Presidential Changeover

Fifty-four people showed up to celebrate Alan's year as president, and witness the passing of the gavel to Carol.  Wild Ivy (Lulu's) catered a great meal, and the Wenatchee valley Museum & Cultural Center was a wonderful venue for the event.  The POOPs (Past Order of Old Presidents) helped remind people of Alan's year with a Star Wars skit written by Gary Looney.  After all, Alan reminds us all the time that we are the best club in the galaxy.  Gary also put together a PowerPoint that showed Alan from birth to today that played during dinner.

Alan awarded the "Marky" Award to Leonard Noss.  Leonard has been a solid member of our club, and our historian for many years.  He has just undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, and was home resting up.  We phoned him and congratulated him on the speaker phone.  The Marky is given each year in honor of former member/president Mark Anderson, who was big on service and hard work.

Carol introduced the Board of Directors for this year.  They are:
Wayne Massing - Pres-elect
Matt McColm - Vice-pres.
Joanne Rosenthal - Secretary
Jordan Carrell - Treasurer
Taro Masuda - Director
Ted Fukuzawa - Director
Joel McDonald - Director
Tom Hanson - Director

Wayne Massing Attends RI Convention

Club Vice President Wayne Massing presents President Alan with a banner from
the Rotary International Convention in Sydney, Australia.  Wayne spent 4 days at the convention (attended by over 18,000 Rotarians worldwide), and an extra 5 days enjoying the country.  He will give us a report of what he experienced at our July 1 meeting.

Program - Club Visioning

Jim Adamson presented the summary of our club visioning meeting that we participated in on April 29. Members came up with our strengths and attributes, as well as many suggested goals to work on over the next 5 years.  An electronic copy was attached in an email to the members.

Bike Ride

The Century Bike Ride was a success again this year.  About 615 riders participated, and enjoyed the ride.  There were many good comments again, especially regarding the changes at the pit stops.  The food and party atmosphere were a hit.  Only one injury was reported,  Thanks to all who helped make this ride a success.  Financial report will come when expenses are all turned in.
Thank you to Selland Construction for donating all our flagging costs ($2,500).

PJ & Tom getting the signs ready.

Jordan, Lisa, Tana, & Ted at Friday night registration.

Dave, Erik, Alice, Matt, & Alan strategizing before the morning start.

Erin, Kris, Rani, & Lisa registering Saturday riders.

"A drinking club with a riding problem" from Redmond.

Diana Oltman, Carol, Jill, & Matt at the Lake Wenatchee Pit Stop.

Carol getting in good with the Governor.

Kwan with Governor Inslee.

Program - Port of Chelan County

Craig Larson from the Port of Chelan County gave an update on what's going on at the Port District.
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Friendship Exchange

The friendship exchanges in Rotary are when members from one club or district travel to a club or district in another country for the purpose of fellowship.  The Rotary club of Peachland, BC has invited our members to their community to reciprocate for their visit to our area last December.  Though the Peachland group spent most of the time in Leavenworth, couples from our club hosted them for a couple nights.
Peachland, which is located about 4.5 hours north of Wenatchee, sits on the shore of beautiful Lake Okanagan, and is a tourist town in the summer.  The region boasts of its wineries, water sports, hiking and biking, and beautiful scenery.
The dates are July 8-10.  We invite everyone (singles and couples) to come and enjoy the wonderful Canadian hospitality. Carol and I will leave shortly after our Tuesday morning Rotary meeting, and make our way leisurely up to Peachland, stopping for lunch, and to enjoy a winery or two.  We will be hosted by Peachland club members for two nights, and will attend their Rotary club meeting Thursday noon before heading back to Wenatchee.  This will be fun, and we encourage all who can get away to experience this friendship exchange.  Call Jim Adamson (630-8562)

if you are interested, so I can get the numbers to the Peachland club.

Club Awards Presented

Administrative Assistant Governor Richard Riggs presented Alan with two Rotary International club awards.  The Presidential Citation is given by the RI president to clubs that have completed goals and criteria set by the RI president.  The Rotary Club Central Award is given to clubs (presidents) who have recorded their goals and activities in Club Central.  This is an area in "My Rotary" on the RI web site where district and RI officers, and anyone in our club can check out the club's goals and progress.
Way to go Alan, and Sunrise Rotarians.

Garden Progress

Trellises were constructed on May 20
for the beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers.  Now all that's left to do is weed and watch things grow.  We are hoping for a plentiful harvest in order to provide residents of the Bruce Hotel with fresh produce all summer.

Thanks to Christine Huffman for helping design and construct the trellises.  We appreciate Bill McDowell providing the pvc pipe, Patty Rush for providing the bailing twine, and Jim's cousin in Plain for providing the T-posts.  Thanks to Tom Hanson and Rani Sampson who joined Carol, Jim, and Christine to help construct the trellises.  The Master Gardner at the field tonight gave our garden a big thumbs up, and called it "picturesque".                                     (Our first produce presented to the Bruce Hotel staff)

Century Bike Ride

The meeting last week and today were used to finalize plans for our Century Bike Ride this Saturday.  We also had a great social last Saturday, when over 25 members drove the route that will be used by the bikers. Two vans and three cars took us along the 100 mile route.  Alice Thompson gave some history and/or information at each pit stop, and each member drew a card to get the best poker hand at ride's end.  Rani Sampson had the high hand, and Mansour Ravassipour had the low hand.  At the 50 mile turn around at Lake Wenatchee, we enjoyed refreshments before heading back.  We were joined by several other families at Godfathers for pizza when we got back to Wenatchee.  Thanks to Alice, Kathy Hamilton, and Lisa Parks for organizing the social.  It was great fun, and we got to see what the riders will experience from the comfort of our cars.