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The Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay is in District 5150 - for more information about District 5105, open the link in the menu bar.
Welcome to our Club! We meet in person at the HMB Library (or join us on Zoom.) But check below in case there is a special venue.
Service Above Self
We meet In Person
Thursdays at 12:00 PM
HMB Library
620 Correas St
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 United States of America
Any guest who wishes to join us for our meetings at the Library or on Zoom is very welcome! Please contact President KRYSTLYN GIEDT at: hmb.rotary.president@gmail.com for the link to the Zoom meeting or more information about the in-person meeting.
June 8, 2023 5:30 PM - Social @ San Benito Cantina
June 15, 2023 12 Noon - Club Meeting - Starting the Preparations for Magic of the Coastside Lobster Feed
June 22, 2023 12 Noon - TBD
June 29, 2023 12 Noon - DeBunking, Catered Luncheon at Library
District 5150 Assembly 2023
Introduction of 2023-24 HMB Rotary Club President Liz Schuck
Introduction of HMB PP and District 5150 President Elect Nominee Mitone Griffiths
Club Members at Work on Community Projects
2023 Update
Rotary Crew Working Hard at the Annual Coastside Senior Yard Rehab Project
Dennis and Susan, Liz and Teri , Rose, plus Chris and Ann at the home of Mickey Williamson.
Club Members Helping in Mexico
Joe reported that they were back and had a successful and fun trip. The group of seven (Kevin O’Brien, Bill Johnston and wife, Austin Stowell, EJ Dieterle and wife, Rose Mortilla, Jim Holley* and myself) achieved our goals of helping at Dr. Nancy Harris’s Freed Clinic, and also having some fun things around La Paz and crossing over to the Pacific coast to see many Gray Whale cows and calves in the lagoon there. They will give a more detailed presentation to the Club when photos (and alibis) organized.
They did take $700 worth of Children’s multi vitamins and prenatal vitamins to be distributed. They also bought $700 worth of supplies for our work day at the clinic.
They attended the meetings of two of La Paz’s five Rotary Clubs which was good social grace for them and great networking for Nancy and her staff, Francoise and Adriana.
* Jim Holley is a wonderful man Joe knows from his large role in Red Cross and from Odd Fellows. Jim was an international executive in HR and is proficient in Spanish. He is not a Rotarian but fit and pitched right in.
Cooking Breakfast Monthly in Support of Abundant Grace's Community Outreach
We are once again able to help out with Abundant Grace in this essential program for those who are underserved in our community. The crew for the month of May below: (Susan Kealey and Dennis Fisher, Heather Bodman, Rose Serdy, Paul Wrubel, Warren Barmore. and Joe Brennan (not in the picture). Thanks to Joe for getting our crews organized.
Monthly Contribution to Coastside Hope Families Project
May
Mary, Ginger, Heather in Mary's driveway getting the supplies packed and then Doug delivering them to Coastside Hope's Caitlen Vreeburg, Development and Operations Director.
The meeting was well-attended and very active, as our speaker was our own Bella Bono, speaking for the Adult Day Health Center.
Bella has an interesting background, and she landed on the Coastside from a slightly circuitous life path from her birth in San Francisco, to Paris as an infant, to Truckee High School (and thus her skill at, and love for skiiing), undergraduate work at U.C. Santa Barbara and continuation of her studies at U C. San Diego. She also started down the path of nursing at U. of Nevada but quickly concluded that this wasn't for her She describes her grandmother and her father as her principal role models.
Her early post-college job experience included work at a behavioral health center in Santa Barbara, an inpatient facility mainly serving persons on the autism spectrum who also exhibited aggressive behavior. In light of the behaviors exhibited by some of the patients, this sounded like a kind of health sciences boot camp.
Bella started her job in development for Adult Day Health (which shares space with the Coastside Senior Center) in November, 2022. Adult Day Health doesn't serve just residents of the Coastside. Three SamTrans buses also bring participants from Pacifica and over the hill. The transport is wheelchair-accessible and door to door. It is the only facility of its type in the county, and its programs, directed by consultant specialists in a number of fields, include Alzheimer's and dementia focused programs, body movement and socialization. They also provide much-needed respite for caregivers. Among other goals, these programs aim to keep participants out of assisted living as long as possible. As many as 90% of the participants are low-income, and they speak a variety of languages, so translation assistance is important as well. The organization's social services team is trained to deal wit crisis situations, including referrals to Adult Protective Services if needed. The staff are "mandated reporters" under state law.
Daily, 40 to 65 persons use the programs of Adult Day Health and the total annual census of participants is about 250 persons. Primary sources of non-public funding are Dream Machines, Coastside Gives and Pumpkin Festival, in addition to private donations and grants. Bella is partially responsible for the grant-writing program. The Adult Day Health program covets program volunteers and relies heavily upon their help.
We are grateful to Bella for her service and to have a Rotarian in this role.
Irwin introduced our speaker, Peter Master, who will cure Irwin of his accent. Peter is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San Jose State University. He is the author of “Systems in English Grammar: An Introduction for Language Teachers.”
The focus of today’s talk is the A and The articles. English learners have trouble with late acquisitions to English—articles, prepositions and third person singular—s. They are considered late because we can be understood without them.
Articles belong to the determiner system, a noun phrase. The book, a book or a zero article—coffee (noun) is good for you. An article has Countability—I can count them. For example I can count a book. I cannot count air or make it plural.
The binary system for teaching articles—a category, use a. If it is something you are supposed to know, use the. Which would be the green one. The is the most frequently used word in the English language. Peter found that zero article is the most frequent after a study. First mention and subsequent mention is a way to determine the article—a man walked in, subsequently, the man walked in again. When teaching English, this mention (first mention, subsequent) as a way to give your student a win.
