June 18th Meeting Notes

Announcements 

Joseph is leaving us July 7.  Erik & Kristin are hosting a good-bye party at their home on July 6, from 5:30 - 8:00.  Their address is 2017 Broadview North, Wenatchee.

June 22 - Highway Cleanup - meet at 8:00am at Hydro Park.

June 25th @ 6 P.M. Presidential Changeover Dinner at Ridgeline Graphics. No morning meeting that day.

July 4th we will be running the parking at Walla Walla and July 5th is the clean up for the park. Contact Earl to sign up for shifts.

Brags and Confessions

John is celebrating his 54th wedding anniversary.
Carol and Jim leave for Europe on Thursday!
Taro had a great time in Germany, and he even screened calls while there since his name was left on the sag wagon list for the bike ride. What a team player!
Robin also had a great time in Germany and got a new rotary printed fan.
Jim had another terrible Chuck Norris joke.
Kathleen is going to DC to visit family.
Earls daughter Emma graduated high school last week and his youngest daughter Lucy is going into the 6th grade.

Program

Joseph gave us the run down on how his time here was.
He got to do many things like visit:
The San Juan Islands, The Chelan County Fair, Lake Chelan, Pacific Ocean, and went he also skiing.
He carved his first Pumpkin ever and got his first Christmas Stocking!
All in all he has a great time with all the family's he stayed with, and it seems like everyone did a good job at making him feel at home while he was here.

June 11 Meeting Notes

Joseph is leaving us July 7.  Erik & Kristin are hosting a good-bye party at their home on July 6, from 5:30 - 8:00.  Their address is 2017 Broadview North, Wenatchee.

June 22 - Highway Cleanup - meet at 8:00am at Hydro Park.

June 25th @ 6 P.M. Presidential Changeover Dinner at Ridgeline Graphics. No morning meeting that day.

**Long time Wenatchee eye doctor and Wenatchee Rotarian, Terry Sorom, has stage 4 cancer and is on hospice.  Cards and letters would be appreciated.  His address is 2405 #2 Canyon Rd, Wenatchee, WA  98801

Brag & Confessions

Joseph graduated last Friday night at WHS - one of 487.  Now he gets to go home to France and graduate again.

Joel Banken said his youngest son is going to be a youth exchange student in India next year.  His oldest son was a YE student in Thailand last year.

Jim and Carol Adamson celebrated their 47th anniversary in Kent with some of the grandkids.

Program

Beth Stipe, Director of the Community Foundation of NCW, summarized the history and current status of the foundation's funds (over $90M), scholarships (over .5M awarded this year), grants (4.3M awarded), and other programs.  Beth also gave information about our club's Salisbury Fund and the Donor Advised Fund, and how we could best leverage them.


June's birthdays and anniversaries are in the right hand column.

June 4th Meeting Notes

Announcements

June 25th @ 6 P.M. Presidential Changeover Dinner at Ridgeline Graphics. No morning meeting that day.

We will have three challenge scholars all girls this year: Teresita, Evelyn and Carely.  We still need one person willing to mentor Teresita for the nest two years.  Contact Jim Adamson if interested.

Tuesday - June 11th @ 5:30 P.M. will be a Bike Ride debrief at Bob's in Wenatchee.

Brags & Confessions

Joseph had a great time with the Holmberg's at Lake Chelan, including water sports, and hanging out with UW football star, Trey Adams.

Guess which one is Joseph.  Can you find him in the group of young men?

Jim - This was Ryan's first year working the bike ride and he was working the Sag Wagon and he did such a good job that someone donated another $50 toward our challenge scholarships.

Lisa - Sold her gymnastic gym and is now retired.

Leslie's daughter is going to be having her baby soon and asked that they both be kept in your prayers.

Keven - Ran into Lorraine Church, who gave $94 to the Salisbury Fund in honor of her late husband, Bob, who was a member here.

PJ - Said thank you to everyone who helped with making the bike ride signs, and told us about a disgruntled employee from the park.

Jill - Sang Joseph's praise for how well he did working the station he was at for the bike ride.

Kaitlyn and Ethan had a great time at the Rotary Youth Leadership Award weekend in Penticton, BC.  They will be doing a program later.



Program 

Steve King

Steve talked about the possible development of Confluence Parkway and the loop trail that is by the train track there. He is part of a team that is thinking about the future transportation of the valley when more and more people start traveling through the area. Also mentioned how they were getting ready to go to D.C. to try and get a 125 Million dollar grant to help with said projects.

May 28 Meeting Notes

June 25th is our presidential changeover dinner at Ridgeline Graphics.  Details to come, but reserve the evening for this event.  No morning meeting that day.

Speaking of changeover - Assistant Governor Carol Adamson introduced Karl Ruether (Leavenworth club), who will be taking over her position in July.  We'll be giving him a warm welcome whenever he visits our club over the next three years.

We received a "thank you" letter from the Moses Lake Medical Team, which we supported in their efforts abroad.

Brags & Confessions

Ruth thanked Taro's dad for mowing down the grass and weeds at the Habitat for Humanity lot.

Alan went mushroom hunting in the rain and brought back 4 pounds of Morels.

Joseph spend time at the Holmberg's place at Lake Chelan.

See June birthdays and anniversaries in the right hand column.

