Chartered March 12, 1959
2013-14 Rotary Leadership ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Ron D. Burton International President
Rotary Club of Norman, Oklahoma, USA DISTRICT 5180
Bill Short District Governor
Fred Rowe Assistant Governor
Area 8 CLUB OFFICERS/
DIRECTORS Patrick Magnani
President Roland Wright
Immediate Past President Richard Ryan President Elect Lee N Wiggins
Secretary Dominic Mecklenburg
Treasurer Maureen McBride Club Administration
Richard Ryan Community Service Marilee Monagan
International Service Gene Long
Youth Services Bob Spears
Vocational Service David Stone
Sergeant at Arms David Stone
Rotary Foundation Joe Kaiser Membership
The Highlander June 2, 2014
Volume 56, Issue 40
THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOOTHILL- HIGHLANDS
SPECIAL PRESENTATION North Highlands Memorial Day Parade May 26, 2014
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Foothill-Highlands,
IPP Roland Wright and President Patrick accepted the First
Place Trophy for the club’s float in the
North Highlands Memorial Day Parade from Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 4647 representatives Joel Hudspeth,
Junior Vice Commander and Carolyn Wallace.
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CALL TO ORDER In addition to his regular duties collecting
lunch money, PP Joe Kaiser served as our
official greeter. President Patrick Magnani
began the meeting at 12:15 p.m. PP
Dominic Mecklenburg led us in the
pledge and PP Lee Wiggins provided the
invocation. PP Annie Hallsten was the note
taker.
VISITING ROTARIANS AND
GUESTS
Club Communications - Richard Hansen
[email protected] 916-332-7448
Rotary Club Address
P.O. Box 6 North Highlands, CA 95660- 0006
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DISTRICT 5180 WEBSITE: http://rotary5180.com
Today’s guests included Honorary Member
Brent Seizer, w ho w as the guest of
PP Marilee Monagan; Rod Fairlee, w ho
was the guest of President Patrick; Joel
Hudspeth, Junior Vice Com m ander
and Carolyn Wallace from the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 4647 in Antelope and
our speaker Bob Dunning, a columnist for
the Davis Enterprise newspaper.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Perfect Attendance Program
PP Dominic Mecklenburg announced the
Perfect Attendance Program recognitions at
the Community Outreach Academy in
McClellan, CA is scheduled for today. This is
the fourth year our club has supported this
program. There were 87 students who
achieved perfect attendance this year and
were being treated to a fun day at John’s
Incredible Pizza in Roseville.
Program Chairman Tim Strauch will be
visiting our club within the next few weeks to
share pictures of the event and to personally
thank us for our continuing support of this
worthwhile program.
ANTELOPE SUMMER FEST
The ANTELOPE SUMMER FEST took place
on Saturday, May 31st at the Antelope
Community Park. We had a Rotary booth
which was manned by PP Joe Kaiser, IPP
Roland Wright and his w ife, Diane and
President Patrick and his w ife, Jen.
Approximately 300 people were in attendance
and it was a great opportunity for us to have
visibility in the community.
Mystery Bus Trip
PP Joe Kaiser announced the Mystery Bus
Trip planned for June 14th has been
canceled.
North Highlands Jubilee
President Patrick announced the next
Planning Committee Meeting for the
North Highlands Jubilee is scheduled for
Thursday, June 5th at 6:00 p.m. at the
North Highlands Community Center, 6040
Watt Avenue, North Highlands.
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E-Waste4Good Program
“We raised $390.78 this fiscal year.”
You can bring anything, anytime to Umpqua
Bank or PP Dominic Mecklenburg is
happy to collect your “electronic junk” on
Mondays at our regular meetings. If you
would like to schedule a pickup at your home
or office location, just let him know!
ANNOUNCEMENTS (CONTINUED)
Matching Grant Scholarships
IPP Roland Wright announced the Rotary
Club of Foothill-Highlands received 63
applications for our $500 District Grant
Scholarship Awards. The Scholarship
Review Committee, which included PPs
Dominic Mecklenburg, Marilee
Monagan, Bob Spears, Lee Wiggins
and Maureen McBride, reviewed all 63
Demotion Golf Tournament
PP Dominic Mecklenburg distr ibuted
flyers for this year’s Demotion Golf
Tournament scheduled for Wednesday, June
18th at the Woodcreek Oaks Golf
Course in Roseville. The cost is $35 per
golfer (eight have signed up with only 12 slots
available.) R.S.V.P. to Dominic (916) 995-
4006 as soon as possible if interested in
participating.
