May 16 Meeting Notes

 

May 16 Meeting Notes

 The meeting was called to order at 7 am by President Robin DeRock.

World Sea Monkey Day

Guests: 

• Bill Ostheimer (Wayne M's guest)
• Sharon Ostheimer (Wayne M's guest)
• Emma Crowe
• Julie Banken
• Jennifer Moraski
• Jonathan Clark (Jennifer's Fiancé)
• Becky Cummins - Chapel of the Valley

Announcements

Concessions at the Rodeo Event at the Toyota Center

• Lots of money to be made
• $21,000 - One weekend

6/3/23 - Farmer's Market Take Over - 9am to 1pm (7/1, 8/5, 9/2, 10/7)

• Volunteer needed to lead the effort
• Kids Crafts and Pride Festival
• Volunteers needed

Goathead Warriors (6/10 or 6/17, 6/24)

• Volunteer needed to lead the effort
• Volunteers needed

Community Paul Harris Award

• Robin is looking for nominees for someone in the community that would deserve recognition from Rotary.
• They should be making a difference in the community in line with Rotary values.

Student Exchange

• Outgoing student's dad died accidentally.
• He drowned on the river recently. (The story was in the news)

Brags and Confessions

Kelly Walker

• She went with her mom, daughter, and 2 grandkids to Lake Roosevelt

Wayne Massing

• 30th Wedding Anniversary
• Dinner in Leavenworth, and Gelato at Pybus

Kathleen McNalty

• She visited her mom in Delaware
• Her mom is able to stay home due to the support of Kathleen's sister and family

Wayne Steele

• His 3rd grandchild was born - Wyatt John Steele
• 9lb 10oz - 22 inches long

 Rebecca Lyons

• May 6th was her birthday (she let it slip that it was her 60th)
• She got a tattoo

Robin DeRock

• Whe enjoyed the Dose DeMayo event at her house last week

New Member Inductions

Jim Adamson - Julie Banken - Emma Crowe - Kelly Walker

Craig     Wayne          Bill          Kathleen     Jennifer

Reese - Massing - Ostheimer - McNalty  -  Moraski

Wayne Massing presenting Bill Ostheimer with his 

membership pin to be worn to every meeting.

• Bill Ostheimer (Wayne Massing talked him into joining Rotary.)
• Bill was born in Lafayette, Indiana February 19, 1944. He graduated High School in 1962 and attended Purdue University, graduated January 1967.
• While in college, he enlisted in the Navy Reserve and got accepted to Navy Flight School. He attended Navy Preflight training during two summers prior to graduation.
• Bill Spent 22 years in the Navy flying the A-7 Corsair II. He married Sharon Rogers in 1971. They have two children and 7 grandchildren. While in the Navy, he acquired a Master's Degree in Business Organizational Management. He retired as a Commander in 1988 and went to work for Boeing Maintenance Training. He spent 22 years at Boeing, all in Maintenance Training and retired in 2010.
• Bill and Sharon moved to East Wenatchee in July 2021. They live with their daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren.

• Jennifer Moraski 
• Jennifer grew up in Bellevue with her parents and 5 siblings. She attended the University of Oregon and majored in Computer Science. After graduation, she returned to the Seattle area and worked in a variety of roles in Tech, finally landing at a startup called Starwave, working on ABCNEWS.com for about 6 months after it launched.
• Starwave was acquired by Disney, where she continued in a variety of roles supporting the Disney websites in the early days of the web. She then moved to Nordstroms where she supported backend systems and Nordstrom.com. Her last role was at Tableau, a data analytics company that was acquired by Salesforce. She retired from Salesforce in December 2020.
• Jennifer has two children. Stuart, who recently graduated from WSU with a Computer Science degree and is working at Diamond Foundry in Wenatchee as a software engineer. Sylvia is a sophomore at the University of Portland, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. 
• Jennifer is engaged to Jon Clark, who works remotely as a consultant for an Airplane parts manufacturer. Jon has 3 adult daughters who live in the Seattle area. They are planning a wedding in July in Cashmere.
• After purchasing a cabin in Leavenworth in 2017 that is used as a vacation home as well as a short-term rental. The cabin brought Jennifer to the Wenatchee Valley more often. After falling in love with the area they decided to move here. They purchased a 1935 Craftsman home (it's the "sunflower" house on the corner of Western & Springwater) in Wenatchee in 2021 that needed extensive remodeling. They've since fully renovated the home and yard. 
• Jennifer enjoys travelling, gardening, baseball games and backpacking. Last year she travelled through Western Europe with her daughter after she studied abroad in Austria. This year she's taken trips to Florida, Hawaii, Phoenix, and Eugene.
• Jennifer has been in Toastmasters clubs since 2014 and recently joined the Cascade Speakeasy Club here in Wenatchee. Jennifer is looking forward to getting to know her fellow Rotarians and serving in her new community!

