Events

Rear Adm. Piret is a native of Chico, California, and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Oceanography and master’s degrees in oceanography and meteorology from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he graduated with distinction.

At sea, Piret served aboard HMS Herald (H138) as operations officer, NATO transit helicopter controller, aviation officer, gunnery safety officer, and Warfare Department head during a deployment to the eastern Mediterranean. Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), he served as oceanographer, officer of the deck underway and command duty officer underway during a deployment with Commander, Carrier Strike Group 9 in the Western Pacific.

Ashore, he served as forecast duty officer at Naval European Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Rota, Spain; tactical hydrographic and meteorological officer at the Royal Navy School of Maritime Operations, HMS Dryad, Southwick, England; associate chairman of the Oceanography Department at the U.S. Naval Academy; deputy director of Operations for Expeditionary Warfare, Naval Oceanography Operations Command; executive officer, Naval Oceanography Opera­tions Command; deputy assistant chief of staff for Requirements, Programs and Assessments, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanogra­phy Command; arctic affairs officer for the Oceanographer of the Navy onboard the Chief of Naval Operations Staff; fellow to the Naval Command College Class of 2017, Naval War College’s Senior Officer International Program; executive officer, Naval Oceanographic Office; and chief of staff, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.

Piret commanded the Naval Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Previously he commanded Provincial Reconstruction Team Uruzgan in southern Afghanistan working alongside multinational and interagency partners in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Personal awards include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal and various unit and campaign awards.

Nicole Drummond is a native of Northern California. She was born in Humboldt County and has lived in Butte County for over 20 years. Nicole has been married for almost 20 years and is the proud mom of 2 boys, ages 6 and 15. 

Nicole is the first paid and current Executive Director at Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT), a grass roots, volunteer founded nonprofit organization that provides affordable rental housing options to homeless individuals. She is currently a member of the League of Women Voters of Butte County Social Policy Committee.

Nicole has a master’s in Leadership and Human Development from Pacific Oaks College and a bachelor’s in Child Development Administration from CSU, Chico. She has been in Human Services and nonprofit work for over 25 years, she has always been an active member of the community through volunteering for a variety of organizations. Nicole has developed and directed intervention programs for families who have a child with a developmental disability and worked in a variety of nonprofits settings that support families in need and advocate for youth in foster care. Nicole has dedicated her life to serving vulnerable populations.

Jenny Humphries been caring for patients at Enloe for 23 years. A lifelong Butte County resident, she was born at Enloe herself.

A graduate of Paradise High School, Jenny completed her prerequisite work at Butte College before acceptance in the CSU-Chico School of Nursing, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2002.

 

Jenny wanted to be a flight nurse since the age of nine when she distinctly remembers Enloe FlightCare landing across the street from her family’s home to provide care for a trauma victim. When Jenny was hired at Enloe she discovered that the Chief FlightCare pilot, Marty Marshall, was in fact the same pilot that had landed across the street from her childhood home all those years ago.

 

Prior to earning her nursing degree, Jenny began work at Enloe in 2000 as an EMT on a ground ambulance. She fell in love with prehospital care and upon completing nursing school was one of the first two new graduate nurses hired into the Neuro-Trauma ICU. After about a year, she transferred to the ER and later began her dream job as a Flight Nurse in 2006.

 

Jenny earned her master’s in business administration from Chico State in 2008, and credits her many mentors and supporters for giving her an opportunity to serve as the Assistant Nurse Manager in the Emergency Department, followed by the role of Nurse Manager of Nursing Support and Staffing.

 

In March of 2014, while a patient in Enloe’s Nettleton Mother & Baby Care Center, having just delivered her sweet daughter Emma, Jenny enjoyed a perfect view of the helicopter, watching FlightCare come and go throughout her stay. It was then she decided it was time to make her way back to FlightCare and EMS.

 

Jenny promoted to Chief Flight Nurse in November of 2014 and has been back “home” with FlightCare and EMS ever since.

