News for Members and Friends
of Greater Woodinville Rotary Club

We are back at the Grange

Tuesday's Speaker:

Last Call for Saturday NAMI Walk-ers

Our club is really getting behind the Public Awareness Walk for Mental Health to be held at Kirkland's Marina Park this coming Saturday morning ...walking for Team Woodinville Rotary and Team Betsey. Good News. On Monday, NAMI broke its fund-raising record, now totaling $177,000 or 80 per cent of this year's fund-raising goal. The Walk generated $170,000 a year ago in support of the Washington state affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and its 22 state affiliates.

NAMI provides resources and programs for the one in four families who care for
a person living with a serious mental illness -- recoverable, when afforded
adequate treatment and family and community support.

Joe and Suzie Truglio are heading our Rotary walk team. The Captain of Team Betsey, walking in  memory of his aunt, is Bobby Skinner, 14-year-old grandson of the Hughes family. Team Rotary, Team Betsey and Team Remington have already received nearly  $10,000 in donations and pledges. There is still time to register and contribute to Team Woodinville Rotary. Go to this link to donate, click on "Sponsor Me".

http://www.nami.org/namiwalks11/sea/joeandsuzie

For those walking, registration and check in starts at 8 a.m. at Marina Park. First wave
of Walkers takes off down Lake Washington Boulevard at 9:30 a.m.

2011 Walk Chair John Hughes extends appreciation to many, many club members who have been supportive in assisting with this move to a more public venue than Seattle's Magnuson Park....especially Joe and Suzie and Todd Banks, Tana Baumler, Becky Clark and Steve Dolan, all of whom have provided prizes for contests to determine
the best "Awareness" message on signs or team T-shirts. All our Rotarians will
receive the official team shirt when they check in to walk. Joe will have more details at Tuesday's meeting as well as a report on how well Team Remington is doing on behalf
of Marv Workman's grandson and Remington Workman's family.

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Volunteers for May 17 Scholarship Breakfast

Woodinville Rotary will again be handling the serving and cleanup at this
27th annual breakfast honoring our 2011 Scholarship recipients.
Tana Baumler is coordinating volunteers to arrive at the Senior Center at 6:15 a.m., who will help prep the tables with food and coffee and be available to handle the clearing and take down
of tables, chairs etc. after the meeting. Landau's Catering is again handling the breakfast and our club works with the Kiwanis Club of Northshore and NOrthshore Rotary Club to annually stage this heart-warming event. There will be NO meeting at the Grange on
May 17. Please add your name to the signup sheet at this Tuesday's meeting or contact
Tana to let her know you will help.

We will be honoring 79 recipients of scholarships valued at $164,350 with two of our Make a Difference scholarships going to Heidi Schauble and Mea Pen at $7,500 each.

Erv's Presidential Recap Posted May 9 by Our Leader for His Worthy Subjects   NAMI WALK May 14.  This will be a big deal, as we all heard this morning. Lots of excitement and great environment for a very very worthy cause.  It looks like we are going to have a fairly massive presence there.  GOOD FOR US.  This is great. So many good things happened this morning of May 3rd. Thanks to everyone who was there.  Our discussion of the District Conference was very important.  There is so much to Rotary.  The image of the ice berg is accurate.  We see 10% of Rotary at our morning meetings. That 10% is important. There is so much more going on, and it is important for all of us to realize that and to be grateful to be a part of something that is so respected throughout the world.   To repeat one example on this subject of the respect and power that Rotary has in the world involves malaria.  We learned at the District Conference that malaria eradication may be Rotary’s next big world wide project after polio eradication.  We were told that other groups have banded together to move towards malaria eradication.  The Lutherans, the Methodists, the Jews, and the Boy Scouts have formed an alliance to work towards malaria eradication.  Their model is based on Rotary’s work in polio eradication.  In other words, the work that Rotary did and has been continuing to do in the fight to eradicate polio has been so successful, so impressive, so effective, so “everything” that it is considered to be the gold standard by groups trying to join in  the fight to make lives better for the world’s people.    Next year’s District conference will be in Coeur D’Alene.  The dates are April 20-22. Our District conference planners have gotten incredibly favorable rates on rooms, water view, everything.  I hope a lot of us can go to this next conference.  All who go come back changed for the better.  Lots of deeper perceptions are achieved about the magnitude of what Rotary does not only in our local communities but world wide. It is quite an eye opener in a positive way.   And that’s not all.  Coeur D’Alene is Steve Dolan country. As you heard him declare, he will be leading an expedition to the 100 year old Hudson's hamburger place (name please, Steve).  World class hamburgers. I am signed up and ready to go. John Hughes also signed up as did Steve.  Max, did you sign up as well?    Thanks, George Phillips, for your massive amount of gifts for the raffle.  Mystery prizes, ice wine, my goodness. So many raffle items, so little time.    Mayor Jarvis received his citation of marvelousness from Darnell Dimpleclacker for his extraordinary work as Mayor for Life of the Mystical Township of Grace and was notified of his admission into the Hall of Fame for mayors of mystical townships in North America.  He also received his necklace containing bear claws standing for courage and bravery and containing numerous beads each indicating a particular extraordinary achievement by Mayor Jarvis.  I was saddened to hear Mayor Jarvis state that there were fewer beads than the number of his extraordinary achievements.  But by the time he uttered that, I had already given him his citation of marvelousness, and he would not give it back to me.    I also gave Chris Boland a citation of gratitude for sponsoring me 8 years ago.  If Chris had not bothered to invite me to a meeting of Woodinville Rotary 8 years ago, I would not have joined, and my life the last 8 years would have been far less rewarding and meaningful.  That is a reminder to all of us to give people the privilege and honor of joining Woodinville Rotary and have their lives enriched.  Consider inviting a friend or colleague to one of our meetings.    See you this week.