Rotary Club of North Sacramento - Sacramento, CA, USA

Service Projects

Centennial Project:

We our proud to have started what we hope to call Oak Park Rotary House. We saw a need in the community for long term facility to house a family of a child that needs long term care.

At this writing there are 7 clubs in the district working as a group to make this happen by next summer or fall.

Police and Sherriff Memorial

In 1992 our club donated $10,000 to help start the process to have a memorial to pay tribute to our men and women who sacrifice the ultimate to make sure we are all safe.

Many members of our club donated their time and talent to this worthy cause - Dennis Tsuboi - architect and designer; Steve Lemmon - board member from day one; Ernie Daniels - board member; Tom Cicchini - board member.

This is an ongoing project as we have been helping with the registration when the Police Memorial Motorcycle Run takes place in July.

It is located behind the fire station at Arden and Del Paso Boulevard, next to Woodlake Park.

Dictionary Project: 900 dictionaries have now been received, paid for, and are in storage at the Lemmon offices. I have received permission to work with the ten principals of the elementary schools where we will deliver the dictionaries to the third grade classes. The ten schools have 35 classrooms of third graders with 670 students. We also will give one dictionary to each teacher in those classrooms. Thus we will deliver 705 dictionaries in those Twin Rivers USD schools. This will leave 195 dictionaries to deliver to two or three schools in the Robla School District, as we did last year

This is a great update from PP Bob Quinlan re the project that we donated to last year. Don't miss the great photos on the site listed.

Patti:

Hello Fellow Past Presidents, Thank you for your club's contribution to make this project a reality. Please feel free to forward this to your board of directors or club members. Please do forward it to your club's current president and international services director. Even though this project is nearly complete, there are opportunities to help other communities obtain drinkable water. Here is an update on the Rotary Peru Water Project involving twenty clubs from District 5180. An article by Bev Stehli and Bob Quinlan is attached. If you'd like to view the photos of last month's visit to Ica, Peru to celebrate the piping of drinkable water to three new villages of people displaced to the desert due to the killer 8.0 earthquake in Aug. 2007, please visit http://picasaweb.google.com/bobquinlan1/PeruWaterProject# <http://picasaweb.google.com/bobquinlan1/PeruWaterProject> . You will probably never meet these Peruvians, but their gratefulness is demonstrated in the pictures. Whether you contributed money, goods or warm thoughts, thank you for allowing us to help others. The generosity of so many will be admired by many for years to come. Bob Quinlan Past President, Rotary Club of Folsom, 2007-08

ROTARIANS AT WORK DAY WAS SATURDAY, APRIL 25. The following Rotarians

participated in our project at the WIND Youth Center: Pres. Andy Scruggs, PP Tim Koch, Steve Delikat, Valerie Kincaid, Jonathan Morrison, Abe Aboali, PP Dennis Tsuboi, Gib Wright, Bob Mutchler, Patti Mutchler, Bob Greeley, and yours truly Patti Mutchler. We could not have finished as much as we did without Abe’s assistant, Ramesh. Even with Ramesh’s help, it is debatable whether Abe got more primer on the walls or on his shoes and hair. We have now completed phase one of a two-stage project. THE NEXT WORK DAY IS MAY 16 AT 9:00 A.M. If you couldn’t make it on April 25, try to be there on May 16. Even if you’re DIY (do-it-yourself) challenged, there is plenty to do, especially lots of errands to run. For example, someone needs to pick up the coffee from Starbucks and, if you can’t make it on May 16, someone still needs to buy the sporting equipment. Wouldn’t it be nice to have 100 percent club participation? Last Saturday, we assembled storage benches, delivered planters, repaired fences and gates, painted baseboards, assembled a beautiful BBQ, and washed the walls and primed four bedrooms. On May 16, we will paint the bedrooms, repair more fences and gates, deliver sporting goods equipment, fix a couple of bunk-bed frames, and deliver new mattresses. This is the Rotary Club of North Sacramento’s major community service project this year. This project is financed through club fund-raising efforts like our annual crab feed, a withdrawal from the special projects fund, and a $2,000 match from District 5180. At the beginning of Pres. Andy’s year, we applied for a DISTRICT SIMPLIFIED GRANT (DSG). District Simplified Grants are a tool for Rotary districts to support short-term humanitarian projects that benefit their local communities, just like our project at the WIND Youth Center. The CONTRIBUTIONS YOU MAKE TO THE ROTARY FOUNDATION HELP OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS like Matching Grants and Ambassadorial Scholarships. Each year, the clubs in District 5180 compete for DSG funds, and this year, the Rotary Club of North Sacramento was one of the winners…. which means the WIND Youth Center and the homeless teens it serves, are winners, too.