Meeting of the Rotary Club of Eureka
March 21, 2016
Matt
Murrish led us in the pledge of allegiance.
Craig Hansen gave the invocation.
He noted that there would be a celebration of the life of Del “Andy” Anderson
on April 2nd at the Elks Club.
President
Jay Bahner noted that a work Study exchange group would be coming in May and
they might need places to stay. Jay is
planning a trip on the Madaket for them.
Two
visitors from the Rotaract Club of Sebastopol had a short presentation video
about their projects in India. They are
bringing affordable technology –notebooks and broadband internet to the masses.
They are going to the Rotary International convention in Seoul South
Korea.
Lost Coast
Rotaract is also fund raising and reminded us of their international food and
wine pairing April 2nd at the HSU Green And Gold Room. Tickets are $50.
Then Neal
Carnam announced another fundraiser, this one to help out the Nepal earthquake
victims. It is April 16th at
the Elks Club.
Matthew
Owen confessed that he’d recently been to Hawaii where he did a make up meeting
on a catamaran. No one drew the
joker.
Our
speaker was Rod Holman, Director of Community Development for the City of Eureka. He’s done lots of studies, on everything from
start-ups, commercial zoning, Medical Cannabis, the Cold Storage unit, Business
Incubators, to the fishing dock expansion.
He hasn’t done anything about those things, because no one has given him
any funds. Nice graphs, though. He noted that he’d gone to lunch with 200
different people this last year and asked them all about other people he should
invite to lunch. I expect today counted as the 201st. Who said there’s no such thing as a free
lunch?
Submitted
by Hank Ingham
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