Rotary Club of Montecito Axis - Current  Feb 16, 2010

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Montecito Rotary Club Newsletter

February 16, 2010

Our Meeting on February 16^th generated a full house on Mardi Gras/Carnivale Tuesday as we heard Mary Sheldon from Tecolote Books relate some marvelous human interest stories from her vantage point in the Upper Village.  The passion, commitment and knowledge she brings to the world as a bookseller was most impressive.  There are complex dynamics afoot in the publishing/bookselling arena and Mary shared her perspectives about these volatile and challenging forces.  The mix of print and electronic materials is shifting as are user patterns and purchasing trends.  We also received an update from Melinda Johansson, of Easy Lift, bringing us up to date on the grant we had awarded them last year.

Victoria Bentley attended the District 5240 Water Conference and shared her findings.

 Our very own JT Turner, is Producer of the documentary film, “Crazy Art ” which had its very successful debut Wednesday, 2/10 as part of the SB International Film Festival.  JT’s film will be shown with free admission Friday evening, 2/19 as part of the final wrap-up of SBIFF at the Riviera Theatre if you missed the premiere.  Contact JT for details.

Our speaker next week (2/23) will be Carol Pearson, Executive Vice-President and Provost at Pacifica Graduate Institute, speaking to us on the subject of Transformational Leadership.

Thanks to the Four Seasons/Biltmore we have our Raffle Prize for the 2010 Golf Classic and we hope to have Raffle Tickets for distribution to our eager Sales Force next Tuesday.  We will again be doing our golf cart progress indicator tracking the progress of our 2 person raffle ticket sales teams.  Fabulous prizes for those who sell tickets in droves.

With our Sales team approach, pick your partners now and we will launch this aspect of the Golf Classic.   Always exciting and filled with intrigue, let’s set a high bar for our Raffle with its elegant prize of a deluxe stay at the Biltmore!

The Board has approved the membership application of Kati Buehler, from Westmont College.  She will be inducted next month.

DICTIONARY Project:  Thanks to Aaron Clark for coordinating this event,  Dick Douglas and Deborah Schwartz joined Aaron and your president to help distribute dictionaries to the 3^rd graders at Cleveland School.  A heartwarming and truly great project of our Club.  (Photo sent separately)

Assignments for February 23rd are as follows:

Assignments for 2/23 Meeting.  Invocation and Flag Salute: John Brinker    Back-up (Carolyn “Downtown” Brown)  

 50/50 Raffle: (Karen Hickman)