March 3rd Program: Speech Contest “Serving Humanity”

River City High School Students

Chips from the Buzzsaw Weekly Newsletter of the

Rotary Club of West Sacramento

Volume 68, No 29

March 3, 2017

Club 558 of District 5180

PO Box 288 West Sacramento, CA

95691

Meets Every Friday at Club Pheasant, 12:15 pm

SPEAKER PROGRAM

March 10th

Interact Presentation

March 17th UCD Football and Coach Hawkins

March 24th

Club Vocational Visit, Sierra Donor Services

March 31st

Tim Stroshane, Author

April 7th Laine Himmelman, Habitat of

Greater Sacramento

April 14th Tom Wallace, Construction of

the Hoover Dam

April 21st Awards Program

March is Water and Sanitation Month

At last Friday’s gathering, six students from Rive City High School participated in the club’s speech contest. All contestants spoke on to the topic of “Serving Humanity,” and all delivered their personal, unique

perspectives on the topic. The winners were as follows:

1st Place—Gabriella Tolstova

2nd Place — Adam Miller

3rd Place — Zoe Pryor

Khalim Salim, Rahitesh Prasad, and Lindsey Nava also participated in the contest. A special thanks goes out to our contestants, their guests in attendance, our judges, and Joanie Kapell and JoAnn Moffett for arranging the speaking contest. It is safe to say we are all looking forward the contest again next year!

March 3, 2017— Meeting Summary

Presiding: President Bill Pledge: Andy Wallace

Opening Blessing: Tim Carnahan Raffle: Tim Kwong

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Program of the Week Last Gathering’s Program Upcoming Speaker Programs

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In Case you Missed it! Object of Rotary Visitors and Guests

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More GatheringTidbits Wild Bill’s Box Opening Remarks 4-Way Test

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Save the Dates! Club Leadership Team Club Calendar Meals on Wheels Schedule Birthdays and Anniversaries

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Future Rotarians Chunks from the Buzzsaw Future Rotarian Spotlight

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Club Vocation Visit March 24th 6

Seize the Moment Epilepsy Run 7

Stay Connected Your Links to Rotary Rotary International Tidbits West Sac Rotary in the News!

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Announcements Weekly Announcements District 5180 Leadership Other District Club Meeting Information

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Inside this issue:

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Visitors and Guests March 3rd, 2017

Visitors Al Franks — South Sacramento

Guests Speech Contest Participants, Family, and

Counselors

OBJECT OF ROTARY

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the: ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD: The application of ideal of service by every Rotarian to his/her/ personal, business and community life;

FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideals of service.

SPEECH CONTEST

PARTICIPANTS

JoAnn and Joanie get the contest ready

Frequent Visiting Rotarian Al Franks

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4 Way Test

Of the Things we Think, Say or Do:

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all con-cerned?

OPENING REMARKS FROM THE PRESIDENT

I was asked by Washington Unified School District, Linda Luna, to participate in the Principle for a Day Program on Thursday March 2, along with other entities that partner with the school district. I was

assigned to Stonegate Elementary and Principle Ben Kingsbury. I had a wonderful

time shadowing Ben throughout the morning. It was also a National Day of

Reading program so I also read to Ms Raski’s 3rd grade classroom. I got to read Up On

Pop upside down for the students could see the pictures. Only got caught one time saying No instead of On. Try it, easy to

do! The students had many questions for me regarding my age, how long have I been

an engineer, etc. The conclusion, I look really healthy for a man of my age.

Bill’s Box

We had a great turnout for out speech contest. Usually there are four speakers, but we had six finalists. To keep the meeting on schedule, we skipped some of the normal routine items that I have from week to week. I want to thank Joanie Kapell and JoAnn Moffett for their time and commitment to this contest year after year. I also want to thank the judges, score keepers and the invaluable time keeper for their participation. I am glad that I did not have to judge these student speakers. They were all great. This was probably the first time many had been in front of an audience. We had to have a First Place finalist, but in my opinion, they all were First Place. Next week the Interact members will be running the show, starting with the pledge through the foundation draw, raffle and adjournment. The programs will be a RYLA presentation. As a side note, our club is sponsoring two students and the morning club in sponsoring two students to RYLA this year. However, the interview committee has selected five students worthy of going. There will be a “Pass-the-Hat” at Friday’s meeting in hopes of raising enough money to sponsor the fifth participant. Unfortunately, I will not be at Friday’s meeting due to a family commitment. Please, everyone, attempt to be at this meeting in support of our Interact members and give generously. Thank You and Rotary Up! -Bill

