THIS WEEK Our own JEFF FRAZIER, JIM NOLIN and JEFF MARTINEZ will tell us all about the second annual “Touch A Truck”. This trio of speakers will tell us where the idea for Touch-A-Truck “ came from and how this year they will double the array...
THIS WEEK Our Club’s own JACK OSBORN will speak to us about the issues facing Europe today, including the massive national debt of the pigs and the refugee crisis. He is the University of Redlands Hunsaker Endowed Chair of Management. In that role he teaches courses...
THIS WEEK Stacy Iverson, president and CEO of Children’s Fund, and Melinda Corral, executive director of Building a Generation, will speak about their organizations’ programs to assist local children and about National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Both organizations help at-risk children in our area. Since its...
50 people from Light & Power (mental and physical disabilities) were given $20 each to go shopping plus a pizza lunch afterwards. Students from Compact, mostly from REV, RHS and CVHS, were shopping helpers. Organized by Dave Maupin and Ann Leonard. A great example of our...
Last Week After singing another song from the south, we heard from Dr. Don Buchanan and Tim Sullivan regarding the Redlands street trees and plan. A lot of work over many years has been put in by Don and his committee assessing what types of trees are best, how to maintain...
Last Week We sang Dixie, the cantata version. Actually that was pretty good planning on Dave Wilson’s part to burn up President Nathan’s fining time. Possibly Steve Davis could do a ten minute invocation. Anyway, we heard from FORS or Friends of Redlands Skate Park. The two co-founders, Maureen Perez and...
Last Week In our final soiree of 2015 we celebrated the end of the first half of the Imperial Reign of Terror. In the spirit of Old Lang Syne and to get us in a reflective mood of our Rotary club and Rotarians past, we played...
Last Week x2 Ara Norwood provided a bifocal view of our 6 Founding Fathers (Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton) examining the complexities of their relationships with their parents and the human view of the men who made difficult choices. Their characters are shown as...
Last Week World traveler, photographer, Rotarian John Mills gave us a riveting first-hand examination of a place on earth we seldom think about but must be thankful for, the numerous islands of Vanuatu. The many complexities of these small islands are as much a concern for us today as when they...
Last Week Fortnightly Club contributor Stephan P Stockton presented us with a wonderful and unique history of “Swimming Pools of Redlands”. Our knowledge of local history was enhanced by learning how attitudes have changed in our town, the school teacher who promoted that change, the technology and archeological evidence that shows...