Meeting Recap Sept 18

 

Rose Serdy shared her pride in her son Nate's success on tour with his band. Rose's husband Mike got to join him in Germany and they were both headed home shortly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ginger Minoletti was thankful that although we hope nothing wrong happens on a trip, it's always a good idea to get travel insurance. The girls she sent on a bachelorette party to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico were affected by the recent hurricane and were evacuated to safety. It was a harrowing ordeal but the girls are all back safe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin O'Brien said he recently went on a historic walking tour with Dave Cresson and said it was a fantastic way to learn about the coast. Kevin encouraged everyone to become a member of the Half Moon Bay History Association and go on the next tour they will host. Information and walking guides can be purchased through their website at http://www.halfmoonbayhistory.org. Next walking tour on the Ocean Shore Railroad is scheduled for Oct. 14 at 5pm.

 

 

 

 

 

Mitone Griffiths mentioned that the Rebuilding Hilantagaan Elementary School fundraiser is set for Friday, Sept. 26 6-10pm and encouraged everyone to participate. The fundraising goal is $75,000 and they're already at $47,000 to date. Salesforce is featuring the charity at their upcoming DreamForce conference in San Francisco as one of 3 charities to support. You can check progress for the rebuilding project by CLICKING HERE. Mitone welcomes any and all contributions! 

 

Dianne Bobko was on tour of China with her husband Bo and besides his work visits to schools and other "villages" of 35million people, they also took a Viking tour of China. Dianne shared some of the gifts that were presented to Bo including some beautiful hand drawn bags and shadowbox photographs of the school children.

  

 

Announcements

Dan Miller announced that this weekend is Beach Clean Up weekend on Saturday Sept. 20 9-10am at Venice Beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotary Club of Arezzo, Italy would like to do an exchange with us. EP and Rose outlined the idea that a group of HMB Rotarians would host a group of Arezzo Rotarians and vice versa. The visit can be arranged during a community service project or activity. The committee wanted a show of hands to know how many would be interested in hosting and how many would be interested in travelling to Arezzo. Many were interested in hosting, but definitely more wanted to go and visit. 

 

Kevin O'Brien our Foundation Chair reminded everyone that we have a $200 per person goal for Rotary International Foundation. Those that have already contributed to the RI Foundation by purchasing their raffle tickets are entered into a raffle drawing. The raffle drawing will be held each week. So get your donations in and your raffle tickets purchased! 

 

Foundation raffle prizes today included a bottle of wine from Cunha's Country Store, a Yankee Candle gardenia scented candle and a bar of chocolate. 

 

Charise McHugh announced that Network@Nite was being held at Princeton and Seville Tapas, Old Princeton Landing were hosting. 4-6:30pm tonight.

 

RotaCare Chuck Wagon crew could use some help on the 2nd week of each month. We need to replace a long serving member. Here's what's needed on the 2nd week of each month:

Please contact Rose Serdy if you are interested.

 

Each Rotarian is asked to participate in at least 2 activities per year. Community Service Chair, Liz Schuck led us in an activity to see what activities we choose to participate. We placed our stickers (with our names on it) on the activities we were either already engaged in or are planning on joining. 

 

One thing is clear. This club does A LOT! 

    

 

Lunch was fabulous today as usual. Here's a look at dessert.