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Rotary Theme 2024-25

Stephanie Urchick, 2024-25 Rotary International President

https://www.rotary.org/en/stephanie-urchick-celebrates-magic-rotary

Daniel Geraldi, 2024-25 Governor,

Rotary District 5160

VIEW VIDEO HERE DG Welcome letter

June 17th Meeting

In his next to last week in office, President Bob Nakken got us going again today as he has all year long. Dick Hoppin introduced his guest, and grandson, Tommy Payne, a local farmer who may be a new member prospect. Shawn Seyk introduced Jack Cullison and his parents Drew and Kevin Cullison who were guests of the Club today. Since she will soon be leaving for the Rotary International Convention in Calgary, President Bob gave President-elect Aniek Pflager a token of his appreciation today for all Aniek's amazing efforts with the Club this past year.

Scholarship Chair Shawn Seyk introduced Jack Cullison, Pioneer High School's 2025 valedictorian and the winner of Woodland Rotary's college scholarship ($1500 per year for 4 years). Jack earned at 4.56GPA at Pioneer and plans to attend Notre Dame University in the Fall.

Tabb Randoph announced the Woodland Rotary Endowment has awarded the 2025 George Berrettoni Scholarships to Noah Cox and Brodie Weichel. They were among five applicants this year and were vetted by Tabb and his committee which included Don Huff III, Dave Molinaro and Kathy Berrettoni, George Berretoni's widow. Each winner will be invited to attend an upcoming Club meeting to receive their $2,500 scholarship. Read more about the George Berrettoni Scholarship.

ENDOWMENT BOARD NOMINATIONS

Kris Kristensen announced Club members will be asked next Tuesday, June 24, to elect new Board of Director members to the Woodland Rotary Endowment Board. Kris, who is the Board's current Secretary, explained there are nine Board positions overall; four are two year terms (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2027) and four are one year terms (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026;) and two of those positions are already set. Tony Delevati will be serving the last year (2025-26) of his current two-year term, and pursuant to Endowment Bylaws, the Club Treasurer (Tom Schwarzgruber) serves at the Endowment Board Treasurer.

Kris placed the following names in nomination for the remaining positions:

Two Year Terms (2025-2027):

Clyde Brooker, Dan Stroski, Kris Kristensen, and Bob Nakken

One Year Terms (2025-26):

Rob Beggs, Lisa Martinez Dunham, and Nick Roncoroni

This opens the nominations period which will be closed at the the time of next week's election. No further nominations were heard.

Jayne Williams got an early warning on her 37th wedding anniversary with husband Jeff coming up June 27th (South Lake Tahoe). Nick Roncoroni was happy to get an early warning on his 17th anniversary with wife Ellen coming up June 21 (Grand Island Mansion, Walnut Grove CA). Nick was also happy about a family vacation they enjoyed last week in Washington DC, and they got to leave before the big parade. Chuck Bruns got an early warning on his wedding anniversary with wife Jennifer coming up June 26.

With a glich in the schedule, Recognition Chair Kevin Haarberg had to step in to take an unexpected vacancy today. Kevin asked folks to describe their vacation plans for this summer. Barbara Sonin was happy for her grandson who was the valedictorian of his high school in Virginia. Don Huff III enjoyed another great weekend at Lake Tahoe. Chuck Maltese was happy about an Italian, from Sicili no less, Francesco Arezzo was recently named the new 2025-26 Rotary International President. Shawn Seyk 'rang the bell' with the news that he will be leading his girls soccer team to Los Angeles this weekend in what will be his last soccer coaching experience. While retiring from coaching, Shawn says he will be remaining as Woodland Soccer Club's President.

Pioneer High School Principal Sandra Reese was our guest speaker today. Sandra will retire next month after 31 years in education, the last ten of which in her current position. Sandra was kind enough to give us a program on her 'Reflections of a Retired Principal'. Thanks to Jayne Williams for arranging for and introducing our speaker today. Read more about Sandra Reese at https://www.msn.com/en-us/education-and-learning/secondary-education/pioneer-high-school-principal-sandi-reese-to-retire-after-decade-of-dedicated-service/ar-AA1FMZtH

FFA/4-H Auction Arena at Fairgrounds

Under Construction

Chuck Moore shares this photo of the new FFA/4-H Livestock Arena now under construction at the Yolo County Fairgrounds. The Club has pledged $25,000 from the 2024 Dinner Auction proceeds and helped obtain $13,400 in District 5160 grant funding for the project.

