Meeting News 4-14-08
April 17, 2008, 4:10 am
Filed under: meetings

Guests

Aric – Kris Jex
Howdy – David Doto
Shari – Adam Araujo

Member Announcements

Aric – Reminder:
Christmas in April – April 24
Happy Feet – April 17, 10:00 am
Feed the Homeless – April 30

Doug recognizes Tom and Keith for their contributions to Feed the Homeless

Dave – El Fuerte reminder, May 2-4

Adrienne/Doug – District Conference April 24-26. www.district5300.org to register.  June 19th there is a group of Italian Rotarians want to have lunch with local rotarians. Details to follow.

Recognitions

Doug – Article in the Business Press about polotical discussions in the workplace. $100

Jack – Published list ranks Prudential Americana 2nd largest broker in Las Vegas. Doug pointed out that the list was calculated by number of agent but Jack’s company had more transaction, so they should be 1st. Jack announced that he thinks the bottom of the market hit 30 days ago. $100

Joe Byers – Happy Birthday $50

Pepe – Happy Birthday $50

Dotti – Happy Birthday $50

Ken Knauss – Fine for the books $249.50

Ram – $100 minute, sons are perfect kids, oldest is a professional in San Diego and younger is a CPA for KPMG

Doug gave himself a $100 credit for his great vacation, many objections, over-ruled.

Ron Reynolds – Son is a successful entertainment lawyer and manager for rock band The Killer among many others  $250

CPA members busy with taxes $25 credits each

Karen – Brother was big bidder at the Gold Raffle. Fine effort by Karen $100

Donny – Another great e-mail newsletter from D & K Landscaping $100

Doug – Joke

Scott – Joke

Gifts for President

Tom – three pins from Rotary International $75 ($25 each)

Wally wins drawing!

Speaker

Bill Goff introduces speaker Stavros Anthony, Metro Police Captain and member of Clark County School Districts Board of Regents.

Meeting adjourned.

 



Meeting News 4-7-08
April 9, 2008, 9:19 pm
Filed under: meetings

Past-President, Eric Colvin conducted the meeting

Guests

Hank – Mark Rowley
Dayton – Ken Land
Howdy – David Doto
Pepe – David Marlon
Mel – Jim Bilbray
Shari – Carol Farkas

Member Announcement 

Dave – El Fuerte trip is scheduled for May 2-4. Please sign up soon. Passport required.

Dee – Thanks to everyone who attended Golf Raffle. Good time was had by all!

Adrienne – District Conference April 24-26. www.district5300.org to register. 

Aric – Reminder:
Christmas in April – April 24
Happy Feet – April 17
Feed the Homeless – April 30

Recognitions

Karen – As always, does an outstanding job putting together the Gold Raffle and this year was no exception. $100 credit

Scott – Has been to the Far East – Malaysia and Thailand. Joke. Laugh (some). $50

Ed Jamison  – nothing to say $50

Kirk – Nothing to say $170

Keith – Took a ten day vacation and never left town – had people waiting on him, room with a view, nothing to do, clean white sheets, breakfast (lunch and dinner) in bed. Glad to be back. $50 credit

Dee – President Doug asked Eric to make sure and fine Dee for boasting at the Gold Raffle about all the things he has won in Rotary. $100

Troy – Everything is fine. Just fine her. $100

Bill – Won the big Gold at the Gold Raffle but hope he still has some luck left to win a corvette in another drawing $100

Joanne – Leaves for Tahoe on Wednesday but will be back on April 23 for the Chamber luncheon where she will be recognized for Circle of Excellence for the second time (first member ever to receive twice). $150

Howdy – Finally worked off the credit Eric gave him at the last meeting he ran. $50

Rick – Visited Seattle and toured the Boeing plant and went fishing in Mazatlan. $50

Melissa – Insurance business is good. $50

Doug Malan – $200

Vern – Great job as always as auctioneer! $50

Andy – $50 for no good reason.

Randy – Things are good – remodeling home and busy with the Ethics Commission. $150

Pepe – Announced that he deserves a fine. Vacationing in Puerta Vallarta, daughter was just cast in the Tuacahn Theater, The Sound of Music (LVSWR is taking a trip to see in August) and he and his wife are being recognized by the St. Viator Foundation. $150

Chris announced that he made beef jerky over the week-end with his leftover steak from the Gold Raffle.

Drawing

 Dayton Blaine – Winner!

Speaker

 Steven C. Kalas, M.Th. Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Steven was graduated from Northern Arizona University with a B.S. in Psychology and earned his Masters in Theology at Southern Methodist University.  He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he works as a marriage and family counselor, bereavement specialist, and behavioral health consultant.  Steven writes Human Matters, published Sundays and Tuesdays in the Las Vegas Review Journal. 

 

Steven is a former Episcopal priest, turned therapist, free lance writer and published author.  He does stand-up comedy, and travels nationally as a professional public speaker.  His favorite hobby is songwriting and performing in the band PaperCymbal.  His new album Finally Here is available on his website stevenkalas.com

Steven is father to three sons:   Jonathan, 15, Aaron, 13, and (what was he thinking?) Joseph, age 4.  He is a rabid Phoenix Suns’ fan, a crazed Green Bay Packer fan, a Beatlemaniac, and owns DVD recordings of every known work of Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Steven gave a very interesting talk about research he is doing for his next book on marriage.

Meeting adjourned.