Adam Peacocke is a lifelong Sonoma County resident who is passionate about the recovery efforts from the 2017 October wildfires and the potential it offers our community for fresh and new ways of collaborating. After pastoring in Santa Rosa, CA for 15 years, Adam founded a 501c3 non-profit ministry designed to help local churches increase the effectiveness of their service and giving into their communities. Adam's role in leading Sonoma County Churches United Relief and as co-chair of the collaborative long-term recovery group Rebuilding Our Community (ROC) Sonoma County has helped local non-profits and faith community groups offer hope and practical assistance in the midst of the most challenging circumstances our community has faced in generations. Adam and his wife Jo have four children and live in Santa Rosa, CA.
Whatever you say, whatever you think, whatever occupies your mind, will manifest in your life, according to Steven Campbell, noted professor, lecturer and author. Your brain automatically accepts these words and thoughts to be absolutely true. As a result, you will make these things a reality in your life! This is the simple essence of Steven Campbell's lecture about a method that will build your self image and change your life for the better.
Campbell discusses the mystery of phantom limbs that have been severed that are still being experienced in the brain. He also reviews generations of time-tested psychological theories including Freudianism, behaviorism and environmentalism, validating all. And then he encapsulates all of them in the "Magnificent Mind Concept" that everything you do is based on what you are saying to yourself... now... today.
Examples that validate this theory are taken from real life experiences of students who feel they are not good at math (and who does not feel this way?), getting an A in a math test and refusing to believe it was real, because their brains were so tightly wired in the opposite direction. Campbell also illustrates how the brain can skim over a word and read it even though it is grossly misspelled. The brain records the properly spelled word automatically, no matter what the reality is. The brain is in charge of everything and will make it so.
And when someone says that you are really great and you are embarrassed and do not think it is true. Guess what? It will not be true. But if you accept sincere praise with grace, you will become the great person that you are. So, when praise comes your way, be sure to wallow in it and savor it like a pig in mud!
The primary element that holds us back from learning, growing and changing, is what we say to ourselves.
On a regular basis, our resident photo pro Warren Smith submit pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.
Thanks for all the great pictures Warren!Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!
Every week, every meeting of the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Sunrise is a reminder to me of our depth and diversity of Service Above Self. Each and every one of YOU, the members of Sunrise, bring commitment and your unique brand of creative contribution toward sustaining and inspiring our 38 years plus of Doing What Matters locally and Internationally.
This week I am contacting several of you asking your support in planning our Spring fundraiser. We have an excellent format and successful history with our 2017 "Puttin on the Ritz" event. Response to it exceeded our previous 5 years fundraising. We took a chance and made a change from the familiar to the unknown. We discovered we could innovate and create new resources!!
Even if you are not initially contacted with a request to serve on the steering committee, your support will be needed! Accounting, advertising, catering, entertainment, logistics all call for many hands and heads.
We are all privileged and proud to be Rotarians. The time to roll up our sleeves and plan for our Spring harvest is here. Be the Inspiration. Do What Matters. Surprise Yourself!!!
LifeWorks Board member and Santa Rosa Sunrise Service Projects Director Jennifer Adams (center above) hosted a table full of sunrises at the LifeWorks Harvest Hoedown fundraiser on September 22, 2018. Marina Gachet (left) and Rebecca Poon (right) added beauty and grace to the Sunrise table.
Sunriser Peter Banks and wife Mary (above left photo) tripped the light fantastic, while Rob Sanville and his wife Betsy (right photo, center and left) as well as Mary Banks (right) show off a their mustaches. meanwhile another trio with mustaches and other accessories squeezes into some funny face photobooth shots. (Pictured below, Dicksie Tamanaha, Betsy Sanville and Mary Banks.)
Hoedown attendees not pictured are LifeWorks board member Kent Seegmiller and former Sunriser Sharon Wright, as well as Sunriser Steve Zwick and guest Steven Zahniser.
