Feel free to drop in any Wednesday, and you will be greeted by a club member! The first lunch is on us.
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Coming Wednesday to the Rotary Club of Alamo at 12:15pm. We are at FORLI – 3160 Danville Blvd. You’ll be greeted by Brad Gai!
Reminder: Meeting at FORLI
Are My Collectable Coins Worth Anything? – Bill Green
Long time Alamo resident Bill Green has been collecting coins since the 1950s. He spent his career in consumer packaged goods sales. After retiring he joined a local coin club where he helped establish an annual coin show. Seven years ago he launched Nor Cal Coin Shows. Currently he hosts shows twice a year in both Concord and Sunnyvale with plans for a show next summer in Reno Sparks. His advertising slogan is, "Where you get fair value for your coins and collectables".
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Upcoming Programs:
September 18 // Wine Appreciation – Meridith Ring
September 25 // Contra Costa County Update – Candace Andersen
October 2 // EAPF/Project Fairs - Michelle Lee
October 9 // MacArthur Came Back – Leanne Noe
October 16 // TBA
October 23 // Six Club Dinner
October 30 // State Assembly Update - Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan – at Forli
November 6 // Market Update – Talley Leger – at Forli
November 13 // District Governor Visit
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When you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon will donate to Foundation of the Rotary Club of Alamo. Support us every time you shop.On August 25th, The Grimes and Randalls represented Alamo Rotary at the Cub Scout Pack 800 Rocket Day at Rancho Romero Elementary School. The event was open to prospective Cub Scouts of both genders. As observers the Rotarians were treated to three distinctive rocket building and launching activities by boys and girls aged five to nine. In the first phases, the kids combined plastic film containers, water and seltzer tablets to demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion. The second stage had the kids coloring flat paper rockets, attaching a small tube and fitting straws into those taped tubes to facilitate launching by blowing. in the third phase, the kids colored, wrapped and tapped paper cylinder rockets, complete with guidance fins and plastic nose cones. These went ballistic with the forced air injection from plastic tube launchers powered by bicycle tire foot pumps. Distances achieved varied widely, but all the kids and grownups had a great time cheering and clapping for all the budding "rocket scientists"! It was a blast of a day and all had fun.
Coming Wednesday to the Rotary Club of Alamo at 12:15pm. We are at Round Hill Country Club. You’ll be greeted by Bill Randall!
Reminder: Meeting at RHCC
The Urban Farmers – Fahim Shafi
Fahim Shafi has been living in the Tri-Valley area for over 17 years. For the past four years, he has been leading harvests in San Ramon, Danville and Alamo area. The Urban Farmers is a gleaning organization. He got introduced to The Urban Farmers at an orchard planting on a Lafayette hillside one rainy afternoon. He was amazed and uplifted by the energy of young kids hauling buckets of mulch and dirt up the hill and planting fruit trees that they may never directly benefit from. He later found out that the team did much more than plant trees and move on. They came back in following years to care for the orchard and in between harvested thousands of pounds of excess fruit from hundreds of backyards for distribution to those in need. He felt a strong desire to contribute to The Urban Farmers and to him, stepping into the role of Harvest Leader meant preventing a harvest from being canceled, hundreds of pounds of fruit being wasted and possibly tens of people having a meal without healthy and fresh fruit. He works as an engineering manager at NVIDIA, a technology company in Santa Clara, and tries to volunteer as much as he can with his younger daughter during the weekends. It is relaxing, therapeutic and a great way to make new friends, visit backyards, witness the bounties of nature and taste wonderful fruit, all the while doing something good for the community. The Urban Farmers is a grassroots, all-volunteer, 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in the East Bay of San Francisco. Their goal is to build a community-based, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable model of hunger relief. They harvest excess backyard fruit for donation to the needy. They believe no one should suffer from lack of food. To this end, each year they harvest several thousand pounds of fruit and deliver it to agencies around the Bay Area.
What's happening at Alamo Rotary?
September 9. Alamo Rotary Board Meeting. 6pm. Panera Alamo.
September 12. Alamo Car Show. 4pm to 8pm. Forli After Party. 6:30pm.
Amazon.com - Use this link when making purchases. .5% comes to Alamo Rotary: smile.amazon.com/ch/77-0600752
What is Rotary? You've been asked the question. Now you can answer it concisely:
Rotary is an international leadership organization, made up of local business, professional and civic leaders. We meet regularly, get to know each other, form friendships and service our community and the world.
Upcoming Programs:
September 11 // Coin Collecting – Everything You’ve Wanted to Know - Bill Green – at Forli
September 18 // Wine Appreciation – Meridith Ring
September 25 // Contra Costa County Update – Candace Andersen
October 2 // EAPF/Project Fairs - Michelle Lee
October 9 // MacArthur Came Back – Leanne Noe
October 16 // TBD
October 23 // Six Club Dinner
October 30 // State Assembly Update - Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan – at Forli
November 6 // Market Update – Talley Leger – at Forli
November 13 // District Governor Visit
Support Foundation of the Rotary Club of Alamo by shopping at AmazonSmile.
When you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon will donate to Foundation of the Rotary Club of Alamo. Support us every time you shop.