See attached flyer for more information.
June Board of Directors Meeting
The June board of directors’ meeting is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 10th at 6:00 p.m.
at Rich Ryan's office, 3820 Auburn Blvd.,
Suite #100, Sacramento, 95821.
This will be a joint meeting of the 2013-14 and
2014-15 boards.
IPP Roland Wright and President Patrick
on the club’s float in the
North Highlands Memorial Day
Parade
More photos and video’s on the
Club Website:
www.foothillhighlandsrotary.org/
1st Place
Trophy
for
Best Float
in the
Parade
applications and chose the top 20 candidates.
Those were submitted to the District for final
approval which should be made by the end of
June. As soon as the club gets final approval,
the students will be notified and the
scholarships will be awarded.
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End Polio Now Campaign
PP Marilee Monagan
continues to remind us of
the End Polio Now buckets
on the tables. Our new goal
is $1,000 by June 30th; and
with each meeting, we get
closer. We are within $100 of that goal and
we have just two more meetings to collect the
remaining money.
Let join forces to stamp out Polio. We can do
this!!!!!!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
JUNE IS ROTARY FELLOWSHIP MONTH
CLUB CALENDAR:
JUNE 9 PAUL DURENBERGER/PROJECT
DIRECTOR-FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
JUNE 10 JOINT BOARD MEETING
JUNE 16 KAY RESLER AND JUDY WOLF FROM
THE ROTARY CLUB OF DAVIS
TOPIC: WATER PROJECT IN GHANA
JUNE 18 DEMOTION GOLF TOURNAMENT
JUNE 23 DEMOTION DINNER FOR PRESIDENT
PATRICK
JUNE 30 DARK
DIST. 5180 CALENDAR:
NOTHING PLANNED
JOKES
PP Marilee Monagan and PP Dominic
Mecklenburg had jokes which garnered
no applause from the group so no fine-free
passes for either of them.
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FINES AND RECOGNITIONS
Fine Master David Stone asked if any of the
Rotarians had May birthdays or
anniversaries.
President Patrick w as first. He spun
a $10 for his 35th birthday on May 25th.
PP Maureen McBride spun a $7 in honor of
her birthday on May 22nd.
Congratulations to our birthday celebrants!
PP David Stone spun a $13 in honor of his
17th anniversary in Rotary. David also spun
a $8 for being tardy to today’s meeting.
PP Joe Kaiser spun a $10 in honor of his
Rotary anniversary. He joined Rotary in
1987.
Congratulations to David and Joe for their
Rotary anniversaries and thanks for their
years of service.
PP Marilee Monagan bonged the gong to
become a Sustaining Member of The Rotary
Foundation.
Thanks to Marilee for her generosity to The
Rotary Foundation.
BELL RINGERS, GONG BONGERS
PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS
A Paul Harris Fellow is an individual who
contributes $1,000 to the Rotary International
Annual Program Fund or other approved
programs. Each additional $1,000 contribution is
recognized with a plus and the number.
Sharon Bias (B) PHF+1
Sonja Cameron (GRIF) PHF
Warren Coffeen PHF+ 1
Jeff Donlevy (B)(RIF)
Annie Hallsten (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 1
John Hallsten (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 5
Richard Hansen (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 5
Joe Kaiser (GRIF) PHF+ 7
Gordon Lipp (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 2
Gene Long (GRIF) PHF
Patrick Magnani (B)(GRIF) PHF
Maureen McBride (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 8 +
Dominic Mecklenburg (B)(GRIFx3) PHF+ 4
Bob Meyer (B) (GRIF) PHF+ 4
Marilee Monagan (GRIFx2) PHF+ 2
Sam Morgan (B )(GRIFx2) PHF+ 4
Kwanchai
Patanapongpibul
Erik Nooren (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 7
Richard Ryan (B)(GRIF) PHF
Bob Spears (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 2
David Stone (B)(GRIF) PHF+ 5
Lee Wiggins (B)(GRIFx2) PHF+ 3
Roland Wright (B)(GRIF x3) PHF+ 4
Bell Ringer & Gong Codes:
(B) = Bell Ringer hi$100 to Club
(GFHF) = Gonger $100 to Club Foundation
(GRIF) = Gonger $100 to RI Foundation
(RIF) = $100 to Rotary Foundation
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Our vocational minute was provided by IPP
Roland Wright.
