EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM!

You know there are a multiplicity of ways you can support your Bids For Kids this year. For example, you can become a BFK Benefactor and we extend a very special thanks to Elfrena Foord and the Arata Brothers Trust for stepping up with a $10,000 direct gift to the Society for the Blind, our first event Benefactor of what we look forward to being many BFK Benefactors!

You can create and contribute an auction package to be bid upon like PP John Frisch and Elfrena Foord’s popular Sacramento Dive Bar Tour…for just $199 bucks you are in… but the seats go fast on this one! Be creative and put together a fun and unusual auction item.

You can aggressively bid (on line bidding is open and there are already some pretty cool items).

You can buy and fill a table for the night of the gala with friends, family and clients.

You can support the event through the evenings program guide with a full, half or quarter page promotion of your company or yourself!

As they say…the early bird gets the worm and most importantly it benefits your Sacramento Society for the Blind.

Congratulations are in order for PP Diane Mizell as your incoming ADG (Assistant District Governor) beginning July 1, 2012. We will continue to be in good hands and well represented at the District level along with PP Skip Lawrence and PP Fred Teichert.

Does your company offer logistics, supply chain management, material flow or warehouse management? If so Tommy Straub from our Rotary family in Quedlinberg, Germany would love to intern with your company in the Sacramento region specifically, for 14-18 months beginning in September /October 2012. Contact yours truly at ken.noack@grubb-ellis.com or 916-747-6442 for the details.

Coach, janitor and Hall of Famer, Jerry Reynolds humored an attentive crowd with stories of French Lick, Indiana (his home town) and your Sacramento Kings (read all about it and so much more below in this week’s Pulse meeting recap)

We will miss Larry Knapp whose professional work is done in Sacramento as he now returns to his home in Danville as Executive VP of Proxio, Inc., an international MLS and Global Real Estate Networking platform. As always Larry, we welcome your visits often!

And we welcome from the club of Truckee, CA, transferee Paul Kucharski (please reference Paul’s bio below in this Pulse) 

Many thanks to John Oehmke, your meeting sponsor this week, to Hiking Explorer Don Meyer for his spread and mug in the Bee and to Explorer Kristina Salazar for the achievements of her children as a very proud mom!

Have a good time at Brown Bag next week. Enjoy a great week and strive for your summits! See you in April!                      

Ken Noack Jr.