News for Members and Friends of
Woodinville Rotary Club
 

Tuesday, Feb. 1 meeting

   Potential community service "hands on" projects to be presented include opportunities at the Environmental Education Center at Brightwater; maintenance at the 18-acre Rotary Community Park near Woodinville High School; Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center at its new facilities in Redmond. 

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Feb. 8 morning meeting: The club will meet at the Secondary Academy for Success new facilities in north Bothell for our regular meeting of February 8. Our caterer will be on duty. We'll learn about the Music Academics Youth Foundation (MAY), hear about how the new school design came about through student input, get a tour of the facility and be able to honor principal Holly Call who is retiring at the end of the school year. Holly, Jim Geiszler, Bernadette Bascom and many others were responsible for launching the jazz performance and music program at SAS as a popular extra-curricular activity at the alternative secondary school. The SAS building is located in the Canyon Park Industrial-Office complex northeast of Bothell-Everett Highway and Interstate 405, next to the school district support services facility. The address for mapquesters is 22107 23rd Drive SE,  Bothell 98021 and (425) 408-6600 for detailed directions. When heading north on SR 526 (Bothell-Everett Highway), turn right past the Canyons Restaurant and head east.

Rotary Reporters on the job: Larry Leonardson and Eric Greenwood provide capsule reports of our meetings of January 18 and January 25....and Snappy is back on the scene filling digits on his handy pocket-sized camera.
    Auction-Charity Event Steering Committee: Club Fund Raising Director Steve Dolan has called an organizing meeting for Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 5:30 p.m. at the corporate tonsorial offices of Rorry Dunbar. The 21st annual charity event is October 8, 2011.

Annual Meeting: Directors of the Woodinville Rotary Charitable Foundation met January 25 and elected Erv DeSmet to serve as Foundation chair beginning July 1 after he hands the club gavel to the Ancient Rotarian. The Foundation is responsible for maintaining fund-raising and tax exempt status for those who donate for the Rotary annual charitable giving. Also elected were Gary Whitsell, secretary-treasurer; Pam Johnstone, John Hughes and Steve Dolan. Retiring trustees will be Eric Greenwood, Tana Baumler and Greg Riggs.

Golden Opportunity to Publicize Rotary: Interested in becoming a member of the Woodinville Rotary "Drill" Team? Check it out with Al "Warbler" Marsh. The team will represent the club in the annual Woodinville Fool's Day Parade on March 26. Being a fool, related to a fool, or knowing a fool are not requirements. Having an access to a cordless power drill, however, would be essential.

Dictionaries in February: Fred Kempe and the club are indebted to the following members who stepped up as Dictionary Captains for the 2011 distribution of new, illustrated dictionaries to third graders in Woodinville area elementary schools. The schools receiving dictionaries and the distribution captains are:
     Bear Creek, Gary Whitsell; Canyon Creek, Erv DeSmet; Cottage Lake, Cherry Tinker; Eastridge, Alex Racz; Woodin, Rorry Dunbar; Hollywood, Todd Banks; Kokanee, Gordy Green; Wellington, Al Marsh and Pam Johnstone; Woodmoor, Larry Duffield. Each captain is arranging the date and time for distribution and will need members to help out.

 

Presidential Recap Posted January 22   Oh, such drama. Mr. Lucky, (Max Zellweger) normally reliable for that Glorious marble, now worth $540, drew one of the Glory Marble guards.  Four guards left. One valuable marble.   For those of you who could not make today’s meeting, we had a great talk by Dr. Christopher Porter, a wonderful doctor who is quite knowledgeable about cancer issues.  Those of us who were there got quite a presentation. Very understandable as well, which is one of Dr. Porter’s great gifts.    Next week, featured speaker is Ed Lincoln.  All Seattle veterans remember seeing the big tow truck with the big pink toe.  Remember?  That was Big Ed’s tow truck. Come hear his stories next week.  “Life through the Rear View Mirror.”  Sounds like a good subject for a TV reality series.   We are entering a phase in our Rotary year where we will have lots of community service opportunities. The Big Dictionary project is coming up in Feb.  That is a great experience---handing out those dictionaries to third graders.  If you want to be in on this, approach one of the captains. There are 9 of them.    We will be having our Rotary First Harvest work party in March (March 12), and our Food Lifeline work party in April (April 16).    These are high level experiences where those who participate feel at a deep level what it means to be of service to those in need.   Have a great week.     Consider, please, joining other Woodinville Rotarians at the annual District conference in Portland later this spring -- April 29, 30 and May 1 to be exact.