Woodside/Portola Valley Rotary - Newsletter

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Wednesday with breakfast by Encore Performance Catering, fellowship, project updates and an interesting speaker from the community. Guild Hall, Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, California Guests are not only welcome but encouraged!

This Week's Program:

Jackie C. Young, AICP, Director of Planning and Building for the

town of Woodside, will review the changes underway in the general plan for the town.

Last Week's Program:

Pres. Barbara Schmidt introduced Bob Buelteman’s lovely daughter to tell us about her career in the show business. Anne was born in Miami while Bob was flying Pan American Airways clippers to South America. Anne told us about “Opera without Tears” a one woman show she did. She then launched into her tales of “Les Miserables, the Musical”. She toured with this show for eleven years as it circled the country – and then did It again!

The history of “Les Mis” starts in 1980 in Paris, then London’s West End, Broadway and then 3 U.S. tours. It then goes on a UK tour, then to Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Then a Broadway revival, a 25^th anniversary tour and is still playing in venues around the world. To give an idea of the size of the production; It had a cast and staff of 75 persons and the scenery and production equipment filled 9 semi-truck trailers. It received the Tony Award for best musical, the Tony Award for Best Book and the overall Tony Award

Anne then told us of the work on her novel. It is based on her experiences in the “Les Mis” tour. The tentative title is “Road Kill – tales of a certain city.” She has been working on it for quite some time now – it is up to 700 pages. She has 2 agents, both of whom want to read it – when she cuts it down to 250 pages. She is now at the stage where she has to cut her baby into pieces and decide which pieces to keep, and more painfully, which pieces to put into the round file. Good Luck Anne, no birth is painless!

Next Week's Program:

What you should know about First Aid.

A representative of the Woodside Fire Protection District will show us the First Aid procedures we should know so that we may assist our family or neighbors in an emergency.

Club News:

Baja Sur Water Project Wins World Bank Marketplace Development Award

Florence Casseus's project which started with a request for $2K from our club to test the water in this region became one of thirty finalists for a World Bank grant. Florence and her team were awarded over $170K to deliver their UV buckets to 6,000 households, roughtly 75% of the population in Baja Sur. Next step, Florence says, is all of rural Mexico.

Coming Events:

Next Board Meeting: Tuesday, Aug. 3, 7:30am, Church Library, advise Barbara if you can't make it, please.

Rotary Means Business: Wednesday, Aug. 4, 5:30pm Encore Performance Catering. If you are a young business person, you might make some interesting contacts here.

Rotary International Convention: May 21-25, 2011, New Orleans - How many tropical hurricanes can one city take?.

Taste of Woodside: Sunday, September 19th, 4-8pm Check with Ken Hayes on tickets.

Announcements:

The Potential Leaders Seminars program is new to District 5150. It offers practical training in professional circumstances that can benefit you on both a personal and professional level. October 23, 2010, at the Bay Model, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. Register at District 5150 website.

Keep up with what is happening worldwide with Rotary by visiting the www.rotary.org website. Have a look at the district website www.rotary5150.org to read the district newsletter and see what is going on within the district.

See you next week,

Lord willin' and the crick don't rise!

Dean

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