THE NUGGET
VOLUME 75, ISSUE 15
 
 
 
THE ROTARY CLUB OF CARMICHAEL
P.O. Box 129
Carmichael, C 95609-0129
 
 
District 5180:
 
Rotary International:
 
NOVEMBER, 2021
 
FOUNDATION MONTH
 
 
 

 President  Dick Bauer opened the 15th Rotary meeting of the 2021-2022 year

 

Chuckles for the day: 

 

 
JOE SCHEIMER
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Carmichael Rotarians, November 9 meeting will be on Zoom
We just heard from our venue, the Main Event at Ancil Hoffman, that they can no longer provide a meeting location for our club.  Starting next Tuesday, Nov. 9th, until we are able to secure another venue. all meetings will be on Zoom only. Our board meeting next Tuesday will also be on Zoom from 5-6 PM.
 
FUTURE DATES:
 
NOVEMBER 9TH - PROJECT LIFELONG - Sean LaTour-Jarquim
 
NOVEMBER 16TH - THE ACCORDIAN - Alan Galaway
 
NOVERMBER 23RD - DARK
 
NOVEMBER 30 - VITALENT - Vicky Wolfe
 
 
 
District Foundation Dinner - October 30, 2021
The speaker at the Foundation Dinner was Bob Rogers, a polio survivor who chairs the zone 27 End Polio Now Committee.  A large part of the evening at the Foundation dinner was spent giving out awards.  The following members of our club received awards or were recognized.
 
Major Donors (Those who have contributed $10,000 to the Rotary Foundation
Richard Bauer Lv1
Jay and Vicky Boatwrught Lv1
Ed Bunting Lv2
 
Bequest Society (Those who have made arrangements in their wills or trusts to leave at least $10,000 to the Rotary Foundation)
Richard Bauer Lv1
Jay and Vicky Boatwright Lv1
Ed Bunting Lv1
Chuck and Maureen McBride Lv1
 
Paul Harris Society (Those who commit to give at least $1000 a year to the Rotary Foundation)
Richard Bauer
Jay Boatwright
Vicky Boatwright
Ed Bunting
Vince Iosso
 
 
Triple Crown Members ( Members of all three of above)
Richard Bauer
Jay and Vicky Boatwright
Ed Bunting
 
Polio Plus members-Richard Bauer, Karinne Bauer, Stan Roe, Chuck McBride, Vicky Boatwright, Jay Boatwright, Frank Pease, George Abraham, Mark Beil, Karen Munsterman, Heine Roikjer, Ramouna Roikjer  
Getting to know him - George Abraham
I was born in the southern Indian state of Kerala. My father was a civil engineer who worked on hydroelectric projects. My mother was a homemaker with a degree in science. With my dad working in remote areas having no local schools, my younger brother and I were sent to a boarding school run by the Catholic church at an early age. Later, my dad took a job in Kuwait and we stayed with our grandparents until college. I came to know Rotary when I won an academic award from the Rotary Club of Kottayam
 
I graduated in electrical engineering from Bangalore University. My first job was installing and servicing test and measurement equipment for a broad range of applications. My first visit to the US was in 1989 to get trained at various companies in Austin and Dallas. My job took me all over India, visiting power plants, factories, and research labs.  Traveling all the time got tiring after couple of years. Then I joined Verifone who had just opened an office in Bangalore. After a few months, I was given the opportunity to transfer to Auburn to be part of a team developing point of sale systems. I was a test engineer responsible for compliance with technical and safety regulations. 
 
While working for Verifone, I felt stable enough in my career to get married to my wife Julie. Then I enrolled in Sac state for a master’s degree in computer engineering. When an opportunity came up at Intel Folsom, I switched jobs again. I have been at Intel for about 25 years now.  I have moved between divisions but never left Folsom. 
 
I have two children, my daughter Tara and son Akash. Tara was active in the Interact Club at Bella Vista, becoming the club president. She is also a Toastmaster and attended her first Rotaract meeting at UC Davis last week. Akash was active in Boy Scouts achieving the Eagle Rank. He graduated high school in the middle of Covid and is taking time to figure out what career path to take.  Julie is active in the Soroptimist Club and involved in various community service projects. 
 
I joined Rotary about 15 years ago when we tried to charter a club in Gold River. The club tried to grow beyond the charter members but after about four years, we decided to disband the club but continue as Rotarians by joining nearby Rotary clubs. I have been a member of Carmichael Rotary club ever since, one of the best decisions I have ever made! 
 
 
R.I. FOUNDATION BASICS
 
 
 
 
 
 
EFFIE YEAW NATURE CENTER WORK PROJECT
We worked this morning at the Effie Yeaw nature Center restoring habitat to attract pollinators, including the Monarch butterfly.  We also planted milkweed the plant that monarch butterflies use to lay their eggs 
Those who participated included George Abraham, Stan Roe, Rich Plath, Melody Sipes, Kari and Dick Bauer,  Carol and Mark Beil, Richard Olebe, Carole and Steve Girard, Frank Pease, and Ramona Roikjer.  We ate donuts before setting out to work and Togo’s sandwiches after we finished. -President Dick Bauer.
 
Many thanks to our awesome habitat restoration team and the hardworking support of the Carmichael Rotary volunteers, we planted, irrigated, mulched,  and caged over 100 plants today. What great teamwork! 
 
Mary will be pleased to know that hard hats were worn when using the stake pounders and no injuries to report. Safety first.
 
A troop of cub scouts marching up the main trail  had to stop and ask what all the comotion was about? They were happy to hear about pollinator plants and that we were working to provide more food for bees and butterflies, so our mission of educating visitors is already underway! 
 
Thank you so much for all of your planning, prepping, and providing your brain and muscle power to save the world, one small pollinator patch at a time. I am so proud of you all.
 
Krystin
 
 
 
 
 
HAPPY THOUGHTS
 
On the November 2nd Meeting, Vicky Boatwright, oversaw the "Happy Fines".
An ecstatic Phil Danz jumped up a gave his hard earned meal money ($20) celebrating that the California Bears annihilated the Oregon State Beavers 39-25 in a recent Pac 10 game, Jay Boatwright who is an alumnus of Ore. State made some innocuous weak rebuttal for $5.; Stan Roe noted for everybody that he went on a Grand Canyon with his family and appropriately BONGED THE GONG: Ramounal Roikjer put in her hard earned meal money because today's topic (the R.I. Foundation) was great!; Vince Iosso (from afar on Zoom) BONGED THE GONG because his daughter is moving to Wisconsin and his whole family will be in one place! (albeit a frozen place in the winter). Dick Bauer put some $ in recognition of the Superheros meeting they attended on Saturday; Vicky put in her hard earned meal money because she visited the Joshua Tree National Park last week.
 
 
 
BELL RINGERS
 
BILL BAXTER; DICK BAUER; MARK BEIL; ED BUNTING; GREG HERRERA; VINCE IOSSO (2);WALTER MALHOSKI; TONY MARQUES; CHUCK McBRIDE; KAREN MUNSTERMAN; FRANK PEASE; 
RICH PLATH; STAN ROE
 
 BONG GONGERS
 
DICK BAUER (2); KARI BAUER; MARK BEIL (2) ; ED BUNTING; KATHA DANZ; TROY DRENNON; GREG HERRERA (GERONIMO) (2); VINCE IOSSO;  WALTER MALHOSKI (2);
FRANK PEASE; STAN ROE (2); HEINE ROIKJER; RAMOUNA ROIKJER (2)
 

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
 
 
 
 
So it came to Karen Munsterman that she drew the winning ticket. What did she win?
A bottle of wine. She looks pretty happy!
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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