Newsletter - Archive  Dec 17, 2008

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P.O. Box 620700                                                   Russ Ketron                                                             Sandra Pugh 

Woodside CA 94062-0700                                District Governor                                                       Club President

                                                      http://wpvrotary.org                                          

Regular Meeting                                                                                December 17th, 2008

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 welcome!

This Week's Program:   Club Assembly/Membership Drive  This last meeting of the year 2008 will be devoted to a discussion of how to proceed with a membership drive early in 2009.  Please bring your ideas.   

Last  Week's Program:   Sue Bennet introduced her friend Neelam Noorani who is a classmate of her daughter's. Neelam is an international rights scholar at the court set up by the U.N. to prosecute those responsible for the heinous crimes committed in Sierra Leone, West Africa.  She lived there for two years and witnessed many acts of violence. 
    Sierra Leone is a former British colony of staggering beauty with mountains rising to 6,000 feet.  Their main sources of income are agriculture and diamonds. Freetown is the capital with a population of about 150,000. Sierra Leone is the poorest country in the world and there is a life expectancy of 40 years. It is filled with corruption, with military road blocks and secret police. They had their first independent election recently.  When the results were announced Neelam heard a resounding roar of joy from the crowd in Freetown.  Hopefully under U.N. surveillance they will have a better future with education and reduced corruption.
   The country is currently being helped by Irish and British Rotary clubs which are working on electric power, hospitals, prosthetics, water storage and education.

Next Week's Program:   DARK & DARK!  Our next meeting will be January 7th, 2009

Club News:   Speaker Shortage To the knowledge of your newsletter editor and calendar keeper we do not yet have any speakers scheduled for 2009.  If every person brought in one speaker we could quickly cover several months.  I really hate blank newsletters.

 Coming Events:

Next Board Meeting:  Tuesday, January 6th 2009, 7:30am, Church Library 

Rotary Means Business:  Wednesday, January 7th, 5:30 pm Encore Performance Catering

District Assembly:   Saturday, March 28th, 8:00 - 1:30, San Mateo Community College

District Conference:  April 17th - 19th, Portola Plaza, Monterrey, www.rotary5150.org

Announcements:   Have you had a look at the Rotary International website lately for what is going on in Rotary's world?  www.rotary.org   How about finding out about what is going on in the district?  www.rotary5150.org