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Meeting
Date and Place
Thursday, February 9th, 2012, at 12:15 PM - at the Cameron Park Country Club |
Words
of Wisdom
Words of Wisdom by Dave Bunje; the Greeter will be Fritz Engel; and Jim Buckley will be at the Front Desk. |
Program
Vicki Puliz, District 5190, will describe and discuss the New Generations Avenue of Service program for Middle School students. A number of local Middle School principals will be our Club guests for lunch to hear Vicki's presentation. |
Last
Week
 The meeting this past week was the Club’s annual Music Contest, with five outstanding Ponderosa High School musicians competing for a place in the Rotary Area 6 Music Contest, and potentially going on to the District 5190 Music Contest. Chris Moore was the contest coordinator and emcee, under the auspices of Club Vocational Service Chair Shiva Frentzen. The contest was held at Reverend Dave Bunje’s Foothills United Methodist Church, as the acoustics in the church are wonderful, as well as having a well-tuned piano!
Chris announced that the Club judges for the contest would be scoring each contestant on a wide variety of elements, including musical ability, audience reaction and interaction, sound, stage presence, musical empathy, and selecting a work which appropriately showcases the contestant’s musical abilities. In addition, Chris noted that the performance had to be more than three minutes and not longer than eight minutes in length.
The first contestant was Laura, who played the piano and performed a modern popular piece titled “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, written by Keith Reid and Gary Brooker. The arrangement she played was done by David Lanz and was a wonderful showcase of both simple melody and complex counter-melodies.
Our next contestant was Alec, a violinist, who played composer Max Bruch’s “Concerto in G Minor”, a technically challenging and interesting piece to play.
Following Alec was Nick, who played the classic standard “When I Fall in Love”, composed by Victor Young with lyrics by Edward Heyman. Nick’s instrument of choice was the trumpet and the sounds of warm brass echoed throughout the performance venue.
The fourth contestant was Gretchen, who performed Claude Debussy’s work “Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum” one of six piano solos from Debussy’s “Children’s Corner” work. The piece has a number of complex portions which wonderfully highlight the performer’s abilities.
The last, but not least performer, was Ryan, a guitarist who played a modern piece by Mr. Big titled “Going Where the Wind Blows”, which was performed at one time by The Grateful Dead. The warmth of the acoustic guitar was like being in a coffee bar listening to an “open mike” performance.
Between contestants performing, Chris Moore challenged the Club members with his 14-question Paul Harris & Rotary Quiz, which included such questions as “Name at least three of the jobs Paul Harris held while traveling during the five years after he graduated from law school.” Another question was “How did Rotary end up in Europe?” and “When did Rotary return to Mainland China?” Needless to say, it was no surprise that out of the six tables of Rotarians, the table with the highest number of correct answers was “occupied” by PDG Bob “I am Paul Harris” Dorr.
The judges’ final ballots and figures were tabulated by Shiva and Club Vice President Mike Collom, presiding for Club President Ben Foulk, was happy and proud to present the contestants with their awards. First Place went to Gretchen, Second Place went to Alec and Laura, Nick and Ryan all placed as Runner Up.
Thus closed another wonderful and successful annual Club Music Contest, featuring and highlighting the talented young musicians from our Club’s area. VP Mike thanked Reverend Dave for the use of his beautiful facility and piano and brought the meeting to a successful close with the last note to be played that day – the ring of the Rotary Bell.
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Presidents
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 CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chris Moore, Emcee Extraordinaire for the Club Music Contest, noted that his attempt to get lunch table groups to do karaoke at last year’s contest between performers was less than successful. In order to engage his fellow Cameron Park Rotarians this year, Chris announced he had prepared a Paul Harris Quiz and the table team which had the most answers correct about Rotary Founder Paul Harris and Rotary would win tickets to an upcoming Ponderosa High School musical performance.
As Yogi Berra says “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over!” and Christmas Dinner & Auction Chair Steve Long announced he was handing out letters to everyone who had made auction donations. The letters thanked the donors for their participation in the auction process and provided the tax identification number for the Cameron Park Rotary Community Foundation so that the cost of the donations can be tax deductible, if so desired. For those Club members who successfully solicited donations from businesses, Steve encouraged those members to either photocopy the letter they received or ask him for one to give to the business so that their donation can also be tax deductible.
Bill Gallant mentioned that materials to facilitate repairs on the irrigation system at the Veerkamp Park Observatory location have been purchased and repairs to the system are underway.
Bill also noted that the Club Board had just approved Christmas in April Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army as the Club’s Rotary At Work Day activity for this coming April. Bill and Bernie Dowse will coordinate the activity again this year. This is a great event with Rotarians from all the local Clubs helping out at almost two dozen locations on the Western Slope. Christmas in April by the Rotary has, over the past three years, raised almost as much money in one day for the local Salvation Army unit as the Army’s annual local efforts between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day! Signup sheets for two-hour shifts and the various locations will be forthcoming in the near future. This is a great Rotary “team” event, great public awareness of Rotary, and Salvation Army’s requests for assistance on the Western Slope have risen over 300% in the past few years.
