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December 20,
2018
President
Michael Nistler showed up in all red duds except for the brown jacket
(brown is the new red) with excitement and Christmas spirit!
Lee
Reposa performed the Pledge of Allegiance, but his picture was M.I.A.
(just like his recent attendance!!!). I lifted his picture from the
Rotary website and realized that since his presidency ended he's been
out touring the country at speaking engagements and book signings...
President
Nistler continued the Christmas spirit and announced that the gift bags
were ready for delivery.
Grace
Nistler handled the club song and was busy taking photos. She forgot to
take a "Selfie" for the Rota-Teller (I found this picture on
her Facebook page).
Mike
Ferris was the lead on vocals for God Bless America as Onita Pellegrini
sang back-up!
President
Nistler cheered himself on as he handled the Thought for the Year (I
meant Thought for the Day, but it covered the entire year!!!)...
Elias
Husary announced that the gift bags were ready for delivery from 23
volunteer
drivers
to 60 families (149 kids) who were receiving gifts for Christmas.
Judi
Allewelt once again teamed-up with Elias to make the Christmas gift
program
a
smashing success and mentioned that it took 8 adults and 23 kids only
two hours
to
wrap all of the gifts.
Royce
Van Bebber announced the Dictionary program for 3rd grade students in
Petaluma,
"1,000
dictionaries will be distributed to students in Petaluma." He also
mentioned a semi
truck
had to pick up 3 pallets of dictionaries, which are being stored at his
shop.
Tawny
Tesconi is also working on the dictionary program and mentioned that
"16,000
dictionaries will be distributed in total to Sonoma County
schools."
Chris
Ranney mentioned that he and Shari were hosting a holiday party at
their
home
after the Rotary Christmas gifts were delivered.
Rick
Warner, a confused realtor, was wearing my name badge and was trying to
explain that Elias set him up and was to blame (Elias decided to cover
the fine for me and Rick and explained "It's only $100 bucks
and if I could've dumped another bucket of ice water on Nistler I
would've paid more!").
Chad
Fillinger announced that his wife opened another fitness studio in
Petaluma in the
Theatre
District (her other studio is in East Petaluma). He agreed to pay a $50
fine and was pointing with his thumb towards Elias and who agreed to
pay Chad's fine!
Chad
was the winner of the raffle and won a bottle of wine, which he said he
would sell to Elias for $50 along with $500 worth of Super Raffle
Tickets!
Mike
Ambrosio wishes he won the bottle of wine after thinking about all of
the money he spent on Christmas presents!
Michael
Caruana was trying to find some spare change in the "Rotary Slush
Fund"
to
help pay for Mike Ambrosio's Christmas present debt fund. Elias
mentioned that he needed the money more than Mike because of all the
fines he agreed to pay for!
Royce
Van Bebber and Mike Ferris just made a side bet that Nistler's Thought
for the Day would last for 5 minutes (Royce took the over and Mike
didn't take the under!)...
Rotary
members enjoying lunch in anticipation of the performance by The
Pacific Empire Chorus. I couldn't help but think of 'Where's Waldo'
when I realized that Nistler had photo-bombed another picture - he's in
more photos than the entire Kardashian family!
Rotary
members enjoying the Pacific Empire Chorus...
The
Pacific Empire Chorus dazzled us with yet another incredible
performance!
The
Pacific Empire Chorus in action!
This
week's Editor: Doug Hecker
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