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In this issue:
NEXT WEEK: Stephen P. Reynolds, Chairman, President & CEO, Puget Energy & Puget Sound Energy | Salvation Army Bell Ringing | Annual Holiday Lunch | Christmas Ship Parade, December 20 | Rotary in Ghana (Nancy Pasternak) | Fellowship Ski Trips Planned (Scott East) | RYLA Conference (Glen Curda)
Stephen P. Reynolds
Chairman, President & CEO
Puget Energy & Puget Sound Energy
 Stephen P. Reynolds is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Puget Energy and its utility subsidiary, Puget Sound Energy. The utility, Washington state’s largest, serves 1 million electric customers and more than 680,000 natural-gas customers in 11 counties, primarily across Western Washington.
Under Reynolds’ leadership, Puget Energy is focused on rebuilding its financial strength by concentrating on its core business: retail utility service within a regulated environment. Central to this goal is the Company’s strategy, in today’s volatile energy marketplace, for meeting the energy needs of the growing Puget Sound Energy customer base. The strategy emphasizes the long-term customer benefits from incremental, cost-effective energy conservation, low-cost procurement of traditional energy resources, and prudent investment in energy-delivery infrastructure. Reynolds also is committed to strengthening Company relationships with customers, regulators, industry peers, employees, and other key constituencies.
In addition to his responsibilities with Puget Energy, Reynolds serves on the boards of directors for the following organizations: ArtsFund; The 5th Avenue Theatre; The Nature Conservancy of Washington; Washington Roundtable; Oregon Steel Mills; Unova, Inc.; the Edison Electric Institute, and American Gas Association.
Reynolds has three decades of experience in both the natural-gas and electric power business, including significant accomplishments in energy matters at the state and federal levels both within North America and internationally. He was formerly CEO of Reynolds Energy International and also served for 10 years as CEO of Pacific Gas Transmission Company of Portland, Oregon.
Reynolds, 57, has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California-Berkeley, and a master’s in business administration from the University of Oregon.
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Salvation Army Bell Ringers
The BRC needs bell ringers at Bellevue Square for the Salvation Army this year. These are 2-hour shifts, and the dates are December 17 and 18.
You can sign up below for the shifts marked HELP! Just click the box by the shift you are interested in, then scroll down to the bottom of the sign-up list and enter your name and email address, then click on SIGN ME UP! You will receive an email confirmation of your sign-up. If more people sign up then are needed for a particular shift, you may be asked to try to change your shift. If you have any questions, please contact Lynn Jones.
 Saturday, December 17
• Nordstrom 1st floor
10 AM - 12 NOON
• Brad Hunt
• Mike Myers
12 PM - 2 PM
• Cy Oskoui
• Margaret Doland
2 PM - 4 PM
• Rob McKenna & Family
4 PM - 6 PM - HELP!
• Ross McIvor
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• Nordstrom 2nd floor
10 AM - 12 NOON
• David Doud
• Mike Thrall
12 PM - 2 PM - HELP!
• Craig Campbell
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2 PM - 4 PM - HELP!
• Rick Hervey
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4 PM - 6 PM
• Kathleen Steele & Family
Sunday, December 18
• MACY'S 1st floor
10 AM - 12 NOON
• Gail Ryder & Family
12 PM - 2 PM
• Ken & Loretta Story
2 PM - 4 PM
• Grant Ringel
• Leland Teng
4 PM - 6 PM - HELP!
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• MACY'S 2nd floor
10 AM - 12 PM
• Jim & Marilyn Hogue
12 PM - 2PM
• David Laub & Family
2 PM - 4 PM
• Jason Courter & Family
4 PM - 6 PM - HELP!
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Christmas Ship PARADE, December 20
 The Fellowship Committee has secured the use of a 62-foot yacht for our Christmas Ship Event on December 20th. The Ship will leave from Kirkland at 7:00 pm and return before 10:00 pm. Space is limited, unless we are able to secure other boats. The cost is $10, which includes hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Contact Rick Hervey to reserve space.