 

Since returning to FlightCare, Jenny completed the Medical Transport Leadership Institute, a 2-year program through which she earned her Certified Medical Transport Executive (CMTE) certification.

 

Jenny enjoys teaching other flight nurses’ techniques such as ECMO transports, as well as patient simulation within the helicopter at the National Air Medical Transport Conference. She is an instructor with the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association, instructing the Transport Provider Advanced Trauma Course.

 

She is currently Vice President of the California Chapter of the Association of Air Medical Services (Cal-AAMS). Over the last several years, she has taken on responsibility for MedCom, Enloe’s emergency dispatch center, as well as clinical oversight of ground ambulance operations.

 

After working alongside Marty Marshal for many years, Jenny was named Marty’s successor as EMS Director upon his retirement. In addition to her director role, Jenny remains Enloe’s Chief Flight Nurse.

 

When not at work, she enjoys spending time with daughter Emma, their chocolate lab Coco, and fishing any chance she gets.

 

Nicole Bateman has been the Executive Director for the past 10 years. As the Executive Director, she is responsible and accountable to the Board of Directors for the effective and efficient financial, operational, and administrative management of Habitat. She provides overall leadership for Habitat in accordance with the policies, objectives, and directions of the Board of Directors to promote the overall vision, direction, and mission.

 

Previously she worked with another local nonprofit that worked with adults with disabilities for 25 years and was their Executive Director. During her tenure there, she facilitated the remodeling of an old motel to permanently house people who had experienced homelessness and had a mental illness. This housing project included a vocational component, called Sensible Cyclery. She is a graduate of Chico State with a degree in Health and Community Services and was fortunate to stay living in this area.

 

Since working with Habitat, Nicole has overseen the construction of 23 new Habitat homes and witnessed the gratefulness and joy of these families achieving their dream of home ownership. Nicole was drawn to Habitat because she recognized how decent and affordable housing truly transforms lives.

 

Jenny Fales fills a newly created position, Development Manager, and is currently funded by a grant. This position has been created to sustain the resources needed to build up to 10 homes annually. Jenny manages all incoming gifts and the donor database, writes proposals and reports for grants and contracts, and oversees communications and media relations.

 

Jenny comes to Habitat with 25+ years of community development including grant writing and management, communications, and program development. In her previous job, she worked alongside the Butte County Department of Social Services for just under 2 months at the 2018 Camp Fire FEMA Disaster Relief Center. She heard and saw first hand the effects of this major disaster. As the year passed, she decided to put more of her work efforts into her local community.

 

Since working with Habitat, she has seen the many individuals, organizations, and businesses that support the Habitat mission. It is a blessing everyday to be a part of this making a difference work.

 

Julie Rentner is President of the Chico-based, statewide restoration nonprofit River Partners, whose mission is to create wildlife habitat for the benefit of people and the environment.  She has led the design and construction of hundreds of millions of dollars of river restoration projects across the largest rivers in California. Julie has developed and led stakeholder processes supporting the integration of flood control and ecosystem enhancement at the regional level, resulting in the development of several on-the-ground multi-benefit projects, as well as the creation of the Mid San Joaquin River Regional Flood Management Plan. She joined River Partners in 2008 as a Restoration Ecologist based in the San Joaquin Valley. She completed the California Agricultural Leadership Program in 2015 and serves as President of Reclamation District 2092. She received her BS in Forestry at the University of California, Berkeley and MS from the University of Hawaii, Manoa in Natural Resources and Environmental Management. 

 

                        Kylie Gonzalez is our ILP Program Coordinator. She started out as a                              Youth and Family intern in 2016 while attaining her bachelor’s in social                             work from CSU, Chico.

                          She then took a position as an ILP caseworker and fell in love with the                            program. After working as a caseworker for six years, she moved up                              to the coordinator position, which she has held for the past two years.

Kylie lived independently from the age of sixteen which she feels gave her a specific skill set that has come in handy when working with the teens in our program.

She is currently working on obtaining her master’s degree and is dedicated to expanding and constantly bettering our program

Chico Noon Rotary Sunday Funday Burrito Brunch.

