Bellevue Rotary Club, Bellevue, WA
WEEKLY BULLETIN
JANUARY 9, 2006
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Bob Ward, Annual Auction | From the Holiday Program | Be a Part of the Highly Successful Bellevue Rotary Mentor Team! | Rotary Cross Country Ski Event | Special Olympics Ski Competition at Snoqualmie Pass | Kathmandu School of Deaf Visit on December 27 | Enjoy a Wine Tour on the Way to the 2007 District 5030 Conference! | New Orleans Reconstruction Project | Bellevue Rotary Forest Explorers Program, Lake Hills Elementary 2nd Graders | Rotarians Doing Business with Rotarians
THIS WEEK AT THE BRC
NEWEST RED BADGE
MEMBER(S)
Keith Folz
Ev Stitz
Paul Dressel
Craig Hendrickson
GREETERS
Mike Thrall
David Miniken
BACK TABLE DUTY
Peter Hammett
Lourdes Tsukada
CLUB MAILING ADDRESS:
Laurie Larson
Club Administrator
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009
bellevuerotary@seanet.com
Ph 425 451-3819
Fax 425 451-8025
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Bill McCaughey, 01/03
Troy Roper, 01/05
Andy Barlass, 01/06
Grant Ringel, 01/09
Debbie Acton, 01/11
Mike Schaefer, 01/18
Jim Montgomery, 01/21
Phyllis Foro, 01/23
Geri Lucks, 01/23
Pete Swindley, 01/25
Roxanne Shepherd, 01/28
Steve Hopp, 01/30
Classification Report: “Banking” classification is currently full.
Bellevue Rotary Foundation’s 2007 Auction Kick-Off!
Bob Ward
From the Holiday Program
Photos courtesy of Rob Rose
Mother Nature did her best (or worst) to put a damper on the Holiday Program, but stalwart BRC members persevered. The Clyde Hill Elementary School Choir was to have performed, under the guidance of Director Steve Holmberg. As last-minute replacements, Newport Jazz Group performers Erika Price and Yong Kim, from Newport High School, provided outstanding entertainment for the gathering.
Laurie Larson, BRC member and Club Administrator, was recognized by President John at the Holiday Program for her excellent service to the club over the past year. Laurie keeps the club running along smoothly and does it with style and grace and her ever-present smile. The entire BRC membership appreciates her many contributions, and, in thanks, she was presented a gift certificate to Daniel's Broiler. We hope she has a great time!
Be a Part of the Highly Successful
Bellevue Rotary Mentor Team!
Katherine Thompson
Six Rotary mentors are needed for Winter quarter classes at BCC beginning January 10. Contact
(Ph 425-455-2555) for information about this terrific hands-on Rotary project.
Businesses apply through the Bellevue Entrepreneur Center for participation in the consulting project. They are carefully screened to ensure that they have a project that is appropriate for the student team to work. Each student team of 5 or 6 is paired with two Rotary mentors and one business. The consulting project must have some "deliverable" and the students make a presentation to the class at the end of the quarter. The Rotary mentor's role is to provide a real world perspective and to keep the students focused on an achievable product.
Time required is 8-10 hours over the course of the 10 week quarter. This project, now it it's third year, has received very positive reviews from Rotarians, students and the business owners.
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Rotary Cross Country Ski Event
Jim Price
Join fellow Rotarians on Saturday, January 20, for cross country skiing near Cle Elum. The skill level will be from beginner to more challenging. We will warm up in Jim Hebert’s lodge near Salmon LaSac. Contact
(Ph 425-453-9292 x110) for further details.
Special Olympics Ski Competition at Snoqualmie Pass
Tom Eckhart
This year's annual Special Olympics Ski Competition will be held February 10 at Snoqualmie Pass. Please mark this date on your calendars. We have had great support for this event in the past, and I hope you can come this year. More information will be forthcoming. If you have questions, please
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Kathmandu School of Deaf Visit on December 27
A recent email from the President of the Rotaract Club of Patan
Dear Rotarians and Rotaractors,
This is to inform that Rotaract Club of Patan and Rotaract Club of Dillibazar Visited Kathmandu School of Deaf on 27th Dec 2006.
Rotaract club of Patan has been school administering at Kathmandu School of Deaf for 11 Scholorship Student by Rose International Fund for Children (Rtn Robert Rose, Rotary Club of Bellevue, Washington USA).
