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Sarah Tendall and Jill Anderson above shared the formula they have followed to achieve an outstanding 90% graduation rate versus a 46% statewide average.  Roseland Preparatory has developed a strong community partnership with supportive adults who mentor junior year students through their first year of college,university or certificate program.

Mentors agree to volunteer at least twice monthly for three years, coaching, encouraging, tutoring students through the process of applying for their post high school education.  

Mentors spend time providing a listening ear, encouragement and in general confidence building as much as any academic support.  Students benefit from one-to-one time over a cup of coffee as much as applying for a scholarship or reviewing an essay.  Sunrise Rotarian Nancy Aita recently completed her vetting as a Mentor.  Ask her what convinced her to commit her valuable time to such a lives changing relationship.  

For more information on Through College Mentoring, visit:

http://www.roselandsd.org/RUP/4476-Through-College-Mentor-Program.html

On a regular basis, our resident photo pros Warren Smith and Jack Strange submit pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.

Thanks for all the great pictures Warren and Ross! Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!

Additional photos may be found on the SR Sunrise Facebook Page.

Above, Max Bridges, aka Nimrod, retains his cheerful smile despite returning with an empty game bag from his recent Siskiyou County deer chasing trip.

Also recognized, but for his two-legged dear, spouse Betsy's birthday, Rob Sanville dug deep in gratitude for Betsy's celebration dinner.

When not hunting game, Leroy Carlenzoli is hunting projects, and his latest catch was a work crew from Keysight Technology and able hands for several person-hours of repairs at Women's Recovery Center.  

John Jones, home fresh from he and wife Ardis' 40th anniversary trip to Italy, John announced one of the live auction packages for our November 12th Culinary Classic:  An Umbrian appellation area Villa, complete with chef, housing for eight!  For the more outdoors oriented, consider a 4 night guided fishing lodge trek in Yakatat, Alaska.

Ezbon Jen reported on the Club's Centennial Dental Project's recent clinic at Salmon Creek School:  222 students assessed and 11 restoration referrals made.

Frank Cercone relayed he and spouse Carol's gourmet birthday at John Ash.

Steve Zwick got the call to draw, but not the winning black marble.

And the winner is......newest member Arthur Chaney, taking his $10 prize!!

Arthur Chaney, sponsored by Jim Gray, Arthur is a retired Santa Rosa Police Officer.  He has also worked in a variety of Administration of Justice roles in Santa Rosa and San Francisco.  His friendship with Jim has survived many golf matches.

Merle encourages Arthur to visit other clubs and trade banners.

Arthur tests the mic ~  he doesn't need it!

Continuing a new tradition started last week by District governor Wulff Reinhold. Nancy Aita greets Arthur with the handshake of friend and fellowship;.
 

Red Badgers Sharon Wright, Noel Glad, Lorenzo Dueñas and Viva McKenzie await their newest member, Arthur to join their exclusive ranks.

Why is Arthur smiling?

Take a close look to the left of Jennifer Hembd's smile and see Arthur's luck-of-the draw $10 in the weekly raffle!

Welcome Arthur Chaney!!  The fun is just beginning!!!

An awning of taut triangular shapes stretched across the newly landscaped patio where Rotarians from five clubs gathered to celebrate the new location of the Living Room.  A generous BBQ, with sides and desserts supplied by guests, and an open bar with a selection of wines added to the festivities.

 

Guests overflowed the outdoor patio and gather on a sheltered porch between two of the four buildings.  Living room Executive Director, Cheryl Parkinson, introduced by former Sunriser, Dan Lambert, event chair and East Club member, thanked all Rotarians for their continuing support of the program that outgrew its former location at the Church of the Incarnation.

The Living Room was the major recipient of the 2015 Culinary Classic fundraising dinner.  Several Rotarians, including LeRoy, Del Raby, and Steve Amend.  The only day program for homeless women and children in Sonoma County, the Living Room constantly needs and welcomes volunteers.

In the opening frame, Sunriser Jim "Tall Dude" Moir stands directing cyclists to their refreshment stand.  Sunriser's Viva McKenzie and friend Kendall Brown, Ralph and Kathy Harryman, Jennifer Hembd, Penny Millar and Del Raby braved the early morning Cazadero cold and served up thousands of nutritious munchies to calorie depleted cyclists.  This annual community service project is one of several affording family participation and overall fellowship building.

Del supervises.

Kendall and Merle apply PBnJ.

Del and Jennifer greet riders.

Riders refresh.  This year race registration was limited to 6,500, 500 less than previous years.

At the end of he day, some had sore seats, some sore hands from spreading jam and or sorting strawberries.  No whiners.

