President Monika opened the ZOOM meeting at 7:04 pm.  Monika welcomed District 5180 Governor Elect Desiree Wilson to our meeting.

 

Frank Woods announced that the Breathe California Bike Trek has been postponed again to Saturday, October 19 due to poor air quality.  He said the delay provides more time to get in donations to sponsor the Rotary Team.

 

In the remodel of Carl Sundahl Elementary School, the plaque of Carl Sundahl that had been presented by the Rotary Club of Folsom has been lost.  Rich Pepin and Garry Parlier are working on a replacement plaque honoring Carl who is a Past President of our club.

 

Granite School landscaping project will be in full swing again on Saturday, October 3 at 8 am.  John Messner said that he, Justin Raithel, and Joe Gagliardi had worked again on Wednesday evening from 5 until 7 pm.

 

President Monika gave a Rotary work shirt to Steve Sprague.  Steve had been asking for the t-shirt for several weeks.

 

Steve Sprague levied fines.

 

President Monika recognized Kate Gonzales for going the extra Rotary mile last week by attending three Rotary meetings in one day.

 

Jay Alling announced that the Club Board voted to give $500 in partnership with the Rotary Club Valores Peru to support their Community Kitchen.  I think Jay said this amount would provide meals for at least 100 people for 3 days. 

 

President Monika also announced that the Club Board voted to give$500 in partnership with the Rotary Club Guaruja’ Vicente de Carvalho in Brazil to help a school that had been ransacked/looted while it was shut-down due to Covid-19. Kate Gonazlez proposed this opportunity and also worked with the other two Folsom Rotary Clubs as a joint collaboration – they contributed $500 each as well!

 

President Monika thanked Patricia Saylor for bringing her grandsons to work at the Granite School project on September 26.

 

President Monika presented Paul Harris pins to the following:

Desiree Wilson announced that there will be an online Rotary Foundation Seminar on October 24 and that District 5180 will match donations to the Rotary Foundation Eradicate Polio initiative.  President Monika announced that October is Polio Plus month.

 

To view President Monika's slides, go to October 1 meeting.

 

Our next ZOOM meeting will be Thursday, October 15 at 7 pm.

 

 

The Granite School Landscaping Project was completed on Saturday, October 3 with several Rotarians there to do the work.  At least I think the project may be complete except perhaps for a few details to clean up.  I added photos from October 3 to the Folsom Community Service day Project Photo Album. 

 

 

To view additional photos, check them out here.

 

The Rotary Club of Folsom received a District 5180 Grant for this project.  The Rotary Foundation will pay half the cost of materials up to $5,000 for this project.  This is a great example of your donations to the Foundation at work.

 

 

 

Happy Anniversary to the following couples: