Club buys tickets for children to attend Nutcracker

The Club underwrote the purchase of 100 tickets for children of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey County to attend performances of “The Nutcracker” produced by Ballet Fantasque at Santa Catalina Performing Arts Center this Christmas season.

Pictured here is Pete Tansill with several of the club’s kids. Both Pete and his wife, Sheila, have been performers in the production for several years.

San Carlos restoration project

Our club is supporting the San Carlos cathedral restoration project in Monterey. This building is the oldest architechurally designed building in California. Thanks to Joe M. for bringing this worthwhile project to our attention.

New Members

Welcome to Rhona W. and Greg M. New members inducted in December and should represent our club very well. I would like to encourage members to get to know them as soon as possible. Rhonda will be joining Joe M. and the public relations committee. Greg has not selected a committee to work with yet. Im sure both will be a great addition to Rotary and our club.

Updated Schedule

DECEMBER 2007 – Family of Rotary Month

04 Tuesday, Kim Lorenz -World Vision

08 Saturday, Christmas at The Murrays. Bring an unwapped toy, favorite food/beverage/guest
11 Tuesday, Ms Cathy Leiker, Project Manager, San Carlos Restoration

12 Wednesday, Board Meeting 5:00PM Chads office

18 Tuesday, Kurt Gollnick, 1st capital bank

25 Tuesday, NO MEETING – CHRISTMAS

JANUARY 2008 Team Four) – Rotary Awareness Month

01 Tuesday NO MEETING-HOLIDAY

08 Tuesday, General Carns

12 Saturday, Club Presidents’ Mid-year Conference

15 Tuesday, Jean Brenner Tribal India

23 Tuesday, Mayor of Salinas Dennis Donohue

Monterey Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Kimi T. sponsored by the Monterey Rotary club introducing herself to the community. She will be here for 2 years. Kimi is from Japan. Hopefully she will come back and update us on her progress.

Taste of Monterey Membership Event

So everyone had a great time at the taste of monterey on cannery row. Great turnout, good food and some tasty wines were sampled. Thanks to all who participated and especially Ed and his committee for pulling it all together. I would consider this a successful event and hopefully we can build upon it in the future.

NOV/DEC 2007 Tentative Schedule of Events

NOVEMBER 2007 (Team Three) – Rotary Foundation Month

02 Friday, Membership Event at Taste of Monterey 7pm
06 Tuesday, No meeting (Election Day)
07 Wednesday, Board Meeting 5:00PM Chads Office
13 Tuesday, Hiroshi Wada - Foundation
20 Tuesday, Jane Brown- Africa-Kenya & Tanzania
27 Tuesday, Brenda Cressey- PDG

DECEMBER 2007 – Family of Rotary Month

04 Tuesday, Kim Lorenz -World Vision
08 Saturday, Christmas at The Murrays
11 Tuesday, Ms Cathy Leiker, Project Manager, San Carlos Restoration
12 Wednesday, Board Meeting 5:00PM Chads office
18 Tuesday, Kurt Gollnick, 1st captial bank
25 Tuesday, NO MEETING – CHRISTMAS

International Dinner at Monterey Korean Rotary

The Monterey Korean Rotary and Monterey Sunrise Rotary hosted an international dinner at the Orient Express restaurant in Seaside. Other clubs represented were the Monterey, Carmel Valley, Monterey Pacific, and Salinas Rotary clubs. Thanks to Susan Myong and her club for organizing the event. Also, thanks to Pete and Duncan for handling our end. And last but not least Dennis Fike for helping out with the wine and PDG Don Kremer for the BRIEF program!!

Mike D Wins the coveted airshow jacket

Art Garcia presents Mike Djubasak with the Salinas airshow jacket, personalized of course. The club was also presented with a check for the services provided. Thanks to all that participated.

Attendees for the International Dinner Oct 15th

This is the current list of attendees for the Monterey Korean Rotary club international dinner at the Orient Express in Seaside at 1884 Fremont st. If u need to be added please email chad/duncan ASAP. Festivities start at 6:30 sharp.


