FogHorn October 22 Meeting - Celebrating PF
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The FOGHORN
ROTARY CLUB OF HALF MOON BAY
Article by Stacy Trevenon
Photos by Dianne Bobko
Program: Celebrating Our PF Event
President Dave introduced Rotarian Elizabeth Schuck who, as President-Elect, was in charge of Pumpkin Festival clam chowder bowl sales this year, and who came up front to give her report.
Right from the beginning, she made it clear: this was a day to celebrate a successful Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay event. She started with giving us some numbers: over the three days of the festival (from Friday night through Sunday), 44 of the club's 58 members, or about 76%, worked at least one shift, nearly half worked two shifts and just under a third worked three shifts.
When the money was counted, we raised around $18,000 gross, which will probably mean a net of $12,000 to $13,000 to put toward our club's work. She told the story of how the chowder was so appreciated that one customer, who missed out on chowder because we'd sold out Saturday, made a point of coming to the booth by opening on Sunday to get some. On Sunday, by 4:45 p.m. (before the festival closed) we were sold out again. First we sold out of bread bowls, so we sold to-go paper bowls until we ran out of chowder and then sold sodas and water until the event closed.
Liz invited more stories about the weekend. Some of those stories were about Dave's lighting up, how Eric Shapira's mom, Betty, was one of the busiest helpers all weekend, how Dianne Bobko's husband Bo donned a chef's hat and grabbed a chowder sign and stood on a hay bale throughout Saturday's parade to advertise the Rotary booth, how Irwin Cohen unveiled his talents as a standup comedian and kept everyone on his shift laughing, how Dan Miller drew festival-goers' attention with his New England “Chow-DAH!” and much more.
There were more post-festival Sunday stories, including how it took Dan and Paul an hour to get through the traffic to take the equipment back to storage (a drive that normally takes five minutes.) Denali St. Armand remarked that Rose Serdy must have done an equivalent of bench-pressing with all the full chowder pots she carried. Other stories concerned extra bags of potatoes and Tabasco sauce. And Mary Corcoran apologized for sending her husband to help out in her place.
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Dan remarked that there were extra sodas for sale. Rosi Fontana remarked how the weather helped contribute to our success. Yet someone else (Beau) remarked how she and her husband went to a restaurant for dinner Sunday and ordered – clam chowder!! We heard that the clam chowder and the garlic fries were the two top sellers at the festival food court. And finally, Steve Anderson said that since he wasn't able to be at the festival due to being with relatives in Pennsylvania, where they saw the season's first snowfall, he was going to make a donation of 10 % of what we raised, net.
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Then it was award time, and Liz pulled out a pile of certificates of appreciation and little gold trophies, which she handed out, reading down her list of recipients and calling them up to the front of the room.
Her list was as follows:
Certificate plus Winner Ribbon
Teresa Adam - Friday night with Charles Grammer
Dan Bodmann - Friday night
Ginger Minoletti - Friday night plus a propane tank
Dave Cresson - One shift
John Evans - Set up
Erika Pardo - Friday night and Saturday early shift
Shana Reilly Pond - One shift as a seller
Pat Roma = One shift as soup stirrer
Denali St. Amand - One shift as soup stirrer
Bonnie Dunham - Friday night plus made sure we had the drill bits
Ralph Ely - Friday night and one other shift making soup!
David Maahs - Friday night plus brought wife and daughter (the youngest helper)
Paul McReynolds - Friday plus one shift
Beau Donegan and Neil Barth, community volunteers worked Friday night and one full shift each
Mary Corcoran - Friday night plus brought Bill Klear to work that night, plus sent Bill to work another shift
Wes Burgess - Friday night and one other shift
Dick Charnock - Friday night and one soup making shift
Andrew Boyd Goodrich - Two shifts
EJ Dieterle - Two shifts
Doug Adams - One shift plus 5 propane tanks
Brian Lee - Two shifts
Dwight Wilson - Two shifts
Friday night and one other shift
Rosi Fontana - Friday night plus two early morning shifts, one Sat and one Sun
Bill Johnston - Friday night, plus brought Ayn Friday and then one soup making shift Sunday and clean up
Rose Serdy - Friday, plus lead one shift plus another shift
Catherine Yaque - One shift, plus brought three nieces and two sons to work shifts
Ed Daniels - Friday night, plus one shift and then clean up shift
Dave Dickson - Set up, plus two shifts plus brought daughter, Druisa, and her boyfriend, Pete,r to work a shift each plus propane tank
Irwin Cohen - Friday night and two shifts
Kevin O’Brien - Friday the “drill master “to ensure we were ready to go, plus one other shift
Paul Wrubel - Set up, Friday night and Sunday afternoon + clean up
Eric Shapira - Friday night plus brought Susan Friday, then Saturday morning early shift with Susan and Betty to make soup. Betty was our oldest volunteer
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Certificate, Winner Ribbon, and Trophy
Teri Pickle - (Liz's Life Partner) Worked Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday and clean up
Scott Schuck (Liz's brother)- Worked Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday morning
Dave Andrews -Set up Friday, Friday night, Saturday morning, Sunday morning, donuts each day, plus teacher to E
Dan Miller - Friday night, Lead two shifts, plus another shift, plus clean up
Christine Quinn - Three shifts
Stacy Trevenon - Friday plus brought Doug Friday night, plus one shift each, plus clean up
Steve Wilson - Money manager all day Saturday and Sunday, plus brought wife Kathy who helped cleaning bread bowls
Warren Barmore - Friday night, brought wife, two daughters and one friend, plus lead in two shifts, one Saturday and one Sunday; plus had two interact students come to work one shift each: Gabe and Siena
Linda Crose Anderson - Friday night plus brought son Greg to help that night; Greg worked two other shifts, Linda worked three other shifts plus propane tank
Nate Rey - Set up, clean up, one other shift, plus beer, plus propane tank
Dianne Bobko - Friday set up, Friday night, brought Bo Friday night, early shift Saturday morning, early shift Sunday morning, brought Bo to make soup both days
Note: Liz Schuck, 40 hours Friday through Sunday, logged 40 miles on fit bit! Happy as a clam we made more than we ever have!
CONGRATULATIONS ALL!!!
To continue autumnal festivities, our next club meeting will be at the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, where we will celebrate Oktoberfest!
October 22 Meeting Recap
Article by Rose Serdy
Photos by Dianne Bobko
Pledge - Dave Dickson; Greeters - Ralph Ely and Rosi Fontana
Rosi gave the inspiration moment:
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."- St. Francis of Assisi And..."If you're going through hell, keep going."- Winston Churchill
Hopeful future Rotarian - Beau Donegan, guest of Steve Anderson,
was back and was introduced by Liz Schuck.
Happy/Crappy News
Brian Lee had table saw accident and damaged his finger and has been having hand therapy. Due to accident he had to put his October 2nd birthday on hold but would be celebrating tonight with family.
Liz provided ice cream sandwiches for all.
Announcements
President Dave gave a "yell out" to Christine Quinn for making it to the last 2 meetings.
Ginger and Mary will be hosting a "women in travel" gathering at Batera winery on Main Street Tuesday October 27th at 7PM - theme - women sharing their travel experiences. Wine and snacks will be served. Please RSVP if attending to Mary or Ginger.
President Dave announced Rotary international dinner will be a the Double Tree in Santa Clara on 1/3. Ginger said we should reserve a table for 8/10 and would help with getting sign ups.
October 23 - World Polio Day
Nov 2-8 Interact week
Teresa Adam will have a brief meeting after our lunch for those who participate in the "Big Coyote/ Little Coyote" program. Discuss how the program is going.
No Carter Park clean up this Saturday due to Memorial service for Greg Cowen. No scheduled clean up until after the Shakespeare program closes at the park.
Dave's FUN Quiz of the Week:
President Dave's quiz was all about state slogans:
The Golden State - California
The Silver State - Nevada
The Sunset State - Arizona
The Magnolia State - Mississippi
The Bee Hive State - Utah
The Old Dominion - Virginia
The Sunflower State - Kansas
The Cowboy State - Wyoming