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Inside this issue: President's Message 1
Upcoming Events 2
Journey Listing 2
November 2018 Calendar 3
Recent Activities 4
Montreal Inbound 4
Sunshine Corner 4
Announcements 4
2019 Officers 4
Gifu, Japan Inbound 5
Holiday Party Planning
Meeting 6
Shutterbugs 7
Heath Ceramics Factory Tour8
Holiday Party 8
Mission & Vision 9
Board Members 9
X November 2018
President's Message Our annual meeting and Oktoberfest was held in
the lodge at Camp Pollock where members enjoyed an amazing potluck dinner with festive music, followed by a general meeting where the 2019 Board Members were voted in successfully. President-Helen Flach, Vice President-Sandee Ortiz, Secretary-Stephanie Shurilla and Treasurer-Pat Ghiglieri. Additional 2019 leadership members who serve faithfully to ensure our organization is a vibrant and growing club are: Charlene Taylor-Journey Treasurer, Jodi Vicario-Membership, Dan Ortiz-Publicity, Ray Missman-Newsletter, Crafts-Judy Maas, Nancy Sinnwell-Activities and Barbara Beland-Sunshine.
Members also voted for three countries as the top 2020 international journey destination choices and they are: New Zealand, Chile and Peru. Thanks again to the many volunteers who helped with set-up and clean-up for this event.
Our new friends from Montreal enjoyed their journey to Sacramento. Thanks to all the home hosts, day hosts, dinner hosts and other volunteers who helped make it possible.
Our final general meeting for 2018 will be November 3 at 6:30 in Rancho Cordova. Members will present an overview of the journey to Belgium and Germany, and you will get a chance to hear more about the 2019 international outbound journey opportunities. Please invite your friends to this meeting so they can hear how travel with FF is unique and very different from a tour or independent travel.
Join in activities with the Ambassadors from Gifu during November 8 – 14. The welcome dinner has a western theme and looks like it will be a fun potluck celebration. The Farewell “Thanksgiving Dinner” at Casa Gardens sounds really special, so sign up if you can participate. There will be entertainment, good food, new friendships, and all for a good cause (the Sacramento Children’s Home). Additional journey events are open to all members, so be sure to register online. (and more on Page 5)
As we enter the holiday season, it is the perfect time to reflect and appreciate others. Taking time to notice, contemplate and express gratitude for these people in our lives can make our experiences far more meaningful. Thank you for your help to support our club and cultivate a world of friendship and peace.
– Kathy Hart, President
Explore - Understand – Serve
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Upcoming Events See FF Sacramento website for latest schedule and to register for the event: (link) [must sign in to see all events]
Nov 3 Sat Board Meeting 5:00-6:15 at Rancho Cordova Library meeting room General Meeting-overview of Int’l outbound journey 6:30-8:00
Nov 8-15 INBOUND Gifu, Japan
Nov 29 Thurs Shutterbugs Lunch Meet Up. 1-3 PM Round Table Pizza, 7867 Lichen Drive, Citrus Heights, CA 95621
Dec 18 Tue Shutterbugs Lunch Meet Up. 1-3 PM Round Table Pizza, 7867 Lichen Drive, Citrus Heights, CA 95621
Dec 9 Sun FF Sac Holiday Party at Sun River church (gym floor). ~3pm
Journey Listing
= more detail in following pages. See FF Sacramento website for details and latest info: (link)
In-Bound Journeys 2018
Gifu City, Japan Nov 8-15 Nancy Sinnwell & Lynn Meyer, Host
Coordinators
In-Bound Journeys 2019
• Banjarmasin, Indonesia July (TBD) Journey #15147-1. Need Host Coordinator
• Huntsville, AL September Marty McKnew, Host Coordinator
Out-Bound Journeys 2019
• Tuxtla Gutiérrez & Xalapa, Mexico March Journeys #15010-1 and #15010-2.
PJ Missman, Host Coordinator
• Toronto, Canada May 10-17 Journey #15104-1.
Kathy Hart, Host Coordinator
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November 2018 Calendar See FF Sacramento website for latest calendar: (link)
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Recent Activities
Montreal Inbound By Kathy Hart
Sacramento Friendship Force hosted fourteen Ambassadors, thirteen from Montreal,
Canada and one from New York City. They were a wonderful group of lively people
who were engaged and interested in everything we did together. If you would like to
see some photos of the inbound journey, click here. We tried a few new local areas
while exploring with our Ambassadors which made it fun and a little different for
everyone. Thank you to all the volunteers who made the journey possible!
