Another fun social and a great way to kick off spring—though we’ll really miss Karen and Dennis Ball, who packed up their trailer and left for Washington State right after the party.

We also got to meet our outbound exchange student Trent. He was very excited to get to meet his hosting club and shared his baking talents to raise funds for his trip to Thailand. 

The East/West Rotary club of Santa Rosa hosted an all club social at the Ferguson Observatory in Kenwood, CA.

As we waited for the sun toset, we got to meet and social with members of different clubs.  The East/West club provided great noshes and drinks.

Once the sunset, we went inside for a presentation of our choosing. They presented 15 topics to choose from, and an overwhelming majority chose the Fermi Paradox (aka: Aliens).  Wow, a great presentation.

By the time the presentation was done, we learned the truth about alien existence and it was dark enough to look thru the three amazing telescopes. I felt like I could reach out and touch the surface of the moon.

In the end, I think over $1000 was raised for the Observatory.

Rotaract Board meeting with the Rotaract Board members and Rotary club advisors.

This meeting was hosted by Rose, who provided a lunch and a very lovely spread.  They discussed many plans for the rest of the semester, including fund raisers and the design of a club T-Shirt. 

An annual event, we help raise money for the local Salvation Army each year by ringing. 

This year it was outside the Safeway on 4th Street. 

The Rotary club of Santa Rosa had another fun social!

Thank you to Keven Brown for hosting this one at Corrick’s.

We had a very nice Rotary excursion at Pacific Coast Air Museum. Our tour guide was Gary Greenaugh who spoke at our Rotary meeting several months ago.