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Take a moment to see what our two Truckee High students thought of their week at RYLA camp. 
I drove them home and found them to be very happy about their experience; and delightful to talk with.

Thank You Notes

James Conley is heading up this operation. 

 

Hi All,

As I reported today, the Board voted on Tuesday to support the international humanitarian project of The Uganda Nursing School, Bwindi.  This project is being developed by Dr. Scott Kellerman of the Nevada City 49er Club and the Reno Monday Noon Club. 

The purpose of the project is to help change the lives of the indigenous people of Southwestern Uganda in Kanungu district near the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. One of the oldest tribal groups in Africa, the Batwa Pygmies, were evicted from their ancestral home in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in 1992 by the Ugandan government to preserve the forest habitat for the Critically Endangered Mountain Gorilla. Of the total 600 Silverback Gorillas in Africa, 350 are located in Southwest Uganda in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. These beautiful creatures continue to live a somewhat endangered life in the forest preserve but are no less challenged in their own way than the Batwa.

Once again come join us for the annual Kids Trout Derby. Saturday July 20th 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  This event is free for children 12 and under

Score another one for Tally Brand, who sponsored Sandra Shambaugh as our newest member. Sandra is the business manager at our local AAA Travel and Insurance Office. 

While I cannot confirm the results yet... It appears our team once again triumphed.

1st Place Team Scratch: Rotary Club of Truckee: A. Cross; Dill: I. Cross; Dill; Hansford; Jones

1st PlaceTeam Handicap: Rotary Club of Truckee:  (not confrimed)

Overall Scratch: Third Place Andrew Cross

Overall Womens: First Place - Christy Morrison; Second Place - Meg Raymore

Great trivia: Our Club had 6 people in top 10 overall scratch: 3, A Cross; 4, Dill; 5, I Cross; 6, Hansford; 7, Jones; 10 Morrison.

Some of our Sushboomers below

 TRUCKEE — Sierra Expeditionary Learning School (SELS) is thrilled Truckee Noon Rotary has chosen them as Rotary's non­profit partner for this year's Crab and Pasta Peed, to be held at the Truckee Community Recreation Center on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Sierra Expeditionary Learning School will host the live auc­tion at the Crab Feed and will be the recipient of all proceeds raised from the auction."We are honored and grateful that the Truckee Noon Rotary selected us to participate with them in this fun event," said SELS Board member Erica Stein, chair for the auction. Sierra Expeditionary Learning School plans to use the money raised from the auc­tion to start their capital campaign fund to pay for needed additional classroom space.

This story is devoted to providing Truckee Rotary Members some helpful hints on using this web site. There is no particular order to the information provided, it's just what I found may be useful to getting used to this.

• Log-In   Once you log in, The "Admin page" will appear. Everything on the page in bold print, you have access to. Everything that is dimmed out - you don't have access to. 
  
  
• Edit Site Pages  Important! One of the options you have on the "Admin Page" allows to change the  pages on the web site - PLEASE DON"T!   I have no idea why they gave every member the ability to do this but that will be bad for me (and bad for you).
  
   
• The Calendar -  On the home page is a "mini" calendar. It only displays the current month's activity. If you want more information or what to see future months you need to click on the "Calendar" link at the top of the page.
   
• Sending email to all club members - It's a little different. You can no longer use  club@truckeerotary.org to send a message. Instead log into the new site. On the "Admin" page look for "Email Message Center"  Click on that and then click on "Compose new message".  You will see a selection of common lists. If you click on the box next to Active & Honorary members You would send the message to all club members. If you want to add other lists, just click on the box. Fill in the subject and type your message ( spell check is the blue check mark with "abc"). If you have an attachment go to "Step 3 (optional) you will download the file you wish to attach from your computer...So you need to know where it is. If it is an attachment from someone elses email that you received, you will need to save it somewhere on your computer first.
   
• To add a calendar event and _ PLEASE DO! just click on the "Edit Event" link on the "Admin" page.  Click on the "Add event" link at the top left and add as much information as you want. If you want to experiment just put "test" on the item so I can remove it later.
  
  
• Your Profile ..... Ahhh  from now on it is up to each member to update their own information, except your picture...I'll add that for you. On the "Admin" page just click on the "Edit my Profile" link.  Click on the "Edit" link in the upper middle part of the page and do your updating. When your done just click on the "Go Back" button at the bottom of the page.
  
  
• Photo Albums   So you went to an event and you want to share your photos with all of us. Go for it.  On the "Admin" page click on the "Edit Photo Albums" and follow the directions. Note: One of the oddities of this program, you would think that the little pencil on a piece of paper is the "edit" icon - not so, that just changes the name of the photo album. The "spy glass" icon is what you use to edit the photo album. This applies to some other areas also.  Hint - Complete the basic information for the photo album and add one photo.  Save it - go back into the album using the "edit icon" (this time it IS the pen on the paper icon. Look for the "Multi-file Upload" button. You can then open a folder on your computer and tag multiple photo's to download. 

 

 

Don’t miss kick off of the holiday season at the Annual Downtown Holiday Festival & Tree Lighting Ceremony in historic downtown Truckee produced by the Truckee Downtown Merchants Association and Rotary Club of Truckee. Lighting of the “Bud” Fish Tree, Santa, hot chocolate, caroling.

