Rotary Club of Montecito

Tuesday’s @ Noon at the Montecito Country Club

Rotary InternationalRon D. BurtonRI President 2013-2014

District 5240

Jack McClenahanDistrict Governor 2013-2014

Rosslyn RayAssistant District Governor 2013-2014

John GlanvillePresident 2013-2014

Marc FleischmanSecretary & President Elect 2014-2015

Joseph Kirkland Treasurer

Murray RayPast President

Directors

Lynda Nahra, MembershipMark Magid, ServiceRobert Mislang, Programs & YouthAaron Clark, Public RelationsPaul Kresmer, Grants & RI

P.O. Box 40218, Santa Barbara, CA 93140

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3/27/14Good Afternoon,

Bill Gates just announced on Facebook that the World Health Organization has certified Southeast Asia as polio free.

Here is part of the article:

Tomorrow (3/27), the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to officially certify that south-east Asia, formerly one of the regions with the worst levels of polio, has eradicated the disease, after India found new no cases in the previous three years. (The WHO counts India as part of south-east Asia.)

The news comes at a key time for the people trying to stop polio for good: They’ve missed their deadline several times and need a global push to make polio the second human disease, after smallpox, to be eradicated outright.

Here is the link to the full article: http://qz.com/191860/why-its-worth-it-to-eradicate-polio/#b03g27f20b14

Good Times Doing Good!

There were 406 cases of polio world-wide in 2013.

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President's Message April 1, 2014

Back from the mountains of Sun Valley with more videos and pictures of my son skiing, tobogganing, tubing, and more! And it is great to know the Club is in great hands with Carolyn at the podium and Lynda running the program last week! Thank you! Following an invocation by Sherry Melchiorre and flag salute, Del Heglund led the Rotary Club of Montecito Choir in “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” in honor of anything and everything civic related and specifically our guest speaker Mayor Helene Schneider.

We want to thank those members who have invited guests to join us today… and our visitors from afar including Clas from Stuttgart (on his way back to Europe this week!), Bill Lindberg (yes, there is less snow here than in Minnesota… and Bill appreciates being here!), and Murray & Ross’s friend from Down Under! Quite the international crowd visiting!

A number of Happy Bucks and Fines received this week: President John paid for skiing in Sun Valley last week, John Brinker paid for mention of the Botanical Gardens, Jim Bechtel paid for a color photograph of himself and his Wells Fargo colleagues, and we passed on fining Jennifer Goddard for her Montecito Journal “Rotarian of the Month” article that ran last week! Lots and lots of other Happy Bucks… this is a very “happy” Club! Thank you for your support!

Bill filled us in on this week’s “ABCs of Rotary” with a note that April is Rotary “Magazine Month”. All of us receive a copy of the Rotary International magazine with articles, news, photos, and more; this is great information you can use on Rotary’s purpose and impact!

The Top 10 Reasons for joining Rotary are included in this AXIS for your reading pleasure. There will be more to follow on Membership, the Ignite Report, and an upcoming New Member Breakfast. In the method of David Letterman a la “The Top Ten...” the next reason to join our Rotary Club is: Reason #3. “For the camaraderie and new friendships.”

JT is missing in action… but we celebrated Emily’s Birthday and Larry’s anniversary!

With great appreciation to the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara including Carolyn and her colleague Tyler and all the boys and girls who worked the car wash this last Saturday, we are officially complete with our Polio Plus Goal for 2013-2014! The $440 raised by our friends at Interact brings our total for this effort to $3,563 and the $2 for $1 match from the Gates Foundation means we are at $10,689 in support of the Polio Eradication Effort that Rotary International has spearheaded for the last 25 years! Thank you to all our donors, contributors of auction items, and supporters in this great effort for our Club!

Mark brought us up-to-date on the Golf Tournament and Raffle Tickets; get your foursomes ready and help us make this a fun and successful effort for our Club!

Kati and Carol discussed the upcoming SBCC Vocational Scholarship Awards luncheon at SBCC; note we will be meeting at SBCC Cafe on Tuesday April 22. We will send parking instructions when they are available.

Murray reminded us to get our local non-profits to submit their grant applications to the Foundation on or before April 8, 2014; the grant application is located on the Club Web Site under “Downloads”.

Polio Plus Goal of $3,500 Surpassed!

John, Tyler and Carolyn

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Sidebar: She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain!