Pete Tansill - 1
Tom Long - 1
Chuck Sullivan - 2
Scott Lund - 1
Ed Holden - 1
Don Kremer - 2
Duncan Bain - 1
Mike Djubasak - 2
Joe Mateo - 1
Dennis Fike - 2
Jeff Jarvis - 1
Bob Theaker - 1
John Crisan - 1
John Roland - 2
Pete Buechel - 1
Jeff Haferman - 1
Doug Weismann - 1
Barrett Heywood - 2
Mark Fredrickson - 2
Tad Church-2

International Dinner with Monterey Korean Rotary Club

The Monterey Korean Rotary club and Monterey Peninsula Sunrise club will be having a joint meeting/dinner/cultural exchange on October 15th at the Orient Express restaurant , 1844 Fremont st., Seaside. Members are encouraged to bring their spouse or a guest. Cost will be 25$ per person. We will not have our regular meeting on the 16th due to this event.

IHELP Dinner Aug. 24th

Looks like a good time was had by all. Thanks to all who participated and to Dennis Fike for getting things together in a pinch.

Taste of Monterey Membership Event November 2nd

Please mark your calendar for the Taste of Monterey Special Membership Event scheduled for Friday, November 2nd, from 7:00 to 8:30pm. This should be a fun evening of wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres and we are hoping to have quite a few potential members join in the fun.

Updated Calendar for Sept/Oct

SEPTEMBER 2007 (Team Two) – New Generation Month
04 Tuesday Bill Sullivan
11 Tuesday Allen Robinson
12 Wednesday Board Meeting 5:00PM
18 Tuesday DR Petty Alliance on Aging
25 Tuesday Dr Anthony Shaheen Urology
28,29,30th Salinas Air Show

OCTOBER 2007 - Vocational Service Month
02 Tuesday Club Meeting
09 Lauren Cohen Executive Director MY Museum
10 Wednesday Board Meeting 5:00PM
15 Monday International dinner/combine meeting with Monterey Korean club at
Orient Express Restaurant 1884 Fremont BL
16 Tuesday NO Meeting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23 Catherine Bowie Cal Am Water – Water Rates & Projects CF
30 Tuesday Dennis Fike Grapes/Wine making

TEAM 2: Ray Worrell-leader
Dr. Jeff Jarvis
Barrett Heywood
PDG Don Kremer
Scott Lund
Sam Griffith
Gene Snuggs

Great Membership Conference in San Jose

The San Jose Conference this past weekend was Outstanding! Great ideas about membership recruiting and retention and the speakers were very impressive, particularly RI President Rick King and Past RI Pres Chris Dochterman. Our fellow Rotarian Don Kremer did a great job talking about "Increasing membership thorugh Cultural Diversity." I'm looking forward to attending more of these conferences.

Ed Holden

August 7th Meeting. Ms. Renee Brinks

The MPSRC membership was re treated to an excellent talk from Ms Rene Brinks, a former Ambassador Scholar for the Rotary International. She depicted her experiences in her application for the scholarship, her work experience prior to receiving the scholarship, and finally explained what she has accomplished after completing her masters degree in Bon, Australia. She spent one full year in Australia, completed her masters degree in Education/Journalism and is currently a free lance writer in her own business. She is currently living in the Monterey Peninsula since 2002 (five years) and loves working with people. She was very enthusiastic and extremely motivated in her work. She is energetic and loves helping business with their public relations issues.

District Governors visit/meeting July 30/31st

DG Nina Clancy visiting our club July 30th for dinner and a board meeting at Tarpys restaurant. We reviewed our clubs plans for the year along with the districts goals. We had a good turnout for dinner and a good time was had by all. Our general meeting was held the next morning with DG Nina as our speaker. She also outlined some of the goals for the district to the membership. This included the Angola water project with World Vision which our club will be supporting this year. This project may provide travel opportunities in the future to interested club members. Your board will keep the infomation coming.

IHELP DINNER AUG 24TH

Dennis Fike will be leading a group to help out at the All-Saints church Aug 24th. There will be a sign up at the Aug 7th and 21st meetings. More details to follow. chad

Amb.Scholar to Turkey/July 10th meeting

Ambassidorial scholar Jennifer Oskan sponsored by the Carmel rotary club. Pictured with PDG Don Kremer, Dick Nystrom from the Carmel club.

