So it came to pass that we had our annual fall picnic in the spacious diggings of Carol and Mark Beil’s garden estate. At their entrance, we were greeted by “Yoda”, their usually friendly land tortoise who was sleepily contemplating hibernation and the “potluck” was filled with a plethora of different kinds of foods, beer and wine. Many of our members brought spouses, family and guests. It seems that the Beil’s outdoor areas have improved year by year with special scenic mini-areas and a professional 9 hole frisbee golf course. Pics below:
The official tenth meeting of the 2018-2019Y Rotary Year was opened by President Greg Herrera after the Fly Fishing demonstration and Pres. Greg did ring the Bell to open the meeting. Then Chuck McBride gave the"Thought" for the day:
" If you want to make enemies, try to change something".
Woodrow Wilson
Your editor would like to thank Terry Sweeney for taking "notes" for this bulletin and others for providing photographs.
♦ UGANDAN WATER PROJECT: LAST FUNDING HAS BEEN SENT: RICHARD OLEBE received a recent email from Rotary International:
"Dear Rotarians:
Thank you for submitting a progress report for Global Grant GG1757428. The report is complete.
Please remember that the next progress report will be due 12 September 2019, or a final report will be due within two months of the grant's completion, whichever comes first.
We will also now release the final installment of USD$60,430.00 ahead of the interim site visit as requested by project sponsors in order to keep the project on schedule. A cadre member will be assigned to visit this fall and will be in touch with you directly to make arrangements.
If you have any questions about future reporting requirements, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Rebeca Mendoza
Regional Grants Officer | Rotary Grants"
♦ BLOOD SOURCE: To reiterate: CHUCK McBRIDE hassaid last week that as past Foundation Chair, he wanted your money, now he wants your BLOOD! Please donate a pint to Blood Source and credit our account (Carmichael Rotary) so we can win the blood donation competition.
♦ SPECIAL OLYMPICS: Karen Munsterman passed around a sign up sheet for helping out on our Special Olympics luncheon on Sunday, October 14th
Past President of the Rotary Club of Miraj, Maharastra, India,Uday Kulkarni and his brother, Upendra. Uday presented his Club's Banner to our Club.
Uday Kulkarni has successfully completed two Rotary projects with matching funds from the Rotary Foundation. His wife Anjali is a Past President of Inner Wheel club. He is on the faculty of the Dept. of Pharmacy at Shivaji University. He also owns a pharmaceutical lab that produces nutritional supplements.
Upendra Kulkarni, brother of Uday is Vice President of NSG (Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group) at Intel. NSG produces SSD (Solid State Drives) that are increasingly replacing Hard Disk Drives on computers. Upendra was George Abraham's boss when he was Vice President of Graphics Software Engineering at Intel.
JOKE OF THE DAY
After a long discussion with the censorship committee of this publication.
It was decided not to publish President Greg Herrera's joke.
It was a good try and close to achieving our high standards, but
it involved the mistaking of a suppository with a hearing aid.
PRESIDENT GREG HERRERA BEGAN THE MEETING OUTSIDE WITHOUT RINGING THE SACRED BELL. BILL BAXTER BEGAN THE FLY-ROD DEMONSTRATION BY EXPLAINING ABUT THE FLIES—THE TYPES, HOW THEY HATCH AND MATURE AND BECOME BAIT. HE PASSED AROUND VARIOUS HAND MADE FLIES WHICH REPLICATE THOSE IN NATURE. RICH PLATH THEN DEMONSTRATED THE USE OF VARIOUS TYPES OF RODS AND REELS HOW AND WHEN TO USE THEM. IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT BOTH RICH AND BILL ARE EXPERT FLY FISHERMAN AND GREATLY ENJOY THEIR HOBBY.
WE THEN WENT INSIDE AND PRES. GREG FINALLY RANG THE BELL TO BEGIN THE MEETING.
N ow Vicky Boatwright gave another "command" performance as elicitation master of "Happy Thoughts":
Alan Gallaway gave something for his Ecuador Trip; Bill Baxter said something which was complimentary about Alan – and is happy to be here; George Abraham was happy to have his two guests here, also our Interact Club is starting all over - good news; Mark Beil thanked all those who contributed to the Rotary BBQ; Bill Donnoe talked about his trip to Death Valley where the temperature was 114 degrees;.; Chuck McBride BONGED THE GONG because he just acquired an new great grandson; Stan Rose thanked Mark for having the BBQ at their home;. Jeff Thompson just came back from a 10 day cruise to Alaska; ; Vicky Boatwright had a great trip to Colorado; Jay had a good time too.
BELL RINGERS
DICK BAUER; BILL BAXTER; MARK BEIL; VICKY BOATWRIGHT; PHIL DANZ; ALAN GALLAWAY; DOUG HAALAND; GREG HERRERA; CHUCK McBRIDE; KAREN MUNSTERMAN; RICH PLATH; STAN ROE; WALTER MALHOSKI X2; RICH SHIPP; DAVID THORMANV
BONG GONGERS
DOUG HAALAND; GREG HERRERA; VINCE IOSSO; CHUCK McBRIDE; STAN ROE
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 THE CLUB FOUNDATION (FOR GENERAL PURPOSE OR OUR NEW WATER PROJECT IN UGANDA)
RAFFLE
THE fact that we now have in $1000 in the kitty, and that I Guess that Chuck McBride would appreciate winning the money and getting the Ace of Spades, but, alas, he just got the 8 of Diamonds and a nice bottle from the Club's secret wine cellar ....He looked like he was happy.
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 some 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 byBertaBoegel, Branch Supervisor, Carmichael Library, subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library.
rboegel@saclibrary.org
SPEAKERS/BOOK DONATIONS TO THE CARMICHAEL LIBRARY
As of June 26, 2017, we have purchased nearly 160 titles in honor of our speakers! Because of the large number of books, we are not showing them all at this time.
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