THE CARMICHAEL ROTARY SPEECH CONTEST (Mar 16, 2021)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

► FUND RAISER:

Dick Bauer gave out the following flyer (below the links) detailing our newest and perhaps our only fund raiser this year. Please invite your friends and all the ones that you would invite to the Crab Feed to partake in the fund raiser. Jay and Vicky Boatwright have already tasted the dinner and have given their stamp of approval. Right now we have 42 sets or 168 dinners sold (each set is $90) is for 4 dinners) what a deal! Use PayPal as link below, or send to address on flyer, or send directly to our Foundation treasurer, Katha Danz.

Live links are as follows:

PayPal: https://paypal.me/tritipdinner4fourlocale.x=en_US

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/carmichaelrotaryfoundation

Web Page: https://www.carmichaelrotary.org

► ROTARY SHIRTS, HATS, CAPS : Vicky Boatwright is harboring many of these items which belong to members and they are just collecting dust at her home. She would like you to come get them or she will meet with you and deliver them. Please take pity on her, contact her and get them out of her house.

►OAK PARK ROTARY HOUSE: As you may know, our Club recently donated $750 to the Oak Park Rotary House. Lynette Andersen came to our Club (virtually) and told us of the wonderful function of the house, that is, to give a child who is going through prolonged treatment at Shriner's Hospital, a free place for the family and child to stay. It keeps families (who live far away) together during a very difficult time. Some stays have been for a year or more. It is a wonderful project and we are being asked to help with the upkeep of the house on special "work days". There are 7 other Clubs involved and they share in the maintenance work. Since we are now involved in the project, would you consider spending an hour of so helping with some yard work with other Rotarians? See informational story below:

►EASTER SEALS GOLF TOURNAMENT: Jay Sedlak said that the Easter Seals Carmichael Golf Tournament is slated to be on June 11^th, and we will have our “Golf Assembly Meeting” on June 8th, and wanted to know how many want to participate, $175 for one individual golf cart, prizes, lunch, raffle and shotgun 18 holes at Ancil Hoffman. Some have mentioned that if the carts are full, they would like to walk the course

(not me!).

►CARMICHAEL PARK DISTRICT: Have completed two Bocci Ball courts in their park and word has it, that the Carmichael Park staff is challenging the Carmichael Rotary Club to a match on the courts when it can be safely done (maybe we start practicing A.S.A.P.!)

FUTURE PROGRAMS

♦ MARCH 23RD: Christine Dyer, International Service Chair

♦ MARCH 30TH: Basim Elkarra, Reg. Exec. Dir., Council on American Islamic Relations

♦ APRIL 6TH: "RISE AGAINST HUNGER"- UPDATE - Jim Quinney

♦ APRIL 13TH: "CIGAR CULTURE & LIFE STYLE": Louis Starr & Bob Bylisma

A GREAT NIGHT FOR A SPEECH CONTEST

It was a good night for a speech contest, as much as any night when using Zoom and doing it virtually. The speech contest staff was ready, Jay Boatwright, our technical director and Phil Danz, moderator, and Alan Gallaway, responsible for the training of the judges had practiced 2 or 3 times before the contest. And we received much encouragement from Bill Highland, District 5180 Chair, who is nicknamed Dr. Zoom (because of his expertise.) Vicky Boatwright was our timer, and the Judges, aforementioned Alan Gallaway, Tara Abraham, and Daria Hill (all three are members of a local Toastmaster’s Club and Daria is their president). This years subject for the contest is "How 2020 Opens Opportunities".

The three outstanding contestants who were named #1,#2, and #3 for security purposes gave wonderful talks on the topic of “How 2020 Opens Opportunities”. They were all excellent and everything went well except that I apparently pushed a wrong button and was muted for a while, but President David Thorman took over and it was lucky that he had an agenda and so knew what was going to happen. I got my sound back on just to the last of the contest. Some of the important guests not mentioned above were Leigh-Ann Reinero, Sara Catiger, and Shannon Shope. There were 31 attendees (virtually) at the contest.

The winners were: 3rd Place: Shawn Varshney, Oak Ridge High School received a certificate and $100.00; 2nd Place Joseph Vallejo, Cristo Rey High School, received a certificate and $200.00; and 1st Place: Elizabeth Roe, Victory Cristian High School received a certificate and $400.00 and she will compete in the semi-final contest, March 25th at 7:00 p.m. Our contestants almost convinced us that 2020 was not such a bad year!