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October 19, 2020 – Donna and I hosted a live cooking class on Zoom and live streamed to Facebook. We made our family’s famous chicken enchiladas. The recipe is on a member’s website: https://www.gubernator.com/chicken-enchiladas. The video can be seen on the Rotary Club of Del Mar Facebook page.

October 15, 2020 – District 5340 conducted Pre-PETS (Presidents Elect Training Seminars) training curriculum covering Membership. I was the Zoom host. We used break-out sessions. This was the first time I used this part of Zoom and forgot to assign the facilitators (current and past District Governors) to their room. We used 10 minutes inContinue reading “2020-21 Presidents Elect Meeting”

October 15, 2020 – Todays guest speaker was club vice president Dr. Matt Kurth discussing COVID-19 vaccine development focusing on phase 3 clinical trials. I had the pleasure of presenting virtually Joel Candib his 1st Paul Harris Fellow recognition. The club was able to match his donation dollar to dollar to meet the $1,000 donationContinue reading “RCDN Weekly Meeting”

October 13, 2020 – As Assistant District Governor for Area 3, I joined the evening meeting of the Rotary Club of Vista. They also meet in the morning on the 1st Tuesday of the month. I arrived late, the speaker was Eric Lovett of Urban Street Angels. https://www.urbanstreetangels.org/ Urban Street Angels is a 501(c)(3) non-profitContinue reading “Rotary Club of Vista”

October 13, 2020 – Past Rotary President Ian Riseley addressed the leadership of District 5340. Ian is also a Trustee of The Rotary Foundation. His topic was the new 7th Area of Focus for The Rotary Foundation, the Environment. Ian joined us live via Zoom from Australia. We had 51 members of our District attend.Continue reading “Past RI President Ian Riseley”

October 12, 2020 – I conducted a monthly meeting with the current presidents from Area 3 including Carlsbad, Carlsbad Hi-Noon, Vista and San Marcos. We did not have the president from San Marcos on but we did have District Governor Elect Dan Gensler and District Governor Nominee Chuck Pretto. We discussed how the club planContinue reading “Area 3 Presidents Meeting”

October 8, 2020 – Two meetings today, first the International Service Committee where we reviewed it’s program for the year to date. Our guest speaker was Nasema Zeerak a Rotary Peace Scholar from Afghanistan attending a program in Conflict Resolution at USD. I announced Pacific Beach Rotaract and Zone 26/27 are sponsoring a Virtual PolioContinue reading “RCDM Weekly Meeting”

October 6, 2020. Distict Governor Elect Dan Gensler hosted his 7th dinner at his home in Coronado for Presidents Elect. The dinner was targeted for PEs from Area 9 and 10. We had a great time hearing about the clubs and how the PEs came to Rotary. Attending were Dale Long – Rancho Bernardo Sunrise,Continue reading “Presidents Elect Dinner #7”

October 1, 2020. District Governor Steven Weitzen made his official visit to the Rotary Club of Carlsbad. This was a hybrid meeting using both Zoom and in person in a large backyard of a club member. As Assistant Governor, I was pleased to introduce District Governor Steve to make his prepared remarks. But first heContinue reading “District Governor Visit to Carlsbad”

October 1, 2020. Today has been busy with Rotary. It started with the Community Service Committee and then to our regular weekly meeting. Julie Marner, Rotary Club of San Diego and Philippe and Dugan reviewed our global grant project Youth and Women Empowerment in Burundi using microcredit funding. After the club meeting was our DuckyContinue reading “RCDM Weekly Meeting”