►The definition of Rotary is a fellowship and service organization that helps ordinary people do extraordinary things!
► OUR 39TH ANNUAL CARMICHAEL ROTARY - EASTER SEALS GOLF CLASSIC sponsored by Pacific Coast will be held at Ancil Hoffman on Friday, June 8th, 2018. See brochure and sponsorship opportunities further down in this bulletin.
► DISTRICT CONFERENCE - May 11-13, 2018: All will have a great time at the District Conference, May 10-13, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency at Lake Tahoe, Incline Village.
There will be a significant contingent from the Carmichael Club . You will meet many great Rotarians in the District, great programs and this year, we will have our District "Speech Contest" at the conference and the WINNER from our Club,Julia Luna will be there! There is a special price of 150+ per night for rooms. Contact Deb Thornton (Conf. Chair) - debbiesan@comcast.net ; or Daniela Calvitti (Registration) - dccalvitti7@aol.com Flyer is further down in this bulletin. PRESIDENT DICK BAUER HAS ANNOUNCED THAT WE HAVE MET THE CRITERIA FOR RECEIVING A PRESIDENTIAL CITATION AND IT WILL BE AWARDED AT THE DISTRICT CONFEREN
► A FIRESIDE CHAT A second Fireside chat will be held on TUESDAY, APRIL 24TH to help explain some of the intricacies of Rotary. It is for those who were unable to attend the last meeting - It will be from 7-9 pm at Dick Bauer's home and will take place in lieu of our regular meeting.
UGANDA WATER PROJECT - WE QUALIFY FOR MATCHING FUNDS!
Dear Rotarians:
Congratulations! Your global grant application for funding to provide (5) wells water and (5) water tanks, gravity distribution pipelines and collection points as well as training for WUC & WASH programs for students and teachers at 3 primary schools to compliment the construction of 3 tap-hand washing stations in each school in Iyolwa Sub county of Uganda, submitted by the Rotary Club of Tororo/District 9211 and the Rotary Club of Carmichael/District 5180 has been approved by The Rotary Foundation. The award is in the amount of $200,250.00.
This letter serves as formal notification of your grant approval and explains what you must do to receive grant payment. It also contains important links to additional resources. We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on a well written application based on solid community assessment and integration of the stakeholders into all aspects of the program. We have flagged this grant as a model for us to follow to see its success in country.
► SAVE THE DATE: There will be a lecture on Peace resolution at Sacramento State, Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. by President Nana Akufo Addo who is president of Ghana. It should be very interesting. See flyer further down in this bulletin:
► FOUNDATION CHAIR CHUCK McBRIDEhas announced that Foundation night will be held on Tuesday, May 22nd , 6:00 p.m., Northridge Country Club
CALENDAR
♦ DARK/FIRESIDE CHAT: April 24th,Dick Bauer's home - 7-9 p.m.
► INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE - April 28th, Saturday, at Sac State
♦AVOIDING & REVERSING CHRONIC CONDITIONS" - May 1st, Don Forrester, M.D.
♦ CARMICHAEL CLUB'S HISTORY: May 8th, Jim Thompson
► DISTRICT CONFERENCE AT INCLINE VILLAGE - May 11 to 13th.
♦ PAUL HARRIS NIGHT: May 22nd - 6:00 p.m. at Northridge Country Club
► ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - Toronto - June 22-27th
Fair Oaks Blvd. Business Improvement District Plans (PBID)
Gary Hursh, president of the Carmichael Improvement District was introduced to our Club. He is a property owner and attorney with a business on Fair Oaks Blvd and has a great interest in the Fair Oaks Chamber of Commerce and a wife who was a member of the Point West Rotary Club.
Gary wanted to talk about recent improvements with just over half of the 250 business property owners with commercial assets in the 10 acre Fair Oaks Boulevard Public and Business Improvement District (PBID).
The District has been battling blight and crime on the roughly 437 properties in the area.
Stakeholders have created a nonprofit, the Carmichael Improvement District (CID) to manage the PBID budget and project oversight. Among their duties are providing security, litter management and graffiti removal, illegal dumping and abandoned shopping carts and cars.
They have hired Paladin Security to help manage the homeless problem of people interfering with businesses and trespassing on properties.
The environment of the area has improved and there has been a reduction of homeless problems and crime. The next step is improvement in economic development.
President Bauer thanked Mr. Hursh for his informative presentation and mentioned that a book, in his honor, will be presented to the Carmichael Library.
Speaker Gary Hursh, President Dick Bauer, Guests Phyllis Baughman and Carl Daniel
It was a beautiful spring day, Sunday, April 22, 2018, at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery located at 1000 Broadway at 10th Street and the highest point in Sacramento. We met Dr. Bob LaPierrere there, a retired dermatologist, curator of the Sacramento Medical Society Museum (on Elvas St.) and supporter of the cemetery for many years - we (11 Rotarians, spouses, and friends) were so lucky to have him as our docent for the day.
The cemetery is very large (44 acres) and was founded in 1849. Bob took us on a one and a half hour’s tour and we learned many interesting historical facts about the residents interned there. We saw the world class rose garden that has been kept up by the cemetery for many years and many famous people’s graves including Edwin B. Crocker, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., Mark Hopkins, 1st Mayor Hardin Bigelow and many, many others. The cemetery is divided into various sections, like the pioneer’s section, veteran’s section (with a section from the civil war), firefighter’s, and others.
It is just amazing that such a historical treasure trove exists and is so convenient to see and explore. I would recommend to anyone to take a tour or go on your own on any nice sunny day.
Afterwards most of us had a delightful dim sum lunch at the nearby restaurant, the Ming Dynasty.
Bob LaPerriere, M.D. can be contacted at ssvmsedcom@gmail.com. Some pictures are below…
Kari Bauer, Carole Girard, Steve Girard, Dick Bauer, Greg Herrera, Stan Roe, Walter Malhoski, Chuck McBride
So it came to pass that the thistles (bad plants) were choking out the good plants at Effie Yeaw Nature Center such that EYNC called upon their favorite Rotary Club to pull out the weeds. Carmichael Rotary Club did accomplished these chores on April 21, 2018 when 8 volunteers responded....to the task. Kudos to them.
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
As of April 10, 2017, we have purchased nearly 150 titles in honor of our speakers! Because of the large number of books, we are not showing them all at this time.
RECENT SPEAKERS AND BOOK DONATIONS
BOOK DONATIONS TO THE CARMICHAEL LIBRARY
PRESENTER
Congressman Ami Berra
"Give Work Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time"
Author: Leila Janah
Catherine Servillas
"The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History"
Author: Elizabeth Norten
Keith Simmons
"The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories"
Author: Ilan Pappe
Patty Upslinger
"First Impressions: A Readers Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest"
Author: David J. Weber
Roland Wright
"Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the first Mission to the Moon"
Author Jeffrey Kluger
Ann Roach
"In Their Lives, Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs"
Edited by: Andrew Blauner
Catherine Survillas
"The Gardner and The Carpenter, what the science of
child development tells us about the relationship between parents and Children"
Author: Alison Gopnik
Lorenzo M. Smith, Ph.D.
"My Pencil, teaching poetry in the Detroit
public schools"
Author: Peter Markus
Elaine Whitefeather
"Women in the World of Frederick Douglas"
Author: Leigh Fought
Richard Olebe
"Making Local Food Work, the Challenges and Opportunities
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