March 5th Meeting Notes

Scroll down to read an update from Pearl!

Announcements

• Kathleen - April 2nd is a training for the ignite app, waiting for confirmation for 2 other dates
• Kelly - justice gala, membership meeting is at Cashmere Valley Bank on March 15th
• Alan - social is not tonight, next Tuesday night, tap room, 
• Laerka - busy week, joined tennis, joined theater, skiing, arcade, bowling, lunch with rotary counselor
• RAR - 1251 tickets sold, senior center article, sell tickets at senior center lunch time Wednesday the 20th, thank you Allie for the shirts, send Emma an email, first shirt free second one costs $20
• Rebecca - Made apple pecan bread

Brags

• Eric - 4th grand baby, spent 10 days in france with Joseph their exchange student skiing, met with son in Israel 
• Wayne - confession, hot steaming water, held it out the window
• John Schapman - school auction went well
• Jim - WSU cougar basketball team is finally ranked, cashmere club Wednesday, East Wenatchee club Thursday, Leavenworth Friday, confluence club Tuesday
• Alan - He put a dinner with him and Kelly up for auction 4 years ago, they finally had the dinner last week
• Rebecca - Astoria Oregon, fisher poets, caught a cold
• Wayne Steele - Chelan club today

Chad Holiday

• race car driver super oval
• 2-20 cars a day, always working on a race car
• Super Oval is 50 years old
• Racing since he was 15, won races and was hooked
• Upgraded facility
• Saturday nights
• Starting when you’re 7, like a little league
• Racing full size cars at 12
• Racing with no one in the stands, NCW Life broadcasted it
• $35,000 cars
• 11 cars in 2021
• 2022 had 20 cars in that class
• Currently have 23 cars in class, quickest building class in the northwest
• Racing is stupid expense, there should be AA for it
• Buy engine locally
• No electric race cars in his lifetime
• 4,800 square foot shop at his house
• Wife used to race
• He worked at McDonald’s to afford his first car
• More sponsors equal more work for the racer
• Most people have lots of sponsors
• Build car, sponsors to help run on a weekly basis
• Went to a lot of NASCAR races
• 3rd weekend of April is opening night

Raffle

Bill's ticket was pulled, he chose to spin the wheel and won $5. 

Mark's joke: A snail was having trouble racing, so he got rid of his shell. It made him more sluggish!

Update from Pearl:

Time is flying! I can't believe it's already March! Here is my recap of the month :) -

February was so fun, maybe one of my best months here yet! The first week of February here there is something called Chrysostomos. It’s the graduating class’s ‘big thing’ kind of like the senior prank in the US. They get to lock all the younger grades in the school courtyard and basically just chase everyone down and completely trash them for an hour. They all bring lipsticks, hair coloring spray, smoke bombs, whipped cream, and basically whatever they can think of. 

At the end of that, the two grades right below the graduating class are invited to a show the graduating class puts on where they make fun of a ton of different teachers and students who end up on their ‘blacklist’ and bring them on to stage to do funny challenges and get even more filthy. I got to go to that but the lower grades still have to go to class, although the classrooms are also all completely trashed. It was super fun. The one not so fun part was by the end of the day everything and everyone smelled absolutely awful from the whipped cream. 

After Chrysostomos there’s a short vacation. My host mom took her last host daughter and I to Spain together for almost the whole week. Spain was so beautiful. We visited Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona. I think Madrid was my favorite city, but La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona was my favorite activity. It was so intricate and beautiful. 

The weekend after school started back up was carnival. The carnival in Flanders is a very unique carnival. The carnival ‘royals’ spend around 30k each on things to throw into the crowd during parades so I now have more candy and stuff than I know what to do with. There was so much color and fun music, it was a really unique experience. February was a great month! 

Me after Chrysostomos