Our
Town of Truckee was
established in 1863 and incorporated in 1993. With a population of
15,000, it is located at an altitude of 5,980 feet (1,823 meters) in the
Sierra Nevada mountains of California, 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of
Lake Tahoe.
Blessed with ideal summer
and winter weather - 300 days a year of sunshine and 206 inches average
snowfall - Truckee is the center of a vast recreation area
offering a variety of activities from water skiing to snow-boarding.
The Truckee Sunrise Rotary
Club has been an integral part of this community since 1993, pursuing our
mission of providing volunteer and financial support to
the youth, economically dis-advantaged, and elderly of our local, national
and international communities.
Our two major fundraisers,
the Truckee Chili Cookoff and Un Mundo, are also major social and sporting
events in the community.
The Truckee
Sunrise Rotary Club is Club Number 29467 and a part of Rotary District 5190. As
of June, 2007, there were approximately 2,700 club members in 53 clubs, 31 in
California and 22 in Nevada.
We meet at 7 AM Tuesdays at
Donner Lake Kitchen, 13710 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. Click
here for a map.
For information about
Rotary International, please click
here.
For
information about member-ship in Rotary, please click
here.
This web site is intended as
an information resource for Truckee Sunrise Rotarians and all interested
parties. Check back often as new material is being added weekly.
Truckee Sunrise Rotary Club
P. O. Box 8634
Truckee, CA 96162
530.386.4275
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September - New Generations Month
September 7, 7 AM - Club Meeting:
Isabelle Wilson of the Boys and Girls Club of North Lake
Tahoe.
September 7, 8 AM - Board Meeting:
All members are encouraged to attend.
September 14, 7 AM - Club Meeting:
Chelsea Walterscheid of
the Truckee Donner Historical Society.
September 21, 7 AM - Club Meeting:
Truckee Donner Rec. and Park District Candidates' Forum.
September 28, 7 AM - Club Meeting:
Mark McLaughlin will present the history
of winter sports at Lake Tahoe and Truckee based on his new
book, "Longboards to Olympics: A Century of Tahoe Winter
Sports."
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Candidates' Forum
The Truckee Sunrise
Rotary Club will host a forum for Truckee Donner Rec.
and Park District Board candidates.
The seven candidates,
Kevin C. Murphy, Peter Werbel, Richard Valentine, Ann
Folsom, Brent Ferrera, Kristine York and Cindy Smith,
will meet the public on Tuesday, September 21 at 7 AM at
the Club’s regular meeting at Donner Lake Kitchen.
“This forum is
reflective of the dedication to the community of the
Truckee Sunrise Rotary Club,” commented Jamie Brimer,
Club president. “The format will allow interested
Truckee voters to hear from and question the candidates
in an informal setting,” he continued.
On Tuesday, October 5,
candidates for the Truckee Fire Protection District
Board, Victor Hernandez, Gerald Herrick, Paul Wilford
and James Herzman and incumbents Joseph Straub and Ben
Malone will present their qualifications and answer
questions from the attendees.
On Tuesday, October
19, candidates for the Truckee Town Council will appear
in a similar forum. Candidate Carl Jeffries and
incumbents Mark Brown, Richard Anderson and Carolyn
Wallace Dee will appear.
Still later, on
Tuesday, October 26, candidates for the Truckee Tahoe
Airport District Board will appear in a similar forum.
In 1985, Rotary
International created PolioPlus – a program to immunize
all the world’s children against polio. To date, Rotary
has contributed more than US$800 million and countless
volunteer hours to the protection of more than two
billion children in 122 countries. Rotary is currently
working to raise an additional US$200 million toward a
US$355 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation. These efforts are providing much
needed polio vaccine, operational support, medical
personnel, laboratory equipment and educational
materials for health workers and parents. In addition,
Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor
governments to contribute over $4 billion to the effort.
Polio Today
Today, endemic wild poliovirus
has been eliminated from all but four countries in the
world (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan), and
less than 2000 cases were reported worldwide in 2008.
Though great progress has been made, challenges remain.
Overall, the quality of immunization campaigns must be
improved, and more funding is critically needed. In
response, governments, donors and international agencies
have endorsed a plan with clear milestones to tackle
these and
other challenges to a polio-free world. |
