Allan McLeod led the Pledge of Allegiance.
PE Jeff Moe introduced visiting Rotarians and guests of Rotarians.
April Bignell joined President’s club to commemorate her joining the club 10 years ago and thanked her sponsor’s Jerra Rowland and Joanne Mansch.
Diana Ding joined presidents club to highlight the upcoming Asian American stories ceremony on May 2nd.
PP Judy Wilson joined the President's club in honor of her guest, former exchange student Leoni.
Tom Scannell joined in memory of Rotarian Lee McCrumb.
Terry Sturtevant announced the Workforce Development project with FUHSD adult schools on May 6-9 from 6-7PM to do mock interviews to help students prepare. Contact Terry to volunteer.
Wendell Stephens made a last call for Golf Affinity on April 18
th.
Dolly Sandoval reminded everyone about the upcoming Golf Fundraiser and demonstrated how to sign up for golf, dinner and even bid on the auction items. If you are a golfer sign up now, there are still slots to play, if you aren’t a golfer, you can contact PP Steve to volunteer and sign up for the post golf dinner and auction items. Fun fellowship for all.
Click here to get the tournament website.
PEN Kathy Yates talked about a special Levi stadium fundraising opportunity for the Luc Combs concerts on May 17 and 18. Sign up on Club Runner and help us get a fast start on fundraising.
Camille Pietrow gave her personal talk. She is a 3
rd generation Japanese American and was born in Mountain View. She lived for 3 years in Japan, then grew up in Sacramento. She worked for HP. She has 2 adult children in San Diego. She joined Rotary to help give back for community service. Her new hobby is painting, and she is doing very well, having won awards, and sold some of her artwork. She also enjoys cooking, hiking and adventure traveling.
You can see her full presentation here. 
PP Rod Sinks and Steve LeFevre presented the information for the AOS pitch day for the Climate Action Committee. They discussed various projects including electrification, bike racks, food rescue. They highlighted 6 electrification projects that along with partners were valued at over $1M. They regularly have guest speakers at their meeting to learn more. Join the committee or just get trained on solar installation to help with the projects. Contact Rod or Steve for more information. Check out some of the great solar installers below.
Leslie Hay made a last call for signups for our fun Cherry Blossom evening party on April 24
th. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so by
clicking here.
PP Padma Chari reminded us about our focus on working with partners and highlighted the long list of partners we have for our projects, highlighting some of the new ones as well as our partners for WCS Global Grant projects.
President Alysa showed a new RI video on polio.
You can see it here. She also described how to join the district 5170 Polio Plus society. Just donate $100 to Polio this year and every year until we are polio free. You will receive a special pin and certificate. Contact her for details. She also reminded everyone to sign up for the Polio walk on April 28
th. Contact Doreen Cohen to pay your $25 (or more) and you don’t even have to walk. PP Steve Rudd will walk for you.
Cupertino Sister City members announced the upcoming Cherry Blossom festival on April 27th and 28th at Memorial Park. It’s a great time, so don’t miss it.
President Alysa thanked this week’s team and showed Happy Snaps from Dinner at the Shelter, FUHSD Earth Day and the prework at the Rebuilding site. Rotarians are everywhere.
This week’s program was a service project to pack materials for Operation Care and Comfort for our troops overseas. It’s especially needed these days with so much going on in the world. Chuck Harper acted as MC for the event and introduced Julia Di Maria, from Operation Care and Comfort, who told us more about the project.
She told us that we have over 40,000 troops deployed just in the Middle East. The boxes we packed today mean everything to our deployed troops and help to bolster their morale. Check out some of the photos of us putting together the boxes (thanks to Alex) below
and see them all by clicking here. 
Click here to view the menu and to order buffet lunch for April 17th. Order by 12 noon on Tuesday, April 16th.
Watch some of our recent speakers.
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