Another awesome meeting; especially our guests.   Darrell introduced his guests Wiruch and Noi Nitteranont, husband and wife, both past presidents of the Rotary Club of Ang Thong that is about 106 km north of Bangkok. Their District 3350 encompasses Bangkok, Thailand and surrounding clubs, 7 Cambodian clubs, 1 Myanmar club, 1 provisional Myanmar club and one provisional Laos club. Wiruch is also an incoming Assistant District Governor in District 3350. Wiruch and Noi were accompanied by a Buddhist abbot whose name is Phrakhruphibunphatthanaphimon but he goes by P-boon for short. 

 

 

Jerry Johnson encouraged full participation in the Tour de Lincoln coming up this weekend, and showed the donated New Belgium Brewing bike that will be raffled off at the event.

 

 

Dan noted that the last meeting of May will be a 5th Thursday, at this house. (More to follow.).  He also noted that the voting for the 2018 LNM Best of the Best is available and encouraged all to vote.

 

David Cesio announced that next service event is to distribute food at the Salt Mine on May 19th.  Show up at 11-11:30.  It is also noted that we have a blood drive coming up on Friday June 22nd. 

 

 

Susan Elliott, one of our new members. but a long-time member from the Cresent City area, gave here ice-breaker speech. She recently moved to SCLH.  She has hosted 4 RYE students. She is a 4-time cancer survivor, but you would never know it!  We are so so so lucky to have her as a member of our club since in addition to being a past president, she has held essentially every committee position.   Susan, thank you for joining our club.  

 

 

Our speaker was Trudy Harris, a founder of Team Giving and a Rotary Passport Club member. The purpose of Team Giving is to:

 

  Connect         Empower            Strengthen
  Volunteers  +  Non-Profits   =  Community Support 

 

She works with many corporations, helping them provide volunteers to local non-profits.  Maybe there is a connection with the good things that we do in Lincoln.  Thank you Trudy for this inspiring presentation. 

 

 

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Women in Rotary, President Dan asked President Elect Caron to run the meeting.  She introduced 3 Past Women Presidents in attendance and named the others.

 

The pastor from Summit Church, Chris and his wife, Lisa were at the meeting to receive our check for $1,000 toward the Every Room project at every Western Placer Unified School.  This will insure that every classroom door has an impenetrable lock that is easy to put in place in case of an emergency.  They need about $43,000 to finish the job and are about half way there.

 

 

President Dan announced the selection of the Rotarian of the month of May and it was our own Stix (Tony) Bellacera who took the prize home for a month.  A great example of someone who lives by the Four Way test.  Congrats to Tony !!

 

Dan also announced our District level award nominees. These honorees have bee submitted to District for consideration and will be announced at the District Conference May 11-13.

Kris announced that Book Buddies follows the meeting today; only one more session after this. She also announced that the Bikes for Books awards will be starting up soon and she will send out an email with the dates and times for each school.  If you haven't been to one of these, try to make it, it's such fun to see the kids.

 

Our Speaker was Caron Russell on the topic of Women in Rotary.  It was a good perspective and a timely one since on  May 4, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Rotary clubs may not exclude women from membership on the basis of gender. Caron looked back on how women were finally allowed to join Rotary and was very surprised to learn that it took the Supreme Court judgment to make it happen.  She went through a lot of the history of that time and the brave clubs who made it happen.  Several of our members provided their own memories of the time and how it impacted them and their clubs.  It was noted that we have 20 women members or 38% of our Club membership. 

 

 

 

 

About six hundred enthusiastic wine and beer lovers jammed into Downtown Lincoln on Saturday April 28th for the &th annual Lincoln Wine Fest. Our club was assisted by Downtown Lincoln Associates to conduct this community service fundraiser event.   We had 75 volunteers from our community and other Rotary clubs helping to run the event.  We had people coming from all over: Lincoln, Auburn, Rocklin, Roseville, Marysville, Sacramento, ... even the Bay Area.

 

 

Seventeen Placer County wineries and four local craft beer companies (new this year) poured their libations with appetizers being provided at 18 shops and restaurants.  With the very pleasant temperatures, it was another great day for the city of Lincoln. Rotarian Joann Hilton, chairman of the event, said “The Lincoln Wine Fest is truly a city-wide team effort.  The Downtown Business owners step up to host the wineries and breweries.  Lincoln food suppliers donate time and food, Placer County wineries devote wine and staff time. Visitors were hugely positive about the day and the friendliness they encountered. ”  For more info on the participating wineries, local shops and food suppliers see our website www.lincolnwinefest.org.

 

Music was provided throughout the event in Beermann Plaza.

 

 

At the end of the day, there was dancing, purchase of wine by the glass in the plaza or by the bottle at the "Bottle Shop" and a raffle of wine.  Fun was had by all. 

 

 

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