Soundings (12/6/05)

Guests
Rob Martin / Julie Johansen
Andy Billingsly of Unity Insurance
Art's granddaughter Sarah Beth Anderson
Christine Zurline

Buck in the Bay
John Templeton - Ate at Big Fat Fish on opening night, then Windermere's open house last week;
John Hulbert - daughter recovered fully, anniversary of her operation.
Eddie - same dinner at Big Fat Fish: Good food!
Steve Brummel - missed meetings, WWU head football coach finally named, Steve will introduce him to our club in January;
Curt Smith - no shots fired at him yet; Nick Silletto, Western choir , Gonzaga-UW basketball game in Seattle;
Patti Imhof - missed meetings, Thanksgiving with Kimberly's;
Curtis Dye - 4 days with mother, pensioner dinner at 100-Mile House???
Gerald - missed meeting while on trip to Houston, on BRAVO channel tonight will have the show that his son Chris worked on in Las Vegas;
Dick Stark - It was fun to experience the Ferdale football team this year;
Pete Rittmueller - daughter (WSU equestrian team) crashed the truck en route from school, everyone is OK;
Ron - Western basketball, and last week birthday at his son's bar, Ron himself is playing there this Sat night;
Chip - Navy beats Army, Notre Dame win, Poinsettia Bowl, 4 Rhodes scholars from Annapolis;
Ed Zech - Navy Game, friend injured in Falluja;
Terry Brown - 2 design awards , daughter's soccer game in Wenachtee Wenatchee the freezing cold;
Matt Rose - Navy victory, secured a babystitter babysitter finally allowed he and wife to take a trip together to CA.

Sergeant at Arms - by Cy Lindberg
Hardersty Hardesty bar, Ken Opplinger TV star, Bryant, Gerald Baron, John Templeton, Anna Big Fat Fish Opening, Terry Brown, Zurlines, Steve Kimberly, Eddie Hansen, Curt Dye, too many Navy commericialscommercials

Program
Rob Martin, chairman of our District Rotary Foundation, spoke about the Foudation and Foundation positive impact around the world. Rob is from the Burlington Club.

But first, Rob presented two Paul Harris Awards:
Ron Hardesty - for his work on the Centennial project and Pure Water for the World;
Frank Zurline, one of our club's charter members, the current membership chair, and a great Rotarian.
Thank you Ron and Frank for all you've for Rotary and our club!

Rob explained that our district is the biggest Foundation money-raiser for the entire Area 23. The Foundation and the progams that programs funds makes a big differnce around difference world.  We watched a short video about the Rotary Foundation and its work internationally: School building, water supply, water distillation, polio vaccination, containerized surgical unit, etc.  These are the types of projects that can make ahuge differnce huge difference lives.

Ron Hardesty reminded us that using matching money we can triple or quadruple the money that we contribute.  In the case of Pure Water for the World, Part 1 will be realized in Trujillo total $174,000. The 2nd grant we'll apply for Copan, smaller, only $100,000 needed.

Please keep Denise Bosman, Bob Rice, and Joel Hile in your thoughts.

Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot

Here's the current schedule for the 12/17 Salvation Army Bell Ringing:

Cost Cutter LAKEWAY:
9-11:00 - Ron Hardesty, Alan Knutsen, Mike Kirkland
11-1:00 - Steve Brummel, Todd Ramsey
1-3:00 - Robin Schmidt, Christine Palmerton
3-5:00 - Stephanie Sadler, Mimi Ferlin

Cost Cutter SUNSET
9:-11:00 - Ed Satushek, Donna Edquist
11-1:00 - Bill Unrein, Art Runestrand
1-3:00 - Gordon Plume, Steve Snodgrass
3-5:00 - Roger Long, Tonya Meyers

Fred Meyer LAKEWAY (South)
9-11:00 - David King, Stan Dyer
11-1:00 - Glendine Barley, Byron Sprague
1-3:00 - Bob Moles, Dale Holt
3-5:00 - Cy Lindberg, Lance Calloway

BACK UP CREW: Scotty Harold (392-3685) Curt Smith (734-1367) Jim McCallum