Volume 23, Issue 2
June 4, 2007
Rotary Club of Point West - Sacramento, CA
Service above self
Bud’s Pub!
23rd Term
February 28, 2008
Opening minutes
The Objectives of
Rotary International:
 The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
 High ethical standards in
business and professions;
the recognition of the
worthiness of all useful
occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s
occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
 The application of the
ideal of service in each
Rotarian’s personal, business and community life.
 The advancement of international understanding,
goodwill, and peace
through a world fellowship
of business and professional persons united in
the ideal of
service.
Another grey Friday morning, a hint
of spring in the
area, as Point West
Rotarians gathered at the
newly named Red Lion Hotel Sacramento at Arden Village, as Mr. Excitement Buddy Boy Bud Ackerman rang in the 30th meeting of the
23rd term of the Rotary Club of Point
West, Sacramento
Bob Willett led us in the Pledge.
Guy Heilman missed the meeting due
to that nasty cold bug going along so
Trish Harrington flashed us all back to
third grade, as Trish, Bea Maurer,
Mary Lyn Kagan, and Michelle Orrock led a round robin of ―Row Row
Row Your Boat.‖ By the way if you
Google Worst Third Grade Memory,
this gem pops up:
Our invocator was Amadeo Romero…but wait…Tim Maliepaard sprang to the stage in
Amo’s stead with an adlib, but
very good prayer
thanking the
Lord, remembering and praying
for our sons and
daughters in Iraq,
and closing with ―Here’s To
Festa!!‖
Head Table
The Head Table featured Lou
Fifer and Lori Curry, who
would soon engage in a
2X2, Richard Prater and
guest speaker and fellow Rotarian Tom Johnson. There
was some speculation about
why Prater was in a suit, as
he only is so attired when
getting married or is in court
getting sued. But there was
general agreement that Prater
cleans up nicely!
― in the third grade (or second) my
friend stabbed his eye out and the eye
ball was just hanging out of the socket.
Boy was that funny!‖ (UGH!!!)
Festa di Vino—Weekly Update………..
Inside this
issue:
Speaker—Tom Johnson
2
Fireside Chats
2
PWR 2 x 2
2
Bowling Bash
2
New Member
3
Bell Ringer
3
Sightseers
3
Save the Date
3
Quotes
3
Announcements, etc.
4
Festa: Pam Lapinski announced
OMG this is going to be so much fun.
We’re still looking for restaurants
and sponsors.
Craig Evans – we’re half way to
getting auction items. Lou Fifer has
contributed five items – can anyone
top that??
Melanie North: The top three Festa
ticket purchasers today were Lou
Fifer, Marty Haley and Glenys
Zimrick, all of whom win a bottle of
wine from one of our Festa winery
sponsors. Melanie tried to give away
Drew’s bowling ball, too. Nice try!
Remember, sponsors, there are
TWO FREE FESTA TICKETS
with every $250 sponsorship.
FESTA CHECKLIST: Every
Point Wester is expected to
furnish an auction item, and buy
(or sell) four tickets:
____ I have donated an
auction item
____ I have accounted for
four ticket sales
Ticket sales to date: 115
If you need ANY Festa assistance don’t hesitate to call
Pam or Mary Lyn.
Thank you!!!
Bud’s Pub!
Speaker—Tom Johnson
Dapper Dick Prater introduced our guest
speaker, Tom Johnson. Tom was a
prosecutor of 22
years, of which 4
was as a federal
prosecutor and the
rest with the Sacramento county DA’s
office. He first prosecuted lesser offenses
such as DUI and theft, and moved up the
crime pole to more severe cases, eventually prosecuting rapists and murderers.
Tom and his wife Maria have four children, two in private school, and a third
pointed in that direction, possibly the reasons he has left the DA’s office for private and more lucrative private practice.
Tom shared that
 As an attorney, you have to be able
to win your cases;
 You have to work the case you
have and
believe in
your client
 Trial work
is like
hand to
hand street
fighting.
 You have to be committed and do
the really hard work it takes to do
justice
 Tom made the statement that there
Fireside Chats—
ARE people in this world who are
just truly evil.
Tom shared a number of stories including
one about a very brave little ten year old
girl whose testimony put her father, who
had murdered her mother, into jail; and
Tom opined on
capital punishment, three
strikes and more.
Although Tom
has been with