June 10th Meeting

President Bob Nakken welcomed a good size crowd to today's meeting. President Bob is now officially a short timer this month, counting the days until the end of his term. We got the full compliment of voices from Jordi Richter, Jim McGibbon, Dan Stroski and Steve Venables together today to get us through on Rotary Grace.

Brian Dwyer celebrated his 46^th birthday on June 6^th (La Mirada CA and grew up in Nevada City CA). Eric Sharp, who turned 70 years old on May 2nd, ‘rang the bell’ for his 48^th wedding anniversary with wife Tia on May 28 (Pacifica). ‘All is good’ Eric declared as he just returned from a family vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where he had an ‘epic’ day of ocean fishing, bringing in 21 yellowtail tuna in about 90 minutes.

President-elect Aniek Pflager distributed signup sheets for 2025-26 Club committees and asked each member to sign up for those Club activities they would like to work on. Talk with Aniek if you have questions. View the 2025-26 Tentative Committee List. President-elect Aniek also mentioned payment on Club dues for the 2025-26 year ($300 this year) will be due August 1, 2025. She distributed a dues invoice for members to see. Only Club dues will be payable then. The price of dinner tickets for the 2026 Dinner Auction has not yet been determined. Members will receive an additional invoice to purchase four 2026 Dinner Auction dinner tickets once the price is determined.

Lori Ross was in charge of today's Recognition and played a series of popular songs from a variety of eras and asked select members to guess either the song title or the singer of the tune. Ann Taylor was happy for her granddaughter Allyson who recently graduated from the University of Glasgow, Scotland’s Veterinary School after three years of study there. Ann explained they don’t have any grading system at the school, only one pass or fail test is administered at the end. She said Allyson was especially relieved to learn recently she had passed the test. President Bob, after playing golf at Davis Muni last week, went to his car in the parking lot and found that someone driving a BMW Midget had parked so close to Bob’s vehicle that Bob could only enter his car by going in the passenger door. Bob was so upset that he left a less-than-happy note on the BMW before leaving. A few days later Bob and Aniek drove to Assistant District Governor Keith Rode’s house for a meeting with Rotary Presidents and President-elects from around Yolo County to discuss the upcoming year. Upon arriving Bob saw the same BMW Midget parked in front of Keith’s house. Bob said he was too much of a coward to approach the owner of the BMW, who was apparently attending their meeting, to admit he had signed the note he left on the BMW. Dan Stroski, who is the District 5160 Youth Exchange Coordinator, was surprised and happy to be invited by Mati, one of his Youth Exchange students, who was graduating from Sutter High School, to attend the ceremony. Mati is from Italy and, while her host family was there, she did not have any biological family able to attend.

Since our scheduled speaker for today had to cancel, Jim Nolan invited several new members to the Club to spend a few minutes to tell the Club a little more about themselves. Ryan Burger, Linda Walsh, Gregg Kowes, Lori McGrath and Joe Cadelago volunteered to participate today. Read what they had to say in today's issue of the Splinter.

News From Club Polio Warrior Mark Ullrich:

Polio Update (June 12, 2025)

We are so close!

Let’s finish what we started. Let’s keep our promise to End Polio—for good.

After decades of tireless effort, steadfast commitment, and global collaboration, we stand on the threshold of history: the eradication of polio.
Thanks to your support, Rotary’s PolioPlus program has immunized over 2.5 billion children and reduced polio cases by 99.9%.

But we’re not done yet—and now is not the time to ease up.

As we approach the end of the Rotary year, we're asking every Rotarian to help make one final, determined push toward a polio-free world.

Eradicating the last 0.1% of polio is the hardest part—reaching children in the most remote areas, responding quickly to outbreaks, and fighting persistent misinformation.
But we are making progress, and every contribution brings us closer to our goal.

This is where every dollar counts, and where your donation can truly change the course of history.

