<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi everyone!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">We have our board meeting this week on Thursday at the Mendocino Hotel at noon. Please see the attached agenda. I received notice via email yesterday that Matt cannot serve as president this coming year. But he is considering it for the future. We will be coming to agreement at this weeks meeting about our leadership succession plan.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Let's all give a big thanks to Dean and John C who made our park shine with a thorough mowing and clean up last weekend. It looks beautiful! New photo's are on our Facebook page and being sent to the district. Should make our PR guy, Jerry, happy. This Saturday John Cottle will lead our highway clean up crew, meeting at 10 at the Hill house lot. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Our International team is just days away from departing for Fiji, Vanuatu and NZ. Matt leaves this week. Chris and I depart on 5/5, and arrive in Fiji on 5/7. The Cottle's, Jeff, Matt, Chris and Donna will all meet in Port Vila, Vanuatu between 5/13-14. We are building on the relationships that Matt and Jeff established over the past few years, and meeting with local clubs and clubs from NZ while we are there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Sharon Davis, CEO of the Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce will be our speaker next week, 5/3.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">The Interact club will come on 5/10. Jody and the students will lead the meeting. I just learned that they made over $1,300 in tips from the Knights of Columbus Crab feed! That will surely help their projects, which we will learn about. As usual, we ask each of you to sponsor and introduce the student you have lunch with. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Gary has agreed to lead the 5/17 meeting, it will be fun- who knows, lucky nut may make a comeback :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Heather has been typing our meeting notes, and putting on our website live. You can now catch up if you missed last meeting. There is no moss growing on this club, and we are a club of action, and in transition.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Jody is our Golf Tournament chair, but he has a great club of support, right? August 18th is our date. I sent out the poster in PDF form to this Rotary list, and asked for an update. Someone, please fix so we can get rolling on this!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">P.S. As we have Matt Drewno joining our club, you may see a Matt O or a Matt D in email communications, just as we have been using John P and John C.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yours in Rotary service,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Donna</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Donna Schuler</div><div>Strategic Management Consulting</div><div>President, Mendocino Rotary Club</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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