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THE SPUR
Jan. 7, 2015
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The R O T A R Y C L U B of L I V E R M O R E
CLUB
ASSEMBLY
Birthdays
Meeting
Photos by
Arne
Kirkewoog
Marty Plone
Thought for the day
Bruce Shore
Your Spur Reporter
Cirrus wisps in an otherwise
clear sky, with golfing weather,
as President Milly rang the
Rotary bell to a full room of
Rotarians, starting the new
year. She requested we continue
the tradition begun by Phil
Dean last year, of greeting one
another, and so engrossed were
we that the start of the Pledge
of Allegiance was not noticed at
first.
The songsters, accompanied on
guitar by Michael Ferrucci, led
us in Auld Lang Syne: Alan Frank,
Ralph Sherman, Mike Riehl,
Tr i -Va l l e y R o t a r y M a k e - u p O p p o r t u n i t i e s
MONDAY
11:55 AM-12:30
Interact
Livermore High
Room 412
TUESDAY
TUESDAY
7:00 AM
12:15 PM
Livermore Valley Club
Dublin Club
Beeb’s
Dublin Ranch Golf Club
Livermore
5900 Signal Hill Drive
THURSDAY
12:15 PM
Pleasanton Club
Haps Original
Pleasanton
THURSDAY
7:30 PM
Rotaract Club
Handles Gastropub
Pleasanton
THURSDAY
6:00 PM
Tri-Valley Club
Castlewood CC
Pleasanton
FRIDAY
12:10 PM
Pleasanton North Club
Handles Gastropub
Pleasanton
The Meeting
Kathy Coyle, Kathy Streeter and
Beth Wilson assisted.
Helpers today: Spur reporter:
Bruce Shore; Photographer
Arne Kirkewoog; Videographer
Marty Plone read a thought for Nile Runge; Audio Don Wentz;
the day, a quotation from 1906 Head Table John Sarboraria, Ed
on Fraud and Equity.
Coats, Randy Schlientz, Lance
Cavalieri, Debbie Peck; Greeter
Bruce Shore.
Visiting
Rotarian:
Gambs, morning club.
Dennis
Guests: Fernando Romero (with
son JR); Jeff Marks (with Mike
Riehl); Sonia Sheffield (with John
Shirley), Linda Tinney, Chair of
LAS Guild (Kathy Streeter) and
Scott Kenison, new Executive
Director for LVPAC (with Kathy
Streeter)
Michael Ferrucci auctioned two
tickets to the Oakland Speakers
Series on Jan 13, Stephen Chu
speaking. Marc Roberts bought
them for $150 to the Music
Scholarship Fund.
John Linn and Mike Morgan did
their monthly presentation of
Birthdays and Anniversaries,
with many witty remarks about
the named individuals, rather
lost for me amidst the overall
congeniality of conversations.
Birthday cup cakes were
delivered by Bob Bishop to: Tim
Berry, Bob Barton, Bopb Bishop,
Lance Cavalieri, Carol Howell,
Rick Peterson, Marty Plone, JR
Romero, Beth Wilson and Jacky
Poulsen. Roses were delivered
by Barbara Hickman to Pat and
Kathy Coyle and Peter and Jacky
Poulsen, after which we all sang
”Let me call you sweetheart”
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The Meeting
Ken Perrine gave us an
update on the Crab Feed,
taking place on 6 February
for $50 each. 39 tables have
been sold, so a sellout will
happen.
NEW MEMBER PROPOSAL
Paul Banke is seeking helpers Sblend Sblendorio gave an
for the Crab Feed kitchen.
update on the Bella Rosa Ball,
fundraiser for the Rotarian
Milly thanked those who had Foundation, to take place on 14
helped with the Christmas February at Garre Winery.
gifts for our special families:
Debbie Peck, Kathy Streeter, Carol Howell announced the start
of the 12th year of our annual
Milly, and one more.
Dictionary project, which this
year will give 1270 dictionaries
to all the third graders in our
Livermore Schools. On Thursday
of
17 January, at 7pm in the home
This is the second publication
a new member proposal for Linda
Tinney Linda has been proposed
for membership by Kathy Streeter
If anyone has an objection to this
proposal please contact Paul
Thompson immediately.
NEW MEMBER PROPOSAL
This is the first publication of new
member proposals for Sonya
Sheffield & Scott Kenison. Sonya
has been proposed for membership
by John Shirley and Ken by Kathy
Streeter.
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A Music Benefit for the
Livermore Rotary Music
Scholarship Fund
BOTHWELL ARTS CENTER
Friday, January 16
7:30 pm
Admission : $15.00 adv / $18.00 door.
2466 8th Street, Livermore.
Advance tickets are available at
Murielanderson.com.
