger Schulte.

NOVEMBERNOVEMBERNOVEMBERNOVEMBER

ISISISIS

A MESSAGE FROM OUR CLUB PRESIDENT

President Tony Song shared a video of our 20th annual Red Ribbon Rally at our meeting on Wednesday which was a huge success! A dinner will be held at 7:00 pm at West Covina High School cafeteria to announce the winners of the poster contest. All Rotarians are en-couraged to come. Sunday, October 31 at Westfield Plaza, West Covina our club will be participating in a Halloween event for the kids trick-or-treating at the

mall. All Rotarians are encouraged to sign the volunteer sign-up sheet.

LIONEL MABASA RECEIVES HIS BLUE BADGE By

Ken Lund

Last Wednesday was a big day for Lionel as our Assistant Governor, Steve Cox, pre-sented him with his Blue Badge and accompanying documents. Accompanying the cere-mony, the whole club presented a surprise by singing the "State Farm" song to him. Lionel has been a busy member since joining, and we wish him well in his career and in his Rotary activities!

INTERACT STUDENTS HOLD CAR WASH

West Covina High School Interact students will be holding a car wash on November 6 from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm at the WCHS parking lot on the corner of Cameron and Fernwood. Proceeds from this event will go towards the construction of a well and rest-room for a school in Nigeria. Tickets are $5. Please contact Vicky Abbott 951-323-1669. Come out and show your support!

SPEAKER LAST WEEK: CHUCK FREITAS ON LITERACY

By Ken Lund

In the third of our series of programs during Rotary’s Vocational Service Month, it was a pleasure to have Chuck Freitas talk with us about an important problem in today’s soci-ety: ILLITERACY. Chuck is our District Chair for Literacy and has been a Rotarian for over 20 years. He is a Past President of the Claremont Sunrise Rotary club and was a ca-reer educator and administrator. There is a significant literacy problem in the West Co-vina schools, and Vickie Abbott commented on her own observations of it at the high school level. Our speaker discussed various approaches.

During this Rotary year, the goal of the District 5300 Literacy Team is to broaden and deepen opportunities for children to read through Everyone Reads! This program targets our schools here at home and schools in Africa. Toward this end, clubs in the District are being encouraged to adopt one or more of the following programs to ensure that Every-one Reads!

1. Rotary Readers: Adopt an elementary school in your neighborhood and purchase library books for your school’s library through Scholastic Publications.

2. Promise for African Literacy (PAL): Support the purchase of textbooks for chil-dren in identified schools in Africa by changing your speaker thank you gift to a donation in the speaker’s name to PAL. Bookplates, with the speaker’s name on them, will be placed in textbooks purchased with the donated funds.

3. Literacy for All: Participate in the Rotary International Matching Grants process and raise funds to purchase the Literacy for All K-3 reading program for schools in South Africa.

4. Teen Readers: Work with schools in your area to purchase contemporary novels to put into the hands of teen readers. The Bluford Series books are set in urban America, feature teen characters, and speak to the interests and concerns of to-day’s students.

The key to learning is the ability to read. These four programs will give clubs in our Dis-trict simple, relevant ways to promote literacy and make a difference locally and interna-tionally.

ROTARY CLUB OF WEST COVINA CELEBRATES THE TWENTY-SECOND

RED RIBBON RALLY

THURSDAY, FEBUARY 7, 1985, 2:00 PM: DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena locked his badge and service revolver in his drawer and left to meet his wife for lunch. He crosses the street to his pickup truck; five men pull him into a waiting car and speed away. This is the last time Kiki is see alive. One month later his body was discovered in a shallow grave, 70 miles from Michoacan, Mexico. He had been tortured, beaten and brutally murdered. Enrique left behind a wife and three sons. Saturday, October 23, 2010 marked our twenty-second Annual Red Ribbon Rally. The rally began at 7:00 am on the West Covina High School Campus. At least 1,000 people arrived for a free pancake breakfast cooked by Rotarians and served by the WCHS Interact stu-dents. Our special guest Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, Jr. was also in attendance along with members of the Enrique “Kiki” Camarena Education Foundation. Each year, Rotary Club of West Covina in conjunction with Sunrise Rotary coordinate to put on this spectacular event. Our many thanks to all of the wonderful people and organi-zations for their support. • West Covina Fire Department and Cadet Program • West Covina Police Department and Cadet Program • United States Army • United Sates Marin Corp • Drug Enforcement Agency • S.W.A.T. • Mounted Police Officers • Kaiser Permanente • Starbuck’s • Mayflower Clinic • Diabetes Care • United States Coast Guard • Champions Karate Dojo • Andy Khan and 7-Eleven • CHP • Camarena Foundation • City of West Covina • David Alfaro, DDS • Rudy Leyva, DDS • DMV • M.A.D.D. • Faith Community Church • LA Business Consultants • IHOP • The Tennant Foundation • SGV Examiner • Royal Coaches Towing • WCHS Interact • WCHS • South Hills Country Club • SGV Examiner