MPSRC Teams (2007-08)

TEAM 1: July '07 to August '07
* Allen Robinson
Yavuz Atila
Seth Potter
Vicki Nelson
Pete Tansill
Brian McCoy

TEAM 2: September '07 to October '07
* Ray Worrell
Jeff Jarvis
Barrett Heywood
Don Kremer
Keith Paterson
Bob Spencer
Next New Member

TEAM 3: November '07 to December '07
* Doug Weismann
Pete Buechel
John Crisan
Jeff Haferman
Michael Djubasak
Gene Snuggs
Frank Montero

TEAM 4: January '08 to February '08
* Dennis Fike
Duncan Bain
Chad Corriveau
Bill Jones
Richard Murray
John Roland
Chuck Sullivan
Scott Lund

TEAM 5: March '08 to April '08
* Frank Dost
Tad Church
Ed Holden
Mark Frederickson
Tom Long
Bob Theaker
Next New Member

TEAM 6: May '08 to June '08
* Joe Sweeney
Bill Cochran
Richard Flaig
Dave Huey
Young Koh
Joe Mateo
Next New Member

(*) Team Captains

UPDATED CURRENT CALENDAR

MONTEREY PENINSULA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB

2007 - 2008

EVENTS CALENDAR
06/28/07

JULY 2007 (Team One) – Literacy Month


03 Tuesday Club Assembly

10 Tuesday Jennifer Ozkan Ambassadorial Istanbul Turkey

11 Wednesday Board meeting 5:30PM Chads office

17 Tuesday Franklin Marshall Museum Adventures

24 Tuesday Club Meeting Ed Mattson

30 Monday District Governor visit with board

31 Tuesday District Governor will speak

AUGUST 2007 – Membership Month

04 Saturday Special Interest Seminar/Harris Ranch (membership/foundation)

07 Tuesday Renee Brincks

14 Tuesday No Meeting RI President will speak at Rancho Canada on 15th of Aug.

15 Wednesday Board Meeting 5:30

21 Tuesday Dr Anthony Shaheen Urology

17-18 Fri/Sat Zone Membership Training/San Jose Doubletree

28 Tuesday Ed Holden

KICK OUT GOLF/BBQ

Rotarian of the Year ED HOLDEN

Richards birdie putt that just missed!!!!

Dr. Jarvis in fine form.

President Sams KOP golf tourney at monterey pines. We had 15 golfers from both our club and the new korean club. BBQ was to follow and the weather was perfect. Awards given by President Sam were to Vicki Nelson, Ray Worrell, John Roland and Rotarian of the year award to Ed Holden. Congrats to Mr Holden.

Golf marathon photos

Just some of the fun we had at the golf marathon fund raiser. Thanks to all who participated.

First Annual MPSRC Golf Marathon Fundraiser

The first annual Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary golf marathon was created to raise funds for our club projects and to help support various local charitable organizations. The event was held at Pasadera CC on Monday June 11th, 2007. Member/golfers included:
Ed Holden, Pete Tansill, Richard Griffith, Allen Robinson, Doug Weismann, Joe Mateo, Tom Long, and Duncan Bain. We were able to complete 54 holes in 3 different formats. We had a great support staff of President Sam Griffith, Dennis Fike, and Vicki Nelson. The morning started with Starbucks coffee and Costco muffins at the clubhouse and ended with Heineken beer by the afternoon rounds. We were able to break for lunch and do some team switching to re-energize our efforts. There were some very interesting golf swings by the end of the day and fortunately no injuries were reported. There was a set of keys lost but that’s another story. The team of Joe/Chad finish the final 27 holes in 3 hours. At this time the trio of Doug Weismann, Richard Griffith, and Allen Robinson were just starting their last 9 holes and were completed deflated when they saw us enjoying a cold Heiny. However, they did complete their task without complaint, expect for Richards foot. With everyone finished and the search for lost keys abandoned, we ended up at Tarpeys roadhouse for some good food and fellowship. We raised about $10,000 with each members help and look forward to next year. We should all be thankful to everyone that supported this event. A special thanks to Ed Holden (Mr spreadsheet) and Pete Tansill for their extra efforts. Next year I would only asked that the results be certified by an outside agency. Chad

Pictures from IHELP Dinner

Tacos were served to approx. 30 very hungry

workers. It is safe to say no-one left hungry. Thanks to Dr. Jeff Jarvis for the pictures.

