1. Member Updates: Contact Mike Ojeda to double check and make any changes necessary before the final print of this year’s Pocket Roster.- Member Update Information forms are in the back of the meeting room.  (per Mike Ojeda.)

2. Friday, May 31 through Sunday, June 3, 2012; District 5300, 2012 Conference, Lake Arrowhead Resort, Lake Arrowhead, CA ;

It was a great setting for a great Conference.  Gratitude is due to Andy Bundesmann, Celeste Kelley, and Nikki Adams for the work that they did to make it more enjoyable.

The student who came in first in Arcadia Rotary’s speech contest also came in first for the District. The student who came in first in Arcadia Rotary’s music contest was one of the finishers. Those who came in first were given $300 scholarships.

The new District Governor is Sylvia Whitlock, the first woman in the world to head a Rotary Club as President (as she did in Duarte in 1987). Next year’s District Conference will be in San Diego. (per Mimi Hennessy)

In addition, awards were given to Arcadia Rotary for (a) the most outstanding website, and (b) the best newsletter (thanks to Steve Pelletier), as well as (c) the Rotary Amigos Project in Tijuana (thanks to Dick Martinez assisted, inter alia, by Steve Pelletier). (per Brad Miller).

3. Friday, June 1, 2012 – saw an event for disadvantaged students at Cal. State Los Angeles (per Mary Salcedo).

4. Weekend of Sat., 6/23/12 and Sun., 6/24/12: Relay For Life, Cancer Banishing Effort. Santa Anita Race Track, Infield. Do what you can, many ways to help: cooking (including breakfast with bagels and later a BBQ with, inter alia, baby back ribs), set-up, take-down, fund raising. the tubes will be passed around for for your spare bills ( and big ones as well); last year $2,000 was raised; this year’s target is $5,000. (per Eric Barter)..

5. Friday, June 29, 2012, (6:30 p.m.), Installation Banquet in the Main Ballroom of the Westin Hotel, Pasadena, 191 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA It will be a coat and tie and cocktail dress event. (per Rich Hutton)

6. Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 (5:30 p.m.), Taste of Arcadia, Los Angeles County Arboretum; Cost: $40 (Pre-Order) $50 (Soon) $60 (at the gate); Contact: Bruce McCallum (per Brad Miller).