Escondido Sunrise Rotary; Meeting to Serve our Community in Person
and “Who Am I’s from Evan Wahl and A Report from Kendra Koed About RYLA and Our Monthly Fellowship Breakfast”
February 1, 2024
As we all try to conduct our professional pursuits in new ways, it’s appropriate to remind ourselves of who we are as a Serving Organization… Our accomplishments, our fellowship and the reminder of our many successes is valuable as we seek new opportunities to serve…
We met again in person at the Chamber of Commerce… Great to enjoy the fellowship again and see all your smiling faces…
As a Club, we honored our nation with a salute to our Flag led by Judy Fitzgerald and an invocation was offered by past President Jack Anderson….
Guests & Visitors:
No guests or visitors this morning
Special Occasions:
Happy Birthday to:
Fay Quick (beautiful wife of Mark) – 2/4
Happy Wedding Anniversary to:
Brian & Nancy Murphy – 59 years on 2/6
WOW!!! Congratulations you two!!
Happy Rotary Anniversary to:
Brad Allaband – 6 years on 2/1
High 5 and Announcements:
Thank you so much to Deanna Smith from Deanna’s Gluten Free Baking Company for providing our delicious breakfast this morning!! You served us so well and you could feel the love and hard work that went into preparing this breakfast!!
Dave Herbert reminded everyone of the upcoming Fisher House opportunity that happens every year at Camp Pendleton. We are dropping supplies off on February 22nd after our Thursday meeting
Judy Fitzgerald spoke about how Cruising Grand put on by the DBA is struggling this year. If funds don’t come in, this well attended annual event may not happen this year
Past President Rich Aeling reminded everyone about the Love Escondido clean up this weekend and how it will be happening rain or shine.
He also talked about the successful Mexicali meeting and it was well attended. On 3/3 there will be a truss build at 1pm at Rich Aeling’s shop
John Boyce’s daughter Mallory went for the commander position and came in 1st in her class. Congratulations Mallory, everyone must be so proud!!
Evan Wahl who just receive his blue badge not too long ago was presented with his red badge this morning because he came from the “33 Club” in Point Loma. Welcome Evan
Upcoming Calendar Events:
Program:
Who Am I?
Evan Wahl
Evan shared with us about his life in the military which was quite extensive. Thank you, Evan, for your many years of service to your country. He was born in Colorado and when he graduated from college, he went in to the military to fly jets. Even has been all over the world and flown many types of planes. He did several tours of Iraq and served in Hawaii as well. He met his wife Tammy on line (he said when it wasn’t cool to meet someone online) and had his 1st daughter 20 years ago, sadly he was in Iraq when she was born and he got to meet her the first time when she was 3 months old. When he retired from the military in 2014, he went to work for the public services sector for a waste & recycling company. He then went to work for Carlsbad Tech, a pharmaceutical company and eventually went to a Biotech company where he is currently the project manager and general manager. Evan also sits on 2 boards, North San Diego Business Chamber and the Rincon Water District. He has been married for 24 years to Tammy and has 2 kids, Lauren 20 and Taryn who is 17. ESR is so happy to welcome you, Evan to our incredibly fun and wonderful club!!
RYLA – presented by Kendra Koed
Kendra shared her experience with RYLA and how she is hooked and will be doing this event every year. She opened with an awesome video that was set to the movie theme Top Gun. She talked about the relationship with the kids in her group and how she still stays in touch with them to this day. She encouraged us all to go if we can, we won’t regret it. She said it’s very hard work but extremely rewarding.
Please talk to Kendra if you are interested in joining them this year in April
Next Week’s Meeting:
Closing: President Mark Maus announced that we will be meeting again next week on Thursday the 8th at 7:30am and we will be hearing from Jehan Seirafi from Sunsar Maya. See you at The Escondido Chamber of Commerce on Thursday!!
Thanks for Attending Today’s Meeting….
Support for our Escondido Community …
Our great community and the success of its businesses is all of our responsibilities… Support the businesses that are doing all they can to survive this trying economy…….
The ‘Giving Arch’ on Grand Avenue and Centre City Parkway reminds us that Escondido is a caring, giving community…
To all; be safe and be well…. God Bless those men and women that carry the load at our medical facilities, and God Bless our first responders… May our governmental leaders be wise, thoughtful and smart as they navigate these times that have been difficult…..
The meetings will be technically managed by Past President Richard Agnew… Thanks for that Richard… And, Richard is prepared to support all of our attempts at joining the on-line meetings if needed….
SEE YOU SOON…… In Person … Next meeting; February 8th, at 7:30 AM
Check President Mark’s email for the reminder…
