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| Volume 64, Issue 28 | Rota-Scribe: Minard Duncan | |||||||||||
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Pres Bob Savage asked Bill Hite to lead us in the Flag Salute. Ray Ashcroft, Leroy Fulton, Bill Peloquin, Ron Soderquist and Jim Young led us in song with “God Bless America” and “Smile.” Ray Ashcroft presented the Thought for the Day and emphasized leadership. He recognized Bill Kincaid as a great example of good leadership when Bill was the Rotary president. His vision was to have a fundraiser to help needy people. Unfortunately, the concert chairperson at that time had to back out, so Bill took over and made sure the concert took place. Now we are about to have our 16th Annual Concert. Bill, thanks for your leadership! Guests and Visitors- Jim McKamy presided. Guests: Geoff Spalding - Chief Pat McKinley, Jessica Reeve and Doug Fulton - Leroy Fulton, Pete Saputo and Pat Soderquist - Ron Soderquist Visitor: Bill Gilespie - Fullerton South Announcements: - Boys and Girls Club Golf Tournament on Saturday, March 5 at the Hacienda Country Club - $250 - Mike Nomura - Chocolate Fantasy on February 25 at Brea Embassy Suites - Jim Alexander and Gloria Winkelmann are being honored - Diane Masseth-Jones - Rotary Fellowship at CSUF Women’s Basketball Team game on February 7. Food for Rotarians and their guests at halftime - coach extrodinaire Bob Savage to be there - Rick Crane - “Drive Safely” Rotarian signs are posted around town - Bob Savage - Community Investment Award applications are due on February 25. - Buck Catlin - Hosts are needed for visiting Rotary Governors for an evening on February 23rd, - Wally Bartlelt - Jim Williams took the opportunity to thank the ELks Club for hosting our meetings and thanked Bill McGarvey for being instrumental in foundking the Fullerton Elks Club. - Our next Rotary meeting, February 2, is at Hope University. |
Dick Daybell – Finemaster: - Allyn Lean for his wife Nancy’s birthday on February 27 - $50 - Mike Oates 63rd birthday on February 30 - Due to Mike’s popularity he was fined $163. What happened to the senior discount!!! Raffle winner was Mike Nomura but he could not remember that the last triple play completed in the World Series was in 2004 so he got the $10 consolation prize from Julie Kemp. Program: Jim Blake introduced Ron Gastelum, Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Water District, which is the largest utility in the world. The MWD is also the most developed water district infrastructure in the country. It covers six counties and has 26 member agencies. MWD is a wholesaler of water imported from the Coloradeo River and Northern California through the State Water Project. Their job is to supplement the local water resources of its member agencies when the local resources are insufficient to meet the local demand. MWD provides about half of the watrer consumed by urban Southern California residents each year. The other half is supplied from local resources. Most of the debate about water in California is about money and long held, but not productive, regional prejudices. Gastelum maintains that regional cooperatioin, both financially and politically, will yield the best results for everyone in California. He says that California is not facing an energy type crisis in supply water or confronting the kind of shortages that others face in the Colorado River Basin because we have planned and have made investments necessary to avert a crisis. We will need to continue to update and refine our plans, and commit the financial resources to implement them, and continue to achieve even greater conservation savings. President Bob closed the meeting with “Whenever you are feeling powerful, try ordering your neighbor’s dog around.” Remember next week’s meeting is at Hope University. |