Rotary Club of Bakersfield Twilight

“The Torch”

March 9, 2021

A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT LI GIBBS

Rotary year 2020-2021 “Rotary Opens Opportunities”

#WeDoItAtNight

H a p p y March Twilight family, it’s been an incredibly busy two weeks while our club was dark during for our monthly board meeting and preparing for our Annual Kern County Rotary All-Club Meeting. I hope you enjoyed the All-Club this past Thursday, my classmates and I received many compliments on the program, speaker and the “Rotary

Mission Impossible” video of all 6 Bakersfield Rotary Clubs. A special thanks goes out to our District Governor, Deb Linden, District Governor Elect, Scott Phillips and District Governor Elect Designate, Marta Brown, for attending. Our speaker, Craig Needham, was very inspiring and is an outstanding human being. We presented him with a $3,000 donation to Polio Plus in honor of his mother from Group 2 Rotary Clubs. I am now ready to get back to it and can’t wait to see your smiling faces this Wednesday for our regularly scheduled programming. Community Service Director, Laura, has a wrap-up of our recent CASA project on page 4. Our Youth Service Director, B-Rad, collected District 4-Way Test Essays from our Interactors and will update us soon. Vince Zaragoza provided information on the completed Global Grants Project in Uganda featured on page 5. The clean-up portion of our collaborative service project with Bakersfield East Rotary and the Interact Clubs at Rotary Park is April 24th. The painting and planting portion will be scheduled sometime after RYLA so those students can participate with us. RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) will be virtual for a one-day event on April 24th. Twilight registered 6 primary students and 5 alternates; I am happy to report all of our alternates have secured spots! Yours truly is serving again as counselor. Our RYLA grads will be our program in May to tell us about their RYLA experience which is always fun and very rewarding. Mark your calendars: District Assembly is April 17th with elective training webinars April 20 through May 6th. I encourage everyone to take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn about your area of interest, more info to come. District 5240 Special Recognition Event takes place on May 7th, be sure to attend! The Rotary International Convention begins June 12th and runs virtually through June 16th from Taipei, you will find details on this and other events on our district website: rotarydistrict5240.org Looking forward to seeing you Wednesday, March 10th for a very special program.

See you ALL Wednesday for the BEST Time of Day, Twilight!

Virtual Abraçades Meus Amics, Li

March 2021 #WeDoItAtNight

KC Rotary Annual All-Club Meeting March 4th - Photo Gallery! Guest Speaker Craig NeedhamGroup 2 Presidents:Li Gibbs - Twilight Program MCCathy Bennett - North Speaker IntroductionAndy Stanley - West Mission Impossible VideoKen Beurmann - Downtown: Inspirational MomentTony Ansolabehere - East: Tech Director/Flag SaluteDave Spalinger - Breakfast: Special Guests IntroductionsAG Amy Smith - Twilight: DG Linden introduction

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Honoring Larry Williams May 11, 1938 - January 25, 2021

Laura’s father and beloved regular at Twilight

Lawrence Williams, known as Larry and warmly wel-comed to many meetings by Rotary Club of Bakersfield Twilight, passed away peacefully of natural causes on January 25, 2021, in the presence of his daughter, Twi-light member Laura Williams, with whom he lived. Larry greatly enjoyed attending Rotary Twilight meetings and meeting Twilight members, and Larry and Laura were grateful for the warm welcome by Twilight members.  

Larry was born on May 11, 1938, in Burbank, California, where he grew up with his younger brother Lloyd. Larry's father, Dwight Williams, was a banker and Rotary Club member and served as President of his local Rotary Club.  Larry graduated from California State University Long Beach, after which he attended and graduated sec-ond in his class from UCLA Law School. Larry practiced as an attorney in Los Angeles, California, and Carlsbad, California, for more than 50 years, specializing in the ar-eas of corporate, tax, and estate planning. Larry was a certified specialist in estate planning. Larry loved practic-ing law and helping his clients. More than 50 years later, Larry could still recall the cases and cited the holdings of court cases he learned about in law school.

Laura will always be grateful that she was able to spend the last 2 years of her father's life living with him and helping to care for him. Larry's children, Laura, Mary, Beth and Matt greatly miss Larry but will always be grate-

ful for their father's love and support throughout his life, keen intelligence, dry sense of humor, integrity, kind-ness, and acceptance of people from all backgrounds and experiences.

Photos: With a beloved pet at Laura’s and in what Laura calls his “MadMen” era photo, handsome in glasses.

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TWILIGHT SERVICE PROJECT Benefitting CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates

Submitted by Laura Williams, Community Service Director

Rotary Club of Bakersfield Twilight joined with local Rotary clubs and community members to donate new and gently used chil-dren's books and wish list items to help fill the shelves in the CASA Children's Library that is housed in the newly opened

CASA Clubhouse. The CASA Clubhouse is a beautifully designed and equipped meeting and activity space for the children in foster care served by CASA and the children's Court Appoint-ed Special Advocates. Community Service Chair Laura Williams brought the donated books and wish list items that Twilight members dropped off at Laura's office to the CASA Club-house Open House on March 4, 2021. CASA Executive Director Amy Travis expressed her appreciation to Rotary Twilight members for their generous donations and support of CASA (see picture of Amy and Laura). Twilight member Vince Zaragosa also attended the CASA Clubhouse Open House and made a generous donation of children's books, including the one featured in the photo of Vince at the Open House (the title of the book in the photo, of course, is no reflection on Vince's character). Thank you so much Twilight members for your generous donations!

