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Program
Chairs:
Dwight Heikkila & Ed
Jackson
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July 26,
2012
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August 2
Tommy Hawkins
“Life’s Reflections: Poetry for the People
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August 9
Manny Pacheco
“Forgotten
Hollywood”
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This Week...
July 31
District
Breakfast-
Westin LAX Hotel
RSVP on
Clubrunner or to
Don Nelson
August 2
Tommy Hawkins
“Life’s
Reflections:
Poetry for the
People”
Upcoming...
August 9
Manny Pacheco
“Forgotten
Hollywood”
August 10
Literacy
Breakfast-
Lawry’s
Restaurant
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Enclosed in this week’s Windmill is the club budget summary for 2011-12
We were greeted this
Thursday by our very own VP
Leah Vriesman. President
Dwight started the meeting
promptly and asked PE Mark
Rogo to lead us in the
pledge. Community Service
Chair John Heidt said the
invocation.
Guests:
Paul Aslan from
Rancho Park Rotary; Gigi
Habiby and Jessie Villa,
students from Marymount High
School; and Brian Whitney
brought his son Dean.
President Dwight Heikkila
invited each member to
recommend a lunch speaker
for this next year.
Dwight reported the
speaker preferences survey
taken on July 19, 2012 with
27 respondents as follows:
- 20% Local Problems – 9 programs
- 13% International Problems –
6 programs
- 12% Medicine, Health – 5.5
programs
- 12% Historical – 5.5
programs
- 11% Sports – 5 programs
- 9% Other Science – 4
programs
- 8.5% Entertainment – 4
programs
- 5.5% Environment – 2.5
programs
- 5.5% Rortary International –
2.5 programs
- 2% Other – 1 program
Most requested by name:
Everything to do with UCLA – the Chancellor, research
scientists and engineers,
team sports, etc.
Past president Ed Jackson
introduced Gigi Habiby who
co founded the Interact
Rotary Club at Marymount
High School where 20 to 25
girls participating.
They meet twice a
month. Gigi tied for 3rd
place in our Art, Music, and
Speech contest this Spring
and PP Ed presented her with
a check.
John Heidt, Community
Service Chair, reported on
his committee
accomplishments this last
year and had Sean McMillan
and Leah Vriesman reported
on the Angel Flight and
Earth Angel programs for
transporting individuals to
and from centers where they
receive medical treatments.
Earth Angel is a
joint project with the Santa
Monica Rotary Club.
Last year 207 rides
were donated and 116 rides
have been donated so far
this year.
Our club has donated
$2,200 last year and $1,560
so far in 2012.
Marsha Hunt promoted the
upcoming district trip to
Jamaica January 31 to
February 4, 2013 with
details including costs to
be announced soon.
She also reported on
her work in Uganda with
establishing four elementary
schools, one high school and
a college since 2004.
She will soon be
traveling to Uganda again.
President Dwight Heikkila
reminded us of the avenues
of service and that we need
to sign up to serve on the
club committees.
Vice President Mark Rogo
promoted the 2013 Rotary
International Convention to
be held in Lisbon Portugal.
Our goal is to have
at least 6 from our club in
attendance.
Our speaker Kevin Kilroy who
is a student at Marymount
High School shared her
experience with raising
money to drill water wells
in Niger Africa.
Niger is one of the
poorest countries in West
Africa and the people there
suffer daily because they
don’t have clean water.
Kevin got involved
after reading a book her dad
gave to her that compared
cities with clean water to
other cities without clean
water.
Wells Bringing Hope
works with World Vision to
not only drill wells but
also to build schools at the
well sites and teaches the
people about farming and
sanitation.
The girls are able to
attend school since they
don’t have to daily
transport water long
distances.
When the girls are
educated experience shows
they have 80% less children.
The wells cost
$11,200 to construct half of
which is funded by World
Vision.
A video was shown of
the people in Niger and some
of the wells that were
constructed.
Ken Kilroy, Kevin’s
father, added some
additional information about
the clean water projects in
Africa.
So far Kevin has
raised money to fund
drilling of 12 wells.
Wells are typically
300 feet deep and tap
underground water that
collects during the rainy
seasons.
—YOE Jim Crane
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NEARBY MAKEUP SITES:
Monday,
Beverly Hills: BH Hotel,
9641 Sunset / Tuesday,
Inglewood: Hollywood Park
Casino, 3883 W. Century
Blvd, Inglewood /
Wednesday, Century City:
Hyatt Regency Century City,
in the Breeze Cafe, Culver
City: Culver Hotel, 9400
Culver Blvd, CC, or
Wilshire: The Ebell, 743 S.
Lucerne Blvd, LA / Friday,
Santa Monica: Riviera
Country Club, 1250 Capri Dr,
Pacific Palisades
For information about
on-line makeups,
www.recswusa.org
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