Larry covers the oven

Breakfast Burritos. How could you start off with a better, more nutritious meal for all you service-oriented, fun-loving subjects of president Erv. Let’s get started!

Gary Whitsell reminded us again of the breath of service of Rotarians all over the world. And Boland led us in a song we finally could remember to sing both the tune and the words. Got us all Feeling Groovy.

Dainty Grace Yeung, accompanied by her mother Pauline, was present to tell us about the Waitabu Village bread oven which was built with the help of Woodinville Rotary. Grace was in the Peace Corps on the Fijian island of Taveuni providing advice on business procedures to the locals but also doing whatever she could to help, including teaching kindergarten. She challenged the women of the village to think big, to come up with a project they could not otherwise dream of accomplishing. They decided they needed a bread oven to make bread for themselves but also to make money to pay for the education of the children of the village. Grace emailed John Abbott who brought the project to us. The villagers wanted $250 but the board refused to give that to them and sent $500 instead.

Grace went to work. First was a feasibility study. She found a design for a bread oven; bought drums to form the oven. She utilized the skills of the villagers to excavate and build a foundation and found a man who welded the chimney. The entire village celebrated the completed oven which, by the way, worked! They now have pizza in Waitabu Village.

A “board” was established to operate the oven, set rules, train people to use the oven and set prices. Grace says the Rotary money was used to help build a roof to cover the oven.

Vinaka Vakakevu. Thanks to Rotary from Grace and from the Villagers. And thanks to Grace for her vision and commitment to Fiji and to John for bringing their needs to our attention. All of this was completed in the aftermath of a cyclone which blew through Waitabu Village in March. The Villagers thought the oven was a large enough need to complete the project even while cleaning up.

Rorry gave his procurement speech. Yada, yada, yada. I think we all have heard it but wouldn’t he be surprised if someone actually got their forms in early (8/1/10). Let’s see who wants to really help our hard working procurement team.

Linda says we have more captains for our tables but we need lots more. 18 going on 30. Maybe you can work with someone to split a table if a full table seems too much to bite off. Ok. That’s good. But let’s identify attendees and get the tables planned before the committee starts to foam at the mouth.ind

Pam says we are getting some resistance from wineries who feel overwhelmed with charity requests. But aren’t we special?

Larry says he still need a host family for August thru December but really needs help in August to pick up our new Swiss student at the airport, register him for school at Woodinville and host for a few weeks until Duffield returns from AWOL. Takers?

Roger Stark gave a little history of how the initial members were recruited to Rotary and how we came to be a service organization. Today we do it somewhat differently. We use the seven “I”s , well really six “I”s and one “E”.

Identify possible members;

Introduce prospects to other Rotarians and tell them about Rotary;

Invite them to meet with some Rotarians;

Induction- make it fairly formal with a chance to meet all Rotarians, do a classification talk, provide Rotary info;

Inform them about Rotary; Woodinville Rotary has its own brochure for example;

Involve them in Rotary projects and activities so they actually feel like real members; and

Educate them; provide the Declaration of Rotary which tells them what a Rotarian is and can be proudly displayed in their business location.

Roger also talked about the new Bylaws governing new membership and our process:

Identify a prospect;

Submit the name to the Board;

The board will investigate the prospect and give preliminary approval (up to 30 days);

Publish the prospects name in our newsletter (seven days for a member to post an objection to the prospect);

Give the prospect Rotary info;

Offer membership to the prospect.

Maintaining membership is hard; members do have to leave the club for lots of reasons, most of which do not involve a lack of interest in our goals or efforts. But they need to be replaced so we need more members every year just to sustain ourselves.

Sgt Boland was lenient and an easy touch. The Mayor and Lynnwood Joe both celebrated (experienced? faced?) birthdays on 7/19. Terry wants to start a “7/10ths Century Club”. Joe is enjoying a government sponsored downsizing plan. Grandkids are great but when they stayed for 10 days it was about 9 days too long.

Grace, Ignacio and Abbott all got fine Waivers for good deeds. Al Marsh got one too for agreeing to sponsor two tables at the auction. Thanks Al for your good work!

Tana was proud of her kids who took on the job of working the Bite of Seattle this past weekend and winning the Best Dessert category. Daughter Tessa also was selected Employee of the month at Boeing; no small task! Congrats Mom T.

Rorry has room for 6 people to go on his annual Peru mission to help the medical team and the village of Couscous. $3000 gets you a one-week working vacation plus a three-day side trip to Machu Pichu. November 13-25. You could not go to MP alone for that price. It’s a steal! And you could hide out for most of the workweek like Rorry.

White marble drawing:: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL by Duffield.

Vinaka Vakalevu

Leonardson

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