Cashmere Rotary
Weekly Newsletter
March 3, 2010
Today’s meeting was opened up with Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head, led by Terry.
Rotary Guest
None today
Other Guests
Nic and Maddi Steitz
Birthdays
Keith Henning and Steve Pierson.
Anniversary
Eric & Mary Strutzel
School Reps
Didn’t have any today, because there was no school this week.
Happy Bucks
JC went to the Jazz playoff with the school. She was proud of them because they took 1st place. Donna & Randy are having a new granddaughter this spring. Gil was happy because of his grandson. Nancy was proud of our grandkids, Nic & Maddi who both achieved 1st place awards. Maddi won the Chelan/Douglas spelling bee, and Nic was with the Jazz band that won 1st place. Tracy was proud of her son Brett who is in Sidney, Australia.
Fines
The only fines were for people who haven’t looked at the web site in the last 2 weeks.
Program
Dick Ryan introduced Mark Straub, who is the president of North Central Home Builders. They have about 550 members. He talked about how the slow down of work offers the public plenty of contractors to choose from for remodeling projects. He mentioned that the public needs to do there homework before hiring a contractor to do work. Very interesting program. Thanks Mark.
February 24, 2010
Good night ladies was our song for today.
Rotary Guest
Former District Governor Dick Harris was our guest today, he is from the Wenatchee Downtown club.
Other guests were Kim Phillips and Alan & Ann Walter.
Rotary Moment
Given by Nancy today and she talked about what clubs should do to retain members. Unfortunately, 50% of new members leave after the 1st year.
School representatives today were Jacob Clay and Roman Velazavez and as usual they did a great job of telling us all about what was going on at the school.
Pot drawing was won by John Hunter, but he only won a $1.00.
Happy Bucks
John was happy that spring was here early. Ben was grateful that there were 9 that tried out for Queen Cashmere. And Greg was happy that John B. actually heated the rolls for lunch today.
Fines
Chuck D. was the last one to walk into the door today for the meeting.
Keith H. was sitting next to his wife today at the meeting
Keith W. was sitting next to his brother
And anyone who was not wearing their Rotary Pin today needed to send up a $1.00.
Program
Today’s program was Dr. Alan Walter and his talk today was all about the Nuclear Industry. Unfortunately I was not able to stay so I can’t give a detail report on the talk. However several people have told me is was extremely interesting.
February 17, 2010
Another good opening of our meeting today with the singing of “Oh Canada” and “Sunshine Nellie”, thanks Chuck and Terry.
Rotary Guest
Liz Saunders from Leavenworth and Terry Sorum from Wenatchee.
Other guests were Ben Moore who is Ed Meyers nephew.
Announcements
Terry Sorum talked to us about the Group Study Exchange coming to our area. They will be split between Cashmere & Leavenworth for a week and he was asking if any of the Cashmere Rotarians would be willing to house them for a couple of days. Donna Smith agreed to be the Chairman for this, so please contact her if you can help out. This will be in the area of May 9th, you would house them for about 3 nights.
Rotary Foundation
Bruce Cheadle gave a short Foundation talk about a triathlon which was held by Rotarians and they raised $100,000.00 for the Foundation. We will try to do something this year to help out the Foundation.
Rotary Moment
Bill talked about the Olympics. There is a Rotary Club in Canada that did a Make a Wish for several under privilege kids so they could attend the Olympics
Anniversaries
Gill & Barb will celebrate their 63rd Wedding Anniversary this week. WOW
School Reps
Today we had John Stolhammer and Rachael Lippert. Thanks for a great report.
Happy Bucks
Lots of people happy this week. Terry was happy for George Hettich, a past member, he found 4 punches on his lunch ticket today. Ed because his nephew was here for a brief visit, he is in the Military and has been to Iraq. Thanks Ben for serving and protecting us. Also John Bryant was thankful for his Father, Gil was happy his wife Barb has put up with him 63 years & Nancy for Maddi and her swimming meet.
Program
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Dr. Bruce Nusan |
Greg introduced Dr. Bruce Nusan who talked about the Boy Scouts 100 year anniversary Feb. 8th. Another great program, we seem to be on a roll. Thanks Dr. Nusan.
February 10, 2010
Today’s meeting was opened with “You Are My Sunshine” and then a special song of “When Your Sixty Four” of course with our club, that probably pertains to 75% of us. Thanks Terry and Ben, great job.
Rotary Guest
b from Leavenworth
Other guest were Sabastin Morago
Announcements
Sara mentioned that this years Founders Day will be the weekend of June 24-25-26th.
JC announced that the Rotarian of the Year Banquet will be April 7th at the Wild Huckleberry in Leavenworth. A sign up sheet will be passed around when we get closer to the date.
Rotary Moment
Dick Ryan talked about the Miracle Field. This is a type park the Rotarians built for people in a wheelchair. It enables them to get out and enjoy the outside in a park setting with different obstacles that they need to practice on. Great idea by Rotarians that helped other people.
School Reps
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Ceiia Mejia/Rudy Blomquist |
Today we had Ceiia Mejia and Rudy Blomquist. Thanks to you both for a very detail report of what is happening in the school.
