Public Speaking – Awful to Awesome

A. Good Morning! – Rotary Club of Windsor!
B. Pledge of Allegiance – Monica
C. Inspiration – Mike Raasch did an impromptu message of the importance of inspiring
others.
D. Song – JB Leep-everyone enjoyed the song Put on a Happy Face!
E. Visiting Rotarians – None
F. Guests – Natalie to Taiwan, Domingo and the last meeting for Stefan.
G. Upcoming Events/Announcements –

• Rotary Bar signups (Renee)-totaled $2500 at the last event
• RYLA Lunch June 13 (Pegi)-discussed the RYLA barbeque
• Community Service and July 3 Kaboom (Monica)-discussed the need to work with the 20/30 club for the Kaboom event and the need to discuss the community foundation spending.
• H. Stefan Last Meeting
• BBQ auction
• Thank you’s and well-wishes-Stefan spoke a heartfelt message of thanks to all
• Rotarians for their support and help as he plans to return to Germany.

I. Recognitions
PHF (John)-Patrick to donate matching $350 for his birthday. President Brian
agreed to donate for his passing of his real estate exams and Rags donated for his
41 st anniversary.

J. Program – Don Franceschi (Maureen introduced)-Don gave an upbeat presentation on
working out the anxiety of public speaking. He even used Gumby and Pokey props to
enforce his points. It was enjoyable.
K. Thank you to our guests and volunteers.

• Setup/ Alissa, Dave
• Greeter/Maureen
• Song/JB
• Scribe/Geoff
• Inspiration/Chief
• Guests

L. Closing comments and Adjourn – Brian added wonderful words about the sadness of
Stefan’s departing but of how great it has been to have him part of our Rotary family.

Rotary Scholarships

Pledge of Allegiance was led by Pegi Ball
Inspiration came from Maureen Merrill – one word: “Dauntless” For all our scholarship
students – you are dauntless!
Our song was led by Heather Cullen, who gave the excellent advice, “Shower the people you
love with love . . .”

We had no visiting Rotarians, but many guests. Today we hosted all of the students from
Windsor High School who received Rotary scholarships this year, and their families. It was a
full house and happiest of times. Our scholarship recipients were: Jadyn Holdenried, Noel
Leon, Maddie Senkowski, Oliver Nunez and Kieran Campbell. (Ximena Bracamones Penaloza
also received a Rotary scholarship, but was unable to attend our meeting this morning.)

In addition, our guests included: Veronica Passalaqua, Don Francesci, Dorothy Mack, Natalie,
our outgoing Youth Exchange student to Taiwan, Stephan, our current Youth Exchange son,
Domingo, and Jeremy Decker, Superintendent of Schools.

A. Upcoming Events/Announcements
Renee Hyde reported on our first-of-the-year Summer Nights on the Green. She said
the results were wonderful wonderful wonderful, yielding over $3,000 for our
International Service this year. Special shout out to Boyd and Larry who stepped in
to help when we were a bit short on workers.

Monica McCabe reported that this coming Rotary year our Service efforts would
be led by Pam Moulton for International, and Monica for Community.

Pegi Ball let us know that the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards barbecue lunch will
be held on Tuesday, June 13. Anyone working with Rotary Youth programs this
year will need to take the Youth Exchange Protection Class (on-line). Sue Nelson
encourages us that it doesn’t take too long (maybe less than half an hour) but also
recommends reading all the material before taking the test.

Pegi also said that she had communicated with Jack Hyde, who moved to New
Jersey. Janet is having significant health issues, including covid. Jack would enjoy
a phone call or email from us – just hearing our voices helps him greatly. Contact
Pegi if you need Jack’s phone or email.

Sandi Krutz said our club is looking for Youth Exchange host families. We have a
girl from France arriving in August, but still need a host family. Her first home
will be with Doug Willliams. Hosts can be community members, not just
Rotarians, and it was echoed from several members that we always get more than
we give when we host a youth exchange student. Windsor residents & Rotarians
are being invited to a Zoom meeting next Tuesday evening, June 13 – 6:30 .

You will hear about the “experience” of hosting a student from another country—
and the responsibilities.

