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Welcome to Point West Rotary!

The Best Damn Rotary Club on the Planet!

We meet Fridays at 7:00 AM
Dante Club
2330 Fair Oaks Blvd
Sacramento, CA  95825
United States
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Speakers
Special Agent Sean Ragan FBI
May 25, 2018
Insights into activities at the Sacramento field office
Scott Abbot
Jun 01, 2018
Executive Director Calif International Marathon
Gail Bagby Mercy Ships
Jun 08, 2018
New Members Meeting
Jun 15, 2018
Mike Periera NFL commentator
Jun 22, 2018
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Our Work in the Community
Tree planting by Point West Rotarians!
Point West Rotarians were out "doing good in the world" again! On Saturday, April 14th, we planted trees at the Sunriver Park in Rancho Cordova and the neighboring area. Good for the environment, good for the community! President Rick Bixler was definitely needed for his strength to pound in the stakes to hold up the trees.  Also in attendance was Christine Cahill-Reams, Jerry Avila and his wife, Don Levin, Bob Tilly, Rich Fathy, Rita Gordon, Jesse Nix, Desirée Wilson and Greg Garcia who organized our team!
   
 
   
 
       
PWR holds annual speech contest
Posted on Feb 12, 2018
 
Our annual speech contest was held on Friday, February 9th with 5 students from Encina High.  The topic was "Making a Difference" and these students certainly are!!!  (l to r) Mariam Saleh, Jada Grove, PWR Prez Rick Bixler, Demarrya Tucker, PWR Speech Contest chair Sam Brown-Dawson, Jacqueline La Cour and Ariana Perez. As the winner of our club contest, Ariana will be competing in the regional semifinals on March 27th. Congrats to all!
PWR adds a Satellite Club!
 
February 1st was the Charter Night for the new Rotary Satellite Club of Point West - Sacramento!  The Satellite Club, part of Point West Rotary, welcomed 8 new members - Sondra Wildman (Chair), Lawana Welch (Chair-Elect), Mike Bede (Secretary/Treasurer), Scott Osborne, Janice Kelley, Kevin Deacon, David Tremblay and Dina Levkov.  The Charter Night celebration was held at the Dante Club and the new members were honored to have District Governor Sandi Sava, DGE Jack Arney and DGN Ray Ward in attendance.  The Satellite Club meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at the Black Bear Diner, 6:30 pm.  New members are always welcome!  For more info, contact Chair Sondra Wildman at pwrsatellite@gmail.com
 
     
Point West delivers dictionaries to 3rd graders
Point West Rotarians were out helping the community as they delivered over 100 dictionaries to all 3rd graders at Thomas Edison Language Institute on Friday, February 2nd.  The kids were so excited to get the dictionaries...and even more excited to know that they got to keep them and take them home!  President Rick Bixler was assisted by Mike Garcia, Cy Rickards, Greg Garcia, Monte Watson and Desirée Wilson in handing out the dictionaries.
          
                  
 
                  
 
Point West Rotarians help build bikes for deserving children
On Monday, January 15th, six members of Point West Rotary donated their time to help build brand new bikes for deserving children in the community.  In addition, PWR donated $5,000 to support the project and help purchase the bikes.  Mike Garcia, Don Levin, Chris Taylor, Gary Pevey, Rich Price and Carl Naake worked with the North Natomas Transportation Management Association on their 50 Bikes for 50 Kids project.
 
               
 
This is a community service event held on Martin Luther King Jr Day each year that matches teams of volunteers with well-deserving kids to assemble 50 new quality bikes. Kids in 5th - 12th grades are nominated
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PWR serves the community at the holidays!
Point West Rotarians were out in force this holiday season serving in our community!  Several members stood by the red kettle and rang the bell at Macy's at Arden Fair Mall and raised money for the Salvation Army.  We also helped out at the annual Salvation Army Food and Toy Distribution at Cal Expo...providing boxes of food, bags of potatoes and chickens to those in need.  Oh, and we had a lot of fun doing it all...that's how we roll!
 
              
Rotary District 5180 Combats Human Trafficking with a Grant from The Rotary Foundation
Posted on Dec 18, 2017

The Ugly Truth brings attention to human trafficking / Kinetic Worldwide

You can DO SOMETHING.

HumanTrafficking...It's NOT OK. You can DO SOMETHING today to fight it.  Check out the contact info below for more information on how you can help the District in their fight against human trafficking.

