Wednesday May 25th and June 1st, 2005

President’s Message:
My term is almost over and many of my goals for 2004-2005 were met but the most valuable experience I take with me as your 2004-2005 President is what I call the learning factor. I learned so much about Rotary and its role not only locally but globally and most importantly, I was given the opportunity to know each and everyone of you that much better. All this did was motivate me to learn more and become more involved with Rotary and our community. I look forward to bigger and better things for our future beginning with membership, community services, and club services such as a trip to Costa Rica this coming December and our International Program chaired by Mark Tedesco.
Stepping up to the Challenge is the 3rd annual 5-K walk organized by the American Cancer Society, Kaiser, ICF Foundation and the City of West Covina. We will be making pancakes for approx. 300 people at the event. Volunteers, please contact Lone Sorensen for more information.

Community Day at the Fair: We will be participating in the West Covina Community Day at the LA County Fair on Sept 30th, 2005. Dave Harris is chair of this fun event, which includes free passes for the club members involved. Please contact Dave Harris if you are interested in participating.

Red Ribbon Rally. This year the rally will be held October 29th at West Covina High School. Alex Rodriquez is the chair from our club. The planning meetings are held at Denny’s Restaurant on Thursdays at 7:30 AM.

Angels Baseball: The game was a blast. So much has changed since I last went to a ball game. Games for the kids everywhere, batting cages, and other baseball related activities and the food choices sure have improved. Angel stadium has many restaurants with lots of food choices. The game was almost too short, at least it seemed like it went by way too fast. If you did not make it, you missed a great outing…

Every Rotarian Every Year: Just a reminder to donate $100 to the RI Foundation so the club can meet its goal of 100% participation.
50/50 Raffle: Well, its over……. The raffle was won by our president who actually picked that all important Ace of Spades. Isn’t there some rule that the president can’t play………

Scholarship Dinner: The Scholarship dinner May 26th was a great success. Most of the awardees were in attendance together with many of their family members. Several of our club members were also in attendance to honor the scholarship winners. Dr. Jessica Martinez received a Rotary Scholarship as a teen and this year’s recipients were excited to see a ‘real live’ successful former scholarship recipient at the dinner.


A total of $10,000 in scholarships were awarded as follows:
From Nogales High School: Jamie Concepcion, Terra Rey, Jesselle Macatiag, Sharon Gonzalez, Javier Alday, Maritza Portillo, Gabriel Melchor, Elizabeth Martinez, Emmanuel Uyan , Angelica Pena, Rosie Fonseca and Miriam Delgado.
From West Covina High School: Craig Edwards, Jazmine Ortriz, Magdalena Merlo
From Los Osos: Garret Tedesco And Covina Explorer: Brandon Terrazas who is going to the Fire Academy.
Thanks to event chair Alex Rodriquez and his committee – and thanks to the Tenants for use of their beautiful facility, which by the way could be the perfect location for a fun evening of dance, music and food if we should choose to have a dance the night away fund raiser or simply a Rotarian night out.

Our Website: You are reading this newsletter sent to you via our website ( www.wcsunrise.org ) Start programming yourselves to go to our website to check it out and use it to communicate with each other. Instead a calling around when you need contact information about someone, check our membership directory. Need to make-up a meeting? Yes, you can do it online or get information about other clubs through our website; it is yours, you pay for it… use it!

Program: We didn’t have a speaker at either meeting. Instead we used the time for club interaction. June 8th program speaker is Chief Elliot, West Covina Fire Department

Calendar:
June 4: Stepping up to the Challenge 5-K walk
June 18-22: 2005 RI Convention, McCormick Place, Chicago, click here for more information
June 20: Pmac Invitational golf tournament for MDA
June 25 5:00 PM Club's Throughout Party
June 30: Cops for Kids Golf Tournament
Sept 30: LA County Fair Community Day
Oct 29: Red Ribbon Rally, West Covina High School