Newsletter - Current  Feb 17, 2012

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Weekly Newsletter Rotary Club of Vandenberg Village

Feb 17, 2012

Today's Program: John McReynolds, Book Author

John McReynolds

John McReynolds is a sports writer for the Lompoc Record, and also the author of several books about our local Lompoc area.  Today, John discussed his book "Banished" which is about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.  He stated that he first became interested in the subject when reading books about the waves of immigrants who came to the Lompoc Valley.  He noticed that there was an obvious void of mention about Japanese Americans.  As a result, he undertook the effort to research and write about their presence in the area.  What he found out is that about 100 Japanese families came to and settled in the Lompoc area, but only about two returned after WWII.  Primarily, the reason was that they were not welcomed back into our community, which was common with rural areas at the time.  Therefore, the majority who had left migrated to larger metropolitan areas like San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Structured throughout the book area stories of how the Japanese Americans re-connected with their previous life before WWII.  The book has been well received by all Japanese groups.

Induction into Rotary

Today, Myron Heavin was inducted into the club.  Officiating were club President Fiona Macfarlane and Assistant District Governor Scott Martin. 

Fiona Macfarlane, Myron Heavin, Scott Martin

  President (Fiona Macfarlane) comments:

• RYLA:  April 21.  Two students have signed up to go.
  
• VV Lions Fundraiser:  April 28, BBQ.  Our club will participate.  More info to come.
  
•  Solvang Fundraiser:  March 10, at the Veterans Building in Solvang.  $30.
• Golf Tournament Fundraiser:  March 31.  More specifics to come. 

Member Reports/Reminders/Information:

Susan Warnstrom:

• Lompoc Rotary wine tasting:  Feb 26, 1-4 PM at the Veterans hall.  She has tickets
• Cabrillo High School Senior Project Judges:  May 17, 2-5 PM.  Judges are needed for the numerous projects.  If interested, e-mail orciuch.sabrina@lusd.org.
• Program Committee Meeting:  Feb 22
  

Attendance:  13 out of 13 active (Including new Rotarian Myron Heavin).  Two guests were Assistant District Governor Scott Martin, and Arkansas Rotarian Bill Mills.

Programs and Events

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Feb 24:  Morgan Salm - CHS Golf Champion

March 2:  Dr Fisher - Nazi Gospels (Unconfirmed)

March 9: Engineers without Borders (Unconfirmed)