ARE YOU MOTIVATED?
If not…Get Motivated with General Colin Powell, Lance Armstrong, Rudy Giuliani and Terry Bradshaw and others, all in the flesh, right here in River City, Wednesday, February 22nd at Power Balance Arena. The line up alone is worth the price of admission…FREE to the first 60 of you who achieve EREY (Every Rotarian Every Year) by contributing to Rotary Foundation – Annual Programs Fund, anything from $5 to $100 bucks (at your discretion). Ken.noack@grubb-ellis.com or 916-747-6442. We’ve got your tickets!
Our 100th anniversary (February 1, 1914 – February 1, 2014) is just around the corner and the wheels are in motion with your Centennial Committee (PP Jon Snyder, PP Rob Scherer, PP Walter Dahl, PP Skip Lawrence and PEN Thom Gilbert) to commemorate this milestone of our Club. How would you like to celebrate our 100 years? Let us know. The sky is the limit!
Led by your faithful and very competent New Members, with Tanya Kravchuk at the helm (tkravchuk@crhkids.org), your Sacramento Girl Scouts encampment at River Bend Park (on the American River at the end of Arden Way) will be refurbished, landscaped and updated for the next decade of service, on Saturday April 28th as one of your “Rotarians at Work Day” projects this year. Order your “Rotarian at Work” T-shirts and save that date, new members (and old). Contact Tanya for further details and those T-shirts. We must get your T-shirt orders placed by next week!
Seifu Ibssa is back from another productive project trip to Ethiopia and reports that with your Clubs recent $5,000 contribution, the village continues to evolve with a school, water well and other necessities deserved to provide productive, sanitary and healthy lives. Many thanks to Seifu for his continued commitment to this rewarding project.
Last week, during our Monday meeting, some members experienced break-ins to their automobiles parked behind the Woodlake (near the loading docks). We have learned that, in one instance, a briefcase was visible on the seat of the car. Please be sensitive to these unfortunate incidents, perhaps park out in front of the hotel and be cautious not leave tempting goods, in sight, or on the seats of your car.
Club Inner Wheel member, Joan Knox (wife of the Clubs late Past President Phil Knox (2000/2001)) passed away in December. The Phil and Joan Knox Named Scholarship Fund, managed by your RCS Foundation, continues to fund Jesuit High School educational scholarships.
Many thanks to Jim Leet and Iain Mickle (Boutin Jones law firm) as meeting sponsor this week.
And what a week it was, which you’re The Pulse reporter John Wood so eloquently memorializes in his meeting recap below.
Past President Jon Snyder has graciously agreed to carry the torch this coming Monday, February 6th in my absence. Thank you Jon for stepping up!
Enjoy a terrific week. Strive for your Summits!