The Voice of the Vineyards The Weekly Electronic Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Healdsburg

“The mission of a bulletin is inform the membership, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”

Author: Sally Hubbell

Photographer: Rick Tang

Editor/Publisher: George Heath

August 27, 2018

PLEDGE and 4 WAY TEST – led by Grady

Wann

INTRODUCTIONS - VISITING ROTARIANS

None this week

INTRODUCTIONS - MEMBERS INTRO

THEIR GUESTS

Rich Lynch, (owner of Big-O Tires)--guest of Paul

Frechette

Fred Roberts (2nd

Visit)--guest of Eric Drew

Kevin Herrington--guest of Rick Tang

Mustara Tolosa (speaker)--guest of Tom Colbert

QUOTES OF THE DAY - “I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate,

on our dependence on each other to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better

serve the people who elected us.”

“People who hold certain institutional positions should have your respect until they lose it.

But the rest of us mortals have to earn it.”

John McCain, United States Senator

TRIVIA - Winners get a Free Raffle Ticket

o Where is the 2019 Rotary International

Convention being held? (Hamburg) Bob Pedroncelli

o What river is the City situated on? (Elbe)

Kevin Herrington

o What PBS travel guide wrote the article

“Travel as a Force for Peace” in the September

Rotary Magazine (Rick Steves)

Jerry Ogden

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SCARC Meeting – August 30, sponsored by Healdsburg Sunrise

We had a board meeting today – suggestion of an adhoc committee to get the “best bang for

our buck” for our scholarship fund.

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

Brent Stanley ($100 to scholarship fund, the

only one recognized.)

Joe Sobolewski Was not present at the

meeting

Dieter Thurow was not in attendance at the meeting

AUGUST ANNIVERSARIES

Nita Parker ($25 to scholarship fund and she

honored Jim Brenton with a “trophy” for clean

up efforts)

Bill Hawn was not present at the meeting

RECOGNITIONS AND HAPPY DOLLARS

Jerry Ogden (smokey Oregon $25 to scholarship fund)

Greg Nelson (Trip to Iowa $25 to educational

fund)

John Torres (Maui -- $25 to Paul Harris)

Al Loebel (Wisconsin and other places! $50 to

Polio Plus and a cheese hat for President Rich,

who also gave $50 for his Paul Harris.)

Rich Bottarini ($54 for his next Paul Harris)

RAFFLE – Won by John Merget, who also drew the

black marble and donated his winnings ($75) to his

Paul Harris Fund

PROGRAM

Mustara Tolosa, Online

Privacy and Social Media

Consultant, was introduced by

Tom Colbert.

A marketing expert who deal

with social media (Soon it will

be running all of our lives!

There are Attention Engineers

at work within all social media.

The average person 50 years or

younger spends 2 hours per

day on social media.

What you can do to stay safe:

VPN – virtual private network

Don’t allow “cookies”

Use incognito browser

Minimize Social Media Use

Use encrypted messages (what’s ap is encrypted)

TOR browser for full privacy

Turn off phone location

Clear any browsing history

Complete anonymity is not possible

Cover phone’s camera

Is it worth convenience and interaction?

NEXT WEEK’S SPEAKER – No meeting