[Rotary] This week in Rotary

Tue Oct 3 12:49:24 PDT 2017

Hi Everyone,
Did you notice how the howling wind has died down and how superb the
weather forecast is for this Thursday's offsite meeting at Pt Cabrillo?! It
will be beautiful!

Here is the brief info:

Wildlife Biologist Robert Douglas will provide our program.

Title: "My Life Working As A Biologist for A Timber Company--A Natural
Historian's Odyssey."

 I have Harvest Market and myself preparing a delicious picnic lunch. I
invited the Mendocino Beacon people  also, and they did RSVP.  Invite new
people, bring a guest!! Wear a hat and sunscreen.

Here are a few recent highlights I want to share with you, and I hope
you'll discuss amongst yourselves as you lunch during the sunshine on
Thursday.

CLUB VISIBILITY
Our International committee Chair Jeff submitted such an impressive report
to the District newsletter, that they have decided to make it the featured
article for the next newsletter, which comes about bi-monthly.
Http://Www.rotary5130.org
Newsletter Editor Tom Hoag Phoned me last night to get facts and photos
straight, and tell me the great news! I have encouraged Jeff to submit to
the Rotarian magazine also.

FELLOWSHIP
I had the pleasure of lunching with John Porter yesterday. He has mailed
out personalized reports of our historical good work to his loyal donors.
He has been getting a response back from people saying things like, " I had
no idea  how much our community and the world benefits from our Mendocino
Rotary Club!" If you have not yet given John a most sincere thank you in
person, please do it the next time you see him.  It makes a difference!

GIVING THANKS
Everyone who donated to our recent golf tournament needs to receive, at the
very least, a hand written or personalized thank you. That goes for
Rotarians who also sponsored a hole and donated. I have a request: Who will
take on assisting John and I  with this task? His hand can only hold the
pen so much.
I wrote thank you's for all the donations I solicited, and then more
donations came from them- that is how it works!

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
Gary will be attending The Rotary Foundation training on Saturday. Would
you like to join him? It helps to have more than one silo of excellence.
Anything you learn at this free training is your knowledge to keep. You'll
enjoy the commaraderie with Gary.

YOUTH SERVICE
Youth service could use extra hands. Sometimes Jody cannot make the
Interact Club meetings, which are the first and Third Wednesday's  at 12:20
in Serena Ackers classroom at the Mendocino  HS. The Interact club will
join us next week, so here is your chance to meet them and feel really good
about our youth. And by the way, there is much more to youth service beyond
Interact. Learn more at the next youth service meeting.

CLUB SERVICE
We are lost without a club service chairperson. Honestly, should your club
president be scrambling to fill this need? Pete will not return from Dallas
until January. I cannot continue to do all I need to do without the support
of club service. Its a great opportunity for a Rotarian who has not taken
on a leadership role already this year. Free training!

YOUTH EXCHANGE
I am in the midst of getting cleared by the Department of State for the
Youth Exchange program. I did this last fall, laying the groundwork for
firing up our youth exchange program again this year. We have at least two
Mendocino High students who applied to go out on an exchange. I need two
additional  YE officers. And of course, we need host families in this
district. This is for a 2018-2019 exchange, but we need to have everything
in place prior. This program changes lives and infuses our schools, our
club and the community with international goodwill and diplomacy. Talk to
me if interested. Our 2017 MHS  Grad Gabriel Geiger went to Denmark in
2016. He is now attending University in Amsterdam, studying linguistics and
history. A fine example of a successs Rotary sponsored Exchange.

PROGRAMS
Brandt has taken the helm of programs from this point on, and is scheduling
into January. Our programs have all been high quality, let's keep momentum
building. We are making small changes to our website to feature upcoming
speakers. Click on this:

Http://www.mendocinorotary.org

Then click on Events at the top of the page. The calendar will load. Then
click on the Agenda tab at the upper right side of the calendar for an
easier to read view. Then click on the actual words on the date- say Pt
Cabrillo meeting.  All the details about our event/ day will be displayed.

FIRST EVENING MEETING
Thursday October 19th. Please, let's discuss any ideas about food and
beverage, format, start and finish times, the invite list, or any detail
you care to share. At this point it starts at 5:30 and ends at 6:45. This
is all new territory, so let's stake a claim, and make it great!

FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE  Plus Senator
Takes place Oct 19-21. Hosting Rotarians Ray and Debra Alarcon, John and
Betty Cottle, and Jerry and Cathy Karabensh have the schedule of each days
events. Consider joining them during their stay- it will be fun! Also
consider attending Ft Bragg Rotary meeting on October 18th when State
Senator Mike McGuire will be the guest speaker.

SOCIAL
We have a fun Theater night Nov 9- and we bought the house.(!!!)  Jerry
will bring tickets to every meeting- but let's sell out soon, please, so we
can just enjoy the evening together.

Thank you,
Donna

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