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Rotary International!K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran!President 2015-2016!!District 5240!!Jim Bell!District Governor 2015-2016!!Bob Braitman!Executive Assistant Governor!Region 3!2015-2016!!Joseph Kirkland !President 2015-2016!!Bernadette Bagley!Secretary & President Elect 2015-2016!

George Thurlow III!Treasurer!!John Glanville!Past President !!Directors!

Dusty Baker, Membership!Conner Rehage, Service!Rober Mislang, Youth & RYLA!Jennifer Goddard- Combs, !Programs!James Fenkner, Public Relations!Paul Kresmer, Grants & RI

ROTARY CLUB of MONTECITO Tuesday’s @ Noon at the Montecito Country Club!

P.O. Box 40218, Santa Barbara, CA 93140

Presidents Message July 31, 2015

Greeting Rotarians,!!I hope you all enjoyed this weeks speaker, Joe Weiland, and the "Art" of winemaking. Perhaps you may feel inspired to create your own private label. It seems pretty easy now that we know it's all about the land and the grapes! !!If you liked this weeks speaker, your going to love this coming weeks speaker. Be sure to join us for Ian Cutler's "Artisan Spirits" and perhaps another opportunity to take home some fantastic treats. Cheers!!!Yours in service,!Joe Kirkland

Our lucky members, excited to be taking home Joe Weiland’s delicious wine.

OTHER ROTARY NEWS

Viva La Fiesta!

GROUP 8 ROTARY FIESTA FLOAT

Show your support for Rotary and Old Spanish Days, by volunteering to help build the Group 8 Rotary Clubs Fiesta Float. If you are interested in

helping out, please sign up here: Fiesta Float Volunteer Sign Up . Lets make our float the best one in the parade!

Viva La Fiesta!

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OTHER ROTARY NEWS

We’re on Facebook!

The Montecito Rotary Club has finally entered the 21st, Century, where social media is fun, confusing and necessary. If you haven’t already Liked the Facebook page, please support the club by taking a minute to do that.

Social Media Challenge!!To kick our social media engagement into high gear, I am holding a contest. For the person who posts the most to our Facebook page from now until August 28, will receive a bottle of delicious wine! This does not mean posting a ton of photos and comments on the

last day of the contest! !!Posting Guidelines: Any news relating to Rotary or Photos of

Rotary events are perfect! !!Good luck Rotarians, may the best social guru win!

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SONG OF THE WEEK

"That'll Be the Day" was written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison and recorded by the Crickets (Holly's group) in 1957. It's been recorded by many artists including Linda Ronstadt. The demo disc was recorded by the Quarrymen who later became known as the Beatles. The song entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. The inspiration came when Holly, Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis saw the film, "The Searchers" in which John Wayne wearily and frequently used the phrase, "That'll be the day."!

That’ll Be The Day!By: Buddy Holly

Well, that'll be the day when you say good-bye,!Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry.!You say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie,!'Cause that'll be the day when I die.!! Well, you give me all your loving and your turtle doving,!All your hugs and kisses and your money, too.!Well, you know you love me baby, until you tell me, maybe,!That some day we'll be through.!! That'll be the day when you say good-bye,!Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry.!You say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie,!'Cause that'll be the day when I die.!

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1. One person can make a difference and together as Rotarians we can have a stronger impact. (I am one-Rotary as many.)!

2. For camaraderie, and new friendships.!

3. To serve locally, nationally or internationally.!

4. To learn more about other cultures.!

5. For a way to share your talent and resources effectively.!

6. To have a place to go each week to connect with like-minded people who motivate you.!

7. To make life-long relationships.!

8. To be part of something bigger than yourself.!

9. to hear an interesting speaker each week and learn what is going on in the community.!

10. To be able to take advantage of the true “family” of rotary while traveling nationally or internationally.

Upcoming Programs!Aug 4- Cutler’s Artisan Spirits/ Ian Cutler!

Aug 11!- The Organized Artist Company/ Sam Bennet!

Aug 18- The Art of Montecito Real Estate/ Garrett McCaw and Dusty Baker!

Aug 25- Foundation Grant Awards/ John Glanville!

Sept 1- Mary Kay/ Nanci Elliott!

Sept 8- Rotary Picnic/ BBQ- Dark!

