Our first meeting of the year will not be the standard 1^st Tuesday at 5:30 at Embassy Suites… only the 5:30 holds true… on Friday, June 28 at Dave Juhnke’s house.  It is an extended discussion around our plans for the year… this includes compiling the budget, setting the calendar as well as the tone.  If you’d like to influence the thinking… join us… if that isn’t possible… contact any board member to carry your message to the meeting.  Those board members are:

This District Govener’s Visit is July 31 AND the board meeting follows our regular meeting that day.  Our first regularly scheduled board meeting will be September 3^rd 5:30 at Embassy Suites.

With any luck at all, we will have a contract with the Temptations to sign at the end of June for our February (Valentine’s Day) Fundraiser!

It's done and ready to be dedicated! Thanks to the planning and hard work of the three San Luis Obispo Rotary Clubs... Laguna Lake Park has a new fitness course to replace the old parcourse built around 1980. 

The Laguna Lake Fitness Course dedication and BBQ will be Thursday, June 27, at 5:00 PM - with a BBQ immediately to follow. The Monday Rotary Club will be BBQ-ing for all of us. We need a head count, so please respond yes or no to the registration email you'll be receiving this week!

It's the great pleasure of Rotary de Tolosa to again share the harvest, distributing money from our fundraising efforts to charities dedicated to our community's youth. The recipients of the 2012-2013 de Tolosa Charitable Giving funds are as follows:

• CASA $2500
• Kinship Center $1000
• Big Brothers, Big Sisters $2500
• Jack's Helping Hand $1500
• SLO Museum of Arts $750
• Performing Arts Center Outreach $1000
• TEACh Foundation $1000
• Children's Development Resource Ctr $2500
• Girl Scouts of California, Central Coast $1000
• SLO YMCA $1250

Thanks to all the great organizations who applied for funding, and we look forward to distributing more money to the community next year. 

Rotary International has approved changing the name of Rotary’s 5th avenue of service, currently called “New Generations Service,” to “Youth Service.” The 2010 Council approved this Avenue of Service for youth, which joined the already established Club Service, Vocational Service, Community Service, and International Service. The name “New Generations” was meant to reflect the need to build the next generation of Rotarians, but proponents of the name change argued Wednesday that the word “youth” is more universally understood, both inside and outside Rotary, and clarifies the fact that these programs encourage Rotarians to empower youth.

Interested in learning more about Rotary Youth Exchange? 

Join us in Santa Barbara on July 13 for the Host Family and Counselor workshop in Santa Barbara.  The workshop will be very informative and will help you get off to a good start your new son or daughter.  Even if you’ve hosted before, you can contribute your insight and experience to the rest of the group.  We will go over the new State Department regulations that are constantly changing! Contact amy.kardel@cleverducks.com for more information.

Topics covered include: Host Preparation, Expectations, School, Homesickness, Helping Students Adapt, Finances, Insurance and more!  

The conference is from 12:30-4pm on July 13th, at the Ramada Limited Hotel in Santa Barbara. RSVP to Ronda by July 6th at : tshirts@roadrunner.com

Dear District Rotarians,

On behalf of District Governor Elect Jack McClenahan, I’m pleased to announce that registration for the 2013 District 5240 Conference in beautiful San Luis Obispo is now open. Go to the District 5240 website  CLICK HERE FOR WEBSITE  and click on the 2013 District Conference link. You will be directed to the conference webpage where you can get information about the conference agenda, speakers, and optional activities. You will find convenient links to the Conference Registration and Hotel Reservation pages. The conference will be at the Embassy Suites Hotel in San Luis Obispo from Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20, 2013.  

We urge you to register for the conference now, since we do expect it to fill up. And don’t forget to register for an optional activity on Saturday afternoon October 19 – it is a great way to experience the beautiful Central Coast with your fellow Rotarians.

 Thank you,

Deborah Linden

2013 District Conference Coordinator

Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo

Join your fellow Rotarians and their families on June 20th at Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream Lab. From 6-9pm, a portion of all ice cream sales will be donated to Rotary's Polio Plus Fund... we are THIS CLOSE to ending polio!!  Doc Burnstein's is located at 114 W. Grand Avenue, Arroyo Grande.

What better way to start a day than with a breakfast burrito from the "Three Amigos Casa de Ptomaine." Thanks Lyle, Steve and Todd for getting up early to scramble up eggs for the Rotary Teen Track meet.  Seems like it was all the old guard Rotarians out in the morning. Perhaps the afternoon saw a few more red badges.  It looked like we had a capacity crowd of middle schoolers participate and once again our club should be proud of helping put on this event.

Another amazing Child Spree!  It makes me proud to be a member of our club.  Go to our facebook page to see images