Cast of players: CLUB EXECUTIVE

Secretary Samantha HoshidaTreasurer Drew Houghton

Executive Secretary George DanielsPWRC Foundation Michael Cendro

Club Information Officer Samantha Hoshida

CLUB DIRECTORSClub Service 1 Tim MaliepaardClub Service 2 Tom EngwerClub Service 3 Paul Snyder

Vocational Service Jeniece ThomasCommunity Service 1 Brad McDowellCommunity Service 2 Drew ReisingerInternational Service Paul Friedrich

Youth Services Mike GarciaMembership Venita Sivamani

Sergeant-at-Arms Tom KnoxAssistance Sgt At Arms Kathleen McNabb

Monte WatsonSteve Morrow

President Elect Carl NaakePast President Desirée WillsonGrant Review

Committee ChairmanRuss Fujii

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The CurTain risesThe meeting was not started promptly at 6:30 P.M. with a quick introduction from Mr. Tom Knox

The Pledge of Allegiance by another member.

Next up was Not Lee Holmes leading us in God Bless America, as only Lee can do. It was the president of the Men’s 20/30 Club!

Po in t West Rota r y – w i th the co l lec t ive energy and power of our members, we d o g o o d t h i n g s , c h a n g e lives, make an impact, help the community be a bet ter place to live, leave a legacy.

It is through our combined passion, talents, skills, abil-ities and generosity that we make a difference in our world.

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Unfortunately, Note taking and the recording of the meeting were lost. Despite Cheryl’s best efforts, it is not known what was said. Perhaps it was bout beer and the state of being intoxicated.

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Festa di VinoCa Automobile MuseumChair: Kathleen Wheeler

Jun 08, 2018

PWR Golf TournamentMather Golf CourseChair: William Dunk

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Morning Duty

Greeters: Jim & Rich

AV: Shawn Harris

HeaD table

Desireé Wilson and Rick Bixler

Halloween all over again

Lou Fifer who is a 6th grade tutor at Edison selling candy bars on behalf of his students to send them to Occidental?

FounDation Dinner

Point West Rotary received two awards

tHanksgiving at encina

John Price, Thanksgiving at Encina Nov. 16th –need volunteers to serve 250 students

leaDersHip conFerence

Went Well and was a very re-warding experience.

Mark Albrecht shared the Godfather movie with our father guido sarducci asking for condoms.

Grant Review : Russ Fujii, Tom Harvey, Desireé Wilson presented $5,000 to the Active 20/30 Club #1 for “comfort cases” for Holiday Season.

1032 womens club president Michelle Stillman introduced pass presidents

Crab Feed—25th annual will be on 1/20/18… mardi gras theme

Rob S explained what comfort cases for foster kids…bag or backpack filled with toiletries, pjs, socks, teddy bear, blan-kets, etc in lieu of trash bags. Packing to take place 11/9 from 11:30-1:30

Mike sMytH ucD HoliDay party

December 9, at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Ward from 11-320/30 Club No. 1 hosts a holiday party for children receiving cancer treatment at UC Davis Med-ical Center, their families and their friends. The club provides food, drinks, games and crafts for the guests. Holiday Party always features entertainment — past performers include magicians, clowns and family-friendly bands. All children may take a photo with Santa Claus while elves present them with a gift from the club. After Holiday Party ends, Club No. 1 members accompa-ny Santa Claus to the Pediatric Children’s Ward to visit and to deliver gifts to children unable to attend the event.

inTermissiOn & Bell rinGers!

Sam Brown-Dawson “shout out” to his family, new job, mom’s re-cuperation from food poisoning, grandparents passed away

We meet Fridays at 7:00 AM

Dante Club2330 Fair Oaks Blvd

Sacramento, CA 95825

rotary club oF point west - sacraMento

District 5180Club Number 22656P.O. Box 15006Sacramento, CA 95851-0006Click to email Point West Rotarywww.PointWestRotary.com

COme JOin The Fun

JEFFREYDEVOLL Jeffrey Devoll, executive director of StudentReach, is an international speaker, trainer, facilitator and mentor to students and leaders.