MPSRC Marathon Golf Fundraiser June 11th

Greetings fellow Golf Marathoners,
Golf at Pasadera Country Club this coming Monday!

We need ASAP to let the Golf Club know the names of who’s playing this coming Monday. Please confirm that you are planning on playing by emailing back or giving me a call at 655-4839.

The plan for Monday morning is as follows:

Everyone should plan to meet at Pasadera Country Club at 7am (call me if you need directions).
We will have Muffins, coffee, juice and fruit in the morning to get our blood sugar level up and ready to play 54 holes.
Golf carts are included in the $125.00 golf fee.
We’ll go over the course rules and the format for the day while eating our muffins.

We plan to break for lunch as a group around noon time.
And when (or should I say “IF”) we reach 54 holes, we will have reached our goal. Some of you may wish to retire before completing the 54 holes which is not a problem---we just need one group to finish the total holes. The club has also agreed to cover the cost of Advil for everyone!!!

It might be fun to get together for dinner following the event to share stories about the “good, bad and ugly” shots of the day---remember we don’t have to let the facts destroy a good story to participate. The suggestion is to get together for drinks and/or dinner at Tarpy’s Road House which is not too far from Pasadera on hwy 68.

If you have any questions, please give me a call or just email me.

This should be a lot of fun and worthwhile to the charities we are supporting.

Thanks,
Ed

TACO NIGHT AT I-HELP/ALL SAINTS CHURCH

Once again your club will be hosting the I-HELP dinner at the all saints church in Carmel on Friday night May 25th at 6 PM. A delicious taco dinner will satisfy all. Those signed up to play are:
Sam Griffith
Dennis Fike
Bob Spencer
Pete Buechel
Yavus Atila
Joe Sweeney
Scott Lund
Mark Fredrickson
Tom Long
Chuck Sullivan
Members from the Marina Korean club

thanks to Doug Weismann for setting up this worthwhile event!!!!!!!!

Updated Fundraiser Report online!

Hey All; just found out I can publish this spreadsheet online for us at the url below. I'll update it weekly.

Please feel free to email me if you have any thoughts or questions.

ptansill@gmail.com


http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYq1ws8HbAIKv3ZXjPr_jTQ

President Kick Out Golf Tournament June 23rd

The tournament is at Monterey Pines Golf Course (near the Fairgrounds) and the first tee time is at 8A SHARP. All players should be there by 7:30 A for check in.

Our club has 11 players and the Monterey Korean Club will have an additional five to eight players

Signed up to play are:

Ed Holden
Tom Long
Chuck Sullivan
Richard Murray
Richard Murray's son
Sam Griffith
Vicki Nelson
Jeff Jarvis
Frank Dost
Chad Corriveau
Joe Mateo

The tournament will be a golf scramble so it's just a fun event although there will be prizes for select accomplishments!!

If you haven't done so, please give Pete Tansill, Treasurer, $45 per player to participate in this fun event!

Great Idea

I 'm impressed with the speed the responsible parties acted in getting this started.

Hey! This new blog idea is really cool! I want to reinforce DG Don Kremer's remarks about the recent District Conference. This was the sixth one I've attended, and it was certainly the best. I went to the first Rotary Academy (ironically at the same hotel in Visalia). It was a flop. I was the only new Rotarian there and they didn't know what to do, so we stood around in the lobby for a few minutes. That was it. At this DC, 70 people attended the Academy. It was good to see. Don gives a lot of credit to Bob Eurich, as he should. But I am here to tell you that it would not have been nearly so effective with out Don's vision and the hard work he also put into it.

One other comment: If we members don't avail ourselves of the opportunities to get involved with Rotary - and there are plenty of them in our District, then I believe they miss a lot of the point of our outstanding organization. It seems to me that if the membership isn't involved with the life of the organization, then we run the risk of having just a weekly breakfast club.

Anyone care to comment?

