• President Sherri Simoni called the meeting to order at 8:17 am.

• Suzanne Richerson led us in the Pledge of Allegiance

  • Not widely known fact about Suzanne is that she won a beer chugging contest in college!

• Song of the Day - Ward Eccles had us all sing along to "My Country Tis of Thee"

• Thought of the Day - Wolfgang Stoeffl shared: 

  Good Morning Rotary
  Here is my Thought of the Day..., brought to you by your vagabond member Wolfgang from the city of Montevideo in Uruguay.
  As you know, I am often absent from our Rotary Club of the Livermore Valley, 
     and I am very grateful for the good 
  life the town of Livermore gave me for the last 45 years.
  
  My 
  thought of the day is Gratitude to all the good people which 
  make our life so easy and joyful.
  We can buy food when we want 
  it, 
  someone in town sweeps the streets, 
  the sewer works, 
  we have clean drinking water, 
  the gas stations have fuel, 
  our house has heat,
  There is a handyman to fix a leaky pipe,
  We have TV, 
  Internet and everything works most of the time.
  We can enjoy 
  the beauty of nature.
  And we can travel the world safely.
  And someone in the world makes enough good toilet paper...
  Let us be 
  grateful for it all
  and show Gratitude to all the folks which 
  make it happen...

• Joke of the Day - Mark Hudson shared a joke about a husband who couldn't remember any single detail about his wife but when asked about her car, knew every single spec - You had to be there, lol.

• Visiting Rotarian: Dick Fields introduced Bob Tucknott, in the classification of Electrical Contractor, visiting us from the Dublin Club

• Guests:

  • Mony Nop introduced James Marasco, neighbor and mortgage lender

  • James Marasco introduced Andy Kush

  • Beth McCormick introduced our speaker, Tracy Farhard from Visit Tri-Valley

Sherri gave a shout out to our fellow Rotarians who have gone above and beyond this week to represent our club in the community:

• Jeannette-Membership Duties, updating our application, red to blue badge process
• Deb & Philomena-Crabby behavior!! Helping to promote our fundraiser

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Paul Harris Recipient  - Richard Goldstein

• April 6 is the District Training Assembly which is followed by two weeks of Zoom evening  trainings on many different subjects 
• April 26-28 District Conference at Hays Mansion in San Jose

We welcomed Tracy Farhad CEO of Visit Tri-Valley https://visittrivalley.com/

The goal of the organization is to provide marketing for the Tri-Valley including Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin and Danville and to inspire commercial and leisure travel to this area.  41 hotels are included in their reach providing 4450 rooms.  Funding is mostly provided by the $3.25 per hotel night stay. 

A large travel component is kid's sporting events.  A recent Gaelic Games brought in $2M to the area!

Beer trails, wine trails and ice cream trails are part of their marketing campaign.  Besides marketing the organization also likes to give back to the communities by implementing programs such as coat drives, Souper Tuesday and entry jobs for new job seekers. 

The Vibe is a service that sends out weekly emails to those that sign up letting them know what's happening in the Tri-Valley in the areas that they are interested in.  https://events.vibetrivalley.com/