Jeffrey has spoken to over 1,000,000 people from 40 states and 40 countries on 5 continents in school assemblies, staff development, small group coaching, conferences and leaders. But Jeffrey is more than a speaker, he and his team have taken more than 8,000 people on domestic and international “expeditions” to help schools and needy

people around the world. He has worked with more than half a million students and led more than 50 constructions projects and his work with students has led him to the forefront of exploitation prevention programs including working with the F.B.I., NFL, local law enforcement and national NGO’s.

Jeffrey is the author of the book, 21 days - a Student’s Guide to Becoming Awesome which has a companion smartphone/web app and more than 40 60-second videos. Jeffrey is also co-creator of the A.L.I.V.E. Life Coaching program. The A.L.I.V.E. framework consists of cognitive, social, physical and directional health – the areas that research points to as essential for life success.

Jeff is modern renaissance man. He is a real estate investor, has built his own house, loves off-roading in his Jeep and makes a mean sushi roll.

Jeffrey’s life experience with leadership, world travels, and creative approach to using the latest technology and media for delivering his message puts him on the forefront of communicators.

Contact Jeff at:

5449 East Levee Road – Sacramento, CA - 95835

Office.707.333.9089 - Cell.707.310.2665

Jeff@studentreach.org /jeffreydevoll

/studentreachinc /studentreachinc

/studentreachinc /studentreachinc

new memBer

Britton Taylor Born: in Alameda Grew Up: in Pittsburg, CA in the East Bay Family: Sister: Tiffany who is 4 years younger

Mother passed away when he was 12

Father worked for Chevron Refinery in Richmond His father coached a traveling Men’s Softball Team

High School: Berean Christian in Walnut Creek He played Basketball Was in Choir and Drama

College: Academy of the Arts in San Francisco Major: Visual Arts Compositing

Where all did you work: DreamWorks Was in the Image Finaling Dept where they fixed all of the problems before a

film was released.

You can find him on the credits for films like: Captain America and How to Train your Dragon

Wife: Desiree She is from Hawaii They got married this April 2017

Business: Together they own Taylor Real Estate Group, a part of Keller Williams Realty Located on Fair Oaks Blvd next to Pavillions

Special items: He knew nothing about Rotary and found us at the PWR/Uptown Studio mixer He likes all types of alcoholic beverage And yes, he plays Softball He will be serving as a Mentor at next Week’s Leadership Conference.

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5tH annual youtH leaDersHip conFerence

Posted by Desirée Wilson on Nov 03, 2016

Held last Thursday, the 5th "Annual Partners in Leadership" youth lead-ership conference was another re-sounding success! Bringing togeth-er students from Encina High and business leaders/mentors to discuss leadership and ethics resulted in some great discussions and bonding among the participants. Tania Fowler, this year's conference chair person, did a fabulous job putting together a day of interactive discussions provid-ing students insight into what it takes to be a leader and learning from the mentors some of the pitfalls that they faced in their lives and careers. Most mentors come away from the confer-ence feeling that they got more out of it than the students did!

Tania will be doing a more in-depth recap of the conference in a few weeks (enjoy your vacation Tania…you deserve it!), but I wanted to share some pictures from the day. If you didn't get an opportunity to partici-pate this year, I hope you'll consider it next year…you'll be glad you did!

our Mission

The Rotary Club of Point West Sacramento is a vibrant community service organization promoting service to those in need, good-will, peace, and fellowship

our vision

Be a major contributor to children’s charities and support other local and global charitable opportunities and to be recognized for such

our core values

Service, Fellowship, Respect, Diversity, Integrity and Leadership

our branD

Great people doing extraordinary things and having fun while doing it!

our goals

1. Develop and maintain a strong pub-lic relations/outreach campaign that will effectively drive membership and support fundraising efforts.

2. Increase overall membership by a net of 9 new members by the end of the 2019/2020 Rotary year by fo-cusing in three areas: y o u n g e r members (20-40), diverse popula-tions, women.

3. Increase the Permanent Fund of the Point West Rotary Club Foundation to $1.5 million by the end of the 2019/2020 Rotary year.

