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THE ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA MARIA

Make Dreams Real

President’s Message

Dr. Kenneth Nelson2008-2009 President

January 13, 2009

THE ROTATOR

President’s Message + 1

Club Calendar 2

Frank’s Pictures 3

Frank’s Pictures 4

Area Meetings 5

Graduation List 6

Wine Makers Dinner 7

Inside this issue:

Frank Culley, Editor

fculley.rotary@gmail.com

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THE ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA MARIA

The Rotary Club of

Santa Maria

Board of Directors

2008-09

President:

Kenneth Nelson

President Elect:

Susan Rees

Past President:

Scott Dunn

Club Administration:

Bob Frias

Membership:

Jim Buttery

Public Relations:

OPEN

International:

Gillian Andrews

Club Service:

David Merlo

Laura Mohajer

The Rotary Foundation:

Tom Martinez

Secretary:

John Henning

Treasurer:

Lindsey McDonald

Make Dreams RealRotary Calendar

Bulletin questions or comments? E-mail fculley.rotary@gmail.com or call 805-934-7091

JANUARY

Happy New Year!

FEBRUARY

2-12 Wine Maker’s Dinner

2-22 United Way Trivia Contest

2-21 Community Service Day

MARCH

BLOOD DRIVE CONTEST

HYGIENE KITS

3-03 ON-SITE VISIT

APRIL

Second Fundraiser

Boys & Girls Club Talent Show

MAY

KCOY Food Drive

JUNE

Business Ethics Award

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

DICTIONARY PROJECT

Community Service, David Merlo

CONTRIBUTIONS

Membership, Jim Buttery

Rotator, Frank Culley

Web Site, Roy Dugger

http://www.rotaryclubofsantamaria.org/

Sign-up & Participate Today!

Contacts for Current Rotary Projects

January Programs

January 13

Polio Plus

January 20

Ann McCarty—North County Rape Crisis

& Child Protection Center

January 27

Dennis Law / Will Ambler—Oceano Dunes Beach

Race & Festival (Spinal Cord Injury)

February Programs

February 3

Dr. Ann Foxworthy—Lewellen

Marian Hospital Expansion

February 10

Possible Off-Site

TBA

February 17

Catherine Aceto

LifeSteps Foundation

February 24

TBA

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Andrew’s “Rotary Portraits”Bob (and Ken)plotting?

Part 2 of the plot? They’ve beencaught. Arethose guiltylooks?

The moneychangers hardat work

Fred introduces areally “rowdy” guest

Teri Lee introducesa “chicken farmer”or “goat herder” orsomething like that

Tara introducesher guest

Is Judy trying tohide?

Here he is tryingto sell us tickets tosomething. Hey,do we go try to sellthem stuff?

Scott introducesour securityguard. Check outthe look he’sgiving Scott

Due to the “rowdy”behavior on the partof some Rotarians,we now have aSecurity Guard tokeep order

Susan intro-duces a visitorfrom PasoRobles doing amakeup.

Leah introducesher guest

Karen intro-duces her guest

Photos and Captions courtesy of

“me”

In training, heck I’ll do almostanything

Our Pres. Ken,doing his job.Probably as-sessing fines

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Andrew’s “Rotary Portraits”Bob with anupdate on theWine MakersDinner

What is Leah sohappy about?

Judy is trying toget Hardy to getup and talk

Dr. Buttery con-vincing Rik that hislights were betterthan Rik’s, and upfirst

Photos and Captions courtesy of

“me”

Judy telling usabout her Christ-mas. Love thosehats

Hans gets adouble fine forsomething

Karen introduc-ing our guestspeaker, CrystalMoreno of TeenCourt

Crystal waxingeloquent

Drawing for thebig bucks. SorryFred

I don’t think that“special” marblewas even inthere

Can’t beat agreat bottle ofLucas & Lewel-len wine

By popular de-mand. Here he isPatrice.

