Leslie Cope was the member spotlight for October 17 and her profile can be viewed here.

 

The meeting of October 17 was opened by President Ramesh at 7 pm. John Abernethy led the Pledge of Allegiance and Bob Mange gave the Invocation.

 

Secretary Jim Padgett introduced guests.

 

President Ramesh announced that Al Stehli fractured his shoulder due to a fall. It is a minor fracture and did not require surgery. Al is at Casa Coloma Health Care Center in Rancho Cordova and can receive visitors. President Ramesh visited him last Friday.

 

The mystery person who bought the bar was Adrian Blanco. 
 

Community Services Director Henry Sundermier mentioned that the Black Miners Bar FOLFAN project will be completed on October 19 starting at 9 AM. Henry asked as many members as possible to join (whether they participated in the past or not) the completion of this final phase to celebrate the milestone. Henry said that the club will be setting up the Santa house by the locomotive round table in two weeks. Henry also said that Gold Country Media put an article up on their website about the pickleball benches which can be viewed here. 
 

Scott Bailey talked about Oktoberfest coming up on October 27. The committee has planned for 440 meals. Lots of volunteers have signed up to work at the event. If you would like to volunteer, contact Scott Moore. 

 

President Ramesh reminded the members that World Polio Day is October 24, a good day to donate to End Polio Now.

 

President Ramesh mentioned that the Veterans Day parade will be on November 11 and requested members to bring unused Halloween Candy to the club so the candy can be distributed along the parade route.

 

President Ramesh announced October birthdays, anniversaries, and club joining anniversaries.

 

Adrian Blanco levied fines.

 

Vicki Bencken introduced our speakers, Past District Governor Karen Cendro and Jeanine Sparks. Karen and Jeanine talked about Empowering the Youth of Mozambique which was a project with Rotary clubs from Districts 5180 and 9210. Karen and Jeanine delivered reuseable  menstrual pads and sewing machines to girls in Mozambique. The girls were taught how to sew pads and backpacks to carry them. 

 

President Ramesh presented  chocolate Rotary Wheels from Snook’s to Karen and Jeanine for speaking to us.

   

President Ramesh, Karen, and Jeanine

 

 

 

The Rotary Club of Folsom had two tables of 8 at the Rotary Foundation Dinner on Saturday, October 19. The Annual Foundation Dinner is a celebration of the previous year's giving to the Foundation by all the clubs in the district. Our club was honored as the Top Club for PolioPlus giving amounting to $34,765 in 2023/24 and the T0p Club Per Capita giving for PolioPlus of $457 per member in 2023/24. We were also recognized as a 100% Giving Club as every member contributed to the Rotary Foundation in 2023/2024 and as a EREY (Every Rotarian Every Year) club where all members gave at least $25 and the club averaged $100. Elio and May Marsalla and John and Bev Messner were recognized as Arch Klumph Society Members for giving at least $250,000 to the Rotary Foundation.

 

 

For more photos of the event, go to Foundation Dinner.

 

 

 

On Saturday, October 19, Rotarians from our club, the Rotary Club of Historic Folsom, and the Rotary Club of Folsom Lake completed the greenhouse at the Lake Natoma Nursery and Gardens at Black Miners Bar. The final work on the greenhouse was the installation of the windows at the top of the greenhouse. The installation of the windows started on October 5 but because of 100 degree heat that day, the work party ended early. 

 

 

 

Photos of the October 5th and 19th work parties can be viewed here. This project took several days to complete and the previous work parties can be viewed at

The purpose of the nursery is to grow healthy native plants needed for the park's eco-restoration projects. The purpose of the interpretive gardens is to offer park visitors an opportunity to enjoy and learn about native plants and the habitats they provide.

 

 

 

by Henry Sundermier

 

Here are all the projects and services that I thought the club did in calendar 2024. I may have missed one or two.

ROTARY CLUB OF FOLSOM INTERNATIONAL SERVICE 2024

The Rotary Club of Folsom meets every Thursday in the Robert H. Miller III Folsom Rotary Clubhouse in Lew Howard Park at 6:30pm.  The club has been doing projects every year since it was chartered in 1953 and is one of 36 Rotary Clubs in the greater Sacramento area. There are about 46,000 Rotary Clubs with 1.4 million Rotary Members throughout the world.  Want to learn more? Go to: folsomrotary.com.  Every year on average, the Club raises about $50,000 and returns it all back to our Community and World.  This year's main fund raiser is Oktoberfest on October 27, 2024 at the Folsom Community Center.