[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 80 (Thursday, May 31, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E922]
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   RECOGNIZING THE MANY FINE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MR. JIM BRUBAKER OF THE 
                      CARLSBAD HI-NOON ROTARY CLUB

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                         HON. BRIAN P. BILBRAY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 31, 2012

  Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor the many outstanding 
achievements of Jim Brubaker, the outgoing president of the Carlsbad 
Hi-Noon Rotary Club. Mr. Brubaker's leadership during the 2011 2012 
Rotary year has contributed significantly to the Hi-Noon Rotary Club, 
the community of Carlsbad and the mission of Rotary. During his tenure, 
the Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club sponsored; RYLA, a youth awareness 
leadership conference; provided a Christmas party and provided meals 
and gifts to needy elementary school children; co-sponsored the 
Oktoberfest fundraiser that benefited the Carlsbad Women's Resource 
Center, Carlsbad Boys and Girls Club and other charitable community 
organizations; sponsored a golf tournament which funded scholarships 
for Carlsbad high school students and Marines returning from Iraq and 
Afghanistan, and provided support to other needy military personnel and 
their families; promoted literacy by providing dictionaries for English 
and Spanish speaking elementary school children; conducted a Business 
and Ethics conference for AVID high school students; provided support 
to La Posada, a facility for the homeless and sponsored the Four-Way 
Speech Contest, a program to help develop public speaking skills of our 
community high school students. We assisted in the distribution of 
food, clothing and toys to over 400 needy Carlsbad families in 
conjunction with the Carlsbad Christmas Bureau. Under President 
Brubaker's leadership the Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary and its membership 
completed a number of other projects and provided over 9,400 volunteer 
hours of community service.
  In the international arena, under Mr. Brubaker's leadership, a team 
of Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotarians joined with others to build a house in 
Mexico for a needy family. Through our support of the Paul Harris 
Foundation, the Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary co-sponsored numerous other 
humanitarian projects all over the world including the effort to 
eradicate polio worldwide. We partnered with the Golden Triangle Rotary 
club in a program to build a school for girls in Afghanistan. Foreign 
exchange students were hosted as part of a program to promote better 
understanding of other cultures, and participated in developing a 
source of safe drinking water for Belize and the Ivory Coast. During 
Mr. Brubaker's tenure we also participated in ``Heart to Heart in 
Africa,'' a program to provide much needed medical help to children 
with heart problems in third world countries, and computers were 
provided for school children at the Los Tambos School in Mexico.
  I hope my colleagues will join me in recognizing the many fine 
achievements of Jim Brubaker. Without question, his leadership and the 
fine work of the Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club are worthy of recognition 
by the House today.

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