Welcome to the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks!
Fair Oaks
We meet In Person
Mondays at 6:00 p.m.
VFW
8990 Kruitof Way
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
United States of America
Phone:
(916) 374-6625
Email:
info@rotaryfairoaks.org
Join us for Social/Dinner at 6:00 pm - Meeting starts at 7:00 pm.
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Officers & Directors
President
Keith Walter
Vice President
Fred Rowe
President Elect
Betsy Alberts
Secretary
Stephanie Holzknecht
Treasurer
Mo Solis
Executive Secretary
Beth Wilcoxen
Club Administration
Karen Romines
Services Director
Doris Fulgham
Membership
Katie Yount
Rotary Foundation
Beth Wilcoxen
Fundraising Director
Dave Holzknecht
32nd Mardi Gras Crab Feed tickets are now available for sale! 
TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE 32ND MARDI GRAS CRAB FEED presented by the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks. 
 
Buy your tickets now before they sell out!
 
Date:  February 15, 2025, held at the Citrus Heights Community Center
 
We hope you are excited to attend and we expect to sell out early, so don’t hesitate to purchase your tickets now. 
 
Tickets are $80 each or $800 for a table.  Use the link below to buy tickets online.
 
If you have questions, please contact our Ticket Chair:  Victoria Porter (916) 208-8626 or if you wish to be a Sponsor, please contact Katie Yount at (916) 627-9300.
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What Have We Been Up To?
Safer Halloween 2024
Halloween Is Safely Scary
Thanks to Fair Oaks Rotary
   
As usual, the kids were scarier than (most of) the adults when the Fair Oaks Rotary sponsored Dentist Full Employment Day Safer Halloween again this year in Fair Oaks Village.  Local businesses and Rotarians tried to add some healthy items to the typical heavy glucose load, much to the approval of parents... the kids' reactions were not measured.
  
Other attempts at promoting things besides tooth decay involved participation by local firefighters and the encouragement of the arts by distributing new and lightly used books, and a performance by a local musician.  We think the kids like everything, and we sure enjoy doing it, so you can probably look for us again next year.
Mad Ave Oct 2024
Fair Oaks Rotary & BV Interact
Beautify Madison Avenue... Again
On a crisp autumn Saturday morning, nothing satisfies the soul as much as donuts & coffee (Rotary fuel) and picking up trash.  Today, the crew of Rotarians and Interactors (a high school affiliate of Rotary) had to make do without the coffee for our quarterly beautification of Madison Avenue adjacent to Bella Vista HS, but we did it.  The four teams came up with some unusual stuff and we had so much fun, we'll probably do it again in a few months.
 
   
 
Food Bank Oct 2024
Fair Oaks Rotary &
The FO-OV Food Bank...
Still At It After All These Years
May 2020... food insecurity all around us and a pandemic at our throats.  Solution: Fair Oaks Rotary (and to be fair, our buds at the Orangevale Rotary) step up so that our local food bank can add an extra day of distribution.  You know... just until things are back to normal.  Well, 4+ years later, the cars are still lined up and we're still at it, but at a much improved facility.
  
 
 
It's still the same old routine... sort, bag, box and load.  Service Above Self... so satisfying.  Who knows when we'll stop?
South Africa 2024
Fair Oaks Rotary Group
Does International Service...
And More!
  
Three Fair Oaks Rotarians joined about 30 other Rotarians from around the US recently and went to South Africa to help deliver "Tutu desks", a laptop desk/learning device developed in concert with the Desmond Tutu Foundation; several thousand were distributed to schools at three townships, including Soweto.
 
The trip also included some historical and cultural aspects, and of course, some schmoozing with South African Rotary bigwigs, like the local District Governor.
 
Finally, it wouldn't have been a true Rotary trip without a little FUN, so how about a couple of game drives and wine tasting at a winery founded in 1658.  All in all, a great couple of weeks.
Northridge Garden Boxes 2024
Fair Oaks Rotary Helps with Rehab of
Northridge Garden Boxes
 
We at Fair Oaks Rotary had helped put these planter boxes in at Northridge Elementary years ago, but the pandemic led to their neglect.  That was noticed a few months ago during our Holiday Food Basket project, so we leapt into action on a recent Saturday, assisted by some parents from the school.
 
Armed with gardening implements and energized by Rotary fuel, we cleared the weeds and put fresh soil in the boxes, and scattered decomposed granite between them.
  
We thought the end result was pretty nice, and the kids were appreciative that they would be able to begin planting again.
  
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