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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
2025 Dinner Auction
Preparations are underway for our 2025 Dinner Auction on Saturday, April 26, at the Silos at Velocity Island Resort, 755 N East Street, Woodland. Find out below what you can do to help!
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.
REGISTER FOR DINNER TICKETS
Members: If you purchased tickets with your annual dues - you still need to go to the Eventbrite website at: Rotary Dinner & Auction - Purchase tickets here and select TICKETS - then put in the number 4 next to the DINNER TICKET PRE PAID option. Fill in your name so we can confirm you have paid and are good to go!
Others: Want to buy dinner tickets? Cost is $75 per ticket. Register on the Eventbrite website at: Rotary Dinner & Auction - Purchase tickets here to register and purchase.
PLEASE REGISTER/PURCHASE YOUR DINNER TICKETS BY APRIL 9 SO WE CAN GET AN ACCURATE HEADCOUNT FOR THE CATERER.
Contact David Pinto at 530 304-5592 with any questions.
SPONSORSHIPS
Sponsorship Tiers: Gold - $2500 Silver - $1000 Bronze - $500 Business Card - $250
View the Sponsorship Form.
Contact Mark Ullrich or Roger Kohlmeier if you wish to sponsor, or know of someone looking to sponsor.
WINNERS CHOICE RAFFLE
$100 per ticket to purchase. Only 200 tickets available. Each member is asked to purchase or sell at least two tickets. Contact Angela Lynn to get your tickets.
Winner gets the following Trip Options - roundtrip airfare from Sacramento included to:
Kaua'i, Alaska's Northern Lights, or Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; or $3,000 cash; see description above for details - $6,000 Travel Value!
AUCTION DONATIONS
Peter Holmes, Clyde Brooker and Kris Kristensen are looking for donations of oral items to be offered during the event. If you can offer an item, or a suggestion, please contact any of them.
The Silent Auction Committee, led by Blair Voelz and Lori McGrath, are looking for silent auction items to be offered during the event. View the silent auction donation request letter.
DESSERT AUCTION
Gena Bravo is looking for volunteers from our Rotary Club to join Dignity Health members in making our Rotary Dessert Auction a sweet success! We need desserts that serve 8–10 people, beautifully presented to help bring in premium bids, and can be delivered to the Auction. Whether it’s a show-stopping cake, a decadent pie, or a platter of artfully arranged treats, make it look as irresistible as it tastes. We’ll provide bags with plates, napkins, and forks. If your dessert requires anything extra (like signage or cutting instructions), please include it. Please contact Gena Bravo at gena.bravo@commonspirit.org to let her know what you’re bringing and to coordinate delivery time and location.
WHEEL BARREL OF WINE
Each Club member is asked to donate two bottles of good quality wine (minimum $20 value each) to fill two wheel barrels for the oral auction. Gregg Kowes is coordinating. Bring them to a Tuesday Club meeting no later than April 22.
April 15th Meeting
President Bob Nakken greeted everyone today with 'Happy Tax Day'. Joe Cadelago introduced his Waste Management colleague Derek Fujii as his guest today. Steve Venables and his wife Lydia are celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary (Carson City NV) today. Steve also celebrated his 83rd birthday (Visalia CA) on April 6th. Woodland Sunrise Rotarians Don Sharp and Byron MacConnell visited us again today.
President Bob introduced ‘Our Own Hero’ Jayne Williams as the leader of today’s Recognition. After taking Happy Time, Jayne posed a series of situations, each with three possible outcomes to and asked which outcome was actually true for that situation. Jayne went around to various tables in the room, and had someone selected to answer one situation. If the selected individual got the correct answer then everyone else at their table paid a fine, but if they were answered incorrectly, they had to pay the fine themselves. Gary Wegener, David Pinto, Dave Molinaro, Dick Hoppin, Eric Sharp, Clyde Brooker and Marie Galbo each stood, but not one of them got the right answer.
Ann Taylor shared that her mare gave birth last Saturday to a black stallion who is now galloping around her corral. Nick Roncoroni was happy for his daughter Elizabeth whose cheerleading team won the Western Regional Summit Championship in Phoenix last weekend, and will compete again in Rocklin on April 27. Don Huff III enjoyed a visit to Hawaii last week to check on their property, and to make sure the sunsets still go into the sea. ‘Everything is good’ says Don. Shawn Seyk was happy his U-19 Girls Soccer team won ‘big’ in their quarter finals match at the State Cup this past weekend against a short handed opponent. They will go for the finals later this week.
Woodland Police Chief Ryan Kinnan was our guest speaker today, providing us with a look at what is going on with the Woodland Police Department. More about the Department can be found on its website: https://www.cityofwoodland.gov/Directory.aspx?DID=25
April 8th Meeting
President Bob Nakken welcomed a good size crowd today as anticipation and preparations for the April 26th Dinner Auction continues to build. President Bob reminded us there will be no meeting on April 29th AND he announced we will be holding a joint meeting (our first in many years!!) with the Davis Noon Rotary Club on Monday, May 5th from 12:15pm-1:15pm at the Davis Community Church, 4th & C Streets in Davis. $20 per person for lunch. As a result, there will be no regular Club meeting on Tuesday, May 6.
Roger Kohlmeier (born in Los Angeles) and Chuck Maltese (born in Detroit) both celebrated their 85th birthdays today. They received a big "Happy Birthday" seranade from those assembled.
