Weekly Luncheon - May 1, 2013
(REDONDO BEACH) Another busy weekly meeting.
Guests: Jeff Mclodia, Odila Goncalves, Steve Diels and Elizabeth Diels
Visiting Rotarians: Hisako & Atshushi Nakaaki are visiting from Hamamatsu, Japan. They are here in California taking part in the Rotary Global Exchange 2013, Jim & Alexis Sheehy are hosting them.
Announcements:
Meals-on-Wheels: Jim Sharvin and Chuck Anderson; next week: Michael Jackson and (we need one more volunteer.)
Family of Rotary: Dal Covington’s wife, Cheryl, is undergoing cancer treatment. The club circulated a “get well” card that members signed.
Coming Events:
May 9: The Club will join with the Molina Foundation to deliver books to Fry Elementary in Wilmington. See Terry Bichlmeier.
May 18: District Assembly at the Carson Center in Carson. All board members for the 2013-14 year are encouraged to attend.
May 19th: There will be a wine and appetizer fundraising event at the Campbell’s home for the club’s Community Foundation. Wine tasting, potluck, bingo and more! It is scheduled from 4-6 pm. Nancy encouraged everyone to bring a check in the amount of $25.00 or more made out to the Rotary Club of Redondo Beach Community Foundation.
Announcements:
President Nancy discussed last weekend’s shoe delivery project. Click HERE to read more about this event.
PDG Pat Cashin announced the club’s Demotion and Installation Party scheduled for July 13, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near the Redondo Beach pier. Click HERE for more details.
President Nancy read a thank you letter the club received from Cheer for Children. It is a locally based non-profit the club supports. “Dear wonderful members,” the letter started. “Thank you for the generous donation of $500 and ongoing support,” wrote Donna Dawick secretary of the organization. Click HERE to view the letter in its entirety.
Flag Exchange:
President Nancy exchanged flags with Visiting Rotarian Hisako Nakaaki of the Power Hamamatsu Rotary Club of Japan, District 2620. She also exchanged club flags with Andrea Belon, the Rotary Exchange student who lived with three member club families during the current school year. Andrea presented the club flag of Benahauis Costa Del Sol Expana from District 2230. This is one of the Rotary clubs in the Marbella area of Spain where Andrea is from.
Fines:
After acknowledging last week’s birthday of Pearl Davis, for which she was not present, we sang a belated Happy Birthday to Pearl. Steve then invited Happy Fines. Several members jumped in: Jim Sharvin told us he would be in Las Vegas this weekend for a Perdue University alumni get-together. Steve Scerra announced he had successful knee surgery, though he acknowledged he would not be able to participate in his weekly running club. Karen Weigel announced she and daughter Kelly would spend 22 hours “bonding” as they drive to Austin, Texas, Kelly’s new home. Jim Sheehy acknowledged the friendships he and Alexis stabled during the recent Rotary International Global Friendship Exchange to Japan. Finally, Steve Aspel announced his daughter is graduating from Sonoma State debt free! Way to go Steve!
Program:
Club member Alexis & Jim Sheehy recently spent a couple of weeks visiting Japan on a Rotary Global Exchange program. Today they presented a slide show reporting on their whirlwind trip. A special treat of today’s presentation is that two of the visitors to our club today, Hisako & Atsushi Nakaaki, were the Sheehy’s hosts in Japan for one week.
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Jim & Alexis Sheehy |
Hisako & Atshushi Nakaaki |
Among the historical and famous locations the Sheehy’s visited were Mt. Fuji, Nagoya Castle, Mikimoto Pearl Island and Todai-ji in the town of Nara Japan which holds one the the world’s largest bronze statue of the Buddha, Kinkaku-ji (also known as the golden temple), Nijo Castle in Kyoto. the Tokyo Museum and Imperial Gardens in Tokyo, and Ise considered to be one of the greatest Shinto shrines in Japan. A unique aspect of the shrine is that it is rebuilt every 25 years. Finally, their trip coincided with Sakura, Japan’s cherry blossom season.
Mr. Nakaaki presented our club with a flag of the Power Hamamatsu Rotary Club in Rotary District 2620 and our club in-turn presented him with a Redondo Beach Club flag in exchange. The Nakaakis also presented a gift to our club president.
Raffle: With $227 in the pot, members anxiously awaited to hear their number called. Alas, it was Larry Hashimoto’s number that was selected. Good try Larry. You got $10 for your effort and the pot will be even bigger next week.