Newsletter - Archive  Apr 28, 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 28th 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:  American Sign Language Past and future president, Barbara Schmidit, will introduce Barbara Pierce who is going to "talk" about American sign language. 

Last  Week's Program: (courtesy of Last Week Editor, Dean Babcock) Allen Cary introduced Paul Giacomantonio to speak about his work with INKA Farms.  Paul was born in Yonkers, New York.  He went to school in Gabon, Africa where he became an Eco-system designer.  He has lived in Loma Prieta and San Gregorio the last 18 years.  He has been involved in gardening for 35 years.  He started in Africa with a rain forest project, he drilled wells and built water falls and fish ponds.  He learned to build gardens in very small places and conceived the idea of portable gardens.  He formed INKA and designed the logo, “Live in the biosphere, without killing it.”  He is often asked “What do you do here?”  He teaches healthy living and economic structure.  He designed the “Trellis Garden” and people said “I want that!” He has built them for schools, people with sailboats and for micro-farming.  One of his gardens is at Coyote Point Museum.  He designed and is patenting the Bio-Quilt, a sandwich of two sheets of plastic with a plastic mesh in between.  His gardens consist of a piece of the quilt suspended in a frame, with ancillary pump and filters. The water source can be a fishpond or gray water.  For more information go to www.inka.fm or call Paul at 650-619-2241.

Next Week's Program:  Meeting to be held at Woodside Bakery and Cafe due to the church rummage sale.  There will be no speaker but a lot of fellowship and a recap of the Pancake Breakfast and May Day parade. 

Club News:  President-Elect, Barbara Schmidt, reports that a good time was had by all at last Saturday's Rebuilding Together project.  For photos have a look at the photo gallery on your club website:  www.wpvrotary.org

Coming Events:

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

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

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.