We had a great meeting Thursday! The Woman's Club was filled to the brim, and we even had to pull out extra seats to fit our visitors from Roseville Rotary!
Larry Whitaker presented a $1,000 check to the Roseville Rotary Foundation for their Bangladesh water well project.
Chris Clark was awarded his Paul Harris +5 pin!
Our speaker was Bill Tobin who shared about his amazing work with Shelter Box! If you're interested in finding out more info, you can find that HERE.
Caron was Rotary's representative at the Lincoln High Senior Awards Night and had the honor of presenting Harry Rounds and Ashley Anderson the awards of "Outstanding Senior Boy and Outstanding Senior Girl!"
We're excited to announce that Lincoln Rotary will have a monthly column in the Lincoln News Messenger! This month's article was an intro and a personal story of Shanti's, and you can check it out HERE.
This month we're featuring our fearless leader, Caron!
Fun facts about Caron:
She loves a day at the beach!
She loves to work in the yard.
For fun she likes to break/cut tile and make mosaics (mostly outdoor).
She wishes she could play the piano.
She likes peanut butter on anything.
She doesn't cook.....EVER. =)
An adventurous thing she's done: Years ago, she and her sister strapped on backpacks, bought a Eurail pass and hung out in Europe for the summer.
Caron was born and raised in Auburn, and she graduated from Placer High. She met her husband Jim when she was at Cal Poly. They were married in 1991 and have two kids: Sam is at Humboldt, Izzy is at Oregon State.
What do you like best about Rotary? "I love the heart of the members. I love that we say “yes” and do good work. I love that they (Rotarians) are kind and they make me happy!"