Soundings (12/9/08)
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Visiting Rotarians: Ann Jones, Bud Peth and DC Morse from the Big Club, Duane Callahan and Myra Howe both from Juneau
Next meeting is the Holiday concert and program December 16th. NO MEETING December 23 and 30th!
Announcements
Reminder that District 5050's first annual Adventures in Leadership event will be held on February 27 to March 1, 2009 (Friday evening to Sunday noon) at Camp Alexandra in White Rock, BC. The cost to the club is $250 per applicant. This is our youth leadership program for high school students. We need applicants in the 10th and 11th Grades (ages 15 - 17)! See the District Website or Stephanie for details.
Stephanie says the next upcoming Rotario dinner will be a "Hunters' Dinner" at the Imhof's (with help from the Ennen's and Baron's) on January 24th. See sign up sheet.
Matt Rose asked everyone to sign-up for Salvation Army bell ringing: Saturday the 20th. See sign-up sheet.
Tonja wants help handing out 17 certificates to the restaurants who participated in Grape & Gourmet.Barry Kramer had a wonderful time on his annual wine tour of Walla Walla, twelve people in all took part;
Anna Williams has some Hospice House merchandice for sale (coffee, chocolate, etc.);
Larry Andreeson always has hope for the Huskies football;
Christine Palmerton is exhausted, back from a CRAZY Michigan trip to visit her sister's chaotic family there;
Tim Krell is a recovering employee, excited for the next stage in his career;
Stephanie Sadler went to Dallas to see granddaughter dance Clarabella in The Nutcracker;
Bon Moles also went on the Walla Walla wine tour
Bill Boyd back from a trip;
Marla Sanger transition bucks: Leaving Peacehealth at end of January for some form of retirement!
Gary Barnett announced that the MBT is up and running after Phase II of remodel work; the acoustics are great and there are many other hidden improvements;
Chuck Olson $ for Tim McEvoy and low oil prices;
Denis Bosman for daughter's BD, a tennis tournament in which she (Denise) made it to the final and held her own again a 14-year old phenom, and also for an amazing State 2A football victory for Lynden!
Sergeant at Arms by Denise Bosman
Fines for Christine P, Bill Boyd for Xmas lights wars, for all who have recently enjoyed warmer climes, Dan Pike, Husky fans, Bob Moles and Gary Barnett
Program
Tim introduced Arunas Oslapas, professor at WWU's Department of Industrial Design. Before WWU, Arunas attended BYU, worked designing furniture (cubicles) and also worked at an architecture firm in Chicago.
When he first moved to WWU, the Department of Industrial design was designing shiny new products from scratch. But now the emphasis is on creating items from recycled products OR products that can be recycled.
Some ideas concocted by him and his students include an electricity generator built into the road system and powered by car tires, an interactive "garbage park" on the site of former landfills, covered bycycle shelters (actually produced on campus), and many other useful household items. Some of the student-made items are on sale at IDEAL, a Bellingham store at 1221 Cornwall Ave.
He and his students worked with Huxley professor Nick Zaferatos on the re-use of shipping containers, designing housing.
He and his department also wrote a book called "The Waterbook" about the growing importance of water as a resource for mankind, and how to purify and/or collect clean water (by gutter downspouts, rain catchments systems, fog catchers, etc.). The book is available online in pdf format at www.wwu.edu/id/resources/WaterBook.pdf. Arunas recently used the book when he went with his students to a small Greek Island to work on a village redevelopment project there. They designed various housing types incorporating sustainable technology and design.
Another design projects they have worked on: Various refuge systems for water disasters (tree huts, floating rafts, etc.) Transitional/interim emergency housing for disaster relief in Bellingham, such as shipping container housing, yerts, simple compact housing systems.
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot
People need to realize that every time they talk about how "fragile" our planet is, it's just like asking outer-space aliens to come invade us.