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Program for Tuesday, Oct 18,2016, 2016
The scheduled program for Tuesday, Oct 18 is Jim Brogan.
Member Meeting Assignments
Date
Who Am I?
Rotary Minute
11/18/16
Bill Chaffin
Kendra Jeffcoat
11/25/16
TBA
Dan Krall
The member assigned to Who Am I is also responsible for providing the positive thought at the beginning of the meeting and introducing visiting Rotarians and guests.
The member assigned to Rotary Minute is the assigned Greeter for that day and also is tasked with selling opportunity drawing tickets.
Rancho BEERnardo 2016 was wildly successful. Our new venue was a great hit with everyone. Several vendors ran out of beer! There were very pleased. We also enjoyed good weather. Visitors came from as far away as Los Angeles thanks to the fact that the event information was published in Westways, the AAA magazine that goes to members of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Also, quite a few visitors said that they learned about our festival because of the banners on the poles around RB.
I had multiple people stop and tell me as they were leaving that they enjoyed the event and the location. Many of them had attended last year at the Sikes Adobe and they raved about Webb Park. One young woman from Los Angeles asked how she could be sure to know about our event next year!
We will have to wait for the final numbers to be tallied. However, we probably had at least 15o people buy tickets Saturday. When the funds from the walk up ticket sales are added to the fundraising total, we will be approaching $80,000 as our total!
Congratulations to everyone who worked hard in the planning for this event. The success of this event will make it easier to sell sponsorships for next year.
Please bring your ideas and comments to our meeting tomorrow. If you write your ideas, we can collect them so that we can incorporate them into next years planning.
We have finally arrived at the start of our Rancho BEERnardo Festival Week. Through the participation of the restaurants listed below, our signature fundraising event this Saturday, Oct 22 is extended to a week long runup to the festival. Please help to make this event a success by promoting these restaurants to your friends and try them yourself. It is essential to the future success of Rancho BEERnardo that this year's event be successful.
The lineup for Rancho BEERnardo Restaurant Week is the following:
Athens Market Cafe, 11640 Carmel Mountain Road, San Diego on Monday, October 17 Brothers Provisions, 16451 Bernardo Center Drive, San Diego on Tuesday, October 18 The Cork and Craft, 16990 Via Tazon, San Diego, on Wednesday, October 19 Carvers Steaks & Chops, 11940 Bernardo Plaza Drive, San Diego on Thursday, October 20 The Urge Gastropub, 16761 Bernardo Center Drive, San Diego on Friday, October 21
The 3rd Annual Jack-O-Smash 15k, 10k, 5k and the Family Fun Festival takes place Sunday, October 30, 2016 at the Sportsplex USA in Poway. Unlike Rancho BEERnardo, an adult only event, this is fun for the entire family. A driving force behind this event is Sue Herndon, a RB Sunrise Rotary member and a tireless community activist.
Jack-O-Smash Run offers 4 race distances including a 1 mile fun run, 5K, 10K and 15K. Whether you're a competitive athlete or want to run/walk for fun, you won't want to miss out on this Fall Fun Run.
The Family Fun Festival takes place immediately following the races and includes a celebrity softball game, kids fun zone, DJ, Guinness World Record Largest Plinko Board, and of course the pumpkin smashing trebuchet.
Even as parts of Haiti were still recovering from a catastrophic 2010 earthquake, Hurricane Matthew tore through the impoverished island country 4 October, leaving hundreds dead and many more homeless.
Shelter Kits (green boxes) arriving in Haiti
The Category 4 storm affected an estimated 330,000 people in Haiti, including 6,400 who were moved to temporary shelters. Extensive damage to main bridges and other transportation networks have left some areas cut off and vulnerable. Torrential rains have resulted in flooding and landslides. And contaminated water supplies threaten to lead to a surge in cholera cases and other waterborne illnesses.
A ShelterBox response team of volunteers from Canada, England, New Zealand, and the United States traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, last week to assess the damage and decide how best to help people. ShelterBox, an independent charity, is Rotary's project partner for disaster relief.
Working with Rotary members, government authorities, and other relief agencies, ShelterBox is focusing on the cholera outbreak in the southern region of the island and emergency shelter. A shipment of ShelterBox supplies arrived in Les Cayes, in the south of Haiti, on Wednesday, which likely will be used to help health professionals screen and treat cholera victims.
