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Rotary Club of the Valley of the Moon
Number one Mid size Club in District 5130
6572 Oakmont Drive, Suite A, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Volume IX Issue No. 20 Gordon Freedman, President January 8, 2010
(www.valleyofthemoonrotary.org)

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS

Jerry Dion
introduced visiting
Rotarians Rick
Alward (wine
merchant), John
Parker (consultant),
Carole Downing
(property
management),
Valerie Pistole
(attorney), and Bill
O’Neal (consultant) –
all visiting from Sonoma Valley Rotary! D.
The Four-Way Test of things we think, say or
Holloway (law enforcement) also joined us today
do:
from the Flamingo Rotary group.
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Our guests included our speaker, Michael Irvine
Will it build Goodwill and better Friendships?
from Children’s Cancer Center and his guest,
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Linda Adams from Exchange Bank.
OPENING PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Gordon rang the bell at exactly 7: 30 President Gordon kicked-off announcements by
and got today’s meeting started right on time. congratulating the club on an excellent outcome
Dennis Schroeder led us in the pledge of for the raffle. We sold 913 tickets and generated
allegiance. more than $33,000 in revenue for the club. A
really great job!!
Rotary motto for 1974-1975: ‘Renew the Spirit
of Rotary’ by President William R. Robbins. The raffle winners will be at next week’s
meeting and the check will be presented with
For today’s Thought For the Day, Jim and Barb much fanfare and celebration.
Spangler shared a holiday e-mail they received
of a beautiful PowerPoint presentation consisting Also, President Gordon also recognized the
of snow scenes and short, but good ideas to generosity of Rich Irwin, who won the $250.00
ponder. Let Barb or Jim know if you’d like a prize in the raffle. Rich donated his winnings to
copy of the full presentation and they’ll be happy Worth Our Weight (WOW), a local organization
to get a copy to you. doing amazing work. Worth Our Weight
supports underserved young people, that is,
economically disadvantaged youth who have
faced challenges in their lives, including
commitment to the foster care system,
difficulties with the law, homelessness or Next week, Past District Governor Bruce
significant family disruption. WOW’s vision is Campbell will be here to present new Paul
to invite these people into the greater world of Harris recognitions. Please remember to wear
food, including farming, professional cooking your Paul Harris pin to the January 15 meeting!
and eating high quality food prepared by chefs
and other food service professionals, as well as ANNOUNCEMENTS
food they have prepared with their own hands. In
this way, they find a place in this world, and they Arnie Lamb
find a home for their vocational aspirations and announced that we
work to create a better life for themselves and will be closing out the
their families. By doing so, they are contributing details and loose ends
to building healthy communities. Thank you, with the raffle by the
Rich, for making this donation and exemplifying end of next week. He
true Rotarian spirit. also reported that the
club is in good shape
Also, you and your spouse, partner or guest are financially.
invited to a Rotary Open House to honor new
members Ron Motta and Gary McClernan on
Saturday, January 16, 2010 from 2:00 PM to Gay Weir read a thank-
4:00 PM at the home of Gordon Freedman and you letter from the
Irene Lucia. Their address is 6505 Stonecroft Redwood Empire Food
Terrace in Oakmont. Wine and hors d’oeuvres Bank in recognition of our
will be served. Please RSVP to Gordon at 537- donations and support in
0202 by January 11. 2009. The Food Bank
delivers meals to many
The club received a check for $25 from Florence people in the county, and
Boxerman in honor of Will Haymaker’s
birthday. they have three specific
programs for under-
Santa Rosa West Rotary is holding its ‘The served seniors.
Good, The Crab & The Ugly’ dinner at 5:00 PM
on January 30 at the Sonoma County Caroline Keller
Fairgrounds for $60 per person. Call 478-2211 reported that the holiday
if you’d like even more crab this season! parties at Sierra Youth
Center and R House
There are two get well cards going around to be were great successes,
signed for Paula Schnelle’s husband Bill and for and thanked fellow
John Heilbronner, we wish them speedy Rotarians for their
recoveries and good health. The same is true for support of these
Ron Motta, who is also a bit under the weather programs. Caroline also
right now. recognized Gary
McClernan, who will
In that same vein, the club welcomed Pat call on his many years of
Randall back to active status after her recent accounting experience to
recuperation from a knee replacement surgery. create and deliver an
Pat donated $50 to celebrate her return, and entry-level accounts
recognized a number of club members who payable class for the girls
helped out while she was recuperating, especially at SYC.
Jim Carty.
Mike Isola gave us an update on the annual Crab donation to celebrate a
Feed (he looks soooooo good in that hat! ;-) positive outcome on a
cryptic medical
We have 6 weeks to go procedure performed
on Crab Feed by his wife Carol,
preparations, and ticket which involved latex,
sales are brisk. Make garage tools and bags,
sure you get your the more John talked,
checks and your the more frightened we
requests for more all became ….
tickets to Todd President Gordon
Vandenberg as soon donated to celebrate his December birthday with
as possible! $1 for each year.

