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Liar's Club !!!
Apr. 01, 2025
Liar's Club is a Mill Valley Rotary Club game show featuring a panel of four Mill Valley Rotarians who will use their talents and guile to try to baffle, befuddle, and bewilder the audience with their definitions and explanations of very peculiar, perplexing, and puzzling words. The audience will be broken down into teams of those seated at each table.
There will be prizes for the best Liar and for the winning audience team.
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All The Presidents’ Money: What The Finances of Our Leaders Can Teach Us About Wealth
Apr. 15, 2025
We all have our opinions on how presidents have handled affairs of state, but how exactly did they handle their own financial affairs? In this delightful and chatty book, Megan offers plenty of anecdotes: how a president born wealthy died broke (Thosmas Jefferson, whose last correspondence was about buying wine on credit), a president born poor died rich (Lyndon Johnson, who used his government connections to build a tiny Texas radio station bought by his wife for $17,500 in 1942 that netted the family $105 million 30 years later after LBJ died, and a president addicted to get-rich-quick schemes (that would not be the one you might be thinking of but Ulysses S. Grant, who lost money "selling ice, developing farmland, and invested in a social club in San Francisco"). J.F.K. was wealthy but frugal, Lincolnd died without a will, and the Clintons...well, let's just say they are comfortable thanks to post-presidential speeches and books.
Gorman teases out lessons for all of us on what to do (and not to do) to build wealth, the best lesson being the nation's most famous peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter. That occupation helped polish his Everyman image, but thanks to the financial acument of Rosalynn, the peanut operation grew into a 3,100-acre behemoth with a side business in fertilizer. No comment on other presidents whose careers profited from slinging manure.
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Mill Valley School District Finances
May 20, 2025
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THE KNEELING MAN and Why History Is Not Past
Jun. 03, 2025
Leta is the author of "THE KNEELING MAN: MY FATHER'S LIFE AS A BLACK SPY WHO WITNESSED THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR." She will share the intimate and powerful story of a Black undercover police officer who famously knelt by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his dying moments—and the implications of this tragic event for a daughter and a nation. |
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GENERATIVE AI - What is it and Why Does it Matter to You?
Jul. 01, 2025
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