Ryan Childers President 2012-2013 Celebrate Rotary Number 21 for the Week of December 6, 2012

Reverend Ron introduced our guest

speaker, Tina Husse from the Depart-

ment of Social Services. Tina works

for the division of Child Protective

Services and was a colleague of Lau-

rie Van Der Griff. The CPS each

year to honor Laurie, has a Christ-

mas Toy drive. The department

hosts a Christmas celebration for 200

children ages 1 to 18 and provides toy’s or clothes for

them. Tina came to ask the help of Rotarians for dona-

tion of toy, etc. These

items need to be un-

wrapped and can be

dropped off at Social

Services, Suite#101.

Help bring some joy to

these youngsters who

are in the care of CPS

and live in a foster

home.

CPS TOY DRIVE

President Ryan introduced our newest member, Chris Moore, whom he charg-es a $50 badge delivery fee, wel-come to Rotary, Chris. Please introduce your-self to Chris and welcome him to Rotary. Diane Cason passed around the sign-up sheet for the Christmas party. Bring your spouse or significant other and any children. Re-

member, Santa will be there, so bring a gift! Lee Hindman announced the birth of another grandchild. Lee’s son Tyler is the proud father of a new daughter. Mon-

ey was collected for her bank account, which Lee will match.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Visiting Rotarians And Rotarians With Guests

Jim Brock introduced our visiting Rotarians; from

the Imperial Breakfast Club, David Cason and from Yu-ma, Franco Franco. Rotarians with guests were Edgard Garcia who introduced his wife Ari and Carlos Figari who introduced one of his associates , Carino Pe-rez.

WHINING AND FINING

Gabe Contreras was the first person fined and it was for a cell

phone vio-lation, $25. President Ryan wel-comed James Tay-lor back after miss-ing several meeting with a $50

fine. James has been busy with work and was fined for being “boring.” Cliff Caldwell was fined for not having his badge on, $25 and another fine of $50 for a recent trip to San Francisco where he thoughtfully brought Ryan a “poop” book. Cliff was much less boring! Andy Horne was fined $25 for making a “rude” comment. Trish McNeece re-

cently went on a vacation to Park City, Utah and was kind enough to bring President Ryan a “bribe”, a

flask containing some Jack Daniel’s. For this, Trish’s fine was handed over to Dr. Budde who will pay

Trish’s fine of $50. David Cason caused no fines, but received a “nice” hello from the Prez.

The El Centro Rotary Club meets on Thursday noon

at the PAL facility 1100 North 4th Street

If you miss Rotary, you miss out!

POT

The drawing was won by Liz Villalaobos for $50 with the big pot nearing $500, which continues to remain for another week.

President Childers rang

the bell calling the meet-

ing to order after which

he asked Past President

Aaron Popejoy to lead

the pledge, Past Presi-

dent Bob Mapes offered

the prayer and Rever-

end Ron led us in sing-

ing two songs; first San-

ta Claus Is Coming to

Town followed by God

PLEDGE, PRAYER AND SONG