President Brian announced that he will be having his final Board Meeting on
Monday, June 12, 6p-7:30p location TBD. Everyone is invited to attend.

Michael Juric hosted the next part of our meeting, introducing our Rotary scholarship
recipients, while they in turn, introduced their family members who were there supporting
them. Michael did an excellent job both thanking and recognizing the parents who raised such
exceptional students. It is hard work, and the parents are to be congratulated. Cheers and
applause from the entire club for the parents!

Each student spoke briefly about where they were continuing their education and what they
were going to study:

Maddie graduated from Windsor High School, is going to attend UCLA and study business
economics.

Jaden also graduated Windsor High and is attending University of Washington, studying
business and playing soccer.

Oliver graduated from Met Academy and is going to start at SRJC, then likely Cal Poly
Humboldt, studying chemical engineering.

Kieran graduated from Windsor Oaks and is going to SRJC and will became a fire fighter. He
interned this last year and loved it.

The Rotary selection committee members were asked about what stood out to them about
our new selection process for scholarships. Almost all mentioned the live, in-person
interviews were an opportunity to learn more about the students, their personal and
educational goals and who were their role models or mentors. All of the students who applied
were impressive candidates.

Michael summarized our scholarship programs where we have donated over $200,000 for
Windsor High School graduates, and recently, supported by the Ken Moulton fund, over
$40,000 in scholarships to students graduating from Windsor Oaks, which Ken founded, and
the Met Academy.

When the recipients were asked by Michael what we should focus on as community leaders,
their answers were inspiring: an inclusive mind set, so we are not so divided as a community
and world; pollution, food security and energy; mental health; and unifying our communities.
President Brian led the next portion of our meeting, which was highly informational about
Rotary in general, and how we operate.

For next year, Brian Ling, with help from John Hackenburg, will lead Foundation. Rotary itself
is almost 120 years old, with the motto “Service Above Self”. In 1978, Rotary declared that we
were going to eradicate the scourge of polio from the earth, and do it in the next 25 years. We
are 99% of the way to that goal, with only one country left on earth where polio is endemic.
And the number of polio cases in a year is less than the fingers on one hand.

Brian recognized Pegi Ball for being a Paul Harris plus 5.

Rotary International is recognized as one of the premier charities in the world, with the
minimum of funding going to administrative costs (less than 3%). So donations to Polio Plus,
disaster relief, Ukraine assistance, and other worthy causes around the world through our
donations to RI are used wisely. Brian has the current status report for anyone who would
like to know where they stand in their donations to RI.

To donate to Rotary International, GO ON-LINE. It’s easy to do, and more direct. It’s also easy
to set up a donation in whatever amount works for you, on a continuing basis, monthly, so you
never have to think about it. If you need help going on line, see John Hackenburg or President
Brian.

Our Club’s Windsor Rotary Community Foundation (WRCF) mirrors the Rotary Foundation in
its use of funds. But all WRCF funding stays right here in the Windsor community. We fund
scholarships for students such as those we hosted today, and all our local projects, which is
long and varied. When we contribute at least $1,000 to WRCF, we become John Lewis fellows,
in honor of our founder, John Lewis. Our latest fellow, cheered by everyone in the club, is our
own President-Elect, Doug Williams.

Our co-treasurers, Carol and Ed, let us know how we contribute and where those funds are
used:
Windsor Rotary Community Foundation
“How can you give?”
1. At a meeting –
A. Hand us a check or cash
B. Give us your credit card (Happy Skippy!)
2. On our website –
A. http://windsorrotary.org/donate
B. It can even be recurring!
3. Company matching funds where you work
4. Mail us a check
A. WRCF – PO Box 2295, Windsor, CA 9549

Windsor Rotary Community Foundation

“Where can your money go?”
• Endowment Fund
• Long term investment – we use earnings
• Current Projects Fund
• Operating funds for new and legacy projects
• Ken Moulton Scholarship Fund
• Scholarships for the alternative schools in Windsor
• Special Projects
• Like Food & Toy Drive

Charter member and Past President Sue Nelson let us know that with the amount that we now
have invested in our WRCF funds, we need to take a look at how we are managing our funds.
The large contribution from Carl Wiuff’s estate put us at a new level and we need to evaluate
our processes to be sure we are acting with the best information and assistance that is
available.

