Friday (8/28/09) recognitions featured David McMonigle and Geoff Tookey as dual fine-masters.  This partnership allowed them to visually scan the room in both directions  simultaneously for prospective prey.  Victims of their costly “recognitions” included  Paul Kalemkiarian, Jim Helms, Ernie Jensen, and . . . and . . . Dave McMonigle and Geoff Tookey, themselves (when [...]

Earlier this year (March 19, 2009), after experiencing strange symptoms on a long plane trip from Scotland, our (then) three-year old grand-daughter Miranda Speirs was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Suddenly her parents (Maura and Gerry Speirs) and ourselves as grandparents were compelled to learn about the multiple daily blood tests and insulin shots required [...]

Hello Rotarian friends! In an en effort to expedite the billing process and save a little bit of cash, we are trying a new method of sending you an updated statement – email. Quarterly statements have been emailed to all members with an email address in the most recent directory. For those propping up our [...]

Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, will be the joint meeting with the Tijuana club to consider joint projects, such as helping needy orphanages, etc. Keep the date and your minds open for projects and ways to help these truly needy and appreciative folks.

 Dick is setting up the golf tournament. Cost will be $125, including meals, coctail, and the chance to win a new car (hole in one). Should be fun and exciting!

Matt is working at completing his in depth interviews with each of us, to share with the rest of the club. Dark secrets will be held is the strictest public eye… or was that in confidence? Should be interesting learning more about our friends.

Imy auctioned her movie star nephew ( his G.I.Joe action figure, that is )  to the highest bidder, resulting in some spirited bidding.

Our hearts and prayers are with Valerie as she is undergoing chemo for Leukemia.  She has a blog, and we’ll be pulling for her to join us again soon.

History of illicit drug labs, evolutions of law enforcement response and the type of social impacts that have occurred due to these illegal activities. This 30 minute presentation will provide a historical perspective of substance abuse and the evolution of meth labs in the last 30 years. This program will present an introduction to illegal [...]

The world’s first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The name “Rotary” derived from the early practice of [...]

Mr. Staley’s presentation was in three parts: (A) the lecture portion; (B) the laboratory portion; (C) the question and answer portion. A. The Lecture Portion According to Mr. Staley there are some 15 competencies for persuasive presentation. Three of these competencies were selected for Friday’s program talk. They are (1.) body language; (2) vocal variety; [...]

Yvonne Flint gave what is known as a “senior” Craft Talk. (The term “senior” is not a reference to age, but to length of time in Rotary.) Yvonne’s parents were Seven Day Adventists and her father was a hospital administrator. It was in Watsonville, California, that Yvonne took her first breath and looked around. Nevertheless, [...]

Last Sunday twenty six members and partners enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Mikomi’s Japanese restaurant in Monrovia prior to attending the action packed movie GI Joe starring Imy’s nephew as a villain.  Forty six tickets were sold to our members which indicates wide support for Imy, most of whom were hoping she would illustrate her [...]

President-elect MATT WEAVER announced that starting 07/01/09 the annual fine pledged by each member will be divided into equal quarterly payments and charged each quarter on the member’s bill.

DICK MARTINEZ announced that the Rotary Club of Tijuana  is sponsoring a golf tournament on 09/18/09 at the Tijuana Country Club.  The cost is $125/person, which includes all drinks.  The money raised will be used by the Tijuana Rotary Club to support poor children in Tijuana.  Contact Dick Martinez for more information.

BOB NOVELL announced that 6 years ago the Arcadia Rotary Club sponsored a matching grant to help build the Great Lakes Community College in Kenya and to outfit the school with books and computers. This year the community college is being accredited. Congratulations for this tremendous project; and it shows what Rotary can do in [...]

A Dissenting Commentary: Science requires an open mind, and a spirit of exploration.  When Dogma enters, dissent is condemned and science disappears.  Just ask Bruno and Galileo. The first half of the Arcadia Rotary presentation by NASA JPL Oceanographer William Patzert on Friday, August 14, 2009 seemed to have more the flavor of ecclesiastical inquisition [...]

 . . .  Show Me The Rain   Bill Patzert, a climatologist from JPL, was our guest speaker.  The title of his talk was “Skeptics be damned!”, Show me the Rain?  Bill says we are currently at a level 2 water shortage, meaning our water supply/reserves have diminished dramatically in the last several years.  At [...]