Would you believe that our esteemed president forgot to acknowledge last month's Bulletin sponsor? Of course not! President Rich Randolph simply delayed the announcement until the middle of September in order to have a post summer crowd assembled to hear Sunriser Nancy Aita tell us about her company. Aita and Associates does more than just Human Resources. The company is also prepared to address certain legal issues.
President gets the pan for the publication of his photo
Sunriser recognition delegate, Kent Seegmiller, (no photo in this issue, but featured prominently in previous issues) recognized president Rich for having his photo taken with a lovely lady on his shoulder at the Santa Rosa Sesquicentennial celebration in Santa Rosa square on Saturday, September 8, 2018.
This alleged photo was not submitted to Bulletin editors, but appeared in another periodical, the name of which slipped the president's busy mind. However, Rotary Foundation Director Randy Seeley reminded the president of this well known daily newspaper that prominently serves Santa Rosa and surrounding areas.
Sunriser Dicksie Tamanaha, pictured above as Mary Williamson (1834 - 1917) with her family tombstone at the Rural Cemetery, also informed members that she had celebrated the 150th anniversary of Santa Rosa, during the Lamplight Tours on September 14 and 15. Along with her husband, Jim Williamson (played by William Montgomery, pictured above) they told the story of that year, back in 1854, when the county records were brought to Santa Rosa, designating the newly founded city as the county seat.
Montana's wild creatures must have done a double take when Sunrise Golden Hammer, Hunter and Fisher, Leroy Carlenzoli showed up for his annual bird hunting trip in a brand new outfit. New vest, new gun -- new everything!
Jim Moir, the tallest member of Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary, went on a quest to find the tallest Redwood tree in the world and found the second tallest -- nearly 380 feet. There he camped out under the stars for four days.
In 2009, Salvador Rico stood in the waters of the Russian River in Northern California with other members of the Rotary Club of South Ukiah. They were there for a river cleanup, during which they removed toilets, refrigerators, car parts, and garbage. That event led to an ambitious initiative called Cleaning the Rivers of the World.
After participating in the Russian River cleanup, Rico’s thoughts turned to the Ameca River, which flows past his father’s farm in western Mexico. That was where, he believed, his oldest sister contracted the poliovirus that killed her in the 1960s.
The Rotary clubs of Ameca, Mexico, and of Rohnert Park-Cotati and South Ukiah, California, clean up the Ameca River. “I always hoped that someday I could go home and do something to turn all the sewage into pristine waters,” says Salvador Rico, the Rotary member who organized the clean up.
“My older siblings would play in the river,” he says, “and that particular river carried sewage from the city of Tala.”
Rico also thought of another river, the Lerma, which runs near his old elementary school. His teachers would let children play in a pristine tributary that flowed from a canyon but not in the main channel of the Lerma, which carried trash and toxic waste from Guadalajara.
So when Rico’s district governor, Helaine Campbell, asked clubs to carry out a signature water-related project in 2013-14, Rico proposed a cleanup of the Ameca River.
With the help of Vicente Paredes of the Rotary Club of San Pedro de Tlaquepaque, Mexico, who connected people and worked on logistics, the Rotary clubs of Ameca, Mexico, and of Rohnert Park-Cotati and South Ukiah, California, carried out the first Ameca River cleanup day in April 2014. They have since organized more cleanups of the river.
That project eventually expanded to become Cleaning the Rivers of the World, which has challenged Rotary clubs across the globe to clean up a river. The initiative has been adopted by the Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group as part of the Annual World Water Day Challenge, as well as by the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group. Rotarians have organized cleanup projects in Colombia, India, Nigeria, Peru, Turkey, and Venezuela, as well as in other parts of Mexico and the United States.
In 2018, Rico joined his fellow Rotarians in a project on the Lerma River. “As a kid, I always hoped that someday I could go home and do something to turn all the sewage into pristine waters,” he says. “Now I can say, with a clear conscience, that I did everything I could to leave a better world for our kids.”
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