Lynwood Rotary Meeting Update 03.30.2017

 

Before the presentation, President Ramon Rodriguez introduced the new Assistant District Governor for the Lynwood Rotary Club, Mark Rogo. Mr. Rogo explained that the District Governor, Greg O' Brian, asked him to take over from the ADG, Hector Torres, who had to resign for business reasons. He explained that the District is interested in helping the Lynwood club accomplishing its Rotary objectives. He stated that he is available to help us. One example is helping our club in obtaining matching grants. He noted the importance of the annual District Conference, to be held this year at Lake Arrowhead, May 4-7, at which the 61 clubs within District 5280 will be participating.  President Ramon suggested that any Lynwood club members interested in visiting the Conference one of the three days, do so on the first day, that is Friday.  ADG Rogo also described the District Humanitarian trip to Columbia, which will include 5 days of doing community projects to help the poor.

 

At the April 6 meeting, for member discussions, President Ramon mentioned again that one possible change is to consider moving the time of the meetings from noon to the evenings, for all or some of the meetings. He noted that he knows of four candidates for membership that would   come to an evening meeting. Joe Wang mentioned again coordination with the Club Secretary. Maria Quinionez, Lulu, as to ensuring that all the paperwork is complete for the annual fireworks sales, July 1-4. Daniel mentioned that he talked with Fernando Millan about the need for Rotary youth and their parents to again staff the fireworks stand.  Fernando stated that during the Spring break, he will bring some Rotary youth to the weekly meeting on April 20.  President Ramon again reminded everyone that the last District Breakfast this Rotary year will be Tue, Apr 28, at the usual location, the Westin Hotel on Century Blvd. near LAX. President Ramon encouraged members and guests in attendance to visit the Women's Day celebration to be held after the Rotary meeting, starting at 5pm at the Lynwood Union office and museum.

 

Speaker Irene Zapata was introduced by Daniel. He noted that he became acquainted with Ms. Zapata, because he usually visits the Lynwood Library after the Thursday meetings, to use the library personal computers to work on the weekly Rotary updates, which Rowland Becerra then sends out to members, nonmembers who have requested updates, and a group of city staff. He noted that on any day, one can observe that the library is full of library users, to include a large number of youth.

 

Using a power point presentation, Irene talked about some of the many programs and activities that the Lynwood library is currently doing. She noted that the Lynwood library first opened in 1915, and moved to its current location in 1977. This branch is one of 86 libraries within the LA County system of public libraries. Books can be ordered from other branches and are delivered to the Lynwood branch, as soon as the books are available at another branch. The library has not only books, but also movies, music and access to digital materials. Club member Iris Pygatt, noted that she did research in studying for her Master’s Degree at the Lynwood library. Among the programs that Irene described is a robotic project for teens, also story times for children, and a summer reading program for youth. Irene explained that in working with Teens, the students are directed to develop study habits that will help with their future college studies.  A coming event with flyer is a Flamenco Show on Apr 20. Also Irene displayed a flyer for obtaining a Pass Port. Lynwood is one of only a few County libraries that provide this service. In answer to a question from Daniel, Irene stated that she has worked at the Lynwood Branch for about 2 years, and prior to that about 1 year that at the West Hollywood County Branch Library.