March 4, 2008

 

Bruce called the meeting to order.

 

Wayne gave the invocation.

 

Guests: Ron Greenwell - Antioch noon Rotary.

 

Happy Dollars

 

Mike went snowmobiling and had a ball!!!!

 

Keith welcomed a new granddaughter Victoria....Congratulations!!! 

 

Announcements

 

Ron called John Zandonella who says he is slowly improving and says Hello to everyone....Hi right back at you John!!!!

 

Bruce reminded us of the Rotary Conference in Sacramento April 24-26.

 

 Mike talked about the Golf Tourny and incorporating it with Michael Keys in May and also having a major item to raffle off.  It looks like it may be Stan's condo in Puerto Vallarta.

 

 

Caryn started the fund raising suggestions with proposing we custom label one Zinfandel and one Chardonnay wine from Viano Vineyard and pre-sell the wine.  The Vineyard has agreed to work with us on this and to allow our club to keep 100% of the profits from these two barrels of wine.  The only up-front money our of our treasury would be for the lables.  Each club member would commit to selling a certain number of bottles or cases of wine.

 

Caryn suggested to maximize the golf tournament by selling raffle ticket beforehand with each club member to commit to sell at least 40 tickets. The cost of printing the tickets would be $200 for 6,000.  If the tickets were to sell for $5.00 each we could make up to $30,000.

 

Caryn also suggested a silent auction as part of our annual Golf Tournament.  Each silent auction item should be valued at greater then $100 .  There would be no initial cost to the club as each member would be responsible for getting donations of items valued greater then $100 or more.

 

Sandi came up with a fund-raising idea of collecting recipes from the club members and putting together a Rotary Cookbook.  The cookbooks can be sold for three to five times their cost making them highly profitable.  Groups have earned up to $50,000 doing this.    There is no up front money required from fundraising organizations.  Morris Press Cookbooks helps pay shipping charges with 3% free books on every order.  Fundraising organizations have up to 90 days to pay with no interest.  Half the bill is due in 37 days with the balance due in 90 days. 

 

The books can be purchased for as little as $3.30 a piece depending on volume and sold for up to $15.99 or more.

 

The only responsibility of club members would be to turn in three or more of their favorite recipes.  The books would also help to get word out of what Rotary stands for.  They would also have the Rotary logo on them. 

 

An idea to kick off the cookbook sales would be to have a potluck dinner with members bringing one of their recipes from the book and inviting non-members to also attend. This is a fund-raiser that could be incorporated all year long.

 

Diana spoke of a grant writing seminar committee and will speak of it more at the next meeting.

 

The greeter next week will be Marlin.

 

Lunch

Chinese Chicken Salad or Chicken and Pesto Pasta and Chocolate Cake

 

SLee