Those who have signed up for the Georgetown Foundation Dinner on April 2nd and for the Party Bus for round trip transportation, need to be at the Park & Ride Lot on Durock Road near South Shingle Road at 4:45 pm! The bus will leave promptly at 5pm. If you have not already paid, please have $25 per person in the form of a check (made out to Cathy Dugan) or cash to give to Cathy as you enter the bus heading to Georgetown.
For those of you who haven't ordered a CASA box lunch (below, see a list of those who HAVE ordered a box lunch), as a benefit for CASA and for your lunch for the April 24, please use the link below to make your order:
List of those who HAVE already signed up for a CASA box lunch: Marlyn P., Rich G., Don F., Sid B., Stuart, Bill Ettlich, Anne E., DeBORaH, Janet Y., Tom E. Gary Clarke, Dave S., Prez Cathy, Mike Dugan.
Superintendent David Roth, Ph.D. will share the status of events in the Buckeye School District. Doug Shupe, Principal of Camerado Middle School will also attend.
It has been Dr. Roth's distinct honor to serve as Superintendent of Buckeye Union since July 2011, and I am proud to share that our District is among the highest-performing and best-resourced programs in the greater Sacramento Metropolitan area. It is our mission to provide the highest quality educational program for all students so that they fulfill their innate potential, become lifelong learners, and contribute to society as responsible citizens.
In Buckeye Union, our highly professional and incredibly dedicated teachers, support staff, administrators, and School Board are focused on delivering the best public education experience available. Complementing our District's team are engaged parents and community members who support the District through volunteerism and fundraising. The collective efforts of our entire educational community have resulted in award-winning schools, which are leading our students to ever higher levels of college and career readiness.
At the last meeting, we had our annual Rotary Music Contest with three students from Ponderosa High School competing. This year’s theme for our Rotary speech contest:
"The “Magic of Rotary” is dedicated to Rotary International’s seven causes -- Promoting Peace; Fighting Disease; Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; Saving mothers and children; Supporting Education; Growing local economies; and Protecting the environment -- How have you or how will you ‘Work YOUR Magic’ in your own community in one or more of the seven areas that Rotary supports?"
Three speakers from Pondo's Speech and Debate program, coached by Brock Dyer, composed well-researched, but impassioned speeches they delivered with feeling. The first-place finisher was Ansley, who plans to become a pre-med student at UC Davis (or UC Berkeley if she is accepted) and talked about her experience volunteering at a clinic that provided psychological therapy. Second place was won by Griseld who plans to pursue political science as part of a pre-law curriculum: She spoke about her volunteer efforts to support: homeless, veterans and families and the elderly, and her experience at the Rotary Youth Leadership Conference. Third place was Noelle, who plans to major in poli-sci at a community college as preparation to move on to (hopefully) UCLA or UCB. She spoke about her support for undocumented migrants. They are pictured from left: Dave Sargent: Griseld, Noelle, Ansley and Brock Dyer. Our members gave them a rousing applause at the conclusion of the talks.
Dave Sargent (chaired the meeting in the absence of Cathy who was caring for Mike): For his "Always Stepping Up" for many projects and committees, and our next Public Image Chair, Gary Clarke is our Rotarian of the Month.
Anne Eckert: Membership Moment: As part of our Membership Campaign, please commit to, and do, invite at least 2 guests to one of our Rotary Meetings or to a special event or work party.
Dave Sargent: If you have not already paid Prez Cathy $25 per person for your party bus ride to Georgetown on April 2, please have a check ready for Cathy as you enter the bus on Wednesday (meet at 4:45pm at the Durock Road Park 'n' Ride lot).
Sid Bazett: If you are interested, please attend the Town Hall meeting on April 9th at the Cameron Park CSD offices: special guest is Congressman John Garamendi.
Elon Dennis(?): Announced the Clubhouse El Dorado "Masquerade" Fund Raiser on May 3rd and handed out flyers and brochures about the organization and the event. To buy tickets, go to Masquerade Event .
Dave Sargent: Noted that the slate of members nominated for officers and board members for the 2025-2026 year for Rotary Club of Cameron Park had already been announced in an earlier meeting and sent to members in an email. He asked for nominations from the floor. No nominations were made. The nominated board was approved by unanimous vote of the members in attendance.
Don Fuller: With the Principal of Camerado Middle School, our club has agreed to sponsor a recognition program for students. Each quarter, the school staff will name a student with excellent service and academic achievements to be the student of the quarter (precise title not named). The first such recognition award will be on May 15. On April 10, the Superintendent of the district will make a presentation.
Guests:
Sid Bazett brought a guest, Ron Carlson.
Greg Wood's wife, Lynne Wood was here.
Brock Dyer, Speech and Debate coach from Pondo.
Happy (or Not) Bucks
Denise Leach: $50 Happy in honor of Sid Bazett. Denise was on a rainy, windy walk near the Cameron Park Lake when she saw a garbage can get blown into the lake. She called Sid, CP CSD Board member to allow him to call the appropriate personnel to clean up the situation. Instead, Sid came and went into the lake himself to do the messy job.
Bill Ettlich: Despite his beloved wife Diane recently passing away, he is $50 happy since he found $300 in cash that his wife stashed in various places in their house.
Janet Yarbrough offers $25 in happy/sad bucks in honor of Bill's late wife Diane.
Dave Sargent, the ever-hopeful SF Giants baseball fan, gives $25 happy bucks in honor of his team's 2025 Opening Day.
Birthdays in April
Doug Bisbee
Shiva Frentzen
Terry Wilson
-----Spouses-----
Carol Sargent
Jeff Frentzen
Pam Johnson
Anniversaries in April
Tom and Sandy Elken
Upcoming Words of Wisdom/Greeter/Front Desk Assignments
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Dave Sargent (chaired the meeting in the absence of Cathy who was caring for Mike):