Highlights of the meeting of Tuesday, December 18, 2007
 

Those Amazing Men in their Tutus 

What’s with men and their Christmas attires? One would think that the holiday season would bring feelings of love and compassion, but for some a simple change in the way they dress results in a profound transformation. Take for instance those who left their Santa hats on during the Flag Salute! (duly fined and with reason) or those who dressed up in a tutu, they must have thought that it was the day for their recital, and then there were all these men sitting on another man’s lap, is this all because of the “magic of the season”? Then as if this was not enough and to make sure the party ended on a high note there were those who had the “I like your toy better than mine so I am going to take it away from you” attitude who actually ended up taking away each other’s toys.  

Nonetheless we enjoyed the festive atmosphere and we are all thankful to those who took the time to plan and execute this magnificent gathering of Rotaryville friends and their guests. Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Claus and their elves for making our dreams come true although not for everyone, take for instance how sad little Gordy was when some bully took away his “Low Rider” however most were fascinated with their toys like for instance little John Creason who got his blue badge, or little John Abbott with his 2006 Two Buck Chuck. At the end, the spirit of the season prevailed and no one went home empty handed, but we sure hope that no one went back to work still wearing their tutus. 

Sailing Anyone?  

Joe from Lynnwood made the trip to remind us all of the great opportunity we have to enhance the Marv Workman Scholarship Endowment while sailing through Alaska with friends and family in the luxury of a grand cruise ship. The goal is to raise $25,000 by December of 2008; to date $6,770 has been already raised. To set the note in assistance was Jen Norberg who took the opportunity to present a check for the endowment. This writer predicts that we will blow past the $25K goal well before ‘08 is over. Still many of us wonder how Joe is going to fly fish from the deck of the cruise ship.

Our French Connection 

District Conference 

Next year’s conference will take place in the Tri cities area, and we would like to see a strong presence from our club. If you are interested please contact Art Haines, this promises to be a great event filled with unforgettable memories and perhaps some wine tasting. This is the one opportunity we have to mingle with the members of Grace provisional who traditionally attend the conference in big numbers. Walla Walla anyone?

It Must be Hard to Reach 42 

Celebration for this month’s birthdays consisted of more of the same; with celebrants speaking about family life, wedding anniversaries, weddings, upcoming weddings, college graduations, travel, grandkids to be, and how it feels to be FORTY-TWO. 

You Make Us All Proud 

Linda Hendrickson for her fund raising efforts to create scholarships to help low income students, and Roger Stark for the publishing of his book on Health Care Policy which can be found at Amazon.com, I believe shipping is free. 

How Fun It Is To Have Fun 

Roy and Leslie Williams went aboard Evan and Janis McAllister’s boat to take part in one of the traditional Christmas boat parades at Lake Washington Why you may ask? Well because of the generosity of both, you see Janis and Evan offered the ride in our 2007 Charity Event and Leslie and Roy were the winning bidders. You too could end up having lots of fun all you need to do is to bid high and bid plenty. The question is could Joe fly fish from Evan’s boat? 

Until next time, I respectfully submit this half ass Spanish translated into English account of our last meeting. Spanglish, some call it.    

                                                                - - - Respectfully submitted by Jorge Gonzalez.