Program

This week we had a club assembly to finalize plans for this weekend's Century Bike Ride.  Bike Chair Alan Walker reviewed all the things that have to be done before, during, and after the ride.
Registration starts Friday at 5:00 at Cycle Central, and resumes Saturday morning.  Meal and beer garden will be open from 11-5, with some entertainment throughout.  We need help cleaning up at 5.
Various groups then met to go over their duties.

May 21 Meeting Notes and Photos

Sign painting party at PJs.   So much rain that Milt almost didn't get his Miata up a couple of the muddy hills heading home.

Thanks to PJ, Kevin, Milt, Alan, and Mansour for building and painting over 20 new road signs for the bike ride.  Carol & Jim got there in time to wash the rollers.  Thanks to Cookie and PJ for providing a great barbecue dinner.

The Century Bike Ride is coming June 1.  Next week's' meeting will be dedicated to final preparation for the ride.  We hope everyone is signed up to help that weekend.

The Applesox team is looking for player host families from June 1 to mid-August.  Between games and practices, the boys' time in the homes are limited.  Free tickets to the games.  Contact Pete Blanksma if you are interested.

About 12 members attended the board retreat last Saturday, and had lots of ideas discussion.  Thanks to John and Betsy, and to Taro for lunch.

Thursday, May 30, at 2:00 will be the planting of our area Rotary Peace Pole, and a big tree in Rotary Park.  This will emphasize District Governor Sherry Chamberlain's desire to have a peace pole and something that helps preserve the environment (tree planting) in every community in the district.

We received a thank you from the Foothills Robotics Teams for our contribution to help them get to the world championships.

The club survey on our new meeting place and food service indicated a very good response.
     Pybus meeting room = 9.5 out of 10
     Food service = 8 out of 10 (any issues are being addressed)

Joseph went to New York with Kristin Holmberg for 4 days, and had a great time.  He shared some of the sites they took in.

Robin sold Rotary flags to members so we can "#wave the Rotary flag" on Twitter wherever we travel in the world.  Let's see if we can get some attention on Rotary as we have fun traveling.  Be looking for tweets from Germany soon.

Wayne showed us the plaid Rotary vests our district ordered. Most will be worn in Germany at the Hamburg Rotary International Convention. Modeled by Robin.

Brags & Confessions

Wayne helped bottle wine at Malaga Springs Winery last Saturday.

Ronin cut down and hauled a 22-year-old plum tree out of their yard, and is sore, but surviving.  She and Richard leave Thursday for Germany (tour and RI Convention).

Wayne and Taro (with spouses) leave for Germany next Thursday.

May 14th Meeting Notes

Announcements 

Check out the new table cloth that advertises our bike ride.   

The Board approved Julie Cumaander for membership.  She is sponsored by Carol Adamson.

The Board also voted to make Ron Griffin an Honorary Member.  Ron has not been able to come to our meetings, but if people would pick him up, he may be ab;e to attend at times.

Check out the May birthdays and anniversaries in the right hand column.  Congrats to all of you.

June 25th will be the change over dinner - Time still pending.

June 22nd will be the HWY clean up - Talk to Matt to let him know you will be there.

May 16th will be a sign building and painting party for the bike ride at PJ's home from 4:00-7:00.  Directions: Go out Malaga/Alcoa Hwy, turn right on West Malaga Hwy (Three Lakes Golf Course), take a right on Hamlin, come to a "T" and go right on Joe Miller, take a left on Cathedral Rock, proceed 2.3 miles on a gravel road to PJ's.  He is about .8 miles past Malaga Springs Winery.

May 18th is a Board retreat at Ridgeline Graphics (downstairs in the house south of the back parking lot).  Anyone can attend, but let Taro know so he can get enough food.  The retreat starts at 7:30, and should be done at noon.

May 21st, is the next bike ride meeting - 5:30 at Bob's Classic in Wenatchee.

Brags and Confessions

Jim A. said that the 2nd Harvest food distribution was a success with about 9000 pounds of food being distributed and 216 families received food.

Bill McDowell went out and rode the loop trail.

Jill went to Florida to see her grandson's graduation.

PJ got lost while looking for the exchange students.

Joseph had a great time at the district conference. 


Program

Foothills Middle School Robotics Team 
They have about 80 students currently in the program. With them consisting of two main teams. 
During the meeting they had us watch a video on what they presented while at the State competition. The following link will take you to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywzAqBHAvOw
They followed up the video with giving us a short presentation of how their robots operate.
The two teams competed in the World Championships in Louisville, KY, and won awards (see bottom picture).

2nd Harvest

Wednesday the Rotary sponsored 2nd Harvest food distribution took place in Wenatchee.  216 families were represented, which means the 9,000 pounds of food we brought in will be feeding  800 people for an extended period of time.  Each family got 3# of beef, a bag of potatoes, a bag of apples, a bag of pancake mix, 3 bags of cheesy rice, 2 boxes of Ritz Crackers, 4 cans of corn, 2 bags of cold cereal, and 2 loaves/bags of bread products.  Fifteen boxes were packed up for the Bruce Hotel residents.  Left over food was boxed and picked up by the Lighthouse Ministry.
Thanks to Jim & Carol, Wayne, Tana, Milt, and Kathleen for helping out.  Rotarians from East Wenatchee and Wenatchee also participated.  Our next food truck will be here September 8.