Judy Ratley, Sandra Yuyama, Charyl Silva

and Lee Harris gather for a picture

Steve Lewis

photo-bombed at the very last second

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Leadership Team

President *Bill Bevier

Past President *Heine Roikjer

President-Elect *Jim Cahill

Treasurer *Chris Bradford

Secretary *Peter Anderson

Sergeant at Arms Wayne Enke

Membership *Tim Kwong

The Rotary Foundation *Barry Kalar

5 Avenues of Service

Community Service *Christian Montgomery Denise Seals

International Service *Paul Kolarik

Vocational Service *Drew Gidlof

Club Service *Shaun Morrow

Generational Services *Joanie Kapell *JoAnn Moffett

Program Speakers *Dan Ramos *Troy Bird

Interact Counselor *Charyl Silva

Bulletin Editor Amanda Bailey –Interim

Revenue Maker *Jaclyn Powell

Grant Administration Luan Christ

Sunshine Chair Kathleen O’Leary

Business Liaison *Dan Ramos

Publicity Chair *Carol Bogart

*Board Member

Birthdays & Anniversaries

March Birthdays Carol Bogart 9th JoAnn Moffett 18th Peter Anderson 11th Doug Dickson 14th Denice Seals 21st Drew Gidlof 27th Mark Engstrom 28th

March Anniversaries Wayne and Dee Enke 27th — 46 yrs

Club Calendar

April Board of Directors Meeting—4/5/17, 5:30pm, Clark Pacific Yolo County Food Bank Work Day—4/8 Vocation Service Awards—4/21/17 Rotary Work Day– 4/29, Details TBD

**Notes Non Rotarian Volunteer Mondays: Route 1

3/27 Tim Carnahan and Luan Christ

Mondays: Route 5 3/13 Joanie Kapell and JoAnn Moffett 3/20 Paul Kolarik 3/27 Dick Marshall and Troy Bird 4/3 Jeanne and Mike

Wednesdays: Route 5 3/15 Carol Bogart and Marty Garozzo 3/22 Gina Borges and Jim Cahill 3/29 Jeff Post and Kent Ramos 4/5 Lyle Bassett and Bob Ceccato

Thursdays: Route 1

3/16 Tom Wallace and Tissy Simmons 3/23 Steve Heringer and Robb White** 3/30 Ken Ruzich 4/6 John Raney

Thursdays: Route 2 3/16 Leonor Dicdican and Barry Kalar 3/23 Ron Morazzini and Len Thomas 3/30 Jon Rearman 4/6 Mike Campbell and Dan Ramos

Thursdays: Route 5 3/30 Mark Engstrom 4/6 Shaun Morrow

Your Newsletter Crew

Photos By: David Kamminga

davidkamminga@frontiernet.net

Editor: Amanda Bailey

amanda.bevier.bailey@gmail.com

March 10th — Jim Cahill

March 17th — Wayne Enke

March 24th — Drew Gidlof

March 31st — Mike Campbell

April 7th — Chris Bradford

April 14th — OPEN

April 21st — Amanda Bailey

April 28th — Jeff Post

NOTE TAKER SIGN-UPS

Meals on Wheels Program Expansion

The staff at the Senior’s Center could use some more help. With our new members I am hoping that we can get 8 more volunteers to run a route on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays. It requires about one to one

and one half hours of your time once every four weeks, delivering meals to about 12 elderly or disabled West Sacramento residents. You

would be working with a partner, so grab a Rotary friend and let me know that you are willing to both help out. When we get 8 volunteers I will meet with you and we will organize our new group. Thanks for con-

sidering this way to provide Service Above Self.

Submitted by Tom Wallace

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FUTURE ROTARIAN

Melina Dhillon My name is Melina Dhillon

and I am currently a Junior at River City High School. I have been involved in Interact for 3

years. My position on the Interact Board is Secretary

Shadow for late lunch. I joined Interact because my friends joined and enjoyed Interact events. I hope to accomplish leadership skills in Interact.

Because of this, my goals for the future is to be more involved in my community. I would like to attend UC Davis as a pre-med

major. However, I do not know a specific area in the medical field I

would like to pursue. Interact made me gain self-confidence to

be more social with others.

Future Rotarians

Reading Buddies

Chunks from the Buzzsaw

River City High School Interact Club

The Club is Currently looking for someone to

host an exchange student for June and

July. Contact Steve Orne if interested.

Tim Carnahan signs Marty Garozzo up for

something

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YOUR LINKS TO ROTARY

www.rotaryclubofwestsacramento.org

Just Search for:

“Rotary Club of West

Sacramento”

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Rotary-Club-of

-West-Sacramento/12087025467716

www.rotary.org

Rotary District 5180

http://www.clubrunner.ca/portal/

home.aspx?did=5180

To El Salvador and Beyond…..

The Rotary Club of Burlington, Ontario, Canada distributed over 550 wheelchairs in El Salvador in 2013 to help some of the 465,000 Salvador-ans who have been injured by land mines, armed conflict or gang vio-lence. But the Canadians, being very nice people, wanted to hand off the project to their local Rotary partners.

