The Wheel – October 12th 2022

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Wednesday, October 19th, 12:00 PM (PDT) The program will be will be “SUSD” by Traci Miller, SUSD Interim Superintendent( bio ). Please plan to show up around noon as it is anticipated we will be serving lunch prior to the meeting starting at 12:15 pm.
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“The Rotary Club of Stockton Begins the 2nd Century of Service to the Stockton Community”

Activities

• Call to Order and Welcome! President Colleen Stewart called the meeting to order.
  

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  Welcome to our members and their guests to a year of Service Above Self. “Imagine” is our mantra this year, and with your help we can be as successful this year as we have been in the past. Rotary Club of Stockton was formed in 1914 just the 92^nd club worldwide. With over 1.4 million Rotarians worldwide.   Rotary International was formed by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Stockton Rotary celebrated our 108 Anniversary just in February. We have a rich history in Stockton.

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  Meetings are brought to you live at the Stockton Golf and Country Club.

• Music Selection: • 1963 Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs ~~”Sugar Shack”
  • 1975 Neil Sedaka & Elton John ~~”Bad Blood”
  • 1983 Cyndi Lauper ~~~”Girls just want to have fun”
  • 1991 Mariah Carey ~~”Emotions”
• Pledge of Allegiance & Four Way Test – led by Eddie Arias, Public Image Chair
• Song of the day: Past President Bob Blower- “My country Tis of Thee”
  • Thought of the day: Pam Wenger/ Thought of the Day
    Quote by Charles R. Swindoll:
    “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
    Pam also added “We are in charge of our own attitude”
• Trivia of the day :
  Today is National Farmers Day
  National Respect Cultural Diversity Day
  National Emergency Nurses Day
  National Ingenious Resistance Day (close to Pres Colleen’s heart)
  National Curves Day
  National Gumbo Day & Pulled Pork Day
  National Take your parents to lunch day (too late)
  National Stop Bullying Day
  World Arthritis Day
• Motivational video:  Empathy Empathy – Best Inspirational Story – YouTube
• Meeting Sponsor:
• Special Thanks to –  A round of applause for all the Worker Bees of Rotary Stockton. We appreciate you and all your time and effort. There are many that are the core of our organization that go unnoticed but not unappreciated. Thanks to everyone that assists us in all we do. I need to thank the set-up team, Sergeant at arms, Ken Steele.  Matt, our Secretary for all his behind the scene work as well as Louie Lemos, Treasurer. And we can’t forget Sharon for always bringing a book. Finally, the speaker committee for getting interesting speakers lined up for us to hear.
• Concern Report –
• Weekly door prize: End Polio baseball cap- Nora Wager was the winner!
• Guest’s of Rotarians – Guest of Dave Midura: Kristen Birtwhistle with United Way
  Guest of Walt Wager: Nora Wager
• Visiting Rotarians –Joe Dietrich
• New Induction: Liz Hull, Ron Allison, for induction for Bill Alessio. Ron Allison introduced his son, Bill and said he was an exchange Rotary Student in London and had been exposed to Rotary his whole life because of his father. He also explained that he took the family name back to Alessio as his father had changed his to Allison and that is the reason for the difference. Welcome Bill!
• Club Service & District Calendar for 2021-2022 – Click HERE for the latest list! Don’t miss out on some great activities that may or may not happen in the near future (due to the COVID-19 virus.)

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