President Richard Olebe opened the meeting of January 17 of 2023 at the Carmichael Elks Club. The leadership of the Club showed it's remarkable adaptive ability by changing venues hours before the meeting. Our reservation at the Old Spaghetti Factor was cancelled - so we pivoted and met at the Elks Club instead. Thus "cool guy" Richard nonchalantly presented the "Pledge", "the Four-Way Test", and the "Thought for the Day" .
GUESTS
ROXANNE SNYDER, MEGHAN ADAMSKI, JR RAISSI (AKAMR. PICKLE)
Vocational Chairman Frank Pease (above left) has presented JR Raissi (above right) owner of the Carmichael Mr. Pickle restaurant,
with our award for outstanding service to the community.
JR Raissi has been a Carmichael resident for 40 years and has owned and operated the popular Mr. Pickles sandwich shop for 20 years. In addition to being an important part of our business community, he has been involved in community service in a number of important areas. Much of his work in this area has provided support to Carmichael youth and beyond. In addition to hiring local teens to work in this business, he has been active for fundraising for the Carmichael library and several schools. He has also contributed to the success of our own Rotary auctions. JR. has one son and two daughters. His wife is an aesthetician. We are pleased to honor someone who so exemplifies our goals of superior performance in business paired with active volunteerism to contribute to Carmichael's broader needs.
Joe Scheimer presents R.I. Polio Plus Award to Carmichael Rotary
President Richard Olebe (above, left) receives Polio Plus Award
for significant financial support 2021-2022
from Foundation Chair Joe Scheimer (above right)
Posted by Phil Danz
A TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING
It was our pleasure to welcome Roxanne Snyder (left above) and Meghan Adamski, who came to talk about "A Touch of Understanding" which is a 26 year old organization that teaches students and others about what it is like to be handicapped. This small organization (8 people) travel around the wider Sacramento area to schools and create awareness about the handicapped. They are having a special event on March 23, 2023. Please click on "read more" for information.
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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