Windsor Rotary Community Foundation
Want to learn more?
Check out TWO upcoming meetings…
#1: Presentation by Sonoma County Community Foundation
Date: June 20, 2023
Time: 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Place: Airport Business Center (Ed’s office)
414 Aviation Blvd., Santa Rosa

#2: Interest Group – Discuss Possible Changes to Income Withdrawal Policy for WRCF
Date: TBD – Likely mid-July
Time: TBD
Place: Airport Business Center (Ed’s office)
414 Aviation Blvd., Santa Rosa

President Brian introduced June birthdays, anniversaries and celebrations and collected fines
from Kurt Mitchler (did he really get a chocolate cake and pony???!!!); Pegi Ball, who
celebrated at a lunch with her Rotary buddies; and Sandi Krutz, who went to San Francisco to
see “Book of Mormon” and is awaiting the birth of their first grandson.

President Brian fessed up that he and Geoff had ridden the 72 miles around Lake Tahoe after vowing never to do it again. They were better prepared this time and did not repeat this vow after completing the
loop in a little under 8-1/2 hours. Kudos to Brian and Geoff, and you can be sure the club
shouted for a fine from him. He said it was a dauntless ride, and yes, he donated.

Thank you to our guests and volunteers.

• Setup/ John, Kurt
• Song/Heather
• Scribe/Susan Cole
• Inspiration/Maureen

Meagan Black for Riebli Elementary School

Good Day fellow Rotarians, friends and family who are reading our weekly bulletin. Today’s
minutes are from TUESDAY, May 23, 2023

Pledge of Allegiance: Lead by Jason Black

INSPIRATION: Joan Mora, first acknowledged and thanked our veterans for their service, her
inspiration is a quote from Mary Roach
“Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large
hearts change the course of history.”

Song: Susan Cole led us in God Bless America

VISITING ROTARIANS: Maureen Merrill introduced Charisse Arnold, associate Dean at SRJC
public safety training center in Windsor. ,

Our Speaker today was Meagan Black, a teacher at Riebli Elementary School, to assist her with
her presentation; she brought a wonderful group of students with her, their presence added a
special energy to our meeting.

Megan Black and the students were limited on time as they had to attend school so we flipped
our meeting to start with the program and presentation.

Megan stated she wanted to enhance her studies in the GATE class program she teaches at
Riebli School. GATE is the acronym for Gifted and Talented Education; it enhances education in
Math, reading and science.

Megan first approached the PTA for small scale funding for printing pens but was told her
project needed to benefit the school as a whole, she decided to go bigger in her plan and in
2019 approached Rotary Club of Windsor to sponsor a 3D Printer for her class. Windsor
granted the funding and Megan was able to purchase a 3D Printer in early 2020.

She started the learning process of the 3D printer with her 6th grade class, they used features
from the book Gulliver’s travels to measure objects, and learn to scale down objects, lessons
were hampered by covid, and their 1 st design was not successful.

The second year Megan worked with the 4 th grade class on design, and the third year they
created flower pots. Megan stated this was all new to her, and that it was due to the assistance
of the students they were eventually successful.

Meagan shared that this was such a popular & great program she wanted to share with all the
classes but could not do alone. In the 2022-23 year she engaged a couple of teachers to learn
the 3D printer and with the assistance of student mentors has been able to offer to all classes
of the school.

Megan introduced her student mentors to share and help explain the program and their
experience.

Connor Caden told us using Tinkercad, (a web app for 3D design, electronics & coding), they
were able to build their own design or use pre built. The app was very helpful in learning how
to use the printer.

Arial Charlotte told us how it works, the 3D printer nozzle is hot and they use compostable
material to make their projects. Replacement parts for the 3D printer can all be made with a
3D printer. They have already reproduced the filament for the printer.

Ainsley & Sidney explained they used a corn syrup base material to make the flower pots, they
were able to design different shapes, and there were some failures. The nozzle extrudes the
material in layers on the design and it takes about 5 hours to make one flower pot.

Kieran & Miko stated there are some challenges learning to design and scale the flower pots
they accidently had one come out huge, they made star and oval shapes.