 

John F. Germ

President 2016-17

In 1979, James Bomar Jr., the president of Rotary at the time, traveled to the Philippines as part of Rotary’s earliest work to immunize children against polio. After he had put drops of vaccine into one baby’s mouth, he felt a child’s hand tugging on his trouser leg to get his attention. Bomar looked down and saw the baby’s brother looking up at him, saying earnestly, “Thank you, thank you, Rotary.”

Before Rotary took on the task of polio eradication, 350,000 people – nearly all of them children – were paralyzed by polio every year. That child in the Philippines knew exactly what polio was and understood exactly what Rotary had just done for his baby brother. Today, 31 years after the launch of PolioPlus, the children of the Philippines – and of nearly every other country in the world – are growing up without that knowledge, and that fear, of polio. Instead of 1,000 new cases of polio every day, we are averaging less than one per week. But as the fear of polio wanes, so does awareness of the disease. Now more than ever, it is vitally important to keep that awareness high and to push polio eradication to the top of the public agenda and our governments’ priorities. We need to make sure the world knows that our work to eradicate polio isn’t over yet, but that Rotary is in it to end it.

On 24 October, Rotary will mark World Polio Day to help raise the awareness and the funding we need to reach full eradication. I ask all of you to take part by holding an event in your club, in your community, or online. Ideas and materials are available for download in all Rotary languages at endpolio.org/worldpolioday, and you can register your event with Rotary at the same link. You can also join me and tens of thousands of your fellow Rotarians for a live-streamed global status update at 6 p.m. Eastern time at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. I’ll be there along with CDC Director Tom Frieden, other experts, and inspirational presenters, sharing an inside look at the science, partnerships, and human stories of polio eradication.

It is an incredibly exciting time to be a Rotarian. We are gathering momentum for the final race to the finish: to the end of PolioPlus and the beginning of a polio-free world. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to End Polio Now, through Rotary Serving Humanity.

North Bay Biz Magazine readers were recently treated to a full page spread of business men and women lining up and posing for photos.  However the page did include two spontaneous, creative, fun-filled pics of Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotarians recreating a special segment of Past President Eloise's famed synchronized swimming routine in honor of her debunking party.

Who said Rotarians are stuffy, old men?  That is certainly not true for Sunrisers!  And who claims that Rotary is not a business organization and should not be featured in a business periodical.  Certainly not North Bay Biz magazine! The fun-loving, enterprising nature of Sunriser Harry Coffee in contact with the journalistic professionalism of Norm Rosinski, publisher of "The Biz," who knows a good photo story when he sees it, may bring more more promotional opportunities to Sunriser.

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Photos courtesy of North Bay Biz Magazine.

Kalyan Banerjee

Trustee Chair 2016-17

Celebrate World Polio Day on 24 October

In our work to end polio, we’ve noticed a disturbing development: People in many parts of the world think polio no longer exists. Even some of our members, especially younger Rotarians who were born after the development of the polio vaccine, assume that because the disease doesn’t afflict anyone in their country, it’s no longer a problem.  

To make everyone aware that this disease is just an airplane ride away, Rotary started World Polio Day, held annually in October. Over the years, we have marked this occasion in various ways. Clubs have held fundraisers or lit up iconic structures in their country with the words “End Polio Now.” More recently, we created live-streamed events featuring prominent public health experts and journalists, along with some of our celebrity ambassadors.

This year, we partnered with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which will host a live-streamed event at its headquarters in Atlanta. (Taking into consideration different time zones, the event will be immediately archived so your club may watch it at a time that is convenient.) Tom Frieden, the CDC’s director, and Jeffrey Kluger, Time magazine’s senior editor overseeing science and health reporting, will be joined by other public health experts to discuss the milestones, promising developments, and remaining challenges in the fight to eradicate polio.

But we want Rotarians to observe World Polio Day everywhere, not just in Atlanta. In fact, we would like to see at least 1,000 World Polio Day events take place throughout the world. I encourage you to host viewing parties of the live-streamed event and organize fundraisers. Be sure to register your event at www.endpolio.org/worldpolioday, where you can also find resources to help make it a success.

Polio is still out there, even though the number of cases has dropped by more than 99.9 percent since 1988. We’re almost there, but until the number of cases reaches zero, polio remains a threat to all of us. World Polio Day offers an opportunity to share that vital message with your club and your community.

Tickets are still available for the local production of the famed cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on October 19, 2016, 8 p.m. at the 6th Street Playhouse. The show is more than a play, more than a musical, it is a rocking event complete with wine, audience participation and lots of surprises.  

Enterprising new member, Deb Francis, has arranged for the Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary members to have an exclusive premiere presentation of the show, the proceeds of which will raise needed funds for Rotary charitable programs.