Meeting of Rotary Club of Eureka
July 19, 2010
Fully-inaugurated President Carlton Nielsen called on Dave Parris to lead the salute and Dan Heinen gave a thoughtful invocation.
Guests of Rotarians
Charlie Bussman was here with his daughter Wendy Bussman and there were a few others who escaped this author’s grasp. No student guests were present, but our inbound student Gabriel Umidon from Milan, Italy will be here August 12th.
Once again, here is President Nielsen’s board:
David Tyson -- Operations
Gary Todoroff—Club Service Communications
Diane Cipperly--Club Service Membership
Russ Harris--Club Service Meetings
Scott Guild—Club Service Youth
Jason Eads—Revenue and Grants
Greg Williston—Social Service
Greg Gardiner—World Service.
Eric Bergel invited all members to the Rotary rafting trip at Coloma Resort August 21, 22nd.
Greg Williston thanked our club for getting Martin Greve’s wood-shop table back home to Denmark; our club offset $500 of the cost of shipping.
Announcements: Assistant District Governor Steve Justus updated us on the state of the Assistant District Governor who represents us among the other clubs. District Governor Jim Flamson will be visiting our club on Monday August 16th. According to Steve, Jim might be our first green District Governor.
Craig Hansen reminded us of the need to give blood through the Pint for a Pint program.
We heard an enthusiastic craft talk from Sean McLaughlin who is executive director of Access Humboldt: a county and city entity created to manage resources for both public and private sectors in Humboldt. Access Humboldt has a private non-profit board that is open to public. Community access channels 8, 10, 11 and 12 give the public access to various governmental boards around the county. These channels are available for public use and access for free. Brochures and membership applications were handed out to all members.
President Nielsen brought donned a Siberian hat, which means fines are about to come. He recognized Charlie Bussman who has not been here for some time; Charlie paid $25 to the service club. Nancy Dean rose cautiously and admitted that there are some 15 meteorologists at Woodley Island: some even predict weather accurately. She donated $100 to the club. Sean McLaughlin was written up in a national broadband publication for getting Wi-fi and other projects connected around our town and county. Gary Philp admitted that he and the Sheriffs would benefit from this project by utilizing the broadband network often. That will be a 10$ fine to Gary, $10 to John and $25 to Mike Downey.
Next week we will hear about blood banking in Nigeria from our own member, past-President Tom Schallert. The goal is to improve the safety of the blood supply in Nigeria.
Jennifer McMahon (a.k.a. Jenneral Ms. Chief) says Humboldt Roller Derby has been well received in Humboldt. Ticket sales are going up and crowds are coming. They had a tough time finding a venue, until they found a practice space in Blue Lake and started practicing in secret. But now they are now rolling along and soon hope to have non-profit status soon. We then viewed a sizzle reel that gave us a lesson on Roller Derby jargon: “Packers,” “Jammers,” “Hips,” “Booties,” and “No elbows.” The flat track at Redwood Acres shows a circle with lots of women crashing into each other and the floor.
Jennifer said that nobody on the team is paid, but they say it is worth it in spite of the bruises and scrapes because it is great exercise.
The team travels as far as San Francisco and San Diego. The roller games are rated PG-13 according to our speaker, so family friendliness varies depending upon their opponents. We got a sample rehearsal of the Redwood Rollers in action from their announcer.
August 12th at Humboldt County Fairgrounds will be a Rotary Barbecue cook off where Carlton Nielsen and Jason Eads will uphold our reputation at the barbecue pit.
Respectfully submitted,
Dan Price
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