Mary Cory has been director of the El Dorado County Historical Museum since 1999 and she has been working in the Museum field for over 40 years. The El Dorado County Historical Museum is located on Placerville Drive, and collects artifacts and documents related to the history of the county. Mary researches, plans and installs exhibits, helps the public with research questions, and is responsible for all aspects of the County Museum. She is always finding more fascinating information about the history of El Dorado County
Displays start with a collection of baskets and tools made by skilled artists of the Miwok, Nisanan and Washoe Native American people, and cover the Gold Rush, the logging and lumber industry, transportation, and some of the historical figures such as Snowshoe Thompson, the Goat Doctor and John Studebaker, famous for his gold-rush era wheelbarrows. The County Museum has special exhibits throughout the year. Currently, the exhibit “Women of Influence: women making history in El Dorado County” highlights some of the notable women in the county’s history with displays of dresses from the 1890s – 1930s, historical photographs and documents about their lives.
The EDH Rotary Club hosted a Tri-Tip and Crab Dinner on January 27 at 6-10pm. Laurie Edwards recruited enough people from our club to fill two tables (see pics here). It was delicious and we had a great time....all for a good cause. Thanks to Rotary Club of El Dorado Hills for being great hosts; they gave us 2 bottles of wine for each table as a thank you for supporting their event!
Gregory McCormac (left) and Brian Robinson (right), administrators at Folsom Lake College (FLC), told us about the state of, new buildings at, and offerings at the main campus and at the FLC El Dorado and Rancho Cordova Centers and online.
Folsom Lake College is relatively new, being first accredited in 2003. It recently passed the milestone of 10,000 students on campus and online. The main sources of students at the Folsom campus are students from Folsom, Oak Ridge and Ponderosa High Schools. There are a few older students too, ranging from their 30's to 80's. Under construction at the main campus is Oak Hall, which will be a 75,000 sq.ft. building to serve the Biology and Chemistry departments. The number of labs is tripling from 2 to 6.
Skills to support a career are a big focus, such as the new viticulture program developed in partnership with 8 EDC wineries and hosted at the El Dorado Center.
In the '90s and 2000's, the El Dorado Center was the mainstay of FLC, providing 23 classrooms, mainly for general education preparing students for moving on to CSU and UC campuses. Today there are a lot of partnerships occupying most of the EDC. In addition to General Education & viticulture, there are programs for EMT and Certified Nursing Assistant, a Food Pantry, the Community Observatory (thank you CP Rotary!) Dual Enrollment with El Dorado Union High School District, and Charter University Prep School uses some of the classrooms. Brian Robinson is in charge of the El Dorado Center (EDC) and he told us about the current challenges at that location. Many of the classes and student clubs hosted by the EDC are online.
Club members are very interested both in career and scholastic programs of FLC and had many questions for Greg and Brian during the Q&A period.
Dave Sargent , International Chair: Heard from Int'l. Chair at the Sacramento Club that they are interested in partnering with us on our Nicaragua Project.
Mike Dugan: Reminded us of the March 14th Area 6 Foundation Dinner at the Country Club at 5:30 pm. Area 6 Governor, Kurt Raffetto will be the MC and Rotarian and Humorist Jim Pelley will be the speaker.
Cathy Dugan: We were invited by the EDC Sheriff Leikauf to join his team for lunch on Feb. 15th at the Red Hawk Casino's APEX Community Room. Doors open at 11am and Lunch is at 12noon at APEX. We accepted and will reserve 20 spots for our club. Cost of food is $20 per person. Please stay after to socialize and play at the Apex entertainment area: 3D Go-Kart Track, Golf Simulators, bowling, and other games.
Gary Clarke: Once again, our club will host the Wine & Beer Fest at the County Fair in June. The first committee meeting to plan the event will be held after the Feb. 22 meeting.
Guests:
Jessica & Eric Carrera, guests of the club.
Sid Bazett introduced recently appointed Cameron Park CSD GM,Alan Gardner, and CSD staff members, Jim Mog and Mike Grassle
Happy (or Not) Bucks
Dave Sargent $10 Happy about leaving on a South America trip and cruise in 6 days.
Gary Clarke: $25 Happy about his mom's 94th birthday today.
Suzy O'Neal: $100 Happy to be leaving soon on a fun 5-day cruise to Mexico with a friend.
Don Fuller:$20 Happy about a nice get-well card he got from the club while he was successfully recuperating from knee surgery.
Birthdays in February
Dave Sargent
Kim Strand
David Tavernetti
Janet Yarbrough
-----Spouses-----
Geoff Brooks
Ali Foulk
Janis Scott
Anniversaries in February
Vickie Christensen-McLain and Perry McLain
Upcoming Words of Wisdom/Greeter/Front Desk Assignments
Mary Cory has been director of the El Dorado County Historical Museum since 1999 and she has been working in the Museum field for over 40 years. The El Dorado County Historical Museum is located on Placerville Drive, and collects artifacts and documents related to the history of the county. Mary researches, plans and installs exhibits, helps the public with research questions, and is responsible for all aspects of the County Museum. She is always finding more fascinating information about the history of El Dorado County
The EDH Rotary Club hosted a Tri-Tip and Crab Dinner on January 27 at 6-10pm. Laurie Edwards recruited enough people from our club to fill two tables (see pics here). It was delicious and we had a great time....all for a good cause. Thanks to Rotary Club of El Dorado Hills for being great hosts; they gave us 2 bottles of wine for each table as a thank you for supporting their event!
Gregory McCormac (left) and Brian Robinson (right), administrators at Folsom Lake College (FLC), told us about the state of, new buildings at, and offerings at the main campus and at the FLC El Dorado and Rancho Cordova Centers and online.
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