Becky covers Show Your Colors day

The Woodinville Fight Song (albeit a little weak), opened the Tuesday, November 18^th meeting of Woodinville Rotarians. It was “Show Your Colors Day”, much to the dismay of those who forgot and much to the dismay of those sporting Pacific Northwest colors, namely Crimson and Gray and Purple and Gold.

After introduction of guests Linda Fuhrman and Elna Duffield, Francia told the tale of her week which included a stint at the local fire station as a guest of Chief “What’s His Name” and an opportunity to wear a “costume”. Rumor has it that Francia was found driving the back end of the ladder truck. She also spent an evening at the Space Needle, got to watch Principal Vicki Puckett cut her locks at assembly and flew to Friday Harbor with host John Abbott. The remainder of the week was spent sleeping.

President Boland announced that nominations are still open for 2009 Club officers. Roger Martindill then reported on the polio presentation by Penny LeGate at the Rotary Club of Kirkland. He noted that although polio was nearly eradicated it is now making a come back due to Nigeria shutting down the immunization process because of political and religious reasons. It is now the case that the oral vaccine is less effective than it was previously and the injections are the only way to effectively attack polio.

Eric Greenwood reminded us that the annual Holiday Party will be held at Monte Villa Farmhouse on Tuesday (of course), December 2^nd, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Doc Roger Stark and his group will be providing the musical entertainment.

Birthday wishes were extended to John Creason who reported that he has enjoyed a good year; business is growing at about 20% and his son is doing well in school.

At that point, Master of Ceremonies for Show Your Colors Day, Erv DeSmet took control (after a fashion – no pun intended) of the meeting. MOC DeSmet ethically took himself out of the competition as he claims he is on loan from the Executive Program for the Institute of Fight Song competitions. For this ceremony only, the Four Way Test was suspended. MOC DeSmet also announced the judges as John Creason, Karen McDonald and Rohit Kumar. The prizes for the best of show were fresh cinnamon rolls from the infamous (famous?) Maltby Café. After many hilarious and not so hilarious presentations, Jon Bylin was named for Best Song, Prez Boland was named for Best Emotional and Susan Webster was named for Best Costume. A new category was created; Best Education, naming John Hughes as the winner of that category. Judge Rohit wisely chose not to wear his Trojan colors.

Sergeant at Harms, Tana Baumler (covering for Baab), extracted $1.00 for everyone who neglected to wear their colors. She had quite a haul. Due to the heavy fines involved, there was the usual discussion regarding the validity of the “good” vs. “bad” fine waivers. Elna Duffield offered raffle tickets to the fundraiser featuring 21 decorated trees at the Olympic Hotel, Prez Boland noted that Gary Whitsell has not missed a UW game since the 1980’s (until recently) and Vicki Puckett related the tale of her diminished locks. Chief Johnson aka What’s His Name, offered a Happy Dollar for the fact that dinner at the firehouse (value $300), sold for $1,650 at the recent Medic One auction.

With a reminder to remember to attend the music event at Hollywood Schoolhouse on Thursday, December 4^th at 6:00, the meeting was adjourned.

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