Alice, Daniel Camron & Tyler shared it was hard to make the bottom whole, but with a 3D
printer you can build whatever you want. Alice designed a Cat flower pot; she said the eyes &
ears were the hardest part.

The students brought in samples of the flower pots they had made and they were amazing.
I will admit I was so captured by these students, their interest in the project, and their ability to
give this presentation to the club and the project itself, I did not do so well with my notes,
apologies if I misspelled a name or left out any details.

I am proud Windsor Rotary supported this program; from the information Megan shared with
us this could grow to be a district wide program in the schools.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bill Bolster thanked everyone that participated in the road cleanup, he stated they not only
picked up but sorted trash as well and the roads look great. The clean-up was followed by a
BBQ in Bill’s back yard, thanks to Diana Brabetz’s Chili and Jo Timmsen’s Red Dirty Rice they had
plenty to eat and did not have to fire up the BBQ.

It is Margarita time: Renee Hyde has some openings for volunteers, the first night of music on
the Green is this Thursday June 1 st , we will offering cocktails every Thursday through the
summer to support our International projects, it is a great place to spend an evening with
fellow Rotarians, have fun and be of service. Contact Renee: renee@reneehyde.com
RYLA BBQ June 13 th , 11am Westminster Woods

If you would like to see RYLA in action, join a few Rotarians from Cloverdale & 60+ students for
a fun filled couple of hours in the woods, & of course lunch, contact Pegi Ball;
pegiball@gmail.com. Youth Protection Training is required, but not really an obstacle, you will
be sent a link from Nayen.org, Training is done on line, and is good for 3 years.

Monica McCabe & Beth Smith PROJECT GRADUATION:
Volunteers need for different jobs during the week; 6/1-6/4, set-up, during the event and clean-
up the day after, contact Monica: monicasmccabe@gmail.com
20/30 Club looking for volunteers for KABOOM, fireworks and dinner July 3 rd , Keiser Park,
Windsor. Contact Brian Ling for information.

Windsor Chamber of Commerce Chili Cook Off coming in September, gives you time to perfect
your recipe.

Youth Exchange: We have a lovely young lady getting herself ready to join us in August, the
Williams have opened their home as her first host family and we have a third host family but in
need of the second host family, (first part of December to mid-March), it is a wonderful
experience and I promise creates lifelong relationships. If you are not able to host please share
with members of your church or neighbors, it is also a great opportunity to share Rotary with
the community.

Stefan our current Son and youth exchange student just continues to make us proud, not only
for the awards he has won for his math software, but his representation of Youth Exchange and
Rotary has been stellar. Stefan was invited to the Windsor School District Board meeting, and I
believe he was not aware he was going to be called upon to speak, but he never skipped a beat,
his presentation was great!

Maureen Merrill has been involved with Leadership Santa Rosa for many years and was a
participant in class 12 along with Ken Moulton. The community program sponsored by the
Santa Rosa Metro Chamber of Commerce is a program designed to identify, develop and equip
community leaders who will help create and support a spirit of cooperation for the resolution
of future community challenges

Maureen with the Windsor Chamber of Commerce is developing Leadership Windsor. The
program is scheduled to start in August and they are currently taking applications and
interviewing candidates. If you are interested in strengthening your leadership skill and
learning more about our community, contact Maureen Merrill:
maureen@maureenmerrill.com.
Reminder: WE ARE DARK TUESDAY MAY 31 ST .

President Brian closed the meeting 8:30am

Craft Talks – Boyd Morrison, Steve Klick, John Hackenburg

The meeting began at 7:34 with a welcome from our president, Brian Ling!  The pledge of allegiance was lead by Jo Timmson and the Inspiration was provided by Mike Merrill, who quoted (and I am interpreting!) Granville Keiser(?) . The words of wisdom suggest that we should be “discreet, keep our rude comments to ourselves, be a listener, and the the tone of your conversation!”  Interestingly enough, his quote was from the 1800’s!!

Bill Arnone was not available to lead us in song so Michael Juric and Sue Nelson led us in singing “God Bless America!”  Not too bad for a couple of “non-choral” members!!

There were no visiting Rotarians, however both Stefan, our Travelling Genius” and Domingo, our “son”, were in attendance!

