DID WE GET YOUR ATTENTION?

If your generous financial contributions, from the floor, at the meeting this past week are a function of how the meeting was run (in reverse), perhaps we should do that more often!  Thank you!

RYLA Camp (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) is upon us and 300 aspiring high school students from your District 5180 and District 5190 will spend arguably one of the most meaningful and rewarding weeks of their lives at the beautiful Grizzly Creek Ranch in Portola, Ca interfacing with each other, team building and learning so much about themselves, as your next generation of leaders emerge. We will look forward to a full report on June 25th of their experiences from our two sponsored students Aundriea Mason, a junior at Delta River High School and Jose Fernandez (one of our current YIP students attending Christian Brothers High School) along with camp counselor and our very own Rotarian, Linda Geery.
   
Leadership concepts conveyed during the one week program are reinforced and practiced in many ways including group challenges, individual participation and activities on the Ropes Course, which focuses on effective communication, trust, confidence and cooperation. As their parents, teachers and friends often say…”They come home inspired and changed individuals”.

This coming week we will cover the last of the new member stars on the display board you observe each week to the left of the head table…and we will actually add a new gold star (to be our 31st newest member as well ), but let’s not stop there!  The membership goal is a continuing goal as one Rotary year comes to an end and a new one seamlessly emerges with new faces and chairs at the helm carrying on our projects and missions before them with that newly inherited institutional knowledge and ambition. So let’s keep up the clip (new member induction clip that is). Introduce a friend or associate to your Rotary world and let’s strive to that elusive 500 member club status by our Centennial and beyond.
       
Club member Jim Craig graced our podium this week in his ever so humorous demeanor, touching on many topics so familiar to all of us. (read all about it in the meeting recap below)

Many thanks to Steve Raymond as meeting sponsor, to Summit Bagger Jim Streng for his generous restricted gift aimed to improve our meeting hearing devices, to Exploring Mountaineer, Paul Stone, on behalf of the Rotary Rooters good community work and founding Rooter, Red Clark, in recognition and celebration of his 90th birthday …Happy Birthday Red and may the next 90 be equally as fabulous! To Explorer Christopher Johnson for his good work in the recruiting world as denoted in the Business Journal, to Mountaineer Bill Badham for his plug of the Aerospace Museum in conjunction with our past Armed Forces Day, to Couch Potato Amin Elmallah in honor of PEN Thom Gilbert’s Award from the Boy Scouts and to our club technology guru, Steven Walker, and sometimes blue sky pilot for sharing his film clip of his latest 100 person sustained group sky dive on his way to the world record (that would be how many folks Steven ?)

Speaking of feats, don’t miss Alex Honnold this coming week (read all about his feats in this Pulse) and then Conrad Anker, famed world mountaineer speaking to the club on June 25th.

Enjoy a terrific week and strive for those summits!
Ken Noack, Jr.