Soundings (9/13/05)
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* Member donations to Katina Hurricane relief come to exactly $10,000, which the club will match for a total gift of $20,000 to Red Cross. A press release was sent to the Bellingham Herald.
*Grape and Gourmet: This Wednesday the wine committee meets (venue/time TBA), and the committee chairs will meet next Wednesday (venue/time TBA).
*Orphalee gave update on upcoming speakers, needs a head-count for tour of GP on October 4th.
*Tournament for the Children (Thursday Sept. 22, 11:30AM registration, 1PM start, $100 fee), Steve Brummel announced that we have good sponsorships, but we still need people to sign up to play! See sign up sheet on Website (homepage, lower right side).
Flag Salute and Invocation by Brad Cornwall.
Bucks in the Bay
Tim McEvoy - $500 to Katrina relief, two of his Southern friends were in the thick of it;
Phil X - $120 and wife's success with "diaper drive" for Katrina relief: over $14,000 worth of formula and diapers donated;
Steve Brummel - birthday, $1,000 for charity raised at football game;
Dave Nichols - polyp-free colonoscopy!
Cy Lindberg - a week at Bob Tull's on Orcas Island, recently left Wells Fargo;
Tonja Myers - Thanks for Rotario dinner, St. Francis doing clothing and blanket drive, husband Rob has new CD with proceeds to charity;
Art Runestrand - Bellingham Technical College expansion thanks to Morse family;
Chuck Walter - all his football teams lost, an oral surgeon friend from Gulf area lost everything and will be relocating from Mississippi for good;
Donna Edquist - missed meetings and birthday bucks;
Brent Walker - Birthday bucks and boating with Dave Ennen in Barkley Sound;
Anna Williams - Katrina fund, thanks for great Rotario dinner at Sarah and Pete's mom's house;
Patti Imhof - missed meetings, boating, and $3,000 from Imhof to relief funds;
Bonnie - suggests clearing out the cupboards on boats and RV's as donations for relief effort;
Shannon Terrill - friends lost houses in Alabama, and Brooks Manufacturing has sent 44 truckloads of crossarms already for rebuilding in South;
Dick Stark - a week in San Juans, youngest daughter getting married next week by Rev. Nichols;
Steve Kimberly - same boat trip as Patti;
Ron Hardesty - missed last weekend's Rotario dinner to spend time Roche Harbor on Eddie's boat;
Dave Ennen - Katrina relief effort and son's birthday (?);
Stew Ellison - Merrill Lynch contributing big to the relief effort;
Chuck Olson - $ for Katrina relief Stan Dyer - $ for Katrina relief.
TOTAL RAISED: $4,000+!
Program
Bill Unrein introduced District Governor Harv Jubie, who is making his rounds to all the clubs in District 5050. Harv is from the Marysville club, owns an electrical contracting business, has 3 daughters and 4 grandchildren. He has been involved in school building project in Guatemala, and many local projects as well. He received the "Four Avenues of Service" award.
Rotary International goals for the coming year: Clean water, health and literacy. Last year District 5050 clubs gave over $550,000 to the Rotary Foundation. District membership is just under 3,000 people, and the goal is to increase that.
Harv talked about the Guatemala school-building project in which he was involved. The project was put together through the organization "Hands for PeaceMaking". On Harv's trip they built a modest school 20 x 24 feet. Typically rural people go to school only until 5th grade.
Harv and Bob Morse awarded a "Hands On" award to the team from our club (Dick Stark, Stan Dyer, Bill Unrein, Terry Beardsley, and Roger Long) who assembled playground equip that our club had purchased at the Whatcom Center for Early Learning.
The 2006 District Conference will be a joint presentation by Districts 5040 and 5050. The event will be held in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia about May 18-21, 2006. The Rotary International Annual Convention will take place in Malmö, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark from 11⿢14 June 2006.
Harv donated $75 to the Wheeelchair Foundation, which will be matched by $75 from our club.
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot