With the members of the Palos Verdes Breakfast Club
NO POLITICS - NO CAUSES
Just Neighborly Fellowship, Fun and Frolic!!
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, CA.
January 8, 2010 Vol. 69 No.7
2010-2011 OFFICERS
President.........................................Mike Wratschko
Vice-President ...............................Tom Nickl
Treasurer .......................................Tom Connaghan
Secretary………………………….Randy Bower
Sgts-at-Arms……………………. .Hal Lazar, Dan Withee
Howdyin’ Around .........................Nate Lee, Rick Higgins,
Mike Mangano, Ted Wilson
BIRTHDAY BOYS
Ron Carlson- 38 this month
Fritz Dawson- 26 in Dec.
Bob Kennedy- Older than dirt and from
Brooklyn, the attitude capital of the world.
Carl Perry- Just turned 35 & almost cried
when he put his buck in the pot.
2009-2011 DIRECTORS
Chet Acree
Mike Moody
Buck Baldwin
Ram Nadella
2010-2012 DIRECTORS
Jim Goodhart
Jim Morino
Bob Kennedy
Mike Richardson
Our mission: To do our best to remember where
our cars are in the parking lot.
PRE GAME
The meeting began with a sharp clang of the
bell by Pres. Mike Wratchkchckco (wish he
would buy a vowel.) Good thing Tom Nickl is
next. No vowels are in the future. We need an
Italian President!!! (I’m ready.)
Mike began on a sad note & asked for a
moment of silence for long time member Vern
Seklemian. Our best thoughts go out to his
family.
Bill McGinn marched in with a broken ankle
next to the Hyperian Outfall who had the
nerve to wake us all up.
Bill told them to do something, so their first
song was “Do Something”. No one can sit still
when they play. (The exception is Hank Bazak.
Nothing keeps him awake.)
PRE GAME MEETING
Coach Paulie “One Ball” Engle entered with a
whistle and an air of grandiosity (thanks for the
word Ed Dry) Rules were made to
accommodate a female guest speaker, including
no excess gas from Bob McCaman, no
flashing, fly’s zipped up when exiting the
bathroom, and no more big butt showing at the
meeting. ( I must say Jim Morino’s butt looked
toned!) O.B. Engle left no room for discussion
and Mayor Humphrey seemed to agree.
FLAG ON THE PLAY
Scott Sharpe was fined for marrying Ed
Fountain. Ed paid a buck for wearing white at
the wedding.
spoke about Vern Seklemian’s passing. Vern
was a member since 1976, loved teaching,
traveling and our club. We will miss him.
THE FUTURE
1/22 Jim Flanigan—Boils, learn to love them.
2/5 Robert Piccioni- Einstein for everyone,
2/19 Open date-Rumor has it that Richard
Nixon will speak.
3/5 William Ailor- World Expert- Space Junk
I wonder if he can help me with my garage.
VISITING PLAYERS
Dave Kearny paid his $ for offering Pres.
Mike help on Senior Tuesday. Charlie
Peterson .was fined for the shirt he was
wearing (should have been $2),
Joe Barnett got a standing ovation for paying
his $1. Joe’s image may need an upgrade!
Rick Higgins was again fined for taking
pictures in the lady’s locker room.
Ralph Scriba was pictured in a tux. He looked
great, but there are no rules for paying out
money, so he paid. Jim Goodhart paid for
something, probably for being one of our city
fathers. Tony Arminio was fined, but paid us
back by telling a joke. Ed McKenna couldn’t
help himself and without being asked got up to
tell a joke. He skated on the fine.
MEMBERSHIP
Bill Finer first thanked himself for a good job
and then introduced Raajev Agarwal brought
by Ram Nadella. Raajev has 3 boys a great
family and lives near Ram.
It is apparent that Ram is positioning for a high
level office in the club and is bringing in ringer
votes. (I know----he is not that kind of Indian.)
Red Badges went to Bob Sheh sponsored by
Joe Barnett. It took him two years on
probation to get his badge, but he did pay his
dues.
INJURY LIST
Bill Dorn introduced Ram who kindly
Toby Tobias introduced:
Jack Ramsey brought by Phil Huff. Jack is
a retired educator in PV, has lived here for
31 years, and has never been to the club.
Jack gave us a piano concert that was
terrific. John Schuricht should take notice
on what happens when you practice.
Tim Good came with Dan Withee. Tim is
a 52 year resident of PV, has been here since
he was 6, (That makes him 54.) & has never
been to the club. Boy do we have great
name recognition. David Humphrey came
to protect his wife and has lived here for 30+
years. He has been here before and that’s
why he was protecting Rosemary.
Chris Hall had breakfast with Ed Fountain,
has been in town about 2 years and is an
independent oil producer. (Auto, olive,
sesame seed?)
HER HONOR DA MAYAH
Joe Hoefgen, our city manager introduced
Rosemary Humphrey and discussed her
background in government in PVE having
first been elected to the Council in 1990.
She is now serving her fourth term as
mayor. Rosemary and her husband Dave
have been residents of PVE since 1979.
They have 3 children, David, Michael and
Rachel.
She serves as mayor and as
principal of Rancho del Mar H.S.
Rosemary spent a few minutes introducing
the former city fathers I think we impeached
about ½ of them. She mentioned Joe
Sherwood but he went to play tennis.
(Typical politician)
Budget
We are solvent, and are trying to stay under
the radar to the state govt. 61% of the Ca
voters voted for prop 21A to prevent the
state from raiding our treasury. We have a
$6 million operating reserve. 53% of our
treasure comes from property tax. The city
staff has been streamlined, and cut Joe
Sherwood’s salary.
The stabilization project on PV Drive west
cost $856m and is fully paid by outside
funding. 14m cars per day pass this site and
7 cars per day stop illegally to take a picture.
www.pvestates.org is our site and contains a
host of information including the ability to
check to see if you have any outstanding
warrants.
PVE cares is one of the most popular
program in the Estates. 19.9% of PVE
residents are seniors. Our head senior John
Eberhard is in charge of the program. 800
PVE seniors are registered.
The city facilities including the PV Golf
Club has the shortest waiting list in history.
.
PV Tennis club is on the property. They are
now accepting members. The PV Swim
club has a waiting list. The PV Stables has
been updated and is now running in the
black. All these venues bring in revenue to
the city.
Disaster preparediness is a major program of
the city. We set up 6 disaster containers
administered by PV coordinators. (Dwight
Abbott is a disaster and it was a natural to
appoint him as one of the coordinators.)
Neighborhood watch has emergency
backpacks to sustain 2 people for 3 days. (If
you do not share it is one person for 6 days.)
We have a new police radio system that
replaced Dan Dreiling’s megaphone. The
city is looking for ways to save energy & the
target is to reduce greenhouse gases 10% by
2020. Joe Hoefegrin has been fined for
giving off excessive methane gas during his
speeches at the city council.
What a town! Thank you Mayor Humphrey
and keep up the good work.
Thanks for listening.
Mike Mangano
Butts R’ Us
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Palos Verdes Breakfast Club
PO Box 833
Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274