Friday, January 24 at Perry's on Union: Sacramento Seminar Roundtable
- tarmour2
- Jan 23
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This coming Friday, January 24, will be a Sacramento Seminar Roundtable. We’ll start with the blame game regarding the horrendous Los Angeles fires. With our climate changing, it can happen here. Second, will President Donald Trump and Co-President Elon Musk have the gumptions to carry out their campaign promises.
In Memoriam: As Weekly Update readers know, Sac Sem regular, Greg Knell, unexpectedly passed away. Here is The Marin Independent Journal’s story on his passing.
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
On Friday February 7 our speaker is the Consul General of Mexico Anna Luisa Vallejo Barba. Seminarian Sherri Ferris will make the introduction. Consul General Vallejo has been part of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1994, She’s served in Bolivia, Great Britain, Brazil, Peru and Guatemala. She has a master's degree in Diplomatic Studies and a postgraduate degree in Diplomacy from Oxford.
Sacramento Seminar is riding the rails. On Friday March 7, we’ll travel to Santa Rosa for lunch starting at Noon with new Assemblymember Chris Rogers. A Democrat, Chris represents the 2nd AD which runs from Santa Rosa to the Oregon line. Our venue is Jackson’s Bar & Oven at 135 4th Street. It’s only one block from Santa Rosa’s SMART (Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit) station. That’s convenient if you join your acting chair on SMART. The train leaves Larkspur at 10:56 am and arrives in Santa Rosa at 12:01. SMART is free for those 65 and over. There is a convenient SF Ferry Building to Larkspur ferry connection. Departing trains leave Santa Rosa for Larkspur at 1:28 or 2:32 p.m. NOTE: Jackson’s tis the only Railroad Square restaurant that accepts small groups. Their limit is fourteen (14). It’s first come-first serve. RSVP to spotswood@comcast.net. Seminarian Bruce Raful will introduce Assemblymember Rogers.
On Friday, March 28 Sac Sem’s guest at Perry’s On Union is Ming Chi Scott Lai the new Director-General of the Taipei (Republic of China) Economic & Cultural Office in San Francisco https://www.roc-taiwan.org/ussfo_en/post/2780.html He represents Taiwan’s interests across Northern California, Utah, and Nevada. Director-General Lai will speak about the challenges of diplomacy, relations with China, and security concerns, as well as his advice for aspiring diplomats, and his own journey in foreign affairs.
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OTHER THOUGHTS: “Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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