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Officers & Directors
President
Vice President
President Elect
Treasurer
Executive Secretary
Club Administration
Services Director
Membership
Rotary Foundation
Fundraising Director
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
Join us for Social/Dinner at 6:00 pm - Meeting starts at 7:00 pm.
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.
What Have We Been Up To?
Fair Oaks Rotary and BV Interact
Beautify Madison Avenue
If it seems like you've seen this story before, it's because it's a recurring tale.  As part of Sacramento County's Adopt-A-Street program, we own all the trash on Madison Avenue between Chicago and Kenneth, so we're out there every three months picking it up, usually with a contingent from the Bella Vista Interact Club, a student club sponsored by Rotary.  Rotary fuel (coffee and donuts) give us that needed energy boost to get the job done.
Fair Oaks Rotary Finds
That the Shoes Fit
 
Say what?  Well, if you go back a few months, you'll recall... or not... that we got a grant to outfit the 400 or so students at Northridge Elementary school with brand new shoes, and that we measured all the kids feet and ordered shoes.  Well, the shoes arrived!  And so, over three days, we gave all the kids, 3/4 of whom are low income, their new shoes.  There were a lot of smiling faces, and the best part was... the shoes fit!
80 Families Eat Better This Holiday,
Thanks to Fair Oaks Rotary
(Here's how we do it.)
 
First, early in the morning a big old truck arrives at Northridge Elementary School with a bunch of boxes and a lot of food, mostly donated.  We get to put the boxes together.
 
  
 
 
 
Then we get briefed by the Chief Elf, fill the boxes with food and, after adding a frozen turkey and a gallon of milk, we're ready to go.
 
 
  
 
When the school day ends, as kids are being picked up, a turkey, milk and three boxes of food are loaded into the family cars, and we all get to play Santa.  This usually goes past sunset, making it a long day.
 
  
 
   
 
It's one of our favorite service projects, so it's very likely we'll be here again in a year.
Fair Oaks Rotary Chorus Sings Carols,
And Even the Dogs Love Them
 
Auditions?  Rehearsals?  Not for the Fair Oaks Rotary Chorus as we do our annual holiday "entertaining" at local senior residential facilities.  The residents always applaud, but just in case, we often bring a few Golden retrievers from the Sac rescue club to keep everyone happy.  It's a merry olde time for us all.
Fair Oaks Rotary says,
"If the shoe fits, we measured correctly!"
 
When the Fair Oaks Rotary got an unexpected grant to provide shoes for every student at Northridge Elementary School, all 400 of them, it was time for 15 Rotarians to learn all about shoe sizing and then, in 12 hours spread over two days, to measure every kid in the school so that the correct sizes could be ordered.  Hopefully, the sizing was correct and not too many kids will have a growth spurt while the shoes are enroute.  Our fingers... and toes... are crossed.  (It should be noted that 73% of the students at Northridge are low income.)