Upcoming ProgramsMar 18 Mar 25 Apr 8 Apr 15 Upcoming Events
Board Meetings in 2010 will be held on 3rd Tuesdays most months. Next dates are Mar 16, April 20, May 18 and June 15. Volunteer Days at Golden Gate Fields have resumed. Come out and help raise funds for our Club projects. Contact Jack Freethy to sign up. St. Patrick's Day Mixer, Dinner and Live Music Bowl-A-Thon is April 10th at the Albany Bowl. Reserve one of the last 2 spots on the team. Rotary District 5160 District Assembly April 17th...The new format for assemblies is "facilitated information exchange" between Rotarians. Come learn how to grow membership and fundraising. Rotary Work Day will be April 24th. Our Clubs and all Clubs statewide will be installing fire detectors and checking for expired batteries. Michael Dougherty will participate in the San Diego Half-Marathon on Sunday June 6th as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training. Team In Training raises funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure! Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission. Your contribution is 100% tax deductible. An official receipt will be sent via email shortly after your donation is completed. 82% of the funds you donated will go to research, patient care and directly towards curing blood cancer.
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Program March 18, 2010Commercial Real Estate and Investments by Burpee and Del Simone
Our speakers: Educated at UC Berkeley, Robert Burpee has been in the financial services industry for 10 years. After being a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley and later at Banc of America Investments, Robert and his business partner, Derek Del Simone, started their own practice with LPL Financial in 2007.
El Cerrito Rotary: The WheelEl Cerrito Rotary
The WheelEditor: Gary Buffon Week of March 11, 2010 President Tracy welcomed everyone to the Friendly El Cerrito Rotary Club. Steve led the flag salute and Marty provided the thought for the day. Secretary John: Had Don introduce his wife Mary and then asked the three Interact Officers to introduce themselves: Cynthia Fong - President, Stephanie Wong – Vice President, and Luke Twombly, Rotary Coordinator and webmaster. 4-Way Test Presentation: Rod led the recitation of the 4-Way Test Announcements: Þ Karen, fresh back from PETS is energized about her upcoming presidency. After a quick summary of her experience at PETS Karen shared the statistics about Polio Plus. All together Rotary and other contributors have used nearly $1 Billion in working toward the eradication of the disease. There are fewer than 200 cases left on earth in the four countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. Þ Marty is still in need of one or two bowler’s for the Bowl-a-thon on April 3rd. Þ Interact President Cynthia accompanied by Stephanie and Luke explained the three events that are currently underway. Tonight is the Chevy’s in Emeryville fund raiser (go eat there tonight and the Interact club will get 25% of your dinner cost). Be sure an take your Flier and hand it in when you order your food. Second is the Interact Area 6 “Talent Show” being held at Pinole Valley High tomorrow night from 7p to 9p. Tickets at the door at Pinole Valley High are $7 and you will be treated to a wonderful program of very talented Interact Members from four different clubs. Last is the main fund raiser for the Interact Club, the Black and White Ball on April 3rd at the Alumni House at UC Berkeley. The Interact club is seeking sponsors to help underwrite the expenses for the dance so more of the proceeds can be given to the District Interact project for PACE. The club wants to contribute more than the $6000 contributed to the LN-4 hand project last year. If you want to help please let Gary Buffon know. The Interact Club needs Chaperones for the evening as well as sponsors. A list was send around for Rotarians to sign up for sponsorship and chaperone. Be sure and let Gary B know if are available to chaperone. Tracy presented Cynthia with a check from our club for $500 as our sponsorship.
President Tracy holding the check she gave to Cynthia for Black and White Sponsorship Happy dollars: Jane’s is happy her sister is coming to visit. Don is happy as he and wife Mary are off to Australia for a month to visit their son and daughterin-law. Mark S is happy that his daughter is now home from the hospital and doing better with her chemo treatments. Pres Tracy is $20 happy for Karen’s PETS experience and for the new board members who will serve Karen next year. Sgt at Arms Nancy: Not on duty today Today’s Program: Don introduced his wife Mary to speak to us about Inner Wheel USA. Mary began by sharing with us some of the facts about Inner Wheel. It is the largest woman’s volunteer organization in the world. It has three main purposes: Promote National Friendship; Promote Ideals of Service; and Promote International Friendship. The organization began in England when the spouses of Rotarians started the first group. Inner Wheel is not a part of Rotary but works closely with Rotarians in an effort to support the good works that Rotary does. One of the goals of many Inner Wheel clubs is to support the fund raising activities of the Rotary Clubs in their area.
Mary Farquharson explain Inner Wheel and its operation Clubs are chartered with Inner Wheel when there are twelve peoples who become members. When there are four active clubs in an area they can become a District. Membership in Inner Wheel is based on paying membership dues. There are not attendance requirements and each club decides what projects they wish to provide. Mary’s club supports the Children’s House at Children’s Hospital, a place where parents can stay when their children are in Children’s hospital. Often children are brought to the hospital in an emergency and the parents are not prepared to stay overnight so the Inner Wheel club provides provisions to Children’s House as a way to support the hospital. Inner Wheel has a Foundation that works to provide myoelectric prosthesis to children. This is an excellent program which help children who have lost or were born without arms and hands with prosthetics to allow them to live a more normal life. Mary gave a very comprehensive presentation and made us all more knowledgeable about the great works of Inner Wheel. Thank you Mary! Today’s Lottery Winner: Jane had her ticket drawn and pulled a cats eye marble winning the bottle of wine. Next meeting the pot is $70. Thought for the Week: --Henry Ward Beecher
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Derek Del Simone is an East Bay native and was educated at College of Marin. Derek began his career with Morgan Stanley in 2001; shortly after Derek and Robert Burpee teamed up to build a financial advisory practice together. They continued to build their business at Banc of America Investments and in 2007 transitioned their clients to LPL Financial. You know his mother!
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