Also, make sure you know what you’ve signed Jack Monahan donated to celebrate his Rotary
up for on the big board of tasks, duties and fun anniversary.
assignments – and whatever else you’d like to do
to support the crab feed. Valerie Hulsey donated to celebrate her
husband’s December birthday, as well as to
Frank Sites reported that we’ve got just 6 weeks celebrate help from a former spouse on the crab
left for crab feed fund raising, and we’ll have feed mailings!
kits ready for our supporters at next week’s
meeting. Frank also requested that everyone Francine Dorshkind donated to celebrate a
bring in one bottle of good wine to be added to great holiday season with her family.
the wine cooler for the raffle. This item should
bring in a good amount; especially if we fill up Phil Wigen passed out buckeyes to the ten
that cooler with wines we’d all be happy to fellow Rotarians who lost the bet against Ohio
drink! State in the Rose Bowl. The losers got to chip in
$5 apiece for thinking that the pac-10 could win
BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES against the really strong Ohio State team. It was
& HAPPY DOLLARS a great game, and great way to generate $$ for
the club. Too bad the football season is about
Rotary Anniversaries: over. .... Now about that Super Bowl ……

Jack Monahan 9 Years Barb Spangler donated the rest of that $20 bill
after paying off Jim’s wager with Phil Wigen
Member Birthdays: for being both pleasantly surprised and really
impressed with a recent lecture series
John Heilbronner 01/06 presentation by former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice.
Spouses Birthdays:
Barb Lowell donated happy dollars to celebrate
Stephanie McClernan 01/06 her recent travels,
being home, and
Anniversaries: looking forward
to her next trip!
None
Bill Shaver
John Heilbronner donated Happy Dollars to announced that
celebrate his birthday, and made an additional there was $240+
in the weekly raffle pot. Fred Polkinghorn
drew the winning ticket, but missed the big Support Groups
payoff by drawing an ace of spades. So the pot Cancer Survival Kits
gets bigger for next week! Memorial Scholarships
Family Assistance
GUEST SPEAKER Special Events and Activities
Bone Marrow Drives
Frank Sites introduced this week’s guest
speaker, Michael Irvine from Children’s Cancer
Community. Michael first started with
Children’s Cancer
Community in
1999 as a member
of the Board of
Directors at age
16. Michael
served five years
on the board
before he moved
to El Salvador
where he worked Cancer library
as a volunteer and
traveled All programs provided by Children’s Cancer
throughout Central Community are at no cost to the patients and
America for thirteen months. their families.

