Dec 19:Holiday Program - Santa + Delta Student of the Month
Come join Santa and friends at our annual holiday program. We will also recognize the Delta Student of the Month.
Dec 26:Dark / No Meeting
We all will be recovering from something that happens on Dec 25... Or, maybe we all will be out shopping - someone has to help keep this economy going....
Thanksgiving is a reminder that we all become richer when we give. Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less.
Dec 5:Karen Kroslowitz, Ukranian Natl Women's League of America
The Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) is a charitable and cultural organization that unites women of Ukrainian descent and affiliation. We got an interesting background about the country and its people.
Dec 12:Dark - No Meeting
We had our holiday party that evening... no meeting in the morning....
Rotarian of the Month
The board was scraping to come up with a name... really, they were since they named yours truly as the ROTM. I do think they said it was the Reveille editor and all the readers so you all should take a bow as well!
Birthdays
Aaron McDonald Dec 3
Joseph Holquist Dec 4
Debra Feldstein Dec 6
Ken Whiting Dec 7
Randall Leonard Dec 13
Patrick Rooney Dec 23
Wedding Anniversaries
Randall-Barbara Leonard Dec 29
Jon-Jill Winston Dec 16
Brent-Sheila Walsh-Denton Dec 11
[All Birthday and Anniversary date info provided by the esteemed Tom Hart as entered in ClubRunner; if something is incorrect, please update Clubrunner]
Rotary Anniversaries
Tom Stelling 21 yrs
Darlene de la Cerna 20 yrs
Jon Winston 20 yrs
Bill McDermott 19 yrs
Brenda Gray 7 yrs
Randy Uang 7 yrs
Tom Crahen 6 yrs
Tom McCullough 2 yrs
Sigfrid Garman 2 yrs
Andy Cunningham 2 yrs
More Calendar Stuff
Richard D. King Tribute Dinner: Feb 2,2025. The Niles Rotary Club is hosting a dinner to honor the legacy of Past Rotary International President Richard D. King. Niles Rotary was the home club for Richard King. Sign up and more info at this link.
Way In the Future: Save the date for the largest gathering of Sunrise Rotarian Skiers & Snowboarders -
Sunday Mar 9 to Wed Mar 12; @ Northstar Lake Tahoe.
Something to Lighten Your Day Deep Thoughts By President Ari:
I showed a little late but I do think that the party was sold out (or almost sold out) - thats the good news. People showed at 5:30pm, mingled and had apps (the type you eat, not the type you put on your phone). Dinner was served around 6:30pm and dancing started around 7:30pm. The location at the DeLaveaga club house worked well! Food was pretty good. Enough members brought wine and there was plenty of bevs to go around. The social committee deserves a big round of applause for all their work!
That all said, my personal view (hey, its called the power of the pen) is that we probably need to do something different next year. It was sad to see that the music started at 7:30 and the place started to empty out. By 8pm, we were down to only about a dozen people. We are the party club, no? Did I miss a memo and we have now changed into something else? I mean, yes, it was a school / work day but really? Note - the party was supposed to be from 5:30-9:00pm.
Oh, and have to mention this as well - the Satellite Club, you know, the young partiers and all.... ummm.... did I miss you all? Sigh....
In any case, it was a good time for the few hours when people were there (and even when they had left; a few of the people who stayed did cut up the dance floor for quite a while....)
Satellite Club News
No news although I did see a Instagram post that a small and mighty crew from the Satellite Club did a beach clean-up day
Membership News -provided by Tom Hart-
New Members - Welcome!
- Carol Ann Flint - Commercial Real Estate
- Suzi Merriam - Gov’t Housing
Departures - We hope to see them again sometime....
- Maria Barranco
- Jim Booth
- Rob Gaukel
- Lucas Junod
- Hannah Kelly
- Jay Weisblatt
- Brooke Squires
Membership Totals
Main Club 93
Satellite 10
Total Membership 103 as we close 2024
New Rotary Swag Hats
Please contact Lisa Krigsman if you are interested in purchasing a Sunrise Rotary baseball cap for $20
Sunrise In the News
Thanks to Mark Junod on alerting me about this Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the County Park Friends hitting their goal of raising $1 million for the Treasure Cove project. Our club is mentioned in the article - we donated to the project.
Items of Interest
Community Service: Adopt a Family & Salvation Army
I believe we provided for the family that we adopted. Sorry, have no update here. I also believe the bell ringing for the Salvation Army went well.... It is the time of year to believe...
Annual Warm Coat Drive
Janet Russell finished her fifth and final annual warm coat drive at the holiday party. I believe she said that she reached her goal of 100 coats.
Rod Caborn GoFundMe - Repeating this -
As many know, Rod Caborn, one of our club leaders and a Past President, received a devastating diagnosis of ALS this past summer. During his 20+ years as a Rotarian, Rod has unleashed his passion for making the world a better place in so many ways, by volunteering his unequaled skills as an emcee and fundraiser, creating and leading Rotary events and supercharging them to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charitable causes in our local community and for Rotary projects around the world.
Now, Rod needs our help. We are raising funds to help him with the tremendous expense associated with navigating ALS. Please give if you can at the GoFund Me page set up to collect funds to help defray some of the huge impending expenses associated with providing mobility support for Rod.
UPDATE - As of this morning, Dec 17, $39850 had been raised out of the $155k goal.
General Questions / Info to Share
Going to keep this area to put out general questions for club members or to share information. At this time, we don't have a way to get these out to the club and meetings are not really set up for these.
Question from me: A non-profit I am part of is looking for a new insurance broker. We are insured through NIAC. Anyone with a recommendation, please email or text me (me = sanjay).
Rotarian of the Month
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