Our speaker this week is well known to the Montecito Club, Mayor of Santa Barbara, Helene Schneider. As necessary for a speaker on April Fool’s Day,Helene started with news that Montecito had been incorporated into Santa Barbara… and I think she caught a few members! Well done!

The Mayor then reviewed Santa Barbara’s finances noting revenues from Bed Taxes has recovered from pre-recession levels, provided an update on the drought

Mayor of Santa Barbara, including aspects of the regional approach, desalination, efforts the City is taking Helene Schneider and John to limit “outdoor” water use, and provided the interesting data point that the City

is using 20% less water today than it was during the previous drought. Amazing how much information a Mayor needs to know about critical developments like water supply and drought. On to discussions of sustainability (how much energy can you save upgrading the water heaters at Los Banos pools?), various projects large and small throughout Santa Barbara including major infrastructure projects, a review of services and progress on homelessness, youth programs, gangs and at risk youth, and the Art Alliance, and City connections, engagement, and support with Business. Amazing the Mayor was able to fit all that in within our limited speaking time and manage to field a few questions at the end as well! Thank you to Chris DeVries for the introduction and to Emily for lining up this speaker.

I am looking forward to seeing you next Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 12noon at the Montecito Country Club. Next week’s program is David Fields with the Society of St. Vincent De Paul and a return music program with the Montecito Union Choir! Not to be missed!

Good Times Doing Good!

John-

Santa Barbara Mayor,Helene Schneider and John

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She'll be wearing pink pajamas when she comes (when she comes)

She'll be wearing pink pajamas when she comes (when she comes)

She'll be wearing pink pajamas She'll be wearing pink pajamas

She'll be wearing pink pajamas when she comes (when she comes)

Although the first printed version of the song appeared in Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag in 1927, the song is believed to have been written during the late 1800s.

The song was based on an old spiritual titled “When the Chariot Comes”, which is sung to the same melody. During the 19th century it spread through Appalachia where the lyrics were changed in their current form. The song was later sung by railroad work gangs in the Midwestern United States in the 1890s.

The song’s style is reminiscent of the call and response structure of many folk songs of the time, where one person would shout the first line and the others repeat.

She'll be coming ‘round the mountain when she comes (when she comes)

She'll be coming ‘round the mountain when she comes (when she comes)

she'll be coming ‘round the mountain, she'll be coming ‘round the mountain,

she'll be coming ‘round the mountain when she comes! (when she comes)

Oh, we'll all go out to meet her when she comes (when she comes)

Oh, we'll all go out to meet her when she comes (when she comes)

Oh we'll all go out to meet her Oh we'll all go out to meet her

Oh we'll all go out to meet her when she comes (when she comes)

She'll be wearing pink pajamas when she comes (when she comes)

She'll be wearing pink pajamas when she comes (when she comes)

She'll be wearing pink pajamas She'll be wearing pink pajamas

She'll be wearing pink pajamas when she comes (when she comes)

Geo Query: When and Where did April Fool's Day originate?

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April Fools' Day (sometimes called April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day) is an old custom celebrated every year on the first day of April. Popular since medieval times, the day is not a national holiday in any country, but it is widely recognized throughout European cultures and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other, both the jokes and their victims being known as "April fools". Hoax stories may be reported by the press and other media on this day and explained on subsequent days. A popular theory for the origin of the holiday holds that those who continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April 1st after the 1582 implementation of the Gregorian Christian calendar were mocked as "fools" or "fish". In several countries, the fish is a common symbol of the tradition.

Origins:This is an 1857 ticket to "Washing the Lions" at the Tower of London, in London. No such event ever took place.

A variety of explanations have been given for the April Fools tradition, many associated with early Christian practice. The custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon one's neighbor is almost universal, and yet nothing positive seems to be known of its origin. Precursors of April Fools' Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria, held March 25, and the Medieval Feast of Fools, held December 28, still a day on which pranks are played in Spanish-speaking countries.

One belief is that the reason All Fools' Day now falls in April is related to the 1582 implementation of the Gregorian calendar reform in France, which shifted the marking of the arrival of the new year from a week-long gift-giving celebration spanning March 25 to April 1 to a single-day observance on January 1. "When some people, whether out of stubbornness or lack of information, persisted in celebrating the new-year at the end of March, others started to mock ... with gag gifts and other teasing gestures". In France an April fool is called a poisson d'avril, an "April fish," perhaps because young fish that appear in streams around this time of the year are more easily caught than older, cagier fish. French shops sell chocolates shaped like fish for the occasion. People try to pin paper fish on each other's backs as a joke, and the perpetrator cries out triumphantly, "April fish!"