Come brunch for a cause! Bring your kids, your neighbors, your grandma, and your friends—all are welcome at the Sunday Funday Burrito Brunch.

Join the Chico Noon Rotary on May 7th from 9 a.m.- Noon for a family-friendly morning of tasty easts and fun activities, including balloon animals, face painting, a petting zoo, a juggler, and maybe even a visit from a Disney princess!

Tickets include 1 breakfast burrito, coffee, donuts, and access to all activities. Alcoholic beverages will be available for separate purchase.

Buy tickets today—limited available!

We will have some incredible raffle prizes coming your way too!

 

Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-funday-burrito-brunch-tickets-593448198537 

Born in Riverside, California the second of three children and graduated from Jurupa Valley High School.  After high school, I attended California State University San Bernardino earning my B.A in Sociology, continued with my education and earned a Master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance with a Pupil Personnel Services Credential from CSU San Bernardino as well.  

Upon completion of graduate school in June 2008, I was fortunate to secure a temporary AB 1806 counseling position in Chico Unified School District and moved to Chico that December.  The position included working with students and staff from both Alternative Education and Pleasant Valley High School.

A couple years later, a permanent counseling position in Alternative Education was available and I never left.  The students and staff stole my heart and my passion for Alternative Education grew exponentially. In the fall of 2015, I became the Principal of all programs on the Fair View campus.  

Alternative Education is truly an amazing place to work.  With four programs in total, serving extremely courageous and resilient youth throughout our community, the dedicated staff come together each year to provide the best service possible.  This dedication inspires the Administrative team to no end.  We work as a family unit with consistent communication amongst each program.  We collaborate with all secondary schools within CUSD to reach common goals and support one another.

My life changed forever when I met my wife, Katy, in February of 2010, and married on July 13, 2017 in Lake Tahoe, California.  Katy is a teacher at Shasta Elementary in CUSD and an amazing local photographer in Chico. Finding the time to golf and fish as much as possible helps me self-regulate and I am a huge fan of the San Francisco Forty Niners. I am also extremely fortunate to receive support from my parents, Jim and Pattie Moll, my siblings, my wonderful wife and her parents, and our dogs Bennie and Bowman.

COLONEL GEOFFREY I. CHURCH

 

Operations, Joint Staff J3; and Secretary of Defense Orders Book Colonel Geoffrey I. Church is the Installation Commander and the 9th Reconnaissance Wing Commander, Beale Air Force Base, California. He is responsible for approximately 7,000 military, civilian, and contractor personnel, and the entire Air Force high altitude reconnaissance fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady aircraft. The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is comprised of four groups and four overseas operating locations, executing worldwide missions in support of all six geographic combatant commanders.

 

Colonel Church received his commission from the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Kentucky in December 1998. He has served in a variety of positions at the squadron, group, and wing levels. His notable staff tours include Executive Assistant to the Joint Staff J-3, Director for Operations. He also served as the Secretary of Defense Orders Book briefer, where he was the primary briefer to the Secretary of Defense for deployment and execute orders in support of combatant command requirements.
Colonel Church is a command pilot with over 1,700 hours in F-15C/D, F-22, MQ-9, RQ-4, T-37 and T-38 aircraft. Prior to his current position, he was the Headquarters Air Force Division Chief for the F-35 integration office for Headquarters Air Force.

EDUCATION
1998 Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
2005 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
2005 U.S. Air Force Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nevada.
2011 Distinguished graduate, Master of Military Operational Art and Science, ACSC, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
2017 Master of Science, National Security Strategy, National Defense University, Washington D.C.

