July 2016

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COMING EVENTS

Stephen Clay Olmsted, Jr.

1934 – 2016

Member since 1969, Secretary 1998-2011

PRESIDENT LEE called the meeting to order and asked Past President DON RAMATICI to lead the opening song. Don led the club singing God Bless America.

The Thought for the Day was a remembrance by Lou Steinberg of long time member STEVE OLMSTED who passed away on July 23. STEVE served as the club secretary for many years. PRESIDENT LEE asked everyone to stand for a moment of silence in memory of STEVE.

MICHAEL CARUANA introduced our visiting Rotarians: Dan Powers, grandson of DON RAMATICI, from the Rotary Club of Petaluma Sunrise, Past President Lou Steinberg from the Rotary Club of Greeley Colorado and Tony Valone from the Rotary Club of Williamsburg.

Also visiting the club were Jared Gorton and Spencer Temple of New York Life, Lindsey Strain from Bodega Bay Oyster Company and Mary Lind from Petaluma City Schools.

PRESIDENT LEE introduced his children, Audrey and Grant Reposa. ED FULLERTON introduced his wife Carol. WHIT HALL introduced his grandchildren Posey and Max Hall. JAY PALM introduced his sons Jim and Jay Palm. DAN FISH introduced Juliet LaMariana and his Mentor Me mentee Brian.

PRESIDENT LEE announced there would be a sign-up sheet in the next few weeks about the Miracle Field. More news to come.

Our Golf Tournament is Monday, September 12. Here’s the link to the registration page: http://www.petalumarotary.com/golf2016.pdf.

CHARLIE STUART announced that signups for foursomes are open. If you are a single golfer, no problem, as the committee can assign individual and twosomes to play in a foursome. Entry forms are on the website and there will be forms on the table for the next few weeks.

Members who are not playing are needed to assist with the tournament check in, putting contest, ticket selling, etc.

CHAD FILLINGER announced that the real money making portion of the tournament is the sponsorships. All proceeds from this golf tournament support our local community projects. There are several levels of sponsorship and CHAD encouraged all members to consider participating.

KATHY O’CONNOR announced the Members Holiday Party will be December 9 at Hermann Sons Hall. Now that we all have this date, let’s schedule our other holiday parties around it! KATHY is looking for a new D.J. so please let her know if you have any leads.

Rotarians celebrating July birthdays included: RENEE HAYES, MIKE BADDELEY, JANE SALDAÑA-TALLEY, ROYCE VAN BEBBER, OREST BALYTSKY, JIM BECKER, BARNIE FAUSS and STEVE GAVRILOFF.

ROYCE was fined $5 for not sitting at the birthday table which was convenient since he was serving as the fine can guy today.

July wedding anniversaries were announced for the following members: JAY and Carleen PALM, MICHAEL and Diane CARUANA, RICHARDO and Nicole MARZO, BRIAN and Stephanie BREEN, DAN and Debbie FISH, RICK and Leslie Susick, LINDA and Dan BLACK, CHRIS and SHARI RANNEY and ROYCE and Genevieve VAN BEBBER.

CLARK ROSEN continues to appear relaxed in his retirement. It sounds like he had a marvelous trip to Taos NM and paid a fine of $50 for the adventure.

CHAD FILLINGER is a very busy guy these days opening a new office in Leghorn Plaza Shopping Center (near Starbucks). PRESIDENT LEE accepted CHAD’s settlement offer of $50 now with the promise that more will be expected when the office opens!

Jim Palm was the raffle winner and drew a blue rock which meant he was awarded $25!

Our program speaker today was Suzi Grady from Petaluma Bounty. She gave a detailed program about Petaluma Bounty and all their community projects. Their upcoming fundraiser, Brews and Bites for Bounty is Tuesday, Aug. 16 at Lagunitas.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Notice is hereby by given that the Annual Meeting of the Membership of the Rotary Club of Petaluma Foundation will be held during the regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Petaluma as noted above on Thursday, August 4, 2016. According to the Foundation Bylaws, the Annual Meeting is to be held on the 2nd Thursday, of the 2nd month following the close of the Foundation’s Fiscal Year, June 30 - July 1.

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Golf Tournament, September 12

This week's Editor: Joanne Ferris

COMING EVENTS

PRESIDENT LEE opened his second meeting with a tap of the bat (still no gavel!) and led the Pledge of Allegiance. Continuing his tradition (of one week) of having the previous week’s songleader select the current songleader, he asked JAY PALM for his selection.

JAY selected a visiting Rotarian from the Greely (Colorado) Centennial Club for the honor. Fortunately the selectee was a former songleader (and Past President) of our Club, Lou Steinberg. Lou did his usual great job with I’m a Rambler and God Bless America.

RICK GORMAN was up next with his Thought for the Day, three quotes about service.

After the traditional hugs and handshakes (made a bit stickier by those flimsy paper napkins), JUDI ALLEWELT introduced our one visiting Rotarian, the aforementioned Lou Steinberg.

DAN FISH introduced his guest, Juliette from the Boys and Girls Club and RICK GORMAN introduced his son, Ben.

Treasurer TAWNY TESCONI reminded members that dues are past due and requested prompt payment.

Secretary GAIL CARDAROPOLI reminded members that today (by 5pm) was the last chance to sign up for the July 28 SCARC dinner. If you are reading this, it’s already too late.

JIM BECKER noted the special relationship our Club has with the sponsoring Sebastopol Sunrise Club and urged good representation from our Club.

