Newsletter - Nov 4 2008

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Remember to vote in today’s Presidential Election. Also at stake are 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 1/3 of U.S. Senate seats, and a wide variety of state and local offices and initiatives.

Carl Guardino Returns to Campbell

Board Highlights

At last night’s Board meeting, the Board:

-Agreed to allow members to support EMQ’s family gift cards for the holidays -Approved the reimbursable expense of $1000 for new Paul Harris Fellows via Krishnan Chari 

Coming Events

Carl Guardino, President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (LG), spoke to our club in late October. He shared with us, in his usual eloquent manner, many of the LG’s initiatives as outlined in their “Clean and Green” program. He told us of the Energy Watch Partnership with PG&E whereby the utility company will do a free “energy audit” of homes and businesses and make recommendations to decrease the amount of energy used. PG&E also pays for up to 80% of the cost of recommended activities. Carl sited how Adobe and Cisco Systems have

Nov. 8: STRS Training @ Bay 101

Nov. 4: ELECTION DAY!

Nov. 10: Dinner Service @ EHC, 4:30

Nov. 5: District Cabinet Meeting @ DoubleTree, 6:30 PM

Dec. 6: Holiday Party @ Rinconada Club House Dec. 13: Carol of Lights, downtown

saved millions of dollars and enormous amounts of energy through this program. Carl explained the although population in Santa Clara County has increased by 30% since 1976, our water usage is at the same level as 32 years ago. Conservation is still a major source of saving this vital natural resource. Carl put in a low key pitch for passage of Proposition 1 on the State ballot and Measure B on Santa Clara County ballots which favor the creation and installation of high speed rail transportation and completing a BART loop into Santa Clara County.