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We’re on a mission! For our Centennial Year the Rotary Club of Woodland is taking on the challenge of completing 100 Acts of Service!

What qualifies as an Act of Service? Simply ask yourself: Does it pass the Rotary Four-Way Test? We’re tracking every project, big or small, and celebrating as we go. Follow along as we work toward 100 and beyond!

Got questions, an idea or want to join in? Click here for more information or email Angela Lynn at angela@lynn-capital.com.

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WINNERS CHOICE RAFFLE 2026

Yvette Roy has been developing this year's Winners Choice Raffle and will soon have tickets available. This year's raffle has up to $7,500 in travel value with destination options - Wonder of Rome; New England Coastal Charm; and Blissful Barbados; or $4,000 in cash for the winner. Photos and more information about each destination option can be viewed by clicking on each link.

$100 per ticket; limited to 300 tickets. Winning ticket to be drawn during April 25th Celebration event. Need not be present to win. Compare all the destinations.

April 14th Meeting

President Aniek Pflager welcomed a good sized group today, just 11 days before our Woodland Rotary Centennial Celebration. She urged us to bring in your completed Winners Choice Raffle ticket stubs to Yvette Roy to make sure your tickets are in the pot! President Aniek expects attendance at about 400 people that evening. Dan Stroski and Jim McGibbon set the right tone for today's Rotary Grace.

The latest information available on our Centennial Celebration! Questions? Ask President Aniek or President-elect Nick Roncoroni.

A new game will be introduced at the Celebration - Treasure Chest Wall 100. President Aniek outlined how to play. Players randomly draw a number - 1 to 100 - out of a container. The number you get is the amount you pay to play. Don Huff was the first to step up today. He drew 93. Several others followed. The winner gets the Treasure Chest (see description above). The winning number will be selected at the Celebration. The game will generate $5000 for the Centennial Project.

With the pot at $225 and 20 cards remaining Marie Galbo found herself a free lunch. Steve Venables got a not-so-early warning on his 47th wedding anniversary with wife Lydia on April 15th. George Burger 'rang the bell' for his 83rd birthday (Phoeniz AZ) on April 9.

Jayne Williams led our Recognition today with questions about the Artemis II Trip to the Moon last week. She first asked everyone who was alive at the time of the first NASA flight to the moon to stand, asked questions about what remembered from that experience. After a visit Eric Zane thinks his son has selected UC Santa Barbara as his college choice. Christian Sherrill shared some of his experiences at UC Santa Barbara. President-elect Nick Roncoroni took a family trip to the Santa Barbara area during spring break last week and his daughter found out what party life was like at Ille Vista at UC Santa Barbara. President Aniek announced she will be an Oma as her daughter Elyse is expecting a child on July 4. Perfect timing says Aniek!

Our own Marie Galbo was our program speaker today, sharing her memories of her family's Rotary Journey to Russia in the year 2000. Marie's guests today included friend Nikki Hamilton and her son Mark Galbo, who accompanied his mother and father on the trip back then when he was a student at UC Santa Barbara. Marie says they flew into Moscow and with the assistance of a guide/interpreter, also traveled to Volgograd and St. Petersburg in their exploration.

April 7th Meeting

President Aniek Pflager greeted us on a beautiful Spring day with the reminder the Saturday, April 25^th Centennial Celebration is a little over two weeks away. She thanked the 47 members who have pledged or purchased their tickets for the event so far. We have sold 135 Winners Choice Raffle tickets so far, with a goal of selling 300 of them to generate $30,000 for the Centennial. We want to Fill the Room that night. We currently anticipate 350 people attending, but we would like to get that total up to around 400 or more. On April 17 we need to give our food preparation team a headcount, so before then each member will be asked to confirm how many tickets they will actually be using.

Steve Venables celebrated his 84^th birthday, yesterday, April 6^th (Visalia CA). He was the first of his family to be born in a hospital. Gregg Kowes celebrated his 46^th birthday on March 25^th. He was born in Grass Valley but moved to Woodland a year later and has been here ever since. Chuck Maltese (Detroit) rose to announce tomorrow, April 8^th, was ‘an important date in history’, as both he and Roger Kohlmeier (Los Angeles) will celebrate their 86^th birthdays. Roger had to point out that he was the younger one of the two. Woodland Sunrise Rotarians Byron MacConnell and Don Sharp visited again today. Our speaker today, Nancy Fischer, is also a Rotarian with Woodland Luna Vista.

Chuck Moore was in today’s Century Spotlight. He said he didn’t know anything about Rotary, but was ‘told’ to join and did so in 1993. He didn’t know the extent of what Rotary did, and the fellowship that was part of the experience. Chuck said his Rotary membership ‘has been a very good thing for me personally’. In Rotary Fun Facts we learned that ‘Youth (New Generations) Services’ became Rotary International’s fifth Avenue of Service in 2010, joining the original four Avenues – Club Service, Vocational Service, Community Service and International Service.

Yvette Roy took charge of today’s Recognition, asking questions about two April 7th holidays: National Beer Day and National No Housework Day (see today's Splinter edition for the story). Lori McGrath enjoyed attending the Sacramento A’s 11-4 win over the

Houston Astros last Friday evening in Sutter Health Park. Ann Taylor was happy about her mare giving birth to a beautiful black stallion fold, though Ann had been wanting another mare. Jeff Burger was happy he and son Ryan recently won a cornhole tournament at Hooby’s in Winters, after coming in second in the same contest for several years. Don Huff ‘rang the bell’ about his recent trip to Maryland to visit his 14-month-old granddaughter.

Nancy Fischer, a member of the Woodland Luna Vista Rotary Club and Co-founder of Yolo for Ukraine, a grassroots organization connecting Yolo County with other organizations and initiatives that provide support Ukraine, was our guest speaker today, providing us with a sobering program about ‘Child Abductions in Ukraine’. Read more about the program in today's Splinter edition. More about Yolo for Ukraine can be found on its website: https://yoloforukraine.org/

Rotary Centennial Banner on Main Street

A Woodland Rotary Centennial Banner appeared above Main Street in late March to highlight our 100 Year Anniversary and the April 25th Celebration. The banner is located just west of the Second Street/Heritage Plaza intersection and will remain up through April.

Woodland Rotary Centennial Group Photo

A hearty group of about 60 Woodland Rotarians, from all three clubs, braved north winds to assemble on the steps of the old Yolo County Courthouse the morning of March 26 to take a group photo in an effort organized by Visit Woodland. The final product is expected soon.

Camp Royal '26

Dan Stroski has provided the above flyer on Camp Royal for 2026. District 5160 is looking for high school age students, particularly seniors, that might benefit from this wonderful character building event. More information is available at https://rotary5160.org/camp-royal/. You can also contact Dan Stroski at 530 723-2246 with questions.

Rotary Leadership Academy '26

Past President Dan Stroski was one of 17 Rotarians invited to participate in the Rotary District 5160 Leadership Academy held at the Fairmont Hotel in Woodland Feb 27-Mar 1. Dan successfuly completed the program designed to develop and inspire future District leaders, and earned the affectionate moniker 'Fountain of Youth'.

Woodland Interact Helps

'Night to Shine' Valentines Celebration

Jayne Williams shares that last week Woodland Interact Club members helped prepare signs and a banner for the 'Night to Shine' Valentines celebration for the special needs community on February 13

Yolo County Realtor of the Year -

Ryan Burger

Our own Ryan Burger received the 'Realtor of the Year' Award for 2025 from the Yolo County Association of Realtors at the Association's Board Installation on January 22, 2026. Congratulations Ryan!!

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