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Normally We meet Mondays at 6:45 pm

Fair Oaks

Community Clubhouse

7997 California Ave.

Fair Oaks, CA 95628

During the Month of May

Due to the CoronaVirus Warnings

Our Meetings With Be On-Line

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Dennis Dunbar

I am proud and honored to be given the opportunity to be the President of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks for the 2019-2020 year! I am looking forward to a great year as we work together to make the world a better place, both locally and internationally.

The new President of Rotary International, Mark Daniel Maloney, has set the theme for this year: “ROTARY CONNECTS THE WORLD.” Our District Governor, Ray Ward, has amplified that theme for our District: “CONNECT AND INSPIRE.” The Rotary Club of Fair Oaks has further expanded the theme more locally: “CONNECT TO TRANSFORM LIVES.” Working in tandem, through our connections to each other and the citizens of the world, these themes ensure that the lives of thousands of people locally and internationally are improved! Rotary truly connects us all.

Chartered in 1946, we have been supporting community organizations for 74 years. We are a diverse group of community and business leaders working together to create lasting, positive change in the world. The Rotary Motto is “Service Above Self,” a motto that is enthusiastically embraced by the members of this Club.

The Club has been involved in many service projects in our community, including:

distributing holiday food baskets to families in need at Northridge Elementary School;
supporting grade school literacy programs through distribution of dictionaries to 3^rdgraders;
supporting teen leadership development at Bella Vista High School;
assisting in the annual luau lunch for seniors;
supporting the Women’s Empowerment program;
renovating school dormitories in Mexico;
contributing to polio eradication efforts globally;
participating in foreign school youth exchanges;
assisting with the safe Halloween program;
conducting high school speech and photography contests;

and conducting many more projects that improve the quality of life in Fair Oaks and globally. We are very proud of the changes we help facilitate to improve lives.

Thank you for visiting our website. If you are interested in learning more about our Club and the work we do to improve our community, please join us at one of our weekly meetings. We meet Monday evenings at 6:45pm at the Fair Oaks Community Center (7997 California Ave., Fair Oaks, CA 95628). Please see our event calendar on this website to see upcoming projects, events, and speakers scheduled for our meetings. Come join us and have FUN doing good in the world.

Yours in Rotary,

Dennis Dunbar
President, 2019-2020

Zoom Meetings

Fair Oaks Rotarians Become Zoomers

Well, it started almost eight weeks ago, so it's starting to look like a trend. The park district took away our meeting space, then the whole state shut down. So for seven straight weeks, we've been meeting on line via Zoom Webinar. After a couple of meetings feeling our way in the dark, we have actually had real live speakers for the past five weeks, telling us about topics of interest during these trying times.

And we haven't stopped the projects, either, from a biweekly Zoom "happy hour" with attempted singalongs (bottom line... singalongs on Zoom don't work well) to food collections and other support of the Fair Oaks-Orangevale Food Bank. It will take more than the coronavirus to slow this club down. Look for more later.

Speech Contest 2020

Five Young Women Speak Out!

It's the Fair Oaks Rotary's Speech Contest

The annual Fair Oaks Rotary speech contest found five young women from three local high schools giving us their thoughts on the District's theme this year, "Connect to Inspire". As usual, it was one of the best meetings of the year as we were all charmed by the poise and intellect of the speakers. The winner was Celene Aridin, a senior at Bella Vista High School; she will move on to the District semifinals in a few weeks.

Crab Feed 2020

Fair Oaks Rotary Serves Crab

For the 30th Time

Thirty years ago, someone in our club must have said, "Let's throw a Crab Feed", and a tradition was started. Serving 500+ guests annually at the club's biggest fundraiser is quite a task, but it ends up being so much fun that it doesn't seem like work. And it's not just the crab and the courses leading up to it that makes it a great night; the auctions and raffles, and the newly added Dessert Dash, just add to the excitement. Look for us again in mid-February 2021!

Holiday Baskets 2019

Santa (AKA Fair Oaks Rotary) Arrives Early

For Some Northridge Families

Plans are made weeks in advance, and the day begins about 7:00 am. Boxes are delivered and food is gathered from food banks (Fair Oaks-Orangevale and Sacramento), Winco and private donations. Then the food has to be divvied up among the boxes, and it all has to get handed out at the end of the school day to about a hundred families that otherwise might have a skimpy holiday food-wise.

The only hitch in the whole day... whoever picked up the Rotary fuel (coffee and round baked goods with holes in the center) accidentally picked up bagels instead of the other round baked good with a hole in the center. But it served as a teachable moment. Was it fun? Well, I hope to shout... a resounding YES! So look for us again next year.

2019 Caroling 1

Posted on Dec 10, 2019

Fair Oaks Rotary Carolers

Are At It Again... At Oakmont

There are no auditions or tryouts. There are no rehearsals. There are just three guitars and a harmonica valiantly struggling to keep them on key. But nineteen Fair Oaks Rotarians, one Bella Vista Interactor and one Rotarian's sister "invaded" Oakmont of Fair Oaks this afternoon and spread a lot of holiday cheer to the residents... singing-type cheer, not the beverage kind. It's a good thing the place is dog-friendly, because a couple of pooches came along also. Closing song... how about a Happy Birthday to 102 yo Bette, sitting next to the dog (above right). Now that they're all on key, look for them to do it again next week!