4. Maintain a strong presence and participation in District and Rotary International events and programs.

In the early 1930s Herbert J. Taylor set out to save the Club Aluminum Products distribution company from bankruptcy. He believed himself to be the only person in the company with 250 employees who had hope. His recovery plan started with changing the ethical climate of the company. He explained:

The first job was to set policies for the company that would reflect the high ethics and morals God would want in any business. If the people who worked for Club Aluminum were to think right, I knew they would do right. What we needed was a simple, easily remembered guide to right conduct - a sort of ethical yardstick- which all of us in the company could memorize and apply to what we thought, said and did.

I searched through many books for the answer to our need, but the right phrases eluded me, so I did what I often do when I have a problem I can’t answer myself: I turn to the One who has all the answers. I leaned over my desk, rested my head in my hands and prayed. After a few moments, I looked up and reached for a white paper card. Then I wrote down the twenty-four words that had come to me.

I called it "The Four-Way Test" of the things we think, say or do.

Adoption Of The Test By Rotary

In the 1940s, when Taylor was an international director of Rotary, he offered the Four-Way Test to the organization, and it was adopted by Rotary for its internal and promotional use. Never changed, the twenty four word test remains today a central part of the permanent Rotary structure throughout the world, and is held as the standard by which all behavior should be measured.

The test has been promoted around the world and is used in myriad forms to encourage personal and business ethical practices. Taylor gave Rotary International the right to use the test in the 1940s and the copyright in 1954.

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Winner of the $10:

Winner of $10 & the card draw: John Price, No Joker.

Desireé Wilson spoke of her recent trip to Africa with Dewana, Karen Van-Bruggan and others while show her photos.

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 the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s 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 ideal of service.

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all The wOrlD’s a sTaGe,And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

rotary MeMbers in HarvarD, illinois, usa, Have teaMeD up witH coMMunity groups to Help

alleviate Hunger anD bring tHe coMMunity togetHer.By Arnold R. Grahl Photos by Monika Lozinska Videos by Andrew Chudzinski

On a sunny morning in July, two dozen preschool children from Brown Bear Daycare inspect a bed of milkweed plants for monarch butterfly eggs, holding magnifying glasses to the underside of leaves in search of the tiny, off-white objects.

Preschool children from Brown Bear Daycare plant a young tomato plant. The class visits the garden

every Monday morning spring to fall.

Curiosity stoked, the five-year-olds and their teachers move to the shade of a large tree to listen to a master gardener explain the role these butterflies play in gardens. The preschool class visits the community garden in Harvard, Illinois, USA, every Monday from spring to fall to learn about garden-related topics and even help out.

“They get to taste the vegetables, some that they have never even seen. They get to experience what it is like to plant a garden from the planting to the picking

to the eating,” says Sheila Henson, executive director of the day care center and a member of the Rotary Club of Harvard. “At the end of the summer, we have a parent night where the parents come and get to see the different things their children have been involved with.”

With the goals of alleviating hunger and educating the community, master gardeners from University of Illinois Extension planted the garden in 2001 on a half-acre parcel donated by the city and adjacent to the public library. Over the years, the master gardeners have enlisted the support of many businesses, organizations, and clubs, including the Rotary Club of Harvard, making the project a community-wide effort.

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This Should Never Be A

Child’s Suitcase!

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COmFOrT Cases FOr lOCal FOsTer yOuTh

Can you believe that foster youth have to put their few personal belongings in a trash bag when they are moved into or out of a foster home? What kind of message does this send to those chil-dren? Obviously not a positive one. But Point West Rotary and the Active 20/30 Club are joining forces to bring pride and dignity to local foster youth by providing them with backpacks/suitcas-es full of essential items a child needs while in foster care. Their own blanket, pajamas, stuffed animal, books, etc. How can you help?

Join us on November 9th, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm for a packing party...filling the backpacks and suitcases with the personal items. We will be meeting at 2939 Academy Way (Pacific Neon Company), Sacramento. If you can't stay for the whole time, come for as long as you can. Help make a difference for foster youth in our community!

wHo we are

On any given day, nearly 428,000 chil-dren are in the foster care system in the United States. Of the thousands of children who enter the system each year, most arrive carrying little more than the clothes on their backs. If they are afforded the opportunity to col-lect any personal belongings, many are then given a trash bag in which to place and carry their personal items. It is a time of great upheaval and in-stability, and their first foster home placement is unlikely to be their last. Many children in foster care will be moved from home to home multiple times, carrying their life’s treasures in a trash bag. At Comfort Cases we believe that every child deserves to feel a sense of dignity. Every child deserves to pack their belongings in a special bag that they can call their own. It is our mission as a charity to provide a proper bag, filled with comfort and essential items, to these brave children on their journey to find their forever home.

