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Webmaster Derick Sturke and Graphics Ace Bill Camp proudly display the Third Place award banner

The Oakdale Sunrise Rotary Club's website, in its first year and built by a rookie web designer, was awarded Third Place in the District 5220 Web Site Competition. Said Bill Camp, Sunrise Founder and owner of Bill Camp Graphics: "Wow, I get to do another e-flier!" Sturke, an insomniac who uses his late night awakens to learn more about computers and the web muttered: "Huh? There was a competition? Not bad for a hack amateur armed with an out- of-market copy of MS Front Page and a P2 Win98 Gateway!" As a reward of sorts, Sturke replaced the Gateway with a brand spankin' new refurbished Dell P4 model still running MS XP. "The sturdy old Gateway finally bit the dust, and as of this writing, I am trying to see if all the stuff on my old hard drive is salvageable. I learned my lesson about backing up my computer!!!"

(more information on this will be forthcoming, meanwhile, click on the e-flier!)

Jonaton recently sent a note to us from his home in Sweden, citing his experiences and thanking all those who participated in making his stay in Oakdale a memorable experience.

Newly installed President Ray Leverett give his first official address and a "thumbs up" to the theme "fill in the blanks"

Saturday, June 16th, at the lovely Milsap Manse, the Oakdale Sunrise Rotary Club became the Oakdale SunRay's Rotary Club, now led by Ray Leverett. The fun evening, featured wonderful barbecued tri-tip and chicken cooked up by hosts John and Esther Milsap. Awards were given, gavels passed and all who attended had a great time. Immediate Past President Don Gayaldo was sworn in as the very first Sergeant at Arms for our club, and the evening concluded with an hilarious video presentation on Don's Presidency cooked up by Ray and Past President Bill Camp. click here for a gallery of photos

SunRay's President, Ray Leverett is again on stage with the Modesto Performing Arts as a member of The Music Man cast.

The Escalon Sunrise Rotary has invited our club to join them as they cheer on Ray (or throw rotten tomatoes) at the Saturday, July 28th performance. (Modesto High Auditorium, 7:30 PM)

Tickets are $23.00 per, and Diane Alcorn (of the Escalon Club) would like ticket orders in by Tuesday.

If you want to attend, please respond to (Derick) with number of tickets requested -- either by e-mail or phone. This should be a blast!

District Governor Richard Wyatt will visit our Club on Friday, July 20th at our regular breakfast meeting. Mr. Wyatt will share with us his vision for his Governorship, and no doubt impart other words of wisdom! Governor Wyatt will also meet with our Club's Board right after the Breakfast Meeting

2005 - 2006 President Randy Basi hosted the July 6th meeting as the holiday "broken up week" gave us a light turnout and neither President Ray or IPP Don was in attendance. Randy updated us on the Wave Of Hope Golf Tourney and a few more of our activities. Great to have you at the podium, again, Randy!

Apparently, the message emanated from the podium at the District 5220 Assembly was that of "Understand and Emulate Your President". To that end, attendees Bill Camp, Chris Hempleman, John Milsap spend much of the breakout time with incoming President Ray Leverett. For a report of the first new Presidential move, click here.

Modesto East Rotarian Don Kemplen and family suffered a tragic loss Tuesday when their home burned to the ground. more

For those that were unable to attend the Memorial service, here is a link to the video I put together with the few pictures that were not destroyed with the house.

On May 4th, substituting for current President Don Gayaldo, President Elect Ray Leverett announced some of his upcoming policies. Among them will be a "Joke of the Week". When called upon, Sunrise Rotarians must present a joke or humorous story, on demand from the podium. Lack of preparedness will result in fines issued!

The website will begin a new area coming soon. That of following up with our guest speakers. This follow- up will include a short summary of the presentation, and information on the programs he might be talking about. For example, as a follow up to David Walker's talk on April 20th, I can put together a reference and links to the Alternate Dispute Resolution Program. Or put together references for Camp Royal from the previous week's presentation.

All I need is one willing volunteer to scribble a few sentences on a breakfast napkin and make sure I get them. (Preferably, typed out and sent via e-mail, but I will take it any way I can get it!)

Please consider this small task as a part of your Rotary Club commitment.

If you can help out on this one, please e-mail me:

Member Scott Thomas and Oakdale Tire were featured in a recent Oakdale Leader. The business, founded by member (and club founder) Mark Thomas celebrated 25 years serving Oakdale and the Community. Congratulations to Scott, Mark and former Sunrise Rotarian Darrell Nugent for great success!

Come Join the Oakdale Sunrise Rotary for a delicious Jumbo B-B-Q Hot Dog or Smoked Sausage, chips, cookie and beverage for only $5.00

Lunch will be served from 11:30AM until 1:00PM, at Woods Park, near the gazebo, Corner of Yosemite Avenue and G Street.

Advanced lunch tickets available at Basi Insurance (East G & South Maag) or Family Support Network (West F & South Oak) or e-mail us.

Awards Night - Sunrise Rotary Honors Public Service Workers

By KIM VAN METER/Staff Reporter
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:57 AM PST

It was a night of good food, camaraderie, and well-earned awards as Sunrise Rotary honored the men and women in public service Thursday evening, Jan. 11 at the new community center.

For the third consecutive year, Sunrise Rotary pulled out all the stops to ensure the honorees felt special and appreciated with an evening filled with glowing words said by their superiors, beautiful wooden plaques, and certificates of appreciation from local and state dignitaries.
For full story, click on the Leader Icon

The Oakdale Sunrise Rotary will again lead the way in honoring the Police, Fire, EMT and other emergency personnel serving Oakdale.

The dinner will again be held at the Gene Bianchi Community Center (2nd & F) on Thursday, January 11, 2007, at 6:30 PM

The public is invited to share this evening with our "uniforms", both tables and individual dinner tickets will be available. We are also looking for event sponsors. Details will be coming soon. To become a an event sponsor, or purchase a table or seats, please click on the "911" logo above or click here

Oakdale Sunrise Rotary Helps Oakdale Celebrate 100 years of city-hood! Sunrisers joined with the Lions to serve over a thousand free hot dogs to Oakdale citizens, all who came to celebrate our Centennial at the new Bianchi Community Center

President Don and newest Sunriser John Milsap proudly display our booth's placard

John Milsap, Bart Paul, Ray Leverett, Don Gayaldo, Derick Sturke, Chris Hempleman stuff the hog dog lunch bags.

District Governor Bob Hobbs presented a pin and accolades to Past President Randy Basi as "Quiet Rotarian". Bob congratulated Randy and his committee for an amazing golf tournament, terrific first year results. Thanks Randy from all of us!

At the September 25th Breakfast meeting, we were joined by District 5220 Governor Robert "Bob" Hobbs, his lovely wife Betsy, and Assistant District Governor Fred Claus. Governor Bob presented his vision and some of his history as a long time Rotarian. Bob is truly an inspiration to all Rotarians, and we hope to do a lot of work with him. Betsy, a pretty strong Rotarian in her own right, talked about upcoming district events, and offered a sincere invitation for all to attend.

Among our gifts to the community was our funding of the marquee sign in the front of the new Sierra View Elementary School. Dr. Wendell Chun, Superintendent of Oakdale Public Schools, thanked us for both this sign and our recent donation of $7,000.00 to Oakdale Schools music programs. We were honored to have Dr. Chun at our meeting Friday, March 31st.