Call to Order: President Laurie Tamura
Flag Salute: Kerin Masey
Invocation: Jim Bray
VISITING ROTARIANS:Tom Ross of Ross Reality (Noontime Rotary) and Past District Governor – Tim Small from Jackson Hole, WY
GUESTS OF ROTARIANS:Jeremy Deming Ex Director of Boys and Girls Club SM and Henry Dubroff, founder of Pacific Coast Business Times and today’s speaker
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Happening in April:
Rotaract "Wine & Design" - March 31 & April 1
Fashion in Aktion - 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
Debbie Blow (Rotarian of the Month): bragged on Orcutt School District classified employee, Brenda Galvez who has been selected as the Classified Employee of the Year for Santa Barbara County.
A thank you card from Lee Carroll was read in appreciation for the club’s support from the compassion fund
What is an Aroostershire – it’s a Dance?
Shannon Seifert: bragged $100 on Mike Gibson and his ability to dance the Aroostreshire. Mike has been president of the YMCA Board.
Mike Gibson: matched Shannon’s $100 donation, and added that it is great to part of YMCA
Jim Bray: bragged $25 and tagged on Shannon and Mike's brags; Almost all of the board members recognized at the dinner were breakfast Rotarians
Laurie Tamura: bragged $50 on Tammy Raskal who is in Israel and sent a picture of a Rotary sign in Hebrew
Gary Nemetz: tagged on another $50 brag to all of the brags; stating that there is so much cross over between the Rotary and Y, this is the best place to live
Peter Sterling: bragged $25 on the vacation he took last week to Newport Beach.
Jean-luc Garon: bragged $25 on his son who turned 18 last Friday.
Check presentation
Executive Director, Jeremy Deming of the Santa Maria Boys and Girls Club acted a check for $5,000.
Fines:
Mike Buhring: was fined $30 for this 1983 News Years picture
Laurie Tamura: fined herself $30, for the Pacific Coast Business Times publication – where she is listed as one of the Top 50 Women in Business
Kerin Mase: was fined $30 for the Marian Medical Center flyer that came out from the hospital, with at least 8 pictures of Kerin.
Kate Ferguson: was fined for saying she won the 50/50 raffle when she didn’t…. Is it the Truth?
Jason Stillwell: was fined $30, because he was the last person coming in this morning
PROGRAM
Henry Dubroff, Pacific Coast Business Times
Our program for this week was presented by Henry Dubroff from the Pacific Coast Business Times which is the weekly business journal of record serving Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties.
Now in its 15th year of publication, the Business Times has won numerous awards, including a national Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for breaking news, “Best in Business” awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers, and several Los Angeles Press Club awards. Our web site has twice been recognized in Editor & Publisher magazine’s “Ten that do it Right” competition.
The Business Times has the largest team devoted full-time to business and financial news on the central coast. Our multi-media platform includes weekly print editions delivered each Friday, email newsletters and alerts, events and a combined print-digital subscription that provides full access our web site.