March 10, 2010

Announcements: Easter Celebration on March 31, 2010. St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 12th, 2010. Wayne Yada announced the Woody Club will be present in Visalia (from being postponed last weekend) at Redwood High School from 9-2 on Saturday March 13th, 2010. Wayne’s comment about his obsession with Woody’s had the crowd chuckling while Randy Groom (of course) reiterated the announcement to remind everyone the Woody event was “extended”…..who authorizes Randy to have the microphone anyway.

Joke of the Week:  With the score tied at 12 each, the suspense was building as Tom Seidler and Laurie Isham took the stage. Both had stories to tell as opposed to the traditional “jokes”. Laurie represented the young team and Tom, the old. Laurie respected her elder and allowed Tom to go first. The snake-bit-going-to-die-friend joke brought a few ooohhh’s. Laurie was next to read her presentation of a small, gray-haired, elderly woman “high jacking” what she thought was her own car. When she went to report her mistake at the police station, she found four men standing at the police station telling their story to the policemen laughing hysterically. Applause meter leaned heavily to Laurie’s side in which she ran away with the trophy. The young team has taken the lead.

Who is this Young Rotarian?: More freckles began this week’s YMC presentation with Gary Herbst taking the claim to the adorable pictures. Next in line was a hard one to guess, with no one even attempting a name. I think it was the feather mask that gave away Lindsay Mann. He couldn’t recall what the mask picture was, which makes me wonder….Popeye, feather mask…I might need to raid his closet at Halloween time! Last, but certainly not least, I think the next gentlemen just brought his picture albums to Bianca and copied everything. Boy Scout picture, w/ wife, military pictures (lots of them) and of course John Crowe was proud to take the stand. The most fascinating picture in my opinion was the non-op military tanks falling overboard into the ocean with different General’s names on them. The fish are living is style now! John brought MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) gift for President Brian to enjoy, but it did not give John a discount into the club.

One confession from Dick Watson revealed he attended the Winter Olympics in Vancouver to watch hockey games (didn’t hear the rest). He asked President Brian if he would prefer clothes or adult beverages…..but would give him the gift only if he guessed corrected. Clothing it was and a USA baseball cap won the applause of many.

Program: Lee Goldstein introduced Jon Keeley who presented a program titled "California Wildfires: Balancing Community Protection and Natural Resource Needs". Couldn’t stay to listen….back to work I went!