Villa Park Rotary Newsletter August 12, 2010

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Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter

Our meeting began today with an invocation by Bob Bell.  Jay Lieberman led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and our song was the Air Force Song, forcefully sung by Teri Brooks and the rest of the  ensemble.  Bryan Nash led us in the reading of the Rotary Four Way Test.

Guests:

Kim DeBroux- President of Costa Mesa Rotary Club

Rick Barnett-  Marine Thanksgiving Coordinator.

Jim Smith- Former OC Superior Court Judge and today's speaker

Marianne Kepnick- guest who read about us in Villa Park Magazine

Tom Brundy- guest of Steven Pollack

Birthdays/Anniversaries:

Jim Brodsky - celebrating a birthday with wife Cathy on Catalina

Neil and Jean Peake - celebrating an anniversary

Nagi Ibrahim- celebrating a birthday tomorrow - planning to celebrate in Huntington Beach

Happy Bucks:

Bill Baker- climbed to the summit of Mt Whitney with son Will and his nephew

 He also got to see Stevie Nicks in concert.

Ron Accornero celebrated his birthday last week with visiting relatives.

Bob Meyer spoke at a meeting of the Confederate AirForce

Jay Lieberman was very proud of his granddaughter who completed her summer courses in

architecture at Cornell University getting all As.

Another grandchild is getting braces.

Wayne Silzel says wheat prices are up 30% due to the fires in Russia. He is going to help with the wheat harvest and is looking forward to having fun.

Tom Bundy- our guest liked the idea of being greeted by all the club members.  Not usually a morning person he enjoyed the experience.

Kim DeBroux is happy to see such a big, energetic crowd at an early morning Rotary Meeting in mid August.

Bob Kreisberg was invited to write a chapter in an upcoming book entitled, 101 Ways to Enhance Your Career.  He is going to have to purchase and sell 100 copies and Kirk Parker volunteered to buy them all(just kidding- wanted to see if Kirk reads the newsletter).

Announcements:

Steve Stern- Reminded us about the hands-on work project on August 28th at Teri Brooks Home.

      The event will begin at 10 AM and include yard work and some fence repair.  Lunch and refreshments will be served.

Kim DeBroux-  talked to us about a fundraising  project her club is doing that involves taking family portraits.  For $100 you get a 10 minute photo session that includes one 8X10, and two 5x7 prints.

Of the $100, $25 will come back to your club.  The photos will be done on three dateds in September at three different locations between 8AM -7PM

 Saturday Sept 11th- Caspers Wilderness Park

 Sunday Sept 12th-  Mason Regional Park

 Sunday Sept 26th - Carbon Canyon Regional Park

For more information contact Kellianne Jordan at 714-914-2025 or  visit www.costamesarotary.org

Kim also talked about an opportunity to purchase $65-$100 worth of food for $30 called the "Treasure Box"  (www.TheTreasureBox.org).  Each box contains enough food for a family of four for 1 week.

There are different options available.  This can be a good hands on project that requires about 1 hr/month to take orders and 11/2 hours to deliver the food.  The club just serves as a conduit for the food source and the the meals are paid for by the recipients.

Pam Dunn announced our nominee for the Rotary Business Person of the Year.  Paul Hudson will represent our club.

Pam also announced an opportunity for us to help pick oranges to donate to a worthy cause on August 21st at 10 AM at the home of Lorna Ross on Loma Street.  We need at least 10 people to help pick the oranges and deliver them to the Share Our Selves(SOS) Charity in Costa Mesa.

Pam has sent out an email about this. Contact Pam for more information.

Greg Mills introduced a 5th area of Service for Rotary.  This new area is called New Generations and involves our youth programs, i.e, Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Youth Exchange and RYLA.  We will have to amend the club's constitution to define this new focus.  In the coming weeks we will select a chairperson to coordinate our New Generation Committee. 

Bryan Nash gave an update on the Fall Festival scheduled for Thursday October 7th from 6-9 PM.  The evening will include a sit-down dinner including wine at the tables.  Entertainment will be provided by the band Instant Replay and our auctioneer will be Charles Dreyer, who will donate his services for the evening.  Club members have the option of donating $250 worth of merchandise or services or just donating $250 that will go towards prize bags that will be sold at the event.  A sign up sheet was sent around for volunteer positions on the evening of the event. Contact Bryan for more information.

Drawing_$1191- Bob Bell drew a 7.

Speaker:  The Honorable JIm Smith

O.C. Superior Court Judge, Ret

Retired Judge Jim Smith gave us a humorous look at his 27 year career on the bench.

He is a native Californian, raised in Burbank and apparently he and Joe Brand attended

different high schools, but knew the same girl.  The judge went on to attend the University of Redlands and went on to study law at Hastings School of Law.  In 1962 he began his career as an assistant district attorney. Going on from their to have a private law practice.  At age 34 he became the youngest judge appointed to the Municipal Court by then Governor Ronald Reagan.  He later successfully ran for O.C. Superior Court and served in that position for 27 years.   He recounted some of his experiences and says he never had a bad day or regretted his decision to become a judge.  Now in retirement he serves as an arbitration specialist.  The judge has run in every LA Marathon since its inception and he feels that running has been  great therapy in helping him to clear his head and stay focused.  There were many humorous moments and lots of smiling faces during his presentation.

Assignments for next week's meeting:

Greeter: Greg Mills

Pledge: Pete Moriarty

Invocation: Bryan Nash

Upcoming Events:

Orange Picking at the home of Lorna Ross- 10 AM Saturday August 21st

Work Party and Lunch at the home of Teri Brooks - 10 Am Saturday August 28th.