Coronado Rotary - Corotator

13 October	Beach Clean Up	Tim Cusick
23 October	Past President's Dinner	Bill Sandke
28 October	Rotary Aid Station at CAF Triathlon	Dan Orr
17 November	Rotary Foundation Gala	President Scott Metzger

NOTES FROM THE SCRIBE:

A full house for 81 years, three months, and one week of Coronado Rotary meetings. Gee, I wonder why? All the mayors were in attendance, the mayor of Coronado, the mayor of the Navy, and our speaker, Mayor Jerry Sanders of San Diego. But first, Rotary business. Susan Stone our Rotarian of the Day offered the invocation and Lionel Rowe played it straight. Sort of. We welcomed Jeff Alison and Jane Huntington back after their stays in the infirmary.

Rotary Notes of Interest & Announcements

District Council meeting was October 9 and Al Ovrom received the coveted Leadership certificate so we’re expecting good things from our president-elect next year. It still cost him $75 for the honor.
Don Penniall received his seventh Paul Harris Fellowship. Tim Cusick got his third (and was whacked $75 toward his fourth), the ever-elusive Marcia Hall her second, and Doug Metz got his first. Remember your annual donation to the Foundation: Every Rotarian, Every Year!
The Foundation Gala will be held on November 17. Check the District 5340 website for complete details.
The Rotary International Convention is in Los Angeles next year. It’s a great opportunity for local Rotarians to see Rotary International up close and personal. Go to www.rotary.org if you want to secure a hotel room anywhere near the Convention Center, the hotels are filling up fast!
Dan Gensler is leading an expedition with Interact to build a home in Tijuana. They’re going to build home in ONE day this Saturday. If you’d like to help, and he could use it, contact Dan at the Gensler Group. They’re leaving Saturday at 6:30 a.m., returning at 8:00 p.m.
Bob Spear and the gang are going to their quarterly Limbs of Freedom weekend October 25-27. If you want to help please contact Bob.
We’re missing the Rotarians at Work banner. Check your garages!
Toby Fuller “volunteered” to head up a committee of Rotary/Coronado Yacht Club members to help out the Wounded Warrior program.
Miko Peled and two friends brought information on their Hand-in-Hand project. Please see Miko as the Scribe missed most of the presentation.
WHO AM I? Susan “Don’t call me Sharon” Stone hails from Riverside, but was graduated from Hoover High. She then received her BS from SDSU (the Harvard of Montezuma Mesa) and an MS and Ph.D. from USD. She has two children, one grandchild, and a pretty good position at Sharp Coronado Hospital. For grins she’s ridden a Harley across the USA TWICE!

The Family of Rotary

As noted, Jeff Alison and Jane Huntington were back at Rotary today.

We regret to announce that Jim Mushovic’s wife Lesli passed away last week. The service will be at Christ Church on October 11 at 11:00 a.m.

Please contact Mary Sternad at 522-9452 or psternad@aol.com for updates and information.

FINES & RECOGNITIONS

Poor Miko Peled couldn’t remember how long he’d been in Rotary (answer = 11 years) and in lawyer math that added up to $75.

PROGRAM

Mayor of Coronado Tom Smisek introduced Mayor of San Diego Jerry Sanders and welcomed him to a city where the biggest problem is the euthanizing of a nineteen-year-old cat. Mayor Sanders spent twenty-six years on the SD Police force where he worked with our new chief Lou Scanlon and rose to the position of chief. He then cleaned up the United Way and American Red Cross before getting temporary insanity and running for Mayor of San Diego. Compounding that mistake, he won! He should have quit while he was ahead and just stayed on the board of Coronado First Bank.

Mayor Sanders recognizes that San Diego is the elephant in the room when it comes to regional issues including water and wastewater, the third homeported aircraft carrier, and the additional proposed border crossings, and the Chargers. He inherited an actuarially unsound city pension system and has been trying to straighten that out while bringing order to the chaos that has become SD City government. And, he gets to do all this while the city attorney works at cross-purposes with his presumptive clients, namely the City Council and the Mayor.

Factoid: In the BEST years the City of San Diego LOSES $15 million per year supporting the SD Chargers.

2nd Factoid: Not one single scooter! So, you can plan your day to include ALL of Rotary!

MEMBERSHIP
We don't have any proposed new members presently, but give President-elect Al Ovrom a call anyway. Let's keep him busy!