"We hope to provide ShelterKits along with other crucial supplies like solar lights, mosquito nets, water purification units, and water carriers. All of which will help in the fight against cholera," says Chris Warham, chief executive of ShelterBox.
With wind speeds reaching 155 miles per hour, Hurricane Matthew is considered the worst storm to make landfall in Haiti in more than 50 years.
STORM'S PATH HITS UNITED STATES AND CANADA
The destructive path of the hurricane cut through communities in Florida, Georgia, and South and North Carolina, USA, and as far northeast as Nova Scotia, Canada, causing flooding, severe damage, injury, and death. Rotary members are working together to provide emergency supplies and help families find shelter.
"Rivers are still rising and expected to crest on Sunday," says Rusine Mitchell Sinclair, governor of District 7710 in North Carolina. "We'll work with our neighboring districts to provide relief once the flooding has peaked and we can get in to assess what's needed."
HOW YOU CAN HELP
The Disaster Network Assistance Rotarian Action Group and Rotary District 7020 are collecting donations for relief in Haiti and the Bahamas. The initial funds will be used to replace the roofs of 1,000 homes and provide Sawyer water filtration systems. Please visit their website to learn about ways to give.
If you would like to help those affected in North Carolina, send donations to District 7710.
Rotary staff are in touch with district leaders in other areas affected by hurricanes Matthew and Nicole and are also monitoring storms in the Pacific. Contact relief@rotary.org for information about how to contribute to other districts.
Follow ShelterBox on Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates.
Dave Brooks, Assistant District Governor of District 5340, introduced District Governor, Marilyn Sanderson (“Marilyn”), to the RB Sunrise Rotary Club at the breakfast meeting on Tuesday, October 11, 2016. He gave a brief background of Marilyn, stating she was born in Virginia but grew up in Oklahoma. She received her BA in Education from Oklahoma State University and an MS in Education from Wichita State University. Marilyn became a high school English teacher before becoming a professional union negotiator and organizer for teachers in Oklahoma and California.
After retiring from the California Teachers Association in 2004, she became a Realtor in San Diego. She is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Bequest Society member. Her husband Jack Cottrell is also from Oklahoma, is a Rotarian and member of the Rotary Club of Old Mission (San Diego).
Marilyn started out by stating that Dave Brooks gets an A+ as an assistant District Governor, and her mentor in her journey to becoming District Governor was Carl Kruse, a former District Governor and member of the RB Sunrise Rotary Club. She began by telling her story of how she became really passionate about Rotary and its mission in helping others.
Marilyn was introduced to Rotary in Australia while visiting her step-son, Matthew, who was there as a Rotary Ambassador Scholar. Matthew encouraged her to attend a Rotary meeting and at that first meeting, the topic of the speech was whether women should be members of Rotary! For Marilyn, that was not the best first impression of Rotary.
When she returned, she was called by a woman from the La Mesa Rotary Club to attend a meeting. Marilyn wondered how she got her telephone number, and after continually being contacted by this woman, Marilyn finally decided to attend a meeting and soon after became a member. Marilyn had just started her real estate business so she brought business cards to a meeting. Her sponsor told Marilyn that bringing business cards to a Rotary meeting was not done. Marilyn asked herself what was the point of joining the club if you didn’t try to get business? Marilyn said that she saw of lot of passion in the eyes of fellow members that she did not have. Marilyn said she felt like a “fake Rotarian” and did not maintain her membership.
Marilyn and Jack moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and visited three Rotary clubs. She did not like any of the clubs and did not join.
After eventually moving back to San Diego, one of the first people to call Marilyn was her sponsor from the La Mesa Rotary Club. At the time, there were 16-17 members of the Club, and 14 had already been club president! Marilyn rejoined and became Club President in 2009-10 and had the opportunity to go to the international convention in Birmingham, England. She signed up to be a Sargent-at-Arms at the House of Friendship, checking the registration badges for everyone who came in.
Marilyn tells the story of there being a group of Rotarians who all had their badges and wanted to come into the House of Friendship. But in this group was one woman who did not have a badge. Marilyn questioned her about her lack of a badge and Jane Goodall told her that she was the main speaker at the convention! Marilyn, very embarrassed, let her in.
