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LANO SUNRISE ROTARY

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VOL 9 NO 13

SUNRISE @ 6:31  SUNSET @ 8:15      Clear   68° F

May 9, 2008

PRAYER
Jennifer Smith
 

PLEDGE
Bill Moore
 

4-WAY TEST
Bud McBrayer

JOKE
Off Duty


 

Breakfast Begins and Rene is ready to dish up breakfast as the club wino, Warner Richeson, tries to add some spice to the eggs.

Before he gets too far into the introductions, Sgt-at-Arms Doug Cargo has found visiting Rotarian Ken Maun and decided to fine him $0.25 of his appraised Rotary pin value for not wearing his pin to the meeting. Then, when he could not put his fork down during his introduction, his fined was reappraised and raised to $1.00.

Other visiting Rotarians and guests were Tom Muehlenbeck (Tourist) from the Plano club, Art, the Greek, "Smith", guest of Don Mellor, Lynn Nipper, guest of Michelle Robbins, and Honorary Member, Hunter Hanks.

Absent were: Matt Brown, Richard Butterly, David Daniels, Terry Dobbins, George Elwell, Rod Hogan, Ray Hopper, Judy Jackson, Ken Lambert, Sharon Lewis, Juergen Mahneke, Bill Petersen, Robert Posner, John Roach, Greg Rushin, and Richard Wells.  

The disruptions continued as Paul Huang's cell phone rang. Did you really think you could get any shorter, Paul? Then, two members, Don Wilhelmus and Shep Stahel were called out and fined for failing to inform and apologize to the speaker for their planned early departures.

Now to the business of the day.... Grape gatherer, Warner Richeson, thought that the Merlot was a bit heavy for ham and eggs so he asked club members to bring more bottles for testing with the oatmeal. He announced that we are at 50% of our 150 bottle goal.

David Marks announced that there will be a Greet the Troops event at DFW on May 24th.

Tom Rodgers announced that we will be in the Plano July 4th parade. The theme is 'Let Freedom Ring'. We are on the hopeful list for the Marine Band to join us and a flyover to take place. Tom continued his floor time by noting that the next blood drive is June 24th.

Retiring Plano City Council member Shep Stahel was honored for his service with the presentation of a book in his name to the Nellie McCall library at the David McCall Elementary School. President Richard delivered some nice words and Shep was thanked with a standing O. The book that was donated is titled "Vote".

The program was introduced by Michelle Robbins. The speaker, Garland McWatters, spoke about restoring heart and soul in the workplace. We don't need to convince people to give heart and soul. We just need to allow them to give heart and soul. As is our custom, a book was donated to the Nellie McCall Library at the David McCall Elementary and signed by the speaker. The book was "If You Give a Pig a Party".

The meeting ended with club member John Payton being recognized for his commencement speech at a local Plano high school.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:  
Fri, May  9 -              Garland McWatters,  Unleashing Heart & Soul in the Workplace again.
Mon, May 12-19 -    United Kingdom Adventure.
Fri, May 16 -           Mark "Red" Boswell, Finding opportunities and having fun.
Fri, May 23 -            Armando de la Fuente (KUVN), Digital TV transition on Feb 7, 2009.
Fri, May 30 -            Army Captain & WestPoint Cadet
Fri, June  6 -              Michio Kaku,  The Future of Time Travel. <LINK>
Fri, June 13 -             Bill Bragg, The State Fair of Texas, Sept 26, - Oct 19, 2008. <LINK>
Fri, June 20 -
Fri, June 27 -
Sun-Fri, June 8-13    Camp RYLA.
Mon, Oct 20 -           Oktoberfest at the Bavarian Grill.