JUDITH MCCAFFREY RECOGNIZED AS MAJOR DONOR BY THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
President Chris Baxter recognized Judith McCaffrey as a Major Donor Level 1 of The Rotary Foundation.
As a Major Donor, Judith’s significant financial contributions support and honor the humanitarian and educational programs of The Rotary Foundation that make a difference in the lives of others.
Judith joined Rotary in 1995, served as Club President in 1999-2000, District 5240 Group 8 Representative, chaired golf tournament for a number of years, and served in many leadership capacities over her 22 years of service to the club. She has participated in numerous projects including Rotary’s polio National Immunization Days in Ghana and India, humanitarian projects in Mexico, as well as service to our local community.
When asked why she gives, Judith states, “I give to the Rotary Foundation for Cindy and other little girls and boys like her. In 2001, I traveled to Ghana to participate in the National Polio Immunization Days. Cindy was the first child, baby actually, that I gave those life-saving polio drops. I’ll never forget that moment."
"I saw my donations to the Rotary Foundation Polio Plus program in action that trip and my next trip to India in 2007 and many trips to Mexico for eye surgeries with the club over the years. I was hooked!" she continued.
"Giving is a wonderful feeling! I feel great when I do it. We have so much here in Santa Barbara; we need to give to those who are less fortunate. I encourage club members to give to the Rotary Foundation.”
80 ANIMAL AMBASSADORS GRADUATE FROM PAWS UP FOR PETS PROGRAM
C.A.R.E.4Paws graduated more than 80 young and excited Animal Ambassadors in Santa Barbara County through their Paws Up for Pets program, a new educational initiative that promotes accountability and compassion for animals and empathy in the community as a whole. Paws Up for Pets focuses mainly on children age six through 15 enrolled in afterschool programs. The 80 children who graduated included youth from United Boys & Girls Clubs Lompoc unit, the Chumash Reservation and a Girl Scout troop in Goleta.
The Rotary Club of Santa Barbara Sunrise recently made a contribution of $1,500 to support Paws Up workbooks, badges, certificates and “Stay Pawsitive” T-shirts for 50 children participating in the program.
President Chris stated, “Sunrise Rotary is thrilled to support C.A.R.E.4Paws’ new, innovative Paws Up for Pets program, which teaches compassion for animals and anti-bullying.”
Photo: Paws Up For Pets graduates from the United Boys and Girls Club in Lompoc.
ROXANNE NOMURA REMEMBERED
Hundreds of friends and family gathered at the Carpinteria High School gymnasium on Saturday, June 17 to remember Roxanne Nomura who died on May 9.
Roxanne was remembered fondly by Les Esposito, Carpinteria Morning Rotary Club, who will "miss her spontaneous giggle," and her real estate colleague, Jeff Farrell, who described Roxanne as having a "genuine understanding of her client's needs and holding the highest degree of ethical standards."
Gary Dobbins, publisher of the Coastal View newspaper, said Roxanne "took her love for others to great heights." Rotary Past District Governors Jane and Jack McClenahan, recalled many memories during their travels together to England, Mexico, South Korea, and Portugal.
Roxanne's sister Carol Takeishi shared stories as a young girl. She spoke of her high energy and entrepreneurial spirit as a Girl Scout. She said Roxanne's friends, colleagues, and Rotarians were very important to her sister.
Wade, Roxanne's husband, met her at 15 and married at 19 years of age. He recalled many touching memories of their more than 48 years together. He said, "she was an angel by my side for 48 years."
Photo: Photo of Roxanne Nomura at the memorial service.
BLESSED DEPARTS ON HER CROSS COUNTRY TRAIN TRIP
Blessed Emurese completes her Rotary Youth Exchange stay in Santa Barbara!
Thanks to the generosity of Sunrise Rotarians and friends, Blessed is able to participate in the Rotary train tour of the US. Her train left Los Angeles on June 18 with 43 youth exchange students and continues through 13 US cities over 33 days.
Blessed made a nice presentation to the club last week. She summarized her Rotary Youth Exchange experience and thanked club members and her host parents.
CONCERTS IN THE PARK KICKS OFF ITS 2017 SEASON ON JULY 6
It’s one of Santa Barbara’s best summer traditions . . . come find out first-hand what brings up to 5,000 people down to Chase Palm Park on Thursday nights during the month of July! Make sure that you dust off your dancing shoes, pack up a picnic dinner and your friends and family, and come celebrate summer and some great free music concerts in Santa Barbara’s beautiful Chase Palm Park!
All concerts are free and are held from 6:00-8:30pm Thursday nights in Chase Palm Park at the Great Meadow Stage. No blanket or chair setup or space claiming until noon on the day of each concert.
Thursday, July 6, 2017
The PettyBreakers
The nation's premier tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Thursday, July 13, 2017
The Hollywood Stones
A tribute to the Rolling Stones
Thursday, July 20th, 2017
Crooked Eye Tommy
Original Southern California Blues
Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries
50s and 60s Rock n' Roll
Sunriser Judith McCaffrey is generously offering to host club members on her famous pink blankets. Bring a low back chair, snacks to share, and your dancing shoes!
