Hollister Rotary Club Bulleting for March 18, 2024 (Mar. 23, 2024)

Rotary Club of Hollister, CA

Weekly Bulletin

Volume 2 | Issue 9

Meeting Highlights:

Meeting Held at Paine's Restaurant

Lunch Menu: Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes or Salad with Shrimp or Chicken

Meeting:

The meeting was called to order by President Rich Marcus. at 12:15 with 25 people in attendance.

Bruce Beetz led the club in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Dave Baumgartner shared the Thought for the Day.

Visiting Rotarians: Tami from SF Rotary

Guests:

Brent Redmond, Remond Transportation Corp.

Announcements:

Larry Shaw reminded us that the next golf outing is planned for Monday, April 1st at Ridgemark

Rich Marcus ask for volunteers to participate in mock interviews at the high school in April. See Larry Barr for details.

Rich reminded us about the Chamber of Commerce social mixer the evening of April 17th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. More details to be announced soon.

Ron Culler said there would be a new member meeting tonight at 6 PM at Bryan's house. Rosie, Alex, and Doug Moore to attend.

Raffle:

Raffle winners this week were Mike Sanchez, drawing for $64, and Chang So, drawing for $91. Mike did not pick a winning card, but Chang pulled an Ace and won $25.

Detective:

Our detective this week, Jayme Steward, was absent. Rich Marcus decided to ask each member to fine another member of their choice $5 for no good reason. Rich fined Bruce Beetz $5 for receiving a cell call during the meeting; Bruce fined Larry Shaw $5 for being late to the meeting; Larry fined Phil Fortino $5 for being easy to fine; Phil fined Marchel Nelson $5 for being retired; Marchel fined Bryan Yomaoka for his cruise to Hawaii; Bryan fined Mike Sanchez $5 for Grillin & Chillin party; Mike fined Chang So $5 for winning $25 in the raffle; Chang fined Shawn Herrera $5 for playing a B flat note; Shawn fined Geri Menold $5 for not playing her clarinet; Geri fined Bill Tiffany $5 for not playing any instrument; Bill fined Dave Baumgartner $5 for his Thought of the Day; Dave fined Harvey Blodgett $5 for looking like a person he saw on TV; Harvy fined Gene Hopp $5; Gene fined Ron Culler $5 for meeting target; Ron fined Gordon Machado $5; Gordon fined Bill Baker $5 for baldness; and Bill fined Esther Curtis $5 for help take pictures of guest speakers. At this point Rich call a halt to the fining, but by that time every member was fined.

This Week's Program

Our program for this week was a talk by Brent Redmond from Redmond Transportation Corporation. Brent told us how he came to found his company back in 1987. He is retiring this year and has sold his company to a Wisconsin company, and he is now consultant to the company until he retires.

Brent built the company hauling fruit, flowers, and vegetables from Hollister and Salines to the Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake, Phoenix, and other cities for companies like Safeway and Raleys.

He told us that the industry has changed from a hauler operator to a brokerage model where they make a bid to a company to haul their products for a period time at a fixed price per mile. And they require you to have all the safety and technology for tracking their shipments.

He told us the California Air Resources Board has mandated EV trucks for the future so trucking companies will need to sell the diesel tractors and trailers that cost about $250,000 and buy EVs that cost $500,000. Brent said the industry has had many changes since he started his business and he felt now was the time to retire.

Brent said he and his wife Sue plan to stay in Hollister and will continue to give back to the community.

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM

Our next meeting is on Monday, March 25th at Paine's Restaurant. Lunch will be available prior to the start of the meeting at 12 Noon.

The program will be the Rotary Area Speech Contest. We will have 5 contestants, who were winners in their Rotary Club speech contest, to compete for the Area winner. The Area winner will go on to the District 5170 Richard D. King Youth Speech Contest.

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