Bellevue Rotary Club, Bellevue, WA
WEEKLY BULLETIN
FEBRUARY 6, 2006
PUBLISHING ITEMS IN THE BULLETIN
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Aaron Adelstein, Executive Director, Built Green,
"Green Building: The New Bragging Rights" | Special Olympics Ski Competition at Snoqualmie Pass | Spring Golf Outing | Camelot at the Fifth Avenue Theater | Nepal Projects - Check Out the Blog! | Register Today for the 2007 District Conference! | 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
THIS WEEK AT THE BRC
GREETERS
Jeff Daggett
George Brace
BACK TABLE DUTY
Alan Fulp
Cecille Schuman
NEWEST RED BADGE
MEMBER(S)
Paul Dressel
Craig Hendrickson
Neily Bissett
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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Byron Piro, 02/03
Dan McDonald, 02/04
Scott East, 02/10
Conrad Lee, 02/10
Steve Sarkozy, 02/16
SanDee Olson-Meyer, 02/21
Jennifer Pineda, 02/21
Mike Creighton, 02/22
Cecille Schuman, 02/23
Leslie Lloyd, 02/25
Frank Young, 02/26
Classification Report: “Banking” and "Financial Services" classifications are currently full.
Aaron Adelstein
Executive Director, Built Green
"Green Building: The New Bragging Rights"
Aaron Adelstein is the Executive Director of the Built Green program of King and Snohomish Counties, a certifier of environmentally friendly single family homes, multi-family units, remodels and developments. Built Green is one of the most successful green building certification programs in the U.S. with more than 200 member builders, 420 member companies and 10,000 projects certified.
It is the fastest growing segment of the building industry and what a recent Newsweek cover called "The Greening of America," a phomenon reaching every corner of the nation. The housing bragging rights of the nineties were characterized by house size, number of garages, and entertainment facilities. With our new collective environmental conscience, the american consumer of today is talking about energy efficiency, recycled products and green roofs. Aaron will talk about a selection of green building projects in our area, and show you why they defy the stereotypes of "green."
Aaron has a masters in environmental policy from the University of Montana, where he specialized in environmental advocacy strategies and trends in the Green Building Movement. He is currently active on the executive committee of the Snohomish County Sustainable Development Task Force, is a member of the Seattle Community College Real Estate Technical Advisory Council, and is a member of the Puget Sound Clean Home Heating Partnership.
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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We have confirmed the date for the Spring Golf Outing: Thursday, June 14, at Trilogy Golf and Country Club, Redmond Ridge. We will be playing a scramble format and have reserved 32 spots on a first come, first served basis. Our first starting time is at 1:30, and the cost will be $95 for golf, balls, 1/2 cart and food. A no-host bar will be available after the event. Please hold the date and contact
(Ph 425-417-6794) if you are interested in participating this year.
Camelot at the Fifth Avenue Theater
David Laub
Bellevue Rotary has scheduled a night at the Fifth Avenue Theater to see Camelot, staring Michael York. The show is on Thursday, April 5, at 8:00 pm. There will be a wine tasting event before the show in a Bellevue Rotarian’s downtown Seattle office. Finger food will be available to make a light dinner. Children are welcome.
The tickets are for the Grand tier (balcony), and we have one of the front sections on the balcony.
If you are interested in attending, please contact
with the number of tickets you need.
Nepal Projects - Check Out the Blog!
Rob Rose
Gina and I have left for Nepal and another exciting trip of fulfilling projects and fun! This year, you can keep in touch with us during our trip (February 3-26), and see what’s going on through our “blog,” a web-log, which is somewhat like a travel diary but has many more features. We can update the blog during the trip, sending short stories, photos, audio clips (podcasts), video clips and more! All you have to do is click on the link at right that says TRIFC BLOG, and you will be taken right to the blog on the website.
To complicate matters, I also have a Rotary Trip Blog to highlight the progress of a fantastic Rotary project I’ve been working on for the past two years. This project will partner all 70 Rotary Clubs in Nepal with Rotary Clubs in our district to help people with disabilities throughout Nepal. If you are interested in checking that out, click on the link at right that says ROTARY TRIP BLOG, and you will be taken to the blog on the website.
When you visit the websites, you will see an RSS Subscribe button. If you click on that, you’ll receive email notices whenever the site is updated during the trip. It’s very cool! You can write comments to us from the blog which we can see while we’re in Nepal, so we’re really looking forward to hearing from you!
Register Today for the 2007 District Conference!
Sarah Langton
District 5030 is pleased to announce that the 2007 District Conference will be held at The Coeur d'Alene Resort in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, from 2:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, to 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 22, 2007. Join us for a celebration of the accomplishments of District 5030 clubs during 2006-2007, and enjoy the true spirit of Rotary fellowship.
To register for the conference, please go to the Rotary District 5030 website, and look for information on the District Conference and the registration forms. Fill out the form and mail it in to the District Office. Please note that hotel reservations are made separately (information is on the registration form). We encourage you to book your hotel rooms early, as the resort will likely fill due to the conference.
We would love to have a strong Bellevue Rotary showing at the conference. Hope to see you in beautiful Coeur d’Alene in April!
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.