Announcements
- Laerka went to Bellingham with her host family, visted a llama farm, met extended family members of her host family
- Craig - next Tuesday after the Rotary meeting we reserved the space to meet about challenge scholarship, Stacy Gold left the club
- Kathleen - The club is working on the move to DACDB, documents that were stored in Club Runner are now in DACDB
- Wayne - RAR 1008 tickets sold
- Rebecca - Went to PETS and it was amazing
- We will do Sergeant at arms after brags
Brags
- Jim - $1 for grandson who went to state for wrestling and is top 10 in state for his weight class, vacation $2
- Jennifer - 3 date nights $3, snow shoe dinner, greatest piano man, Leavenworth wine club tasting, and she won another raffle
- Rebecca - some of her RAR tickets got ruined, protect your tickets in a plastic bag
- Laerka - $3 for the only 3 days of school she is attending this week, going to Seattle on Friday
- Alan - had his grandson for 2 days
- John Schapman- wife’s birthday, school auction
- Wenatchee club - roast and toast, $125 for tickets going to SAGE
Program
- Pete VanWell, VanWell nursery
- Top agriculture products are apples, milk, potatoes, wheat, wine is sexy so they get what they want
- Nursery brings in about $368 million
- Cross pollination, apples have something like an autoimmune response to other pollens and it’s own pollen, Galas don’t pollinate themselves, the apple varieties need each other
- Reproduction, asexual, grafting, 20 year process to replace a certified tree
- Grafting down by hand, 2 million buds hand grafted, the bidder and the tie-er
- Tree = rootstock + scion
- Takes 20 years for a variety to go through the process
- The VanWell nursery has 100 acres of orchard, Quincy and Moses lake, 124 people full time, office in east Wenatchee, seasonal work
- Unique cider apple varieties, sweet apples, golden delicious, pippen varieties
Raffle
- Kevin, $54, didn't win
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