Meeting Duties

Front Desk: Ron Martinez

Greeter: Gina Acia

Song: Al Lombardo, John Donlevy - When Irish Eyes are Smiling

Pledge: Larry Rolufs

Thought of the Day: Mike Holmes - Rudyard Kipling Poem

Two Truths and a Lie: Larry Rolufs

1. Made $140,000 billion one year - truth

2. Attended the Olympic Games twice - lie

3. Made TV commercials with Bob Hope - true

Sgt. At Arms: Nick Willick

Raffle: Patty Park

Bulletin: Nancy Nittler

AV: Earl Wilson and Mike Wilson

Set Up/Clean Up: Terry Cooney

Visiting Rotarians

Unfortunately, I missed a few visiting Rotarians and guests.

Rotarian CEO introduced by Catherine McGregor; I missed his name!

Eralise Spokely from the Rotaract Club.

Eric Chun from the Rotary Sunset Club.

Guests of Rotarians

Several parents of our music contest performers attended.

Chris McCracken

Kim McClintock's granddaughter, Raley

David Lorenson, Placer High Music Director

Birthdays

Cindy Eklund - March 22

Anniversaries

Carolyn Metzker & Matt Spokely - March 25, 1995 - 30 years (Carolyn gave $50 for 30-year anniversary and $20 for vacation to Hawaii).

Nick & Sarah Willick - March 20, 1995 - 30 years

Rotary Anniversaries

Chris Packard - March 21, 2006 - 19 years

Heber Marrapodi - March 20, 2018 - 7 years

Announcements

Carolyn auctioned off a Rotary Hawaiian shirt. Linda Maeding was the winner.

Past-President, Bart O'Brien, will run the meeting next week while Carolyn is in Hawaii. The speaker will be an executive from Google.

Get ready for our April 1st meeting with lots of April Fools Fun, including a magician!

April 8th will be We Give Club Assembly.

From the Board Meeting this morning: The Club has achieved Every Rotarian Every Year status, we have received 30 scholarship applications, and the RYLA and REGL application period is open.

There is a need for someone to handle the weekly club meeting duty signups next fiscal year - thank you Lori Tomkins for volunteering!

Nick Willick- This Old House Project (picture above) will help a disabled veteran, Jason. He suffered a traumatic brain injury in Desert Storm and is unable to go outside in the daylight. Project tasks will include trash removal, landscaping, house painting. On April 4th Gina's Oasis Landscaping will have a crew working on removing privets. Linda will coordinate the Rotary check-in of Rotarians to help with the landscaping. More info to follow. Every weekend in April will have work crew opportunities.

Dan Gustavson - April 5th is our golf tournament. Signups are starting to come in. Please share with your friends. Black Oak is a fun course. There will be music, food, putts for polio with prizes. Lunch for everyone, even non-golfers! Pay by Venmo or check in advance. Signup: Golfauburnrotary@gmail.com.

On April 8th Gina Acia will collect items for the Interact closet at Placer High School. They are in need of specific items - look for an email from Gina with the list.

Reminder that the Foundation Dinner is April 3rd 5:30, at the Holiday Inn. Sign up by Friday. $65 

The annual Student & Teacher Award Program, coordinated by Liza and Jonathan Stefani, will be on May 1st at 6 PM. Details to follow.

Save the Date for our next Fireside Chat. The Benders will be hosting on June 5th at 5:30 PM.

Peter Konrad gave $100 to the Foundation for the band that played at the Tahoe Club band. Peter also did a model of the snazzy move by bandmember Preston Marx.

Raffle

The pot was $53 given the recent win but will continue to build as John Donlevy did not pick the black marble.

Program - Music Contest 

Program Coordinator: Betty Bennett

The contestants:

Flute: Olivia Ornelas

Euphonium: Rylan Chambers