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Our Friday
morning meetings give you a running start into the weekend. “It’s good to
tell the jokes,” says perennial club guest Father Guido Sarducci. “As long
as you donta be irreverent.” Members who stage our entertainment
often indulge their senses of humor, even those who don't have one.
Luckily Point West has a vocal Peanut Gallery full of nuts ready to
crack.
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Mixing
business with pleasure produced two of the premiere fund-raising events in
the region: Festa di Vino, a
wine-and-food gala and auction in early spring, and the California
Brewers Festival, a microbrewery beer extravaganza in late summer.
Volunteering to work on either or both of these
charity events is the ticket for any member wanting to build new
friendships, tackle new challenges and give back to the community.
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For the
last two years, District 5180 has recognized Point West’s series of
speakers as the best among its 35 Rotary clubs. Get the insider’s view
from authorities in politics, sports, the arts, business, education,
medicine, law and more.
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Annual
activities include rehabbing homes of needy families, mentoring Encina
High School students in business, sponsoring and judging a student speech
contest, bellringing and distributing food for the Salvation Army, and
delivering gifts as Santa Clauses for Christmas Promise. We encourage
members to propose public service projects, and often support those
projects with manpower and money.
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We’re
focused on assisting our twin club, Hilton and Howick, to address the
scourges of poverty and disease in Sweetwaters, South Africa. We’ve
sold quilts made by the Sweetwaters Quilting Guild, and are working on a
web site to market quilts online. We’re also fact finding to identify
fund-raising goals to provide this Zulu community infrastructure and
equipment.
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Point West annually hosts a high school foreign
exchange student. We nominate candidates for Rotary’s Ambassadorial
Program, which provides undergraduate and graduate scholarships for study
abroad. We also propose candidates for Rotary’s Group Study
Exchange, which allows professionals 25-40 to travel and study as a team
abroad. We also help host Rotary GSE teams visiting the United
States.
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Our
softball team battles weekly during the summer against other Rotary teams,
then celebrates or commiserates over pizza and beer. Our annual golf
tournament is a popular social and fund-raising event in which members and
guests enjoy a top golf course, lunch and, via cart service, snacks and
beer. And at our annual Bowling Bash, you’ll find members, wives,
girlfriends, boyfriends, friends, kids, food and beer. By the way, if
Point West athletics appeals to you, so too will our annual Brewfest.
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Our
premiere club events are the annual Cocktail Party, which is usually held
in the fall, and the Demotion Party, which is held shortly following the
end of the president’s term in June. The Cocktail Party’s format has
varied, but traditionally it involves members and significant others
meeting at a member’s home for cocktails, then dividing up into randomly
chosen groups that dine at different restaurants. The Demotion Party
is a cocktail and/or dinner bash to celebrate the outgoing president that
has been held at about every kind of venue imaginable.

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Point West annually bestows
awards to outstanding local teachers, firefighters and police. Our
Teacher of the Year Awards meeting features principals of Encina High
School and Jonas Salk Middle School conferring awards on a teacher from
each school’s faculty. Fire chiefs of the City of Sacramento Fire
Department and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District each name a
Firefighter of the Year, and the Sacramento County Sheriff and Sacramento
Police Chief respectively name the Sheriff Deputy of the Year and Police
Officer of the Year.
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The
Point West Rotary Foundation is a separate IRC 501(c)3 entity whose permanent
fund is approaching $400,000. The Foundation’s board is entrusted
with growing this principal as well as generating residue for charities of
the club. Many of the recipients for club grants are selected by
the Benevolent Giving Committee, which dispensed more than $30,000 during
the 2006-07 term.
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