The meeting was called to order by President Ryan Jantzen at 6:59 pm.  President Ryan led the club in the Pledge of Allegiance and Al Stehli gave the Invocation.  Linda Klug bought the bar in honor of Ray who passed away a few weeks ago.  Linda was at the meeting along with her son, Lance, and his daughter.  Sue Dreher was also with the family.  Ken Stuart read a poem that he had written about a sailing trip to the San Juan Islands several years ago with Ray, John Messner, John Kemp, and Patrick Maxfield.  Frank Woods read a statement from Ray explaining how he got the name Ray-Ray. 

 

Dave Boldt, substituting for Secretary Jim Padgett, introduced visiting Rotarians and guests.

 

Justin Raithel said that the Community Day service project on September 17 will be at Twin Lakes Food Bank.  He also explained how to sign up for the work party. 
 

District 5180 Rotary Foundation Dinner will be on September 17, 2022.  Sign up with President Ryan, John Messner, or Ken Stuart if you would like to attend.

 

President Ryan is the Blood Donor Chair for Rotary District 5180.  The district has set up a challenge for clubs to double the number of donors.  Clubs who double their donors will get Double Double burgers from In and Out Burgers.

 

If you do not have access to the Rotary International website (rotary.org), contact Frank Woods at (916) 337-0769 if you need help.  Also, if you need assistance with ClubRunner for any reason, contact Frank and he will help with logon, passwords, or any other issue you might have.

 

Although Rotary Foundation Chairs John Messner and Ken Stuart will take checks to the Rotary Foundation, they would prefer that you go to rotary.org and set up Myrotary.org access.  By doing so you can give a single donation or setup a recurring donation.

 

Don't forget, the September 1st meeting is the First Responders Luncheon at the Folsom Community Center.  

 

Jim Ortega introduced our speaker, Fire Chief Ken Cusano.  Fire Chief Cusano gave us an update on what's happening in the Folsom Fire Department.

 

 

President Ryan presented Fire Chief Cusano with a box of Snook's Rotary Wheel chocolate.

 

 

 

Rotary District 5180 awarded the first Global Grant Scholarship this year to Darsha Naidu using the Marsalla endowment to fund her scholarship.  The endowment said to prioritize an engineering career with medical field listed as a second choice.  Darsha was accepted to the University College London and will be leaving for her year in England in early September.  She just graduated from Sac State University with her Bachelor's Degree.  She will be in the Master's program studying communicable diseases and vaccine development.  The value of the scholarship is $86,000.

 

Darsha grew up in Elk Grove and attended school in Elk Grove from Kindergarten through High School.  Her scholarship application was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Elk Grove.  Darsha was the speaker today at RC Elk Grove and the Elk Grove meeting was attended by President Ryan, John Messner, and Frank Woods.  Her presentation was about her and her family and was very interesting.  She is an outstanding young lady and will be an excellent representative of Rotary and our District.

 

President Ryan, John, Frank, Darsha, District Foundation Chair Joe Scheimer

 

At the meeting, in his role as Blood Donor Chair for the District, President Ryan talked about the blood donor program.