J Curious Just Last Week By Barry K. Hogan

J Curious
Issue No. 36 – Mar 30
Meetings, Speakers
& Coming Events
Apr 6
Sean Bianco, Host
of “At the Opera”
on Capital Public
Radio
Apr 13 Marsha Spell,
Family Promise
Apr 20 Gary Dietrich
Apr 27 Firefighter
Recognition
May 4 Police Recognition
Meeting
May 11 Rick Eytcheson,
Capitol Public
Radio
May 18 Norm Saylor,
Donner Summit
May 25 Teacher
Recognition
June 1 Tom Fellenz, High
Speed Rail
Authority
Meetings are at the
Double Tree Hotel at 7
AM, Friday Mornings
Just Last Week
It’s hard to resist saying that
our program last week “went to
the dogs” when Canine
Companions for Independence
was our featured program. In fact,
the entire meeting was dedicated
to these wonderful people and
animals alike.
Rotary Club of
Point West
Founded, April 1985
Canine Companions for
Independence (CCI) is located in
Santa Rosa, California on an
expansive campus/training facility. If
you haven’t had the opportunity to
By Barry K. Hogan
visit the CCI campus, it is open to
public visits on Wednesdays and
arrangements can be made to visit at
other times. Graduations are open to
the public and we are told that they
are a real tearjerker to attend.
Chandler Metcalf, a 14-year
old multiple sclerosis sufferer and all
around great person, told us of how
he got his canine companion dog,
Bernice. She knows 30 commands
helping Chandler to pick up items,
more on
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Rotary Club of Point West – 2011-2012 Board of Directors
President, Jennifer Curtsinger; Secretary, Doug Weill; Treasurer, Drew
Houghton; Administrative Assistant, George Daniels, Past President,
Gary Hardesty, President-elect, Mike Cendro
5180 District Governor
Directors
Club Service I
Community Service I
International Service
Vocational Service I
Sergeant at Arms
Don Levin
Club Service II
Trish Harrington
Greg Garcia
Community Service II Toney Sebra
Desiree Wilson Publicity/Membership Lori Curry
Jamie Nelson
Vocational Service II Mary Lyn Kagan
John Koogle, Karl Forste, Justin McWilliams and Bill McIntyre
Visit our website for more information
Governor Jack Taylor’s
newsletter is available at
rotary5180.net/my rotary
http://pointwest.clubwizard.com
Just Last Week continued
push buttons and 28 other
commands. Chandler says, “She’s
awesome.”
Lauren Ringel, Training
Director of CCI gave us a brief
overview of what goes on at CCI.
Puppy raising is already known to
some PWR club members, such as
Walter, Roger and Mary Lyn, who
have and are now raising puppies for
CCI. After the puppies are raised
they return to CCI for further training
by the CCI staff. Upon returning to
CCI the puppies go through a
medical and temperament screening
process. CCI makes sure that the
puppies don’t have medical
problems and have the “right stuff” to
become a graduate of the program.
The final training of the dogs
consists of two semesters of 3 months
each where the trainers make sure that
the dogs are comfortable with their
crates, have the right ambulatory
skills, understand and perform the
necessary commands. CCI will also
categorize the dogs at this time in
order to specialize their training.
Semester two is the refinement stage
where the dogs learn advanced
commands, have weekly field trips and
learn wheelchair work.
After the dogs have passed the
two-semester course they are ready to
Wise Presidential Words
Guy Heilman is doing fine
and would appreciate hearing from
you. I hope that everyone got a
chance to sign the large card
provided by Desiree Wilson at our
meeting on March 30th. If you get a
chance, give him a call, or drop by
and see him.
meet the clients over a two-week
training course. Dogs and clients get to
meet for the first time. In the first two
days the dogs and the clients are
rotated to see what dog and client would
be the best match. Placement of a dog
with a client is based upon the skills
needed by the client and the dog’s
ability to meet those skills.
CCI has been supported by
PWR for many years and provides a
wonderful service to very needed
people. PWR is lucky to have found
such a giving organization providing
such a life-saving service. The dogs are
provided free to the clients although the
cost to train the dogs runs $50K to $60K.
Festa di Vino is tomorrow,
March 31st. I hope to see many of
you at this wonderful event. I am
sure that “a good time will be had by
all,” and many thanks to the Festa
Committee. My apologies to Mark
(Markie) Mraule and Rabobank for
not making time at our March 30th
meeting for the presentation of their
sponsors check of $1,000. This is
Festa’s largest sponsor this year!
Thanks again Mark and Rabobank.
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Dyslexics in Action
2 dyslexics run into a bank and
shout: “Air in the hands Mother
Stickers! This is a _uck up!
Selling my stuff if I die and other silly stuff
By Anonymous
The older you are and the
longer you have been married, the
funnier this is.
One lazy Sunday morning
the wife and I were quiet and
thoughtful, sitting around the
breakfast table.
I said to her unexpectedly,
“When I die, I want you to sell off
all my stuff, immediately.”
“Now why would you want
me to do that?” she asked.
“I figure a women as fine as
yourself would eventually remarry
and I don’t want some asshole
using my stuff.”
“She looked at me intently
and said, “What makes you think
I’d marry another asshole?”
Men Who Lack
Supervision
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Save
the
Date
Mark
Your
Calendars!!
Our Annual Point
West Golf Tournament
is coming up. Mark
your calendars for May
21st at the North Ridge
Country Club. If you
don’t have your
foursome set up yet you
need to get moving.
Don’t miss this great
event. The benefiting
charity is the Folds of
Honor Foundation. For
more information
contact Joanie Mather at
joanmather1@comcast.
net. What was that
date again??? MAY
21ST!!!
Issue No. 36 – Mar 30
Shrink Or Bartender?
Fireside Chat
Ever since I was a child,
I've always had a fear of
someone under my bed at night.
So I went to a shrink and told
him: 'I've got problems.
Every time I go to bed I
think there’s somebody under
it. I'm scared. I think I'm going
crazy.
''Just put yourself in my
hands for one year,” said the
shrink. “Come talk to me three
times a week and we should be
able to get rid of those fears.”
”How much do you
charge?”
“Eighty dollars per visit,”
replied the doctor.“
I'll sleep on it,' I said.
Six months later the
doctor met me on the street.
“Why didn't you come to
see me about those fears you
were having?” he asked.
”Well, eighty bucks a
visit three times a week for a
year is an awful lot of money! A
bartender cured me for $10. I
was so happy to have saved all
that money that I went and
bought me a new pickup!”
”Is that so?” With a bit of
an attitude he said, “and how,
may I ask, did a bartender cure
you?''
“He told me to cut the
legs off the bed! Ain't nobody
under there now!!!”
FORGET THE SHRINKS.
HAVE A DRINK & TALK TO A
BARTENDER.
By Mike Cendro, PresidentElect
Fireside chats are the bread
and butter of input into the
upcoming president’s term. It
helps the president shape and
focus the term ahead. Without
participation the president is
without needed direction.
As promised those
gentlemen (and Karolina) below
did not attend any fireside chats
and therefore are subject to fines.
Your check and completed
questionnaire must be submitted
to me as soon as possible so I can
tabulate the feedback for the
Board and complete this process.
The following members
were absent at a Fireside Chat
resulting in a $25 fine, as long as
the check comes with a completed
questionnaire; without a
questionnaire, the fine goes to $50.
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Dan Hall-fine paid, paperwork
received
Dean Wilkie-fine paid,
paperwork received
Dennis Wessler
Ed Harrington-paperwork
received
Gary Hardesty
Greg Garcia
Jim Coulter
Jim Fletter
Karolina Maluga
Mike Barger
Paul Adams
Randy Kilgore
Bob Sieglitz
Roger Gilleland
Ron Neal
Scott Daulton
Todd Murray
Gary Disher –paperwork
received, ($50 fine-defiant
insubordination)
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Newsletter articles or
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accepted at any time. For
short articles or
announcements, copies are
okay, if they are longer,
electronic versions are
required.
THE FOURWAY TEST
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all?
Missed a Meeting?
Here are some of the nearby clubs. A complete list is
at www.rotary5180.org/clubmeetinglocations or if you
can’t make it to a meeting in person, make up on-line
at www.rotaryclub.org to experience e-Club.
11:30 am –
12:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 am 12:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 am 12:15 pm
5:30 pm
7:00 am
12:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:15 am
12:15 pm
2:15 pm
MONDAY
South Sacramento – Casa Garden
Restaurant
Sacramento – Radisson Hotel
Fair Oaks – F. O. Comm. Clubhouse
TUESDAY
Sacramento Breakfast – Gonul’s J Street
Café’
Arden Arcade – Community Service
Center Marconi Sheriff’s Substation
Carmichael – Palm Street Pub & Grill
WEDNESDAY
Rocklin Loomis Basin – Whitney Oaks
Golf Club
North Sacramento – Double Tree Hotel
Midtown Sacramento – Café’ Bernardo
THURSDAY
Roseville Sunrise – Carrows Restaurant
East Sacramento – Salvation Army
Folsom – Rotary Clubhouse at Lew
Howard Park
FRIDAY
Natomas – Hamilton Inn and Suites
Granite Bay – Piati’s Restaurant
West Sacramento – Pheasant Club
The Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the
ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in
particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST:
The development of acquaintance as an
opportunity for service;
SECOND: 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;
THIRD:
The application of the ideal of service in
each Rotarian’s personal, business, and
community life;
FOURTH: The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill, and peace
through a world fellowship of business and
professional persons united in ideals of
service.