 

Tracy Mohr has over 45 years of experience in animal care and control, starting as a volunteer at a local animal shelter during her high school years.  Although she had wanted to become a veterinarian, she felt that working on behalf of shelter animals would have more impact.  Tracy’s experiences include vet tech, animal control officer, and animal shelter manager.  She had previously run the shelter as the executive director for Butte Humane and worked for the city of Chico as an animal control officer.  Tracy is also the founder of several non-profit organizations and has run a horse sanctuary since 2001.  She has 8 years of experience as a building designer and was working out of state when the city asked her to come back.  Tracy has been the Animal Services Manager for the City of Chico since 2012 when the city resumed shelter operations and moved the city to no-kill status in the first year.  With limited staffing, Chico Animal Shelter has been able to drastically reduce the euthanasia rate, support at-risk animals, and provide programs that serve as a model for shelters across the country and internationally.

 

DARK FOR 4TH OF JULY!

Bob was born and raised in Chico, and attended local schools. He worked in the medical field for a short time before attending college in Southern California. He returned to Chico and worked ten years for someone else before purchasing his own business in 1991. Funeral Service has been his life’s work. He cares deeply about this community. Bob enjoys spending time at Lake Almanor.

Kristy Bird MaKieve, MBA, CAE, is the founder, CEO and GME Administrator of Healthy Rural California in Chico. Healthy Rural California is accredited as a Sponsoring Institution for Graduate Medical Education. Our first cohort of Community Psychiatry Residents will matriculate in June 2024. We have submitted an application for accreditation to launch an Integrated Behavioral Health Family Medicine Residency by 2025. Kristy is also the Executive Director of Butte-Glenn Medical Society, the Lost Sierra Medical Society and North Valley Medical Association in Redding, now representing healthcare leaders in 10 counties. Kristy is passionate about workforce education and training as a key solution to access to care and mental health care in underserved, rural areas. Kristy worked at UC Davis for almost a decade helping launch the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and supporting the dean of medical education. In 2015, Kristy was the lead staff person who helped secure $15 million in funding to establish Behavioral Health research and policy centers at UC Davis and UCLA, where she became interested in system-wide solutions to the growing mental health crisis. Best described as a meandering path of interesting work, Kristy’s career started teaching art to people who are blind, teaching English in Japan, running Japanese language lessons at the Japan Society of Boston, launching a graphic design staffing service in Sacramento before running a statewide education program for the California School Boards Association in Sacramento. Kristy earned her MBA from UC Davis Graduate School of Management in 2015. Kristy earned her BA from Barnard College of Columbia University in New York. She was born in Berkeley, California but grew up on Long Island, New York where she was often asked if she was from California. Kristy moved to Sacramento in 1997.

 Dave Nopel has spent most of his life here in Chico, and is a fourth-generation member of his family to live in the Chico area.    He went through the Chico public school system, graduating from Chico High School in 1962.  He spent the next four years completing most of his under-graduate courses at Chico State College, then was swept up into the United States military, 1966-69.  He served as a U. S. Army finance records clerk, and spent a year in the Vietnam war zone, 1967-68.  He has passed through the years since living at the edges of the American cultural mainstream.  Today he finds interest and fulfillment in gardening, walking in Bidwell Park, serving as a volunteer at the Chico History Museum in downtown Chico, moving his father John Nopel’s collections of Chico and Butte County material into the digital age, and maintaining his more than fifty years of partnership with his wife Betty.  His Rotary presentation will be titled JOHN BIDWELL:  A LEGACY FOR CHICO.

Walt Schafer Rotary Bio

 

Walt has been a Chico Rotarian for nearly 30 years during which he has served in a number of roles including Board member, International Service Chair, and Past President.  In Rotary District 5160 he has served as Grants Committee Chair and received Rotarian of the Year, largely for his leadership through Chico Rotary Club and 18 other District Clubs in an 11-year series of community development projects near Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.  Walt taught in higher education for 41 years, the last 30 at Chico State where he was named Outstanding Professor in 1992.  He also serves on the Enloe Board of Trustees and as President of the Honey Run Covered Bridge Association. Walt is married to Teresa Kludt and has two daughters, the older a Rotarian near San Diego.  In 2019-20, she was President of the Golden Triangle Rotary Club of La Jolla.  Both daughters have traveled with Walt to visit our Rotary projects in Tanzania. Also, June of this year Walt was added as Chair Elect of the Enloe B oard of Trustees.

