November 5, 2012
The turnout was pretty good for a warm sunny day in
November. Of course, a nice day isn’t in
Nancy Dean’s best interests, because it makes for a smaller audience.
Jack MacDonald, who joined the club in 1980,
was asked to do the pledge. Greg Pierson
then came to the podium to give the invocation, for which he had prepared a
short and (He thought) humorous poem having to do with the upcoming
election. He soon learned that people
laugh at the president’s jokes, but once you are an ex-president you are, as
they say. “Chopped liver” Roses are red. Violets are blue. I’m going to vote, and so should you.
EHS Rotaract & 2013-2014 outbound exchange students |
Nancy announced that last weekend’s parks
cleanup project had been successful and thanked Jill MacDonald for organizing
it and Tim Jones for suggesting the idea during one of the Firesides. 14 people traded hard labor for donuts. It sounded like Siberia
all over again.
Next week our program
will feature a World War II veteran. Nancy also plugged a special concert on Monday November 12
at 5:30pm at the Arkley Center in Eureka. The Eureka
symphony will present A Musical and Artistic Tribute to our WWII veterans
featuring portraits of veterans by Kathryn Burleson.
This week’s birthdays
include Ray Wickel, Del Anderson, Sally Arnot, and Ted Loring. Anniversaries
Bruce and Faye Emad and Ray and Pauline Wickel.
Ms. Dean then eschewed recognition in favor of the drawing and an early
start for our program featuring our three foreign exchange students.
Eric Bergel gave a short intro, and then each
in turn talked about their backgrounds and experiences.
Franco Callegga Lorenzini is from Talca Chile
and is 16 years old. He likes to work
with his hands and sports are his hobby.
Chile
is known for its copper mining, cattle, a budding wine industry, and fruit. Chile’s
scenic features include the Andes, Patagonia, and Easter
Island where they have the stone statues featured in Thor
Hyderdahl’s 1958 book Aku Aku. He lives
with his 4 brothers on a farm. On
2/27/2010 Chile
suffered an 8.8 earthquake and his family’s house was destroyed. They rebuilt.
He’s staying with Greg Williston’s family.
Larissa Tölke is from Cologne,
Germany in the state of Westphalia. It’s
the most diverse, ethnically, with foreign labor attracted to industrial jobs
in the Ruhr Valley.
2.4 % Turks, and 6.1 % other immigrants with BHT added as a
preservative. Temperatures in Westphalia range from –59° Fahrenheit to 104º. Snow is common [but not when it’s 104º]. She lives with her brother, father and
mother in a house that was built in 1723.
Larissa is holding a fundraising dinner for her Rotary Exchange Trip to Hawaii. It will be on November 30 at the Slack home 4232 Campton Rd in Eureka. Dinner starts at 6pm and features her
favorite German foods plus beer and wine.
The suggested donation is $20.
Bibiana Fabri is from Italy. She lives in the Lombardy region in a town
called Bergamo. Bergamo
is famous for its ornate churches. When she’s there she gets around on a
scooter. Tennis is her favorite
sport. She observed that when she
arrived she expected some similarities between her life in Italy and life
here but nothing is the same. She
commented that Youth Exchange isn’t a year in a life – it’s a life in a
year. Nancy closed the meeting with a reminder to
bring Christmas Cards to the November 12th meeting. Signed, with no envelope. They go to our soldiers via Socks For
Soldiers. We then walked outside into
and extremely bright light. One of the
older members said he had seen it before once and it was called “The Sun”.
Briefly reported by Hank Ingham
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