Newsletter - Archive  Apr 21, 2010

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P.O. Box 620700                                                   Riki Intner                                                                   Dave Hyman 

Woodside CA 94062-0700                                District Governor                                                       Club President

                                                      http://wpvrotary.org                                          

Regular Meeting                                                                                         April 21st 2010

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: 

Allen Cary will introduce Paul Giocomantonio who is with INKA Farms.  Allen met Paul at a recent flower show and hopefully Paul will be able to explain what "biospheric micro farms" are.  According to their website "By combining the arts, science and technology, INKA has developed the new science of 'Biospherics,' the art of living in balance with the Earth's delicate biological systems."  For more information (or so that you might ask an intelligent question), have a look at their website:  www.INKA.fm

Last  Week's Program:  (courtesy of Last Week Editor, Dean Babcock)

Newsletter Editor Joan Fuetsch introduced Dr. Soshauna Parks to talk to us about her work with the MACHI Project and her work with the Mayan people.  Soshi was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota and her family moved to the Bay Area when she was a little girl.  She got her Ph.D at Boston University.  She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill there and is co-director of the MACHI project. The Maya people have an impressive history and culture that goes back for many centuries and covers much of Mesoamerica. Today millions of Maya people live in Guatemala, southern Mexico, Belize and western Honduras.  However, the Maya people have little representation in the countries where they live. The Maya people were a skilled and educated people, architects, mathematicians and philosophers. They have been disenfranchised from their heritage sites and have little say in how the sites are interpreted and managed. Soshi and the staff work with the elders, the parents and their children, to teach them reading, writing and about their grand culture. Our support to the libraries for Maya villages in the form of books and computers along with the work of the Riecken Foundation has gone along way in improving their standing. The libraries have become community meeting centers. For further information go to www.machiproject.org.  

Next Week's Program:  American Sign Language Past and future president, Barbara Schmidt, will introduce Barbara Pierce whose topic is American Sign Language.

Club News:  Rumor has it that the Bennetts are back from all the places they have been to.

Coming Events:

Next Board Meeting:  Tuesday, May 5th, 7:30am, Church Library

Rotary Means Business:  Wednesday, May 6th, 5:30pm Encore Performance Catering

Rebuilding Together:  Saturday, April 24th 2010  Contact Ken Hayes for information

Pancake Breakfast & May Day Parade:  Saturday, May 1st

Rotary International Convention:  June 20th - 23rd, Montreal

Announcements:  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.