There were a TON of announcements:

•Mother’s day event at Keisar Park brought in about $1000 to our international fund! Now the Bar has been dusted off and we are ready to rock and roll!!

•Brian thanked each of the team members who worked on the Teacher Appreciation event (Doug, Sue, Pam, Beth, Joan and Terry) – then he announced that Terry had been behind the scenes delivering candy and donuts, to the teachers during the Team Appreciation week – BRAVO TERRY!!!

•May 20th is going to be a COMBO day of Rotary Activities – there is the Faught/Shiloh/Pleasant Cleanup in the morning at 10am (starting at Bill Bolster’s home) with a BBQ and POT LUCK to follow at his place around  2:00pm .  This will be the “meeting” for the 5th Tuesday – remember – NO MEETING on MAY 30th !!!!

•The Rotary Bar is opening on June1st with Pride and Joy being the opening act!!  Renee Hyde is looking for signups!!  Please find a slot to either set up, serve or clean up between June 1st and August 30th!!

•Beth Smith is looking for volunteers for PROJECT GRAD!!  it takes over 250 volunteers to get this thing off the ground and running!  there is a QR code that will give you all the necessary information!!

•Stefan gave an update on the Odyssey of the Mind event that is coming up.The team has built a Pirate Ship which they are shipping back East for the event!  The students are soliciting funds to send three of the team members to Michigan for the finals.

•The Club, under the guidance of Monica McCabe will be working with the town on the development of a grant to plant daffodils all around Windsor in an effort towards beautification!!  Monica is taking the lead on writing the grant, with the support of her team.

•Domingo, “our son”,  announced that he is going to receive his certificate on May 20th in real estate.  He is going to continue at  SRJC to secure his AA in Real Estate, business Management and Economics!  He gave a heartfelt thank you to the club members for all the support, but also to Renee Hyde, whom he had asked about staying for four month(when he first arrived) – Hummmmm, let’s see?  It has been about 18 months (and growing!).

•Boyd Morrison, was inducted by Renee Hyde, Membership Chair, into the club!  Boyd spoke of feeling a desire to give back to the community and transition from being a “Soccer Dad!”.  Having lived in Windsor for 14 years, both he and his wife are wine makers, and are raising two children one of whom is off to University! WELCOME BOYD!!!!

•Birthday acknowledgements went to Renee Hyde, who was in New Orleans with 1700 other agents!  She generously gave $100 to the Ecuador Language project and $100 to the Odyssey of the Mind!

•Carol Martin celebrated with JB and Stefan by planting, going to a movie and having dinner out!!

•Leslie Lewis and Nirmal will be celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary at the Lodge of Bodega Bay – and she also contributed $100 to the John Lewis fund

•Susan Cole, almost forgot that it was her 20th wedding anniversary but she did not forget to contribute to the Windsor Community Foundation!!

CRAFT TALKS

•Steve Klick, gave an extensive history of his background which included being raised in the lumber industry in Fort Bragg before he left for college and never returned to Ft. Bragg!! He started studying engineering before switching to Arizona and  becoming a geologist!! He went to Spain in the late 1990’s where he met and married his wife, Mapi.  He and Mapi lived in Spain for 10 years, where they ran a restaurant, before returning to the United States They have two children,Lucia and Frank.

Steve has a strong connection both professional and voluntarily to serving in the Fire Service.  Currently he is president of the Sonoma County Fire District. He has returned to the field of engineering and is the owner of Bauer Engineering.  He is actively involved in volunteerism with focus on Engineers without Borders.  He and Mapi still own a home in Malaga, Spain, where they MIGHT end up retiring!

The question arose about his significant weight loss, where Steve mentioned that he has lost 85 pounds.  the secret to success is…”eating vegetables and eat less!”  Further, he mentioned that a professional challenge resulted in his taking inventory of being more disciplined!  He admitted that he had to “put his mind to self discipline self to lose the weight!” 

Congratulations, Steve – Before you know it you will be at your wrestling weight!!!

