Soundings (5/26/09)
New Member Applications: The Membership Committee, headed by Jim McCallum, has approved the membership of three candidates, and this Membership Committee's action was also unanimously approved by the Board of Directors on 14 May 2009. These candidates are:
- Christopher White, Account Executive with Snapper Shuler Kenner (Insurance), sponsor is Robert Moles;
- Aaron Lemperes, Dentist, sponsor is Curt Smith; and
- Henry Lee, Commercial Loan Officer with Skagit Bank, sponsor is Stan Dyer.
These names will be published in The Soundings twice, and if there is any member who feels that any one of these candidates should not be a member of Bellingham Bay Rotary, a signed letter must be forwarded to the Board of Directors, explaining why the candidate(s) should not be a member.
Guests: Pat Rowe, Aaron Lemperes.
Visting Rotarians: Ann Jones
Announcements
Denise Bosman is our new head of Bellingham Bay Foundation, which will start spinning off money as soon as we reach $100K. She said we currently donate 10% of all current fundraiser activities go into Foundation. May have future fundraisers associated with this. We now have about $70K. We will have a "new board" party July 7th at 6pm at Boxx Farms with spouses, with silent auction. We are looking for ideas! We'd like to raise about $5K.
Stephanie Sadler says the next Rotario dinner June 13th $80/person 10 guests total.
Zach says tickets now on sale for Brewers on the Bay!
Student of the Month by Scotty
Parents Stark and Pam Follis accompanied their daughter Nicola who was this month's SOM. Terry White introduced Nicola, who is an amazing scholar-athlete: 4.0 GPA student AND lettered in basketball, fast-pitch and volleyball. She participated in mentoring for freshman. Nicola talked about her many volunteer programs. She received a scholarship to UW and plans to study fisheries biology. She was elected as Squalicum's graduation speaker!
Bucks in the Bay
Bill Gorman's son passed his driving test with a perfect 100!
Tonja $25 for missed meetings, proud of daughter who graduated in AK recently and moving to Bellingham, biz trip to Arkansas glad to be home;
Stan Dyer says only Larry A and Bill G answered his trivia correctly;
Gordon Plume says Memorial Day weekend always special because of company's Ski-to-Sea team, AND his son finally granduated from the architecture program at Cal-Poly;
Steve Beringer had a 50th birthday and managed to finish the canoe leg without a seat!
Anna says the Sun God came through for Ski-to-Sea this year! She sold 70 kegs of beer!
Dick Stark served near DC in army back in the late 50's, very special holiday;
Ron Hardesty agrees that Memorial Day is a special holiday - bitterseet - this year was spent at Hovander Park with flyover and touching ceremony;
John Templeton had a family/friend gathering on Sunday, daughter-in-law graduated summa cum laude from Seattle U Law School;
Jim Johnson spent a couple weeks in Palm Springs, San Diego, San Jose, new grandchild, glad to be home.
Sergeant at Ams by Bill Unrein
Fines for Dave Ennan, Bill Gorman, John Templeton, Ski-to-Sea non-participants, Scotty and Dick, Mimi, Hardesty, bankers, Dunae McNett and Gary Barnett DON'T have Email address?! Phil X.
Program
Eddie Hanson talked about back health. How healthy as we as a country? US only ranks 25th in the world for health! Because of diet and lifestyle. Losing our health, in turn, affects our lifetyle.
When you eat, stay away from chemicals! Eat natural and well. More whole foods, more plants. When you shop at the grocery store, buy the food around the edges, don't shop in the middle. Excersize is a must; minimum 30 minutes 3 x week. Stretch also important. Proper lifting. Ergonomic worktations.
Eddie does lectures for the workplace!
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot