WELCOME TO ROTARY, LOOMIS SUNRISE CLUB!
The newly formed District 5180 Rotary Club of Loomis Sunrise will be officially chartered (February 18th / Woodcreek Oaks Clubhouse in Roseville / 5:30 – 9 ish pm) with an initial membership base of 25 members to be inducted that evening with the financial and moral support of your club and each of the other 40 clubs in your District bringing us to 41 clubs District wide. You’re invited! (see the registration form below)
Our District sponsored Student Speech Contest (in which your Club is also sponsoring a student) heats up with the first round of competition being held on the 23rd of this month at Country Day School 4 – 6 pm, reports Brooks Cutter (your Speech Contest Chair). Come and judge for yourself! The benefits of this project build personal confidence, self esteem, discipline and so forth in today’s youth often revealing undiscovered talent to the students themselves. We look forward to a representative speech by a finalist or winner this spring!
Those FREE tix are going fast for a star studded day with Rudi Giuliani, General Collin Powell, Lance Armstrong, football great Terry Bradshaw and others, all in the flesh Wednesday, February 22nd @ Power Balance Pavilion. Become an EREY (Every Rotarian Every Year) for $5 -$100 (your discretion) @ ken.noack@grubb-ellis.com/916-747-6442 to receive your tickets.
And you too can sponsor 10 kids to a River Cats game and also support polio for just $100 dollars. (see pledge forms below in this Pulse or contact Chair Bob Gaines @ 916-925-5155 / whgaines@surewest.net)
Rotary Peace Fellow applications are open to pursue a two year Masters level degree in international studies, peace studies and conflict resolution, all on Rotary’s dime (that’s about the equivalent of a $50,000 scholarship folks) at one of Rotary’s five Peace Centers outside the United States …and you need not be a Rotarian to apply! Can you think of any graduate student type aspiring to this great opportunity? If so contact Ken Stuart (Peace Fellow Chair) at kestuart@sbcglobal.net / 916- 989-3836. After all …our business is peace worldwide.
Renowned political strategist and commentator, Garry South graced the podium this week under the leadership of PP Jon Snyder managing the meeting in the absence of yours truly. See Garry’s remarks as summarized below by your Pulse reporter Steve Lamon.
We are sorry to learn of the passing (2/7/12) of Past Rotary International President (PRIP) Glenn Estess (2004-2005). Glenn visited Sacramento during his International Presidency (and PP Skip Lawrence’s term) enjoying a Presidential Dinner at the Hyatt Regency hosted by your District 5180 Clubs.
New members (and old), don’t forget to order your Rotary at Work Day T-shirts for Saturday April 28th and save that date! Contact Tanya Kravchuk at tkravchuk@crhkids.org to place your order. The deadline is this week for T-shirts!
We will miss Rotarian Mike Allen. Mike you are always welcome back to the club should that occasion arise in the future.
Many thanks to John Finegan as Meeting Sponsor this week, to Bruce Hester as a Couch Potato in recognition of his (and Elfrena’s) Maldives mug as displayed in Inside Arden’s February travel section, to Couch Potato PP Walter Dahl in recognition of his “high profile” client professional services as highlighted in the Business Journal and to Leslie Botos’s matching challenge of a buck for each unit of blood donated by calendar year end (remember it is all about DONATING FREQUENTLY). Let’s make her a Summit Bagger and for PE Peter D’s first half of his year, a new donor record! The numbers are in for 2011 and your District (including your club) nearly doubled its year end giving with 441 units up from 293 units a year ago! Let’s double it again with Leslie’s challenge (and keep Point West on their toes)!
Enjoy a terrific week. Strive for your Summits!
Ken Noack, Jr.