2011 Senior Standouts

The 2011 Senior Standout prints are all now printed. They will be on display at your school. Their is also a display at Westfield Mall in Escondido out in center area in front of Nordstrom's. Congratulations to these 4.0 and higher scholars.

Education Compact

I had the privilege of having two nice Seniors do Job Shadow Day with me. Macey from San Pasqual and Katya from Escondido High.

$2000.00 donation to the MAP Program

The Escondido East Rotary Club donated $2000.00 to the Escondido Union High School District MAP Program. MAP is a simple acronym to help keep school success as a goal for all students. It emphasizes these important messages:

• M: Maintain a rigorous course of study (completing A through G UC/CSU admission criteria with a 3.0 GPA)
• A: Attend school daily (maintaining a minimum of 98% attendance rate over 4 years)
• P: Participate in school and/or community activities (minimum total of 100 hours)

Beginning with the class of 2011, students who complete all four years of high school on an Escondido Union High School District campus, and achieve certain benchmarks (including those listed above), will be eligible for guaranteed college admission to California State University San Marcos. They will also be eligible to receive tuition assistance.

Pictured from left is Past President Don Darrock, President Holly Merkel and Superintendant Ed Nelson.

Escondido East Donates to the Military

The Escondido East Rotary Club just donated $2000. to Operation Clear Vision for families in the military. These funds will be used for the spouse or kids of a parent that is serving our country for glasses that might not be covered by ones insurance. Pictured from left is International Chair Fred Heinle and club President Don Darrock.

Rotary's Best Public Image Award

The Escondido East Rotary Club got Best "Public Image Award" out of the 60 clubs in the district.
Pictured from left is Vocational Chair Glen Burford, Pres-Elect Holly Merkel and President Don Darrock.
The club meets every Friday at noon, go to
www.escondidoeastrotary.org for more information.

Padre Night

Here is a photo from Escondido Padre Night at Petco Park. Pictured from left is our Mayor Lori, the 3 Presidents from the 3 Escondido Rotary Clubs, Dan Sundquist, Don Darrock and John Woodsbury.

Bear Valley Middle School Career Day

Here are a few up-coming Photographers from Bear Valley Middle School. I was able to talk to 3 classes for Career Day Sponsored by Education COMPACT. Thank you Katyana, the Outreach Coordinator for the opportunity.

Mission Hills High School Senior Standouts

There are allot of Senior Standouts at Mission Hills High School. Many students received scholarships for their leadership and commitment they have done for the last 4 years in High School.
Principal Brad Litchman has done an outstanding job with his Leadership at the school.

Rotary Night at Petco Park with the Padres

Rotary Night at Petco Park was a blast!
Here are my 2 kids down on the field having fun.
Presidents Don, Dan and John from all 3 Escondido Rotary Clubs got to be on the field and hear on the load speaker about each of their clubs.
Rotarian Tina Inscoe sang the National Anthem and did an outstanding job.
We had 500 Rotarian/friends all together in one section of the park.

Congratulations Julian High School Seniors

Congratulations to the 41- 2010 Seniors at Julian High School.

Miss Escondido/Miss Teen Escondido

Congratulations to our new Miss Escondido Chrystal Kelly and Miss Teen Tiffany Rose

Escondido East Rotary Fundraiser

The Escondido East Rotary Club raised $19,000. from their Annual Deep Pit BBQ. Funds raised will go towards helping families in the Military, many local community projects, 1000 Smiles in Mexico, water projects in less fortunate countries, help eradicate Polio and disaster relief help. To learn more on joining, go to www.escondidoeastroatry.org

Escondido Union School Dist. Employees of the year

Congratulations to the latest employees of the year for the Escondido Union High School District are for teacher of the year, Rebecca Gimel and for administration employee of the year Lida Fitch.

SCS Flooring Systems

Here is a photo of my new carpet we just had put in the Studio by my old friend I have known since Elementary School Richard Heskin. He is with SCS Flooring Systems. If you want excellent commercial flooring, call Richard at 760-931-1600, ext. 26. His Installers did such a great job and the carpet quality is awesome.

