February 19 Meeting Notes

Announcements

The Rotary Foundation meeting scheduled for March 12 has been changed to March 21.  This is a one-hour session on the Foundation basics for Presidents-elect, TRF committee chairs, and anyone else interested in the Foundation.  It starts at 6:00 pm at the Link office on Columbia Street.

Milt Herman gave a brief history of our club that Leonard Noss prepared.  Our club celebrated our 33nd birthday this week (Feb. 17, 1986).

Carol Adamson announced that the "Nick's Bricks" event needs volunteers on Sat. March 2nd, from 10 am to 3 pm at Pybus Public Market. Volunteers will help the children with their Lego creations. There will probably be 2 shifts for volunteers. Point of Contact: Carol Adamson (jncadamson@gmail.com or 509-630-8562 cell).

Kathleen went over the comparisons of three venue options for our meetings: Pybus, Red Lion, and where we are now. There will be a walk through at Pybus at 11:00 Thursday for anyone interested in looking over that venue.  The club will be deciding at a coming meeting.

Brags and Confessions:

Kevin Love will celebrate his 66th trip around the sun on Friday, February 23rd.
Earl Crowe's daughter celebrated a birthday (same day as Jim and Carol's daughter).

Robin DeRock's hockey team is still NOT in last place.

Program

Norma Gallegos, Coordinator of Hand-in-Hand Immigration Services gave a great program on the effort to get the many legal immigrants in our state to become citizens.  Norma started out as a bus driver, then to Head Start, then as a Family Community Adviser Coordinator.  She volunteered for 4 years with USCIS (United States Citizen and Immigration Service) before being selected to join with World Relief.  Norma works with immigrants and refugees in 14 churches and 8 schools in NCW.
The most recent naturalization ceremony was today (Feb. 20).