March 18th 2019

President-elect Carly Robbins gave the invocation.  Brad Mettam presided.  Klark Swan shared that Mardi Gras Fundraiser had been a success.  60 people attended and they made $4500.  The biggest challenge was making gumbo for 120. 

 

County Office of Education representative Melody McGuire accepted a $5000 check for the Science Fair.  There is still time to sign up for The March 23 reforestation project in Lake County.

 

SPECIAL NOTICE; The April 1 meeting will be off-site and in the evening at Lost Coast Brewery’s Beer tasting site near Piersons.

5:30 pm

 

.  Beer will be served. Our program was our annual March Madness fund raiser.  Arny King did a great job with a sparse and penurious audience. Jack Reike bought Duke so we know he’ll have at least one winner.

 

 

March 11 2019

The meeting was opened by our president Brad Mettam.  Ziggy Ziggenfuss was called upon to lead the Flag Salute.  In the audience was former member and past president Laurie Lazio.  He said a few words. When he was president he fined Rotarians using a wheel of Fortune you spun to determine what your fine would be. 

 

 Klark Swan reminded us of the Mardi Gras fundraiser this Saturday .  Dr.Kim Bauriedel announced that a Tourist Trip to Russia was being offered.  Two weeks in paradise.  Bring your own snowshoes. Next Monday’s meeting is the March Madness fund raiser, so bring your wallet and a detailed knowledge of the skills of 106 college basketball teams.  This year you can buy the 11-16 seeds for $10.  Arny King will be the auctioneer. Blue Ox Millworks was awarded 3250 to build a ramp. The Four-way Fest Rotary District Assembly is being held in Reno at the Pepper Mill May 17-19^th.

Our presenter was Erick of Blue Ox Millworks. The topic was the Hearse that Blue OX millworks and a group of volunteers had created for a re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral.  It was built from scratch using the only existing photo of the Hearse and scaling it to make blueprints.  They hand cast aluminum for the hardware and gilded it, and made an exact replica right down to the peacock plumes on the roof.  They then shipped it to Springfield Illinois for the reenactment.  It’s spectacular.  Chuck Ellsworth did the gilding on the horse drawn wagon.

Lincoln's Hearse restored

March 4 2019

President Brad Mettam has returned from his secret mission.  He seems unchanged, at least on the surface. Or maybe it’s unhinged.   He asked Stacy Lane to lead us in the pledge.  Everyone looked around to see if she was actually there.  A rare sighting. Arny King delivered the invocation, saying that what’s there is not all you see-or maybe he said you don’t always see what’s there.  We saw Stacy. 

Klark Swan
 

 

Klark Swan announced that Rotary’s Mardi Gras is Saturday March 16^th 6-9pm at the Sequoia Conference Center.  Tickets are $30. They need more donations for a Dutch Raffle.  They could also use some more ingredients for the Gumbo:  shrimp, oysters, possums, garter snakes and anything else that swims, flies, or crawls. The Rotaract Club is celebrating 50 years.  They have a dinner at the Humboldt tap room Tuesday March 12^th.Raffle tickets are available. Coincidentally March 10—16 is World Rotaract Week.  A representative from CASA talked about The Spamley Cup- a spam cookoff Sunday April 28^th.  Our outgoing Exchange student Estrella is going to Brazil.  She’s making tamales 6 for 15 dollars, 12 for 20.  As a fundraiser. They will be delivered at the next meeting.

 

Our presenter was Cecilia from the Raven Project.  The non- profit serves homeless youth. They provide a place to drop in and get a hot shower and they give out survival supplies.  They are funded by a $200,000 federal grant.  They also received $16,000 from the Sign Smith Fund.  They will supply interns for local businesses and pay their wages in exchange for training.

 

For those of you that are curious, lunch consisted of turkey slices in stuffing, bratwurst, mashed potatoes, onion rings, and the ubiquitous salad bar. Martha Stewart served the same menu at her last party.   See you next week.