Rotarian's Group photo at the Bistro

Here are some of us Escondido East Rotarian's that just had our first meeting at the Bistro 221.
Food was great, our Guest Speaker Andy Thweatt did a great job on his talk about his Humanitarian Mission to Tanzania Africa.

Next week, Vice Principal Allen Williams from Orange Glen will be our Guest Speaker.

go to www.escondidoeastrotary.org to see more on our club, if your ever interested in becoming a member just contact me.

Miss Valley Center & Teen

Congratulations to Miss Teen Valley Center Brittany Usher and Miss Valley Center Kelsey Schwartz.

Escondido Padre Night at Petco Park

May 25th is Escondido Night at Petco Park. Rotarians from North County are getting together to have fun at the park. Tickets are only $8.50 each, contact me if you need tickets and want to go. Everyone is invited. Game time is 7:05 pm on a Tuesday.

Bistro 221 is Escondido East new location

The Escondido East Rotary Club will now meet every Friday at noon, Bistro 221 on Grand.
Anyone wanting more information on joining, go to www.escondidoeastrotary.org or contact Don.

My Nieces

Here are 3 of my 10 nieces, stopped by the Studio so I took some fun photos of them. Kellie lives up by San Francisco and Jena and Joell live in Murrieta.

San Pasqual High Varsity Softball

This last Friday I photographed the San Pasqual High School Softball Varsity at the beach.
A bunch of nice students, I hope they do well again next year.

Rotarians at Work Day

Our Escondido East Rotary Club did some community work in Escondido. Rotarian's cleaned up the area around City Hall, laid rock and plants at the cities new Tiny Tots on Woodward and cleaned up at Kit Carson Park. Pictured are Dan, Don, my son Paul and Richard.

Katrina Aid

The Escondido East Rotary Club donated a ShelterBox
to Haiti to house 10 people in a custom tent filled
with supplies for cooking, sleeping bags, clean
water filtration and more.

Gateway Church

Gateway Church just had their Easter Service and I photographed all the families so they can have a portrait to take home.
For a few years I do this for Gateway Church for everyone attending.

Deep Pit BBQ

May 8th the Escondido East Rotary Club will be hosting their annual Deep Pit BBQ to honor all the men and women in the military.
If you would like to help sponsor this event, please contact me.
If your in the military or your spouse is, contact me for free tickets.

Senior High School Siblings

I photographed brother and sister at Escondido High School for the yearbook sibling page.
He doesn't look to concerned about his sister.

Coeur de Cuisine

It was a pleasure to photograph our Mayor Lori Holt Pfeiler, Jack and Jill Campbell for the Coeur de Cuisine dinner event to honor then for all they have done for Escondido. Mayor Lori is in my Rotary Club and has served for our city for many years.
She will be retiring from her position this November.

Mission Middle School

I visited my old middle school, then Grant Middle School, now Mission Middle School. Our Rotary Club donates to the school for achievement medals to be given to students for good grades.
It was fun seeing my old school, I think all my teachers are in retirement homes by now.

Gazebo at Kit Carson Park

The Escondido East Rotary Club put up this gazebo for many people to use at Kit Carson Park.

I'm President of the Escondido East Rotary Club this year, this is one project we did for the city awhile back, A clock on the corner of Grand and Broadway.

Neighborhood Health Center

Here are some Escondido East Rotarians at the
Escondido Neighborhood Health Center getting a tour. We donate to the clinic each year for books that kids can read when they visit.

Chamber of Commerce

Here are the Escondido Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors showing off the plane ride at the Chamber Carnival that was put on.
I have been a member of the Chamber of Commerce for 18 years. I photograph new businesses that join the Chamber each month. I also served as Business Expo Chairman for 3 years and the Street Fair Chairman for 1 year.

Miss Escondido/Miss Teen Escondido

The Miss Escondido Pageant will be taking place on May 7th at
Kit Carson Park's Amphitheater. Here is Katie, Miss Escondido and Christina, Miss Teen Escondido. Don has donated his time photographing for this pageant for 15 years now.

Mission Hills High School

Here are a group of Mission Hills High School students looking forward for graduation.

Scenic Calendars

Here is the Escondido East Rotary Club Scenic
Calendar Don helped put together as a fundraiser.
These are all scenic images in the San Diego County
area.