News for Members and Friends
of Greater Woodinville Rotary Club
 

Tuesday, Feb. 15 meeting

   We are back AT THE GRANGE

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Feb. 17 Open House Invite from Evergreen Healthcare: Rotarians are invited to the special opening and preview reception for Evergreen Medical Center - Woodinville, a  new primary and urgent care facility in Woodinville. 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday with brief program at 6 p.m. The multi-story building is located at 16916 140th Ave. NE. The new center will be open for business Feb. 21.

New Woodinville Rotary office established: President Erv DeSmet and President-elect John Hughes announce the appointment of the club's first "CEO of Social Mischief", a member whose responsibility will be to oversee special, non-traditional meetings and social events for the club. The first events to fall in this category will occur in April. Other non-traditional meetings -- i.e. not the regular Tuesday morning business and information meetings -- will include the annual officer and director induction dinner in June, the summer family picnic, holiday party, charter night and others. Vice President-elect Eric Greenwood has been tapped to serve as the first CEO. He reportedly has already begun lining up "social directors" for the various events to be scheduled.

 Auction-Charity Event Theme for 2011: The steering committee met Feb. 8 and established Oktoberfest as the theme for our 21st annual fundraising Charity Event. Circle your calendars for October 8.
     A special kickoff for auction item procurement and audience development is tentatively set for the night of April 1st. Details later.

Reporter STILL sought: The Newsletter staff is in need of another Reporter to assist in the chronicling of the club's meetings. Please advise the president or Hugo if you would be willing to give it a try. The Reporters presently include John Abbott, Becky Clark, Jorge Gonzalez, Eric Greenwood, Larry Leonardson, Al Marsh, Cherry Tinker (on leave of absence) and Susan Webster.

 waiting for Reporter volunteer!

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.

 

Erv's Presidential Recap Posted February 11   What a great meeting we had this morning (Feb 8). We saw for ourselves what an impact our support of the Music Project has had on young people.    Going to sites in the community is a great thing to do.  When Paul Harris started Rotary over 100 years ago,  that is how they did it.  Rotating from one business location to the next to the next, getting to know people in the club. By the way, how many people got lost?  We had lots of members there at the site.    So---good work for everyone who helped with this meeting.   Dictionary distributions are now in full swing.  The third graders will appreciate them. We know that from past distributions.   Next week---hear the stories of three of our veteran Rotarians, Joe Truglio, David Landau, and Larry Duffield.  Classification talk time.   These talks are a special way of learning about our Rotarian friends in a much deeper way than just having breakfast on Tuesday mornings. Who can ever forget hearing Tana Baumler describe how she, as the only girl in her family growing up in Montana, going out on her first deer hunt and impressing her brothers with skills.  Things like that.  See you next Tuesday.    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. Registered from Woodinville Rotary to date: George Phillips Terry Jarvis Erv DeSmet Steve Dolan John Hughes Max Zellweger