A cautiously optimistic President-elect Aniek Pflager is happy things are coming together for the Club's 2025 Dinner Auction. Aniek urged those who have not already done so to register their dinner tickets for the event by the end of this week so an accurate head count can be provided to the caterer. The Dinner Auction Committee is scheduled to hold its final meeting 5pm Thursday, April 10 at the Woodland Soccer Club office (1059 Court Street, Suite 108). Use the link provided on the top of this page to do so, or if you just can't figure it out, you can call or email Aniek. Gena Bravo still needs for more donations to the Dessert Auction. Angela Lynn still has Winner's Choice Raffle tickets to sell. If you have already received your tickets please get your payment for them back to Angela.
Peter Holmes is excited about the extensive Oral Auction list of items being offered this year. It includes a variety of overnight lodgings at attractive locations in Hawaii, the Sierra Nevadas, and elsewhere; baseball tickets for both the Giants in San Francisco, and the (now Los Vegas) A's playing in West Sacramento; special dinners; wine tasting trips; a full day fishing trip; lots of wine; a local farm tour; and golf at one of best courses in Northern California. Be ready to bid!
Our guest speaker today was Kellie Morgan, President/Owner of the Yolo Eats Restaurant Group who, along with General Manager Tito De La Torre, and Accounting/Personnel Manager (and daughter) Kalie Morgan, gave us a look at the development and offerings of their four eateries in Woodland - Morgan's on Main, Maria's Cantina, Morgan's Mill, and the Yolo Eats Food Truck. Thanks to Shawn Seyk for arranging for and introducing our program guests today. More about Yolo Eats Restaurant Group can be found at its website: https://www.yoloeats.com/
North American Youth Exchange Network Conference '25
Dan Stroski, Rotary District 5160 Youth Exchange Inbound Coordinator, attended the 2025 North American Youth Exchange Network (NAYEN) Conference along with his wife Ginny and over 400 other Rotarians February 20-22 in Merida, Mexico.
Meet Our New Member - Ryan Burger
Ryan Burger, sponsored by his father Jeff Burger, was installed as a new member of the Club on February 11, 2025 by President Bob Nakken. At our request, Ryan provided the following bio. If you haven't already done so, please take a moment to introduce yourself to Ryan when you meet and welcome him to the Club.
As a Woodland native, I have had the pleasure of growing up in this fine town. My family has lived in the area for quite some time with my mother, Lea Burger, who is from Arbuckle and my father, Jeff Burger, from Dunnigan. I went through Woodland’s school system starting at St. John’s Preschool and ending at Woodland High School, after which I spent a brief period in Merced, CA where I acquired a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of California, Merced.
After graduating college, I moved back to Woodland where I acquired my real estate license. I currently help my fellow community members in Yolo County, as well as surrounding counties, buy or sell their homes. I am one of five members of a team within RE/MAX Gold led by Don Sharp, who is a fellow Rotarian and another of the members is my father, who is also a Rotarian. I thoroughly enjoy what I do for work and one of my favorite parts of the job is networking and meeting new people, which is part of my motivation for joining Rotary.
In addition to being a member of Rotary, I am also the 2025 Chair of the Young Professionals Network (YPN) and an active Toastmasters member. YPN is a group that helps new real estate agents engage with their community as well as providing education to ensure our clients are getting the best service possible. Toastmasters, as an organization, has been around for a very long time but our club is fairly new, and its members share the goal of developing public speaking skills through practice and education.
As a third generation Rotary Member (with my father and my grandfather George Burger), I understand the positive impact this organization has on our community, and I am excited to be a part of it. I am looking forward to supporting the town I have been able to call home my whole life as well as making new connections and meeting like-minded individuals who share my passion for further building our community.
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.
News From Club Polio Warrior Mark Ullrich:
Polio Update
2024 is now in the books. Here’s where we stand: · Total global WPV1 cases in 2024: 92 (compared with 12 for the same period in 2023)
Variant (Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus) (cVDPV) cases · Total global cVDPV cases in 2024: 252 (compared with 447 for the same period in 2023)
When thinking about Rotary’s ongoing efforts to eradicate polio, one can easily become disappointed about what happened during the calendar year 2024. As of Dec. 31, 2024, there were 92 confirmed cases (children) of paralysis caused by wild poliovirus type 1 and 252 confirmed cases of paralysis caused by one of the variant polioviruses - nearly all type 2. That could mean the final total could be over 100 cases when the 2024 totals are finalized. This has been especially unnerving when we consider that the total number of cases of wild poliovirus caused paralysis in all of 2023 was twelve!
But for those who joined our February 5th call with Rotary International President Stephanie Urchick, we know there are reasons to be hopeful for calendar year 2025. She reminded us that we are making good progress decreasing the number of cases of paralysis caused by variant polioviruses, especially type 2. Moreover, Pakistan is keenly aware that the world is watching, and they are working hard to reduce wild poliovirus cases. Historically, the number of cases of wild polio has always increased in election years in Pakistan, such as 2024, because the active government officials all resign as soon as an election is announced, and a “caretaker” government is put in place for about six months before the newly elected government officials take over. With elections passed, we are hopeful the government will redouble its efforts and partnership with Rotarians.
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.
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An agitated Chuck Maltese took the helm of Recognition today. Despite being warmed by the birthday song he received earlier, a 'pissed off' Chuck managed to fine a number of members for various greivances. Chuck finished with giving members words used to describe specific animal groups, and asking members to guess which animal they applied to. Tom Schwarzgruber was happy he no longer owned a gravel operation whose trucks regularly spewed rocks on Chuck's windshield in the past. We enjoyed a visit from Woodland Sunrise Rotarian Byron MacConnell again today. 
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