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Let’s Review What Happened Last Week: At our July 18th meeting, we had 3 more Burlingame Rotarians sign up for my President's Club special bringing the total of those who already signed up to 24. If you sign-up and pay prior to or at our August 1st meeting, your cost to join the President's Club is only $100. If you have yet to take advantage of this unbelievably good deal, please see our accounting team at the Welcome Desk at our next meeting. Thank you to all who signed up. The rest of you be aware of those Rotary fines. Cary Koh told us about the latest developments for our October 1st golf tournament. We are currently accepting sign-ups for sponsorships and players. You can sign-up at any of our meetings and in the very near future on our website. John Delaney spoke about volunteer opportunities at Burlingame Chamber of Commerce's Burlingame on the Avenue Festival to be held August 18th and 19th. Burlingame Rotarians will be staffing a food/drink booth from 2:30pm to 7:00pm on Saturday, August 8th and 10:30am to 2:30pm on Sunday, August 9th. We are looking for at least 6 volunteers each day. All tips go to the Service Fund. To sign-up contact John Delaney at JDelaney@bostonprivatebank.com. Our speaker was John McKnight, the Director of Disaster Services for the Golden State Division of the Salvation Army. John told us about some of his recent experiences in providing disaster services. Additionally, he filled us on the history of the Salvation Army including the origin of the term "falling off the wagon". He also provided some excellent suggestions for what each of us can do to survive if a disaster should strike us or our home. Community Service Opportunity: We are looking for volunteers to serve dinner at Safe Harbor shelter on Thursday, July 26th. We only have one volunteer for July 26th (thank you Bob Doerr). If you are willing to volunteer, you only need to be there between 4:45pm and 5:45pm. If you willing to volunteer, please email me at marcfrd@pacbell.net and I will send the you the details of what is involved. We also need additional volunteers for our August 23rd and September 27th shifts. Again, we currently only have one volunteer for those dates (thank you Mark Johnson). If you are willing to volunteer for either of these dates, please email me. Our Next Meetings: July 25th – 5:00pm to 7:00pm social and happy hour with exchange visitors from our Edogawa sister club of Tokyo, Japan. To be held at Rangoon Ruby - 1219 Burlingame Avenue. We will be joined by 6 students, 4 Rotarians and 1 teacher. This is an opportunity for you to interact individually with our Rotarian guests in an informal environment. August 1st - 12:15pm at Poplar Creek. Cheri Delacy Carr will be the "substitute president" as a I will be out of town. We will hear from two of our Burlingame High School scholarship recipients. Our program will be our own Fritz Brauner and Bob Doerr presenting a video talk of interest. Japanese (Edogawa) Rotary Exchange: The week of July 22nd we will be visited by Rotarians and students from our Japanese sister club, Edogawa. The visiting team includes 5 adult Rotarians, 6 student-age visitors and 1 teacher. There are opportunities for Burlingame Rotarians to engage with our visitors: July 22nd - Welcome barbecue from 12noon to 3pm at Peter Comarato's house - 1576 Cypress in Burlingame. Cost is $10 per Burlingame Rotarian attendee. July 25th - Social and happy hour with our exchange visitors from 5pm to 7pm at Rangoon Ruby - 1219 Burlingame Avenue. July 27th - Farewell luncheon at 11:30am Kincaid's Restaurant at 60 Bay View Place in Burlingame. Cost is $40 per Burlingame Rotarian attendee.
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