Meeting Notes from February 1, 2018
Robert Comper brought poke, a raw fish salad from Hawaii as an appetizer. Conni and Chuck Thompson were visiting from Washington and bought the bar.
Terri Cecchi was inducted into the club. His sponsor is Bob Flautt. Terri is a banker at Central Valley Community Bank.
Bill Hutto thanked the volunteers who poured beer at the recent Chamber event, Tap Folsom. He also asked for volunteers to help set up tables and chairs for the Rotary Annes Crab Feed on Friday at 3 PM and Saturday at 9 AM. Chuck Thurman will be setting up the bar for the crab feed Saturday at 9.
Colnn Miguelgorry said to be prepared to dance at the St. Valentines meeting on February 15.
Al Stehli said that handing out dictionaries to third graders is a very worthwhile experience. This project should be completed by Friday, February 9.
March 15 is the St. Patrick's Day meeting and Club Auction. Members are expected to provide an auction item worth at least $50 or $50 in cash to purchase auction items. Items or cash can be given to
Colnn.
Trisha Saylor asked for help on the Silent Auction Committee for the Wine and Dine. She needs a co-chair and helpers.
Rob Ross assessed fines.
Bob Mange introduced the Speech Contest as our program for the evening. The topic was "Making a Difference" which is the International Rotary President's theme this year. We had two contestants from Folsom High School.
Between speeches, while the judges were scoring the speeches, President Paul interviewed Conni and Chuck.
The winner of the speech contest was Joyel Joseph and the runner-up was Akhil Dhanala. Judges were Vicki Bencken, Justin Raithel, and Colnn Miguelgorry. Dave Boldt was the Teller and Jim Padgett served as timer.
Joyel Joseph, Bob Mange, Akhil Dhanala
2018 Dictionary Project
Starting Monday, January 29 and going through Friday, February 9, members of the Rotary Clubs of Folsom and Historic Folsom are giving every third grader in Folsom a dictionary. Below is a photo of some of the third graders at Gold Ridge Elementary School on January 30 after they received their dictionaries.
On January 23, after the dictionaries were picked up and delivered to Dr. Dave Serpa's office, members of both clubs were at his office to put labels on the inside cover of each dictionary. Dr. Dave is a member of the Rotary Club of Historic Folsom. The label is for each third grader to write his/her name on it and indicates that Rotary gave them the dictionary.
Dr. Dave started the program at each school by telling the students about Rotary Clubs, that members are leaders in the community and that they do service projects in the community. He then asked each of the Rotarians to introduce themselves. After the introductions, the Rotarians handed out the dictionaries to each student.
After the students had a few minutes to look at the dictionaries, Dr. Dave asked them to look at the inside front cover. He pointed out the label and told the students to write their names on the label when they returned to class and that these books belong to them and they can take them home. He then asked the students to look up the word "service" and he selected a student to read the first definition aloud.
After a few more questions from the students, they were dismissed.
The dictionaries will be distributed to Folsom third graders at 11 schools. For additional photos of the dictionary distributions, go to
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