WHAT A FABULOUS TOY DRIVE
Well, you’ve outdone yourselves again contributing over $1500 in cash (in $20 bills that is) and over 200 hundred toys (at last count) for the Salvation Army to distribute, making this Christmas a memorable and joyful one for so many deserving children! Thanks Tanya Kravchuk and your Steve’s Society for a terrific drive!
And if you don’t quite get around to that next blood donation by year’s end, don’t fret…make it a new year’s resolution, celebrity style, giving (on TV perhaps) with the KCRA for Life Blood Drive. It counts towards our Clubs tally as we continue to surge ahead of “that other club”. Be sure to mention your club specifically by name when you give on January 6th from 6 am to 6 pm in Roseville at 5781 Five Star Blvd Suite 150 (right next to Guitar Center) or in Sacramento at 500 Capitol Mall (Bank of the West) or Saturday the 7th at the Roseville location. What a gratifying way to bring in the New Year. For more details www.bloodsource.org.
Daughter’s Day was enjoyed in grand style by a record 300 + Rotarians with their daughters and granddaughters. Read all about it below in this week’s The Pulse.
PP Santa Farrington and Rotarians will enjoy the Bowling Green Orthopedically Handicapped Christmas party at 9:30 am Wednesday the 21st at the center (4211 Turnbridge Dr near Florin and Franklin). A long standing Club tradition. Thanks Santa Ernie for brightening their day and ours!
Your Rotary dollars continue to work with your 2011/2012 Bids for Kids beneficiary, the Society for the Blind summer camp. See their thank you note below in this week’s The Pulse and …do check out their expanded digs (13th and S St. downtown) with the new impressive Career Development wing now open (ribbon cutting was last week).
We are sorry to see Pete Dzwilewski leave our Club due to an occupational relocation out of state, as well as Bill Rasmussen. Gentlemen you will be missed and should circumstances arise affording you the opportunity to return to your Rotary family, we welcome you with open arms!
Half of the Rotary year has whistled by. We are dark for the next two weeks, enjoy the holiday season with your family and friends, God bless our military troops, we have a lot for which to be thankful. See you next year on the 9th of January! Keep striving for those summits!
Happy Holidays!
Ken Noack, Jr.