A French-Canadian engineer member named Peter French (no really!) worked with local high school shop students who used computer-aided design to reduce the number of parts from 130 to 30. They ship the parts to the Rotary Club of El Salvador for assembly. A member of the local club is further re-designing the wheelchair to simplify it even more.

Submitted by Paul Kolarik

The Mighty Rotary Club of West

Sacramento in the News!

The club’s story A “Nest” for Bikers & Hikers on the Clarksburg Trail” is published in:

The Rotary District 5180 Newsletter (March 2017, coming soon, stayed tuned)

West Sacramento’s local online newspaper WestSacWeb.com (online, 2/25/1 7, now posting): http://westsacweb.com/a-nest-for-bikers-and-hikers-on-the-clarksburg-trail-with-strong-suppor-p4958-146.htm

And in the West Sacramento News Ledger (March 1, 2017 edition), West Sacramento’s long-time local weekly.

Social Media: Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumbler, StumbleUpon

Does this club know how to Rotary Up or what!?!

Tim Kwong draws for a free lunch

Andy Wallace gets some club kudos

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2016-2017 Rotary International President

John F. Germ

2016-2017 Rotary District 5180 Governor

Barbara J. Tracy

2016-2017 Rotary District 5180 Assistant Governor

Angela Spease

District 5180 Rotary Clubs Meeting Times and Locations So You Can Make Up Each Week

Day Who When Where Who When Where

Mon Foothill Highlands 12:15pm Lions Gate at McClellan Park Walnut Grove 12:30pm Tony’s Place

Sacramento 12:15pm Red Lion Hotel –Woodlake Fair Oaks 6:45pm Fair Oaks Community Clubhouse

Tues

Oroville Sunrise 7:00am The Monday Club Oroville Noon The Monday Club

Rancho Cordova Sunrise 7:00am Cordova Casino Marysville 12:10pm Peachtree Country Club

Sacramento Breakfast 7:15am Evan’s Kitchen Rancho Cordova 12:15pm Rancho Cordova City Hall

West Sacramento Centennial 7:00am Collins Teen Center Loomis Sunset 5:30pm Refer to Home Page

Arden Arcade Noon Piatti Carmichael 6:30pm Ancil Hoffman Golf Course Clubhouse

Wed

Folsom Lake—Folsom Noon Empire Ranch Golf Club South Placer—Rocklin Noon Whitney Oaks Golf Club

El Dorado Hills 7:15am Community Service District Citrus Heights 12:15pm Citrus Heights City Hall

Laguna Sunrise 7:45am Valley Hi Country Club North Sacramento 12:15pm Doubletree Hotel

East Sacramento Noon Evan’s Kitchen Banquet Room Yuba City 12:15pm Hillcrest Plaza Room

Elk Grove 12:15pm Chason’s Crab Stadium Midtown Sacramento 5:30pm Café Bernardo

Thu

Historic Folsom 7:00am Folsom Veterans Hall (VFW) Lincoln Noon Lincoln Women’s Club (2nd/4th)

Roseville Sunrise 7:00am Gingers Restaurant Lincoln 6:00pm Beermann’s Restaurant (1st/3rd)

South Yuba County 7:00am Peach Tree Restaurant South Sacramento 11:30am Casa Garden Restaurant

Pocket-Greenhaven 7:30am Aviators, Executive Airport Folsom 7:00pm Rotary Clubhouse-Lew Howard Park

North Sacramento Noon Lemmon Law Office (1st) Roseville Noon Sierra View Country Club

North Sacramento 5:30pm Mama Kims (3rd) Gridley Noon Parish Hall

Rocklin-Loomis Basin 7:00am The Window Box Cafe Rotart eClub 6:00pm Next mtg February 9th

Fri

Orangevale 7:00am La Placita Restaurant Natomas 7:15am Denny’s

Point West 7:00am Doubletree Hotel Granite Bay 12:15pm Cattlemens Steakhouse

Twin Rivers 6:15pm Aviator’s Restaurant (1st and 3rd)

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS The Club’s Steak Dinner fundraiser event will be held on May 25th. More information to follow. Direct any

questions, comments, or concerns to President Bill. The Point West Club is holding their Fiesta Vino event Saturday, March 25th. This event will help the club

support Human Trafficking Initiative Sanctuary for Victims. The event will be held from 6:30—9:30 pm at the California Auto Museum. 2200 Front Street, Sacramento, CA.

The Rotary Foundation Centennial Dinner will be held May 20th and the Folsom Community Center. Dinner we

be at 6:30. The program for the evening will be John Germ, the 2016-2017 Rotary International President. Shaun Morrow will be conducting a NCAAP pool to benefit the Mighty Rotary Club of West Sacramento. Members planning on attending the March 24th Club Vocational Visit to Sierra Donor Services have the option

to sign up for a $15.00 box lunch. See Drew Gidlof for more details.