She got back from the convention and got charged up about Rotary, but didn’t have enough experience outside of the La Mesa Rotary Club, so she started working with the District and was invited to a District Conference in Kenya. Outside of Labasa, Kenya she visited an old and primitive hospital with one closed ward where mothers and their babies lived. The babies had encephalitis and lived there with their anguished mothers until they died.
Marilyn went to an elementary school outside of Nairobi that sat in a middle of a field with shacks and high rise apartment complexes around it. Inside of the school there were beat up tables and chairs, old yellow posters on the walls with hand written math and grammar lessons, with pits in the ground as toilets. So much was needed to be fixed. The school needed to be torn down and rebuilt by getting funding from the government. Marilyn couldn’t figure out how Rotarians could do any good and she was angry. Marilyn talked to the students and they kept asking if they could go home with her.
At her last stop in Kenya, there was a former classroom with four stainless steel vats for cooking breakfast and lunch for the kids, provided by the Rotary Club of Nairobi. At that time, she says, “I got it”. Only one thing was fixed but that was a start.
She spoke about having a similar experience volunteering with the Encinitas club to build a house in a day in Tijuana. Marilyn wondered how they were going to do it. When she got to the work site, there were already prefabbed walls on concrete slab, with the volunteers completing the construction and painting the house. The family of five waiting for the home watched. When the president of the club gave the mother the keys to the house, the mother cried, and so did she. Did building this one house solve the drug trafficking in Tijuana? No. However, it was a starting point for one family.
Marilyn also volunteered to distribute paperback dictionaries to three classes of third graders and the kids were happy to get them. Each of the children had to write a thank you letter to the Rotary Club and had to look up one word in the dictionary to be included in their letters. This is just one fix; however, it won’t solve the illiteracy in San Diego.
She concluded by stating that Rotary is the starting point and that’s where she found her passion. From that starting point, it makes a difference, and that’s our legacy.
The Miramar Semper Fidelis Rotary Club is holding its Sixth AnnualPoinsettia Fundraiser. In an effort to make this event a success, we are calling upon our "Rotary Friends" in San Diego to participate.
We are selling beautiful 14.5 to 16.5-inch tall multi-bloom Holiday Red or White Poinsettia plants in 6.5-inch pots with a gold foil sleeve. If you sell a minimum of 13 boxes (104 plants), your Rotary Club/Partnering non-profit receives $24 per box. If you sell 26 boxes (208 plants), your Rotary Club/Partnering non-profit receives $32 per box.
Orders to be submitted by November 15, 2016. Completed order forms with checks or cash need to be submitted to MSFRC.
Donation: $100 per box (8 plants, one color, per box)
(Checks payable to Miramar Semper Fidelis Rotary Foundation and collected at time of order. PayPal also available at happybucks.org.)
Each participant is responsible for picking up and delivering the plants to their customers. Pick up is on:
Saturday, December 3, 2016 from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.Churchill’s Cigar Lounge (Across from West Gate)
7094 Miramar Rd., San Diego, CA 92121
On the corner of Miramar Rd. and Distribution.
Learn more at www.happybucks.org
Thank you in advance for your kind consideration.
MIRAMAR SEMPER FIDELIS ROTARY CLUB’S mission is to support the Marines and Sailors stationed aboard MCAS Miramar and in the Southern California area.
Last week, Gordy sent the Sponsorship Form and event Fact Sheet to you. Click the links below to get the Sponsorship Tools.
One tool is a "cover letter" that you can customize by adding your contacts name and address (open and look at it!! You will see what I mean) for all your friends, family members, neighbors & business owners in the area that you are emailing or mailing the sponsorship requests to.
Other tools are two versions of the "Sponsorship Form" and event "Fact Sheet" for you - one is both documents combined into (1) 3-page document, and then in case you want to print some - the same documents are attached a two separate documents. (Just in case you lost that last email)
Our goal is to raise $75,000+ this year. That is 50% more than last year. We have more Rotarians this year than last year, and the event has growing momentum... With the event being moved to Webb Park we will be establishing a phenomenal annual event for our community. It should be easier than ever for you to bring in those Sponsors!!
Remember, the best way to get more sponsors is to ASK. In person and by phone, you never know which one of the people you interact with each day is just waiting for the opportunity to participate.
Thanks in advance - this years BEERnardo will be the best yet!!
Let us know if you can think of something that will help us all promote this event and find this years Sponsors.
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