Sunshine Corner By Barbara Beland
A congratulations card was sent to Susan Shambaugh on her recent marriage.
Please let the Sunshine Corner know of all news of deeds of wonder,
amazement and accomplishment, as well as any illness or situation that needs a
card mailed out. The Sunshine Committee of one is:
Barbara Beland, (530) 886-8600, or email [email protected]
Announcements
2019 Officers By Kathy Hart
Our slate of officers for 2019 were elected at our Octoberfest meeting. Meet the new
board:
2019 Board of Directors:
• President: Helen Flach
• Vice President: Sandee Lee
• Secretary: Stephanie Shurilla
• Treasurer: Pat Ghiglieri
Additional Board Members:
• Exchange Treasurer: Charlene Taylor
• Membership: Jodi Vicario
• Publicity: Dan Ortiz
• Newsletter: Ray Missman
• Crafts: Judy Maas
• Activities: Nancy Sinnwell
• Past President: Kathy Hart
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Gifu, Japan Inbound By Lynn Meyer
Gifu visits Sacramento November 8 – 15, 2018
Schedule
Here’s what we’re doing. If you’d like to join in on any if these events, please click on
the website links below. Some places have a limited number of participants. If you can
help, please let me know. Your help will be appreciated.
• November 8 Afternoon arrival - Welcome Potluck Dinner (signup)
– can you help with setup or clean-up?
• November 9 Wakamatsu Tea Colony, Marshall Gold Discovery Park,
Home-Hosted Dinners
• November 10 Unscheduled day for Ambassadors to enjoy with their hosts
• November 11 Veterans Day Parades - Capitol Tour, Old Town,
Home-Hosted Dinners
• November 12 Morning – Sightseeing in the Delta (Sugar Mill, Clarksburg, etc);
afternoon: Cosumnes River Preserve viewing Sandhill Cranes (signup)
• November 13 Donner Pass, Truckee lunch, Tahoe tour (signup – we could
use a back-up driver too!)
• November 14 Meet Sac State Japanese Club, Farewell “Thanksgiving Dinner”
at Casa Gardens. Please consider signing up for this (signup) – it would be
wonderful if everyone in our club could be there. There will be entertainment,
good food, new friendships, and all for a good cause (the Sacramento Children’s
Home)!
• November 15 Farewell to our friends
Our trip last year to Gifu
In October 2017, many of us were privileged
to join this awesome opportunity to experience
Japanese culture, and to make new friends. Our
home hosting was so special, with a variety of
stories of being introduced to other friends and
neighbors, fabulous food experiences, trying on
kimono, attempting to write calligraphy, an
Cormorant Fishing
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elementary school visit, cormorant fishing and so
much more! We experienced the beauty of the country
and its people with such friendliness and caring.
Now it’s our chance to show Gifu Ambassadors
our Sacramento hospitality . . .
In return, our club is planning to show our
ambassadors a variety of California history and
culture, with a visit to the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk
Colony (the first Japanese settlement in California, in
1869), Marshall Gold Discovery site, we will watch the Veterans’ day parade followed by
a tour of the Capitol, visits to local history museums, bird watching at the Cosumnes
River Preserve to see the Sandhill Cranes, and a great day at Lake Tahoe. We will also
have a class with Japanese students at CSUS to visit a college campus and to see
language acquisition in progress. There will be delicious home hosted dinners on two
evenings, so there will be a chance to experience diverse cuisine in the home, as well
as at the welcome and farewell dinners. They will have the opportunity to experience a
traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Casa Garden where they will also have the chance to
learn about the Sacramento Children’s Home, which is supported by the restaurant and
the volunteers.
We look forward to returning the wonderful hospitality in welcoming our friends from
Gifu and in making new friends. Please join in the fun!
Holiday Party Planning Meeting By Kathy Hart
Are you interested in helping plan and organize
the annual holiday party? Some of the program is
established, but we need your input and help!
If you are interested in helping craft the programs,
we will be putting them together immediately following
the planning meeting.
Please come to the planning meeting on November 17 from 10-11 at Kathy Hart's
home: 9133 Promontory Way in Fair Oaks.
We need volunteers for set-up and decorating tables, check-in, coffee service, food
set-up and clean-up. If you cannot make the meeting, but would like to be part of the
Holiday Party Volunteer Team, please email Kathy at [email protected]
Click here to register for the meeting. Snacks and coffee will be provided.