Together, we can make the lives of children in foster care a little brighter!

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Twilight Rotary Club & Kern County Rotaract Global Project Uganda Clean Water Project

Submitted by Vince Zaragoza, Twilight International Service Director

A new clean water source community project in Africa, which was awarded a Rotary District 5240 grant (round two) for $850.00, was recently completed. In a unique collaborative partnership, the DDF 2020-2021 project grant monies, were combined with Rotary Club of Bakersfield Twilight ($850.00) and Rotaract Club of Kern County ($2800.00) funds to benefit Ugandan residents with a clean and sanitary water source that includes establishing a community water committee and a repair savings account, and providing instruction on sanitation/hygiene and ongoing preventative maintenance. The $4,500.00 global grant community water source project now provides a clean

community water source to ap-proximately 500 villagers for the Naibinga community in Uganda.

The global project was made feasible by the international community development non-profit Love Water Incorporated (LWI) which is based in Ba-kersfield, California. Since 2010, LWI ha s pro v ided c lean , potable water in developing countries to over 63,000 people.

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Tapa of the Month: March Brought to you by Fun Meister Jeremy Swanson

ESCAVILLADA Marinated Peppers - Tasty Vegetarian TapaThe bright and beautiful Catalonian national colors are present-ed with these tapas: marinated yellow and red peppers. These are also perfect as a side dish to grilled meat.

Ingredients for 4 servings3 red and 3 yellow peppers4 garlic cloves1 lemon200 ml olive oil3 tablespoons of sherry vinegarSalt, pepper, paprika powder

Preparation

Wash peppers and cut in half lengthwise. Cut out the cores. Cut the halves in half again lengthwise.The peppers must now be peeled. Preheat the oven to 220°, place the pepper strips to the side with the skin side up on a lightly oiled baking tray and then grill until the skin blisters. This takes about 8-12 minutes.

Then place the peppers in a medium sized bowl and cover. Let the peppers cool and remove the skin. The resulting water vapor facilitates the removal of the skin.

While the peppers are in the oven, peel the garlic cloves and cut into thin slices.Fry the peeled peppers in olive oil and season with salt, pepper and paprika.Put the oil, sherry vinegar and lemon juice in a bowl and mix well. Then add the garlic slices.Then add the peppers to the bowl so that they are completely covered. Then let them rest in the re-frigerator for about 2-4 hours.Place alternate layers of red and yellow pepper strips in a bowl and serve cold.

Li’s tip: Great served with toasted baguette slices.

Tips and variationsYou can also pickle the peppers easily. Put peppers in a jar with screw cap and then add the oil with the garlic slices until the peppers are completely covered. Seal the jar well and store in the fridge.

The marinated peppers are also good as an accompaniment to grilled meat. Here you can briefly put the peppers in tin foil and let them roast on the grill.Preparation time: about 30 minutes. Cooking time 10 minutes. Leave to rest for 2-4 hours.

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Upcoming Club Events

March 10, 2021 Rotaract-Led Meeting

5:50pm Join Zoom Meeting click below:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86107767860?pwd=UWVQa0hSMGFmWGRqNVFzaDROeFBQZz09

Meeting ID: 861 0776 7860 Passcode: twilight

March 17, 2021 St. Patrick’s Day Social

March 24, 2021 “Creating Destiny” new book by PDG Wade Nomura

March 31, 2021 Club Board Meeting

CELEBRATING OUR MEMBERS!

Club Anniversaries

Vince Zaragoza March 07 (3 years)

Helia Corral March 19 (7 years)

Amy Smith March 24 (11 years)

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2020-2021 Twilight Board of Directors

President: Li Gibbs

Vice President: Nancy Pollard Sergeant at Arms: Garett Colatruglio

Treasurer: Denise Thomas President Elect: Robin Paggi

Secretary: Manuel Maldonado *President Elect Nominee: Donna Bell

2020-2021 Directors

Community Service: Laura Williams Youth Service/Vocational: Brad Henderson

Club Service: Donna Bell International Service: Vince Zaragoza

2020-2021 Chairs

Foundation President: Nancy Pollard Membership Chair: Jim Bell

Foundation Chair: Donna Bell Rotaract Liaison: Oz de Guzman

Club Awards Chair: Jim Bell Web Master: Tony Azemika

Club Programs: Shonna Shearson The Torch Editor: Li Gibbs

Club Fun Meister: Jeremy Swanson Family of Rotary: Amy Smith

RYLA Coordinator: Li Gibbs 4-Way Test: Brad Henderson

International Committee: Pam Elisheva

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