[board] Speaking opportunity for MCBA

[Tom Pillsbury]

All:
AS an active member of The Rotary Club of West Marin (current president),
I'm happy to reach out to Doug Hood, and speak to his club. If that works
for all of you!
Please let me know, and I will take care of it.
Thanks, Tom

On Sun, Jul 5, 2026 at 6:46 PM Dana Pepp <danapepp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome - on so many accounts, Gary!
> Appreciate it all.
>
> Thanks,
> Dana
>
> Because this is sent from my iPhone, please excuse any typos.
>
> On Jul 5, 2026, at 5:06 PM, Gary Denison <gary at marinbees.org> wrote:
>
> 
> I assume this would fall under Justin's preview and responsibilities
> but...?
>
> At the MCBA fair booth today, the President of The Rotary Club of Ignacio
> dropped by to introduce himself.  He wanted to invite someone from the MCBA
> to come to one of their meetings and provide about a 25 minute speaking
> presentation at one of their future luncheons.  They will pick up your
> lunch.
>
> Contact information is as follows:
> Doug Hood, President
> doug at hcamgmt.com
> (415) 706-0975
> www,ignaciorotary.org
>
> We had a steady flow of people at the booth today and it was fun.  It was
> great having business cards with our organization's website on there.
> Several people expressed interest in becoming beekeepers and/or learning
> more and even a few existing Marin beekeepers who were unaware the MCBA
> existed.  Obviously, we invited all of these people to our meetings and to
> join us.  In the future, we should have a sign up sheet for individuals who
> want more information so we can follow up with them directly regarding
> their interest. .
>
> We even had a woman come by because she learned we (MCBA) were there and
> she had a honeybee swarm into a hollow tree trunk in her yard,  She wanted
> someone to remove them.  I told her about how to report a swarm on our
> webpage.  She stated she had already done so and got no response.  So as to
> not debate her, I went ahead and got her name, phone number and address in
> San Rafael and  passed that along to Jim to put out on  swarm list.
>
> Pictures attached.
>
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