Other accounts go back to the time of Noah and the ark, the London Public Advertiser of March 13, 1769, published the following paragraph concerning this theory: "The mistake of Noah sending the dove out of the ark before the water had abated, on the first day of April, and to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance it was thought proper, whoever forgot so remarkable a circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeveless errand similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the patriarch."

Other accounts argue that April is the time of the year, around Easter when the passion of Jesus took place and Jesus was sent back and forth from one official to another — from Annas to Caiaphas, from Caiaphas to Pilate, and from Pilate to Herod to be mocked and tormented, and that from this arose our present custom, "by which we send one place to another such persons as we think proper objects of our ridicule".[6] The French name for an April fool (poisson d'Avril) is offered as support for this on the supposition that "poisson" is a corruption of "passion."

In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392), the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Many modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, Syn March was gon. Thus, the passage originally meant 32 days after April, i.e. 2 May, the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. Readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean "March 32", i.e. April 1. In Chaucer's tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.

In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally "April fish"), a possible reference to the practise of pranking. In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on April 1. In 1686, John Aubrey referred to "Fooles holy day", the first British reference. On April 1, 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed".

In the Middle Ages, up until the late 18th century, New Year's Day was celebrated on March 25 (Feast of the Annunciation) in most European towns. In some areas of France, New Year's was a week-long holiday ending on April 1. Many writers suggest that April Fools originated because those who celebrated on January 1 mocked of those who celebrated on other dates. The use of January 1 as New Year's Day was common in France by the mid-16th century, and this date was adopted officially in 1564 by the Edict of Roussillon.

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Committee News: You will note increased activity on our Club’s “Signature Programs” like the “Public Safety Awards” (thank you Lynda!), the “SBCC Vocational Scholarships” (thank you Kati and Carol!), and our "Annual Golf Tournament & Dinner" (thank you Carolyn, Bill, and Team!). These events seem to magically happen but actually take a lot of effort by dedicated Rotarians willing to pitch in and make things happen! Please thank these Rotarians the next time you see them for their efforts on behalf of our Club and Rotary!

Also, please extend a hearty "Thank You" to our Board and Committee members for their service to the Club this year. We would not be Club we are today without their efforts!

The process of updating the Paul Harris Fellow program awards credit for each Rotarian in the Club continues; please extend a hearty thank you to Joe Kirkland and Marc Fleischman for taking this on. In addition to sorting out what qualifies for PHF credit at TRF (The Rotary Foundation) we will be clarifying what each item on your quarterly invoice is and where your dollars go!

PRLS stands forPotential Rotary Leaders Seminars

It is a program of District 5240 / Upcoming Conferences include: The schedule and registration information can be found here: http://www.prls.org/calendar.html

Quote of the Day: "No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody always helps you." - Athlete, Althea Gibson

News and Notices

Saturday, 4/5/14 East Courtyard Bakersfield

MASTER PRLS 3 Facilitation Skills

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News and Notices

Join us on a Rotary Project Safari to Queretaro, Mexico

Projects are planned with DG Jack’s attendance at the D4160 District Conference. Last year, about 20 of us accompanied the DG, bringing successful projects to distribute solar lights, fabricate reading glasses and work on a school. Homestays are being arranged. Volunteers are needed, so bring along your family and friends.

Let’s Go to Mexico ! April 7-10, 2014

You are receiving this as a Club President, RYLA Coordinator or past Counselor of RYLA

April 24 - 27, 2014 - Only 69 Days To Go!

RYLA is looking for some great Volunteers Please PRINT & SHARE at your next Meeting

& Forward to Your Membership List Click to Download Color Version

Click to Download Black & White Version

1-4 June 2014

You can take advantage of special travel discounts to make it easier to get to - and enjoy - Sydney, which is packed with family-friendly activities. Save on international and domestic travel to Sydney offered by our official airlines, Emirates Airlines and Qantas Airways. The New South Wales Government is offering convention-goers free transit passes for travel on ferries, buses, and trains in the greater Sydney metropolitan area from 29 May through 5 June. Learn more about the discounts and the other details for this year's event at www.RIconvention.org.

For more information visit the District website at: http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/Home.aspx?did=5240

105th Annual Rotary International Convention

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News and Notices

We need your Pictures and Comments for Axis! Going on a trip ?

Visiting Friends?

Most Fun you had last Week?

Doing Good While Having a Good time ?

All are worthy contect for our weekly newsletter!