District 5180 just received official notice by The Rotary Foundation of a global grant award to combat sex trafficking in the greater Sacramento area.  With the grant award and other local funding, the District has $340,000 to fight human trafficking in our community through two components:  education and public awareness.  The sex trafficking education program is aimed at 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th graders and will be conducted by 3Strands Global Foundation using their PROTECT program (http://3strandsglobalfoundation.org/get-involved/education/). 
 
The public awareness piece will be conducted by the Voices and Faces Project in Chicago through their "The Ugly Truth" campaign (http://www.voicesandfaces.org/).  This 3-month outreach campaign will roll out in the spring to help bring awareness of the problem, considered modern day slavery, to our area.
 
If you want to be part of the team to help us in the fight, contact one of the following Rotarians:
Board Members Elected
Congratulations to the four members who were elected to the Point West Rotary Club Board of Directors at our meeting on December 8th.  The four members who will start their two year term on July 1, 2018 are:
 
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       Beth Schatz            Russ Fujii        Dorthé Wright   John Price
 
6th Annual Youth Leadership Conference
 
                            
 
   
                     
  
                      
 
Point West Rotary presented its 6th annual youth leadership conference "Partners in Leadership" on November 2, 2017.  Fair Oaks Rotary Club members joined us this year and brought students from Bella Vista High to join our students from Encina High. PWR members were excited to partner with them this year to make the conference even bigger and better!
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Point West Rotarians support
Run to Feed the Hungry!
Posted on Nov 25, 2017
Point West Rotarians enjoyed friendship, an early morning walk and giving back to the community at the Run to Feed the Hungry on Thanksgiving Day!  Tom Engwer and family, Greg Garcia and family, Glen Cheron and family, Samantha Hoshida, Desiree Wilson, Beth and Ed Schatz, and Dave Black all walked or ran to help feed the hungry!
 
Comfort Cases for local foster youth - packing party was a success!
Posted on Nov 25, 2017
 
Point West Rotary and the Active 20/30 Club joined forces on Nov. 9th to bring pride and dignity to local foster youth by providing them with backpacks/suitcases full of essential items a child needs while in foster care...their own blanket, pajamas, stuffed animal, books, etc.  Over 200 cases were packed and are being donated to local foster youth organizations in our area.  video
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Meet our new RYE student - Samuel Peña!
Posted on Aug 27, 2017
Our new Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) student has arrived!  Samuel Peña, 15 1/2, is from Spain - Rotary District 2202, Barcelona.  Samuel lives in Solares, a small town near the province capital, Santander.  He wants to be a pilot or aeronautic engineer when he gets older, so it is perfect that he will be attending Kennedy High School.
 
His father is a civil engineering manager and his mother is an industrial engineer - health & safety manager.  Although young, he's traveled to England four times, Portugal and New York with his family and is mature for his age.

Samuel being greeted at the airport - with Mary Lyn Kagan!
 
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Fighting Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the second biggest issue in the world (only behind drug trafficking) according to the FBI and is more than a $150 billion industry.  The Sacramento region is considered a hotbed for sex trafficking in the United States.
 
  
Point West Rotary is working with our Rotary District 5180 to create a sustainable large-scale project in the Sacramento region to combat human trafficking.  Towards this goal, we  are working with leaders in the field to develop a holistic education program that creates and disseminates education and awareness information to children, healthcare workers, law enforcement, educators, and the public at large to prevent human trafficking. 
 
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A Great Night at Lunar Lunacy!
Posted on Aug 07, 2017
What a great evening at Lunar Lunacy on Saturday night!  Hundreds of riders dressed in costumes, lit up their bikes, enjoyed the pre-ride festival...and rode in the glow of an almost-full moon through the iconic areas of downtown Sacramento!  The 6-mile course took riders through Capitol Mall, Miller Park, Old Sac, the Amtrak station, the Railyards and back to the Capitol Mall.  Lunar Lunacy Ride was in support of foster youth and other children's charities in the local area. 
 
Getting ready for the ride!
 
The Start Line
 
Some of our colorful riders!
 
