Our First Zoom Rotary Meeting May 1, 2020 Was a Success! · 2020-05-01 · Volume 62 - Issue 27 Orangevale Rotary Newsletter March 30, 2020 Our First Zoom Rotary Meeting Was a Success!

Volume 62 - Issue 30 Orangevale Rotary Newsletter Thursday, May 21, 2020

TheStateofOrangevale

Orangevale Rotarian and Orangevale ChamberPresidentBrad Squires gave an update about thestateofOrangevale.

COVID-19 has impacted communities and hascreated hard challenges. A few businesses arethrivingbutthat isnotthenorm. Ithassetadireandsadtoneforthetown.

Due to thequarantine, theBigDayofServicewascancelled. ThePowWowDaysandtheCasaRobleHighSchoolgraduationarecancelled.

Orangevaleisanamazingcommunityandtherearesomebrightspots. Thereisaanewmuralpaintedon the building where Bad Fish and Palmer RealEstate is located. ItwaspaintedbyAlexaandit is40feetlong.Shepaintedfarmscenes,anoldtruck,horses,andaferriswheel. Intheproposalforthemural,sheincludedallamawhichshepaintedfroma stock photo. It turns out that the llama wasBrad’sllama.

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Next Meeting

May22,2020

Meeting starts at 7:30am

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The Four-Way Test

IsittheTruth?

IsitFairtoAllConcerned?

WillitbuildGoodwillandFriendships?

2019-2020 | President Steve Blair | “Be Kinder Than Necessary”


The chamber would like to havemore public are,perhapsonthewallbehindthefamers’market.

The chamber organized a great from GLOVE andSACCOG. Themeeting today at the chamberwilldiscusshowtousethegrantmoneytoorganizethecommercialcorridor. Threeconsultantshavebeeninvited to bring ideas for the future. Greenbackpropertyownershavebeeninvitedtoo.

Another bright spot is that the farmers marketstartedlastThursdayandwillcontinueuntiltheendof September. It is the 11th year of the market.There was record attendance but fewer vendors.Therewereonly foodvendorsand theboothsarespacedout.

Other bright spots are that some local businessesare reopening - Bad Fish, James the Barber, andOrangevaleCopy. It’scoolthatRotarywillsupportanother day at the Fair Oaks - Orangevale FoodBank. There aremore clients that ever using thefood bank and support has grown for the foodbank.

Regarding the Orangevale Library expansion,moving the Last Tangle to the front location hasbeen slow. After the salon is relocated, then thelibrarybuildoutcanbegin.

BradwasaskedabouttheLaPlacitastripmall. Hehasmetthenewownerandhopeshewilldomorethat justspruce itup. He is tryingtoget thenewownertojoinGLOVE.

BradfinishedhistalkbysayingthattherearelotsofbrightspotsinOrangevaleandalotofpositivity.


Recap of the Meeting May 15, 2020

VisitingRotariansNone

GuestsSeanandColettePalmer-guests of JohnathanSpangler

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TheClub’sBellShelteringinplace


Aportionofthenewmural.

RecapoftheMeetingAbout thirty people joined a Zoom meeting. President Steve Blair played aYoutubevideoofthePledgeofAllegiancebeingspokenbychildren.LorieRheamsgavetheinvocation.

Visitors

SeanandColettePalmer -guestsofJohnathanSpangler.Theywereneighbors inJohnathan’soldneighborhoodandtheyownPalmerRealestatelocatednearBadFishCoffee.PresidentSteveBlairwelcomedSeanandColettetothemeeting.

Announcements

Lorie Rheams sent the club an email about Ann Hively’s husband, Dave, whopassedawaylastSaturday. SheincludedAnn’snewaddressifyouwanttosenda



card. Ann’ssonisstillstayingwithher.LoriedroppedoffamealforAnn. ContactAnntoseeifshewantsanything.

