"The Torch" Rotary Club of Bakersfield Twilight
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Rotary Club of Bakersfield Twilight
“The Torch”
February 9, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT: LI GIBBS
Rotary year 2020-2021 “Rotary Opens Opportunities”
Twilighters #WeDoItAtNight
FEBRUARY CELEBRATING 115 YEARS OF ROTARY!
Hello Twilight family, I hope you had a good three-day week-
end. What a GREAT meeting last week, I wish we had more
time, there was so much fascinating information. I learned a
lot about native Hawaiian culture and the obstacles to building
The World’s Largest Telescope in Hawaii. We should invite
them back with a scientist to talk about the construction and specifics of the telescope itself. I read that
several countries are each sponsoring different parts of the telescope, that’s the Rotary way! Happy to
see so many of your smiling faces (and names) as well as our wonderful Centennial Interact students.
This Wednesday’s Valentine Social is very special for Twilight, Collin Snitchler will be inducted as our
newest member, the very first Zoom induction for our mighty club…ZOOM IN WEDNESDAY TO
OFFICIALLY WELCOME COLLIN TO TWILIGHT and get to know more about him!
Twilight completed the District 5240 TRF Challenge. Congratulations mighty Twilighters, YOU rock!
Community Service Director, Laura needs YOUR help with our February project (easy stuff) so check
out page 4! On page 5 you will find our incredible CHS Interactors’ February service project. They
make us so proud! On other projects, Laura is working with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
collecting new and gently used books (ages up to 22) for CASA’s new borrowing library, so please start
looking through your books now! Our Youth Service Director, B-Rad, distributed the District 4-Way
Test Contest to our Interactors and will oversee the committee deciding which essay to submit. He and
Laura are also joining forces with BERC Youth and Community Service Directors on the Rotary Park
painting and planting project, details to come. This year RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) is
going virtual, more on that soon.
Also going all virtual is Rotary International Convention in Taipei, giving even more Rotarians the
unique opportunity to experience this amazing global event. We’ll know more as plans progress.
Fun Meister Jeremy’s new “Tapa of the Month” is on page 7, make it to show it off and eat during our
upcoming Valentine’s Day Social. Read his message to each of you on page 2. There’s much more in
this issue, I hope you enjoy it and I welcome your stories and ideas to include in next week’s issue!
I look forward to seeing EVERYONE…yes, you, this Wednesday for some Valentine’s Day fun and
welcome Collin to our Twilight family! See you ALL TOMORROW and bring a friend!
Virtual Abraçades,
Li
February 2021 #WeDoItAtNight
A VERY SPECIAL VALENTINE’S SOCIAL THIS WEDNESDAY!
Club Fun Meister Jeremy Swanson
“For the Valentines Day social, please think of a
funny moment related to your relational or dating life
that you’d like to share---it should be about a minute long,
maybe a minute and a half at most. If you don’t have something
that immediately comes to mind, don’t worry! We’ll instead hit
you with a random question that you get to answer. Hilarity will
ensue. We think. Maybe. Probably. So be thinking of a moment
to share, and if it’s something about a current spouse, that’s
probably even going to be funnier because we can ask them if it’s true and that’s
how they remember it or not. See you all at the social!”
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NEW MEMBER INDUCTION, COME TO WELCOME
COLLIN SNITCHLER
TO OUR TWILIGHT FAMILY!
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Inspirational Moment
brought to you by Pamela Elisheva
From Twilight February 3rd Meeting
Carl Sagan provides the inspirational moments for this week when
we heard about telescopes on the top of Moana Kea. Carl Sagan
lived from November 9, 1934 to December 20, 1996. He was an
American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astro-
physicist, astrobiologist, author, poet and science communicator.
He inspired us to reach for the stars in two popular television series, "Cosmos" and "Contact".
Here are some of his quotes that help us see our place among the stars:
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live.
In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
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FEBRUARY 3RD TWILIGHT MEETING PHOTO GALLERY
Building the “Largest Telescope
in the World” a fascinating
program from Hawaii.
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Twilight Rotary Club Service Project
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Benefitting Valley Achievement Center’s Adult Day Program
NEED YOU TO DONATE INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED MINIATURE CANDY
Let’s make Valentine’s Day special for Valley Achievement Center’s* (VAC’s) Adult Day
Program Recipients!
Twilight Community Service Director Laura Williams will be collecting your donations of
individually wrapped miniature size candy through Wednesday, February 10th (be-
fore 5 p.m.) at the Valley Achievement Center office located at 1721 Westwind Drive,
Bakersfield, CA 93301.
The donated wrapped candy will be placed in Valentine’s Day treat boxes and deliv-
ered by VAC staff to the Adult Day Program clients’ homes on Friday, February 12th
with a note saying: “Rotary Twilight wishes them a happy Valentine’s Day.”
If anyone has any questions, please contact Rotary Twilight Community Service Chair
Laura Williams at williamslauramargaret@gmail.com or
(661) 858-8113 (call or text).
Valley Achievement Center (VAC) is a nonprofit corporation located in Bakersfield, California, that
serves children and adults diagnosed with autism and/or other developmental disabilities.
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Centennial Interact Service Project!
Submitted by Ana Heron,
Centennial Interact Community Service Director
Our wonderful club members will decorate
Valentine’s Day cards for seniors at Brookdale!
My co-service project director, Lianne Akey, and
I are collecting all the cards at a drop-off event
Saturday, February 13th from 1-2pm at River-
lakes Ranch Park (right next to Centennial). I
will deliver all the cards to Brookdale Senior Liv-
ing February 14th so that they will receive them
on Valentine’s Day and hopefully feel all the
love! There are 175 seniors, we will make sure
there is at least one card for every senior so that
everyone knows and feels they are appreciated.
The Senior Center sounded super excited on the
phone, so we are very grateful to make them
happy on that very special day.
Poster by Jordyn Toler
Centennial Interact Marketing Director
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Tapa of the Month: February
Brought to you by Fun Meister Jeremy Swanson
Boles de Picolat - Meatballs with tomato sauce
A popular classic amongst tapas dishes
Meatballs with tomato sauce is a classic amongst tapas
dishes, and should not be missing from any tapas menu.
A dry sherry fits well as a drink with this dish.
Ingredients for 4 servings
•500 g ground meat (or vegetarian meat substitute)
• 700 g tomatoes
• 250 ml beef broth
• 50 ml sherry
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 large onion
• 5 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 2 slices of toast
• Salt, pepper, 1 pinch of paprika
• Parsley or bay leaf
Preparation
Peel the onion and chop finely. Peel the garlic.
Cut the crust from the toast and cut the bread into small cubes.
Let the toast soak in a little milk.
Drop the tomatoes into boiling water for a moment and remove the skin. Cut into small
pieces. Place in a pot; pour in the broth, and leave to simmer at a low temperature for
about 30 minutes, stirring regularly.
Meanwhile put the ground beef into a bowl. Press the garlic into the bowl, and then add
the bread and the egg. If you like parsley, you can add about 2 or 3 of the chopped
parsley bunches. Leave some parsley left over in order to sprinkle over the meatballs at
the end.
Mix everything well into a mixture and season with salt, pepper and paprika.
With your hands shape balls of about 2 cm in diameter out of the mixture. Heat the olive
oil in a pan and fry the meatballs over medium heat until evenly brown.
Season the tomato sauce to taste and add the browned meatballs to it. Leave for 10-15
minutes on low heat and sprinkle with the remaining parsley.
Serve warm or cold in a bowl. You can stick toothpicks in the meatballs.
Preparation time: about 30 minutes and 40 minutes cooking time.
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GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT
HYDROPONIC SYSTEMS IN CIUDAD SANDINO, NICARAGUA
Submitted by Pamela Elisheva, International Service
As you know, our Twilight Club is participating in Rotary Club of Santa Barbara Sunrise’s
(RCSBS’s) Global Grant Project with Rotary Club Ciudad Sandino to provide aquaponics sys-
tems to 57 families in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua. Each family’s system can be done for approx-
imately $700, and our Club has pledged $1400 for two systems.
Santa Barbara Sunrise informs us that the Global Grant application is just about completed; they
just finished a financial calculation as an attachment to the application. Our $1400 is a pledge
only at this time, and we will not send the $1400 from our Rotary Club Twilight Foundation un-
til the grant has been approved by The Rotary Foundation (TRF) and the agreement documenta-
tion signed by the two lead clubs.
TRF will request that the clubs who committed funds to-
wards the grant send the money to them for the specific
Global Grant number. Once TRF has received all the mon-
ey, then they will distribute it to the special checking ac-
count for the grant project. This way, our club will also re-
ceive Paul Harris Fellow credit for the contribution.
(YAY!)
Translation on the tank: “Donated by Rotary”
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Upcoming Twilight Club Meetings
February 10, 2021
Club Social: Valentine Special Wear Red or Pink
COME ALL New member induction!!!
5:50pm Join Zoom Meeting click below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86107767860?pwd=UWVQa0hSMGFmWGRqNVFzaDROeFBQZz09
Meeting ID: 861 0776 7860 Passcode: twilight
February 17, 2021
All About Rotary Fellowships with Alan Test
February 24, 2021
Board Meeting
March 3 dark for Thursday March 4th
KERN COUNTY ALL CLUB MEETING (free to attend)
Link will be forthcoming
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CELEBRATING OUR MEMBERS!
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2020-2021 Twilight Board of Directors
President: Li Gibbs
Vice President: Nancy Pollard Sergeant at Arms: Garett Colatruglio
Treasurer: Denise Thomas President Elect: Robin Paggi
Secretary: Manuel Maldonado *President Elect Nominee: Donna Bell
2020-2021 Directors
Community Service: Laura Williams Youth Service/Vocational: Brad Henderson
Club Service: Donna Bell International Service: Vince Zaragoza
2020-2021 Chairs
Foundation President: Nancy Pollard Membership Chair: Jim Bell
Foundation Chair: Donna Bell Rotaract Liaison: Oz de Guzman
Club Awards Chair: Jim Bell Web Master: Tony Azemika
Club Programs: Shonna Shearson The Torch Editor: Li Gibbs
Club Fun Meister: Jeremy Swanson Family of Rotary: Amy Smith
RYLA Coordinator: Li Gibbs 4-Way Test: Brad Henderson
International Committee: Pam Elisheva
STAY CONNECTED:
Join us Wednesdays at 6:00pm #WeDoItAtNight Virtual Zoom Meeting
Bakersfield Twilight Home Page: BakersfieldTwilight !Click Link
Bakersfield Twilight Facebook: BakersfieldTwilightFacebook !Click Link
District 5240 Home Page: District5240 ! Click Link
Submit your stories and photos for The Torch: ligibbbs@me.com due Saturday of each week
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