Rotary Club of Tahoe-Incline

Meetings upcoming

There are several dark Thursday morning meetings due to holidays, so please check your electronic and other calendars carefully.

Nov 10 – regular meeting Thurs am speaker

Nov 15 (Tues) Foundation Dinner Cottonwood in Truckee - Nov 17 (dark in am)

Nov 24 (Thurs- dark in am)

Dec 1 IHS "We the People

Dec 8 Christmas Party- Cal Neva (dark am)

Dec 22& 29(dark in am)

Jan 19 – Fireside at Ginny Yates Jones- this an excellent time to bring prospective members

Christmas Trees

Craig Francis is chairing this major fundraiser for our club. Craig reports that the fences will be placed November 19 at noon and unload trees on Nov 23rd at 10AM and selling will begin 24th at noon. Thank you to Jeff McCunn and Wells Fargo for providing electricity and thank you in advance to all members for responding to signups and the inevitable calls for help! Ginny Yates Jones organized pre orders on 10 to 12 foot trees and a few larger tress will be available along with 6,7,8ft and wreaths. We are waiting to hear from Raley’s about providing a coupon that Rotary can give to those who buy a tree.

Summary of meetings

Bruce Simonian, with the members help, has arranged for outstanding speakers for our morning meetings. Some highlights have included a visit from district Governor, Alan Cain who presented Wend Schaefer with the ‘Transformer ‘award this year for his steady leadership and work with the Valley Eye Clinic. We also learned about the boat safety, Cable TV, Incline golfing, the state of economy with Craig Francis, stem cell progress and more. Please give names of interesting speakers to Bruce as there are still openings in 2012.

Volunteer Opportunities

President Bob Mimiaga announced that a primary goal for his year as president is to provide personal service and financial support for K-12 students in Incline Village. With this education focus, President Bob has asked each member to give 20 hours. Some venues are:

TFS Homework Club- Help 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Graders on a regular or drop in basis. Meets Tues& Thurs 3:00-4:15 & Wed 2:15-3:30 @ Incline Elementary; Room #219.

Contact: Leslie Blunden @ 298-0204 or Leslie@tahoefamily.org.

TMCC ESLProgram: 20 minute conversations with adult ESL students on M, Tues, Wed, Thurs between 6and 7:30 pm. Contact: Abby Penny @303-502-4111 or apenny@tmcc.org.

Incline High School Mentoring Program: one-on-one time with a student to plan career and college. Talk with Stacy if this is how you would like to help local students.

Incline Middle Sch Reading/Math Tutoring:

M, Tues, Thurs& Fri from noon to 12:35. Check in 15 min early the first time for a Picture ID.

Contact: Liz Harrell(librarian) at lharrell@washoeschools.net.

eLearning Café: Drop in at the café at Raley’s Center or Contact: Kathryn Kelly@ 831-2423 or kek@elearningcafes.org.

Talk with fellow members who have already clocked student volunteer hours to find the right one for you. Lastly, if you have an idea for service to local students, please discuss your idea with president Bob.

Membership/ Makeups

This last year we added 11 new members and as always, Tahoe Incline is on the lookout for new quality members. The PDF file of a new member proposal form is on our Tahoe Incline website, www.tahoeinclinerotary.org. After a proposed member has attended at least three meetings, please complete this form and turn it in to Ginny Yates Jones.

Members can make up any missed meeting within two weeks before or after a miss. You can do a makeup online at

http://www.rotaryeclubone.org. Remember to think of gifts for the auction as you travel to new places and visit other Rotary meetings. You can also visit the noon club any Monday noon at the Parasol Building. Lastly, thanks to all those who continue to support our club through weekly attendance.

District/International News

Members welcomed our exchange student, Sine (Thailand) and her host family David and Shahri Masters.

On October 24 World Polio Day was celebrated. A new video about polio is on TED/polio which gives recent statistics re: progress toward eradication and locations of cases.

November is Rotary Foundation month and it is time to consider the Rotary Foundations giving levels. Many of our members are already Paul Harris fellows, but there are also other levels that will be explained in December by our Foundation Chair, Jim O’Brien.

Maureen will report on her efforts in the next newsletter to be published in Jan 2012.

2011/2012 Tahoe Incline Board

President Bob Mimiaga

President Elect Jim O'Brien

Secretary Craig Francis

Treasurer Shawn Noe

Membership Ginny Yates Jones

International Service Maureen McCarthy

Foundation Chair Jim O’Brien

Youth Services Thalia Routsis

Immediate Past President Wend Schaefer

Seargeant At Arms Jim Jervey

Seargeant At Arms Gino Menchetti

Seargeant At Arms Mike Menath

Seargeant At Arms Ted Fuller

Seargeant At Arms Alan Tiras

Seargeant At Arms Sue Welsch Seargeant At Arms Dennis Jones

Club Service

Greeters Randy Adkins

Programs Bruce Simonian

Youth Services Thalia Routsis

Speech Contest/Scholarships

RYLA/ Rye/Rotaract

Roster Sue Welsch

Webmaster Dale Smith

Internal communications Kay Lehr

Websites to Remember

Rotary Club of Tahoe Incline:

http://www.tahoeinclinerotary.org/

District 5190

http://www.rotarydistrict5190.org/

Rotary International:

http://www.rotary.org/

District 5190 Newsletters

http://www.rotarydistrict5190.org/newsletters.asp