The Meeting
of Carol, we will fill out the
personalized name plates for all
these students.
The
annual
Children’s
Christmas Party at the Barn
was a great success.
Michael Ferrucci announced
a concert by guitarist Muriel
Anderson, at the Bothwell
Center on Friday Jan 16 at 7:30,
tickets $18 to benefit the Music
Scholarship Fund.
President Millie then began the
Club Assembly by describing
our Club Goals: To increase
membership by 5% (we have
already added 5 members, or
3%), to continue support of
Rotary International at our
past level, to break ground for
the Rotary Bandstand at the
Carnegie Park in Livermore (this
will take place this spring), and
to Have Fun (clearly well under
way).
Our club is a Pilot Club and
as such we have pioneered a
category of membership that has
now become RI policy. Under
consideration is a possible
Corporate Membership. We
plan to continue as a Pilot Club.
Our annual major fundraiser,
the Crab Feed, serves 450
dinners. Under consideration
is a second fundraiser,
possibly an October Fun
Run
through
downtown
Livermore.
We donated $13K to our
chosen
Needy
Families
at Christmas, gave $700
to the hotel staff, and are
contributing $2K to the
Dictionary Project.
Our fall Back To School BBQ
at Marylin Ave School served
some 1,000 hotdogs to 500+
families.
Our Minigrants have given
$16K in awards, leveraged
by contributions from the
Livermore Valley Education
Foundation.
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The Rotary Bandstand is
shaping up nicely. This is
jointly sponsored by the
two Rotary Clubs and the
Rotarian Foundation. We
have
contributed
$10K
already and are expecting
to increase this eventually.
Steve Neef and Dennis
Gambs are the designers, and
assistance with getting City
support has come from Marc
Robers and Stu Gary. The city
of Livermore will pay for the
electrical, and will hold title.
There will be a campaign
for funding that will give an
opportunity to buy a plaque.
The Meeting
Irv Stowers, our Treasurer, gave
a brief report, noting that we
have now converted completely
from the former punched-card
payments to an electronic
form of payment for lunches.
We have officially changed
our name from Livermore RC
to RC of Livermore. We will
soon have an official street
address, required by the State
of California. Our bookkeeper is
now Dawn Bazurto, no longer
Ken McCartney.
Irv told us that last year,
when our various bank
accounts were consolidated,
it was realized that we had
more cash on hand that was
needed for prudent business
practices and the board began
to downsize our reserve from
$140K to an eventual $25K.
Our Crab Feed brings income
of $12K, the Rodeo Parade
another $2K. We spent $12K
on Minigrants, $5K to RI, and
we will pay an auditor $6K
(for the first audit in memory
of anybody)
Stu Gary announced that we
are within $900 of meeting
our goal of $45K for donations
to RI. We have donated $8K
to Polio Plus. Bob Cowan
was awarded his eighth Paul
Harris award.
Milly concluded by advising
us that next week we will have
a Club Job Fair, in which we
can decide on the committees
we want to be part of.
Marty Plone won the raffle.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
1-14 Meeting Mini Grant Award Presentations
1-21 Meeting - Speaker Dale Miller "High Performance Driver Ed"
1-28 - Meeting - First Round of Speech Contest
2-4 Meeting - Speaker Chuck Hartwig, Rotarian Foundation of Liv
2-11 Meeting InterAct Auction
2-18 Meeting Area Speech Contest
2-25 Meeting Speaker, Joe Montana (or not) "Levi's (49ers) stadium"
Bella Rosa Ball Sat., February 14
Rotarian Foundation of Livermore
DIST. 5170 GOVERNOR
Ed Jellen
ASSISTANT GOVERNOR
Pamela Philbert
PRESIDENT - Milly Seibel
PRESIDENT ELECT - JR Romero
SECRETARY - Bob Cowan
TREASURER - Irv Stowers
CLUB SERVICE DIRECTOR
Linda Kime (14-16)
MEMBERSHIP - Paul Thompson
PARLIAMENTARIAN
Sblend Sblendorio
SERGEANT at ARMS
John Sarboraria
PUBLIC RELATIONS - Lee Younker
COMMUNITY SERVICE DIRECTOR
Christian Chukwuma (13-15)
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE DIRECTOR
Laura Mercier (14-16)
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
Stu Gary
MAJOR EVENTS DIRECTOR
Ryan Renard (13-15)
VOCATIONAL SERVICE DIRECTOR
Stacy Linder (14-16)
NEW GENERATIONS DIRECTOR
Evonne Hopkins (13-15)
PAST PRESIDENT - Phil Dean
Rotary Club of Livermore
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Friday, February 6, 2015 - 6:00 PM
Dancing to Live Music by The Gabe Duffin Band
Aahmes Shrine Event Center
170 Lindburgh Avenue, Livermore
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