Roland gr ew u p in Rio Linda w her e
his parents have lived for over 60 years.
Before starting high school, Roland’s
family of seven was greatly impacted by his
father's job loss. He was in the Boilermakers
Union and worked as a stainless steel metal
finisher. His company relocated to Florida;
but he decided to stay in Sacramento.
Unfortunately, that decision negatively
affected his future employment with the
Union. His dad’s deafness, combined with
more stringent Workman's Comp Laws,
prevented his dad from working again for
the Union.
In the summer of 1980 when he was a
junior in high school, Roland went out on
his own. He worked at a variety of odd jobs
while still attending school.
He described himself as an OK student, but
spent 4-5 periods a day in shop classes with
poor attendance in other required classes.
One day during his senior year, his Shop
teacher enrolled Roland in the Regional
Occupation Program (ROP) and helped him
get a job with Hallsten Corp., where he
earned credits toward graduation. Upon
completion of the ROP requirements and
graduation from Rio Linda High School in
1982, Roland w as hired as a full-time
employee at the prevailing minimum wage.
His first two pay increases were due to an
increase in the minimum wage laws.
After about four years, Roland was
recognized as a lead fabricator and assigned
the job of Shop Supervisor, which he held for
over six years.
Roland is a trained professional
fabricator and a certified welder in
aluminum, structural steel and stainless
steel alloys. He enjoys designing and
inventing new aluminum extrusions which
furthers the development of new products
and integrates them into the development of
manufacturing processes to improve the
quality, safety and productivity of the plant.
Today, Roland is Vice President of Hallsten
Corporation with over 32 years experience.
VOCATIONAL MINUTE
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS
WEEK’S PROGRAM
Locally, Bob Dunning received the 1986 A.G.
Brinley Award and was inducted into the Davis
High School Hall of Fame in 2012. Bob gave
the city its unofficial motto, "The City of All
Things Right and Relevant." This is how the
charitable consignment store All Things Right
and Relevant got its name.
For the last 44 years, Bob has written a daily
newspaper column for The Davis Enterprise
and has been selected four times as Columnist
-of-the-Year in the state of California by the
California Newspaper Publishers Association.
His column is currently the longest-running
daily newspaper column in America.
He is married to the love of his life, Shelley, a
Montana native. He is the father of six and
grandfather of five, some of whose names he
can actually remember.
Talk title: "Everything you wanted to know
about the People's Republic of Davis but were
afraid to ask."
Often associated with bikes, big red buses and
cows, Davis was once claimed to be America’s
Weirdest City in the satirical Weekly World
News.
The town is home to peculiar urban legends,
like historic potholes and Ted the Titan, and
distinctive sites like the infamous Toad Tunnel
and Baggins End.
The concept of a toad tunnel first sprang about
when the city was in the process of building an
overpass by Pole Line Road in 1994.
“Helping the toads to find a happy little
habitat was the intention,” said John
McNerney, the wildlife resource specialist of
the City of Davis. “The main idea is that they
would encounter earthen berm.”
PP David Stone introduced Bob Dunning.
Bob is a local m edia figure, both in
print and on the radio. He writes for The
Davis Enterprise and has hosted both
local and national radio talk shows. After
beginning his talk radio career with a three
-hour nightly show on KFBK in
Sacramento, Bob also hosted a daily
nationally-syndicated radio talk show on
Sirius Satellite Radio. For the last 15
years, he has been the host of a daily one-
hour radio show throughout Northern
California.
Some people find his popularity
perplexing. He is a vocal opponent of
Choice Voting and has been an outspoken
supporter of U.C. Davis Football and the
California Aggie Marching Band for many
years. He is a proud defender of East Davis
and opposed the closing of Valley Oak
Elementary School. He opposes the
potential plastic bag ban; and for a while,
wrote pretty obsessively about it.