In closing out the Christmas in April announcement, Bill commented that the past three years he has hosted an “après-event” barbeque at his American River estate, but he will not be able to hold the event after this year’s bell-ringing. As a result, if anyone is interested in or able to host such an event for all of the Rotarians involved in bell-ringing that day, please contact Bill.
SPECIAL NOTE FOR MARCH CLUB ASSIGNMENTS - Rick Spicer would like to note that those members who signed up for Club Assignments for the March 15th meeting are "excused", as that meeting will actually be the Area Music Contest in Placerville. |
Noted
Rotarians
 HAPPY & NOT-SO-HAPPY BUCKS
Irina Green & Rick Spicer were proud to announce that Honorary Rotary Club of Cameron Park Canine Companions for Independence Puppy-In-Training Tiarra has successfully completed 5-1/2 months of professional Advanced Training and has been selected to go into the final two weeks of Advanced Training, known as Team Training. During Team Training, the CCI trainers attempt to match up the skill sets of the dogs with the needs of the disabled people attending the two week course. Only 35% of all of the dogs make it this far and there will be 17 people and 22 dogs entering Team Training, so Irina and Rick are keeping their paws crossed that Tiarra, aka “Little Red”, stays the course and will graduate as a Service Dog on February 17th in Santa Rosa. Tiarra making it to this stage of training was worth $10 in Very Happy Bucks to Irina and Rick.
This was the Club’s first annual Club Music Contest without the presence of long-time Cameron Park Rotarian and master musician Norm Headley, who passed away last summer. Chris Moore reminded Club members of Norm’s musical legacy to the Club and offered up $10 in Happy Bucks.
Sabrina Ho observed that 10 years ago she bought Bass Lake Golf Course and in addition, this is her 30th anniversary of arriving in the U.S. Both of these wonderful and memorable events were worth $30 in Happy Bucks for Sabrina.
Well, the Club’s International Service Project Search Team, consisting of Club President Ben Foulk, Club International Service Chair PDG Bob Dorr, and Club Secretary Jim Buckley had a great trip to Costa Rica last week in search of a project for our Club. As a result of having a successful and enjoyable trip, and sharing fellowship with some wonderful Costa Rican Rotarians while there, PDG Bob offered up $5 in Happy Bucks.
Past President Anne Eckert added another $5 to the Club Coffers as a self-imposed fine for arriving at the Club meeting a few minutes late. Although PP Anne is a Bell Ringer for RY 2011-12 and is exempt from fines, as an outstanding Rotarian, she insisted that she wanted to pay this one.
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Birthdays
in February
Bob Clarke
Mike Collom
Sig Hansen
Rube Jessop
Ron Losel
Dave Sargent
David Tavernetti
-----Spouses-----
Barbara Dorr
Gina Foulk
Starleen Keating
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Anniversaries
in February
Vickie & Christensen-McLain
Chuck & JoAnn LePere
Mike & Trudy Neal
Rick & Irina Green Spicer
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Upcoming
Calendar
February 16, 2012 - Bob Dorr will report on the International Service team's trip to the Rotary Project Fair in Costa Rica
February 23, 2012 - Gail Ervin will give a presentation on World Peace Day.
March 1, 2012 - Club Speech Contest.
March 8, 2012 - "My Turn" - the biography of a fellow CP Rotarian
March 15, 2012 - Area 6 Speech Contest, hosted by Placerville Rotary at The Sequoia - NOTE: Evening activity IN PLACE of our normal lunch meeting. Attendance counts! |
Upcoming
Words of Wisdom/Greeter Assignments
February 16, 2012 - Words of Wisdom by PDG Bob Dorr; the Greeter will be Ron Losel; and Mike Collom will be at the Front Desk.
February 23, 2012 - Words of Wisdom by Irina Green; the Greeter will be Rick Spicer; and John Zanatta will be at the Front Desk.
March 1, 2012 - Words of Wisdom by David Tavernetti; the Greeter will be Steve Long; and Shiva Frentzen will be at the Front Desk.
March 8, 2012 - Words of Wisdom by Dave Bunje; the Greeter will be Art Cort; and Alan Clarke will be on the Front Desk.
March 15, 2012 - NO CLUB ASSIGNMENTS. Area 6 Speech Contest in Placerville.
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The
Last Word
 DATES TO REMEMBER:
Mike Neal has put together a photo series of our Rotary Christmas Dinner and Auction - 2011. See link at the bottom of this web page.
Web site, photography and artwork through the talents of Mike Neal. |
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/ The Russian Engineer`s team from Vladivostock Photographs
