October Events

October is the month of fun and fundraisings for 3 clubs.

Rotary Club of Napa Sunrise presents.

Evening at Monticello Saturday, October 1          4:00 - 8:00 p.m. Monticello Vineyards 4242 Big Ranch Road, Napa, California Tickets are $65 in advance        ~        $75 at the door 

for tickets and other information go to: http://www.eveningatmonticello.com/index.html

Rotary Club of North Napa presents:

2011 Napa Homebrewers Classic October 8, 2011 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Chardonnay Hall, Napa Valley Exposition A brewfest with lots of great music, homemade beer, and raffle prizes! Your $25 ticket lets you taste some of the best homemade beer on the planet! All proceeds benefit the charity projects of the Rotary Club of North Napa

To Buy tickets call 707 253 2208 or Website: http://tinyurl.com/43qbee6

Rotary Club of Calistoga presents:

Harvest Hoedown October 15, 2011 Tubbs at Napa County Fairgrounds Calistoga ,CA Doors open at 6:00PM BBQ,Dancing,Live and Silent Auctions

To purchase tickets for HARVEST HOEDOWN please call:   707-942-5356

October 24-Rotary Night Social at Oxbow Public Market, First Street, Napa. All Napa Valley Rotary Clubs participating. Wear your Rotary shirts 10% of proceeds go to Rotary End Polio Now Campaign

September Rotary Message

Message from RI President

September 2011

My dear brothers and sisters in Rotary,

We have a color for the 2011-12 Rotary year, and that color is green. Why green? Because green is the color of spring, of new life, of bright leaves bursting forth from spreading branches. And there is no doubt that it is time to “green” Rotary – to lift our deepening pallor of gray and replace it with brighter shades of green.

Overall, in Rotary, only 11 percent of our members are under the age of 40, while 68 percent are over 50 and 39 percent are over 60. It’s not too hard to see where this will lead us in 10, 20, and 30 years down the line, if we don’t do something about it now. It is not enough to simply bring in new members. We need to bring in younger members, who will breathe new life and new vigor into our organization.

How can we be more attractive to younger members, who are so different in so many ways from the young professionals of a generation or two ago? We have to come to them where they are – and for most young people, where they are is on the Internet, on Facebook, on Twitter and e-mail, and on their smartphones. A club that doesn’t have a presence on the Internet simply doesn’t exist as far as they are concerned. A club’s website is its public face – and it has to be a good one.

More than anything, I believe we need to bring back the idea of the family of Rotary. We need to look at all of Rotary as one family: Rotarians, their families, and also Rotaractors, Interactors, Youth Exchange students and alumni, Foundation alumni, and so on. And we need to consider retention as an idea that applies not just to Rotarians, but to the entire family of Rotary.

Too often, we look outward to find new members, and we do not see our own young generation, waiting to be called upon. We must look to them to find the capable and enthusiastic new members who will be the club presidents, the district governors, and the RI senior leaders of tomorrow.

We owe it to our Rotary family – past, present, and future – to make sure that our generation of Rotarians is not the last. We must, in a very real sense, reach within – to embrace our Rotary family, so that we can better embrace all of humanity.

Kalyan Banerjee


 President, Rotary International

(from Rotary Images-photo by Monika Lozinska-Lee)

NVRA first meeting 2011-2012

September 7 NVRA meeting held at the Wine Train Culinary Arts Center, 801 Eight Street, Napa.

All the Rotary Clubs in Napa Valley are growing and have exciting changes. There are new fund raising events.

October will be an exciting month.

October 1- Napa Sunrise- Evening at Monticello.

October 8- Homebrewers Classic- North Napa

October 14-President Jim's (Jim Riley-President, Rotary Club of Napa)- Open house-4-7:30PM-1836 Second St. Napa-great food, great wine and great fellowship. All Napa Valley Rotarians are invited.

October 15-Harvest Hoedown-Calistoga

October 24-Monday-Rotary Night at Oxbow Public Market in First Street, Napa. All 5 Napa Valley Rotary Clubs participating.

With membership:

Napa-3 new members
Calistoga-4 new members

Presentations:

PDG JIm Flamson- Invites everyone to celebrate at the Rotary Foundation Dinner- on September 24-Hyatt Hotel, Santa Rosa.

Pamela Tuft appeals for the Rotary Summer Camps- formerly known as Kool Kids Camp.Pam will speak to any club about the Rotary Summer Camp-1 week program. The camp needs club financial support. $450/child. Napa Social Services sent 9 children from Napa.

Warren Hernand stirs the interest of the clubs to sponsor a Rotaract club in Napa. Warren will speak to the club about the Rotaract and will help start the initial formation stages if the Napa Clubs are interested.

Other highlights:

Barry Thompson, Past President,Rotary Club of Napa Sunrise- Assistant District Governor-Elect 2012-2013- Napa Valley Clubs

Michael Parker, sponsored by Rotary Club of North Napa, selected for the District 5130 RI Ambassadorial Scholarship 2012-2013

The Napa Clubs will try to coordinate the early distribution of the dictionaries to the Elementary School Third Graders this year in the same time period.

All the clubs seem have more social events planned this Rotary year. One of note: President Jim Riley's Open House.

Rotary Clubs of Napa and North Napa have District Simplified Grants applications. Rotary Club of Napa- for Connolly Ranch. And Rotary Club of North Napa for the Literacy program in the Napa County-City Library.

Rotary Club of Napa- shows a 4-minute-movie/video-educational and informative in its meeting. The Quilt for and Monday night Bowling with the Pathway Home veterans.

Rotary Club of Napa Sunrise serves at the Table (for the homeless) in Napa and BBQ with the Veterans at the Pathway Home.

Rotary Club of Napa Sunrise considering to continue the Rotary Fly-In with the 3 Napa Clubs participation. Also for consideration-all Napa clubs participation in the July 4th Parade organized by Doris Gentry, Rotary Club of Napa Sunrise. Both need more discussion.

Rotary Club of St. Helena has its Rotary Youth Exchange from Italy.

Rotary Club of Calistoga-every third Thursday has a program called "Look In" program. It is the time new members are inducted, anniversaries are celebrated and cake is served.It's also sort of a mini-club assembly.

More members's participation is happening in all the clubs.

Photos:courtesy of Barry Thompson