Lynwood Rotary Meeting Update 08.04.16

Started the meeting by explaining that now the first Thursday of each month, there is no speaker.  Instead, the meeting is focused on discussions and plans of coming Rotary events. 

 

Next week, Rotary District 5260 is having a District Breakfast meeting on Tue, Aug 9, from 7am to 8:45 am at the Weston Hotel near LAX.  These breakfast meetings enable Rotary members to meet members from other Rotary clubs and to also hear interesting speakers.  The speaker is Bob Kline, a former manager of the NFL Rams, and will discuss the return of the Rams to LA.  There will be a carpool leaving at 6:30 am from city hall.  Besides Ramon, Larry Esparza, Lulu and Dr. Manlapaz will attend.  Ramon encouraged more members to come, also guests can attend.  The $40.00 cost will be paid by the Lynwood Club.

 

President Ramon thanked members for staffing the Rotary table at the National Night Event on Aug 2: which included Ramon, Larry, Dr. Manlapaz, Joe Wang and Lulu and Daniel.  Lucy Avalos was thanked at the meeting for her personal contribution to the hot dogs and buns provided by Lynwood Rotary.  Youth act members helped with the food distribution.  Ramon noted that by 7pm all 500 hotdogs and buns had been consumed by attendees at the National Night Event!  Martina Rodriguez mentioned that Block Watch groups attended the National Night Out Event, and that Block Watch groups are very important in helping make neighborhoods safe.  Neighbors need to stay in touch with each other regularly for the safety of each family in the neighborhood, and Block Watch organization helps everyone to stay in touch and look out for possible crime on everyone's block.

 

Fernando Millan again talked about the District 5280 Annual Picnic and Boat Races at the Redondo Beach Lagoon, Saturday, Aug 27, 5pm – 9pm.  With a large turnout from Youth act, the Lynwood Rotary always has one of the largest groups at this annual event.  (See also the description on the weekly update cover page.)  Also, Fernando mentioned that Youth act will attend a movie night at South Gate Park, at 5 pm on Aug 12.  Fernando also mentioned that as a thank you for Youth act and their parents help with the fireworks stand, there will be a pizza party at Shakeys Pizza in Paramount, on Sep 13, at 6pm.

New members to be inducted by the District Governor next week, Barbara Battle and Ruben Cervantes, talked about their interest in becoming Lynwood Rotary members.  (Ramon, in answer to an inquiry from Daniel, noted that Marvin Aceves can be inducted into the club again, at a later time.)

 

Included discussions on several items intended to help increase membership and to explain the work of the club. For example, Ramon mentioned that the club needs to do outreach with city businesses to develop membership.  The Board approved the proposed new member’s kit that Club Secretary, Lulu proposed.  It was agreed to buy ten kits.  It is hoped that within a two year period, the ten kits will have been given out to new members. There was discussion about printing a brochure about the Lynwood Rotary Club using the format that the South Gate Rotary Club has for its brochure.  Raj agreed to accept responsibility for the printing of the brochure.  The number to be printed will be between 100 and 200 copies.  Because some of the information in the brochure will change each year, it was agreed that printing a larger number will likely result in having to redo the brochure even though not all of the copies may not have been distributed.