Weekly Bulletin - January 30, 2013
Photos by Rick Mendoza
Written by Bill Paul
Welcome New Member Jim Sharvin
with PDG Chuck and Membership Chair Rolando
More Meeting Photos Here
(REDONDO BEACH) January 30, 2013 --- Lots of announcements this at this week’s luncheon, But first to a new member. Jim Sharvin, a former Rotary club president, was inducted by PDG Chuck Anderson. Welcome to our club, Jim.
Visitors: Jerome Salonga, Raymond Wong, Jill Brunkhardt and Jeff Wilson of Chevron Products Co., and Rotarian Connie Siegel from the Hershey (PA) Rotary Club.
Meals-on-Wheels: Paul Hyashi and his son Eric delivered this week.
Pearl Davis reported no news about the Family of Rotary. In this case, no news is good news.
On February 11, 2013, the Manhattan Beach and Lennox/Hawthorne/LAX Rotary clubs have scheduled a 7:15 am breakfast with RI Director Ken Boyd as the speaker. The meeting will be at the Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel. Our club has reserved 10 seats for the event. Cost is $25.00.
On March 9, 2013, LMU will host the District 5280 Art, speech, and music and dance competitions. Our club is hosting a dance company and we need volunteers to attend. See Bill Gard if you are interested.
Also on March 9th, the Rotary Community Alliance is offering a tour of Camp Pendleton. We will travel by motorcoach. See PDG Chuck Anderson. He urged that we donate “gently used baby items” but not diapers, as they are too bulky.
Meanwhile, also on March 9th (a busy Rotary Day!) the Ethics Leadership Enterprise Seminar will be held at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel in San Jose. See Nancy Campbell if you are interested. Cost is $95.00 per person.
Jeff Wilson, Senior Representative Policy, Government and Public Affairs for Chevron gave a highly interesting presentation about Chevron’s Coker Drum Reliability Project. In case you do not know what a “coker” is, Jeff explained it is a vital machine to all southern California drivers. That’s because 25% of all automobile fuel and 40% of all jet fuel used at LAX is manufactured by Chevron in El Segundo.
“A coker is a huge round drum that is 100 long, 30 feet in diameter and weighs about 100 tons. We are bringing six of them through Redondo Beach to our El Segundo facility,” said Wilson. “The cokers were manufactured in Spain because there is no steel company left in the U.S. with the capability to manufacture such a large unit.”
The first two drums are expected to arrive February 18th on a barge that will dock near the Redondo Beach Marina. Altogether six coker drums will arrive. The units will travel by flatbed truck to Chevron’s El Segundo refinery. “The move will take place at night to minimize traffic disruptions. We worked with city governments along the route detailing the trip,” he said. “The flatbed has 136 tires, 36 axles and is 240 feet long tip to tail. It will travel 2-3 miles per hours on PCH.