Bulletin October 29, 2024 (Oct. 29, 2024)

Lori McIntosh Rotarian of the Month!

Meeting Duties:

Greeter – Bob Santin

Front Desk - Lori Tomkins

Song – Dawn Pace “America the Beautiful”

Pledge – Jesse Petrilla

Thought for the Day – Steve Grundmeier

Sargent at Arms – Jeff Spoor

Raffle – Al Lombardo

Set Up – Terry Cooney

Clean Up – Terry Cooney

AV – Earl Wilson

Bulletin – Nancy Nittler

Two Truths and a Lie: Bill Johnston

Bill crewed on a pot smuggling boat
In Bill's high school yearbook, Bill was described as a modern-day Addonis (lie!)
Bill assisted in the recovery of 13 drowned boy scouts

The table guessed wrong, and the spooky but tasty coffin cakes moved to the next table.

Guests of Rotarians:

Mitch Hanna introduced Wolfe from AG Edwards.

John Donlevy introduced Jamie Jones, Auburn Ravine Terrace administrator.

Kahl Muscott introduced our speaker, Melany Hall.

Visiting Rotarians:

None

Birthdays:

Heber Marrapodi, November 3

Anniversaries:

Steve Galyardt & Leslie Maita-Nov 1, 16 years

Drew and Caitlin Garrison-Nov 3, 7 years

Rotary Anniversaries:

Bob Haydon-Nov 1, 48 years

Steve Snyder-Nov 1, 44 years

Bill Radakovitz-Nov 1, 40 years

Bob Dunstan-Nov 1, 35 years

Mike Homes-Nov 2, 25 years

Fines

Dan Gustavson for daughter winning golf championship (again!)

Reminders

Get your passports stamped next week at the stamp table.

Next Tuesday is Bring a Guest Day.

Announcements and Fun

Lori McIntosh has done a great job with social media and promotion of our activities and is our Rotarian of the Month. Congratulations Lori!

Rod Borges presented our newest Paul Harris Fellow, Gina Acia, with her framed award. Contributions were made in her name by the club members. Rod gave us a nice history of PHF program and reminded us that there are over one million Paul Harris Fellows worldwide. Some of them very famous people. Our own Gina Acia has been instrumental in so many projects and fellowship events including This Old House, Carnegie Library, Symphony Night, fellowship Friday, World Polio coordinator and so much more. Gina will be a director on the board next year. Congratulations Gina!

Halloween Fun: Chocolate covered cricket eating contest between Steve Galyardt, Betty Bennett and Bob Dunstan! Least you worry about their digestive systems, consider crickets to be a new diet food with amino acids, protein and fair-trade dark chocolate. What will President Carolyn think of next!?!

BBQ Silent Auction Item from Golden Swan was a pair of Star of David champagne glasses. Lori McIntosh was the successful bidder.

Betty Bennett announced that the Auburn Cancer Endowment Fund started by our own Virgil Traynor pays $124,000 for a researcher and has reached the $3.6 million mark.

See your email to sign up for Bell Ringing to raise money for the Salvation Army on December 7 and 14. The spots go fast so sign up soon.

Linda Maeding announced that our Rotary Christmas Party will be December 12 and circulated a sign-up sheet. Lots of fun has been planned. The food will be prepared by La Fornaretta and a gluten free option is available if you mark the box when you sign up. $35 per person through cash, check or Venmo. Bring white and silver ribbons to our meeting next week for the decorating team to use.

Good deed, Al. John Donlevy spun the wheel for anniversary wine and left it on table last week. Al took it home, drank it and it was so good he bought John a replacement!

Raffle:

$670 today. No winner.

Program:

Melany Hall, the founder of Gold Country Ghost Tours and is a teacher at Confluence High School. Melany is a Placer High grad, UN Reno grad, Army Officer and loves history.

Melany needed a distraction from a medical condition and, being a history nerd came up with the idea of the historical ghost tour. She worked with Ralph Gibson from Placer County museums. to develop a walking tour that visits 10 characters that lived and/or died in Auburn. Over 1000 people attend over two October weekends. This year they added a stage show in the Odd Fellows Hall.

Melany grew up in not one but two different houses that were haunted and has found all things ghostly absolutely fascinating. She has attended many ghost tours from New Orleans to Jack the Ripper in London! One day she decided it was high time that her hometown got the chance to share our haunted history.

Three primary reasons her does the tours:

1. It preserves our local history

2. It brings revenue from outside of auburn

3. All money raised goes to community groups

Find out more about the history tour: https://oldtownauburnca.com/events/ghost-tour

November 2, 2021