IT'S A BLAST TO HOST
With our two Club sponsored Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) students (Abby Lin from China & Basile DuPont from Belgium) settled in with your Club hosts the Thom Gilbert family and the John Shelby family respectively, for a year of “the experience of a lifetime” in our Sacramento region, 17 other RYE students will be gracing your lunch tables on the 12th of December. They also look forward to a Sunday afternoon PRIOR (December 11th) being hosted by you! Please contact Thom Gilbert (thomg@gilbertcpa.com) 916-646-6464 to host an international student for the afternoon/ evening of the 11th (not an overnight). You will not regret the experience.
And if you happen to have or know of a cabin for the RYE annual ski trip January 15 through 18, your District would be most appreciative. Contact Dianne Taylor at 530-534-8986 or wetaylors@sbcglobal.net.
Your Projects & Priorities Committee, under the leadership of Richard Slepian (and your Board’s approval) is distributing $26,000 in 8 grants to the Boys and Girls Club, the Children’s Receiving Home, First Tee, the Girl Scouts, I Can Do That, Loaves & Fishes, the Safety Center and Sierra Forever Families.
Give yourselves a hand for individually and collectively contributing $22,000 to the Rotary International Foundation this past 2010-2011 Rotary year achieving second place District recognition at last week’s RI Foundation Dinner. Arden Arcade chimed in at $26,000 with first place recognition. Well done both Clubs!
The Club enjoyed reflections and perspectives on any number of issues facing our region, and a call to action from the legendary and yes, candid Gregg Lukenbill. Read all about it below in this week’s The Pulse.
Thank you to Larry Booth and Liz McClatchy ,with guest Terry Polvado, for sponsoring the meeting, to Mary Healy for her Shallit Bee column ink pertaining to loaned zoo veterinarians and her zoo sponsorship challenge (ask Mary), to Roger Niello for becoming a Mountaineer in recognition of taking the Sacramento Chamber helm (again) 16 years later and with a quiver of fresh ambitions, to PE Peter D. for front page headlines of his darling, the Relationship Skills Center, to Jeff Stone and the Rotary Rooters for their continued financial contributions to the Club as Mountaineering Summit Baggers and a season of nonstop community benefit performances about to kick off, to Fred and Henry Teichert in recognition of their good friends Nian and Nancy Roberts 60th wedding anniversary.
A most generous day after a Thanksgiving break!
Enjoy a terrific week, strive for those summits.
Ken Noack, Jr.