ASSISTANT DISTRICT GOVERNOR HONORS YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS

Assistant District Governor Steve Cox presented the Interact Club of West Covina High School and the West Covina Fire and Police Cadet Program with a monetary gift in recog-nition of their outstanding work in our community. Congratulations to all of you!

FYIL..

Our next Board of Directors meeting location has changed. It will be held on Tuesday, November 2 at 6:30 pm at 338 S. Glendora Avenue, West Covina. Winners of the Red Ribbon Rally poster contest will be announced at a dinner on November 3 at 7:00 pm in the West Covina High School cafeteria. Special guest Mika Camarena will be in attendance. Come and show your support! Our thanks to Drexel Smith and Ken Lund for updating our Rotary Club of West Covina brochure! Beautiful job! Historical Society Museum of West Covina will be holding their annual tree lighting cere-mony “Lights of Love” on Sunday, November 28 at 6:30 pm at 336 S. Glendora Avenue, West Covina. There will be carolers, refreshments and entertainment.

CONGRATULATIONS!

To Frank Morgan on your Paul Harris Fellow! President Tony Song presented Frank with his certificate and pin.

To Ramon Osceguera on completing his re-quirements for his blue badge!

THE GEORGE R. HENSEL ETHICS CONTEST

It was a pleasure to welcome Kathy Schlotz to our club on Wednesday. Kathy has been a member of the Rotary Club of Montebello since 1995 and is currently the Rotary District 5300 Contest Chairperson. Going on it’s 9th year, the George R. Hensel Ethics Essay Contest was first introduced to our district in 1999-2000 by then Governor Garbis der Yeghian. The contest is designed to give high school students the opportunity to display their writing talents. The challenge is for the student to write about today’s ethical issues and concerns and why these things are important. The winner of the George R. Hensel Ethics Contest will receive $3,000 while three runners up will receive $500 each. The prizes are sponsored by Dr. Hensel, member of the Rotary Club of Montebello for whom this contest is named. For more information please contact Kathy Schlotz at kathyscholtz@earthlink.net.

PASSING OF CHARTER MEMBER, DR. NORM SNYDER

Our community lost a remarkable guy recently with the passing of Norm Snyder on Octo-ber 10. Norm was one of the charter members of our club in 1953. He was a member for a number of years and then bowed out due to the press of other community commit-ments. He then returned to our club in the '90's, became our club treasurer, and left the club in the early 2000's because of health problems. Norm grew up in Iowa, served in our Navy during WWII, married his wife, Delphia, and be-came a physician. They then moved to West Covina, set up his practice, and started a family. Norm was very community-minded and was a member of the City Council for sev-eral years. He was Mayor of West Covina du ruing 1964-65. He had a long medical career, including his private practice, working in the E.R. at Inter-community Hospital, and as a staff physician at CIGNA Health Care. Towards the end of his career, he worked closely with Forest Tennant at several pain clinics. Norm was honored by a special presentation during the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Rotary Club of West Covina in 2003 at South Hills Country Club. He was a real addition to our community.

was a real addition to our community.