Michael was awarded the Children’s Cancer As an example, Children’s Cancer Community
Community’s Volunteer of the Year Award in helps to raise awareness of the need for bone
2002 and served as Board Vice President in marrow transplants, and is committed to saving
2003 and 2006 and Board President in 2004. lives by adding more people to the National
Marrow Donor Program’s international database
Michael came on board as Children’s Cancer registry. Since 1998 Children’s Cancer
Community’s Assistant Executive Director in community has added almost 700 new people to
January of 2008 and is currently working as the the registry by finding and publicizing bone
Director of Development and Outreach. After marrow testing drives. Children’s Cancer
working for eight years in the Restaurant and Community partners with Be the Match for the
Catering industry Michael is looking forward to testing drives.
what he hopes will be a life-long career in the
non-profit sector. Michael updated the club on the recent advances
in bone marrow matching (mouth swabs instead
Michael shared a presentation with the club that of blood draws – no needles involved!) and in
outlined the history, charter and programs of blood marrow donation (simple apheresis – like
Children’s Cancer Community. Children’s a blood bank donation – instead of a complicated
Cancer Community serves families in the North extraction).
Bay Area with its main service areas located in
Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Solano counties. In During the Q&A period, Rotarian John Derby
Sonoma County, at any one time, there are over talked about his experience as a bone marrow
330 kids under the age of 21 living with cancer. donor, and encouraged the club to participate in
this activity.
The Children’s Cancer Community provides:
Michael also shared some recent financial info The meeting was closed with the ringing of the
on how the Children’s Cancer Community bell.
collects and distributes it funds.
“Rotary is in Your Hands”
Michael left brochures for us on volunteering
donating and family support activities with
children’s Cancer Community.

During the
MEMBERSHIP
Questions and
Second posting: Sandie Scheingold.
Answers, a
query on the
Share Rotary with your friends. We should
relationship
invite business friends and neighbors to a
between
meeting. Who do we do business with, what
economic status
neighbors do we know, what former Rotarians
and rate of
could be asked to join us? Clip and save the
cancer detection
was asked. invitation below to give to a friend, neighbor,
or business associate. Please tell or email
Michael
Gordon or Fred Polkinghorn if you are
provided a web
bringing a guest.
resource:
Guests and potential Rotarians are invited
twice at the Club’s expense.
www.kidsdata.org for more info on children’s
cancers.
MANY PEOPLE SAID THEY WOULD
The club thanked Michael for his presentation HAVE JOINED ROTARY HAD SOMEONE
and a book was donated to the Whited School in ASKED THEM!
his name for his efforts with us today.
Cut and put in your wallet
CLOSING
You are invited as a guest
President Gordon thanked our greeter, Pat of_____________________________to attend
Gooler, and Dennis Schroeder for leading the a breakfast meeting of Valley of the Moon
pledge, Jim and Barb Spangler for our Thought Rotary. The Club meets Friday mornings at
For the Day. He also thanked Jim Carty, 7:15 a.m. at the Quail Inn Restaurant 7035
Dennis Schroeder, Phil Wigen and Frank Sites Oakmont Drive in Oakmont.
for setting up the room and Bill Shaver for
managing the weekly raffle. FUTURE CALENDAR EVENTS
Remember to bring a potential Rotarian as a 2009-2010
guest to breakfast. Please tell or email Fred
Polkinghorn or President Gordon if you are 1/15/10 Civil War Miniatures – Bob O’Connell. Al
bringing a guest. and Renne Peters to receive their Raffle Grand Prize

PRESIDENT'S THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK 1/16/10 Reception for Ron Motta and Gary
McClernan at Gordon and Irene’s house
“Tell the truth when you can, and when you
can’t, don’t tell a lie” Bill Moyers 1/22/10 Club Assembly – VOM Rotary Vision Plan
1/27/10 Bunco East Rec Center 6:00 PM

1/28/10 – SCARC Sonoma Valley

1/29/10 - Oakmont Emergency Preparedness – Fred
Polkinghorn

1/30/10 – The Good, the Crab, and the Ugly. Santa
Rosa West Rotary Crab Feed. Sonoma County
Fairgrounds. $60 per person. 478-2211 for
reservations

4/30/10 VOM Rotary Charter Dinner

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS

Please submit any corrections or omissions to
Barb Spangler for insertion in the next bulletin.

Editor: Barb Spangler
Publisher: Jack Monahan
Photographer Jack Monahan

President: Gordon Freedman; President Elect: Valerie
Hulsey; Secretary: Pat Randall; Treasurer: Arnie
Lamb; Jerry Dion; Sgt-At-Arms