The Wheel – August 24th 2022

Rotary News

Rotary Direct: We are up to 41 Rotary Direct signups and this makes our life easy with withdrawal automatically from our accounts and as little as $10 a month and it all adds up. Thanks to those who are our Rotary Direct Givers.

Leonard Hansen, our Foundation Chair announced that we received some funds for Rotary International and are well on our way with $17,216 towards our goal of $30k.

Oyate Committee : We are needing Silent Auction items, Live Auction items and ticket sells. President Colleen’s first committee meeting was held yesterday. They are making progress and need to sell tickets. Flyers are on the table and the QR code is there to make it easy to purchase or you can go to our website. We are getting wine donations and some silent and live auction items and now we need sign ups for help and have a meeting scheduled for final details and assignments and times for Oyate Committee to be held at President Colleen’s office Thursday August 25th at 5:30

Paul Harris Awards Leonard Hansen, our Foundation Chair came up to explain the Paul Harris pins and the significance of the colors of the stones and to award to the following Paul Harris’s and all were surprised to have made pledges to get to this point.
Robert D Blower, Paul Harris + 7
Dr Walter Wager, Paul Harris + 6
Past President Gary Frush, Paul Harris + 8
5220 Rotarian of the Year 2020/2021 is Gary Frush and past president Kevin Kauffman gave award to Gary. This award is to one Rotarian of the Year for our entire district and Past President Gary Frush was the winner.

The Emergency Food Bank with needed donations each month and this month they are collecting boxed mashed potatoes for the holiday season. To learn what they need this month, please see there webpage at Calendar (stocktonfoodbank.org).  We truly thank you kindhearted and generous Rotarians.

Help Needed We ask of us all to give from our time, talent, and treasures. If you are unable to give treasure, then time or talent is needed. We need help with set up each week, greeters, notetakers, and shut down. We need someone to lead COG. Does anyone have a desire and ability to give back by organizing and teaching our COG? Can we get a commitment for a month to sign up for these duties that are our basic club functions and lunches? Please see me, Matt to sign up.

Club Announcements

NEW MEMBER PROPOSAL: We are happy to announce that Bill Alessio and Courtney Hayes have applied for membership to our club. If you have an objection, please contact secretary@stocktonrotary.org before AUGUST 20, 2022. For membership rules from the club Bylaws see in the member resource tab of the website.

Foundation Dinner is November 5th at Doubletree in Modesto

Marcella Gracewski spoke about her International Grant Project to El Salvador which is a first of its kind in that Country and cost is about $1100 for flight and  you can stay less time if needed.

All City Thanksgiving is in the works for November 22nd to be held here at the Stockton Golf & Country Club

TJ Hull announced the Mystery Trip is returning October 22nd . Save the Date.

Endowment Funds  Lui Duarte, Treasurer of SRE updated us about our Endowment fund that has $4 million invested to be able to make grants to local Non-profit organizations in Stockton in about the amount of $127k this year.  President Colleen has been granted $16k from SRE for a Presidential project and other funds are available for funding this year. All because of the forethought of previous Rotarians to begin this fund and to our members now that continue to support this.

Program

Larry Charles Davis, Vice President of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks and Mortuaries

Larry Davis works for Forest Lawn Cemetery in Palm Springs and has been in the business for 30+ years and has been assisting families in their time of grief with making final arrangement for families. He has had many celebrities that he has assisted over the years. He showed us photos of President Lincoln’s funeral parade and that of President Kennedy as well. He was very amusing and full of good stories and we enjoyed him.