How to Help

At Comfort Cases, we believe in a compassionate community that cares for the most vulnerable among us, and foster children need support from all of us. From in-kind and mone-tary donations to volunteering in our Center to driving deliveries of comfort cases to our partner agencies, there are many ways to become involved. Please join us on our mission to bring comfort and dignity to foster children in need.

uGanDa waTer prOJeCT

clean water saves cHilDren’s lives & enables girls to go to scHool

Currently, clean, safe drinking water is not available for over 300 million people in Sub Saharan Africa.

One child dies worldwide every 16 seconds due to water contaminated with bacteria and parasites.

Today, in Poyemi Village, Iyolwa near Tororo, Uganda, women and children spend the entire day collecting contaminated water for their families rather than attending school and improving the local economy. The United Nations estimates that the women and children of Sub Saharan Africa spend 40 billion hours a year collecting water, equivalent to one entire year’s labor in all of France.

The Rotary Club of Carmichael, California has partnered with The Rotary Club of Tororo, Uganda to build five 300 foot deep wells with solar powered submersible pumps to provide clean drink-ing water to 10,000 people three primary schools in Poyemi Village, Uganda.

We are fortunate to have a club member, Richard Olebe, who was born and raised in Uganda, has a Masters degree in engineering from Stanford University, and has 32 years of experience working on various water projects in the US to provide the technical expertise and connections in Uganda to execute this project.

We need your help to raise $200,000. To date our club members have donated over $20,000.

A tax deductible donation of $100 will provide clean water to a family of 5 for over 10 years. (We are a 501(c)(3) organization: EIN 81-0777203)

This project is dedicated to the late Sam Owori (1941- 2017) the 2017 Rotary International President Elect and Founder in 1978 of the Tororo Rotary Club.

GoFundMe

Tim Davidson here, just reaching out to let you know that I am going to do a “Supply Drive” again this year for the Union Gospel Mission. If you remember, we collected supplies (and some money that I turned into supplies) last year and made a nice donation of new and used goods to the Mission. Some of you even came for a tour to see the site first hand.

We collected a truck full of stuff last year, and about $700 in cash that I used to buy additional supplies. This year I would like to try and double that--you all know I am always setting the bar higher! Thankful yes, but always trying harder.

Things you could start to look for around the house and in your garage that would be good to donate:• Sleeping bags• Comforters• Warm clothes--men's or women's• Boots or shoes• Camping gear you want to retire• Pots, pans, skillets you want to retire• Dry clothes--weather proof type of stuff

Just think about what kind of stuff you would like to have if you were camping, and it will work.

Stuff I will buy at auction (great deals) with the money you donate:• Socks• Knit hats• Gloves• Belts (you see the need around town, saggy pants)• Shoes if I can get a good deal• Tarps and ropes from Depot• Camping equipment if we get enough money

I will be sitting at a table at the end of the line like last year on December 8th and 15th collecting stuff and money.

If anybody wants to help me I am very happy to have your help, and your prayers. You know, al-most everyday we read about the homeless problem in the paper, and it's not going away and it's not getting better. The homeless population is made up of the people that we have been helping for years; foster kids and veterans make up a very large part of the 3,500 people in Sacramento that are homeless.

The Union Gospel Mission takes no money from the government; they operate on donations only, so that they can spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and not be beholden to anybody. They're do-ing good work, God's work. Help me help them

our Mission stateMent

The Heart of the Union Gospel Mission

ministry is to glorify Jesus Christ through the evangelization

and regeneration of the urban poor, while worshipping with acts of mercy.

To serve these needs, the Mission provides a Christ

centered environment, clothing, food, shelter, spiritual training and a

recovery program.