We move on to ranking adjectives—descriptive adjectives.
He shared some exercises—all the answers are the same to get students to get used to the sound of several “a” sentences, then several “the” sentences. Superlative sentences are ranking sentences and must use the. Unique adjectives—two of the same, you and I are holding the same pen, not a same.
Every other European language had an academy to make and enforce rules to keep it organized. English, on the other hand, grew organically. It takes more words in other languages because they are limited. “He asked why did I do that”. The correct sentence would be “Why he did that.”
Despite triggering PTSD from Mrs. Kastner’s fourth grade sentence diagramming, I did learn some useful ways to help ESL students sort out the mysteries of English. And, I now know why English is so confusing.
Annual Joint Meeting with the Rotary Clubs of Pacifica, Millbrae and South SF
Article by Stacy Trevenon
Members of the Rotary Clubs of Half Moon Bay, Millbrae, Pacifica and South San Francisco gathered this evening at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco, for the annual joint meeting which involves these clubs. Half Moon Bay Rotarian and District Governor-elect Mitone Griffiths made the point that this meeting brought people together, face to face for real, no longer via a computer screen, and rang the bell to declare the meeting open.
Rotarian Half Moon Bay Past President Liz Schuck led the Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation was given by longtime Pacifica Rotarian Jack Hug, who noted that it was written nearly four decades ago by a Rotarian. The invocation asked a blessing on the meal, gave thanks “to the Heavenly Father” for the food, and sought guidance in achieving all of our individual and collective Rotary goals.
Pacifica Club President Colleen Wright, having praised the salmon dish which along with chicken and vegetarian made up the main dishes of the dinner, declared “Let’s rock and roll!” and the meeting began. For a little while Rotarians enjoyed their meals in fellowship, and chat ranged from China to the British royal family in light of the coming royal coronation. Visiting Rotarians, guests and upcoming Half Moon Bay Rotary program speakers present were recognized: District Governor Gary Chow with his wife Cynthia, District Governor-elect Laine Hendricks, District Governor nominee and Pacifica Rotarian Steve Wright, Griffiths, Assistant (District) Governors Shari Teresi, Diane Campbell and more. (Whew!)
Invited to say a few words about the District Conference that 5150 just held this past weekend, Gary Chow observed how it takes a group to make things work, touched on news of talks involving the situation in Ukraine, and told listeners that we can make Rotary what we wish it to be in this world. Laine, “voluntold” to speak, seconded his remarks, said she loved the theme of connection in Rotary events, thanked Rotarian Bob Jacobsen for his work on the 2024 district conference which will draw Rotarians from Districts 5150, 5180 and 5190. Speakers promoted the theme of “better together” in the district conference, and Laine said her experience at this past weekend’s conference had been a fun one.
Today's program was a pictorial presentation on the recent visit to the LaPaz clinic by a number of club members and friends of the club. Seven people in total traveled from March 8-14 including EJ and Rose (check Rose), Bill and Austen, Joe and Kevin.
The health care needs of the La Paz area are pretty stark. About 25% of the local population have no effective access to health care.
Primary service and educational stops on the trip included a prosthetices clinic in La Paz where discarded U.S. prosthetic limbs are re-tooled and adapted to new use (can't do that in the U.S.), a local cooperative womens' mutual welfare organization (mothers with children), and the Asta Clinic.
What was really obvious from the talk is the importance of the support of U.S. and Mexican service clubs and humanitarian organzations as being a primary support of rural clinics. Also the group saw first hand the effects of poor nutrition. Sadly, U.S. corporations contribute greatly to that, as sugary soft drinks and junk food cost less than fress, healthful food and are far more available.
The group had some fun, too, stopping at Margaritaville, Espirito Santo Island (to see the sea lions), a Rotary-loving ice cream vendor, the Rotary Club of Balendra and Puerto Adolfo (to see the whales).
The City of Half Moon Bay is committed to becoming a leader in sustainability and establishing ourselves as a green vacation destination. In response to the City Council identifying sustainability as a priority in FY 2019-20, staff developed the Sustainability Implementation Plan (SIP), which outlines opportunities to implement sustainable policies, programs, and projects within the City of Half Moon Bay.
Veronica presented the Climate Action Plan explaining that for 2019 Greenhouse Gas emissions were mainly from these sources:
Automobiles 51%
Buildings 36%
Waste 8%
Electrical 4%
Noting that a ton of green house gasses is the equivalent of a car driving 2,000miles.
An immediate goal is to reduce building emissions to 10% largely by drastically reducing natural gas emissions.
An example of good progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the 90% participation in Peninsula Clean Energy. They have removed 25% of GHG from utilities and have the goal of reducing 15% more by 2030.
Speaker noted that building utilities are a big target.
Also identifying and reducing the industrial load which is low on the coast but farming needs a close analysis.
On the home front the approach is to require electrical for all new construction not gas.
Also encouraging the replacement of existing Natural Gas appliances with Electrical.
Progress in addressing the “Waste” component has been made with the passage of SB 1383 aimed at taking organics out of landfill. These biodegradable materials breakdown and emit the greenhouse gas methane among others. Separating the organic’s for composting and offering the compost back to home gardeners and farms is the goal.
Another of her targets is largest source of GHGs, transportation. Veronica announced that the missing link of the Eastside Trail is funded and in the design phase to bridge the gap in Miramar and continue to Main Street. Electric vehicles remain a strong component of the program, buy yours now!
One big target is the morning high school traffic jam of cars containng one parent and one student all backed up. She pointed out it is considered “not cool” to walk or bike. Buses are being analyzed as traffic reduction method. She pointed out the HS has a “safe touted to school” coordinator.
Brief Q&A followed and she handed out reusable sandwich bags, bike bells and info.
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