Vol 2. No 29 April 26, 2016

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Congratulations to our club members who made the April 23 Rotarians at Work Day a re-ality in Jackson. The reactions on Face Book about our clean-ing around the Interfaith Food Bank were far more than I ex-pected, several presidents of other clubs commented favora-bly on our labor. Art was, as al-ways, the locomotive of the whole event.

Our President Elect came with his whole family and they did an excellent team work, Tina with the lawn mower, Mike with the weed whacker and the girls raking and haul-ing cut vegetation. I had forgotten my work gloves and Dirk was so nice as to lend me his right glove commenting that “one glove is better than none”. Since the job was enormous, Dave Mason made things easier with his nice cocktail of Round-up. The coffee and donuts were a welcome intermezzo, and after the work the remaining donuts and coffee went to the fire fighters crew in training burning an old inhabitable house. By now my battle with the computer is (almost) over, I sent the description of our projects and pictures to the District Awards Program Chair, completing it this week-end with our Rotarians at Work report. All that I still have to do is sending the SOS - Share our Success 2015-2016 final report, just need to complete the Foundation page. This has been the biggest challenge of my presidency! On May 7 the Rotary Leadership Institute 1 will take place

in Cameron Park. It is highly recommended for new members to attend. Since I missed it the previous years for several reasons, I registered this time. In three weeks we will have our District Conference. Until May 1 you still can register for the meals at the original price, after this date a $ 5 late fee will be ap-plied. It also will be the last day of the hotel room block (Code SRTRY16) for Rotarians. If you want to avoid hotel costs contact Area 8 AG Joel Muller (joelrotary@yahoo.com, (775-741-9817) to stay with Reno or Spark Rotarians. To see the District Confer-ence program go to page three of this newsletter. In May, I will reach my 10 years in Rotary, it de-serves a celebration and I will have a surprise for my fellow club members. YIR

Tom Moriarty and Roberta Ross were our speak-

ers last week. They explained about the

“righturn.club” program that the Kiwanis Club of

Jackson sponsors at the Jackson Elementary

School. It is a ten week program for obese chil-

dren to teach them better life styles and eating

habits to help

them grow into

healthy and hap-

py young adults.

NEW AMADOR COUNTY MURAL FOR JACKSON

The Jackson City council has approved a new three panel

mural which will be painted on the concrete wall at the

Boyett Petroleum service station on the corner of 49/88.

The artist will be Rand Huggett who is the artist that paint-

ed the City of Jackson mural on the Fire Station wall. The

total cost of this project is about $20,000 and the city is

looking to community donations to help offset their por-

tion of this cost. The Jackson Rotary Club Board of Direc-

tors approved a $4000 donation to this project which will

be spread out over the next two years. Other organizations

that are being approached include the Amador Chamber of

Commerce, NSGW #31, and the Jackson Lions Club. The

project will be completed during the next six months

City of Jackson Mayor (and rotary club member) Keith

Sweet shows off the artist’s rendering of the new three

panel mural to be painted in downtown Jackson

ROTARY AT WORK DAY

Interfaith Food Bank April 23, 2016

This is the new freezer unit which the

club has designated $4,000 to enclose

with an RV style cover. This will help

keep the unit out of the weather and

save the Food Bank money in utility costs

Tuesday Apr 26th Ron Antone (Amador County Farmers Market)

Tuesday May 3rd Richard Forester & John Sullivan (Rotary Membership)

Saturday May 7th Highway 49 Cleanup (Meet at Vista Point at 8:00am)

Tuesday May 10th Speaker TBD

May 13-15, 2016 2016 District Conference at Atlantis Convention Center in Reno

Tuesday May 17th Linda Heim & Beth Barnard (Baker Street West)

Tuesday May 24th Representative from Pine Grove Youth Camp

May 12-15th District 5190 Conference in Reno

May 28-29th (Memorial Day Weekend) Eagles Nest Car Show : Need help with Beverage Trailer operation

March 11, 2017 Second Annual Trivia Challenge at Sutter Creek Auditorium

>>CLUB CALENDAR: SAVE THE DATE<<

President— Irene Perbal

Past President— Marv Hampton

President Elect— Mike Flagg

President Elect Nominee—Dirk Wentling

Secretary— Bruce Platt

Exec. Secretary— John Sullivan

Treasurer— Richard Campbell

Foundation Chair—Pat Crew

District Governor Elect—John Sullivan

Directors

Club Service—Dirk Wentling

Community Service—Keith Des Voignes

Director at Large—Rick Sprenkel

Director at Large—Anne Platt

Director at Large—Sharon Hampton

Director at Large—Richard Muller

Director at Large—Stan Lukowicz

Membership—Tammie Crabtree

Rotary Club of Jackson 2015-2016 Board of Directors

THANK YOU

We appreciate the assistance offered by the

following members in creating this week’s

newsletter:

Dirk Wentling—Editor , Photography and

Content

Irene Perbal—Content

Sharon Hampton—Content

ALOHA RAFFLE

Aloha Raffle tickets are now available for

sale. Ron Floyd has been distributing sets of

six tickets to all members. If you have not

received yours yet, or if you need more be-

cause you have already sold yours, please con-

tact Ron directly. Only 500 tickets will be sold

at a cost of $50 each

or 3/$100. The draw-

ing will be held at our

regular meeting of

August 2nd.