All together 25 Rotaractors from RC Patan and RC Dillibazar and one Rotaractors from South Brisbane, Australia with DRR (E) Rtr Anil Shrestha and DD Inernational Rtr. Shrwan K Shrestha Visited Deaf Blind Unit, Interaction with 11 Scholoship Students, Handed over games materials to School, Interact with student of Class 6 and make then write in form of picture or written about their dream in their life and had lunch prepared by School student.
After visiting the school one of rotaractor expressed his emotion and i have tried to attached along with this email below. Please read, feel it ...
Rtr. Yugal Bajracharya
President, Rotaract Club Patan
www.rcpatan.com and www.hearnepal.org (website for Kathmandu school of deaf)
Enjoy a Wine Tour on the Way to the 2007 District 5030 Conference!
Northgate Transit Center, 8:00AM
OR
Issaquah Park and Ride, 9:00AM
Arrive The Coeur d'Alene Resort, 6:00PM
Return departure from Coeur d'Alene at 1:00PM on April 22
Arrive Issaquah Park and Ride, 7:00PM
OR
Northgate Transit Center, 8:00PM
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Tour price includes:
* Round trip Deluxe Motorcoach Transportation
* Wine Country Concierge Service
* Tour of 2 Wineries
* Expertise of Washington Wine Tour Guide
* Maps and other visuals
* Lunch and Snacks in route to Coeur d'Alene
* Fun and Fellowship with other Rotarians!
$135.00 Per person
Limited space! Reserve your seat by downloading this registration form and sending it in to the District Office today!
New Orleans Reconstruction Project
April 14-22, 2007
Peter Kalunian
You are invited to be a member of a medical and construction team to assist in the reconstruction of New Orleans. Participants will stay at the St. Paul’s Homecoming Center, New Orleans, which can house 25 volunteers and includes a full kitchen. The construction team will meet daily at a central location and will be divided into work crews.
Each crew will be under the direction of a local crew chief. The medical team (R.N.,M.D.,APRN) will be part of the St. Anna’s Mobile Medical Mission and will provide basic medical examinations and care. One person also is needed to be head cook. The remaining members of the team will assist in setting up and cleaning after meals.
Cost per person: air fare ($300+), food needed for meals (approx. $100) and rental vehicles and gas for ground transportation ($75). Lodging is free but a donation will be appreciated. More information is available at www.edola.org, click on “volunteer resources.” If interested, or if you need more information, please contact
(Ph 206-854-0612). The team will be limited to the first 25 people who apply.
Bellevue Rotary Forest Explorers Program
Lake Hills Elementary 2nd Graders
Peter Wang, Chairman, Community Grants Committee
Four classes of the 2nd Graders from Lake Hills Elementary School, BSD, attended the Forest Explorers program at the Woodland Park Zoo this fall, courtesy of Bellevue Rotary Community Grants. The Forest Explorers program presents the students an opportunity to experience first-hand the differences between tropic and temperate rain forests and the effect that they have on our environment.
The students and teachers from these classes have expressed their appreciation by sending us 79 original masterpieces of thank-you pictures and drawings. These wonderfully drawn thank you pictures are being displayed with Club Administrator for all to enjoy.
Here are some of the many wonderful comments from Mrs. McClanahan, Ms. Okawa, Ms. Tzucker’s classes and the fabulous writers of Room 111:
Amazing hands-on experience …
My favorite is a gorilla because the gorilla was picking it’s nose.
I saw a funny looking squirrel, a jaguar and a fat white owl …
I learned about the temperate rain fores t…
The live jaguar — that is our school mascot.
We learned the four layers of the forest …
Amazing … so cool … thank you …
Really appreciated that you let us go …
Great learning experience and appreciate your wonderful gift to us!
It was a real live jaguar! I love zoos.
And the penguins and peacock too.
I learned that the forest floor has bugs that eat the leaves and poop the soil out.
I love going to the zoo. I never been to zoo.
The bats make me scream, I jumped …
I learned about the monkeys, the ones with the beards.
Rotarians Doing Business with Rotarians
Our District Governor, Mike Montgomery, is encouraging all Rotarians to do business with fellow Rotarians, both club-wide and district-wide. One way we have done this is to ask Mike Schaeffer, our Sergeant of Arms, to have members recognized by not only their profession, but by their company name as well. He has done a great job to raise awareness of the different professions within our club.
Remember that our membership is comprised of people of high standards who are encouraged to follow the Rotarian Four Way Test. This 24-word test for employers and employees to follow in their business and professional lives is the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company. It asks the following four questions:
Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?