Bob grew up in Davis, attended local
schools and graduated from U.C. Davis
School of Law in 1973, yet tries to portray
himself as just a humble guy in
comparison to all of the PhDs who live in
Davis. His humble status doesn't stop him
from correcting everyone's grammar,
however — e.g., he insists that "League of
Women Voters" should be "League of
Woman Voters," since "woman" is used as
an adjective.
He appeared in The Saga of Yona.
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President Patrick and Bob Dunning
President Patrick presented Bob w ith a
Rotary gift in gratitude for his informative
presentation.
Then, as always, President Patrick asked
everyone to join him in a toast to “Rotary
Around the World” and the meeting was
adjourned.
Davis to be considered a strange place where
potholes are categorized as endangered
species. Hence, the “historic potholes” myth
that ensued for years to come.
Though it may not seem inherently apparent,
Davis is filled with hidden gems that continue
to preserve the quirkiness of the city. Looking
beyond the rows of bikes, there just may be
another uncommon marvel.
Community members such as Julie
Partansky, who later became the mayor of
Davis, were concerned that toads would be
inevitably mashed in the process of their
hippity-hopping across the overpass.
After much deliberation, Partanksy
convinced the Davis City Council to build
an approximately 220-foot long corridor
tunnel with an 18-inch diameter of
corrugated steel pipe. Word of the tunnel
spread shortly after it was built, and it
eventually appeared on “The Daily Show”
in 1999. Though “The Daily Show”
claimed the project cost $20,000,
McNerney said it was $2,000, and not a
substantial amount of taxpayer money.
Over time, McNerney has sampled the
local ponds for larval surveys, but found
no sign of Western Toad larvae. “Several
years after (the tunnel was built), we saw
the Western Toad fall below previous
levels,” McNerney said. Though the cause
of decline in the species has not been
explicitly determined, a vast portion of
hibernation habitat has been removed due
to land conversion by Second Street. In
spite of the fact that the species population
has faltered, McNerney said he believes
that the community has kept the “spirit of
the toads’” alive. On the eastern terminus
of the tunnel by the South Davis Post
Office, a little toad village has been set up
in honor of the creatures.
On another issue, Mayor Julie Partansky
argued that the plan to pave the alleyways
between downtown Davis homes may
possibly “disturb or destroy historic
artifacts” due to the fact that the alleyways
were built with the original
neighborhoods. Initially, her words were
misunderstood in an interview, causing
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DEMOTION GOLF Save the Date!
Wednesday, June 18th
Time TBA (about noon)
Woodcreek Oaks Golf Course (Roseville)
18 holes w/cart
Sleeve of balls
Range token
Lunch on the cart
Fabulous prizes!!
Water, soda and beer included
$35 per golfer
[ only 12 slots available ]
R.S.V.P. to Dominic
(916) 995-4006
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E-WASTE RECYCLING IS HERE!
THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO GET RID OF SOME UNWANTED
CLUTTER AND HELP OUR CLUB RAISE SOME MONEY. THEY WILL ACCEPT
ANY PIECE OF ELECTRONICS INCLUDING TV’S, COMPUTERS, APPLIANCES,
CORDS, KEYBOARDS, MICE AND EVEN POWER TOOLS. THE HEAVIER THE
BETTER (WE GET PAID BY THE WEIGHT!) ANYTHING WITH A CORD IS
ACCEPTABLE, AND THEY TAKE THE CORDS TOO. THEY SEPARATE AND
RECYCLE THE PLASTIC, METAL…EVERYTHING! IF YOU HAVE ITEMS TO
DONATE, GIVE ME A CALL TO COORDINATE THE PICKUP. SOME ITEMS I CAN
COLLECT AT OUR WEEKLY MEETINGS TOO! IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS OR
RELATIVES THAT HAVE SOME E-WASTE, I CAN ARRANGE FOR A FREE PICKUP
FOR THEM TOO!
THIS IS AN ONGOING PROJECT. CONTACT DOMINIC FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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IF YOU HAVE A VEHICLE
THAT YOU ARE THINKING OF TRADING IN OR SELLING,
CONSIDER DONATING IT TO THE
“ROTARY CLUB OF FOOTHILL-HIGHLANDS
DONATE-A-CAR PROGRAM”
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help support local charitable and non-profit causes. The Foothill-Highlands Rotary Club
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