L. Leonardson Brief . . .  
                                     Highlights of the meeting of Tuesday, October
                                                                                Larry Leonardson, Rotary Reporter

An overflow crowd greeted President Rick and Juliette Pisani.  Other guests included Tasneem Bandukwala and her husband Mohammad, Walter Hughes, Tom Quigley of Olympic Nursery, Norm Noble from sunny Arizona, and a somewhat late Martha Groom from UWB. 

Laura told about her first baseball game.  She sat behind the “catcher”.  (Think about that concept if you had never seen a ball game). 

Walter, representing the UWB student group of Village Volunteers, and his assistant, Hugo, showed us the water filter system being devised for use by individual families in Kenya and Ghana.  The filter consists of a ceramic pot, made in Africa under the guidance of Potters for Peace, placed in a regular five gallon bucket containing colloidal silver which cleans the water of microbes.  The water drips out clean and ready to drink.  Martha Groom arrived to tell us that the project grew out of a desire to give students a hands-on experience involving sustainable ecology and involves several organizations and many people providing a real benefit to people in need.  Rotary has been a supporter of the project.

Vicki reminded us that Karen Forys’ service will be at the Bellevue Presbyterian Church at 2:00 on Sunday, October 7. 

John Ive’s birthday gave him a chance to brag about his kids and for good reason too.  Roger Stark is still retired; his daughter is now married and has her nursing degree.  After telling us that, Roger must have transmuted into his drug induced, jazz persona and reflected that he and his little woman, wifey, old lady, were very happily married.   Vicki immediately took offense and said she preferred the partner to be called a stud muffin.  (My notes are a little confused here.) 

Norm Noble informed us that he had completed his third novel, this one about military espionage.  Previous books included a story about a Boeing commercial flight having a door come off in flight. Both books sound like great reads.   Norm placed the latest book in the raffle which was won by John Creason. (It was promptly autographed). 

Tasneem told us about her selection by the Portland Rotary district as one of 8 international speakers who came to Portland to talk about Rotary projects and especially joint projects in which she had participated.  She passed around her book of projects which included pictures of our own Max and Dr. Bob who traveled to Pakistan a few years ago to open an eye clinic and a women’s technical school.  

The rest of the meeting was taken up with final preparation for the auction.   Procurements have come through on time (last nanosecond per Rorry).  The suggestion was that purchasers of Reckonyard Gold may want to have a couple of Walter’s purifying systems in the auction.  Get your people there.  Call and be sure they are coming and have them bring their credit and debit cards.  Silent auction starts at 5:00 sharp!  We need help cleaning up afterwards for those who can stay a little longer after the final bids.  Fund a need item will be for “literacy” and Susan has lined up Cecil Wells, a person with a dynamic story about learning to read as an adult. 

Dr. Rick closed with some story about doctors repairing their victims while the motor is running.  Sounds like a finable offense for industry promotion.  Oh, guess what, the reporter is also the sergeant. 

                                          Sgt Larry Leonardson