Rotary Club El Centro, California

Eusebio Arballo, President 2013-2014 Celebrate Rotary Number 15 for the Week of October 10, 2013

The El Centro Rotary Club meets Thursday,

noon at the PAL Facility, located 1100

North 4th Street. If you miss Rotary, you

miss out!

District Governor Carl Kruse gave an inspiring presentation on the work that Ro-tary International performs throughout the world. He talked about his trip to India and the work that Rotary does to provide Polio vaccinations to the children of third world countries. He told

us about the home that his Rotary Club helped build in Ti-juana, Mex-ico, in one day none the less (No waiting for building

inspections in Mexico) and the satisfaction that he felt when he handed the keys to the new owners, a family who had been living in a cardboard and corrugated tin metal shack. Carl reminded us that we can all be “Torch Bearers” in our community and then he showed us the new Rotary banner with the slogan “Engage Rotary, Change Lives.” A certificate was presented to Ed Snively and accepted by President Sebio who also received a certificate for the out-standing work he is doing for Rotary. Bob Hahn received a pin by Carl for his working on the membership committee. Carl brought his torch from the Salt Lake City winter Olympics and gave members an opportunity to pass the torch car-ry and then pass the torch.

WHINING AND FINING

There was not any whining and fining due to the District Governors visit.

Legacy

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Georgia Libsack had the winning ticket, but drew the white chip.

Pledge, Prayer and Song

Visiting Rotarians and Rotarians With Guests

Our visiting Rotari-ans included Gover-nor Carl Kruse from the Rancho Bernar-do Sunrise Club, Joeph Dhalliwal our Assistant Governor

from the Holtville Club, Judge Jeff Jones from the Brawley, Rod Smart from the Im-

perial Breakfast Club and Permanent Visiting Member, Richard Acosta. Also joining us were Norm Self and his wife

ROTARY MINUTE Neal Hitch explained the origin of Yankee Doodle Dandy which involved a brief history of the American Revolution-ary War and an explanation of how the Hollywood movie industry had used artist license to portray the American

Colonials as experts in guerrilla war-fare when in reality they utilized the rather foolish tactic of standing in ranks, in open fields, firing at the

British Army. There will be quiz on this at the next meet-ing.

The pledge was led by Bob Hahn, the prayer was of-fered by Bob Mapes and the pat-riotic song was strummed by Neal

Hitch as the Rotarian sang Yan-kee Doodle Dandy.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nancy Thornburg explained the evolution of the process of placing labels in the dictionaries. For many years Nancy and her husband would place the labels in the dictionaries by themselves. This was a long and tedious process. Nancy’s hus-band encouraged her to find a more efficient way to label the dictionaries. He suggested that she utilize the low cost labor that was available at the Rotary Club. Nancy followed her husband’s ad-vice and now they wonder what to do with all of the extra time that they have in their lives.

Jennifer Thomason announced that the Hand and Heart would be providing flue shots for senior’s at the SHS MPR on Saturday. Ron Griffen reminded everyone about the wine tasting and pumpkin carving event that he and Sara are hosting on Fri-day October 18. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Pastor Ron at rongriffen@gmail.com