PRESIDENT LEE discussed the Miracle League project. After a meeting with President Elect CHRIS RANNEY he decided to move forward with the project. They are hoping to break ground this year with CHRIS heading the implementation committee. Contact CHRIS to join up!

CHRIS reported that the next meeting would take place at the proposed Luchessi Park location.

After its being missing for months, JAY PALM’s chicken badge was found. PRESIDENT LEE invited JAY to the podium to collect the badge and generously announced there would be no fine imposed.

PRESIDENT LEE imposed a fine of sorts on visiting Lou Steinberg, but paid the $20 tab himself (to Rotary International), thanking Lou for introducing him to Rotary.

Lou wasn’t done with his Petaluma duties. He was called on to draw the winning raffle ticket, a ticket held by none other than visiting Ben Gorman. Though denied the customary bottle of wine, Ben was quite happy with the $25 substitute.

PRESIDENT LEE noted that young attendees contributed to our meetings and encouraged more members to bring their kids to Rotary. He talked about sweetening the deal with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

President Elect Chris Ranney was up next to begin the day’s program, a special presentation about the Rotary District 5130 Conference held this past May.

He discussed the awards won by various clubs, including two by our very own Club. Special thanks were given to MAUREEN RUDDER and JANE SALDAÑA-TALLEY for their work in preparing the documentation that led to the recognition.

GAIL CARDAROPOLI inspired us with a story of wishing for a water buffalo, but then told us we’d have to read the book to find out what happened.

The conference had a television show theme, so several clubs contributed their recognition of past and current shows and commercials. Our Club presented Cluck Dynasty featuring BILL GROVERMAN and TONY WESTERN.

JOANNE FERRIS explained the difficulties experienced in production, including uncooperative chickens and the absence of JAY PALM because of hockey competition.

PDG ED FULLERTON discussed the importance of Rotary training and the availability of training opportunities.

SHARI RANNEY discussed the Rotary Youth Exchange program noting that this coming year we will be sending a Petaluma student to Taiwan and hosting a girl from Belgium. Contact Club chair MIKE STAUBER for more information on this great program.

RENÉE HAYES discussed upcoming field trips which will supplant some regular lunches at the PG&CC. These field trips are in response to Club interest expressed in a brainstorming session some months ago. The first trip will be to the Petaluma Arts Center on August 11.

Then, with another tap of his bat, PRESIDENT LEE rang the bell and adjourned the meeting.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Notice is hereby by given that the Annual Meeting of the Membership of the Rotary Club of Petaluma Foundation will be held during the regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Petaluma as noted above on Thursday, August 4, 2016. According to the Foundation Bylaws, the Annual Meeting is to be held on the 2nd Thursday, of the 2nd month following the close of the Foundation’s Fiscal Year, June 30 - July 1.

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Golf Tournament, September 12

This week's Editor: Al Cattalini

COMING EVENTS

Meeting started late and at 12:30, new president, LEE REPOSA was seen running out the door.

A few minutes later, he came back with a baseball bat that he used during the meeting as his gavel.

He announced a new format for the weekly song — the person who lead us the week prior, will choose the song leader for the next meeting.

JAY PALM led us this week with our club song and then God Bless America.

DAVE BARBIERI had a serious Thought of the Day in light of recent world-wide events.

PAUL LOUNIBOS read from the Rotarian Magazine and challenged us all to know which Petaluma Rotarian was quoted in the most recent issue or we will be fined.

Rotarians with guests included JAY PALM with his son, Jay; TAWNY TESCONI with Erin Post; ED FULLERTON with his wife, Carol.

Announcements included:

GAIL CARDAROPOLI announcing the SCARC Dinner on July 28 at Balletto Vineyards.

GREG O’BRIEN announcing the club’s annual golf tourney in September — info is now on the club website.

New President, LEE REPOSA kicked off his year with a slurry of fines:

JAY PALM $20 for not having his badge which has apparently been missing for 3 months.

TOM BRANDAL, JOANNE FERRIS, RICK MOSSI and MICHAEL CARUANA $5 each for getting LEE nominated in the first place.

Past President GARY BRODIE $25 for those recent 3am phone calls to LEE where only laughter could be heard on the other end.

JIM BECKER and STEVE POWELL $12 each for having fancy hats plus a to-go sandwich.

PRESIDENT LEE fined himself $20 for not having an official gavel, his pin or his badge.

Regular Super Raffle: BRETT SHINN graciously accepted a bottle of La Crema.

Program: PRESIDENT LEE’s topics included:

• Joining a committee was encouraged.


• Technology will be brought up to par with ClubRunner which is a Rotary-specific program for membership, calendar, dues and accounting.


• Our bank will switch from First Community to Exchange Bank.
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• During his year, PRESIDENT LEE wants to add 8 new members, starting off with the induction of ERIN POST by RICK MOSSI and her sponsor, TAWNY TESCONI.


• PRESIDENT LEE asked all members to donate $50 to Rotary International in its efforts to eradicate polio.


• We watched a video on Miracle League which is a project PRESIDENT LEE wishes for us to consider — it’s a baseball field where special needs kids and their buddies (assigned helpers) get to play baseball.

PRESIDENT LEE used his baseball bat gavel to close the meeting, Speak softball and carry a girls’ bat.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Notice is hereby by given that the Annual Meeting of the Membership of the Rotary Club of Petaluma Foundation will be held during the regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Petaluma as noted above on Thursday, August 4, 2016. According to the Foundation Bylaws, the Annual Meeting is to be held on the 2nd Thursday, of the 2nd month following the close of the Foundation’s Fiscal Year, June 30 - July 1.

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Golf Tournament, September 12

This week's Editor: Linda Black