• Emma Crowe
• Emma Crowe is 21 years old and has been a resident of the Wenatchee Valley for the past 10 years. She is a proud 2019 graduate of West Side High School a year early. She graduated from Central Washington University with her B.A. in Professional and Creative Writing in March 2023 with Honors.
• Emma is the Donor Development Coordinator for Sister Connection, and she is very passionate about nonprofit work.
• Emma loves to travel the world, spend time with her family (especially her 2 sisters), and write short stories and poetry. She loves languages and is bi-literate in German, speaks some Greek, and is currently working on learning Kirundi (the language of Barundi).

• Julie Banken
• Julie grew up on an orchard in the Entiat Valley but attended school in Wenatchee and graduated from Wenatchee High School in 1986. Julie and her husband, Joel, met in college and spent two years as Peace Corps Volunteers in Ecuador.
• Julie has Masaer's Degrees in both Entomology and Education. She homeschooled their two boys and also taught outdoor education, science, and social studies for the Wenatchee School District. She worked at Valley Academy for ten years.
• Currently, she is a Master Gardener in training and writes the newsletter for a local electirc vehicle advocacy group called Plug-In North Central Washington.
• Julie Banken has been helping with Rotary Youth Exchange from Behind the scenes since 2017, when her family first hosted a student from France. Julie is joining the Sunrise Club so she can officially participate as District 5060's Outbound Educator for Rotary Youth Exchange. She is looking forward to getting to work with all students that the district sends out as well as the Rotarians who make the Youth Exchange Program possible. 

Program: Road Apple Roulette Results

The Road Apple Roulette Event was a rousing success!

The committee included:

• Kathleen McNalty
• Earl Crowe
• Allie Schank
• Wayne Massing
• Wayne Steele

4157 tickets were sold (out of 5000 available). 

Wayne Massing handled all of the tracking of the tickets for the Gambling Commission.

Over 400 tickets were sold the day of the parade to the onlookers along the route.

The following seven volunteers selling the tickets that morning were:

• Joel Banken
• Marcy Treat
• David Barshes
• Alan Walker
• Robin DeRock
• Kathleen McNalty
• Faviola Barbosa

Ticket sales, plus the sponsors, minus the expenses resulted in a profit of $13,732.

Tickets sold awards:

• Jim and Carol Adamson - Shark Sales Trophy - 563 tickets
• Earl Crowe - Bucking Horse Trophy - 394 tickets
• Wayne Massing - Bucking Horse Trophy - 276 tickets

Above and Beyond Pins

• Darcy Christopherson - Head of Apple Blossom 
• She made sure we got a great location in the park for ticket sales
• It gave us great visibility in the community.
• Wayne Steele
• He worked nearly every selling event and the day of the parade
• Joel Banken
• Morning of the Parade

Earl stated that Kathleen handled "90% of the effort" as his co-chair for the event.

Larry Harlow was the $10,000 winner.

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The raffle was $567. Only 8 marbles in the bag. Milt did not draw the winning marble. The pot keeps growing.

Next programs

• 5/23 - Travis Hornby - Pybus General Manager - Pybus Market Updates
• 5/30 - Sheriff Mike Morrison

Joke: 

I was looking for a new job, but I turned down one where I'd be paid in vegetables... 

The celery was unacceptable.

Rotary Anniversaries

• Kelly Walker - 5/26/2023 - 3 years
• Glenn King - 5/20/2023 - 1 year