Soundings (7/22/08)
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Visiting Rotarians: Ray George (What North), Brad Burdick (Big Club), John Moles (Big Club)
Guests: Steve Spitzer's wife Rita, Karen Haggen (Whatcom Hospice Foundation), Heidi Bugbee (St. Francis Childcare).
Announcements:
Next week Brewers on the Bay (2-6pm July 27th); we still need a few more volunteers! Also, we might need a few volunteers 4pm Saturday at Lake Padden to wash the beer glasses if anyone is willing to help.
No meeting next Tuesday 29th!
Please come to the Bellingham Food Bank Ribbon cutting ceremony at 4pm Thursday July 31st (at the Food Bank), everyone is encouraged to attend! Drinks, hamburgers, and hotdogs will be served!
Tonja staff appreciation week now at St Francis, also Shakespeare week - Midsummer Night's Dream production at different venues around town for free!
Orphalee sent out Email dues statements this week! Don't forget!
Frank Chmelik birthday bucks, fishing trip coming up, and thankful for receiving approval for the Bellwether mixed-use project;
Bob Yost for a fun road trip to Idaho;
Jim Johnson Whistler weekend with wife, serious road work going on there
Harte Bressler for three weeks in China, very polluted air in Bejing - he can't imagine how they will conduct the Olympics with such air quality!
Bob Newell last week WA State golf tourney at BGCC, he was the winner in the super seniors by a stroke!
Barry Kramer for trip to Chelan, golf and wine tasting;
Ron Hardesty: ditto with Barry;
Curt Smith thankful bucks for family gathering at his Lummi Is. beach house, while Curt himself gets to stay home!
Sergeant at Arms by Bryant Engebretson
Orphalee and Denise, crab feed, Stowe's Soundings' blunder, Mike, Patti, Ed and Mimi, smoke alarms, bankers, Mike Hammas' lowball Sunset Drive bid, Steve Brummel and water balloon slingshots, Bill Unrein, John Hulbert, Norway's $12/gallon gas, and misc. trivia.
Heidi Bugbee thanked our club for the $ and the volunteer help on a couple projects:
a) Lid for a big sandbox (18' x 12') with help from our club, all day event, kids are now enjoying it;
b) Storage shed remodel, it is already full.
Program
Gary introduced Brad Burdick, director of the Mount Baker Theatre. By the way, Brad thanked our club for selecting his daughter in March as our Student of the Month!
Campaign for the Arts - fundraising for an "Arts District" downtown (new museum, streetscape improvements and MBT remodel phases I and II).
Public Facilities District;
Campaign for the Arts
Both helping fund the new museum.
Now Phase II remodel: completion in Nov 08 electrical heating fire suppression, restore fixtures and add lighting, etc. MBT was originally built as a movie house.
Streetscape improvements
Funding:
1) BWPDF $20 million bonding;
2) Campaign for the Arts $8.6 million. (4.2 endowment, 4 as capital, .4 campaign management)
Museum - construction underway, completion Spring '09, certified LEED silver or gold including a green roof.
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot