Our January 11 meeting was lunch at Seascape
We had 23 attendees in person and e on zoom.
Lowry ran the meeting with the grace and humor of a seasoned talk show host- kept everything moving and fun
Our guest speaker was Kimberly Deserpa, She brought her daughters Kristin and Indra for tech support and guest Gigi Kelbert
Dr. Art's thought of the day ended with a Crocodile will eat him last
Rich's joke: if two vegans get in an argument do they still call it a beef?
Help, lettuce out!
We paused in memory of Becky’s mom, who recently passed. Godspeed.
Mac Erickson made his first meeting as an official member, Yay!
Lowry went through the upcoming events- they are also on our website AND he put paper calendars on the table-no excuses for anyone now...
Sandy is running the grants committee - we need volunteers - talk/email her about it.
Craig was the detective- the subject was famous quotes- we had to identify/guess the speaker. Some of them:
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake- Napoleon
Either that wallpaper goes or I do- Oscar Wilde on his death bed
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest- Winston Churchill
A thief stole y wife's credit card. But I didn't turn him in because he's spending less than she did.
Could be Rodney but it was Henny Youngman. "Take my wife's credit card, Please?"
80% of success is just showing up- woody Allen
First thing, we kill all the lawyers- Shakespeare Henry the 6th- and the rest of humanity until they need one
Sorry for the length of this letter, I didn’t have a lot of time to write a short one
Mark Twain
Speaker Kim told us about her life. She is a candidate for supervisor but tried not to make it a campaign speech.
She was raised in poverty- her mom was widowed. She was the first in her family to go to college.
She has been/is a member of many charitable causes. She showed a power point about her life.
She worked in social services at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital during the covid outbreak- 350 people died there. She talked to the families of patients to assure them of care and began mental health counseling for the hospital staff for the trauma they were enduring. She got a grant to support for Spanish speaking counsellors and that turned into a very successful program. Kim played a KSBW report on the program,
She has been on the board of PVUSD for over 20 years.
She has also worked at hospice of Santa Cruz
She reminded us that she visited us in 2008 and had photos to prove it.
One of her projects was to raise money for the Valencia school all access playground, which was the first such playground in the area. She raised the money by phone calls. She passed the contact info for her donors to the fundraisers for Leo's Haven,
She gave a shoutout to Sandy Wallace for founding the Kids Foundation Monterey Bay.
Kim's husband is neonatologist at Stanford who is retiring- let's get him to join our Rotary !
Her talk concluded with a power point about her winning a Texas Hold 'em contest- she was against over 300 other players and won even though she was a novice. Luck? Skill? Intuition?
We let her pick the raffle number but the winner wasn't there.
We had 23 attendees in person and e on zoom.
Lowry ran the meeting with the grace and humor of a seasoned talk show host- kept everything moving and fun
Our guest speaker was Kimberly Deserpa, She brought her daughters Kristin and Indra for tech support and guest Gigi Kelbert
Dr. Art's thought of the day ended with a Crocodile will eat him last
Rich's joke: if two vegans get in an argument do they still call it a beef?
Help, lettuce out!
We paused in memory of Becky’s mom, who recently passed. Godspeed.
Mac Erickson made his first meeting as an official member, Yay!
Lowry went through the upcoming events- they are also on our website AND he put paper calendars on the table-no excuses for anyone now...
Sandy is running the grants committee - we need volunteers - talk/email her about it.
Craig was the detective- the subject was famous quotes- we had to identify/guess the speaker. Some of them:
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake- Napoleon
Either that wallpaper goes or I do- Oscar Wilde on his death bed
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest- Winston Churchill
A thief stole y wife's credit card. But I didn't turn him in because he's spending less than she did.
Could be Rodney but it was Henny Youngman. "Take my wife's credit card, Please?"
80% of success is just showing up- woody Allen
First thing, we kill all the lawyers- Shakespeare Henry the 6th- and the rest of humanity until they need one
Sorry for the length of this letter, I didn’t have a lot of time to write a short one
Mark Twain
Speaker Kim told us about her life. She is a candidate for supervisor but tried not to make it a campaign speech.
She was raised in poverty- her mom was widowed. She was the first in her family to go to college.
She has been/is a member of many charitable causes. She showed a power point about her life.
She worked in social services at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital during the covid outbreak- 350 people died there. She talked to the families of patients to assure them of care and began mental health counseling for the hospital staff for the trauma they were enduring. She got a grant to support for Spanish speaking counsellors and that turned into a very successful program. Kim played a KSBW report on the program,
She has been on the board of PVUSD for over 20 years.
She has also worked at hospice of Santa Cruz
She reminded us that she visited us in 2008 and had photos to prove it.
One of her projects was to raise money for the Valencia school all access playground, which was the first such playground in the area. She raised the money by phone calls. She passed the contact info for her donors to the fundraisers for Leo's Haven,
She gave a shoutout to Sandy Wallace for founding the Kids Foundation Monterey Bay.
Kim's husband is neonatologist at Stanford who is retiring- let's get him to join our Rotary !
Her talk concluded with a power point about her winning a Texas Hold 'em contest- she was against over 300 other players and won even though she was a novice. Luck? Skill? Intuition?
We let her pick the raffle number but the winner wasn't there.