Written By: Linda Geery
President John (Knox, Lemmon & Anapolsky, LLP) opened the May 22 meeting by thanking Gerry Dabi (Golden Pacific Bank) for the wine reception, Elfrena Foord (Foord, Van Bruggen, & Pajak) for providing music, and greeters Pam Saltenberger and Dennis Smith (Tsakopoulos Management Company, LLC).
Dick Noonan (California State Railroad Museum) offered the Thought for the Day.
Mike Bullington (Northwestern Mutual Financial Network) introduced new member Chris Boessenecker, whom Mike co-sponsored with Past President Susan Sheridan.
Chris is a 2005 graduate of Sacramento State. He has a passion for community banking and is a manager at Golden Pacific Bank. Married and father of a daughter, his hobbies include softball and outdoor activities.
Announcements:
Past President Susan Sheridan and Roy Alexander gave a status update on the 2018 Sacramento Century – we need 100 percent participation by our Club and there is a job for everybody! With 5 months to go before the ride, we currently have 100 riders registered, including 36 Challenge Champions. We are looking for corporate sponsors as well as individual sponsors. We are in need of volunteers; opportunities are available before the event and the day of the event.
Clayton Lee (C.K.L. Trust) gave an update from the World Community Service Committee. He, Dave DeRoos (Citygate Associates, LLC) and Roy Alexander recently returned from a water project in Morocco. They shared about the needs of that community and the hospitality they received.
President John provided an update on the 2018 District Conference, which was held May 11-13 in Incline Village and attended by numerous members from Club. He began by describing District 5180’s Hall of Fame and then reported that one of our members, Clayton Lee, was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Conference. Clayton is the first member of our Club to be so honored. President John then presented Clayton with a plaque commemorating that honor. President John also described several “First Place” awards our Club received for Club Administration, promoting Rotary’s Public Image, excellence in conducting Service Projects and Programs and Participation in Rotary International Foundation activities. Lastly, President John announced that our Club was recognized at the Conference as the “Best Large Club of the Year.”
Announcements included:
- The Rotary Club of Rocklin is hosting a Brewfest on June 2nd at Johnson Springview Park between 1-5pm
- It’s Rotary Night benefiting Polio Plus at the River Cats Game on June 5th . See the RCOS Office for more information or tickets.
- Loaves and Fishes service approaches on May 31st. Contact John Swentowsky (Swentowsky Photography) if you are interested in helping.
- Son's Day will be June 26th, reported co-chairs Rick Osen (Sutter Builders, Inc.) and Laurie Wright (Tri Counties Bank), and will feature a taekwondo demonstration. Young men to conduct the meeting are needed!
Let’s Build Something:
President John highlighted several PR pieces featuring Virginia Varela with Golden Pacific Bank. Virginia donated to her Eddie Mulligan in honor of our new member Chris and his mother, a Rotarian in Oakland.
Heidi Hershenhouse (Land IQ, LLC) donated to her Eddie Mulligan in memory of recently passed loved ones Isaac Lopez and Russ Chambers.
Denny Evans (Northwestern Mutual Financial Network) donated to his Eddie Mulligan in honor of Luann Richardson (Re/Max Gold) as we welcomed her back after a convalescence.
The guest speaker was security expert Hector Alvarez of Alvarez Associates LLC, a Northern California based firm that provides threat management, security consulting and workplace violence prevention training. Highlights from Mr. Alvarez’s talk included an overview of four categories of violence: outsiders who want something from you; those who interact with customers; co-worker peer violence; and domestic violence. General categories of threat are those who harbor grievances, justice seekers, and those who have demonstrated recent changes in behavior.
Since in most situations we freeze in a threatening situation, Hector stressed the need to practice, “What we would do, how would we respond?” Readiness will help us get out of harm’s way when the unexpected happens.
Additionally, he urged us to pay attention to intuition, and reminded us to act if we see or suspect something.
We are DARK next week in honor of Memorial Day.
As always, thanks to John Swentowsky (Swentowsky Photography) for photos of the meeting.