Sam

District 5230 Awards to MPSRC (2006-07)

Congratulations to the Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary!...
[Category: 36 to 75 Members]

- Outstanding, Club and Club President - Sam Griffith

- Club Service, IRC, PR - Ed Holden/Yavuz Atila

- Membership and Club Extension - Susan Robinson

- International Service - Tad Church

District 5230 Conference (April 27-29, 2007)

What Happens in Visalia
Stays in Visalia!
by District Governor Don Kremer


Let me say first that the “Vegas Nights” District Conference was a great success and I thank all who attended and helped celebrate a wonderful year. Those who did not attend missed a great weekend of Fellowship and Information. A big Thank You to Conference Chair Bob Eurich and his hard working Conference Committee for making this one of the best District 5230 conferences ever. The June issue of “Today” will have extensive coverage of the conference, but these are some highlights.

Approximately 70 people attended the Rotary Academy on Friday morning making it the best attended Academy session ever. I’m happy to say that we received many positive comments regarding the session. Elvis was in the house Friday afternoon and Major Brian Shul left everyone speechless with his videos, photos and stories of his experiences flying the SR-71 Blackbird Spy Plane. Fun was had by all during the lounge entertainment and the Vegas Casino night on Friday night.

On Saturday, Dr. Joe Serra left listeners in tears with his presentation on Polio “crawlers.” He explained that the orthopedic surgery begins with young people who have never been on their feet, much less walked, and seven to nine weeks later they are standing and walking with crutches. The happy faces say it all. There was a tribute to Dr. Sabino (Benny) Santos who planted the seed of Polio Eradication in 1979 when he requested the very first 3H Grant to immunize over 6 million Filipino children against Polio. RI President’s Representative, Dr. John Sever, who made the proposal that “Rotary should eradicate all vaccine preventable diseases from the earth”, gave us an update on the ongoing war against Polio. The final stages of the battle are difficult, but all concerned believe total eradication will happen within the next 24 months.

There were seven Plenary Sessions over two days covering the four Avenues of Service, The Rotary Foundation, Membership and the 4-Way-Test. Allen Mathis, grandson of PRIP Herbert Taylor and author of the 4-Way-Test, challenged us to live by the test with a rousing presentation. Sara Lynn, winner of the District’s 4-Way-Test-Essay contest read her essay to an appreciative audience.

The District 5230 Club Awards Ceremony is always the highlight of the celebration of success at any District Conference. All of our clubs are dedicated to serving their communities near and far and each is committed to growing and becoming stronger. Club Awards are given in recognition of the most effective projects, programs and leadership and they come in three flavors.

First, are the awards for submitted applications. Awards Committee Chair Mark Perry, Visalia Breakfast, organized an electronic awards system in which 27 District Leaders served as judges. Application forms were downloaded from the IRC, completed, and then uploaded by the individual clubs to the Awards Committee. Judges were assigned applications on a random basis and evaluated them using an objective set of voting criteria. The voting was tallied electronically, monitored by Mark and then forwarded to me for final review. I didn’t change a thing. The system worked flawlessly and I give great thanks to Mark and the core group who designed and implemented the system.

The second type of award is determined by a clubs performance in terms of numbers. The Rotary Foundation Giving and Membership Growth are examples of the second set of awards.

The third type of award is given by the District Governor to recognize the top performing clubs in the district.

Congratulations to all the recognized clubs. The following is a list of award categories and the winning clubs.

Today!...

Rotary District 5230 Newsletter "Today"... is available now by clicking here:
http://www.rotary5230.org/AlertRedirect.asp?id=D

Volume 1 Issue 11 May 1, 2007 Editor: Jeff Dippel

I am not sure who is responsible but it looks good. a great start!!!!!. chad

Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club
Meeting Every Tuesday at 7 A. M.
Monterey Hyatt Regency Conference Center

MPSRC Annual Fundraiser!

MARATHON GOLF TOURNAMENT
Monday, June 11, 2007

BENEFITING
Local charitable organizations such as Boys and Girls Club, IHELP, YMCA, Meals-on-Wheels, and the Monterey Rape Crisis Center

Organized by

MONTEREY PENINSULA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB

NEED SPONSORS
Contributing at least $1.00 per hole (playing a minimum of 54)

Please make check payable to:
Annual Fundraiser
Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary
P. O. Box 2051
Monterey, CA 93942

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!..

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Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club (MPSRC)

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Yavuz Atila, IRC