NOVEMBER

November 1 Phyllis McDonald’s Rotary Anniversary November 2 Election Day BOD Meeting 6:30 pm at 338 S. Glendora Ave. West Covina November 3 RRR Poster Winner Dinner at WCHS at 7:00 pm November 6 9:00 am District 5300 Rotaract Conference UNLV Boyd School of Law 9:00 am Potential rotary Leadership Seminar (PRLS) UNLV Boyd School of Law 9:00 am Hesperia Rotary’s 1st Annual Cowplopapalooza Hesperia Junior High School 6:00 pm Pahrump Valley Rotary Cash Extraveganza, Mt. Falls Clubhouse Interact Car Wash WCHS 8:30 am-2:00 pm November 7 Arcadia’s Team Rotary “Walk for a Cure” of Juvenile Diabetes, Dodger Stadium Daylight Saving Time Ends November 11 Veterans Day November 12 RYLA-Full payment due ($275 per student, equal number Of boys and girls required) Jose Gutierrez’s Birthday November 13 9:00 am Potential Rotary Leadership Seminar (PRLS) Etiwanda Gardens November 14 12:00 pm West Covina Sunrise Fundraiser-Honky Tonk Musical and Lunch, The Grove Theater November 15 TLC Students attend Rotary meeting this week Tony and Kelley Song’s Wedding Anniversary November 19 Rotary Youth Exchange –students attend TLC Teen Leadership Camp) MANDATORY TLC-Teen Leadership Camp, Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center November 20 Rotary Youth Exchange-Students attend TLC (Teen Leadership Camp) MANDATORY TLC-Teen Leadership Camp, Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center November 21 Rotary Youth Exchange-Students attend TLC (Teen Leadership Camp) MANDATORY TLC-Teen Leadership Camp, Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center November 24 Rotary Club of West Covina Assembles Thanksgiving Baskets November 25 Thanksgiving November 28 “Lights of Love” Tree Lighting Ceremony 6:30 pm Historical Society Museum 336 S. Glendora Ave. West Covina

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

December 1 Curtiss Bonneville’s Rotary Anniversary Arvind Lapsiwala’s Rotary Anniversary Alicia Mardini’s Rotary Anniversary Frank Pasqualetto’s Rotary Anniversary Joe Secard’s Rotary Anniversary December 3 Lionel Mabasa’s Birthday December 4 Friendship Tour to Egypt, Jordan and Israel- Final Payment Due Pre-PETS, Etiwanda Gardens December 7 Doran and Cynthia Barnes’ Wedding Anniversary December 8 LouAnn Barajas’ Birthday December 10 President Tony Song’s Birthday December 11 Pre-Pets, Etiwanda Gardens December 13 Art and LouAnn Barajas’s Wedding Anniversary Joe Secard’s Birthday December 15 Applications for District Governor, 2013-14 Due End of the Year Celebration, Rotary Club of West Covina (tentative) December 18 Bharati Lapsiwala’s Birthday Frank and Phyllis McDonald’s Wedding Anniversary December 20 Nancy Smith’s Birthday December 24 Christmas Eve December 25 Christmas December 28 Frank Pasqualetto’s Birthday December 31 Rotary Youth Exchange-Student Outbound Short Term (3 week) applications are due Ed and Toni Villanueva’s Wedding Anniversary New Year’s Eve

DECEMBER

JANUARY

JANUARY

January 1, 2011 New Year’s Day Jose Gutierrez’s Rotary Anniversary January 4 MaryAnn Secard’s Birthday January 12 RYLA all student paperwork is due to the Registrar January 14 Million Dollar Dinner Double Tree Hotel Ontario, CA 6:00 pm January 15 Interviews for District Governor, 2013-14 January 16 International Assembly, San Diego, CA January 17 International Assembly, San Diego, CA Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day January 18 International Assembly, San Diego, CA January 19 International Assembly, San Diego, CA January 20 International Assembly, San Diego, CA January 21 International Assembly, San Diego, CA January 22 International Assembly, San Diego, CA January 23 International Assembly, San Diego, CA Forest Tennant’s Birthday January 28 President’s Advance, La Jolla Marriott Arvind Lapsiwala’s Wedding Anniversary January 29 President’s Advance, La Jolla Marriott BODT, Boyd School of Law, UNLV Las Vegas January 30 President’s Advance, La Jolla Marriott January 31 Hensel Ethics Essay contest, Essays due to clubs