Sept 15- The Art of Designing Jewelry/ Calla Gold

FOUR WAY TEST!

1. Is it the TRUTH?!

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?!

3. Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?!

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

!Day: Club: Place: Time:

Tuesday!

!Wednesday!

Thursday!Friday!Any Day at all,!24/7/365!

Goleta Noontime!Goleta (2nd and 4th)!Rotaract (1st and 3rd)!Carpinteria Morning!Sant Barbara Sunrise!Santa Barbara North!Carpinteria!Santa Barbara Downtown!One World Rotary Club

Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course)!Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course)!Silvergreens on Chapala!Carpinteria Women’s Club!Santa Barbara Club!Harry’s Plaza Cafe!Lion’s Community Park!Fess Parker Double Tree!http://www.oneworldrotary.org/

11:45 am!06:30 pm!06:30 pm!07:00 am!07:00 am!12:00 noon!11:45 am!12:00 noon!

Missed a Meeting? Make it up!

Weekly Assignments!August 4, 2015!

!Invocation/ Flag Salute: Sherry Melchiorre!Backup: John Glanville!50/50 Raffle: Marc Fleischman!Greeter: Marilyn Berman!!August is the YELLOW Team!!Setup/Breakdown Team: The Green Team includes: Bernadette Bagley, Dusty Baker, James Bechtel, Andrew Berwick, John Brinker, Carolyn Brown, Kati Buehler, Cathy Cash and Aaron Clark.

The Top 10 Reasons to Join the Montecito Rotary Club

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Presidents Message July 2015

We in Rotary aspire to great deeds. We admire those who gave great gifts to humanity: Abraham Lincoln, who gave the gift of human dignity to the downtrodden; Mother Teresa, who gave the gift of compassion to the forgotten; Mahatma Gandhi, who gave the gift of peaceful change to the oppressed. Their very lives became gifts to the world.!

We can be inspired by their example. We can be inspired to ask, how can I, in the life that I live – without neglecting the responsibilities that are so dear to me – how can I, too, become a gift to the world? As I considered my theme, I thought of the lessons I have learned through my Hindu faith. I thought especially of the story of Sudama.!

Sudama was a poor child and a bosom friend of Krishna, who was born in a royal lineage as an avatar – an incarnation of the divine. As the two boys grow up, they drift apart, and while Krishna becomes a military leader and king of great repute, Sudama remains a humble villager.!

The years go by and Sudama's poverty deepens. Finally, he lacks even food to feed his children. His wife reminds him of his childhood friendship with Krishna: Perhaps it is time to go to the mighty ruler for help. Reluctantly, Sudama agrees, but resolves that he will not go empty-handed. He gathers together a few handfuls of rice – all the food his family has left – and wraps them in a piece of cloth as a gift for his friend.!

When Sudama enters the palace, he is overwhelmed by the grandeur and by Krishna's gracious welcome. His meager gift, so carefully prepared, seems a humiliating reminder of his poverty. Krishna embraces Sudama, who hides the hand holding the rice behind his back. Krishna asks what he is holding.!

Far from being disdainful, Krishna accepts the rice with gratitude and consumes it with joy as the two sit and talk together. Hours pass, during which the pleasures of their rekindled friendship push all thoughts of his desperate plight from Sudama's mind. When evening falls, Sudama sets out for home – and only then realizes that he has neglected his task. He is returning with nothing, and Krishna has eaten his family's last grains of rice.!

Sudama steels himself to return to his hungry children. But standing before his gate, as dawn begins to break, he sees that the hut he left yesterday has become a stately home, and waiting to greet him is his own family: well-dressed, and well-fed by the baskets of food that appeared in their kitchen as Krishna ate each grain of Sudama's rice.!

Krishna understood what Sudama had brought him: everything he had to give. In return, Krishna gave him everything he needed. It is never the material value of a gift that matters – it is the love that comes with it. Just as Sudama's gift to Krishna became a gift to Sudama, what we give through Rotary becomes a gift to us. And we all have a choice: whether to keep our gifts to ourselves or give them to others, and Be a Gift to the World.!

We have only one chance at our lives. And we will have only one chance at this new Rotary year. This is our time. Let us grasp it. Let us Be a Gift to the World.!

K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran!President 2015-2016

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