Call to Order: President Laurie Tamura
Flag Salute: Tim Seifert
Invocation: Debbie Blow
VISITING ROTARIANS: Alice Patino (Noontime Club) and Deb Linden (SLO Club)GUESTS OF ROTARIANS: Scott Royie, Jeff Hague, Alex Pasada, Eddie Galarza
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Happening in March:
District Training Assembly/ March 18-Bakersfield & April 1-Oxnard
Monthly Shelter Feed - March 23
Barn Party Meeting - Tues, March 29, 2017 @ 201 Miller #105
Rotaract "Wine & Design" - March 31 & April 1
Happening in April:
Fashion in Action - Sun, April 2, 2017
20th Anniversary Nipomo Club April 5, 2017 5:30
Barn Party Meeting - Wed, April 12, 2017
Rotary Employee Recognition - Thur, April 13, 2017
Board Meeting - Thur, April 13, 2017
Wine Party - Thur, April 20, 2017 @ Kate’s House
Shelter Feed - Thur, April 27, 2017
Auction Item turn in Deadline - Thur, April 27. 2017
Ladies get Loud for CALM - Thur, April 27, 2017 @ Santa Maria County Club
Barn Party - Sat, May 13, 2017 FYI: All auction items are due no later than April 27
Clean-up - Sun, May 14, 2017
Board Meeting - Thur, May 18, 2017
Shelter feed - Thur, May 25, 2017
BRAGS
Debbie Blow (Rotarian of the Month): bragged on her school district's performance on the recent state Dashboard.
Jim Bray, bragged $25 on all the fellow Rotarians that supported him at the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation event where he was honored.
Teresa Reyburn, bragged $50 on Kate Ferguson on her rotating dinner which featured wine tasting at Still Waters Winery. “It was a good Wine Day!”
Mike Buhring, bragged another $50 on Kate’s rotating dinner.
Kate Ferguson, bragged $50 on Rich Watson and his group at Sunny Country Radio for all the money that was raised for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital
Carl DeRiso, bragged on Terri Strickland and her staff at Hitching Post for helping him when a business group came in from out of town.
Fines:
Pat McDermott was fined $30, because the picture of him with his new grandson was too cute!
Ryan Swack, was fined $30 due to this picture which was taken last week with his wife and kids at spring training in Phoenix. Ryan says he got about 30 autographs.
Mark Jackson was fined $30 because he won a prize at the Friends of NHRA fundraiser. He won a raffle for the “Wall of Guns”??
Dave Wright, was fined $30 for leaving his Barn Party tickets last week, and the fines just keep on giving, rumor has it the price he will be charged for the tickets will go up.
Wayne Miller, was fined $30 for the old Banner he found in his garage.
PROGRAM
Eddie Galarza, City of Santa Maria Youth Violence Prevention
Our program this week was provided by Eddie Galarza, with the City of Santa Maria Youth Violence Prevention Department.
Eddie, along with Santa Maria Mayor, Alice Patino, discussed the new Mayor’s Task Force for youth safety that is being created to help prevent youth violence in the area. The goal of the task force will be to develop a Policy Committee of community leaders in order to develop goals, and objectives to address youth violence. The Task Force will be comprised of around 35 members, and serve as a policy board. The task Force will include Superintendents, people from the DA’s office and non-profits. There will be another section of the task force, which will be more of a “boots on the ground” division.
Eddie Galarza, has been working on this for the past 3 months. He has worked with youth for several years including Boys and Girls Club, and is now working with the city of Santa Maria. His job includes working with families and different agencies to find ways to stop the violence in our community. We are losing our kids. They are dying for dumb reasons. We need to be in our schools, and talk to these youth and help them understand that when you are involved in drugs or gangs, there is no future.
Alex Pasada from Santa Maria Parks and Rec department has been involved in programs for youth for a long time, but everyone is concerned with some of the patterns that have started. He assists in mentoring kids on the playgrounds, the Y and Aces providing strong role models.
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