|
Annual Seafood Boil Fundraiser |
 |
 |
 |
|
Written by Ginger Kite
|
|
The Seafood Boil is an annual event of the Rotary Club of Clearlake. This year’s event is Saturday, 2/27/10, at the Clearlake Senior/Community Center. It is a well attended event, with people coming from all around the lake as well as from out of the area to participate.
Our club was founded in 1973 and has made significant contributions to the community over the years. Some of our contributions include acting as the lead organization in creation of the Lower Lake High School Athletic Field, participation in the development of Austin Park, projects involving the South Shore Little League, Big Brother & Sisters, the Senior Center Building and Anderson Marsh. Each year we fund scholarships for college bound seniors from the local high school and participate in a dictionary project for grade school children. We have been involved in many international projects, including the Festival of Brotherhood in Mexico. We sponsor an Interact Club at Lower Lake High School and a Rotaract Club at Yuba College. We sponsor both incoming and outgoing exchange students to promote international goodwill. We make a difference in our community.
The goal for this year’s Seafood Boil fund raiser includes funding of college scholarships for ten high school seniors to help them meet the college dreams and goals. We will sponsor the gift of 250 dictionaries to 3rd graders; sometimes this is the only book the child has ever owned. This is a project we’ve been involved in for enough years that we’re now hearing stories from the parents of today’s receipients about how the parent enjoyed their dictionary previously. We have numerous youth programs we are involved in and that we help sponsor. Our annual Free Community Christmas dinner in December served approximately 750 dinners. We had approximately 500 children who sat on Santa’s lap and took home a gift. Students from Carle School and the Interact Club acted as elves. In addition, there are numerous contributions made annually in both dollar contributions and contributions of time to projects by the Rotary membership which is comprised of local business persons.
We invite you to participate. Tickets to the event are $60. You can sponsor a table for $500, which includes 8 tickets to the event. You can donate an auction item, or make a cash donation.
If you can contribute an auction item, make a donation or wish to purchase tickets, please let us know. You can call any Rotarian or notify us by mail at P. O. Box 549, Clearlake, Ca. 95422
Thank you.
|
|
Community Christmas Dinner, Dec. 12, 2009 |
|
|
|
|
Tom (our head chef) does the shuffle in the kitchen. Who says Rotarians are dull?
Meanwhile, the kitchen crew prepare for the guests.
The Interact Club of Carlé High School and friends helped the Rotarians and Santa make the Christmas Dinner a great day for all the people who showed up. (Left front, Kinene Barzin, Interact Advisor, right front Ed Zander, Principal of Carlé High School)
And everyone pitches in to serve.
Santa (Mark Cooper) and his Interact Elves await the children. Every child received a gift and a candy cane.
|
|
Rotaract Club Helps at Tango Mike Packing Party |
|
|
|
|
|
Rotacters Raise the Most Funds |
|
|
|
|
The Rotaract Club of Yuba College/Clear Lake Campus raised the most funds as a group for the Walk for Literacy on October 11, at Steele Winery. Due to their efforts, they raised over $500 dollars for the cause of adult literacy, and won a pizza dinner. |
|
From The Rotary Bell, Aug. 18, 2009 |
|
|
|
|
Our guest speaker last week shared some history of Lake County that not than many people knew about. People who would like to more about this history can get James Lick's Monument by Helen Wright, which also chronicles this history. The history told was about Captain Richard Floyd, who happened to be born the same year that The Great Comet of 1843 streaked across the sky. In that year, James Lick was living in Peru, making furniture and meeting a chocolate maker named Ghiradelli.
Richard became a captian of the Navy. He then fought in the Civil War on the CSS Florida, which was responsible for the capture of 36 Union ships; he was arrested and as a POW was shipped to England. After the war he came to San Francisco. The aforementioned James Lick took the $30,000 he had made in Brazil making pianos and moved to San Francisco where he bought land. He also brought along a load of chocolate and later Mr. Ghiradelli himself to San Francisco and set him up in business on land Mr. Lick purchased. Richard Floyd moved from San Francisco and settled in Lake County, where he bought Kono Tayee,. Later he worked for James Lick building the Lick Observatory, which at one point was planned to be set in Lake County. It was a strange and wonderful history, which also involved the Rumsey Guage and Bozo the Clown. |
|
|
From The Rotary Bell, Sept. 22, 2009 |
|
|
|
|
Our recent new member Margaret introduced our guest speaker, Jennifer Swenson, the onsite Administrator for St. Helena Hospital, Clearlake. Jennifer first talked about visiting our club before, as Kendal's guest in 2004, when she had recently been appointed CFO for the hospital. She spent five years as CFO and is now Vice-President of Operations. She talked about how the St. Helena Hospital affiliation allows for seamless transfer of patients between all the St. Helena Hospitals, and that over $10 million has been invested in updating facilities. Recent additions include the Martin O'Neill Cancer Center at St. Helena , adding Dr. Coon, a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon, Marc Shapiro as Chief Medical Officer, and John Hodgkin in charge of the Hospitalist Program.
The local facility has vast improvements to the front entrance, with more upper level parking, There are plans to completely remodel the emergency room by next spring, which will include 12 private state-of-the-art rooms. The local hospital has 16,000 visits per year, with 1600 admissions and the clinics serve 80,000 visits. The local clinic will be expanding but seismic requirements are the first thing to be addressed. |
|
From The Rotary Bell, Aug. 10, 2009 |
|
|
|
|
Our guest last week was Ruby Glebe, a representative of the Lake County Historical Society. She presented a reading of a woman's trip in 1885 from San Francisco to Siegler Springs Resort. Starting with the ferry to Vallejo, then catching an early "wine" train to Calistoga, (she mentions that many of the train riders are drinking to cope with the smoke and coals being blown into the car). At Calistoga, they caught the stage, which carried them over the mountain and up to Siegler Springs Resort. The trip took most of a day, and arrival was usually after dark.
The best pictorial presentation that I have found which coincides with the reading is in Resorts of Lake County, by Donna Hoberg, which was published in 2007. There are over 30 pictures of Siegler Springs and other resorts in the Cobb area and around Lake County. It is a great treasure for Lake County historical enthusiasts.
|
|
|