 
 
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Upcoming Events
 
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33rd Term Meeting 42 5-18-2018
33rd Term Meeting 41 5-11-2018
33rd Term Meeting 40 5-4-2018
Bowling Bash 2018
33rd Term Meeting 39 4-27-2018
33rd Term Meeting 38 4-20-2018
33rd Term Meeting 37 4-13-2018
33rd Term Meeting 36 4-6-2018
33rd Term Meeting 35 3-30-2018
33rd Term Meeting 34 3-23-2018
33rd Term Meeting 33 3-16-2018
33rd Term Meeting 32 3-9-2018
33rd Term Meeting 31 3-2-2018
33rd Term Meeting 30 2-23-2018
33rd Term Meeting 29 2-16-2018
33rd Term Meeting 28 2-9-2018
33rd Term Meeting 27 2-2-2018
SatelitePWR 1-1 2-1-2018
33rd Term Meeting 26 1-26-2018
33rd Term Meeting 25 1-19-2018
33rd Term Meeting 24 1-12-2018
33rd Term Meeing 23 1-5-2018
33rd Term Meeting 22 12-15-2017
33rd Term Meeting 21 12-8-2017
33rd Term Meeting 20 12-1-2017
33rd Term Meeting 19 11-17-2017
33rd Term Meeting 18 11-10-2017
Youth Leadership Conference 11-2-17
33rd Term Meeting 17 11-2-2017
33rd Term Meeting 16 10-27-2017
33rd Term Meeting 15 10-20-2017
33rd Term Meeting 14 10-12-2017
33rd Term Meeting 13 10-6-2017
33rd Term Meeting 12 9-29-2017
33rd Term Meeting 11 9-22-2017
33rd Term Meeting 10 9-15-2017
33rd Term Meeting 9 9-8-2017
PWR Networking Mixer 9/7/17
33rd Term Meeting 8 9-1-2017
Eagles Golf 2017
33rd Term Meeting 7 8-25-2017
33rd Term Meeting 6 8-18-2017
33rd Term Meeting 5 8-11-2017
33rd Term Meeting 4 8-4-2017
33rd Term Meeting 3 7-28-2017
33rd Term Meeting 2 7-21-2017
33rd Term Meeting 1 7-14-2017
Desirée's Demotion/Promotion Party 6-30-17
32nd Term Meeting 49 6-30-2017
32nd Term Meeting 48 6-23-2017
32nd Term Meeting 47 6-16-2017
32nd Term Meeting 46 6-9-2017
32nd Term Meeting 45 6-2-2017
32nd Term Meeting 44 5-26-2017
32nd Term Meeting 43 5-19-2017
32nd Term Meeting 42 5-12-2017
32nd Term Meeting 41 5-5-2017
32nd Term Meeting 38 4-14-2017
32nd Term Meeting 37 4-7-2017
32nd Term Meeting 36 3-31-2017
32nd Term Meeting 35 3-24-2017
32nd Term Meeting 34 3-17-2017
32nd Term Meeting 33 3-10-2017
32nd Term Meeting 32 3-3-2017
32nd Term Meeting 31 2-24-2017
Mustard Seed School 2017
32nd Term Meeting 30 2-17-2017
Special Olympics Polar Plunge
32nd Term Meeting 29 2-10-2017
32nd Term Meeting 28 2-3-2017
32nd Term Meeting 27 1-27-1017
32nd Term Meeting 26 1-20-1017
32nd Term Meeting 25 1-13-2017
32nd Term Meeting 24 1-6-2017
32nd Term Meeting 23 12-16-2016
32nd Term Meeting 22 12-9-2016
32nd Term Meeting 21 12/2/16
32nd Term Meeting 20 11-18-2016
32nd Term Meeting 19 11-11-2016
32nd Term Meeting 18 11-4-2016
32nd Term Meeting 17 10-28-2016
32nd Term Meeting 16 10-21-2016
32nd Term Meeting 15 10-14-2016
Cocktail Party 10-8-2016
32nd Term Meeting 14 10-7-2016
32nd Term Meeting 13 9-30-2016
32nd Term Meeting 12 9-22-2016
California Brewers Festival 2016
32nd Term Meeting 11 9-16-2016
32nd Term Meeting 10 9-9-2016
Sunglass Social PWR 9-8-2016
32nd Term Meeting 9 9-2-2016
32nd Term Meeting 8 8-26-2016
32nd Term Meeting 7 8-19-2016
32nd Term Meeting 6 8-12-2016
32nd Term Meeting 5 8-5-2016
32nd Term Meeting 4 7-29-2016
Lunar Lunacy 2016
32nd Term Meeting 3 7-22-2016
Softball Team 2016
32nd Term Meeting 2 7-15-2016
32nd Term Meeting 1 7-8-2016
PWR Work Project 2016
Festa di Vino 2016
PWR Bowling Bash 2016
Partners in Leadership 11-5-2015
California Brewers Festival 2015
 

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Welcome to the new Point West Rotary website. This is a work in progress, if you notice any inaccuracies, problems, or would like to see a feature added, please contact Karl Forste.
 
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