 

Chief Billy Aldridge was born and raised in Monroe, NC where he graduated high school before joining the US Air Force and served for nearly eight years. He attended the Yuba College Police Academy in 2001 and began his law enforcement career with the Butte County Sheriff’s Office in September 2001.

In February 2005, Aldridge joined the Chico Police Department. He has worked as a Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, Crime Scene Investigator, Mobile Field Force Team Member, Use of Force Instructor, and Street Crimes Detective. Aldridge was promoted to Sergeant in December 2009, Lieutenant in April 2015, Captain in March 2020, and Chief of Police in December 2022.

Chief Aldridge holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice management and a master’s degree in organizational management with a specialty in human resource management. He holds Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced certifications as well as Supervisory and Management level certifications.

Aldridge is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute (SBSLI), Executive Leadership Institute at Drucker School of Management, and the POST Executive Development Course.

Chief Aldridge and his wife Rosemary have been married for over twenty-four years and have two sons. Outside of work, he enjoys fishing, boating, softball, yardwork, spending time with his family, and volunteering in the community.

 

Jeff and Kristin Boyd are currently the pastors and administrators for the Salvation Army Community center in Chico. They moved to Chico just over 2 years ago, along with their 4 children, ages 14, 12, 11, and 7. Jeff and Kristin are both SoCal natives and have been married for almost 18 years. The Salvation Army is a second career for them. They spent the previous 15 years in residential real estate, becoming top 100 realtors in Orange County and top 1% nationwide. They decided to trade success for significance, joining forces with the salvation army, so that they could have a platform to help those most in need, and they have never looked back.

CLAIRE’S BIO

Claire is a serial volunteer. Throughout her life she has volunteered for non-profits including local and national organizations. Claire served as the Board President of the Orinda Association, let the effort to expand services to include a local volunteer clearing house and to promote business sponsorships for the local 4^th of July celebration.

In college, Claire joined Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity. She has remained active since graduation and has served on the national Board of Directors and as a Trustee of the Delta Sigma Pi Leadership Foundation. Claire currently serves as the Chair of the fraternity’s national Professional Development Committee leading training and professional development programs for collegiate and alumni members. In 2017, Claire was recognized as the first woman to receive the fraternity’s Lifetime Achievement award.

Claire joined the Rotary Club of Lamorinda Sunrise in 2012. She served on the Club Board as the chair of the Membership and Communications committees prior to becoming President for the 2016-17 year.  Claire was recognized as the Rotarian of the Year for 2013-14.

At the district level, Claire has served on the Foundation committee, as general co-Chair of the Rotary 4-Way Fest in 2019, as District Trainer for 2019-2021 and as the Chief of Staff for the 2021-22 District Governor. Claire was recognized as District Rotarian of the Year for 2018-19.

Prior to her retirement in September 2021, Claire spent her career in the financial service industry focusing on Risk Management and Compliance.

Claire and her husband, 2020-21 District Governor Mark Roberts live in Danville with their three very pampered cats.

 

Janice Walker was born into a pastor's home, where from an early age she was
surrounded by love, discipline, hard work, and lots of visiting missionaries. She heard stories of the tremendous need for medical care and saw photos of poverty that never left her heart and mind. Her love for God and others started at that point. She wanted tomake a difference in the lives of others and serve wherever God led her.
After marriage, she became a military wife, as her husband David served in the Army for 9 years. In 1979 they moved to Chico and it truly became home. Janice is a mother of 2, grandmother of 5 and a great-grandmother of 4. Her husband David was an ENT head and neck surgeon in both Chico and Yuba City for many years.
In 2004, after volunteering to help a floundering medical project, Chico Project SAVE, which stands for Salvage Al Valuable Equipment, was turned over to her. Starting out of a 10x30 unit, that hadn't been opened in a year, it has become a thriving non-profit sending millions of dollars of unused equipment and supplies each year overseas as well as providing a staggering amount of equipment to local people in need.
She loves God, loves America, loves Chico, and loves people everywhere.