The festivities will take place Friday November 22^nd beginning at 4 p.m. when elementary school children will decorate the Christmas trees that will line Donner Pass Road in historic downtown Truckee throughout the holiday season, a 21-year tradition. At 4:30 p.m., Santa will arrive and the Bud Fish Tree Lighting Ceremony is slated for 5:15 p.m. in front of the train depot.

Annual 'Bud' Fish Tree Lighting Ceremony:
Bud Fish was a charter member of the Rotary Club of Truckee, and a longtime Truckee resident. Bud had an abiding commitment to his family, his profession (forester), and his community. For years he saw to it that Fibreboard provided the Christmas tree for downtown, and assembled a crew of volunteers to put it up and decorate.

Upon Bud's death, the Rotary Club of Truckee secured, planted, and dedicated a permanent Christmas tree downtown in his memory. The Rotary Club partners with the American Cancer Society in welcoming the citizens of Truckee to the lighting of this memorial tree. Memorial tree ornaments can be purchased inside the Welcome Center for a donation to honor cancer survivors, or pay tribute to the lives lost to the disease, and raise money to help fight it. All proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of Truckee Tahoe.

Compliments of http://www.truckeechamber.com/truckee-insights-news-events/article/?a=292#sthash.liyA1ZpT.dpuf

The Board met on the first Tuesday of November to discuss funding requests and club business.  The monthly meeting is a great way to hear about what your club and community are up too!

Funding Requests Approved:

Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation/North Lake Tahoe Truckee Leadership Program - $500
TTUSD/Sierra High School - $300 for vouchers for students to buy clothes at the hospice shop
Truckee Community Christmas - $2,000

We also are going to fund $1,297.50 for book bags for the Read program and $150 for the Rotary Rose Parade float.
  

You are invited to the Rotary Club of Truckee event detailed below. Register online for this event. You can also book family and friends.
Event:    Senior Thanksgiving Lunch
Date:    Nov 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Fee:    $15.00 per person
Location:    Martis Camp. Red Barn Truckee, CA
Details:    Please one guest per member until we get a head count. As usual this event will be held at the Martis Camp Red Barn. Cost is $15.00 for both members and guests. Music will be provided by the Tahoe School of Music.

Rotarian Seniors Thanksgiving Lunch Assorted rolls w/ whipped butter First Spinach Salad, toasted almonds, cranberries, herbed goat cheese, spice orange cranberry vinaigrette Main Traditional turkey dinner, sage stuffing, orange cranberry sauce, mash potatoes, gravy, French beans Dessert Pumpkin cheesecake with caramel sauce and whipped cream

Thank you.
For Rotary Club of Truckee
Carla Yeager (Event Chair)

Hello Rotarians,

If you were at lunch today you heard our District Governor talk about the Ignite program and having FUN. Ignite focuses on membership growth and retention.   Since our club is already large we will be focusing on the retention and FUN part.

I would like to invite all members of the club to consider joining our committee and help ignite the FUN! We will be discussing how to get every member involved in Ignite and what fun things we can do to retain and attract members. Whether it is new member mixers, beach picnics, snowmobile tours, river rating trips, Strategic Planning Meetings, hiking, boating , skiing, and whatever else the committee can plan and organize it will be FUN!!!!

We are going to have our first membership committee meeting Thursday 8/2 at 11 am before our lunch meeting in the Rec center.  Normally the membership committee meets the last Thursday of every month at 11 am before lunch in the rec center.  I will be out of town the last Thursday of this month so that is why we are having it 8/2 this time.

Our current membership committee consists of  Bob Bell, Ron Wulff, John Pruyn, Brian Marsh, Cliff Hartwell, Mitch Clarin, Andrew Cross, Brinn Talbot, Wes Beyer, Marcia Beals, and myself.  Please join us if you are interested in helping plan all the fun!  If you can't make the 8/2 meeting and want to be involved, send me an email and let me know.

 

Tally Brand,

Membership Committee Chairperson

Truckee Rotary

Each January, as Rotary district governors-elect convene at the International Assembly for training and fellowship, they can be certain of two things: a lot of take-home reading and the announcement of a new RI theme.

The tradition of crafting a theme is credited to 1949-50 RI President Percy C. Hodgson, who outlined a list of four objectives for his term in office. Among them were the better application of the principles of vocational service and dedication to world understanding and peace through international service programs. 

Though Hodgson's 83-word proclamation ran substantially longer than today's shorter, punchier themes, Rotarians' desire to celebrate and support their president's annual program of service has remained the same. Other early themes include Rotary Is Hope in Action (Joaquin Serratosa Cibils, 1953-54), Kindle the Spark Within (Nitish C. Laharry, 1962-63), and Good Will Begins with You (Ernst G. Breitholtz, 1971-72).

In the decades that followed, RI presidents introduced theme logos, lapel pins, ties, and scarves. Theme ties were introduced in the 1990s, and are now given out yearly. Many have incorporated the theme for the year. The first scarves showing the RI theme were designed by 1998-99 RI President James L. Lacy and his wife, Claudine, Follow Your Rotary Dream.

Check out this link to view the themes and pins.  
http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/091223_news_history.aspx

The Rotary Club of Truckee Board approved funding in the amount of $2,000 at the July board meeting to assist two local groups: Sierra Activity Summer Program and Sagehen Outdoor Education Program.   Both of these groups are key to developing youth in our community.