DISTRICT 5180 UPDATE – FIRE VICTIMS SUPPORT From District Governor, Sandi Sava

Rotarians and members of our communities have been devastated by the fires in Northern California with loss of homes, schools and businesses, relocation, and, worse yet, death and injuries. We all are trying to figure out how, when, where and who to best help. I have been communicating regularly with the 41 Club Presidents in District 5180, our 8 Assistant Governors, our District Leadership, and a number of Rotarians. I also have been in close touch with Rotary International, our Zone Director John Matthews, and the District Governors in 4 neighboring Districts. Several plans are being developed and carried out at this time.

First, individual clubs and Rotarians are collecting and delivering personal hygiene and related items to evacuees and to victims of the fires in Yuba and Butte Counties in the Northern part of our District. They also are helping fire personnel and first responders. Our Assistant Governors are working with Club Presidents, Rotarians and members of our communities to proactively identify needs and provide assistance. While this is very important, the outpouring of donations has exceeded some needs. And, in some cases, the donated items cannot get to or through certain locations. Collection of personal hygiene items and new supplies still should be considered for victims who you specifically can identify, but donations of gift cards is preferred for many Napa and Sonoma victims at this time.

Second, our District has developed a funding platform to collect monetary contributions from donors who want to help financially. Specific details about use and disbursement of these funds will depend upon what information we obtain about needs and forms of assistance. Contributions can be made by check payable to “Rotary District 5180 Foundation” and mailed to District 5180 Foundation Chair, Robert Deering, 4917 Olympia Court, Carmichael, California 95608. We are not accepting electronic donations at this time.

Third, District 5180 is working with neighboring Districts to develop a regional fund with the help of and through Rotary International. As with the hurricanes and earthquakes, our fires make people from all over the world want to help directly, and a “Donor Advised Fund” through RI enables this. Although a DAF provides a platform to help with immediate help, it primarily provides opportunities for longer term assistance. We expect to have this in place within the next week.

The Lake Area Rotary Club Association [www.larca5130.org] is already set up to accept contributions and help those victims in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake Counties. Our District will continue to work with the Presidents, Assistant Governors and other Rotarians as we navigate through this disaster. If you have specific information about how to help, please contact your Club President, AG or me. We are here to help too and will provide further updates in the future.

10/14/2017

rOTary helps DisasTer viCTims

Severe storms, an earthquake, and hurricanes are wreaking havoc across the globe from the United States and Mexico to South Asia and Africa. The Rotary Foundation and Rotary clubs in affected areas are helping bring emergency aid to battered communities.

The Rotary Foundation is collecting emergency relief funds to help vic-tims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in southeast Texas on 25 August.

How to contribute

Two Rotary Foundation donor advised funds have been set up to accept do-nations for disaster relief and recov-ery in response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma:

Hurricane HarveyAccount name: Gulf Coast Disaster Relief FundAccount number: 608

Hurricane IrmaAccount name: Hurricane Emergency Relief FundAccount number: 296

You can contribute by check or wire transfer or online with a credit card. You’ll need to provide the DAF ac-count name and number listed above.

learn How you can contribute.

Severe rainfall caused historic flood-ing along the Texas coast, including in Houston, the fourth largest city by population in the United States. About 6.8 million people have been affected by the hurricane.

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Meanwhile, Hurricane Irma is in the Caribbean and headed for Florida and the Atlantic coast of the United States. Already, the storm has directly affected 1.2 million people and mil-lions more are in its path.

“The power of Rotary is in the Foundation’s ability to pull help from around the world while local clubs provide immediate relief in their own communities,” says Don Mebus of the Rotary Club of Arlington, Texas.

Rotary districts along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana are collecting emergency relief funds and providing immediate aid to flood victims.

“We know that a disaster of this mag-nitude will require our financial assis-tance for months into the future,” says District 5930 Governor Betty Ramirez-Lara. “Our disaster relief committee will provide support where we believe it can best be used.”

ShelterBox, an independent char-ity and Rotary’s project partner, is also providing support to families displaced by the storms. In Texas, hundreds of light privacy tents were deployed to evacuation centers for families to use temporarily.

ShelterBox Response Teams are in Nepal, Bangladesh, and elsewhere to assess the damage there and de-termine how best to help those most vulnerable.

If you have questions about how you can help, contact relief@rotary.org.

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