Soundings (11/24/09)
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Flag Salute and Invocation by Frank Chmelik
Visiting Rotarians: Jeanie McGee
Guests: Lance's son Hunter, John Sleeth's friend Glen (owner of new UPS store), Dan Pike's daughter Robin, and Harold Scott introduced "Student of the Month" Meagan Dooley, her parents Shawn and Kathy, her grandparent's Allen and Jean Peters.
Announcements:
• Lance Calloway– 4 more spaces for Rotario dinner on December 5th.
• Tonya Myers – We raised $3,238 last week, with now over $104K total in our foundation.
• Harold Scott introduced Meagan Dooley as Student of the Month. Meagan has a passion for choir and has volunteered over 500 hours. She also coach's volleyball at Shuksan, teaches Sunday school, and has directed the Christmas pageant. She's involved in the freshman mentoring program. Her grandfather Allen Peters, a Rotarian in Corvalis OR, awarded Meagan with the Paul Harris Fellow award.
Bucks in the Bay
• Tonya Myers – Great weekend with kids.
• Brad Cornwall – Bucks for Dooley family as well as for University of Oregon football.
• Stephanie Sadler – St. Paul's academy for verbal agreement of a construction loan.
• Brent Walker – Bucks on behalf of Club for raising over $4,400 over the past week.
• Stew Ellison – For trip to Mexico, Honduras and Belize.
• Mike Kirkland – Thanking everyone for a successful Hospice auction.
• Dan Pike – Missed meetings and "theatre" at last night's city council meeting.
• Harte Bressler - $100 to club. Missed two months. Doctor gave him clean bill of health. About another 4 to 6 months before he can start climbing again. Thanked everyone for their warm wishes in his recover.
• Glenn Kronig – Recently bought a UPS store. Son is a fellow Rotarian.
• Frank Chmelik – Great Hospice Auction. Unsure whether Patti Imhof's auction item was "Exotic Game" or "Erotic Game". $2 for son winning a 20 lbs turkey in the Kulshan Turkey Truck competition. Younger son won 21 lbs turkey previous years.
Sergeant at Arms by Patti Imhof • $1 for whomever bough Sarah Palin's book. • $1 for Oregon State fans. • Dan Pike - $1 because could guess who was entertaining at State Dinner at the White House. • Barry Kramer - $1 for not oiling gun often enough. • $2 to whoever wasn't listed as having 1 of the 10 most stressful jobs. • $1 to the individual tables who's "tech" representative couldn't guess what is 1 of the 10 most influentional aspects on the internet.
Program
Mayor of Ferndale Gary Jensen, currently at the end of his 2nd term. Challenging for him and others when transitioning from a small business owner (private sector) to public office. Trying to set goals every year. New attitude in terms of how Government operates. How to do things different or better, i.e. new plan to give responses to people within 24 hours from when they apply for a permit, send status updates of their projects for developers and/or the permit process, new attitude operating processes in government.
Person in charge of law enforcement ceremonies in California, Oregon and Washington informed him that they have not seen as much patriotism/support as he did for the Ferndale Officer who recently passed away.
Questions:
o John Templeton – Regarding lower impact fees?
o Bob Tull – Did Ferndale have certain requirements that needed to be met when building in the downtown area i.e. residential units above commercial retail/office spaces? Gary said yes but that they were revisiting some of thos requirements.
o Brent Walker – Is new change in building department permeating to other departments in Ferndale City govt? Gary said he hopes so.
o Ray George saidthat Ferndale planing dept. told him it would take 6 to 8 weeks to obtain a permit for a sign.
o Mimi Ferlin – Wasn't able to obtain permit for a double wide mobile home.
o Question regarding Walmart in Ferndale? Yes, there has been some informal discussions about this.
Respectfully submitted,
Henry Lee