Rotary's Theme for 2011-2012
Our
Mission
Pursuing our
mission of providing volunteer and financial support to
the youth, the economically disadvantaged, and the elderly of our local, national
and international communities.
Our Meetings
We
meet Tuesday Mornings at The Stella Cafe
at 7:00 AM at the Cedar House Sports Hotel at:
10918 Brockway Road,
Truckee, CA 96161
GPS
Coordinates:
Latitude: 39.324078 N
Longitude: 120.169540 W
Altitude: 5850 Ft.
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Lots.
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Truckee Sunrise Rotary Club
P. O. Box 8634
Truckee, CA 96162
530.386.4275
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About the
Town of Truckee
Our
Town of Truckee was established in 1863 and
incorporated in 1993. With a population of 15,000,
it is located at an altitude of 5,980 feet (1,823
meters) in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, 12
miles (19 kilometers) north of Lake Tahoe.
Blessed with ideal summer and winter weather - 300 days a year of sunshine
and 206 inches average snowfall - Truckee is the center of a vast
recreation area offering a variety of activities from water skiing to
snow-boarding.
The Truckee Sunrise Rotary
Club has been an integral part of this community since 1993.
Our
Events
Our major annual fundraiser is the Truckee Chili Cookoff
which is a major social
events in the community attracting over 15 contestants and
feeding and entertaining hundreds of visitors and locals
alike. Throughout the year we host smaller events such
as the Senior Christmas Dinner.
Our District
The Truckee
Sunrise Rotary Club is Club Number 29467 and a part of Rotary District 5190. As
of June, 2007, there were approximately 2,700 club members in 53 clubs, 31 in
California and 22 in Nevada.
Join Rotary
The Truckee Sunrise
Rotary Club welcomes those wanting to join other
Rotarians to serve their community.
Membership is open to
those holding or retired from a professional,
proprietary, executive, or managerial position; who
agree to meet the club’s participation expectations; and
are committed to high standards of integrity, fairness,
tolerance and humanitarianism.
We'd love to meet you. To find out more about our club and Rotary
International and how you may serve, join us for a complimentary breakfast at 7
AM on any Tuesday morning.
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Or you may contact our Membership Chair,
Jamie Brimer
jamie@brimercon.con.
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International, please click
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Rotary, please click
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News and Media
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on the latest Rotary news and media coverage.
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January 24 - Club
Meeting -
Speaker: from the Truckee Tahoe Airport.
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January 28 -
Sierra Senior Services Annual Spaghetti Feed -
We Serve Ice Cream and do clean up.
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April 28 -
Rotarians at Work
The 2011 Betsy Watson
Scholarship was awarded to Maggie Butler who will
attend Truckee Meadows Community College.
Click
here to download the application for 2012.
The $ 1,000
scholarship grant honors the memory of Elizabeth
“Betsy” Watson, a long-time professional nurse, nursing
educator and nursing administrator at Tahoe Forest
Hospital in Truckee.
Top Five Reasons to
Support The Rotary Foundation
There are
as many reasons to support The Rotary Foundation as
there are ways to do good in the world.
By
contributing to the Foundation you help support
the Foundation's six
areas of focus, which help to advance world
understanding, goodwill, and peace through the
improvement of health, the support of education, and the
alleviation of poverty. By giving US$100 a year through
the
Every Rotarian, Every Year (EREY) initiative, you
become a Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member.
Contributions to EREY are the primary source of funding
for Foundation programs.
Here are a
few ways your contributions are making change possible.
5.
Fighting hunger
In Romania, orphans and sick
children have eggs, milk, and meat because of a
Foundation grant that benefits local farmers. The
farmers are able to buy everything from animal feed to
packaging materials. There is one stipulation: They must
donate a portion of their products to children’s
hospitals, schools, and orphanages.
In Alaska,
USA, the Rotary Club of Anchorage East is also
fighting hunger by distributing food to low-income
families through a mobile food pantry.
Projects
such as these help address the areas of focus of
maternal and child health as well as economic and
community development.
4.
Reducing child mortality
The Rotary clubs of Jaela-Kandana,
Western Province, Sri Lanka, and Madras Northwest, Tamil
Nadu, India, are helping to reduce child mortality by
providing improved sanitation facilities for 15 families
in a small community in Sri Lanka. With a
Rotary Foundation Matching Grant , the clubs have
built 14 toilets, helping to prevent diarrhea and other
diseases related to poor sanitation.
