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Rotary International!K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran!President 2015-2016!!District 5240!!Jim Bell!District Governor 2015-2016!!Bob Braitman!Executive Assistant Governor!Region 3!2015-2016!!Joseph Kirkland !President 2015-2016!!Bernadette Bagley!Secretary & President Elect 2015-2016!

George Thurlow III!Treasurer!!Marc Fleischman!Past President !!Directors!

Dusty Baker, Membership!Conner Rehage, Service!Rober Mislang, Youth & RYLA!Jennifer Goddard- Combs, !Programs & Public Relations!Harlan Green, Grants & RI

ROTARY CLUB of MONTECITO Tuesday’s @ Noon at the Montecito Country Club!

P.O. Box 40218, Santa Barbara, CA 93140

Presidents Message November 6, 2015

Greetings Rotarians,!!Another opportunity to help others, this time in our local community! Once again, the power of Rotary reveals itself through the Foundation Grants, hosted by Past President, Marc Fleischman. Truly inspiring seeing all the great recipients and the work they do for others right here in Santa Barbara County.!!Be sure to join us this Tuesday as we hear from Kyle Ashby about the Impact Hub. You won't want to miss this one! Have a great weekend!!!Yours in service,!Joe Kirkland

FALL FOUNDATION GRANTS

It was such an incredible opportunity to present our Fall Grants to the following organizations, who do so much good for the Santa Barbara community and beyond.!

Alzheimer Association of Central California!

First Presbyterian Church Early Childhood Center!

Food Bank of Santa Barbara County!

Girls Rock Santa Barbara!

Phoenix House of Santa Barbara!

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper!

Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation!

United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara

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SONG OF THE WEEK“Help”!

By The Beatles, 1965!Song lead by Del Hegland!

The documentary series The Beatles Anthology revealed that Lennon wrote the lyrics of the song to express his stress after the Beatles' quick rise to success. "I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for 'Help'," Lennon told Playboy. In the 1970 Rolling Stone "Lennon Remembers" interviews, Lennon said he felt that "Help!" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were his most honest, genuine Beatles songs and not just songs "written to order.” !!However, according to Lennon's cousin and boyhood friend Stanley Parkes, "Help!" was written after Lennon "came in from the studio one night. 'God,' he said, 'they've changed the title of the film: it's going to be called 'Help!' now. So I've had to write a new song with the title called 'Help!'!

When I was younger, so much younger than today!I never needed anybody's help in any way!But now these days are gone I'm not so self-assured!Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors!!Help me if you can, I'm feeling down!And I do appreciate you being 'round!Help me get my feet back on the ground!Won't you please, please help me?! !

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways!My independence seems to vanish in the haze!But every now and then I feel so insecure!I know that I just need you like I've never done before!!Help me if you can, I'm feeling down!And I do appreciate you being 'round!Help me get my feet back on the ground!Won't you please, please help me?!!Help me! Help me….! Ooooh!

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1. One person can make a difference and together as Rotarians we can have a stronger impact. (I am one-Rotary as many.)!

2. For camaraderie, and new friendships.!

3. To serve locally, nationally or internationally.!

4. To learn more about other cultures.!

5. For a way to share your talent and resources effectively.!

6. To have a place to go each week to connect with like-minded people who motivate you.!

7. To make life-long relationships.!

8. To be part of something bigger than yourself.!

9. to hear an interesting speaker each week and learn what is going on in the community.!

10. To be able to take advantage of the true “family” of rotary while traveling nationally or internationally.

Upcoming Programs!Nov. 10- Introducing the Impact Hub/ Kyle Ashby!

Nov. 17- District Governor Visit/ Jim Bell!

Nov. 24- Museum of Art Visit/ DARK!

Dec. 1- Animal Shelter Assistance Program/ Angela Walters Rockwell!

Dec. 8- MUS Chorus!

Dec. 15- Holiday Dinner Party/ DARK

FOUR WAY TEST!

1. Is it the TRUTH?!

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?!

3. Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?!

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Weekly Assignments!November 10!

Invocation/Flag Salute: Mark Magid!Backup: Paul Kremser!50/50 Raffle: Garrett McCaw!Greeter: Rob Mislang!!November is the GREEN Team!!Setup/Breakdown Team: The GREEN Team includes: Sherry Melchiori, Rob Mislang, Lynda Nahra, Phil Palmquist, Arthur Rachwald, Murray Ray, Ross Ray, Conner Rehage, David Solomon, George Thurlow and JT Turner.

The Top 10 Reasons to Join the Montecito Rotary Club

Tuesday!

Goleta Noontime- Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course) !

@ 11:45am!

Goleta (2nd and 4th)- Frog Bar (Glen Annie Golf Course)!

@ 6:30pm!

Rotaract (1st and 3rd)- Silvergreens on Chapala !

@ 6:30pm!

Wednesday!

Carpinteria Morning- Carpinteria Women’s Club

@ 7:00am!

Santa Barbara Sunrise- Santa Barbara Club !

@ 7:00 am!

Santa Barbara North- Harry;s Plaza Cafe !

@ noon

Thursday!

Carpinteria- !

Lion’s Community Park !

@11:45 am!

Friday!

Santa Barbara Downtown- Fess Parker Double Tree !

@ noon!

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Missed a Meeting? Make it up!

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Presidents Message November 2015

One sunny morning at the end of June 1991, a van drove through the busy, rush-hour streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Winding through traffic to a northern suburb, the van arrived at the Forward Command Headquarters of the Defense Ministry. Security guards stopped it for inspection. When they did, the two suicide bombers driving the van detonated their cargo: thousands of kilograms of plastic explosives.!

The roof of the building was blown off completely. Debris was strewn for blocks. In total, 21 people were killed and 175 people injured, among them many pupils of the girls' school next door. More than a kilometer away, the blast shattered every window in my home. My wife raced toward the sound of the explosion – toward our daughter's school.!

Our daughter was then nine years old. That morning, she had forgotten her pencil case at home. At the moment of the blast, she was coming out of a stationer's shop, admiring her new pencils. Suddenly her ears were ringing, the air was filled with sand, and everywhere around her people were screaming, bleeding, and running. Someone pulled her into the garden of the badly damaged school, where she waited until my wife arrived to bring her back to our home – its floors still covered with broken glass.!

Sri Lanka today is peaceful and thriving, visited by some two million tourists every year. Our war now is only a memory, and we as a nation look forward to a promising future. Yet so many other nations cannot say the same. Today, more of the world's countries are involved in conflict than not; a record 59.5 million people worldwide live displaced by wars and violence.!

In Rotary we believe, in spite of all that, in the possibility of peace – not out of idealism, but out of experience. We have seen that even the most intractable conflicts can be resolved when people have more to lose by fighting than by working together. We have seen what can happen when we approach peace-building in ways that are truly radical, such as the work of our Rotary Peace Fellows. Through our Rotary Foundation, peace fellows become experts in preventing and resolving conflict. Our goal is that they will find new ways not only to end wars but to stop them before they begin.!

Among the hundreds of peace fellows who have graduated from the program, two from Sri Lanka, one from each side of the conflict, studied together. In the first weeks of the course, both argued passionately for the rightness of their side. Yet week by week, they grew to understand each other's perspective; today, they are good friends. When I met them and heard their story, they gave me hope. If 25 years of pain and bitterness could be overcome by Rotary, then what, indeed, is beyond us?!

We cannot fight violence with violence. But when we fight it with education, with understanding, and with peace, we can truly Be a Gift to the World.!

K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran!President 2015-2016

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