President Steve Brozosky opened the meeting at 7 pm by leading the Pledge of Allegiance.  Bob Mange gave the Invocation.

 

Secretary Jim Padgett introduced visiting Rotarians and guests.  He also welcomed all the educators who were introduced later in the evening.

 

Kate Gonzales talked about International Service Projects starting with the trip to Colima, Mexico, headed by Joe Gagliardi.  She also asked f0r a volunteer to chair the Flying Samaritans.  She talked about the India Project that is just getting underway and announced that Frank Ali will be chairman of our project in Kenya.

 

President Steve and Club Rotary Foundation Chair Sue Barrett awarded Paul Harris Fellows to the following members:

           Sue and Trudy                                Sue and Jay                                     Sue and Colin                            

Rich Pepin talked about how the club earns points when members donate to the Rotary Foundation.  Monika Himmrick, principal at Folsom Hills Elementary, was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow for her help over the past two years distributing dictionaries and the videos this year.

 

                                        Rich, Ms. Himmrich, and President Steve

 

District 5180 Rotary Foundation Chair Joe Scheimer talked about Rotary Foundation Grants.

 

Justin Raithel asked for volunteers to help distribute Easter hams for Twin Lakes Food Bank.

 

President Steve said that we still need 5 mentors for the Student Leadership Conference.

 

Bob Mange introduced the evening's program of distributing the teacher mini-grant checks to the teachers who attended the meeting.  Bob started by introducing the Folsom Cordova District Staff.  Bob then provided the following information about the grant program.

 

"The Rotary Teacher Grant program started as a club project 24 years ago. It started as an up to $250.00 grant to fund a project, materials and/or equipment for their class or classes.  But thanks to the generosity of our members this will be the sixth year that our grants have been offered as an up to $500.00 amount.  And with the Folsom Lake Club joining with us again this year, the two clubs provided a total grant expenditure $7,500.00.  To date, including tonight, Rotary has provided over 327 teachers with grants that total over $130,000.00. This year we had 25 applications from 12 schools and were able to fund a total of 17 grants." 

 

Bob asked each teacher to first introduce their principal and/or guest that might be with them this evening, then tell us the grade level and/or subject they teach, and then give a brief explanation of the project, material, and/or equipment that the grant will help to fund.  Bob then asked Sonny DaMarto, who coordinates the teacher grant selection for the Folsom Lake Club, to come forward and present the checks as Bob introduced our 2022 Teacher Grant Award recipients .

 

Below is a list of the teacher grants.

 

 

Jennifer Bloom talking about her grant of art materials and tools for Special Needs Students after receiving her check from Sonny DeMarto, Rotary Club of Folsom Lake.

 

All the teachers, their guests and a couple of Rotarians.

 

 

 

 

Club members opened the meeting by starting the Pledge of Allegiance at 6:57 pm before President Steve Brozosky had a chance to ring the bell.  Garry Parlier led the club singing "My Country Tis of Thee".  There was no invocation.

 

President Steve announced that the club donated $2,500 to ShelterBox supporting the Ukraine crisis.  President Steve showed a video from ShelterBox.  John Messner talked about an email to all Rotarians from Rotary International concerning disaster relief for Ukraine and how Rotarians can help.

 

President Steve announced that the March 10 meeting is Annual Speech Contest.  He also announced that there will be a board meeting at the clubhouse on March 10 at 5:30 pm.

 

President Steve recognized members who have signed up on Rotary Direct to donate regularly to the Rotary Foundation.  Each member received a free drink ticket.

 

President Steve and Club Rotary Foundation Chair Sue Barrett presented the following Paul Harris pins.

Not everyone listed above was at the meeting to receive their pins.  Also, thanks to Adrian for taking photos of most of the recipients as Frank Woods was taking notes.  

 

                       Charles and Sue                                                                   Trudy and Sue

 

                         Ramesh and Sue                                                                 Irv and Sue

 

                 Sue and Adrian                                                    John Lindow and Sue

 

                             Ken and Sue                                                      Chuck, Sue, and Frank

 

Steve Sprague levied fines.

 

Bob Flautt introduced our speaker, Al Gianni.  Al told us about the Guiseppe Murer House. 

 

"This structure, constructed between 1925 and 1927, was designed and built by Giuseppe Murer for his personal residence. Murer was an Italian immigrant who designed and constructed many buildings in Folsom. The house, garage, and landscaping reflect Murer's northern Italian heritage. The Murer residence is a vernacular example of the Italian Renaissance style of architecture, a miniature of the Italian Renaissance villas of his countryside, and is the only example of its kind in Folsom.'"(from the Library of Congress website)

 

President Steve presented a box of the Rotary wheel chocolate from Snooks to Al.