This is our annual wacky tradition of demoting our club president!Come for the fun! Come for the fellowship! Come to say goodbye to President Chris!
We will not meet in the morning so everyone will be well rested for the step down.
Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Drinks will be available for purchase from the bar.
Since the evening event will be our club meeting, members will be billed as normal.
Guests are $20.
BOCCE NIGHT
Thursday, July 13, 2017
5:30 pm
Arnoldi's
600 Olive Street, Santa Barbara
Join us for bocce ball, drinks and an Italian style dinner under the arbor. Drinks are on your own. Sign up at the club meeting or to Diana at dianajeansb@gmail.com. If you sign up you will be invoiced.
Photo: Dan and Sandra O'Meara and Gillian and Mike Amery, September 2016.
DID YOU KNOW?
Regular attendance is essential to a strong and active Rotary club. The emphasis on attendance is traced back to 1922 when Rotary International announced a worldwide attendance contest that motivated thousands of Rotarians to achieve 100 percent attendance year after year. Many Rotarians take great pride in maintaining their 100 percent record in their own club or by making-up at other Rotary club meetings.
Although the bylaws of Rotary require members to attend only 60 percent of all meetings, the custom has emerged that 100 percent is the desirable level. Rotary stresses regular attendance because each member represents his own business or profession and thus the absence of any member deprives the club of the values of its diversified membership and the personal fellowship of each member. From time to time, proposals have been made to give attendance credit for various reasons or to lower the minimum requirement. Such attempts generally have been rebuffed by the clubs acting through the Council on Legislation.
[Update: The 2016 Council on Legislation voted to give Rotary clubs more flexibility regarding attendance. Clubs can ease attendance requirements and encourage members to participate in other ways.]
This is one of a series of short articles about Rotary written by Cliff Dochterman, PRIP, and originally published in the Rotary publication, The ABCs of Rotary.
ROTARY PIN CHALLENGE - Week 51
When I started the pin challenge at the start of the Rotary year I wanted to feature a different pin each week. I'm breaking that rule this week with this angel pin. It was originally featured in the August 24, 2016 newsletter but I'm bringing it back in memory of Roxanne Nomura. I saw several District Rotarians wearing this pin at Roxanne's memorial service on Saturday. Roxanne loved to make people happy. She was an angel of happiness, angel of good works, angel to her clients, angel to her family and friends, a cookie baking angel, and her husband Wade's angel. I am grateful to have known Roxy.
I have challenged myself to wear my Rotary pin EVERY day. By doing this I hope to raise awareness of Rotary and Rotary's work. I invite all Sunrise Rotarians to join me in wearing a Rotary pin EVERY day.
By Karen Kawaguchi, Club Service Director
CLUB MEETING NOTES - June 14, 2017
We were joined by guests Lisa Burns, Paul McCaffrey, Mary Allen, Annie Hamilton, Emma Morris, and Samantha Wallace. No visiting Rotarians.
President Chris wished Joanne Schoenfeld a Happy Birthday (June 17) and shared photos of PE Steve Kally at the Rotary Convention in Atlanta.
President Chris announced Rotary President John Germ and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced at the RI Convention in Atlanta a commitment of up to $450 million to support the eradication of polio.
Jody Dolan Holehouse, President of the Club Foundation, called for a vote for three open positions on the foundation board. Dennis Johns, Sandra O'Meara, and Kathy Scroggs were elected.
President Chris recognized Judith McCaffrey for her contributions to The Rotary Foundation which qualify her for Major Donor Level 1 recognition.
Blessed Emurese shared her experience as a Rotary Youth Exchange student. She acknowledged her host families, friends and wonderful experiences in Santa Barbara.
President Chris reminded club members about Roxanne Nomura's memorial on June 17 and District Awards on June 24.
Diana Washburn announced our next happy hour will be at Andersen's on June 22 and bocce ball will be at Arnoldi's on July 13.
Kentucky bourbon balls and caramels were donated for the raffle by Connard Hogan. Blessed won.
Click on the calendar to see a full schedule of our meetings, events, and activities.
SUNRISE ROTARY VISION STATEMENT
Working as a team with integrity to transform our local and international communities by living lives of "service above self" through our contributions of time, talent, and treasure.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly newsletter of the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara Sunrise. Please submit questions, comments, corrections, submissions, or photos to Karen Kawaguchi at kkawaguchi@sbma.net. Deadline for submissions is every Friday for the next week's issue.
WEEKLY DUTIES
June 21, 2017
Greeters
Molly Morrison
Sandra O'Meara
Flag Salute
Molly Morrison
Sergeant-at-Arms
Molly Morrison
Invocation
Sandra O'Meara
Raffle
Dennis Johns
If you are not able to fulfill your duty, please find a replacement and contact Kathy Scroggs, Weekly Duties Chair, at kathy@scroggscpa.org
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