Carlie “Quipping”as only Carlie canquip

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Make Dreams Real

MONDAYS

6:00 P SANTA MARIA SOUTH

THE HISTORIC SANTA MARIA INN

12:10 SAN LUIS OBISPO

MADONA INN

TUESDAYS

7:OOA SLO DAYBREAK

FAIRWAYS RESTAURANT

CAMBRIA SUNRISE

LAS CAMBRITAS

SOLVANG BREAKFAST

ROYAL SCANDINAVIAN

TEMPLETON

MCPHEE’S

12:00 THE ROTARY CLUB OF

SANTA MARIA

THE HISTORIC SANTA MARIA INN

PISMO BEACH

PELICAN POINT

MORRO BAY

THE MORRO BAY GOLF COURSE

WEDNESDAYS

7:00 A GROVER BEACH

SPYGLASS PISMO

NIPOMO

BLACK LAKE GOLF RESORT

PASO ROBLES SUNRISE

PASO ROBLES COUNTRY CLUB

12:00 ATASCADERO

LAKESIDE PAVILLION

SAN LUIS DE TOLOSA

MADONNA INN

12:10 SANTA YNEZ VALLEY

ROYAL SCANDINAVIAN

6:00 P LOMPOC ROTARY CLUB

LOMPOC EMBASSY SUITES

THURSDAYS

7:00 A SANTA MARIA BREAKFAST

SANTA MARIA INN

12:00 PASO ROBLES

PASO ROBLES COUNTRY CLUB

ARROYO GRANDE

STEAMERS PISMO BEACH

FRIDAYS

6:45 A VANDENBERG VILLAGE

VILLAGE COUNTRY CLUB

7:00 A LOS OSOS

MARE BLU RISTORANTE

12:00 CAMBRIA

THE BRAMBLES

The Rotary Club of Santa Maria

http://www.prls.org/

PRLS CORNER

"cyber make-ups"

www.rotarydistrict5240.org

PRLS 2009 Schedule

Location to be determined

July 18, 2009 for Basic PRLS Public Speaking; Rotary,

Your Club and You; Leadership Tools For Success;Leading a Meeting & Communications.

August 1, 2009 for MPRLS 3 A full day of committee fa-

cilitation skills and group goal setting exercises.

August 15, 2009 for MPRLS 4 full day of Situational Lead-

ership concept identification, understanding andskills development.

August 26, 2009 for MPRLS 1 A full day of extemporane-

ous public speaking exercises.

September 19, 2009 for MPRLS 2 A full day of preplanned

public speaking exercises.

October 3, 2009 for MPRLS 5 A full day of business

model planning and project management skillsdevelopment and exercises.

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Jon Demeter PRLS Web Site

Camille Edie PRLS Web Site

John Henning Master PRLS PRLS Web Site

Blanche Hollingshead Master PRLS PRLS Web Site

Peter Lopez PRLS Web Site

Tom B. Martinez PRLS Web Site

Cindy McKellar PRLS Web Site

Greg Muscio PRLS Web Site

Ronald L. Nanning Master PRLS PRLS Web Site

Ken Nelson PRLS Web Site

Jane M. Norman Master PRLS PRLS Web Site

Fred Sanders Master PRLS PRLS Web Site

Connie Blackwell Master PRLS Ron Nanning

Jan Leaverton Master PRLS Ron Nanning

Frank Culley Master PRLS PRLS 7/19/2008 - 9/27/2008

Susan Rees PRLS 7/19/2008

Dr. Andrew Millar PRLS 7/19/2008

Roy Dugger PRLS 7/19/2008

Megan Thomas PRLS 7/19/2008

Curt Davis PRLS 7/19/2008

Tara Nelson PRLS 10/10/2008

Terri Lee Coleman PRLS 10/10/2008

Doug Coleman (Non-Member) PRLS 10/10/2008

Rik Fraser PRLS 10/10/2008

PRLS GRADUATION LIST

NAME SOURCE

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Announcing

THE ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA MARIA’S

VALENTINE’SWINEMAKER DINNER

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 6 PM

Featuring William James Cellars & Trattoria Uliveto in Old Town Or-cutt. Winemaker Jim Porter & Chef Alfonso Curti will team up tobring us a memorable evening of wine & food. Seating is limited,

reserve now! Member and one guest.

$100 per person, payment in advance

Cocktail attire

RSVP by Jan. 27 to Bob Frias, 934-7020