The Wheel – April 19th 2023

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Wednesday, April 26th, 12:00 PM (PDT) The program is the El Salvador Program 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 109 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: From 1958 Laurie London who was 13 years old from the UK and he was #1 for “He has the whole world in his hands” and in 1967 by Nancy & Frank Sinatra was “Something Stupid” and from 1980 by Blondie was “Call Me” was the theme song for American Gigolo, the movie about a male prostitute and finally the final song in 1987 is by George Michael & Aretha Franklin called “I knew you were waiting for me”
• Pledge of Allegiance & Four Way Test – lead by PP Ann Johnston
• Song of the day: “America the Beautiful” by Past President Bob Blower
• Thought of the day: Presented by Blain Bibb about the hot dog seller. That no matter the economic state of the world it is important to press on.
• Trivia: In Lakota legend April is the month of Green Grass Moon. Today is National Banana Day, National Amaretto Day, National Garlic Day, and National Hanging out day. But I must tell the history of 420. Since the 1970s, people have celebrated 420 Day. Why 420, though? Many myths circulate about how 420 came to mean cannabis or smoking marijuana. Most of them are untrue or unverifiable. However, as related in Time magazine, one tells the story of five teenagers from San Rafael High School in Marian County, California. In 1971, they would meet at 4:20 PM, and eventually, 420 became their code for marijuana. One of the five, Dave Reddix, worked as a roadie for the Grateful Dead and further popularized the term. In 1991, High Times magazine printed a flier initially handed out by a group of Deadheads in Oakland, California. The flyer was an invitation to a 420 event to smoke marijuana. It was on April 20, 1990 at 4:20 PM.
• Motivation Video: A 100% Peaceful Sleep Motivational Moral Story
• Meeting Sponsor: Emergency Food Bank has sponsored two weeks.
• Special Thanks to –  Set-up team, Secretary Matt Grizzle, Sergeant at Arms/Ken Steele and Monie Ky, Louis Lemos, Treasurer, Leena Mital and Michael Lara our new Editor for The Wheel, Eddie Arias- Public Image Chair and our Board of Directors and committee chairs.
• Concern Report – Paul Jacobson has a report about PP Kevin
• Weekly door prize: 
• Guest’s of Rotarians – Coneen Foster introduced Donna Brown and Sharon Testo. Edith Villapudua introduced Celina Curiel.
• Visiting Rotarians – 
• 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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