According
to the World Health Organization, 1.8 million children
die of diarrhea every year, making it the second leading
cause of death among children under five. Proper
sanitation can reduce the rate of child mortality in
many communities by up to a third. Water and sanitation
is the third area of focus.
3.
Promoting peace and conflict resolution
Watching civil war tear apart
his homeland of Côte d'Ivoire instilled in Rotary Peace
Fellow Kouame Remi Oussou a passion to resolve conflict.
He is now
working for the United
Nations Development Programme in the Central African
Republic, a country that weathered periodic internal
fighting before a comprehensive peace accord took effect
in 2007.
Read more about Oussou .
Rotary Peace Fellows are leaders in promoting
national and international cooperation, peace, and
conflict resolution.
Help support the Rotary Peace Centers . Peace and
conflict prevention/resolution is the first area of
focus.
Read about four Rotary Peace Fellows and their visions
for peace .
2.
Basic education and literacy
Education helps rebuild lives,
whether it's in small rural towns or in war-torn
countries. For example, a literacy project sponsored by
U.S. Rotarians in conjunction with the International
Reading Association (IRA) is helping Sudanese refugees
rebuild their communities by equipping them to teach
future generations.
The
Southern Sudan Teacher Training Initiative provides
refugees of the country's decades-long civil war, who
are known as the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, with
teacher training materials, guidance, and support to
help them teach students in kindergarten through eighth
grade. "People returning from refugee camps to rebuild
their lives in Duk County are hungry for books and
school supplies," says John Dau, a Lost Boy,
humanitarian, and founder of the John Dau Foundation.
Read more about the project .
1.
Eradicating polio
Around the world, Rotarians are taking
millions of steps in walkathons, diving into icy ocean
waters, and participating in other
fundraisers to help Rotary fulfill its promise to
rid the world of polio.
Last year
there were no reported cases of Polio in India.
This is a huge achievement that takes the efforts of
hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
Si Burgher, of the Rotary Club
of Bloomfield, Indiana, USA, raised almost $1,600 by
having his shaggy eyebrows shaved.
Rotary
launched its
PolioPlus program in 1985. Since then, eradicating
polio has been the organization's top priority.
End Polio Now and help fulfill its promise.
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The Year In Review
Our New President:
Sara Taddo Jones Takes Charge
First Meeting of the Rotary Year - Chili Cookoff Winner
Feted
Don
Davis – shown to below of Old Farts Makin’ Chili, who
won the Grand Champion first place prize thanked the
club for holding such a fun-filled event. And he had
only a few minor “suggestions” to improve next year’s
event – including the creation of a “no-chili-chili” or
other category for people who forgot to add meat or
beans.
Club Helps Sponsor The Day of the Dead Festival
The club’s sponsored
The Day of the Dead (Dias de las Muertes) on November 4.
This event was a celebration of our beloved ancestors.
Members brought photos of those who had gone before and
other mementos to adorn our alter at this great event.
Truckee Sunrise Rotary RAW Project Dedicates the Rex
Anderson Pars Course
After many weekends of work on the part of
Truckee Sunrise and Truckee Noon Club Rotarians and 20
of the unsuspecting young men and advisors of from the
Horizon School in La Jolla - who showed up for a
"service project" - the new Truckee Elementary Par
Course will be dedicated to the memory of former
principal, Rex Anderson.
Club Joins Truckee Elementary School's
Literacy Program
This
year, the club joined an effort to help with Truckee
Elementary School's Literacy Program. Our efforts
were spearheaded by Eileen Driscoll, Dr. Bryan Pierce
and Jeff Sparksworthy. We helped with the Dr.
Suess reading day and work every week with students, one
of whom was just honored for reading over one million
words this year!
Senior
Christmas Dinner A Ringing Success
 Our
Eric Allen, was this year’s event coordinator and made
sure all hands were on deck to serve (and be served) at
the annual Senior’s Christmas Dinner. This is always a
special, heartwarming club event and is one of our many
little things we do. Somehow, the Belles of the Ball
showed up with the Noon Club's Bell.
We
were, as always, totally entertained and charmed by the
carolers from Brownie Troop 116.
Almost 100 people filled the room and
were served a yummy dinner with ham (cooked on time for
a change) and plenty of potatoes and other fixings.
Karen Hall outdid herself and the rest of us with her
cake truffle desserts.
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