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.

Challenge Scholars Attend

Our newest Challenge Scholars were here today with their families.  Sophomores Emily Castorena (right, center photo) and Alex Rodriguez Partaleon (left, bottom photo) were introduced to the club by chair Joan Wright.  Senior Angel Hargen (the tall one) was also present.  He is finishing up the school year

and working at Red Robin.  Alan and Joan presented scholarship to two of our graduating challenge scholars at the Wenatchee High School Awards evening on Monday.

Program - Wenatchee Football Club

Erik Holmberg introduced WHS football head coach Scott Devereaux and assistant coach Dave Jagla who talked about the WHS football program and  the new booster group, the Wenatchee Football Club.  The goal is to build the program from youth (ages 8-12), to middle school, and high school.  Some highlights include strength, conditioning and nutrition counselling, developing coaches, and instilling "real men" training with real life skills and character building.  The coaches talked about program expenses, and some of their fundraisers.

Announcements

There will be a club visioning follow-up with Board members and committee chairs sometime this summer to work on specific goals and action plans.  Stay tuned.  Carol thanked the club for participating in the visioning exercise a couple weeks ago with 26 of our members there.

We have over30 people signed up to go on the "Ride the Route" social on May 31.  Spouses welcome, and families can attend the pizza party at Godfathers afterwards.  If you want to go, contact Alice Thompson (670-7000).

June 4th is the Applesox opener.  Bill McDowell has a block of tickets.

June 24 is our presidential changeover dinner at the Wenatchee Valley Museum.  Ivy Wild will be catering. Let's all turn out to congratulate Alan on a great year, and welcome Carol in as the next club president.

Program - Wenatchee Valley Senior Activity Center

Dave Tosch, Executive Director of the WV Senior Activities Center, was joined by Bob & Jean Aldridge (King & Queen of the Senior Center).  They gave a summary of the activities at the Center, ranging from yoga to tours around the US.  Dave discussed the history, of the Center, along with the current structure, and future challenges.
The Senior Center was founded in 1971, and has been in the current building since 1993.  It is a 20,000 square foot building with over 200 parking spaces, and is debt free.

• They serve an average of 100 people for lunch M-F.
• Activities include fitness/exercise, dancing, crafts, games, computer classes, trips, etc.
• They have a thrift shop, which is a big profit center for them.
• Fundraisers through membership, craft fairs, dinners, dances, sponsored events, and bingo.

Program - Club Assembly

President-elect, Carol Adamson, ran the meeting today.  She outlined the committee structure for the coming year, discussed the expectations, and gave members a chance to sign up the the committees they had a passion for.  If you were not there you need to contact her to get on one of the committees listed below (chairs in parenthesis).  Call her at 630-2120, or email her at jcadamson@frontier.com.


Program (Jim Huffman)
Fellowship (Bill McDowell)
Membership [recruitment/retention/education/orientation] (Erin McCool)
Public Relations (Kathy Hamilton)
Service Projects [community/international] (Wayne Massing)
Challenge Scholarship (Joan Wright)
Bike Ride (Matt Eastman)
Small Fundraisers (Gary Looney)
Salisbury Fund (Ron Stephenson)
Rotary Foundation [annual/permanent funds/polio/grants] (Kathy Weafer)
Senior Dinner (Jill Courtney)

Seeds of Love Garden Project

Our community garden is growing.  Trellises will be put up shortly for the beans and tomatoes, and we now have a new Rotary sign.  Everything has been planted, and green things are starting to pop up.  Since much of that green will be weeds, we will be asking members to come to the garden to pull weeds from time to time.  Harvested
crops will be donated to local shelters or others in need of food.