PWRE a relatively short time he is going to be a tremendous presence in our club!!
President Bud presented Tom, who is his
neighbor, a bottle of Madrona cabernet and
offered to drink it with him Friday evening.
Bowling Bash!!
Drew Houghton – Bowling Bash
March 15th
Drew looked resplendent in his bowling
shirt! It’s March 15, 4:30 to 6:30, no-host
dinner afterwards organized by Tim Maliepaard at Olivers. All frames of 8 or
more will be scored as strikes, and there’s
even a chance for Cori Badgley to have a
perfect game and she has never bowled
before!!
 Bowling is a sport that should be right
down your alley.
 If you can't hear a pin drop, then
Out of Time!
something is definitely wrong with
your bowling.
Future Queen Charlene Drabant
announced that for persons still
needing to attend a Fireside Chat
we will have a morning makeup for
―laggards‖.
The last Fireside Chats were held
on February 26th.
 Our small town used to have a bowl-
A big thanks and congratulations
to all PWR members who made
their ―chat‖!!!….
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ing alley, but somebody stole the pin.
 "Something is wrong with my bowling
delivery," Tom said gutturally.
 I'll never bowl with him again. After
he got a strike, he spiked the ball.
 If our town didn't have bowling,
there'd be no culture at all.
 I go bowling once every four years to
make sure I still hate it.
PWR 2 x 2
2x2
Lou Fifer
and Lori
Curry
Lori on Lou:
From the time he was born Lou
wanted to be a pilot. He realized his
dream and became a pilot in the US
Navy. After an illustrious military
career Lou has stayed busy, has visited
26 countries and lists nineteen jobs on
his resume, (even more than Drew
Houghton). Lou has been married to
Joy for fifteen years. Q: Why is Lou
so passionate about donating blood?
A: Lou’s first wife tragically died of
cancer and Lou fought the difficult
fight with her. Blood is the gift of life,
and Lou has donated 68 gallons!! Lou
collects and restores cars and bicycles,
and spends four nights a week playing
in one of three different bands. Lou
may have inherited the music gene
from his father who played for Lawrence Welk.
Lou on Lori:
Lori was born in Vancouver and her
Dad flew for the Canadian Air Force
in WW II. After the war they settled
in the Arden
area in Sacramento
where her
Mom, now
widowed,
still lives.
Lori was an
Ag major at UC Davis and naturally
went into retail clothing as a purchaser
in San Francisco after college. In 1986
Lori followed in her father’s footsteps
by opening a State Farm Agency
which she still owns. Lori is a skier
and a hiker and claims to have walked
on the Sacramento River. If you’re not
in good hands now, just give Lori a
call at her agency.
Volume 23, Issue 30
Quotes
Cori Badgley - New Member!
Cori Gets Read In! At last Cori Badgley was read in…it
seems she has been coming to meetings all year and it’s great
that she’s official! Bea Maurer told us about Cori…born in Whittier CA, bounced around
to Juneau, Virginia, Whittier, Juneau. Cori played soccer through high school and also in
Germany. Cori loves music and is a singer, loves to hike and will be hiking the Chilkoot
(Alaska to Canada) with her Dad in the summer of 2009. Cori is training for her first half
marathon, and she does have a boyfriend of three years, Adam, who works for Intel.
Bell Ringer!!
Gordon Gerwig returned from a trip
to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. He
presented El Presidente (that’s Spanish for
President), aka La gran agitación / zozobra
(Mr. Excitement) with a toreador hat.
Gordon did not present El Presidente with
the rest of the bullfighter outfit because he
could not find
size MH
(Macho Hombre), also a couple of bottles of hot
sauce made a plant that also manufactures liquid explosives, and the products share similar ingredients.
Save the date…..
Gordon is celebrating his trip AND
ALSO daughter Greta’s film, BagMARK YOUR CALENDAR!!
head, being picked up getting picked
March 8, 2008
Field of Dreams, Encina HS up by a film producer. Gordon preCraig Evans
sented a check for $100 to the PWR
March 15, 2008
Bowling Bash
Foundation….thanks and
Mardi Gras Lanes
¡Felicitaciones!, Gordon!! .
Drew Houghton
Festa di Vino
Pam Lapinski
Mary Lyn Kagan
June 6, 2008
PWR Annual Golf Tourn.
Gary Hardesty
Ken Morris
June 15—18, 2008 RI Convention, LA
Roger Gaskin
September 20, 2008 Brewfest
Tim Armstrong

"Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not every-thing that counts
can be count-ed." - Albert Einstein
(1879-1955).

"In the End, we will remember not the
words of our enemies, but the silence
of our friends." - Martin Luther King
Jr. (1929-1968).

"Whether you think that you can, or
that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford (1863-1947).

"Good people do not need laws to tell
them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." Plato (427-347 BC).
April 26, 2008
Sightseers…...
Our guests included soon-to-besworn in Cori
Badgley, Jim
Relles and Neil
Orchard.
Birthdays
February B-day “babes”…
28—Bob Porter
March B-day “bundles of joy”…
5—Cary Okumura
5—Robert Willett, Jr.
11—Gary Disher
14—Richard Fathy
14—Rollie Peterson
14—Kathy Copeland
16 - William W. Fobes, II
17—Bruce Levering
18—Jeffrey Rosa
21—Larry Challis
26—Keith Tronson
29—Paul Adams
Board Members, etc.!
President
23rd Term Board
Sergeant-atArms
Bud Ackerman
Bud Ackerman
Trish Harrington
President-Elect
John Valentine
RI Foundation Chairman
Charlene Drabant
Robert Ellis
Larry Suddjian
Immediate Past President
Dick Oliver
PWR Foundation Chairman
Doug Weill
Scott Graham
Keith Tronson
Treasurer
John DiGiusto
Speakers, Greeters & Invocators
Jamie Williams
Dan Haverty
Dick Prater; Russ Fujii & Dick Goodell
Secretary
Dan Hall
Membership
Jennifer Curtsinger
Robert Willett, Jr.
Mike Cendro, Mark Copeland, Dave Garese
& Jack Kasper
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Newsletter
Editors:
John Valentine
Mary Lyn Kagan
Rotary Club of Point West - Sacramento, CA
Rotary Club of Point West Sacramento CA
District 5180 - Club Number 22656
P.O. Box 15006
Sacramento, CA 95851-0006
Upcoming Speaker, Invocator, Greeters,
Tickets & Cashiers:
February 29, 2008—
Speaker—Wayne Hokom
Jazz Jubilee Presentation
Invocator—Lisa Ryan
Greeter—Paul Snider
Ticket Taker—Takes Money Home—
Tom Slagle
Money—Geoff Simcoe
March 7, 2008—
Speaker—Encina High School
Speech Contest
Service Before Self
Check out the Web
www.pointwestrotary.com


Invocator— Tom Slagle
Greeter— Dave Christensen
Ticket Taker—Takes Money Home—
Rob Sowell
Money—Tom Slagle
The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time TV was Fred
and Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
 There are two times when a
man doesn't understand a
woman: Before marriage and
after marriage.
PWR Foundation Prize!
Jeff Milde won the leather folio,
courtesy of Roger Andriesse and
the PWR Foundation.
Gino’s Raffle
Past President Doug Weill
was Gino’s Raffle winner
with $46 Sawbucks!!!
Announcements
 Encina Field of Dreams Gary Hardesty  Blood: Lou Fifer: Us 114, Downtown
and Craig Evans reminded us that we will
100. Reason #5 to give blood: You will
be helping the River Cats organization and
walk a little taller afterothers transform Encina’s high’s baseball
wards — you will feel good
field into a Field of Dreams on March 8.
about yourself .
Mark the date!!
Upcoming PWR Board and Committee Meetings
Brewfest Committee:
Done 4 now!
Sweetwater Proj:
TBA
PWR Foundation:
RI Foundation:
Thur., Mar. 20th
TBA
7:00a—8:30a
Harrold Ford (Howe) Festa di Vino:
Mar. 6th
Benevolent Giving:
5:45—7:00p
Wed. Feb. 27th
TBA
7:15a—8:30a
555 University Ave. RYL Awards:
Conference Center
TBA
RYE:
Wed., Mar. 19th
6:00p—7:30p
Clarion Hotel
Auburn & Fulton
Missed a Meeting? Make it up…...
MONDAY
11:30—S. Sac Casa De Los Ninos
Noon—Oroville Depot Restaurant
Noon—Citrus Heights CH Comm Ctr
Noon—Foothill Highlands Lionsgate
Hotel—McClelland Park
Noon—Walnut Grove Wimpy’s Rest.
Noon—Radison, Sacramento Club
6:45—Fair Oaks F.O. Comm. Clubhouse
TUESDAY
7:00a—Mather/Perkins Mills Station
Community Hall
7:00a—Oroville-Sunrise Depot Rest.
7:00a—Sacto Breakfast, Ganul’s J St
7:00a—Sutter Buttes Bonanza Conv. Ctr
Noon—Arden Arcade Chateau Rest.
Noon—Rancho Cordova Elks Lodge
Noon—Roseville Sierra View CC
6:30p—Carmichael Café Capri Rest
WEDNESDAY
7:15a—Natomas Xcaret Rest
7:15a—Laguna/Elk Grove
Valley Hi Country Club
7:15a—El Dorado Hills EDH
Comm. Svc. Pavillion
Noon—Rocklin/Loomis
Whitney Country Club
Noon—E. Sac Zigatos Rest.
Noon—E.G. Vince’s Rest.
Noon—N. Sac Double Tree Hot.
5:30p—Midtown—Café Bernardo
2726 Capitol Avenue.
THURSDAY
7:00a—Roseville Sunrise Carrow’s
7:00a—Folsom 718 Sutter St, Ste. 200
12:15p– Sac. Cathedral Hall
1017 11th St. Sacramento
7:00p—Folsom Lew Howard Park
FRIDAY
7:00p—Orangevale La Placita Rest.
12:15p—Granite Bay Piatti’s
12:15p—W. Sac. Club Pheasant
2x2 Schedule
Mar. 14th—Michael
Crimmins and
Carl Naake
Meetings (cont)
Public Relations:
TBA
PWR—BOARD
Tue. Mar. 4th
7:00—8:30a
AT&T Bldg.
2700 Watt Ave
(north entrance)