CARLSBAD HI-NOON ROTARY
The club meets at the Westin Resort on Mondays at noon (except Federal holidays). 
Please contact President Mary Fritz-Wilson at m.fritz.wilson@gmail.com for Zoom access. 

 Welcome to Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club!


The Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club (CHNR) welcomes Rotarians and other visitors to its Monday meetings. The club is now meeting in-person at the Westin for those members/guests who are vaccinated.  Additionally, the meeting will be broadcast via Zoom as an option.  Please refer to President Mary Fritz-Wilson at m.fritz.wilson@gmail.com for Zoom access. The club meets at the Westin Carlsbad Resort and Spa, 5480 Grand Pacific Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008.  A buffet lunch with salads and hot entrees is open at noon, with the business meeting beginning at 12:20 pm. 

The Club, chartered in February 1980, has over 80 members. The membership is very active and committed to the Rotary principle of "Service Above Self."  The club sponsors an energetic Interact Club at Carlsbad High School and each year sends both facilitators and students to the annual RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) conference for high school juniors and the Rotary LEAD symposium for eighth graders. The club sponsors Oktoberfest --this year's Oktoberfest will be NUMBER 40. There will be German food, German music, costume contests, games and a beer garden.  Tickets may be purchased prior to entry for individuals, families and groups. Check out the website for event specifics: www.RotaryOktoberfest.org. This event has been designed and implemented since its inception by BOTH Rotary Clubs in Carlsbad:  Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary and Carlsbad Rotary. Proceeds from Oktoberfest are shared with Carlsbad charities and used by each club for its many local community service projects. Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary also sponsors an annual "Brewfest" with craft brewers. This year's event is in the planning stages.

Additionally, CHNR also supports the AVID program at Carlsbad High School with a business and ethics conference plus college and trade school scholarships, a literacy project and book fair at Jefferson Elementary School, Junior Achievement and What Grown-Ups Do For Work for middle school students. CHNR members provide service and financial support to a variety of organizations in Carlsbad assisting food insecurity, the homeless, the Carlsbad Educational Foundation, Hospice of the North Coast, The Assistance League of North Coast, Casa de Amparo, the North County Food Bank, the Veterans Association of North County, La Posada, Stand Up for Kids, the Carlsbad Boys and Girls Club, the Women's Resource Center and the CHS Music Festival. 

Next Meeting March 27, 2023
In person and on Zoom at The Westin
Volume 4, Issue 29
Reporter: Julie Walker
Photographer: Nancy Starling
 
 
 
Carlsbad Hi-Noon
Rotary President
Mary Fritz-Wilson
 
Welcome:  President-elect Jeff Segall welcomed all to the meeting, including those members attending via Zoom. George Sullivan led the pledge, and Gloria Foote shared Words. Velyn Anderson shared a Four-Way Test Rotary Test Moment: how she reminded a restaurant to bill her for her son’s rehearsal dinner after nothing showed up on her credit card. “It was the right thing to do,” she said, as per the Four-Way Test.
Jeff Segall
 
Velyn Anderson
 
IMPORTANT HI-NOON DATES / CONTACTS
• Mar. 25: District Training Assembly - Mary Fritz-Wilson
• Mar. 31: AVID Seminar - Gloria Foote
• Apr. 1: CHNR Bocce Ball Tournament - Danny Quisenberry
• Apr. 3: CHNR Scholarship Raffle Drawing - JoAnn Ross
• Apr. 8: Easter Eggstravaganza - Velyn Anderson
• Apr. 12: Brother Benno’s Breakfast Line - Velyn Anderson
• Apr. 14-16: RYLA Weekend - Mike Metts
• Apr. 20-21: Raising Readers Book Fair - Maureen Taylor
• Apr. 29: Bud Carroll Celebration of Life - Gloria Foote
• Apr. 29: Rotarians at Work day - Velyn Anderson
• May 6: Pickleball Party - Maureen Taylor
• Jun. 30: Demotion Dinner - Raegan Matthews
 
SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER: TIME IS SHORT
With not much time left, the scholarship raffle is about $21,000 short of our $50,000 goal. JoAnn Ross reported that as of this meeting, $38,865 has been raised. She thanked Nancy Starling and her team who attended the Sage Creek High School Music Competion last week and sold more than 700 tickets, and Bob Kreisberg for his amazing individual ticket sales efforts. Next week's meeting is the final one for turning in your ticket stubs and money. You are the key to how many scholarships we can give this year. The winning tickets will be drawn at the April 3 meeting. JoAnn Ross: 760-652-5385; Nancy Starling: 760-438-7444.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• District Training Assembly will take place Sat., March 25, at the Liberty Station Conference Center in the Pt. Loma area. This offers valuable information for any Rotarian, but especially new members. For more information, contact Jeff Segall, jeffsegall@me.com.
Guidelines for those who have volunteered for the AVID Seminar on March 31 will be emailed soon.
• The Bud Carroll Celebration of Life, remembering our longtime member, will be Sat., April 29, at 3pm at the Green Dragon on Paseo del Norte, across from Tip Top Meats. Gloria Foote is seeking photos of him from members. Email them to her soon: glofoote46@gmail.com
• Our May 15 meeting will feature a Foundation 101 program: Everything you didn’t know about the Rotary Foundation and the club foundation. What they do, how they operate, and how your donations are used. If you have specific questions, send them to Jeff Segall (jeffsegall@me.com) so the presenters can answer them during the presentation.
 
COMMUNITY SERVICE
• Rotarians At Work Day: This year, we wll be building a special public reflection area at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center in honor of former Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall. The project will take place from 8am-noon Sat., April 29 at the Discovery Center, in conjunction with members of the Carlsbad Rotary Club (evening). Lunch and fellowship will follow.
 
The City of Carlsbad is seeking 14 Rotary volunteers to help with its Easter Eggstravaganza in Poinsettia Park, 9:30am-1:30pm Sat., April 8. Volunteers are needed to help with check-in, and in the cookie decorating, face painting and bunny photo ares and at the spin wheel. Volunteers do NOT need to be finger-printed for this event. Contact Velyn Anderson.
 
CHNR members at the North County Food Bank 
 
VOCATIONAL SERVICE
The group that recently  toured the newly renovated
Carlsbad Fire Station #2 as part of the club’s
Lunch & Learn program.
 
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE:
Ray Green shared that the Mexico House Build on March 18 was another CHNR success story, with approximately 15 volunteers who took part in the Project Mercy project in Mexico on March 18. Many other club members contributed to the project with goods and/or donations. This year’s recipients of the CHNR house were a young couple and their six-yar-old son.
CHNR’s Mexico House Build team with the family
that will call it home, in front of the finished house
 
SOCIAL EVENTS
• CHNR 12th annual Bocce Ball Tournament: April 1 at Magee Park: 11:30 for setup, noon for burgers and dogs (bring your own drinks, desserts to share and chairs). The tournament begins at 12:30pm.
• Danny Quisenberry is making arrangements for a social event at the Ventana restaurant in Escondido on April 13, from 5-9pm. Three live bands will be featured, and there will be a $20 per-person fee.
• Pickleball Party & Social: 3pm, Sat., May 6. Come to play or see how it’s played, followed by a social hour at Beth Garrow’s home. Maureen Taylor to email particulars, including location.
• The final Pizza Challenge gathering and Dine-Arounds for this Rotary year will be in May. Information to come.
 
ROTO-ROOTER:
Wendy Wiegand began with photos that needed explanations:
Julie Walker said the first photo was of her and Jeff with their ’92 Toyota Supra, entered in the Best 80s-90s division at a car show in San Marcos last weekend. No trophy this time: beat out by a massive Buick Roadmaster. Mike Metts said the snow photos were of their cabin in Big Bear, before and after he and Cindy had to clear a trail to the door. Velyn Anderson said the photo of all those cute kids were her 20 grandchildren, before #21 was born a few weeks ago.
 
