THE NUGGET
VOLUME 75, ISSUE 21
 
 
 
THE ROTARY CLUB OF CARMICHAEL
P.O. Box 129
Carmichael, C 95609-0129
 
 
District 5180:
 
Rotary International:
 
JANUUARY, 2022
 
VOCATIONAL  MONTH
 
 
 

 President  Dick Bauer opened the FIRST meeting of the new year and the first in-person meeting (and hybrid with Zoom) in a while and the first meeting in our new venue - the Stage 76 Kitchen Restaurant, 7600 Fair Oaks Blvd. near the Fair Oaks Blvd and Manzanita intersection in the city of Carmichael.

"Thought designee" was esteemed member  Stan Roe  who, after the "Pledge of Allegiance", and the "4 Way Test" and gave the following  "Thought for the Day:

"It is easier to do a job

than explain why you didn't"

President Martin Van Buren

 

Chuckles for the day: 

 
 
APRIL JAVIST, JEFF HICKMAN, PAUL DEGUERRE
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THE CARMICHAEL CLUB HAS FOUND A NEW MEETING LOCATION
We meet at the Stage 76 Kitchen and Bar at 7600 Fair Oaks Blvd., near the Manzanita split, located at the corner of Fair Oaks Blvd  and  Wayside Lane. For those who have been in the Club awhile, we used to meet at this restaurant when it was called the Capri.
 
 
 
 
 
 FIRE FIGHTER'S AWARD
An award was given by Vocational Service Director Frank Pease (center above) to Carmichael's Fire Station no. 109 for their great service to our community. One of their shifts came to our Rotary meeting on January 4th, 2022 to accept the Award and Captain Jeff Hickman (shaking hands with Frank) said a few words about their Station. The award was inscribed with the "Fireman's Blessing" to bring them good luck.
 
Getting to Know Her - Dr. Ramouna Roikjer
 
Ramouna was born in Iran in 1962. Her father was a civil engineer. She left Iran when she was 19 years old. While she lived there, the revolution happened and the hostage crisis, then there was the Iran and Iraq war – a time of turmoil. Everything came to a stand-still and for a year and ½ she did nothing.
Her brother came to the States in 1977 and so she knew somebody here. Ramouna got out of Iran by going to Turkey and then to Spain, where she got a special visitor’s permit to enter the U.S and she landed in Boston, Massachusetts. She went to college on a student visa and studied for 10 years, at Boston University, and Tufts. She earned her D.D.S. degree and went on to specialize as a prosthodontist (1993). Ramouna said that she didn’t want to go back to Iran and so she just kept studying to keep her student visa. After practicing for a few years in the U.S., she had an opportunity to take a position in Saudi Arabia. While in Saudi Arabia, she met Heine Roikjer, they got married, had a child (she now has two children). She really wanted to come back to the States and talked Heine to come along with her (circa 2007) and they settled in California. She has a practice in Fair Oaks (where the roosters abound). Recently she has joined the Carmichael Club and has become an esteemed member.
 
 
SACRAMENTO LITERACY FOUNDATION - April Javist
April Javist, is a native of Sacramento, CA, having attended Rancho Cordova High School..  After completing her bachelor’s degree in theater from San Francisco State, April moved to New York city and is a founding volunteer of the All-Stars Talent Show Network – one of the largest after school programs in the country.  When she received her MBA in Finance from The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College she decided to turn her professional career toward non-profit management.  In 2007, April came back to Sac and took her current position as Executive Director of Sacramento Literacy Foundation which is focused on helping all kids read. During her 15-year tenure, she has come to believe that reading is the top equity skill and mission critical in achieving a true democracy. She has established a track record in raising funds and advocating for children’s Literacy. April likes to golf, walk, and volunteer in the community. She is a member or the Sacramento Rotary Club. is married and has three children.
April gave a detailed PowerPoint presentation about the Sacramento Literacy Movement - a presentation which is near and dear to our hearts as we participate in giving Dictionaries to elementary schools in Carmichael every year. I have just put these slides below as the simplest way to publish April's message. The Foundation needs our support and we have an offer from them to add to our donation to schools project which I believe we will pursue. April makes the point that homes which have books in them have increased literacy - so getting books into families is important. It was sad to show that in our region (Carmichael) reading skills are lower than in Sacramento County writ large. In addition to this bad news, there is a diminishment of 10 to 20 percent due to the COVID-19 shut down of schools in the last two years. The Foundation espouses that literacy be taught in a way that is based on modern science where comprehension is a key element. We had a lively Q and A after the presentation, showing our interest in the subject and very aptly, our President Dick Bauer, announced that, in honor of April's presentation, a book will be donated to the Carmichael Library (subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library.
Photo at meeting: Dr. Ramouna Roikjer, President Dick Bauer, Speaker April Javist
 
HAPPY THOUGHTS
 
On the first meeting of the new year, January 4th, 2022, experienced "Happy Thoughts" conductor Vicky Boatwright assumed her position again, a comfortable one, as leader of extracting Happy Thoughts: Stan Roe gave one allotment, $20, for the wonderful execution of the Christmas Baskets this year and extolled the contributions of Rich Plath and others in the project; Jay Sedlak and guest Paul DeGuerre said nice things about the great meeting we had; Mark Beil talked about the wonderful holiday he had with his kids and his dad; Frank Pease gave one hundred big ones ($100) BONGED THE GONG in honor of the great Fire people that came to our meeting; Geronimo RANG THE BELL for the great venue of the evening; Phil Danz gave an allotment happily celebrating that he successfully used the Heimlich Procedure on Tony Marques during the dinner and bragged about it being the second time that he used it successfully; but the contribution that "takes the cake" for absolute generosity was the presenting a $1,000.00 check by Dick Bauer to the Jim Thompson Foundation (JTS) which is part of our Carmichael Rotary Foundation. Dick got to BONG THE GONG ten times! Our greatest member, Jim Thompson, is looking down on us approvingly!
 
