February 2, 2012
Business Meeting.
February 9, 2012
Jeffrey Jewell, Director of Sacramento Vet Center, will talk about issues facing returning vets here in our community.
February 16, 2012
Shawn Harrison, founder and co-director of Soil Born Farms, will give us a look at food production, food access to under-served communities and food education, all from a local perspective.
February 23, 2012
Member bio day:Get acquainted with new members, Deborah Whitcomb and Janet Sheingold.
January 5, 2012
Business Meeting.
January 12, 2012
Community Action Fund Recipients Panel:
Opening Doors/Rebuilding Together/My Sister's House.
January 19, 2012
William Breazeale, Crocker curator, will talk about how the gallery makes acquisitions and the challenges of putting together a show.
January 26, 2012
Member bio day: Mary Ellen Shay.
December 1, 2011
Business Meeting.
December 8, 2011
Carol Roland Nawi, architectural historian, will tell us about the local sites she's working on (like the rail yard) and what she does when she makes a discovery. (Tentative)
December 15, 2011
Jim Scheible, Superintendent of St. Hope Charter Schools, will talk about the vision, hurdles and successes of charter schools in Sacramento.
December 22 and 29, 2011
No meetings. Happy Holidays!
November 3, 2011
Business Meeting. Vicky Watson, Sierra Nevada District V Director, will join us to share the latest on regional Soroptimist activities.
November 10, 2011
Lorry Marvin and Melanie Scheible will tell us about Born Free USA, a nonprofit based in Sacramento that works to protect wildlife, and keep it wild. They have very few employees and yet have worked for 40 years, doing everything from successfully lobbying governments for stronger protection laws to operating a 186-acre Primate Sanctuary in Texas that is home to more than 500 nonhuman primates.
Novewmber 17, 2011
We welcome back Karen Barrett Ross as she returns to tell us about her work as the Secretary of California Dept of Food and Agriculture. Topics will include trends in local and regional food systems andAgVision: Strategies for Sustainability. We may also learn what it's really like to be one of the top women in Federal and state government.
November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving! No meeting this week.
October 6, 2011
Business Meeting
October 13, 2011
A quarter million bats hang out beneath the Yolo Causeway. Mary Jean "Corky" Quirk, a conservationist and the Yolo Foundation, a woman with a passion for the misunderstood creatures will present a lecture (with a bat in tow.) This could be a precursor to an exciting off-site viewing of their aerial show in the spring.
October 20, 2011
Jan Thornburg will treat us to a grand tour of Soroptimist International from founding days to the present. This will be a fascinating journey for new and long-time members alike. Come and learn facts we can all use for recruitment, fundraising and just plain sharing with the world. Don't worry, there won't be a quiz at the end!
October 27, 2011
Marilyn McCloskeyand Jose Ramirez team up to do their bios.
September 8, 2011
Business meeting. Welcome to fall!
September 15, 2011
Elena Sanchez is Operations Manager for Western Service Workers Association. This community organization provides services and assistance to its members in exchange for their participation in the organization's activities. Ms. Sanchez and some of the WSWA members will describe their programs and talk about legislative efforts on behalf of in-Home Supportive Service Workers and other low-income individuals and households.
September 22, 2011
Stuart Leavenworth, editor of the Sacramento Bee's editorial pages, will talk about his six-month break from newspapers to work in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant in Berkeley/Oakland. He'll talk about cuts, pranks, mistakes and revelations.
September 29, 2011
Member Bio Panel: Marathon Runners, Miranda Maison, Cindy Fowler and Sue Staats
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