The Wheel – September 7th

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Wednesday, September 14th, 12:00 PM (PDT) The program will be will be “Bread of Life” by Chris Johnson( bio ). Please plan to show up around noon as it is anticipated we will be serving lunch prior to the meeting starting at 12:15 pm.
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“The Rotary Club of Stockton Begins the 2nd Century of Service to the Stockton Community”

Activities

• Call to Order and Welcome! President Colleen Stewart called the meeting to order.
  

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  Welcome to our members and their guests to a year of Service Above Self. “Imagine” is our mantra this year, and with your help we can be as successful this year as we have been in the past. Rotary Club of Stockton was formed in 1914 just the 92^nd club worldwide. With over 1.4 million Rotarians worldwide.   Rotary International was formed by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Stockton Rotary celebrated our 108 Anniversary just in February. We have a rich history in Stockton.

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  Meetings are brought to you live at the Stockton Golf and Country Club.

• Music Selection: From 1957 Sam Cooke , “You send me”
  1964  The Animals, “House of the Rising Sun”
  1975  John Sebastian, “Welcome Back Kotter”
  1998  “I don’t want to miss a thing”
• Pledge of Allegiance & Four Way Test – led by Ralph Gresham
• Song of the day: Jennifer Stevens, President Colleen’s cousin. She performed a song in native Oneida about her grandmother.
• Thought of the day: Shari Garibaldi gave the thought of the day.
• Trivia of the day :
  September 5th, 1877 was the memorial of the death of crazy horse will under arrest at Fort Robinson, Nebraska its been 145 years since this happened
  Today is National Acorn Squash day
  National Beer Lovers day
  National Salami day
  National Grateful patient day
• Meeting Sponsor: Kuy Ky
• Special Thanks to –  A round of applause for all the Worker Bees of Rotary Stockton. We appreciate you and all your time and effort. There are many that are the core of our organization that go unnoticed but not unappreciated. Thanks to everyone that assists us in all we do. I need to thank the set-up team, Sergeant at arms, Ken Steele, Dwayne Garcia, Eddie Arias, Monie Ky. I want to thank the Board as we had a meeting on Monday. Matt, our Secretary for all his behind the scene work as well as Louie Lemos, Treasurer. And we can’t forget Sharon for always bringing a book. Finally, the speaker committee for getting interesting speakers lined up for us to hear.
• Concern Report –We have very sad news to report our own retired Navy Commander Albert James “Jim” Woodward passed away yesterday.He was a man of quiet grace and strength. 
  
• Lakota Virtue Moment for the month: Bravery
  Lakota did not have a written language and passed stories down from generation to generation by word of mouth. We told and retold these lessons at campfires and as bedtime stories to our Oyate.
• Weekly door prize: Melanie Vieux won the Rotary viser.
• Guest’s of Rotarians – President Colleen’s cousins, Jennifer Stevens, Oneida and Lakota from Milwaukee Wisconsin and Stephanie Brewer, Lakota teacher from Cheyenne River Reservation from South Dakota
• Visiting Rotarians –  Cameron Bregman from Lodi Rotary
• Club Service & District Calendar for 2021-2022 – Click HERE for the latest list! Don’t miss out on some great activities that may or may not happen in the near future (due to the COVID-19 virus.)

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