NowPresident David Thormanopened the 7th meeting "virtually"and again in lonely condition secluded in his own home.
The "pledge" and "thought" were performed by our esteemed member Ed Bunting who gave the following very interesting and true thought:
"People don't care how much you know
until they know how much you care."
Theodore Roosevelt
HONORARY
RMICHAEL & LEIGH-ANN REINERO, PAUL FRIEDRICH, JEFF DEVOLL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
♦ PARTIAL IN PERSON MEETINGS: President David, is asking if the time might be right to have partial "in house" meetings. Perhaps we can meet at his home and have up to ten persons, all dutifully masked and social distanced. Then, have the rest of the persons attend on Zoom. This "hybrid" meeting might get us back a little bit to normalcy - I volunteered myself and Katha because I know that if you show up at 5 o'clock, you get a free Martini. President David needs to know if you will attend partial "in person" meetings.
♦ RISE AGAINST HUNGER: Vicky Boatwright announced again that "Rise Against Hunger" would like us to volunteer for the "hands on" preparation of meals sessions. It looks like we will help them at their warehouse in Natomas. They will have 10 persons per shift - a maximum of 20 people, all properly distanced and with precautions against Covid-19 contamination. Please email Vicky if you are interested in volunteering and we will go from there to find a convenient time for the project.
♦ WE NEED A NEW PRESIDENT-ELECT for 2001-2002: It seems that Vince Iosso has let it be known that there is a good chance that he will be moving out of state within the next year. This is sad for us and the Club, but it is best we know of his plans, since we can now start training a new President-elect for next year. Any volunteers?
♦ PLEASE COMPLETE OUR CLUB SURVEY: Ed Buntinghas sent each member a survey with questions about your satisfaction and input/ideas to improve our Club's performance. Please complete and send back to him.
♦ Jeff Devoll attended our Club meeting and informed us again about a large and valuable project in which the Point West Club is involved in Mexico (he gave a lecture to us about it a while back, May 26th, 2000, "Skills in Learning"). The project is in the San Quintin Valley in Baja California and has the goal of alleviating poverty there and violence reduction, job training, and community development. Jeff plans to lead youth groups down there as soon as travel becomes safe. He needs $33,000 in seed money which will be used with matching grants total about $100,000. They have $11,500.00 accumulated so far. Sounds like a wonderful project and our experts Richard Olebe and David Thorman have volunteered to give special advise as to how to achieve the matching grant (as our Club accomplished with our Ugandan Water Project).
FUTURE PROGRAMS
►SEPTEMBER 1 - DANIEL CAMPS - Being an Exchange Student in California
►SEPTEMBER 8 - DARK
►SEPTEMBER 15 - Dr. Wen Chen - Chinese History and Human Rights
►SEPTEMBER 22 - PDG Jim Thompson - History of the Carmichael Rotary Club
District Membership Chair Michael Reinero appeared "virtually" in his home, with his wife, our esteemed Assistance Governor Leigh-Ann, comfortably resting in the background on a couch, and thanked the Club for having him at our Meeting. He reiterated what Ed Bunting said, that the survey is important in that it helps leadership to know what members want from their Clubs. Our Rotary Zones are 25 and 26 and covers the western states and are involved with the Vibrant Club Initiative: to identify leaders, and their skills. One way Rotary Clubs can exemplify "vibrancy" is to think outside the box in these pandemic times and partner with other organizations to help our communities. Do things with others who have common objectives. In Club Service, the new Club idea is to organize Clubs around causes having new Club goals - and, for instance, using "virtual" and Passport Clubs. Incidentally, Michael mentioned that Carmichael needs a breakfast Club.
Clubs should do what they want to do and Passport and Virtual Clubs can be more flexible. The passport club in our District has 3 P.D.G's and multiple Past Presidents and in the Club's rules, it doesn't have the more stringent obligations of a traditional Rotary Club. This can be helpful to those might like to give Rotary a try without all the rules. Michael suggests that a Club could create an event virtually with maybe 6 sessions, sort of a sitcom? He mentioned that the District Zoom Meeting is set for Nov. 7th and will be virtual, Michael hopes you enjoy it.
Rotary International is now on track to have the first woman president in it's history. She is Jennifer Jones of the Windsor Roseland, Ontario Club and will be president in the year 2021-22. This will be a great boon for female membership in the world, which is still dominated by men. United States leads in the proportion of women in it's Clubs, 22%.
In the Q &A, it was brought out that one of the advantages of the pandemic is that people don't have to travel to attend meetings, so that, for instance, a club might be able to procure best speakers from around the world. It might help provide more diversity and focus on projects in which minorities are interested.
I think that Michaelgot excited when President David mentioned the prospect that a book, in honor of his presentation, will be donated to the Carmichael Library (subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library)
HAPPY FINES
OUR collection got a little better because Ed Bunting stepped up and BONGED THE GONG just out of generosity; Phil Danz contributed a big 1A ($20) which he hoped would cause the smoke from the fires to go away; Stan Rose recited the "Hokey Pokey" and you turn yourself around - hoping to voodoo out the smoke; and I think that Geronimo, Greg Herrera RANG THE BELL because of his love for Tequila....Troy Drennon and Walter Malhoski said a few things, but for me, they sounded like unintelligible babble.
BELL RINGERS
GREG HERRERA; STAN ROE
v
BONG GONGERS
HAMID AHMADI; ED BUNTING; VINCE IOSSO; STAN ROE (2); DAVID THORMAN
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)
Donations as of 8-22-2020
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 byBertaBoegel, Branch Supervisor, Carmichael Library, subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library.
rboegel@saclibrary.org
Due to the quantity of books donated as of 8-4-2020 (over 200), I have noted only the last 16 or so. The prior tabulations of books donated have been archived and will be in the memory of the Carmichael Club in Club Runner.
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Clubs should do what they want to do and Passport and Virtual Clubs can be more flexible. The passport club in our District has 3 P.D.G's and multiple Past Presidents and in the Club's rules, it doesn't have the more stringent obligations of a traditional Rotary Club. This can be helpful to those might like to give Rotary a try without all the rules. 
