Membership
Proposed

   The Board has approved the proposed membership of Alex Hopkins of Woodinville. Alex is the immediate past president of the Edmonds Rotary Club. He is proposed by the membership committee. This is the second of two notices regarding this membership proposal. Questions or concerns relative to Alex joining the dynamic Woodinville Rotary Club should be addressed to the President or Secretary.

Alex's classification is Sales-Laboratory Equipment. Alex, his wife Julie and son Matthew are active in the Woodinville Community. 

Memberships
Proposed

  The Board, at its June 11 meeting, voted to extend invitations of membership to Roger Martindill and to Trish Knox. Membership would be effective July 1. Roger has served the past year as president of the Ballard Rotary Club and has been a frequent visitor and participant in Woodinville club activities. Trish is affiliated with the Children's Home Society and is active in projects focusing on the preservation of Sammamish Valley agriculture. This is the first of two notices regarding the membership proposals.

3 new 
years for
community
service
partnership

 Former exchange student Nikita (Nikki) Sugandh reports she has completed exams and is ready to enter university studies.

 At the behest of Rotary International, Rotary clubs have been asked to differentiate the leadership of club charitable foundations from that of the operating club. First steps in this direction for our club were taken at the June 11 board meeting as the Board approved the structure of bylaws for Woodinville Rotary Charitable Foundation. The proposed new bylaws are under review as to form and will be presented to the full membership of Woodinville Rotary Club in July for review and final approval. The new Foundation bylaws call for the immediate past president to serve as chair of a five-member board of trustees including incoming president-elect and president-elect-elect, a senior member of the club and the chair of the annual charity fund raising event. The Foundation is responsible for investing and distributing charitable funds raised by the club at the annual Rotary Wine'n Shine event.

July 26-27
at
Marymoor 
Park

Woodinville Wine Country (our community service partner in charity fund-raising) is counting on our club to provide volunteers July 25, 26 and 27 to help stage its first Wine Notes Concertfest. Plan to participate in this important event as the club's charity work is the primary beneficiary of the two-day event. A great number of volunteers will be needed at Marymoor Park -- particularly on Saturday and Sunday, the days of the concerts. Funds earmarked for Woodinville Rotary will go towards establishing an endowment to permanently support our scholarship program in the viticulture and enology programs at WSU and Walla Walla Community College. The Woodinville and state wine industry leaders count on these college programs to provide  trained, experienced men and women to work in their vineyards and wineries. The link to Wine Notes is at left.
Our very own  Larry Duffield (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) is coordinating our participation. Check out this headliner group...and go to their jukebox to hear the sounds of BBVD.

UW Bothell's Village Volunteers Club has raised enough funds to build a working ceramics kiln in Kenya now that recent political upheaval appears to have subsided and the international organization is ready to enter the initial stage of a major project to take clean water filtering systems to the villages of Kiminini. A volunteer is scheduled to leave this month to work with leaders in Kiminini as project manager. We'll get a progress report in September. Meanwhile, check out this Bothell Reporter column for more details of the status of the program and our club's involvement. The club to date has donated enough money to provide filters for 150 families in Kiminini and has set aside proceeds from the 2007 Wine'n Shine event to help with the next phase to provide training and a structure to house the manufacture of the ceramic filtering systems.

     The club has established a new endowment within the Northshore Scholarship Foundation. The new endowment was funded at the June 11 Board meeting at $25,000 and will be known as the Woodinville Rotary-21 Acres Education Endowment. By making the donation prior to June 30, the club's new endowment is eligible to receive funds (approximately $1500) that will be available for scholarships or internships at 21 Acres in the spring of 2009. The club will establish and oversee criteria, eligibility and the selection process for grants recommended by 21 Acres. 
     Funds for the endowment were raised at the 2006 and 2007 Rotary Wine'n Shine events with the Board adding $4000 to meet the minimum funding requirement for an individual endowment within the Northshore Scholarship Foundation. 
     The club also oversees the Woodinville Rotary Club endowment, the Jerry Wilmot Masters of Business Endowment at UW Bothell, the Peg Phillips Theater Arts endowment, the Malinowski-Marston Communications endowment and the Pride Family Memorial endowment. All provide funds for annual scholarships that are in addition to club financed and sponsored scholarships at Woodinville High School, Cascadia Community College, Secondary Academy for Success and University of Washington Bothell. 

Snappy's 
Foto Gallery 
Entries 
for June 2008

Snappy's been under the weather.
He sends these greetings to 
Woodinville Rotary sun worshipers.