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Shutterbugs By Rozlynn Worrall
Photos and Pizza Lunch Bunch
Shutterbugs explored a new venue and welcomed new photography enthusiast
Patty Fitzgerald to our meeting on Tuesday, October 23 at the Lunch Bunch Meetup at
the Round Table Clubhouse in Citrus Heights.
Our new meeting location was met with resounding approval from those
attending. The room was private, had an HD large screen TV to view photos, and the
buffet salad and pizza bar was great...and under $10.00 per person. Come and join
us. Open to all FFSAC members.
Our next Shutterbug Lunch Bunch Meeting will be held in the same location on
Thursday, November 29 from 1:00-3:00 pm. Start the buffet around 12:30 if you can
make it to the meeting, so that we can get the meeting started at 1:00. Register for the
meeting here.
Bring your smart phone. We will begin to learn how to really make your photos pop
with some editing techniques. In subsequent meetings, we will learn how to transfer the
skills we've learned and edit those photos on Snapseed, a free app for iPhone,
Androids, Macs and PCs.
November's Monthly FOCUS MF11 is Landscapes. Get started here with some
resources for you to check out so that you can get going on taking some great
landscape photos before all the leaves have fallen.
If you are online with
our Shutterbug Share Site,
upload your photos to the
MF11 Album before our
November 29 meeting. If
you are not yet online,
email your photos to [email protected]
and we will load them for
you.
Have questions, send
us a note at
Hope to see you on
November 29. Have a
great Thanksgiving-
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Heath Ceramics Factory Tour By Emily Hopkins
It’s over a month away so put it on your calendar! We’re going to Heath Ceramics in
Sausalito on December 7. Signup online (here).
Come see the Sausalito working factory tour. Since 1959, each and every piece of the
dinnerware - start-to-finish- is made here by a team of 40 craftspeople. Designed in
1959 by Marquis & Stoller in collaboration with Edith & Brian Heath, the building’s light-
filled courtyard, showroom and sweeping semi-circle factory, emanate the values:
timeless, resourceful, human-scale, and a marriage of craft and design. Please note:
When visiting this factory, you will need to wear closed toe shoes and will be provided
safety glasses. This is a working factory environment. The tour is free. For more
information visit their website ( https://www.heathceramics.com/pages/sausalito ).
After the tour, lunch is available nearby (no host). There are a couple of nearby
attractions that we might see, as time allows (very close to the showroom):
• San Francisco Bay Model: designed by the Army Corps of Engineers to illustrate
how water moves through the SF Bay. It is free. It is half a mile from the Heath
factory and is open 9 am - 4 pm. For more information visit their website.
• Matthew Turner tall ship: If time allows, we may also tour the educational tall
ship, the Matthew Turner right next door to the model.
Again, register (here). Or RSVP to Emily Hopkins, and please include your city and zip
code to organize carpools.!
Holiday Party By Kathy Hart
And just 2 days after the ceramics tour, it’s the Holiday Party! If it’s not already on your
calendar, now’s a good time to put it there!
– When: 09 Dec 2018, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
– Location: 11223 Trinity River Dr, Rancho Cordova
No website sign-up available yet, but see latest info here.
Details will be coming soon.
Want to help? Please contact Kathy at [email protected]
Enjoy good food, fine friends and see an incredible show performed by the multi-
talented group High Voltage!
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Gifu visits Sacramento
Mission & Vision
Experience Different Views. Discover Common Ground.
Mission: Explore - Understand – Serve To promote global understanding across
the barriers that separate people.
Vision: Each individual will contribute to global goodwill.
• The Friendship Force worldwide network of clubs and individuals will overcome
differences among people and nations.
• By connecting the world, one friend at a time, we will create a world of friends
that becomes a world of peace.
Board Members
2018 Board Members
President: Kathy Hart [email protected]
Membership: Jodi Vicario [email protected]
Vice President: Helen Flach [email protected]
Crafts: Judy Maas [email protected]
Acting Secretary: Kathy Hart [email protected]
Activities: Nancy Sinnwell [email protected]
Treasurer: Pat Ghiglieri [email protected]
Shutterbugs: Roz Worrall [email protected]
Journey Treasurer: Charlene Taylor [email protected]
Historian: Open
Past President: Chris Smith [email protected]
Sunshine: Barbara Beland [email protected]
Sister Cities: Chris Smith [email protected]
Publicity: Daniel Ortiz & Sandee Lee [email protected] & [email protected]
Webmaster: Marty McKnew [email protected]
Newsletter: Ray Missman [email protected]
Next Newsletter Deadline: November 24, 2018 Please submit your articles & photos to Ray Missman at [email protected]