Rachel Ivanovich
was profiled in the
Carlsbad Business
Journal as one of
the most influentia
women in Carlsbad
 
Maureen Simons was pictured in full St. Patrick’s Day attire, at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center, where she prepared 60 pounds of corned beef for an Irish dinner. There  also was a photo of Samantha Richter with the six loaves of soda bread she had baked after Simons shared the recipe.
 
Yvonne Finocchiaro was asked if she recalled what she was doing on March 16, 1985. She said she and Carm had a Celebrate Spring Garden Party for his family and hers and a lot of friends—and after introducing everyone to everyone else, she and Carm got married.
 
Jeff Segall was asked what he would be doing this March 26: celebrating his wife’s birthday, but he was not yet willing to share where. Viveka Kjellgren also was asked about March 26: She and Per will be celebrating 40 years, but doing so with friends in Texas.
 
Wiegand wanted to know what Rocco Ciesco, Jani Jackson, Josh Rytz, Marilou dela Rosa and Ray Green have in common this month: Rotary anniversaries, in order: 5 yrs, 3 yrs, 14 yrs, 1 yr and 3 yrs.
  
PROGRAM
John Hyatt
Irish Congress of Southern California
John Hyatt
Maureen Simons introduced Hyatt, who began gave a bit of history of the Irish in America. When the Irish, came to this country and settled on the east coast, they were not well-respected or well-treated, primarily because there were so many, were poor and their Catholic faith was not all that common here. That changed when gold was discovered in California. The Irish began migrating west, where they were better received—as fellow migrants.
 
Hyatt said the Irish have been a part of San Diego history for some 200 years, with a number of Irish organzations active in San Diego, including his organization: the Irish Congress of Southern California.  It’s  a 100% volunteeer group, and it’s primary mission is to promote appreciation and knowledge of Irish history and culture, including organizing San Diego’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival. The first parade was held in 1981.
 
This year’s parade was held March 11, and included dignitaries from Ireland, floats, Irish music and dancing groups, equestrian units, Irish setters, antique cars and more. The winners of the Smiling Irishman and Miss Colleen contests were honored, and a daylong Irish festival was held in Balboa Park.
All done by volunteers, Hyatt said, noting that work for next year’s parade and festival will begin in June.
 
There are many other Irish organizations and groups in San Diego, he said, including one of the most well known, the House of Ireland in Balboa Park, the Irish Outreach Center, Irish American Bar Association, San Diego Firefighters Emerald Society, San Diego Law Enforcement Emerald Society, and more.
NEXT MEETING
Monday, April 3, 2023
at The Westin and on Zoom
 
PROGRAM
CHNR Scholarship Raffle Drawing
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Mondays at 12:10 PM
Westin Carlsbad Resort and Spa
5480 Grand Pacific Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
United States of America
The club is now meeting in-person at the Westin, with additional Zoom options for members. Please check in with the club president for log-in directions. President Mary Fritz-Wilson at m.fritz.wilson@gmail.com.
Officers and Directors
President
President Elect
Membership Chair
Past President
Treasurer
Secretary
Club Service
Program Chair
Bulletin Chair
Community Service
International Service
Vocational Service
AVID Chair
Youth Service
Interact Chair
RYLA Chair
Peace Chair
Foundation Chair
Club Foundation Chair
Sergeant at Arms
Speakers
June Shelley, Author
Mar 27, 2023
Life experience traveling with the original Jack Elliott
Chris Megison, President, CEO and CO-Founder
Apr 17, 2023
Solutions for Change ~ Homeless Programs Update
Christie Calderwood, Assistant Chief, CPD
May 01, 2023
Carlsbad Police Community Updates
Caylon Ellis, Thrival Health
May 22, 2023
Kinesiology Specialist
Dark - Memorial Day
May 29, 2023
Rachel Peniche, Executive Director
Jun 12, 2023
Friends of Vista Hill (read comments for description on Vista Hill)
Dark - Demotion Dinner
Jun 26, 2023

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