The Club was dark on May 30th in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

Meeting of the Rotary Club of Eureka

May 23, 2016

Lunch Menu: salad bar, ribs, chicken casserole, rolls, mixed vegetables, dessert.

Called to order by President Jay Bahner at 12:30pm. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Christian Hill.  The Invocation was led by Gary Todoroff.

President Jay noted that Past President Ziggy Ziegenfuss’s wife, Ruth passed away last week.  He asked for a moment of silence to honor her passing.

VISITING ROTARIANS: Shelly Nilsen Southwest Rotary.

GUESTS OF ROTARIANS: Kim Bauriedel introduced Dr. William Parks, Chief Medical Officer at St. Joseph Hospital. Neal Carnam introduced his guest. Nancy Dean introduced Carly and Annalisa from Lost Coast Rotaract.

STUDENT GUESTS: None.

BIRTHDAYS:  Larona Farnum.

ANNIVERSARIES: Jennifer and Robert Budwig.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: President Jay announced that the Past Presidents will be meeting tomorrow to discuss his request to make Walt Shimasaki a lifetime honorary member of the club.  There is a board meeting tomorrow.

Carly Robbins reminded us that the Backpacks for Kids Fundraiser is underway.  Old Town Rotary and Rotary Club of Eureka are currently tied for pledges.

RECOGNITIONS: Bruce Smith was fined $200 (50% to Foundation and 50% to Paul Harris) for recently traveling to Mexico for his twin sister in laws 50^th birthday bash. 

Ray Wickle was recognized for being at the meeting.  He’s been at his winter home in San Diego for the past few months, although he said he was faithfully attending a Rotary Club meeting in the San Diego area.  

Dan Heinen attended a ceremony at KEET TV that thanked the Rotary Club for their sponsorship of the Homework Hotline program.

SPENGLER-HOWARD RAFFLE: Rotary Coin: Dan Heinen. $10: Dan Heinen (again). Paul Helliker drew a card for a pot of  $100 and won the consolation prize of a Rotary paperweight.

GUEST SPEAKER: Connie Beck is the Director of Health and Human Services for Humboldt County (DHHS). She started in January of 2016 but has an over 20-year history with this organization primarily in administration and finance.  They have over 1,200 employees, and 39 to 40 site locations in Humboldt County. They manage a 165 million dollar budget and run numerous mandated programs including mental health, water quality, veteran programs, public guardian programs, child welfare services and many more.  They are currently running a recruitment program for foster parents as they are desperate to find foster parents. They are currently evaluating how to reorganize the organization of DHHS and are waiting for the new Chief Administrative Officer to be hired to finish that process. She is not filling some key positions that have come open until the restructuring decisions have been made. There are some programs like homelessness that the community tends to think DHHS is responsible for but in reality they don’t receive any funding for unless the person qualifies for one of the mandated programs, such as mental health services.  Questions and Answers followed.  

MEETING ADJOURNED: 1:30pm.

Respectfully submitted, Alicia Cox

Meeting of the Rotary Club of Eureka.

May 16, 2016

Lunch Menu: salad bar, spaghetti, pot roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, boiled carrots, dessert. Called to order by President Jay Bahner at 12:30pm. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Matthew Owen. The Invocation was led by Nathan Nilsen.

VISITING ROTARIANS:  Shelly Nilsen from Southwest Eureka.

GUESTS OF ROTARIANS: Neal Carnam introduced Paul Ambrosini, President Jay introduced our guest speaker, Alanna Jane Powell from Humboldt Made.

STUDENT GUESTS: Jose and Justin from North Bay Rotoract. Andy Chinn our exchange student.

BIRTHDAYS: Craig Hansen- May 18^th, John Bartholomew- 19^th, Fred Van Vleck- 19^th.

ANNIVERSARIES: Jay and Nicole Reed- May 20, Member Anniversary- Sue Bosch- 13 years in Rotary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Matthew Owen reported on the clean up of Palco Marsh.  He and John Fullerton worked for 3 hours along with other volunteers to haul away 3,000 pounds of trash, that’s in addition to the 110 tons the city already had hauled off.  There will be another clean up day coming up. 

President Jay reported on the recent visit from the Rotarians from India.  Mike Cunningham, Jay and Kim Bauriedel went on the Madaket with the group and then to lunch at Tandoori Bites (lunch was paid for by Jesse Clair).

Rotaract visitors came up to make some announcements kicked off by announcing that Mindy Bussman became engaged last night.  After some negotiating and wheel turning Mindy was fined $75!  

Jose noted that there’s a wine raffle coming up June 24^th. Tickets are $20 or 6 for $100.  Rotaract clubs in district 5130 put together a cookbook with recipes from all over the world. The cookbook is $20 or an e-edition for $9.99.  There’s a 5k fun run on June 11 from 10-3pm. The run will benefit CASA, Boys and Girls Club and Food for People. There will be food and dancing as well as a Dutch Raffle.  The Rotaractors are looking for donations for their Dutch raffle.

