PRESIDENT KEVIN SMITH-FAGAN (Executive Director of Fairytale Town) began the meeting by using a ceremonial gavel to ring the Rotary bell presented to the Sacramento Rotary Club 97 years ago! ALLISON CAGLEY (Sergeant in Arms) (Executive Director of Friends of Sacramento Arts) gave a warm welcome to our guests of the day, LAURA […]
Rotary Meeting: November 3, 2020 ALLISON CAGLEY (Sergeant in Arms) (Executive Director of Friends of Sacramento Arts) thanked our Pulse Reporter, JOHN MCINTYRE. Our guests joining us today included DISTRICT GOVERNOR ELECT DESIREE WILSON as well as four members of the Rotary Club of Rancho Cordova. Thank you all for joining us and […]
Rotary Meeting: October 27, 2020 ALLISON CAGLEY (Sergeant in Arms) (Executive Director of Friends of Sacramento Arts) welcomed our guest speaker, PROFESSOR MARY-BETH MOYLAN, as well as our newest Rotary member, NICOLE WILHELM (Co-Founder/Realtor of the Wilhelm Team at Compass). A warm and friendly welcome to both of you! STEVE HUFFMAN presented […]
Rotary Meeting: October 20, 2020 PRESIDENT KEVIN SMITH-FAGAN (Executive Director of Fairytale Town) kicked off the pre-meeting with some fun trivia. How many questions did you get correct? ALLISON CAGLEY (Sergeant in Arms) (Executive Director of Friends of Sacramento Arts) introduced RIVKAH SASS (CEO of Sacramento Public Library) who gave our thought […]
Rotary Meeting: October 13, 2020 The fall air was crisp and clear outside our Zoom screen boxes as PRESIDENT KEVIN SMITH-FAGAN (Executive Director of Fairytale Town) brought our meeting to order in celebration of the successful Sac Century Challenge which raised $108,000 for the Sacramento Children’s Home Crisis Nursery. PRESIDENT KEVIN asked […]
Rotary Meeting: September 22, 2020 Our meeting kicked off with a special musical presentation by WILLIAM SHUBB (Judge for U.S. District Court) as a welcome to DISTRICT GOVERNOR BRENT HASTEY. WILLIAM graced us all with an amazing medley of 1920’s songs performed on his ukulele. Aloha BRENT and welcome! CLICK HERE to […]
Rotary Meeting: September 15, 2020 PRESIDENT KEVIN (Executive Director for Fairytale Town) noted that 45 years ago last week, on Monday, September 5th, 1974, former President Gerald R. Ford visited Sacramento. President Ford was a longtime Rotarian and stayed at the Senator Hotel, where Eddie Mulligan, our Club Secretary, would have been in […]
Rotary Meeting September 1, 2020 PRESIDENT KEVIN SMITH-FAGAN (Executive Director of Fairytale Town) provided a musical alternative as an opening to the meeting by encouraging fellow Rotarians to name 10 songs that have a September reference. Looks like we all have a creative mind here, as we were easily able to accomplish this! Give these […]
PRESIDENT KEVIN SMITH-FAGAN (Executive Director of Fairytale Town) called the meeting to order, noting that it is currently Wizard of Oz day at Fairytale Town, which makes him Mayor of the Munchkin City and the Land of Oz. A magical start to our meeting! Polio has been eradicated in Africa, through the leadership […]
This week’s meeting opened with a surprise rendition of Sweet Virus Time, set to the musical stylings of Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline. This stunning performance was given by ELFRENA FOORD (Foord, Van Bruggen, & Pajak) and FORMER PRESIDENT DICK OSEN and was a lovely reminder to us all to propel California forward […]