At 12:10 President Michael Malone rang the bell to commence the May 11, 2018 meeting.
Don Reed led us in the flag salute and Matt Clements gave us a thoughtful invocation. Then we escorted our guests and ourselves to the buffet for a delicious lunch buffet.
At 12:24 President Michael rang the bell and thanked Robert Roddick our Sergeant at Arms and his team for setting up the room for our meeting; Dave Brubaker for warmly greeting all of our members and guests, Bryant Huber for the roving mic, Matt Clements for manning the front table and Suzanne Scar for serving as our Reminder Editor. Thank you Ginger Case for lunch!
Visiting Rotarians and Guests
Our Visiting Rotarian was Mark Fowler from the e-club of World Peace. He gave us information about how to join them online.
Special Guest were Ian’s friend, Stanley (who he has known since the 3rd Grade) here to celebrate Ian’s birthday; Tony Thacher’s wife Anne and Leslie Bouche’s husband Bruce.
Announcements
Michael spoke proudly about The Young Americans (while slides displayed the event)
and the efforts of Bryant Huber and other Rotarians for creating a spectacular weekend. He also relayed a story about his own personal car singing Young American. Hopefully…next year we can experience this again?
Al West presented three Paul Harris Awards to Betsy Watson (+1), Kay Bliss (+5) and Larry Wilde (+4).
Dave Brubaker talked about the Boys & Girls Club Golf Tournament and offered $100 to the Ojai Club that won for their Ed Foundation.
Matt Clements talked about the Taste of Ojai meeting later that day… and that we will see big changes this year.
Bryant Huber talked about the slides from Young Americans and then asked for volunteers for the Portfolio Project on May 31 and June 1. Please let him know soon!
Suzanne Scar announced that the Scholarship Awards Luncheon next week will be
held at the BBQ area. Please be there early (11:45) since the program will start at Noon and the Nordhoff Students need to be back for a mandatory science test at 2 PM.
Confessions & Fining:
Sandy Buechley was our Fine Master as Marty Babayco rounded up the dollars.
Bret began the confessions by disclosing his project, “Beautiful Dreamer” and praising Bryant Huber for beautifully portraying the main character during the reading of Bret’s work.
Dave Watson and Amani Hishmeh were confessing family graduations, Wendy Baker and Tony Thacher talked about the delights of Toledo and Ojai’s 3rd Friday, Lerie made a handsome contribution to TRF in honor of Ian’s birthday, Cheree celebrated another bday in Mexico and announced the Matilija Project ribbon cutting on May 21, Bob Davis bragged about his grandchild Tory winning 1st place in a film festival and Sandy finished up confessions bragging about her niece being in the ‘final 4’ in a competition in a famous NYC bar “Don’t Tell Mama”. She then fined many Rotarians with Mother’s Day trivia questions.
Rotary Cartoon
Program:
John Russell introduced Art Vander who prepared a fascinating presentation on “Our Microbiome in Health and Disease”. He focused on the intestines and described new findings on fecal transplants and the miraculous affects that have been revealed. More to follow.
Coming Up...
5/18/18-Rotary Scholarship Presentation--Be there early at the BBQ/Picnic Area at Soule Park.
5/25/18--Dan Hicks--Ventura County Behavior Health--Status of Marijuana Laws and Impacts.
6/1/18-James Fryhoff--Chief of Police--Observations of Ojai Safety
Closing Thoughts...
1:35 President Mike gave us his closing thought:
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who could make his Mother more beautiful?”
Mahatma Gandhi.
Happy Mother’s Day!
