At our lunch meeting on May 8 at Bodhi-Hive we got to hear the report from our Los Barriles team. Our group, organized by International Service Director, Kelly Babinaeu and included Cathy Wilcox-Barnes, Chris Newsom, Paul and Sonya Boch, Area Governor Marcia Salter (Grass Valley Club) and Dave from Reno Sunrise. The project has been going on for 10 years in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Los Barriles and the East Cape Health Center. 

During our first trip, Char Wegner of the Rotary Club of Los Barriles cut the ribbon to the new Health Center. Since that time the center has added an Emergency Room, Family Medicine, Lab Testing and Dentistry. Our group assisted in heath screenings in 4 schools and screened over 600 students. The screenings included height and weight, eye exams, blood pressure and blood glucose screenings, dental screenings and a brief medical exam. Each student got to take home a dental goodie bag and the learned how to floss. Medical concerns uncovered in the screenings will be followed up from the clinic. Kelly gave us many reasons to consider going on this trip next year. Big thanks to our team and to Kelly for her leadership.  

During Thursday’s meeting several awards were presented. PE Pearce Boyer was presented his 3rd PHF and Kelly was presented with her first Paul Harris Award and her Paul Harris Society Certificate. Top Gun Conference participants reported on how much fun DG Dennis’ conference. District SAA Chair Cathy also presented Tom with her SAA Jumping In With Both Feet Award for his continuous support throughout the conference. 

May is Youth Services month for Rotary International. Rotary Youth Services Award (RYLA) is a large program of Rotary International. Through a week-long immersive experience, RYLA gives emergent young leaders a chance to connect with community leaders to build communication and problem-solving strategies, develop their own leadership strategies and make lifelong friends. To see the Rotary International vision for RYLA look here. Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. Here in Rotary District 5190, we call it the Rotary Youth Leadership Awakening. In cooperation with District 5180 our camps are held at Grizzly Creek Ranch in Portola, CA. This summer two sessions are available, from June 15 to 20 or June 22 – 27. To see the details of our students’ local experience look here. Welcome to RYLA. We have the honor of sponsoring one student this year, Grant from Ghidotti. We can’t wait to hear from him when he gets back from RYLA!

In lieu of our social event at 5:30pm on May 15 we will be doing a fantastic field trip to Inn Town Campground. The campground is at 9 Kidder Ct, Nevada City, CA 95959. Please park at the Railroad Museum next door. See Google map. 

Then, on May 22 we’ll be back for lunch at Bodhi-Hive at 12:15. We are waiting to confirm our program that day. Finally in May, we’ll be dark on May 29 for the 5th Thursday of the month. Please join us for any or all events! (Except, of course, the dark day).