John Hackenburg, apologized that he did not have a power point and suggested that we just use Steve’s photos again as he walked through his history!! Born and raised in Colon, Michigan.  There was a medical reference to describe the level of excitement associated with the name of his town, but I won’t go there….he is the youngest of three children, and attended school in a one room school house where he graduated in 1965.  He mentioned that he met his wife, Jean, at College and they married three weeks after his graduations!  (Celebrating 54 years!! yeah!!)  John reviewed his history which involved his going to Pensacola to attend Navy Flight School and receiving his wings when he was in Beeville, Texas. He got his MBA in 1979.  He and Jean moved back to California where his daughter was born and where he was flying A7’s in Lemoore, California! He completed two tours in Vietnam (thank you John!!) where he talked of being “playmates” with the North Koreans!!  Upon completion of his active duty, he remained in the Reserves, and finally retired from the Navy in 1996.

He mentioned that his wife, Jean, “stumbled into” Atari .  While his wife was in high tech and finance, John was a salesman!  He and Jean moved to Sonoma County in the mid 1990’s where they were able to pursue their interest in biking, hiking and making wine.  In 2013, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and a detached retina. This was followed with five years of changes, which included selling their ranch, major life changes and moving to Windsor!  All seems to be fine, because he and Jean are travelling all over the world and particularly enjoy ADVENTURE TRAVEL! Their is no moss growing under their feet!! A past president, John has served on the Board in Windsor as Foundation Chair!  Many thanks,  John!!

Stefan Neuber, our Exchange Student gave a super short presentation on some of the things that our Iphones can do – that we don’t even know about…I was too  busy trying to do what he was suggesting so I did not take notes!  Generally, everyone thought that we should have him do a program on the wonders of Iphones!!

Brian gave thanks and a  round of applause to all who made the meeting happen. He also told a brief story about his father’s involvement with Lumber transport (linking back to Steve’s early history).  Reminded us about the event on Saturday and wished us a GREAT WEEK…Go do something Rotarian!!!

respectfully submitted

Pam Moulton

Nan Su of the Epoch Times

Rotary Club of Windsor – Meeting Agenda                    

A. Good Morning! – Rotary Club of Windsor!

B. Pledge of Allegiance –John Hackenburg

C. Inspiration – Pegi- not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of good luck

D. Song – J.B. Home on the Range

E. Visiting Rotarians –

F. Guests – Domingo, Stefan , our outgoing exchange student Natalie, and  Boyd    A soon to be new member.

G. Upcoming Events/Announcements –

• District Conference, Konocti, May 5-7 (Tom or Carol)

• Teacher appreciation week, May 9

• Mother’s Day May 14, w/ SCFD (Renee or Monica or Carol)

• Faught/Shiloh/Pleasant Cleanup May 20 (Bill) 3 hours and lunch

• Project Grad (Beth) lots of volunteers needed

• Turn in your interest surveys (Barbara)

• Board Meeting Mon 5/8

• 5th Tuesday Team, alternative meeting on May 30 Thomas Boylan, Diane Barbetz, David Cullen, Patrick Dunn, John Hackenburg,Renee Hyde, Walter Kurtz, Leslie Lewis, Monica McCabe, Joan Mora, Michael Ragsdale, Karen Rickets, Jo Timmons, Kathryn Williams, and Brian  Ling.

• May BD, Renee, Tom, and Monica

Heather Cullen announced there will be a fund raiser on May 22 for Odessey of the Mind trip to Nationals Competition $6,000. Needed.  Volunteers needed to man booths at the Windsor 5K.

Pam Moulton announced her committee needs Projects for Rotary Grants 

H. Program (JB) Nan Su, Epoch Times :excellent and somewhat scary presentation about what is currently taking place in China and their 100 year plan that began in 1947.

I. Thank you to our guests and volunteers

• Setup/ John, John

• Greeter/Londa

• Song/JB

• Scribe/Kathy

• Inspiration/Pegi

• Guests/Domingo, Stefan, Natalie, Boyd

J. Closing comments and Adjourn –

Festival of Brotherhood

Rotary Club of Windsor – Meeting Notes April 18, 2023

Pledge of Allegiance – by Tom Boylan

Inspiration – Renee Hyde reminds us that we have to “prune to bloom”, not just in our
gardens, but also our lives.

