April 30 Meeting Notes

The meeting was opened by President Craig Reese. Our visitor today was Sally Feil, Dan’s wife. 

Announcements 

The presidential change over dinner is tentatively scheduled for June 25th. This may be at our morning meeting or may be a prelude to the Apple Socks baseball game that evening. Stay tuned for more information. 

Laerke announced that she was having an easy week hanging out with friends before they all separated and headed back to their home countries. She helped sell Road Apple Roulette tickets this week. 

Rebecca (far left) and Jennifer (bottom left) helped out at Rotary's sustainable waste stations in the park last week. The goal is to educate people about eliminating waste to the landfills by using recycling and composting. Thanks for serving in this.

Wayne M announced that we have 3420 raffle tickets sold so far. He sent a sheet around for people to sign up for the remaining selling opportunities, which include the All-Service Club Luncheon May 1st, the food court and beer garden, the Senior Center, and on the parade route Saturday morning. 

Brags and confessions 

Chris fined himself for forgetting the large foot pads for the food court to stand on while selling tickets. He also was interviewed by NCW Life Television and talked about our RAR raffle sales. He said that selling tickets in the beer garden was very easy. 

Carol announced that she and Jim have sold over 1000 tickets so far. She also talked about the charcuterie boards that several of our members made at John Clark's Wood shop (Jennifer’s husband).  See photos at the end of this week's post.

Becky said that she was back from Paris and had a great time. She also helped sell tickets in the beer garden. 

Wayne M bragged about Julie Banken's article in the paper on wasps. He said it was very helpful in dealing with them in his garden. 

We officially welcomed Dan Feil as a new member to the Wenatchee Sunrise Rotary Club. Dan is transferring from the East Wenatchee Club.  He started with the club in 1978 and has 46 years of perfect attendance.  Dan has served two terms as a Rotary Club President.  He has been an active member of the fundraising committee.  Dan also is a two-time Paul Harris recipient. Dan’s wife Sally was here today.  They have been married since 1986 and have 3 grown children. 

Program  

After Dan was inducted, he gave his classification talk. He talked briefly about his role in Rotary over the last 46 years. The two times that Dan was president of his club were notable in Rotary history. Ed Cadman from Wenatchee was Rotary International President in1985, and in 2005, Rotary International was celebrating its 100th year. Dan talked about all the changes that he's seen in Rotary over the year, and brought some old Rotary memorabilia to share. 

Dan grew up in Leavenworth and East Wenatchee. His grandpa was involved in racing boats, which led to an outboard motorboat sales career. His dad started Bob Feil boats and motors which still exists on Sunset Ave. in East Wenatchee, right below Dan's house. Dan graduated from Eastmont High School in 1964, where he played a lot of sports. He went on to Washington State University and played intramurals, skied, and hunted in his spare time. Dan traveled to Europe for three months and then went back to school for a degree in economics. After that, he worked in the cherries and in the boat shop. The business expanded and included big Bayliner boats and camping equipment and trailers. They also owned 5 orchards, built a CA warehouse in Chelan, had property in East Wenatchee, and other real estate developments.  

Dan enjoyed racing snowmobiles, has a 34-foot fishing boat in Alaska, three airplanes and two hangers (he learned to fly in a Chinese military plane) , collects classic cars for the classy chassis, and then tennis, Travel likes travel to Hawaii, Has a wood shop and even a sawmill in his backyard, plays tennis and works out at the gym. Dan was on the board for Miss Veedol and helped get the engine for the airplane. Dan said he's been in Rotary for so long he has lots of stories to tell. We'll save those for a later time. 

After notes 

There was $173 in the raffle pot. Wayne M won the draw and went for the big money, but he drew the wrong marble. Nobody seems to want instant gratification.  

Charcuterie board party