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Rotary in Ghana
Nancy Pasternak
Dear Bellevue Rotarians,
 After ten days in Accra Ghana, I thought you might like to hear about the Rotary clubs I have visited. In this capital city ten clubs are meeting. All the clubs have several practices in common that made me chuckle to myself: they sang the Rotary songs to hymnal musical scores; the sergeant-at-arms played a major role collecting cedis (Ghanaian currency) for trumped up charges along with lots of laughter and from which none of us escaped; and not any of the clubs had a speaker other than reports. Accra East had 44 members present (60%) and an exchange student. A Canadian team brought sewing machines from a fellow club and later trave! led up to Kumasi where their district has taken on a 3-year 3H project. They will fill me in on the project when I am up there next weekend. On December 10 the Acra East members invited me to participate with them in a polio vaccination day in the villages.
Accra attendance was quite the same. A group of American Rotarians from California had just accomplished one of their many polio vaccination days with this club. One of them spoke quite emotionally about the polio eradication project and the results he had seen. President Sam announced that at the Presidents? meeting he learned that their club was in arrears on reports for 14 matching grant projects! and that would prevent anyone in their district from enacting any matching grants.
The Accra Osu RE club of 19 members (11 present) was a bit chagrined at the Matching Grants arrears news they received from the Presidents? meeting since they had filed all their reports. I was impressed by this small club. They partnered with a Minnesota club whose member is the father of a Peace Corps volunteer in the Eastern regions of Ghana. Thirty laying hens and feed were provided to each woman who built her own chicken coop. They celebrated her departure with a lovely luncheon hosted by one of their members.
Twenty two members were present at the Ghana Ring Road meeting (50%) along with five Rotaract members. This club helped organize a club of 49 potential Rotaract members! Though small, it is an active club which is hosting their own exchange student and has helped a declining village school that needs school supplies, buildings and a bridge for students and teachers to get to it accross a swamp.
Lots of banners will be coming to our club upon my return, but before that I wanted to try to help you capture how thrilling it has been for me to experience all the good that comes from Rotary because its structure and concepts truly work! I felt so very Rotarian with these members and proud of it!
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Fellowship Ski Trips Planned
Scott East
Sun Valley Ski Trip, February 2 - 5, 2006,
for BRC members and partners.
 Arrival at SV on the first Thursday of February and returning the following Sunday.
Attendees should arrange their own transportation early for best prices. Arranging one's own accommodations is also preferable, especially for those who wish to expand their stay at the valley before/after the Thursday - Sunday time frame.) For those interested in lowest air fares and dependability of schedule, it is recommended that flights be booked into Boise, and rental cars be used to get to and from SV, as well as around the valley once there. Members arriving/departing at same times may wish to share rental cars. Commercial flights directly to SV are more expensive and susceptible to weather delays.
Some BRC members with places at SV (Janine Florence, Larry Mast, and Steve Anderson will be able to host a few attendees, and Frank Young will host an après ski wine and cheese reception on one of the nights (Friday or Saturday). If we identify an agency at SV that handles reservations for privately owned accommodations at below market rates, we will post instructions for dealing with them.
If any other BRC members have places at SV, or access to those of friends (and if those accommodations are large enough for others to join you), please let Scott East know at earliest convenience.
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Annual Crystal Mountain Ski Trip, March 7 - 8, 2006,
for BRC members only.
Arrival at Crystal Mountain between 4:00 and 6:00 PM the first Tuesday of March for drinks/mountain-gourmet dinner/card games and next day hearty breakfast followed by skiing/boarding, slope side lunch at Snorting Elk, and returning that Wednesday evening. (Our BRC member chefs are THE best!)
As usual, we will be staying at the Enumclaw Ski Lodge, just off parking lot "C," and Game Master Lisa Carroll has arranged for her friend Spoon to be our host there this year. Car pools will be arranged for those who do not wish to drive up on their own.
There is usually a charge of $50 - $60 dollars per attendee, depending on cost of food (Tuesday dinner, Wednesday breakfast) and ESC guest fees. A generous member often donates a certain number of lift vouchers, but that is a year-to-year arrangement, so everyone should be prepared to cover their own lift tickets and Wednesday lunch, in addition to offering to contribute to the drivers' gas tanks or single malt collections.
Please email me if you plan to attend either event, if you have access to accommodations and/or can host others, and if you have any questions.
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RYLA Conference
Glen Curda
The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards conference will be held March 2-5. This event is financed by our club for selected high school juniors. If you have a family friend attending either Bellevue, International, Robinswood, or Forest Ridge High Schools who would be a good candidate, encourage him/her to apply. Qualified children or grandchildren of Bellevue Rotarians may also apply, even if they do not attend the previously mentioned high schools.
Contact Glen Curda for details.
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