News and Views forMarch 13 Newsletter

20th Anniversary Charter Celebration - another night to shine!

Presenting our new

Seed the Vine Awards

for 2007

If you have not signed up, please contact Susan Webster and indicate a meal selection of either beef, salmon or vegetarian. We have yet to hear from several of our 54 members! You'll learn more about the Seed the Vine awards at the meeting this week. Should anyone inquire, the committee encourages attire of a coats and ties nature.

here for details and copy of invitation

Celebrating our club's 20th anniversary and the anniversaries of Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center (30), Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville (30) and Molbak's (50th year).

6 p.m. -- Chateau Ste. Michelle -- Tuesday, March 27

Briefs . . . Versatile songster Al Marsh has agreed to serve as Rotary Reporter for the next club Newsletter. . . to be followed by Linda Hendrickson, and President-elect Rick Pisani (all sort of volunteered)...the spring Wine Tasting for Scholarships is Tuesday night at Monte Villa Farmhouse with the 14 tasters sampling five Rhode-blend wines from a selection of five Washington wineries getting serious about this style. Dinner follows. Room for one more couple, contact Max Zellweger if interested. Proceeds support our two scholarships at the Enology and Viticulture Institute at Walla Walla Community College...21 Acres (one of our major beneficiaries at the 2006 Rotary Wine'n Shine) has a special evening planned in Woodinville March 17 -- see details below...another knee replacement coming up Tuesday morning for fire chief Dennis Johnson and the club's well wishes are herewith extended...Roy Williams will be asking for volunteers to help with interviews and the selection process for club scholarships. The Woodinville High School award interviews are the morning of April 3 following our Tuesday meeting. It's a highly rewarding, but demanding task, there being so many highly qualified candidates. The club will award four $1500 academic-oriented scholarships again at WHS as well as a $1500 scholarship for a graduate planning to enter the teaching profession. Committee meetings to select recipients of our scholarships at UW Bothell will be conducted April 11 with two volunteers needed to sit on each of three selection committees at UWB... can the Rookie Sgt. at Harm who joined the club just months after our charter was granted January 30, 1987 top his collection record this week? . . .in May we'll hear from the director of marketing for the Seattle Seahawks, and students and faculty at UW Bothell will tell us about their Business Development Center and Student Entrepreneurship programs...have you signed roster notebooks for Kathy Kill, Burke Barker and Jerry Cufley?

A Rotary meeting sketched for your enjoyment A recap of our March 6 meeting... by rookie sergeant at harm Larry Leonardson, Rotary Reporter as well.
Rotary March 6, 2007 Great meeting set off by Jon Bylin's moving story of his history with Rotary. Service above self as everyone was happy to have Leonardson be Sergeant. Then we gave $2,500 away to the YMCA Partners in Care program. Easy come, easy go. Thanks Rotary. Birthdays for Gowin, Rosso, Bylin and Johnson. Only negative note is Priscilla Maynard's fall. She welcomes visitors. We don't need no stinking speakers? ---L Leonardson, Rotary Reporter
In the ongoing absence of Snappy, our club photographer, the Newsletter staff had no alternative but to publish the drawing (?) submitted for this week's edition of Woodinville Rotary News and Views. Those stick-figures sketched are purportedly waving dollar bills to the Sgt.-at-Harm's utter delight.
Long-Awaited Release is Tuesday 2005 Reckonyard Gold To holders of '05 Wine Futures Issued by Grace Town Vineyards, Dec. 2005 Be the first to sign up for a "Futures" Opportunity for the 2006 Vintage of Reckonyard Gold Barrel tasting by Centennial Citizen of Grace Erv DeSmet and other town officials have rendered the 2006 harvest "extremely superlative . . . the makings of a premium pinot noir heretofore virtually unheard of in this particular DeSoto Gardens terroir and climate." Acquiring Forms available at the Tuesday, March 13 meeting for this "sharing wine". Production again limited to less than two cases.	21 Acres Announces An Evening with Michael Ableman Michael Ableman, nationally known farmer and author of Fields of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, will take you on a journey discovering the richness and beauty of our food and how to honor our traditional relationship with food, the land and each other. The event presented by 21 Acres, a local non-profit organization supporting small farmers, is being held Sunday, March 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Willows Lodge overlooking the Sammamish Valley. Ableman will share the evening with award-winning Chef Bobby Moore from Barking Frog Restaurant with culinary school students assisting. Local wineries from the Valley will provide wine tasting along with seasonal appetizers prepared by Chef Moore. In the face of a fast-food nation, a growing community of farmers and food artisans are producing sustainable nourishment that is respectful of the land and rich in heritage, flavor and commitment. Ableman will share their stories and those of innovative, passionate farmers who are making a difference in what we eat and how we experience food. "Food shouldn't be just another fuel, grown out of sight by anonymous people, prepared and consumed as quickly as possible as if it were an inconvenience," Ableman writes in Fields of Plenty. He explores ways to rethink how we, as a society, participate in the food system...in America, a system where two percent of the people grow food for everyone. He believes that we should know not only where our food comes from, but who provides our food. He wants us to have a personal relationship with our "family farmer" just like we do with our doctors and teachers. A $100.00 minimum donation is suggested to attend the event. Funds raised are tax deductible and will support programs and the Agricultural Center building fund at 21 Acres, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Please RSVP to Beth Award, at 206-442-2061, or beth@21acres.org. For more information on An Evening with Michael Ableman and other upcoming events log on to www.21Acres.org. 21 Acres in partnership with Growing Washington & WSU Small Farms Team On The Web: <http://www.growingwashington.org/> <http://www. <http://www./> 21acres.org/> <http://www.smallfarms.wsu.edu/>