RECOGNITIONS: After a lot of standing, sitting and standing and discussion about the Giants vs. the Red Sox, etc. the emerging fine was to Pat Folkins for $50.  Whereupon Pat fined our illustrious President $100 for an insult he made to our Rotoractors by forgetting to call them up at the last meeting to make their announcements. President Jay announced that we are short about $1,000 to make his Foundation goal this year.  All of today’s fines are going towards that goal as suggested by Pat Folkins and agreed to by those who were fined.

SPENGLER-HOWARD RAFFLE: Rotary Coin: John Fullerton.  $10: Linda Wise. Andy Chinn drew the JOKER for a pot of $280.00.  Congratulations to Andy! 

GUEST SPEAKER: Alanna Powell is the Executive Director of Humboldt Made.  Humboldt Made supports local entrepreneurs, primarily in food and beauty. They currently have about 120 members.  Their goal is to brand Humboldt County as a quality provider. They offer their members marketing support in a variety of ways including group out of the area shows to help bring the price down, referrals to potential buyers. They are getting ready to hold a press tour to help non-food members wine, dine and show off their services/products.  For 18 years Alanna owned her own business in Croatia- (guided tours, lodging for tourists).  She’s worked locally for local entrepreneurs and was on the Humboldt Made board for many years.  She volunteered to help when they needed an executive board member and loved it so she’s still there.

MEETING ADJOURNED: 1:15pm.

Respectfully submitted,  Alicia Cox

Meeting of the Rotary Club of Eureka.

May 16, 2016

Lunch Menu: salad bar, spaghetti, pot roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, boiled carrots, dessert. Called to order by President Jay Bahner at 12:30pm. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Matthew Owen. The Invocation was led by Nathan Nilsen.

VISITING ROTARIANS:  Shelly Nilsen from Southwest Eureka.

GUESTS OF ROTARIANS: Neal Carnam introduced Paul Ambrosini, President Jay introduced our guest speaker, Alanna Jane Powell from Humboldt Made.

STUDENT GUESTS: Jose and Justin from North Bay Rotoract. Andy Chinn our exchange student.

BIRTHDAYS: Craig Hansen- May 18^th, John Bartholomew- 19^th, Fred Van Vleck- 19^th.

ANNIVERSARIES: Jay and Nicole Reed- May 20, Member Anniversary- Sue Bosch- 13 years in Rotary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Matthew Owen reported on the clean up of Palco Marsh.  He and John Fullerton worked for 3 hours along with other volunteers to haul away 3,000 pounds of trash, that’s in addition to the 110 tons the city already had hauled off.  There will be another clean up day coming up. 

President Jay reported on the recent visit from the Rotarians from India.  Mike Cunningham, Jay and Kim Bauriedel went on the Madaket with the group and then to lunch at Tandoori Bites (lunch was paid for by Jesse Clair).

Rotaract visitors came up to make some announcements kicked off by announcing that Mindy Bussman became engaged last night.  After some negotiating and wheel turning Mindy was fined $75!  Jose noted that there’s a wine raffle coming up June 24^th. Tickets are $20 or 6 for $100.  Rotaract clubs in district 5130 put together a cookbook with recipes from all over the world. The cookbook is $20 or an e-edition for $9.99.  There’s a 5k fun run on June 11 from 10-3pm. The run will benefit CASA, Boys and Girls Club and Food for People. There will be food and dancing as well as a Dutch Raffle.  The Rotaractors are looking for donations for their Dutch raffle.

 RECOGNITIONS: After a lot of standing, sitting and standing and discussion about the Giants vs. the Red Sox, etc. the emerging fine was to Pat Folkins for $50.  Whereupon Pat fined our illustrious President $100 for an insult he made to our Rotoractors by forgetting to call them up at the last meeting to make their announcements. President Jay announced that we are short about $1,000 to make his Foundation goal this year.  All of today’s fines are going towards that goal as suggested by Pat Folkins and agreed to by those who were fined.

SPENGLER-HOWARD RAFFLE: Rotary Coin: John Fullerton.  $10: Linda Wise. Andy Chinn drew the JOKER for a pot of $280.00.  Congratulations to Andy! 

GUEST SPEAKER: Alanna Powell is the Executive Director of Humboldt Made.  Humboldt Made supports local entrepreneurs, primarily in food and beauty. They currently have about 120 members.  Their goal is to brand Humboldt County as a quality provider. They offer their members marketing support in a variety of ways including group out of the area shows to help bring the price down, referrals to potential buyers. They are getting ready to hold a press tour to help non-food members wine, dine and show off their services/products.  For 18 years Alanna owned her own business in Croatia- (guided tours, lodging for tourists).  She’s worked locally for local entrepreneurs and was on the Humboldt Made board for many years.  She volunteered to help when they needed an executive board member and loved it so she’s still there.

MEETING ADJOURNED: 1:15pm.

Respectfully submitted,  Alicia Cox