Last year at this time everyone in our District gave over $163,000.
Right now we are falling short at $148,200.
Even still, all but 12 clubs have given something.
And over half have either hit the $1,500 goal or are very close.

We’re calling on every Rotarian and Rotaracter in our District - and Rotarians around the world—to rally now. Whether it’s $25 or $250, your contribution helps fund vaccinations, health infrastructure, and surveillance systems that protect the world’s most vulnerable.

Remember - Every dollar is matched 2-to-1 by the Gates Foundation, tripling your impact.

It’s easy to do!
Please go to endpolio.org. (link available below) Click the Donate button, sign in, and make your donation. You can also make a one-time donation in honor or in memory of someone.

Please make your final contribution this Rotary year to PolioPlus today, and encourage others to do the same.
Together, we’ve come this far.
Together, we can cross the finish line.

Your District Leadership, Club Presidents, Foundation Chairs and the PolioPlus Team

More information about Rotary's End Polio Now can be found at its website: https://www.endpolio.org/

Here you can sign up to receive the End Polio Now newsletter.

WHS Interactors Graduate

Jayne Williams shared a photo of the Woodland High School Interact Club's graduating seniors. To learn more about the Club, which is sponsored by our Club, checkout the WHS Interact Club website at: https://www.whsinteract.org/

Rotary Mystery Golf

The 2025 Rotary Mystery Golf trip, with 45 players along, traveled to Blue Rock Springs Golf Course in Vallejo on May 7. Thanks to co-chairmen Chuck Santoni (Sunrise) and Chuck Maltese (Noon) for making the arrangements.

2025 Dinner Auction -

Very Successful!!

PROGRAM

VIEW THE PROGRAM

BENEFICIARIES

The Woodland Rotary Club/Woodland Rotary Endowment are raising funds this year to assist the efforts of the following local, non-profit organizations:

Yolo Farm to Fork - (https://www.yolofarmtofork.org/) Up to $11,000 for construction of two large instructional gazebos for the outdoor edible gardens at Beamer Elementary and Gibson Elementary schools. Currently the gardens are not shaded and have no seating. Materials will be procured from local suppliers, individuals and firms for the construction. The structures will provide an outdoor classroom (shaded with seating) for teachers, staff, volunteers and students to learn about outdoor gardening. Construction is planned to be completed by August 2025. This is the first priority for Auction proceed funding.

Woodland Healthcare Foundation – (https://www.supportwoodlandhealthcare.org/) The balance of 2025 Dinner Auction proceeds, up to $38,387, would be used to complete the purchase of state-of-the-art surgical tool to assist in orthopedic surgeries. The equipment is radio-graphic camera technology (x-ray machine) called the C-Arm (due to its shape) and is used in spinal, hip, knee and other orthopedic surgeries. Woodland Healthcare already has 4 C-Arms, but with curent demand for use all are in operation creating 30-minute or longer delays in some surgeries. The new machine will have updated technology including the ability to capture precise measurements and a map for surgeons to use. The new machine captures 3-D imaging allowing surgeons to view a multi plane image. The machine allows for precise confirmation and analysis of structures not currently available with the existing machines. The total cost of this C-Arm is $399,467, and the Foundation has assembled all but the requested amount, $38,387.

Amounts awarded will be dependent on proceeds from this Dinner Auction.

A GREAT EVENING OF RAISING FUNDS FOR THE COMMUNITY!

The event brought in over $74,000 in revenues so far ($2400 in sponsorship pledges remain outstanding). After expenses, we have a net profit of $42,200. After a $5,000 contribution to the Endowment's Community Fund, $37,200 will be available for beneficiaries.

VIEW TREASURER'S REPORT JUNE 11, 2025

CHECK OUT EVENT PHOTOS

IN THE PHOTO GALLERY

Rotary Gives Children's Books

to Gibson School Kids

Lori Ross reports our Club presented the kindergarten and first grade students at Gibson School with their own personal copies of children's books on January 23. The author of the books, Leticia Ordaz, along with Club President Bob Nakken, members Lori McGrath, Gary Wegener and Woodland Sunrise Rotarian Wayne Ginzburg were also on hand to make the presentation. Thank you to Kelly Timothy, Gibson School Vice Principal and Acting Principal for making the presentation possible.

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