The Weekly Meeting Summary of the Rotary Club of Livermore Valley
February 10, 2026
Leslie Lemieux, Editor
OPENING THE MEETING
President Sarah Palmer called the meeting to order at 8:15 AM
Pledge of Allegiance - Led by Deb Tacker
Four Way Test - Read by Anil Inamdar
Song of the Day - Jerry led us in "Octopus's Garden"
VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS
Visiting Rotarians: Bob Tucknott, from the Dublin Club, and Joel Swanson, President-Elect from the Noon Livermore Rotary Club
Guests: Brook Witherspoon, Owner of the First Street Alehouse, Rebecca Navarro, From Tri-Valley Explorer
TODAY'S 10-SPOT
TODAY'S PROGRAM: SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE
Club member Dave Goulart presented to us on Sleep in Heavenly Peace. We have heard from Dave before about this wonderful organization. Sleep in Heavenly Peace has one primary goal: to ensure no child sleeps on the floor. He works with the Alameda County Chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP). SHP has chapters throughout the country, and now in some parts of Canada and Mexico.
Many of our club members, and other local Rotarians have helped support this organization through donations and hands-on labor. No one is too old or too young to help when they do bed builds. There is a build event coming up at the end of February for Rotarians specifically. The builds are done at Crosswinds Church in Livermore.
Beds are provided for children ages 3-17 at no charge. Beds include bedding, and beds are delivered to homes, where assembly is finished and bedding put on the bed. For many children, this is their first bed.
The Alameda County Chapter of SHP has build 1,530 beds. The number of beds built by the organization as a whole is 365,907!
The need is great. At this time, there are over 400 requests for beds in Alameda County.
Thank you, Dave, for your hard work with this organization, and your informative talk to us this morning!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Check out the "Upcoming Events" listed below for complete details and sign-up information for upcoming club happenings!
Our upcoming club meeting on Tuesday, February 17 will be at the First Street Alehouse in Downtown Livermore! Coffee will be provided. Members are welcome to bring in breakfast from nearby restaurants, or perhaps extend the meeting fellowship afterwards by enjoying breakfast downtown.
Plenty of parking is available in the new parking garage - entrance on L St.
We are grateful to the Alehouse for giving us the opportunity to meet in this convenient location. Please plan to attend the meeting to help President Sarah finalize our club meeting location for the remainder of this year.
Mony Nop is proposing Bryan Hernandez as a new member of our club, in the Classification of Warehouse Operations.
All paperwork has been submitted, and through an email vote at the beginning of February, our board voted unanimously to approve the proposal. Per our Bylaws, this information is being published this week and will hereby also be published next week in The Grapevine. If any club member has a question about the proposal, please contact Membership Chair Bennie Le Bourvellec. If no objections are received by February 23, we will move forward with installing Bryan as a new member!
Mony Nop is proposing Alex Vega as a new member of our club, in the Classification of Business Owner.
All paperwork has been submitted, and through an email vote at the beginning of February, our board voted unanimously to approve the proposal. Per our Bylaws, this information is being published this week and will hereby also be published next week in The Grapevine. If any club member has a question about the proposal, please contact Membership Chair Bennie Le Bourvellec. If no objections are received by February 23, we will move forward with installing Alex as a new member!
50/50 RAFFLE
We had four weeks to pull today! Here are the winners:
January 20: Kevin McCallum
January 27: George Wineinger
February 3: Beth McCormick
February 10: Lori Souza
MEETING MOMENTS
Thank you, Roy, for capturing these moments!
NEXT WEEK'S SPEAKER
Next week we are excited to welcome Kevin Adler, Founder of Miracle Messages . . .
