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 18th,
John Bartholomew- 19th, Fred Van Vleck- 19th.
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 24th. 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
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