UPCOMING SOCIALS & PROJECTS & EVENTS  

–> NOTE: Redwood Empire Food Bank – The Food Bank is currently on hold

9/29/24 — Help support our SRJC Rotaracts. Dine & Donate with Chipotle. The event is over, but you can still show your support for our Rotaracts byor this QR Code to donate directly. Click here for instruction for ordering online.

10/5/24 – Walk to End Alzheimers –  Here are a few key details about the Walk to End Alzheimer’s Sonoma-Marin.

• Date: Saturday, October 5th
• Location: Sonoma State University
• Time: 8:30am Registration, 9:30am Start of the Event
• Santa Rosa Rotary Club Team Page: Register Here (to join our team click on “Join Team” or to donate click on “Donate to Team”)

For more details, the flyer as well as information about their upcoming online education courses and Their Sonoma-Marin Support programs that they’d love to share with Rotary, see last week’s bulletin.

Click on above flyer to view and print

11/7/24 — Veterans Tribute 2024, Thursday November 7, 2024 – 11:30 – 1:30, at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Garrett Building. Tickets available – buy now from Fred Levin. Click on the flyer for details.

For pictures and descriptions of previous socials and other events click here.

For more details and additional events, see the Announcements section below.

More socials, projects, & events coming soon!

Please note: The bulletin committee could use more writers.   

Opening Ceremonies:

President Casey welcomed us to, “The Rotary Club of Santa Rosa where the Magic of Rotary is alive; where we do good in our world and have fun!

Doug Landin gave us our reflection for today.  He read three quotes for Norman Vincent Peale. Did you know he was a Rotarian? He belonged to the Rotary Club of New York, New York.  He served on the Rotary International Public Relations Committee.

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”

“The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.”

“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative, he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.”

Visitors:

Amy Sabourin, Andrew Reddie, David Gallagher, and Linda Balfe

Sunshine Report:

Rose Frances was in surgery today. Ginny believes it was for her back. Also, Sean Kelsey’s mom has dementia but is doing better.

50/50 Drawing:

Sean Kelsey said there were 5 marbles and $89.00 in the pot. Your bulletin editor, Kris Anderson, had the ticket!….. but like most, she did not pull the blue marble. Her $10.00 went into the Polio Pail on her table.

Announcements:

1. October 5^th is our Rotary district South founders Day.  It is being held in Windsor at Charlie’s Grill. At the Windsor Golf Course. They are selling raffle tickets for $20.00 or six for $100.00 See Doug Landin.
2. Rick Allen & Richard Lazovick announced the Rotaract Fundraiser on Sunday, September 29 at Chipotle, the Coddingtown Mall location.  Flyers are on the table.
3. Meat Auction at Kim Murphy’s home on Saturday. Sam McMillan had a list of the lots to be auctioned off.
4. Jim Green says that the Rotary International Peace Day is October 24^th.
5. Fred Levin wanted to thank all the Rotarians for their support for the Veteran’s luncheon in November. Keep selling those tickets! He needs help setting up the day before and taking down after the luncheon.
6. President Casey announced that there will be a group of Rotarians walking for Alzheimer’s on October 5^th in the morning. Let him know if you want to join. It is a three mile walk in Petaluma(?).
7. President Casey says that on Wednesday, October 2^nd, we will be passing the hat to collect money for our servers at Iron and Vine. Bring some cash!

Recognitions:

1. Fred and Jeanne Levin just celebrated their 55^th wedding anniversary. Fred donated $55.00 to the John Brown Scholarship.
2. Rich Rossi’s daughter is in New York and she is working on getting investors for a project. He was just back there and pretty proud of her. He donated $50.00 to the club.
3. Sean Kelsey will be 55 years old on September 25. He is donating $58.00 to the club. He has been a member of four different Rotary clubs over the years and ours is the best!
4. Craig Meltzner was just while water rafting on the Green Plus, he just graduated from an advance Modern Western Square Dance Class. He also just closed on a construction to perm loan in his business.  Lastly, Happy Jewish New Year.

Today’s Speaker Andrew Reddie on the Present and Future of Nuclear Risk.

Andrew is the founder and faculty director for the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. He is an associate professor in the practice of cybersecurity at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where he works on projects related to cybersecurity, nuclear weapon policy, wargaming, and emerging military technologies.

OK, this was a bit over your bulletin editor’s head. This talk was fascinating and scary.  Our country has accidently dropped a nuclear bomb in North Carolina and Spain.  In both cases they did not blow up, thank God.  He supposedly sent his slides to Richard Lazovick and they are attached to this bulletin. That is much better than me trying to interpret what he said!

Presentation Slides

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