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Bellevue Rotary Club, Bellevue, WA
WEEKLY BULLETIN

NEXT MEETING AUGUST 30, 2005

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Joni Earl
Chief Executive Officer, Sound Transit
"Connecting Communities:
The Future of Regional Transit"

x0830JoniEarl1The Sound Transit Board unanimously appointed Joni Earl as the Executive Director of Sound Transit, the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, in January 2001. In 2003, her title was changed to Chief Executive Officer. Joni has responsibility for all aspects of Sound Transit, including its substantial capital and operating programs. Joni came to Sound Transit as the Chief Operating Officer in October 2000.

Before joining Sound Transit Joni served as the Deputy County Executive of Snohomish County, Washington for over eight years. She was responsible for implementing county executive priorities and recommendations, developing policy, strategies, and annual budgets, managing intergovernmental relations, and managing day-to-day county operations. Snohomish County has 2600 employees and a $450million annual budget.

Prior to her service to Snohomish County, Joni was the City Manager of Mill Creek, reporting to the City Council. She also served as the Director of Internal Management and Chief Fiscal Officer for Kitsap County.

Joni is a graduate of Harvard University’s State and Local Government Executive Program. She holds a master’s in business administration from the University of Puget Sound, and received a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University.

Joni has been active in her Snohomish County community as a Rotarian and has served on a number of community boards, such as United Way and Camp Fire Boys and Girls.

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2004-2005 100% Attendance Awarded

Congratulations to the following BRC members who achieved 100% attendance during the 2004-2005 Rotary year:

Norris Bevan, Kemper Freeman, Terry Posner, Stu VanderHoek, Bob Wallace, John Lee, Bill Grimes, Scott East, Jim Hogue, John Matheson, Frank Young, Sally Gray, Frank Buty, Sam Esayian, Bruce Raskin, Bob Bishop, Mike Hendrickson, Roxanne Shepherd, Margaret Doman, Judd Lees, Bob Ward, Bill Ptacek , David Laub, Don Mings, Gail Romero, Katherine Thompson, Mike Thrall, TJ Woosley, Kirk Adams, Kathy Hanson.

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x0823Baltierra1New Exchange Student
Has Arrived

Bruce Raskin and his family are hosting our newly arrived exchange student from Mexico City, Mexico, Stefania Rios Baltierra (both pictured at left). Please plan to include Stefania in activities soon.

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Community Grants Committee
Soliciting Applications

The Community Grants Committee is now soliciting applications for Grants until October 15th. There are certain guidelines that will be considered when reviewing each grant.

 

Guidelines:

1) The funds must be beneficial to the Eastside. The Eastside would be the City of Bellevue and neighboring cities.

 

2) Fund requests are not to be for ongoing expenses such as operational expenses.

 

3) The maximum grant will be $5,000.

 

4) The Grant Request Form must be filled out. This form can be found at here on the BRC website. (The link is always available under the Club Forms dropdown menu at the top of every page of the BRC website; just select on Grant Request Form.)

 

5) Submit the completed form and any supporting information to Phil Bevan online, or mail to:

 

Phil Bevan Community Grant Request
Bevan Bellevue Jewelers
10047 Main Street #102
Bellevue, WA 98004

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Next Spring's Group Study Exchange
Warren Hall Crain

Charming Bavaria. The Black Forest and the Bohemian Forest. The Bavarian Alps. The cities of Augsburg and Munich. Our district will be sending five people — one Rotarian and four young non-Rotarian business people — there next May (2006) for a month.

Group Study Exchange has been a central part of our district’s outreach for many years. Almost every district in the world participates. We’ve had exchanges with France, East Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam, and many other countries.

Applications for Team Leader for the Bavarian GSE must be submitted by 15 September. Team Member applications are due by 15 October.

A great deal more information is here on our district website. For more information, contact the district committee chairperson.

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Next Meeting
August 30, 2005

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GREETERS

Frank Buty
Ken Reid

 

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BACK TABLE DUTY
SanDee Olson-Meyer
Rich Reis

 

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AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

Phil Noble, 08/01

Don Davidson, 08/02

Andy Mirkovich, 08/02

Foster Radford, 08/04

Gary Sergeant, 08/06

Stu Vander Hoek, 08/11

John Baldwin, 08/12

Alex Smith, 08/12

Charlie Gardner, 08/14

Bill Jeude, 08/14

Alan Fulp, 08/16

Kathy Korth, 08/16

Chris Britton, 08/21

Bill Ptacek, 08/24

Katherine Thompson, 08/26

Dan Wick, 08/29

 

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Award Winning!
BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROTARACT CLUB
Check out the website.

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Virtual Meetings!
You can now attend Rotary club meetings on the internet at:
www.rotaryeclubone.org

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The permanent mailing address for Bellevue Rotary is:

Laurie Larson
Club Administrator
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009
bellevuerotary@seanet.com
Ph 425 451-3819
Fax 425 451-8025