 
BELL RINGERS
 
BILL BAXTER; DICK BAUER; MARK BEIL; ED BUNTING (2); ALAN GALLAWAY; GREG HERRERA (2); VINCE IOSSO (2);WALTER MALHOSKI; TONY MARQUES; CHUCK McBRIDE; KAREN MUNSTERMAN; FRANK PEASE; 
RICH PLATH; HEINE ROIKJER; JACK SHEARER; STAN ROE
 
 BONG GONGERS
 
DICK BAUER (13); KARI BAUER; MARK BEIL (2) ; JAY BOATWRIGHT; ED BUNTING (3); KATHA DANZ;
TROY DRENNON; GREG HERRERA (GERONIMO) (2); VINCE IOSSO (2);  WALTER MALHOSKI (2)
FRANK PEASE; TONY MARQUES; RICHARD OLEBE;
FRANK PEASE; STAN ROE (2); HEINE ROIKJER (2); RAMOUNA ROIKJER (2); JACK SHEARER
 

EXPLANATION: A BELL RINGER IS SOMEONE WHO DONATES $100 TO THE CLUB IN A GIVEN YEAR; A GONG BONGER IS ONE WHO DONATES AN ADDITIONAL $100 TO EITHER THE CLUB OR R.I. FOUNDATION (FOR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC PURPOSE

THE DRAWING
Stan Roe deservedly won a bottle of wine.
 
Donations as of 10-20-2021
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 Berta Boegel, Branch Supervisor, Carmichael Library, subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library
rboegel@saclibrary.org
Due to the quantity of books donated as of 1-5-2021 (NEARING 400), I have noted only the last 20 or so. The prior tabulations of books donated have been archived and will be in the memory of the Carmichael Club in Club Runner.
   
SPEAKERBOOK TITLEAUTHOR
 
JOHN TROIANO
"The Bullet"Iris Johansen
 
ALEX MACDONALD
"Tiger in the Sea"Eric Lindner
 
ALAN GALLAWAY
 
"Gateway"Zoje Stage
SUSAN STATTI
"The Book Seller
of Florence
Ross King
 
 
TARA ABRAHAM
 
"Bring Back our Girls"
Joe Parkinson
 
KARI BAUER
"The Five Wounds"Kirsten Valdez Quade
 
DESIREE WILSON
"The Doctors Blackwell"Janice Nimura
 
KENT ANDERSON 
"Leave No Man Behind"Dr. Tony Brooks
 
KATIE BRZOZOWSKI
"The Young Crusaders"V.P. Franklin
 
KARL BLY
"The Eagle's Claw"Jeff Shaara
 
MARLENE M. FRIEDERICHS-FITZWATER
"You Belong"Sebene Selassie
 
FOREST RESENER
"One Tin Bakes"Ed Kimber
 
JASON FAREIRA
"The Low Desert"Tod Goldberg
 
CATHERINE SURVILLAS
"The Genome Odyssey"Euan Angus Ashley, M.D.,Ph.D.
 
DOUG HEMMIG
"What Unites Us"Dan Rather
 
LINDSAY BURCH
"Lightning Game" Christine Feehan
 
GARY STRONG
"Snake Island"Ben Hobson
 
KAYLEIGH NEFF
"Hidden in Plain Sight"Jeffrey Archer
 
THANDIE BABALWA
"Two Truths and Lie"Elen McGarrahan
JIM NEILSONHenry Kissinger & American Power
 
Thomas Schwartz
 
 
CHRIS NELSON
"How I Built This"Guy Raz
 
GEORGE HOME
 
"Elsewhere"Dean Koontz
 
MICHAEL KORPIEL
 
"Only Truth"Julie Cameron
 
RUTH PROBASCO
 
"The Connected Parent"John Palfrey & Urs Gasser
 
GELIKA HARRISON
 
"Grand, a Memoir"Sarah Schaefer
 
KEN COOLEY
 
"The Truth is Marching On"Jon Meacham
 
TODD HARMS
 
"Serial Griller"Matt Moore
 
DONNA FLESHMAN
 
"Grasp"Sanjay Sarma
HOLLY HAIGHT, M.D."Get Your Yoga on"
 
Kino Macgregor
 
LYNETTE ANDERSON"Decoding the World"
 
Po Bronson
Arvind Gupta
 
BRIAN GLADDEN
 
"Accountable: The Rise of
Citizen Capitalism" 
 
Michael O'Leary
Warren Valdmannis
GOPAL KAPUR
 
"The Character Edge: Leading
and winning with Integrity"
 
Robert L. Caslen
Dr. Mitchell A. Matthews
MARCOS BRETON
 
"The Religious Causes, the case for
separating Church and State"
 
Howard Gillman
Edward Chemerinky"
ROD MALLOY
 
"What Can I Do? My path from
climate despair to action"
 
Jane Fonda
MARGARET LOEHR
 
"The Future of Earth: A radical vision for
what's possible in the age of warming"
 
Eric Holthaus
 
 
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