Please visit our club website at: www.montecitorotary.org Update your roster listing information including Photo!

Visit Rotary International site at: www.rotary.orgupdate your access information and register

The Top 10 Reasons to Join the Montecito Rotary Club 1. One person can make a difference and together as Rotarians we can

have a stronger impact. (I am one‐Rotary is many.)2. For camaraderie, and new friendships.3. To serve locally, nationally or internationally.4. To learn more about other cultures.5. For a way to share your talent and resources effectively.6. To have a place to go each week to connect with like‐minded people who

motivate you.7. To make life‐long relationships.8. To be part of something bigger than yourself.9. To hear an interesting speaker each week and learn what is going on in the

community.10. To be able to take advantage of the true “family” of rotary while

traveling nationally or internationally.

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Missed a Meeting? Make it Up!Day: Club: Place: Time:Tuesday Goleta Noontime Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course) 11:45 am

Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course) 06:30 pmSilvergreens on Chapala 06:30 pm

Wednesday Carpinteria Women’s Club 07:00 amSanta Barbara Club 07:00 amHarry’s Plaza Café 12:00 Noon

Thursday Lion’s Community Park 11:45 am

Goleta (2nd and 4th) Rotaract (1st and 3rd) Carpinteria Morning Santa Barbara Sunrise Santa Barbara North Carpinteria Santa Barbara DowntownOne World Rotary Club

Fess Parker Double Tree 12:00 Noon

Weekly AssignmentsInvocation / Flag Salute: Rob MislangBackup: Diane Gabriel50/50 Raffle: Jerry HoranGreeter: Seth Gewirtz

Weekly Updates

Upcoming Programs

FridayAny Day at all,24/7/365!

http://www.oneworldrotary.org/

Setup / Breakdown Team - The Yellow Team includes: James Bechtel, Andrew Berwick, John Brinker, Carolyn Brown, Kati Buehler, Aaron Clark, Chris DeVries

FOUR WAY TEST

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

April is the YELLOW Team!

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PLEASE NOTE: Please have submissions to Maggie Garey at maggie.garey@maps.com, by Wednesday morning following the meeting. Thank you!

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Visit www.montecitorotary.org for a full calendar list of speakers and events!

April 8 Society of St. Vincent De Paul / David Fields MUS Performance at Noon

YELLOW

Yellow

Hannah-Beth JacksonApril 15

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22 Vocational Scholarship Awards Luncheon / Gretchen A. HewlettApril

President’s MessageApril 2014

Dear fellow Rotarians,

Ron D. Burton President, Rotary International

Ron D. Burton

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Like attending a Rotary club meeting, reading Rotary magazines is an essential part of the shared experience of being a Rotarian. When you pick up a Rotary publication, whether it's Rotary Down Under in Australia and New Zealand, or The Rotary-No-Tomo in Japan, you'll find that every single one does just what it's meant to do: It informs, and it inspires. It keeps you up to date with Rotary news, brings you new ideas for your Rotary service, and tells stories that are relevant and meaningful to you. To me, these publications around the world are a tangible representation of Rotary's greatest strength: that each club is a local, community-based entity, engaged in a truly global network.

This organization is incredibly large and diverse, and as much as we all have in common in Rotary, we are not a place where one size fits all. Our expectations of a magazine, both culturally and linguistically, are naturally going to be different. With our regional publications, Rotarians in Bulgaria can find out what's going on in Rotary in Bulgaria, and what's going on elsewhere in the Rotary world, along with the latest news from Evanston. Because each one of our Rotary publications belongs to the family of Rotary magazines – each one is, like every Rotary club, both fully local and fully part of our international identity.

One of the greatest privileges of being RI president is the ability to speak directly, every month, to every one of our 1.2 million Rotarians. It's awe-inspiring to me, as I write this, to think of all of you, sitting down in your living rooms or at the breakfast table or maybe on the train to work, reading these words, and then turning the page to find out what's new in Rotary. And overwhelmingly, that is exactly what each of you does. Not just because your Rotary magazine turns up in the mailbox, or because you feel you have to – but because Rotary magazines are good magazines. I hope that when you pick up your publication – whichever one you're reading right now – you get the same feeling of pride, and ambition, that I do.

Rotary magazines remind us that as Rotarians, we are all part of something larger than ourselves. They show us just how much we can achieve through Rotary. Through them, we see what our Foundation dollars do, we see what our fellow Rotarians are doing, and we are inspired to Engage Rotary, Change Lives even more.