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September 22, 2009
PUBLISHING ITEMS IN THE BULLETIN
If you have information, articles, photos, etc., for publication in the weekly bulletin (printed bulletin, website and/or eFlash), please send them to bulletin@bellevuerotary.net by 2:00 pm on Fridays.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Frank Blethen, Publisher The Seattle Times "Seattle Times, Newspaper Industry" | Only Four Tickets Left for Wicked! Thursday, October 1st | Rotary First Harvest Work Party | Luscious Pears | GSE Opportunities | More Cowbell for Rotary! | Calling All Bellevue Rotary Photogs!
CLUB CONTACT INFO
Laurie Larson
Executive Director
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009 execdirector@bellevuerotary.net
Ph 425-451-3819
Fax 888-814-5696
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If not, contact Laurie Larson or email The Rotarian Magazine.
THIS WEEK AT THE BRC
GREETERS
Mick Larkin & Joel Cambern
BACK TABLE DUTY
Norm Beck & Fred Wright
INVOCATION
Sam Basta
NEWEST MEMBER(S)
Fred Wright
Janet Munro
Amy Hedin
Daphne Tai, 09/22
Tony Ravani, 09/23
Millard Lesch, 09/25
Kathleen Steele, 09/25
Sherry Ladd, 09/27
Andy Baker, 09/28
Paul Dressel, 09/01
Lee Kraft, 09/05
Dennis Conrad, 09/16
Patti Dill, 09/18
Hans Giner, 09/20
Gus Hart, 09/21
David Schooler, 09/22
If your birthday is this month but does not show in the list above, you need to add it to your directory page online.
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PLEASE NOTE: If the regular parking garage is full and you are turned away or redirected, please go to the Harbor Club parking lot.
Frank Blethen, Publisher
The Seattle Times
"Seattle Times, Newspaper Industry"
Seattle native Frank Blethen is publisher of The Seattle Times, the state's largest newspaper.
The Times is heralded for its aggressive, in-depth journalism. It has won seven Pulitzer Prizes and has been a Pulitzer finalist 11 times since 1990, including 2 for investigative stories this year.
The Seattle Times is one of America's last independent and locally-owned newspapers. It is a values-based journalism/community service family business in its 113th year of Blethen family stewardship and ownership.
Frank is a member of the fourth family generation. Currently, there are nine members of the family's fourth and fifth generations active in the journalism company's management and governance.
He is a strong advocate for independent journalism, family-owned businesses, and a leader in the national grass-roots movement in opposition to newspaper and media ownership consolidation.
Frank and the Blethen family are also known as advocates for diversity, education and community service.
Only Four Tickets Left for Wicked!
Thursday, October 1st
Come join 40 of your fellow Rotarians and their guests for an evening of fun and entertainment. Wine, dine and learn about how the three witches of Oz came to be in Broadway’s hilarious award winning musical. Bellevue Rotary has reserved excellent loge seating at the beautiful Paramount Theater. Enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres at Ross Jacobson’s office before the event at 5:30 pm. Tickets are $165.00 each and include the pre-function. Show time is 7:30 pm.
Contact Lynn Jones.
WICKED IS A SPECTACULAR SPECTACLE! Emerald City never had it so good. It is delightfully debatable which witch is witchiest. Kristin Chenoweth is quite entrancing as Glinda and just as entrancing is Idina Menzel as the Wicked Witch. She also sings beautifully, as do Chenoweth and the excellent Norbert Leo Butz, and has a poignancy almost unexpected in such emerald circumstances. Carole Shelley gives a deliciously overstated performance." — Clive Barnes, Wicked Review, NY Post
When Wicked toured through Seattle in 2006, Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson suggested that "Wicked" beams audiences into an alternative world, the enchanted land of Oz, but not that of MGM movie's Oz. Still, she said, there are similarities: "There's a trickster Wizard, a munchkin or two, flying monkeys and, when apt, a trippy Kelly-green color scheme. Susan Hilferty's marvelously fanciful costumes, Eugene Lee's imposing sets and Kenneth Posner's sparkly, smoky lighting effects bring all this off in style. And Holzman's clever, snappy dialogue, mated with Schwartz's gleaming pop power ballads ("Defying Gravity," "For Good") make Glinda and Elphaba so contemporary, they could pass at times as gal-pals in a Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan movie."
Remember the last time an original Broadway musical made you laugh, cry and think — in the right places and for the right reasons? WICKED IS THE MOST COMPLETE, AND COMPLETELY SATISFYING, NEW MUSICAL I'VE COME ACROSS IN A LONG TIME. — Elysa Gardner, Wicked Review, USA Today
Rotary First Harvest Work Party
Please join us and volunteer some of your time to Rotary First Harvest!
Volunteers are needed at Food Life-Line in Shoreline on September 26th, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. Please feel free to bring a member of your family or a friend to learn about this very effective program operates.
In addition, the Bellevue Farmers Market is still looking for help each Saturday to collect unsold food and transport it to the Bellevue Community Center for their Meals on Wheels Program. (One hour each Saturday, starting at 1:15 PM, until the end of the season).
If you have questions, please contact Andy Baker.
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Orders are due by September 30. Pears will be available for pick-up at Rotary First Harvest, 3200 1st Ave S, Seattle, on October 7 and 8, from 10:30AM‑1:30PM. Please contact Jacki Lorenz at Rotary First Harvest (Ph 206‑236‑0357). |
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Do you know of any non-Rotarian young professionals who’d be great for GSE in early 2010?
District 5030 is looking for 4-5 young professionals (ages 25-40) currently not in Rotary who are interested in developing professional and leadership skills during a month-long Group Study Exchange to Bolivia. Anticipated dates are April 11-May 9, 2010. All costs are covered by Rotary. If you know of someone who would benefit from such an exchange have them check out gse.rotary5030.org. Applications are due October 12, 2009, and can be found at this website.
Keep looking for the cowbell on your table (there are 5 of them) to bump others' fines, and remember to bring your ticket stubs from arts attendance — museums, theatres, music, etc. — as putting one in the basket is allowed in lieu of a fine. Click here to let your Sergeant at Arms know of a fellow Rotarian’s fineable antics.
Calling All Bellevue Rotary Photogs!
Leslie Lloyd
We’re taking extra effort to document our activities for the coming year – and for posterity!
Please submit your photos from fellowship or service activities, such as Camp Goodtimes, President’s Celebration, Rotary First Harvest, Fireside, golf outings – any and all events of the Bellevue Rotary Club. We will use them for the District Assembly in Portland next year, and they will also be preserved for all time by our resident historian, Stu Vander Hoek.
It’s simple: all you have to do is email your digital images to:
Be sure to include the names of all the people in each photo.
If you’d prefer, you can copy your photos to a CD or thumb drive and give them to Leslie Lloyd at a Rotary meeting.
With your help, the BRC will have a rich display of club activities for next year’s conference – and for all time.