Programs 2024 - 2018

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January 2018

Vocational Service Month

2:    Dark for New Years

9:    Rich Wolfe, Surefire World Multigun Champion

16:  Brent Cardall, Chief Probation Officer, Yolo County; http://www.yolocounty.org/law-justice/probation/

23: Bill Shea, Aerospace Lecturer; 'California and U.S. Aviation Update';  

30:   Christi Skibbins, Executive Director, Meals on Wheels; https://www.mowyolo.org/

February 2018

Peace & Conflict Resolution Month

6:    Dave Grundler, District Chairman, Golden Empire Council Boy Scouts of America; http://www.gec-bsa.org/

13:    Dr. Joseph Sky, Chief of Cardiology, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine;"Enhancing Western Medicine's Care of the Heart with Wisdom from the Blue Zones"

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/Portals/60/documents/711/usafsam/711-usafsam-fact-sheet.pdf?ver=2016-07-15-132746-480

20:  Sylvina Frausto, "CAFE" Community Alliance for Education

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/article/NI/20170417/NEWS/170419897

27:   Seth Wurzel, Owner, Larsen Wurzel & Associates, Inc.; 

'Major Urban Flood Control Projects';

http://www.larsenwurzel.com/

March 2018

Water and Sanitation Month

6:   Club Social Evening at Father Paddy's

13:  Dillon Dougherty, 'My Golf Story'

20:   Jim Morris, Communications Manager, California Rice Commission,

http://calrice.org/ and Steve Beckley, Reclamation District 108

 http://sacramentovalley.org/contributors/steve-beckley/

'From Sushi to the Pacific Flyway, the surprising benefits of California Rice'

27:  Thomas Pritchard, Superintendent, Woodland Joint Unified School District; http://www.wjusd.org/

April 2018

Maternal and Child Health Month

3:   James Glica-Hernandez, Executive Director, Yolo County Historical Museum-Gibson House, 'Upcoming Changes for the Gibson House'. http://www.gibsonhouse.org/

10:  Xochitl Rodriguez, Woodland City Council, Mayor Pro Tempore;

'Update on the City of Woodland'; http://www.cityofwoodland.org/gov/cityhall/council/default.asp

17:   Rachael Long, UC Extension Farm Advisor; 'Crops We're Growing in Yolo County'; http://cecapitolcorridor.ucanr.edu/ ; http://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=1355

24:   Colin Anderson, Assistant Director/Lead Attorney, Yolo County Child Support Services;

 http://www.yolocounty.org/law-justice/child-support-services

May 2018

Youth Service Month

1:  Senior BBQ, Rotary Park - All Hands on Deck!

8:  Michael Rooke-Ley, Woodland United Way; 'Creating Tailwinds'

15: Tri-Club BBQ/Social at the Train Depot - A Social evening with all three Woodland Rotary Clubs

22:   Bill Dodd, Senator, California State Senate, Third District

http://sd03.senate.ca.gov/

29:  Janet Vaughan, Executive Director, Mosaic Children's Museum; http://www.mosaicchildrensmuseum.org/

June 2018 

Rotary Fellowship Month

 5: (Meeting at Boundary Bend Olives, 455 Harter Ave. Woodland)

Adam Englehardt, Chief Executive Officer; Boundary Bend Olives, Inc.; http://www.boundarybend.com/

12:   Pam Marrone, PhD;  Founder & CEO, Marrone Bio Innovations; https://marronebioinnovations.com/

19:  President Peter's Wrap Up

26:  Demotion

 July 2018 

 Rotary International Making A Difference Year Begins

3:   Dark for the Fourth of July!

10:   Installation of 2018-19 President Mike Chandler

17:  Dan Stroski and Ray Johansen, DDS,

Honor Flight for 92 year old veteran

https://www.honorflight.org/

24:  Gill Williams, President, Norcal Trykers www.norcaltrykers.com

31:  Sandra Sigrist, LCSW; Director, Adult and Aging Branch, Yolo County Health and Human Services,  "Crisis Response System"

http://www.yolocounty.org/health-human-services

August 2018 

 Membership and New Club Development Month

7:   Dr. John Purcell, Vice President, Monsanto "Monsanto's Role in the Vegetable Industry" https://monsanto.com/

14:   Michelle Kellogg, Yolo Community Care Continuum

www.y3c.org

21:   Vanessa Erracarte, Erreco Strategies;

"Using Social Media to Market Your Business -

It's easier AND CHEAPER than you think!"

https://errecostrategies.com/

28:   Jim Provenza, Yolo County Supervisor, District 4

"American Exceptionalism and Yolo County"

http://www.yolocounty.org/general-government/board-of-supervisors/district-4-jim-provenza

September 2018 

Basic Education and Literacy Month

4:   Michael White, PhD, President, Woodland Community College

https://wcc.yccd.edu/

11:   Sarah Smith, ARK Preschool

http://www.arkpreschool.org/p/welcome-to-ark-preschool.html

18: Club business assembly

25:  Susan Strachan, Cannabis Director, Yolo County Department of Community Services, "Cannabis in Yolo County"; http://www.yolocounty.org/community-services/cannabis-3398

October 2018 

Economic and Community Development Month

2:  Thomas Pritchard, Superintendent, Woodland Joint Unified School District;

"Information on School Bond" https://www.wjusd.org/District/School-Bond-Measure-O/

9:  Thomas Wendt, Amana Essential; "Ancient to Modern Alternatives in Healing" https://amanaessentials.com/

16:  Woodland Panel on Homelessness 

23:  Diane Ortiz, Deputy District Attorney, Yolo County District Attorney's Office "High Profile Cases 2017/18"; https://yoloda.org/ 

30:   Karen Ross, California Secretary of Food & Agriculture; https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/SecretaryBio.html

November 2018

Rotary Foundation Month

6:   Jeremiah Pauley, Wounded Warrior Project

https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

13:  Anthony Taula-Lieras, Yolo County Health and Human Services, Mental Health Services Act Project Coordinator 

https://www.yolocounty.org/health-human-services/mental-health/mental-health-services/mental-health-services-act-mhsa

20:  Jon Dwyer, Rotary 5160 District Governor, 2018-19; https://www.rotary5160.org/

27: Karl Diekman, Around the World with Rotary - One Man's Journey

December 2018

Disease Prevention and Treatment Month

4: Holiday Program: Douglass Middle School Choir and Jazz Band; Luiz Coehlo, Music Teacher; https://dms.wjusd.org/

11: Amy Wolfe, President & CEO, Ag Safe

http://www.agsafe.org/

18:Dennis Brown, Chief of Flight Operations, CAL FIRE

http://calfire.ca.gov/

25: Dark for Christmas