Song – Geoff Harrison led us in the unofficial national anthem of “My Country Tis of
Thee”, which we performed well.

Visiting Rotarians – David Mark Raymond, Sebastopol Sunrise

Guests – Domingo, our honorary son, from Chile. Boyd Morrison with Constellation
Brand. Natalie Huey, our outbound student headed for Taiwan.

President-for-the-day John LeCave had a moving and heartfelt message to our Club. He
has “stepped away” for about 4 years because of fire, covid, and life in general. But he
kept track of our club and observed even though he was not participating on a regular
basis. He complimented the “old guard” of our club which is the core from which our
strength grows. He then noted that the new members were the strongest, best, he has
ever seen. Our Club is strong. And our robust Rotary club applauded that thought
with our usual vitality.

A. Upcoming Events/Announcements –
Where’s Stefan? JB showed us a short video from Stefan who is in Washington,
DC with Jared Huffman presenting his math application to a wide audience.

German Dinner April 29 for Stefan’s fundraiser. $80 to attend the dinner, which
will be at Barbara McChesney and David Doht’s home at 6PM. Even if you can’t
attend the dinner, you may just donate any amount you would like for Stefan’s
Western Safari trip.

District Conference, Konocti, May 5-7 Tom Boylan let us know that this District
Conference is going to be fun! Rotary has the entire resort, and we are the first
event there and opening it up after a long closure. One keynote speaker is John
Hewko, from Ukraine.

Mother’s Day – May 14, is a pancake breakfast at the Windsor Fire Department
and our Rotary club will be serving drinks (Mimosa, anyone?) to support SCFD.
This is sort of a test run for our Rotary bar on the Green all summer. Sign up to
help and have lots of fun.

Faught/Shiloh/Pleasant Roads Cleanup – Bill Bolster leads this project to clean up
these Windsor Roads. Only a 2 hour commitment on May 20, 10AM-12 PM.

Environmental Update– by Barbara McChesney

Turn in your interest surveys to Barbara

RYE Golf Tournament at WGC, this Saturday April 22. We have two teams
entered in this event, with room for more or just sponsors. Funds to support
students in Rotary Youth Exchange who may not have the necessary funds to travel. We want RYE opportunity to be available to more students, so support
this tournament.

Our Rotary Club partners with other local non-profits in a number of community
activities, like the Food and Toy Drive. On Friday, April 28, we have an
opportunity to partner with Soroptimists in a Bunco night which supports women
and girls in Windsor and beyond. 5PM to 8 PM with tickets $40 at the door.

Heather Cullen announced a Windsor Middle School Murder Mystery Dinner on
Friday, April 21, from 6-9 PM. $65/ticket supports the drama and culinary clubs at
the Middle School in a 1920’s gangster theme. Your outfits from our 35 th
anniversary celebration can get a second showing! You can even buy a character
you want to play!The date for President Brian’s de-bunking will be August 12. Mark your calendars.

B. Recognitions – Leslie wasn’t here to do her funny and charming job of fining us, so
everyone was asked to “tell” on themselves. And it worked. Joan reported on a trip to
Cancun, birthday and anniversary celebrations and gave generously. Maureen let us
know that there was an 81 st birthday celebration in her house and donated accordingly.
Then, Pam Moulton donated for her April 5 special date.

C. Program – David Mark Raymond, Sebastopol Sunrise. Rotarian extraordinaire on all
things Rotary International, Rotary Foundation, and much much more.
David gave a comprehensive update on Festival of Brotherhood in Mexico, which is
going to take place this year on Oct. 31 to Nov. 11, after a several year hiatus. He had a
great power point showing photos of projects that District 5130 has participated in over
a period of 22 years.

Our Windsor Rotary club has contributed to many of these projects, and when David had our Club members stand if they had participated in Festival of Brotherhood, it was an impressive number of Rotarians who rose and spoke about the moving projects they had observed and supported on behalf of our club.
Cheers for a successful re-boot of Festival of Brotherhood and our partnership with District 4140.

D. Thank you to our guests and volunteers
Setup/ Mitch Grandi, Kurt Mitchler
? Greeter/Doug Williams
? Song/Geoff Harrison
? Scribe/Susan Cole
? Inspiration/Renee Hyde