I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful time with your families and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday!

The holiday season is now here so I wanted to inform you all that we will have our last meeting of the year on Friday, December 16th, and will be dark for the meetings on December 24th and December 31st. Our next meeting will be on Friday, January 7th at noon at Fratello's. We have some great programs in the works including our own City Manager Tammy Letourneau on January 21st! Enjoy your holidays and have a fabulous time celebrating with your families and friends!

Below you will find a link to our current Rotary Roster so please reach out to Rotarians that you have been thinking about! Please also feel free to send birthday, anniversary, and Christmas cards to your Rotarians that are celebrating special occasions and just to let them know you are thinking of them!

A few of us Rotarians were able to visit two long-time Rotarians that have not been able to attend our meetings due to health reasons. I felt like I was in the presence of royalty with our driver Vito Ferlauto, Madame Kim Douglas, and Stewart Mims as we drove together to deliver gifts and spend some Christmas cheer to our friends! We were able to spend precious time with Jack Biggar and his wife Karol, and his neighbor and our dear Rotarian Miles Sterling and his wife Esther! They loved the beautiful Christmas throws, poinsettias, homemade cookies and hot chocolate that we gave to each of them with a special message from all of you! We let them know that their fellow Rotarians wish them a Merry Christmas and we all miss them dearly!

Our amazing Fellow Rotarian Mayor Elaine Gennawey and her son Ray were riding in cars in the Laguna Niguel Holiday Parade on Saturday, along with many amazing entries! Your President Eileen was able to run around Crown Valley Parkway to wave at them, wearing my Rotary hat and cheering them on to let them know Rotarians were present! Next year, we will be ready to walk for miles with our banner in the parade!

On Sunday, Rotarians attended our Rotary Holiday Potluck hosted by Bill and Ann Nguyen, and their entire family was there to help out! We all had such a wonderful time and we all would like to thank Bill and his family for hosting such a great evening in his beautiful home! He lit every fireplace and had heaters and blankets for us so we couldn't feel the cold air! I must say it was a magical evening with great food, great conversation and most of all, great company! We missed those of you that were unable to attend this year and we hope we can all be together next year!

Bill Nguyen and his amazing assistant Yesenia did a fantastic job coordinating dictionary deliveries with Rotarians! Stewart Mims was able to handle the last delivery all by himself and did a fantastic job! Thank you to all of you that volunteered your time and shared your dictionary story with the kids! Great job!

NOTICE TO ROTARIANS REGARDING INCOMING BOARD NOMINATIONS

IN COMPLIANCE WITH DISTRICT RULES OF GOVERNANCE. THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF PROPOSED BOARD MEMBERS AS VOTED ON BY THE CURRENT BOARD AT A SPECIAL MEETING HELD VIA EMAIL ON DECEMBER DECEMBER 8, 2021, WITH A TOTAL OF 14 "YES" VOTES:

President: Chandra Chell

President-Elect: Mike Gerard

Vice President: Stewart Mims

Secretary: Janet Park

Treasurer: RoseAnne Ruccello

Past-President: Eileen Gomez

Public Relations/Webmaster: Mike Gerard

Sergeant-at-Arms: Rischi Paul Sharma

Programs Chair: Mark Montgomery

Foundation Chair: John Veytia

International Co-Chairs: Bruce Birkeland, Kristin Epperson

Board Member-at-Large: Kim M. Douglas

Board Member-at-Large: Jim McGinley

Eileen Gomez, President

Chandra Chell, President-Elect

Kristen Epperson, Vice President

John Veytia, Secretary

RoseAnne Ruccello, Treasurer

Kim M. Douglas, Past President

Rischi Paul Sharma, Sergeant-at-Arms

Caroline Swift, Membership/Social Chair

Dale Stinchfield, Club Foundation Chair

Bill Nguyen, Scholarship Chair/Dictionary Project Chair

Mark Montgomery, Program Chair

Bruce Birkeland, International Chair

Mike Gerard, Publicity/Marketing Chair

Taje Gill, Dictionary Project Chair

Your Rotary Club thanks you for your support and for continuing to volunteer for this amazing organization!

Please follow this link to the current Roster for the Rotary Club of Laguna Niguel! Please let me know if you have any revisions and I will include an updated roster in the next publication!

Thank you and stay well!

Serving To Change Lives,

President Eileen Gomez

Please join me in welcoming our Rotary Craft Talk Speaker, Mr. Randy Hudson!

Randy is the Science Department Chair at Dana Hills High School and has been teaching there for 22 years! He and his wife Kara (who teachers at Malcom Elementary) reside in Dana Point and have three children; two daughters who have graduated from Dana Hills and are presently at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and their son who will attend Dana next Fall! Randy was the 2013 Dana Hills Teacher of the Year, the 2013 Capistrano Unified School District Teacher of the Year, and the 2014 Orange County Teacher of the Year. He currently teaches Honors Biology to Freshman, Honors Marine Ecology to Seniors, is the head coach for Academic Teams, and twice a year takes students on multi-day science field studies. Since 2000, he has led a 7-day marine biology trip to Monterey and the central California coast, and for the last 17 years, Randy has spearheaded the Baja Field Study, a nine-day marine science research expedition to the Sea of Cortez in Baja, Mexico!

Please show your support and join us for lunch on Friday, December 17th at noon at Fratello's! Please observe the current mask mandate in Orange County and wear a mask while entering and exiting the restaurant.

Thank you and see you on Friday!

Serving To Change Lives!

President Eileen Gomez