The Carmichael Rotary Club sponsored a well project in Uganda that brought clean water to 10,000 people (circa 2018)
This resulted in significant water born disease reduction in the area.
Right: Members of the Tororo and Carmichael Rotary Clubs meet in Uganda to tour the wells (circa 2019)
President Richard Olebe opened the December 6th meeting. and the last official meeting of the Carmichael Rotary Club at the Old Spaghetti Factory near Watt Ave. He fulfilled all of his commitments, namely, the reading of the "Pledge", "the Four-Way Test", and the "Thought for the Day" .
Our own member and Past President Jay Boatwright just recently won re-election as a Director of the Sacramento Suburban Water District.
Kudos and Congratulations Jay!
Carmichael School Project
Just completed 2 days at the Carmichael Elementary School book fair. Richard also came today. It was great. Sharon (librarian ) said yesterday that one person was plenty, though more were welcome. So Stan decided not to come. Stayed for about 1.5 hours today, 2 hours yesterday as there were more kids. Richard didn’t want to be in the photo so it’s me and Sharon with kids. Thanks for arranging this. I loved it! Margaret
P.S. (B.E.Addition: Community Service Director, Vicky Boatwright was also part of the project.
A FESTIVE HOLIDAY PARTY
OnDecember 13th, 2022, a festive holiday party was given by congenial and generous hosts, Dana Newell & David Thorman. Over 28 members and family of the Rotary Club of Carmichael reveled in the large quantities of delicious food and drink brought in potluck fashion. It shows that we love to party together - a great celebration for the holidays. Please click on the "Read More" button for more pictures of the event
The first 2 pictures (above) were from the San Juan Unified School District Holiday event, for which we sorted, organized, and helped families pick out the foods they wanted to take home, and Kari Bauer handed out new games to each family that filled their “passport” (checked in at each station, ie free coats/hats, food, crafts, etc.) Members Rich Plath and Stan Roe arranged for a holiday food drive at Del Dayo Elementary School earlier in the month, and that was the food that was passed out at the Holiday event. Please click on "Read More" for info about the other events....
Today we had the pleasure of learning from an environmental scientist, Trevor Clark, (left above) who spoke to us about snakes on behalf of the Northern California Herpetology Society. He tailored his remarks to specifically speak about rattlesnakes. To access a more detailed account of his informative talk, click on "Read More" below.
During the incumbency of President David Thorman,(2013-14) it was decided that instead of giving a particular gift, ie coffee mug, pen etc. to honor our guest speaker each week, we would simply donate a book to the Carmichael Library. So below are many of the books that we have donated in honor of recent speakers.
It is the "gift that keeps of giving" because those who will check out these books from the library will derive many hours of pleasure for years to come, and it enhances learning and literacy. The books are chosen by Greg Freeman, Branch Supervisor, Carmichael Library, subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library.
gregfreeman@saclibrary.org
Over the past eight years, nearly 500 books have been donated to the Carmichael Public Library. We show only the latest donated books with the names of the Guest Speakers.
LATEST BOOK DONATIONS - as of 10-10-2022
SPEAKER
TITLES
AUTHOR/S
Rich Desmond
"Walk the Vanished Earth"
Eric Swan
Molly Peterson
"Florida Woman"
Deb Rogers
Mark White
"The Desperate Hours"
Marie Brenner
Chuck Hagopian
"Homesickness"
Colin Barrett
Tien Ho
"Freedom: How to Lose it and How We Fight Back"
Nathan Law with
Evan Fowler
Joe Pick
"Walking Miracle: How Faith, Positive Thinking, and Passion for Football Brought me back from Paralysis - And Helped Me Find Purpose"
Ryan Shazier &
Larry Platt
Joel Carrion
"Montessori for Every Family: A Practical Parenting Guide to Living, Loving and Learning"
Tom Seldin &
Loma McGrath
Richard Olson
"The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera"
Matthew Aucorn
Linda Cutler
"Longshot: the inside story of the race for a COVID-19 vaccine."
David Heath
Alan Gallaway
"Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison"
Chris Hedges
Lois Creamer
"Floating in the Deep End: how caregivers can see beyond Alzheamer's"
Patti Davis
Rebecca Evans
"Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the wisdom of the forest."
Suzanne Simard
John Chuck, M.D.
"Empower: Conquering the Disease of Fear"
Tareq Azim, Seth Davis
"The Unbroken Thread" Discovering the age of chaos.
Sohrab Ahmari
Aprngil Javist
"The Last Nomad" Coming of Age in a Somali Desert
Shjugri Said Salh
Larry Schluer
"Ordinary Heros" A memoir of 9-11
Joseph Pfeifer
Habib Rahim
"Every Deep Drawn Breath" A critical care doctor on healing, recovery,
and transforming of medicine in the ICU.
Wes Ely, M.D.
Victoria Wolfe
"The Correspondents" Six women writers on the front lines of WW II..
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