Meeting Notes - Jan. 21, 2020

Visiting Guests

Sam Mack from Cordell, Neher and Company visited our club again!

Jim White from "Beyond the Future" project visit the club again.

Announcements

Alan Walker reminded the club that the monthly Bike Ride Committee meeting would be held at his office: Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council, 620 Lewis St., Wenatchee, at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, January 21st.

Craig Reese informed the club that next week's meeting would be about our club's Challenge Scholarship Program. He said he had been busy working to our District 5060 to write a grant to fund the Sisters Connection in Burundi, Africa. There are 9 Rotary Clubs in the country of Burundi. He plans another trip there in March, 2021.

Kathleen McNalty said the club's Membership Committee would me just after the meeting today.

Carol Adamson thanked the club members who visited and/or donated food and cards to Rebecca Lyons and family after their recent loss.

Brags and Confessions

Earl Crowe bragged about having been around the sun 48 times (a recent birthday), and that his daughter Emma was on the Dean's List at Portland State for good reasons!

PJ Jones bragged about his 70+ birthday he celebrated in Dec.

Carol Adamson bragged about her husband Jim's birthday on Monday, Jan. 20th. She reminded club members if they opted to give money for their birthday (a dollar a year is the going rate!), please make a check out to the Community Foundation of NCW, and earmark it for the Salisbury Fund. We are trying to build this up again!

Sargent at Arms

PJ Jones quizzed the club on the country on the cover of several Rotary Magazines. No one was successful in identifying any of them! No fines were collected.

Program

Jim White presented a program about "Beyond the Future", a ongoing project in Nairobi, Kenya. It was started by "Jackie", a Rotarian from Nairobi, for impoverish children in the city. Newer schools were built, sanitation facilities were installed, and more improvements are being make. Jackie is the liaison person between the Rotary Clubs and the contractors.

The school usually has about 250 students from 3rd to 8th grade. More advanced grade must be funded by a sponsor. Students receive 2 meals a day. The school was founded and partially financed by a rancher/fire fighter from Elk, Washington. The program was originally called "Taking the Slum out of the Children".

Teachers for the school live within the same community as the students. Student are taught in English, but they also speak in Swahili and their regional dialects.

Newer building have been erected at the school using ocean shipping containers. They are joined together and interior metal walls removed and rebuilt to make 2 large classrooms from 2 containers. Waste from the outhouses is to be made into sanitized charcoal and sold or traded from materials needed for the school.

Chelan Rotary Club member Lester Cooper will be making a trip to visit the school in February, 2020. Fund raising is continuing with a goal of $40,000. This money will be used to purchase building materials and supplies for the school, but can't be used to purchase land for the new school.

President Elect Earl Crowe presented Jim White a book which will be donated to the North Central Regional Library, Children's Section, in Jim White and "Jackie" name.

Pot Draw

Jim Adamson was the big $15 winner in the raffle!