WEAR THAT PIN!
You got me this week or rather your faithful Board member Dave Cohen got me. Nice catch Dave, just doing your Board duties I reckon! In the spirit of the Four Way Test, truthfully, I was not sporting the pin on my jacket lapel in the Business Journal mug shot last week. Time to update my stock photo as becoming a Couch Potato once is enough in a year!
Nonetheless, I can’t emphasize enough the benefits of wearing your Rotary pin and when you least suspect those benefits to reveal themselves. Remind me to share with you some time, my experience in the Parliament building of La Paz, Bolivia, and during Easter Sunday services in a chapel in Gualala, Ca on the North Coast or in a wine bar in Napa during our Rotary Board retreat this past spring! Remarkable experiences and events emerge around that international symbol and your affiliation with the Rotary wheel. Wear your pin, you would make Ludy proud!
By the way, are you assembling your foursome for this year’s 34th Annual GOLF 4 KIDS tournament being held on October 3, 2011? Please include Rotarian friends or acquaintances from our other District Clubs as we celebrate our 89th year of support of our orthopedically handicapped in the region. Your good work represents the oldest continuously supported philanthropic endeavor in the history of Rotary world wide! That is rather remarkable in anyone’s book.
Committee Chairs, a friendly reminder to let the office know when your committees are meeting. I would be honored to come learn what you have going on.
Please join me and your fellow Rotarians, District wide, for an evening District social at Chevy’s on the River Wednesday, August 10th for an hour or so after a productive days work.
We desperately need a hand with our lunch meeting set up for August 22nd as our faithful Bob and Art are both out of town. Please contact Bob Daly (dalyr@financialnetwork.com /916-643-1400) directly to coordinate.
We now have an official Gift Acceptance Policy through your RCS Foundation so we are truly set up to accept your gifts and bequests. Julie Van Dooren and her team have done an outstanding and thorough job of establishing the gift acceptance policies. Please contact Julie or the office to include Rotary in your estate plan.
Congratulations to our softball team for yet another win over Elk Grove (17-6) Monday night at the Sacramento Softball Complex. At least three more games to go and then the playoffs. Come out and support your team and let’s bring home that trophy!
Many thanks to John Nunan for underwriting this week’s wine (and beer) reception, to Carolyn Carr as she celebrates a youthful 70th birthday contributing to her Eddie Mulligan, to Eric Solis in honor of the great strides his mentors are achieving with what is rapidly becoming another signature project of the Club, community wide, our Youth Incentive Program (YIP), with contributions to both Paul Harris and Eddie Mulligan at the “Exploring Mountaineer” level, and to Ed Willey for becoming an Explorer with his contribution to his Eddie Mulligan for climbing the cables to the top of Half Dome. Did you know Ed that the daily quota for the cable route is 400 climbers per day and it has become so popular there is a movement afoot to promote another set of cables to accommodate the yearning public?