Soundings 3/7/06
Visiting Rotarians: Duane Rogge, Pat Foley.
Guests : Erika Keller, Robin Ross, Ruby Smith.
Announcements
Rotario Dinner at Tim McEvoy's on St. Patrick's Day.
Eddie Hansen: Fellowship evening event is filled; estimated cost will be about $30 for dinner, $32.50 per MBT ticket.
John Hulbert: Tournament for the Children will take place April 27th (Thursday) at Bellingham Golf and County Club, 1:30pm shotgun start, 18-hole scramble, with BBQ after. Look for the flyer next week, need 25 foursomes (100 golfers total) at $100 each. John, please post this on the Website!
Ron Hardesty: Centennial work party this Saturday at 9am at Gordon Plume's facility to work on the gateway.
Art Runestrandt: Habitat for Humanity will have two work parties this Wednesday and Thursday in Kendal. Then, it will host a two-day "house raising" building blitz on March 31-April 1 (Sat-Sun) for the same house. See Art for details.
Barry Lester from Sunrise Rotary presented our club with a check for $1500 for the Pure Water project. Thanks Barry!
New Member Inductions:
Mike Kirkland introduced Susan Radonski-Anglada, manager of the Barkley branch of Bank of the Pacific.
Ed Zech introduced Matt Groenig, director of the medical group at St. Josephs Hospital.
Congratulations Susan and Matt, and welcome to the club!
Bucks in the Bay
Bill â¿¢ for the new members, for the Centennial project finally being realized;
Robin Schmidt â¿¢ see the flier for Boys and Girls Club auction, and for 3 days in Olympia;
Dale Holt â¿¢ for three weeks on the Big Island;
Bill Boyd â¿¢ congratulations to the Squalicum High School band teacher, Ed George, for his team's first place finish at a recent jazz festival in Auburn;
Curt Smith â¿¢ for a successful trip to Honduras, impressed that Pure Water has produced over 6,000 filters already in 12 locations around the country;
Ron Hardesty ⿢ for the fun of playing with his brother at the Green Frog café;
John Templeton â¿¢ for missed meeting due to three weeks on Kauai on honeymoon!
Duane Rogge â¿¢ invite everyone to attend upcoming "Whatcom Friends of Boy Scouts Luncheon" April 6th at noon at Christ the King Church on Meridian.
Sergeant at Arms by Bryant Engerbretson
"Have You Fired Someone lately" book by Bob Pritchett, Bob Yost, women's table, Dale Holt's lack of suntan, Matt Groenig, Ed Zech's Poerpoint skills, Frank Zurline.
Program
Steve Brummel introduced Robin Ross, the new head football coach at WWU. Robin has over 30 years as a coach. Started here on Dec. 15th and immediately hired his nine assistant coaches. Robin also started the recruiting effort that has focused on finding players with top running speed. He showed us some highlight video clips of some young talent that will be coming to WWU for next season. Robin is excited about the new crop of players. WWU will be playing in the North Central Conference, much tougher than the Columbia Conference it played in last season.
Respectfully Submitted,
Stowe Talbot