January 31, 2008
February 7 - Dark; meeting replaced by Crab Feed
February 8 - Crab Feed
February 14 - Michael McNeill, Keller Estate Winery
February 21 - Kevin Lunny
February 28 - Greg Sabourin, Petaluma Small Craft Coalition
March 6 - Bill Roop, Archaelogical Resource Service, "Local Relics"
March 13 - Gary Alt, Polar Bears
TED ADKINS started off the festivities with stirring renditions of Rambler and God Bless America.
MIKE BADDELEY strode to the podium to deliver the thought for the day. His reputation for being a little long-winded preceded him and he and was warned that he was NOT today’s program. He relayed a few cynical political quotes the best of which went something like this. “The problem with political jokes is that they usually get elected.”
Orest Balytsky introduces visiting Rotarians.
There were a number of visiting Rotarians in attendance from the other two Petaluma clubs.
Tawny Tesconi inducts our newest member.
PRESIDENT LOU sponsored another new Rotarian, LEE REPOSA, Business Development Officer of Sonoma Bank.
Carrie Pierson and Joanne Ferris still have birthdays!
RICK MOSSI delivered an update on the sales of raffle tickets. Perennial powerhouse HENRY HANSEL is leading the pack at present with a lot of time and a number of sandbaggers lurking in his rearview mirror.
PRESIDENT LOU did not have hard evidence of anyone committing any specific crimes and so asked for volunteers to find themselves. Apparently, no one has been vacationing or buying cars.
BARNEY FAUSS saw a chance to speak and jumped to his feet to tell a joke insulting his appearance that justifiably got him fined.
LARRY JONAS fined himself for an unforgettable offense. (Editor's note: If you remember what it was, please let me know!)
Wally Bragdon gets the wrong check.
Steve Olmsted will make it right.
TED ADKINS got up again to incur his own fine with some discourse on the little blue pill and other like supplements.
A visitor from the Valley club won the raffle but drew out a blue rock and left the cash to be won next week.
Clark Rosen introduces the program.
Our exchange student from Brazil, Pedro Moraes, gave an interesting program on his experiences here in the US and the cultural differences. Unfortunately, one of his favorite things here is our wealth of junk food. Other than that, his maturity and presence was impressive.
With that, the meeting was adjourned.
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OBSERVATIONS BY ERIK GUNHEIM
That was a good meeting today at Rotary. Ron Harris brought us Pedro, the Brazilian exchange student who told us all about his country and his experiences here. He also announced that Brazilians hate Bush. After the meeting I approached him and told him that he shouldn't have said that because Bush obviously cares about his people. This became very clear at a recent press conference when a reporter asked Bush to comment on the fact that two Brazilian soldiers had been killed by terrorists in southern Iraq. Bush looked horrified and it was clear that he was very shaken by this revelation. Immediately after the press conference ended he called his closest advisor and asked: "Condi! How many is two brazillion?" Unfortunately, the club's digital projector couldn't interface with Pedro's laptop, so he wasn't able to show us his pictures of Brazil. Fortunately, Pedro's oral presentation was riveting and entertaining, even without pictures. Unfortunately, Pedro's sponsor, Ron Harris, wasn't as impressed as I was with Pedro's program and fell asleep during the presentation. Fortunately, I had my camera with me and was sitting close enough to Ron to capture this Kodak moment:
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This week's Rota-Teller editor: Geoff Ellis.
February 8:
Editor: Ricardo Marzo
February 14:
Fine Can: David Solo
Microphone: Judi Allewelt
Visitors: Brian Breen
Greeter: ???
Editor: Ralph Sartori
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