Festival of Brotherhood

Rotary Club of Windsor – Meeting Notes April 18, 2023

Pledge of Allegiance – by Tom Boylan

Inspiration – Renee Hyde reminds us that we have to “prune to bloom”, not just in our
gardens, but also our lives.

Song – Geoff Harrison led us in the unofficial national anthem of “My Country Tis of
Thee”, which we performed well.

Visiting Rotarians – David Mark Raymond, Sebastopol Sunrise

Guests – Domingo, our honorary son, from Chile. Boyd Morrison with Constellation
Brand. Natalie Huey, our outbound student headed for Taiwan.

President-for-the-day John LeCave had a moving and heartfelt message to our Club. He
has “stepped away” for about 4 years because of fire, covid, and life in general. But he
kept track of our club and observed even though he was not participating on a regular
basis. He complimented the “old guard” of our club which is the core from which our
strength grows. He then noted that the new members were the strongest, best, he has
ever seen. Our Club is strong. And our robust Rotary club applauded that thought
with our usual vitality.

A. Upcoming Events/Announcements –
Where’s Stefan? JB showed us a short video from Stefan who is in Washington,
DC with Jared Huffman presenting his math application to a wide audience.

German Dinner April 29 for Stefan’s fundraiser. $80 to attend the dinner, which
will be at Barbara McChesney and David Doht’s home at 6PM. Even if you can’t
attend the dinner, you may just donate any amount you would like for Stefan’s
Western Safari trip.

District Conference, Konocti, May 5-7 Tom Boylan let us know that this District
Conference is going to be fun! Rotary has the entire resort, and we are the first
event there and opening it up after a long closure. One keynote speaker is John
Hewko, from Ukraine.

Mother’s Day – May 14, is a pancake breakfast at the Windsor Fire Department
and our Rotary club will be serving drinks (Mimosa, anyone?) to support SCFD.
This is sort of a test run for our Rotary bar on the Green all summer. Sign up to
help and have lots of fun.

Faught/Shiloh/Pleasant Roads Cleanup – Bill Bolster leads this project to clean up
these Windsor Roads. Only a 2 hour commitment on May 20, 10AM-12 PM.

Environmental Update– by Barbara McChesney

Turn in your interest surveys to Barbara

RYE Golf Tournament at WGC, this Saturday April 22. We have two teams
entered in this event, with room for more or just sponsors. Funds to support
students in Rotary Youth Exchange who may not have the necessary funds to travel. We want RYE opportunity to be available to more students, so support
this tournament.

Our Rotary Club partners with other local non-profits in a number of community
activities, like the Food and Toy Drive. On Friday, April 28, we have an
opportunity to partner with Soroptimists in a Bunco night which supports women
and girls in Windsor and beyond. 5PM to 8 PM with tickets $40 at the door.

Heather Cullen announced a Windsor Middle School Murder Mystery Dinner on
Friday, April 21, from 6-9 PM. $65/ticket supports the drama and culinary clubs at
the Middle School in a 1920’s gangster theme. Your outfits from our 35 th
anniversary celebration can get a second showing! You can even buy a character
you want to play!The date for President Brian’s de-bunking will be August 12. Mark your calendars.

B. Recognitions – Leslie wasn’t here to do her funny and charming job of fining us, so
everyone was asked to “tell” on themselves. And it worked. Joan reported on a trip to
Cancun, birthday and anniversary celebrations and gave generously. Maureen let us
know that there was an 81 st birthday celebration in her house and donated accordingly.
Then, Pam Moulton donated for her April 5 special date.

C. Program – David Mark Raymond, Sebastopol Sunrise. Rotarian extraordinaire on all
things Rotary International, Rotary Foundation, and much much more.
David gave a comprehensive update on Festival of Brotherhood in Mexico, which is
going to take place this year on Oct. 31 to Nov. 11, after a several year hiatus. He had a
great power point showing photos of projects that District 5130 has participated in over
a period of 22 years.

Our Windsor Rotary club has contributed to many of these projects, and when David had our Club members stand if they had participated in Festival of Brotherhood, it was an impressive number of Rotarians who rose and spoke about the moving projects they had observed and supported on behalf of our club.
Cheers for a successful re-boot of Festival of Brotherhood and our partnership with District 4140.

D. Thank you to our guests and volunteers
Setup/ Mitch Grandi, Kurt Mitchler
? Greeter/Doug Williams
? Song/Geoff Harrison
? Scribe/Susan Cole
? Inspiration/Renee Hyde