The Dictionary Handout is today. The Propeller March 26th, 2015 Walter Newell President Briseno opened up the meeting and had Laguan Lee lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Tony Intintoli lead us with a beautiful rendition of "April Showers" Vijay Patel was inducted as a new member into the Vallejo Rotary Club. Vijay is the owner of the Regency Hotel and Great Western Inn. Welcome!! Guests None Visiting Rotarians: Mark Porter from Sunset Club Recognitions Birthdays/Anniversaries Shane McAffee had a wedding anniversary and went to dinner with friends and gave $25.00 to the club. Announcements Gary Salvadori is producing nice Rotary banners for events, they are only $70. We could use them for
Fishing in the City, Roctoberfest, Loma Vista, etc.. Fishing in the City April 11 at 7:00 am. This event is sold out and we need Rotarians to sign up to help with this event. GVRD, Fish and Game and Rotary combine their efforts for this wonderful event. April 18 Saturday a Boche Ball will be held and a party at Robert's house afterwards. 1:00 pm. thru 4:00pm. April 24 Luau for Sunset Club 6:00 at Zio Fredos $45 person and $80 per couple. Raffle prizes are welcomed donations for the event. Helen Pierson announced that April 25 is the District Assembly at 9:00am and done by 2:00 pm at the Fairgrounds. The club absorbed the costs for those that attend. There is free refreshments. Go on the District Website to sign up. (Laguan is taking his wife to this event for a date night) Helen also announced she is working on the Every 15 Minutes Event and their is a meeting on April 23, 3:30pm at Jesse Bethel HS. The event is scheduled for April 2016 and the goal is to have one event for both Vallejo HS and Jesse Bethel HS in one location. This is a collaboration with Hospitals, High Schools, Police and Service Clubs. This event will help prevent drunk driving deaths that occur among our youths. Our District gave $13,000 and in addition to grant money, will help subsidize this great event. This type of event will help get our name out to the community and help build our club #'s so that we can reach our goal of 100 members for Rotary's 100 anniversary. Loma Vista Spring event April 16 and Rotarian's are joining in to help facilitate. This event is a Science educational format for kids. We would like to get 10 to 13 Rotarian's to help out. May 20, 2015 the Rotary Gold Tournament. Fliers and sign up sheets are available. Medic Ambulance, Recology, Twin Chapel's, Newell's and Avery Greene ($2,500) are committed to a major sponsorship at some level. Pete donated $20 and gave Avery a hug for his graciousness! See Pete to sign up, we need players. Cocktail party at Pete's house coming up soon. Date TBA. (May or June) Tentative B' Que scheduled on June 6 at Children Wonderland Pavilion. Camp Venture is coming up and Constance announced that June 17 at Maritime Academy and there will be a B' Que. We need someone to get the food for the event. Camp Royal is coming up from on the 14th thru the 20th. (Check with Robert or Constance to see what month) Vallejo Chamber of Commerce and Sunset Rotary is hosting the mixer tonight at 5:30pm at the Florence Douglas Senior Center. Kevin Rahill announced that we will be delivering dictionaries today and appreciates all the help from everyone. Congrats to Kevin for all the work he does to make this a successful event. Dave Perry announced that he was thoroughly pleased with his dictionary experience with the 3rd graders today. Vijay Patel announced that the dictionary delivery was very fun and gave $25 for such a nice time with the kids. ROTARY DICTIONARY HANDOUT This is next week on Thursday. It is spread out through the day. Kevin needs everyone to step up! As part of March Membership Madness, it might be a good idea to bring a prospective to see this event! We will still have the meeting. Beverly Hills at 3pm (Cafeteria), Cave at 10:30am (MPR), Cooper at 3pm (MPR), Federal Terrace at 11am (Cafeteria), Lincoln at 2pm (MPR), Loma Vista at 2pm (Cafeteria), Highland at 2:45pm (MPR), Mare Island at 9:30am (MPR,stage), Patterson at 9:30am (B Pod Stage), Pennycook at 10:45am
(MPR), Steffan Manor at 10am (MPR stage), Widenmann at 1:45pm (gym), Glen Cove at 3:10pm (MPR), Wardlaw at 9:30am (MPR), Dan Mini at 1:45pm (gym), Vallejo Charter at 1:15pm (Room 2). Happy Dollars Anne gave $10 because Roberta Caretti was at the School to help out with the dictionaries. Lou Caretti piggy backed and gave an additional $10 for his wife involvement. Constance gave $10 because she was at Stephan Manor and was pleased to see Luis Romero. Also a past president of Vallejo Rotary, Mimi Sharpe, is in Oregon in a Rotary club there. Pete Friesen gave $10 because Ann Grove was taller than most of the 3rd graders. (with her heels on) Jim Casper gave $10 because he enjoyed getting paid for his training in a 40 million dollar simulator flying machine. Avery Greene gave $20 because he was pleased to help the golf tournament with his sponsorship. Walter gave $20 because he was happy that his father confirmed that Pete is in fact not in the Newell family will. Denise gave $10 because she will be going on a family trip next week. Dave Perry gave $10 because he had new student registration and there was 20 more kids at this one than the last one. Vijay was there with his daughter. Shane McAffee gave $10 for a great day with Vijay delivering dictionaries. Also on a sad note Shane's mom is in the hospital and went to Yuma Arizona to check on her. They are doing testing and hopefully, will find out what is causing her discomfort. Jeannie Kilkenny-Turk gave $5 because her daughter's softball team is having a great season and also delivering dictionaries is her favorite day. Robert gave $5 because he was very excited to have his son, who is a 3rd grader, there in the classroom while he was delivering dictionaries. Joke for the week: A lawyer from California is driving in West Virginia and a police officer pulls him over. The lawyer asked the officer why he is being pulled over. The officer said that he failed to completely stop sign. The lawyer said that he did slow down nearly stopped and then continued. The lawyer, feeling confident that he is a much more intelligent person, than a West Virginian, asks the officer if he could define for him the difference between nearly stopping and stopping and if he could he would gladly accept the ticket but if he couldn't then perhaps he should let him go. The officer said sure, and asked the lawyer to get out of the car, which at that point he began to beat the lawyer with his baton violently to his body. As he is doing this, the officer asks the attorney if he would like him to stop or slow down? Program Dictionary Handout! The happiest Rotary day of the year.
Mystery Handshaker Mystery Handshaker winner was Vijay Patel. Get to Know your Rotarian Drawing Vijay is a Hotel Owner in Vallejo. Born in England and had been in Vallejo since he was 6 years. He is here to stay. He owns the Regency Inn and The Great Western hotels. Vijay is enjoying getting to know his fellow Rotarian's. Proposed Members Non at this time. Copyright 2015 Vallejo Rotary, All rights reserved.