BobKurtzsaidthattoday(May15)isthefirstdaytohelpattheFoodBank.Sofar,16peoplefromtheFairOaksRotaryClubhassignedup. Bobsentanemailtothemembers asking for volunteers. He is looking for 10 volunteers and theywon’thavetoworkeveryweek. TheFairOaksRotarianswillbevolunteeringtodayandBobwill go there to seewhat is involved. Orangevale Rotarianswill start nextweek(May22).

DaveShepardisplanninganAmericanRiverParkwaycleanuponMay23. Wewillbeabletoparkwhereweusedtoparkandmeetup. MikeMckibbinwalkedthePasteur trackand theweedkillerhaskilled thegrasson the track. Workon thetrackcanbedonewithsocialdistancing. PresidentSteveandDavewilltalkaboutschedulingaworkparty.

DonRussellhada jokeforeveryone. Whatdoyoucallacamelwithoutahump?Humphrey!TheNextDineAroundisMay26. He’splanningafuturegatheringinapublicspace.

MikeMcKibbinsaidthatall12highschoolsintheSanJuanschooldistrictwillhaveadrivebygraduationonthedaytheywerescheduledtograduate.TheparadeswillbeshownonFaceBook.



HappyFinesDennisSarkisianhasfinishedaPowerpointpresentationfortheLibrary. Priortothequarantine, hewas a library volunteer, helpingpeoplewhoare looking for ajob. Nowthathe isfinishedwiththepresentation,he iswritingahandout.He isenvisioning a workshop for 10 people looking for work and he will show thepresentation.

Brad Squires is having a lot of fun at his farmon 7716 Chestnut Street (12 acresbetween Elm and Oak). He and his family have planted flowers, lavender andpumpkins.HeishavingabarnbuiltforeventsanditshouldbedonebyJune.

Dave Harris said that he is walking without a walker or cane and everything isworkingbetter!

VocationalTalkMichelleFamestadgavehertalkaboutherbusinessduringtheCoronavirusquarantine.Inthefirstweekofthequarantine,businessatOrangevalecopydroppedby80%andzerocustomerscameintotheshop.Shewasfacedwithnoincomeandreachedouttohervendorsforconcessionsbutreceivednone.

Oneof thepositiveproject sheworkedonwith theCasaRobleHighSchoolBoosterClub was to print graduation yard signs, one for each of the 249 graduates. Theboosterclubdistributedthesigns. Schoolstaffandfamiliesbeganpostingphotosofthesignstorecognizetheseniors.

That project brought a fundamental change to her business and she receivedmoreworkforsigns,t-shirts,socialdistancingsigns,etc.Theprevious“paper”businesswasdown 80% so the rise in other areas of printingwaswelcomed and shewas able tomakeenoughtopayherbills.

Luckily,Josh,herhusband,hasasecurejob.Twoweeksagoacustomercameintotheshopandtoldherthatheandhiswifehasbothreceivedstimuluschecks. Theydidn’tneedthemoneyanddecidedtogivethemoneyaway.HegaveMichelle$200togivetoherstaff!



Michellehadlaidofftwoofheremployeesandreducedtheworkhoursoftheothers.Shegavethemoneytoherstaffanditwasanamazingthing. Michellesaidtokeepinmindthattherearegoodpeopleoutthere.

We need to stay together as a community. She thinks thatOrangevale is the bestcommunityandshecouldn’t imaginedoingbusinessanywhereelse. She is changingthewayshedoesbusinessbutsheisstayingpositive.

SheappliedforaPaycheckProtectionProgram(PPP)loan.Sheresearchedtheloanand other options for two hours every day for two weeks. She submitted anapplicationonthefirstdaythetheprogramopenedandshejustreceivedtheloanmoneyyesterday. Itwillgivehermoneyforpayrollforthenexttwomonthsandshecanpayherself.


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Our First Zoom Rotary Meeting May 1, 2020 Was a Success! · 2020-05-01 · Volume 62 - Issue 27 Orangevale Rotary Newsletter March 30, 2020 Our First Zoom Rotary Meeting Was a Success!