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October 18

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From the Desk of Rotary Reporter Al Marsh

Meeting of October 11

FLASH: it was announced that Larry Duffield suffered a heart attack while visiting in Arizona. Apparently he was rushed to emergency, where one or more stents were placed. We are told that he is recovering. More later....

Meeting - brought to order by Past-Prez Erv DeSmet, who demonstrated no diminution of his powers by leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Invocation - was given by Gaylen Suave.

Song – “Teach Your Children Well”, which, judging by the response at my table and notwithstanding it’s fine message, apparently never happened. Nice song, tho’, Crimson!

Guests:

Norm Noble, who, in turn, brought along A.J. Fernandez.

Mario Acosta, recently named Asst. Fire Chief of the Woodinville Fire and Life Safety.

And....

Melinda Booth, of the Mercer Island Lunch-a-Bunch Rotary. Who also was our speaker. Melinda, introduced by Alex Hopkins, described the newly formatted Rotary International“5^th Avenue of Service”, which is a push by the organization to interest and involve youth of the world, ages 12-30, in the ideas and benefits of Rotary. This, it is hoped, will not only generate future Rotarians, but will serve youth and develop exchanges which will encourage peaceful cooperation throughout the world.

There are several ways by which to encourage youthful activities:

· Rotary Interact- ages 12-18 - at the jr. high and high school levels

· Rotaract – ages 19-30

· Rotary Youth Exchange – our own Pauline Robin is a current example

· RYLA – usually high school students ages 15-18

Rotary International hopes that each Rotary club will actively search out ways of involving youth in their communities. Currently, our own club is already very active in Youth Exchange and RYLA.

Developing an Interact club would involve identifying advisors, preferably from the schools themselves. Interact clubs have their own boards of directors and typically meet either weekly or bi-weekly. They are encouraged to identify and work on one local community project and one international project. Interact clubs should be strongly encouraged by their parent Rotary clubs to visit and participate where possible in local and district Rotary meetings.

Guest Prez Erv DeSmet thanked Melinda for her message

Josh the Otter made a surprise appearance to add emphasis to Steve Dolan’s description of this new program. Named for Josh Collingsworth, a 4-year-old lad who drowned in a backyard pool, the program is targeted at elementary school children, to alert them to the dangers of being around water when unattended by adults.

Pauline – enjoyed shopping! Sushi! Auction! Flacons winning! She will be overseeing a French dinner as one of the auction prizes. Bo appétit, et nous savons maintenant ou diner, n’est-ce pas?

Auction – President John asks that each club member come to next week’s meeting with critique of what went right – and wrong? – with this year’s auction. He also gave kudos to tis year’s auction committee - about half the room, for their efforts this year.

Max’s Excellent Adventure, Part the Second: when last we saw Maximus, he was wandering the grape vineyards of eastern WA, where he joined the Othello Rotary Club in 1983. In 1986, he joined the Columbia Winery here in Woodinville, and seeing real difficulties in trying to commute to Othello weekly, transferred into our very own Woodinville Rotary. The club benefitted immediately, as the Columbia Winery became our home for a number of years. In 1998 Max ascended to the Presidency of the winery. However, in 2000 the winery was sold off of the parent company, and Max once again went to the fields as director of vineyard development. Max reports that harvest this year has finally begun in eastern WA. The harvest was delayed by the cool weather this year, but Max assures us that the quality will be good.

Max says that Rotary has kept him grounded through both good and “stormy” times.

B-Day: Gary Whitsell. Has a new grandbaby. Auction was great. ‘Nuff said.

October 17: Hopelink luncheon. Probably still room. Contact Jorge Gonzalez.

October 18: Rotary board meeting at Brittany Park

October 25: our club meeting wil be at the new Woodinville High School. And, it will begin at 0730 hrs. This because of the as yet confused parking arrangements. Watch for signs. Pay attention!

Da Sarge

Happy $’s: - Gregg Riggs, whose son wanders Peru, and reports via Skype that Machu Pichu is still there and all is well with the World As He Knows It.

- Erv DeSmet, who fails to note the dubiousness of the honor of having his name posted in public for the next year next to Hizzoner Snappy.

- Sir Doc the Past, whose daughter has formally passed into the ranks of the medical profession’s nurse’s corps.....And has had two job interviews!!

- George Phelps - $2 for deeds which went unrecorded by this humble reporter. But George is happy. So there.

- Standing Ovation for Vicki Puckett, whose decorations for the auction were very pleasing

Da Marble

So, would you invite the Marble Meister himself to draw the winning ticket? Erv did. And guess which winning ticket the Meister pulled? Go figure. Some small solice...the white (clear?)(whatever?) marble escaped even the Meister’s clutches, to the tune of $325....

The end!

--- Al Marsh

Marbleman Max draws own number and a black marble