Anniversaries or Birthdays
Today we celebrated Ben and Bev Ellis 33rd anniversary. And Karen Jackson is 60 today.
Pot Drawing was won by Eric, but all he won was $1
Happy Bucks
A large amount of happy Rotarians today. Chucks son is in the 7th grade, Sara was in Olympia this last week, Chuck Dronen’s wife is taking a month off. Gil because nobody can fine him, Ev or Ed because of their age, Karens 60th birthday.
Fines
Greg was able to fine everyone who had their picture in the paper.
Program
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Jenny Norwood/Ian Moch |
Today’s program was presented by Eric Strutzel. He introduced Brett Pittsinger who is President of Van Doran Equipment in Wenatchee. He gave a very informative talk about their company and how new technology has helped them keep up a strong business here in the community. They employ 93 people and 80% of there work is within 100 miles of Wenatchee. Brett and his wife Julie also own a winery in Chelan.
Thanks Brett, great program.
February 3, 2010
Today’s songs where played by Ben and directed by Keith and it featured Oh Suzanna. As usual we were great.
Rotary guest was John McDarment from the Wenatchee downtown club.
Rotary Moment
Given by Steve Pierson and he talked about how Chicago was celebrating 105 years of Rotary and the Polio Plus campaign has been going on for 25 years now, with lots of success.
Pot drawing was won by JC, but she only won $1.00
Happy Bucks
Only 2 people were happy today, Joan and Nancy
Fines
JC was immediately fined when she announce that the regular Sergeant at Arms was not in attendance. The other 2 Sergeant at Arms took offense to that statement and made her pay. Other fines were for the members who did not have their Rotary pin on.
Student Report
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Jenny Norwood/Ian Moch |
Presented by Jenny Norwood and Ian Moch. Ian brought along his prize winning cabinet he made and announced that he won 1st place in the contest.
Program
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John McDarment |
The program today was introduced by Bruce. He introduced John McDarment who talked about the Rotary Foundation. I think a lot of people were surprised when he mentioned that the Foundation uses 100% of the money donated and doesn’t take any of that money to pay expenses. All money is put into an interest bearing account for 3 years and that interest money is used to pay expenses. Lots of interesting information about the Foundation. Thanks John
Next weeks program will be presented by Eric Strutzel. It will be Brett Pittsinger, the President of Van Doren Equipment. He will talk about new technology in his company and may also talk about his wife’s winery in Chelan.
January 27, 2010
Today we opened up our meeting with Waltzing Matilda, all 4 verses.
We had no Rotary guest today but two other guesst, Maddi Steitz and Nancy Fike.
Announcements
Chuck Dronen mentioned that Boy Scouts are 100 years old this year and they are having a breakfast Feb 14th at the American Legion.
Maddi Steitz made a plea for a swim-a-thon she is doing and sent the pledge sheet around.
Donna Smith talked about the Shelter Box Program Rotary has and would like to see the club send one down to Haiti. She and Randy will donate $1,000.00 if the club will match it. A motion was made at the meeting to match it and Donna presented the check to the club before the meeting was over.
Happy Bucks
Jim Fletcher's son took a 1st and a second. Donna was happy the club bought a shelter box. Maddi was happy because she is now 6 inches taller than her Grandma.
Fines
Terry was a pro-tem fine master today, and he proceeded to fine Greg because Kris had 13 punches on a 10 punch lunch card. And then Greg fined Chuck Dronen for not having his badge on.
Program
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Footloose Performance |
Today we had a cast of 8 from the play Footloose being performed at the middle school this week. WOW were they great, hope everyone gets a chance to see the play, because the mini show today was fantastic.
January 20, 2010
Today’s meeting was held at Cashmere High School and we ate school food, which was really pretty good.
JC opened the meeting without any songs due to lack of song leader and piano player.
Rotary guest today was Ed Barock from Leavenworth and Jesus Hernandez from Wenatchee downtown.
Rotary Moment
Given by Bruce today. He reminded us that statistics show that every minute, every day, someone’s life is impacted by what the Rotary Foundation does.
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Ed Barock |
Ed Barock was pleased to announce that the grant he has been working on has finally been approved. This is a joint venture between 4 clubs and it amounted to $31,000. It will benefit birth defects in Guatemala.
Glen Johnson wanted to say thanks to the community again for all the support they give the school. He said every kid that comes through the school doors has a gift. And it’s because of the people in this town that the gift the kid processes becomes a reality.
Happy Bucks
Happy bucks consisted of passing the hat and collecting $100. Our club presented this to the Jazz Band.
Student Report was given by Sydney Reiman and Jacob Clay.
Program
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CHS Jazz Band |
Our program today was introduced by Nancy. It was a 2 part program, 1st was us meeting at the High School and eating school food, which was very good. The second part, was introducing the Cashmere Jazz Band. This part turned out to be wonderful. These kids are just fantastic. And everyone is so proud that we have this quality of kids in our community. Great program. Thanks Nancy.
January 13, 2010
Once again we opened the meeting with song, our club is always ready and willing to sing our hearts out. And just about every time, it produces the mood of our meeting. Which is usually good old fun.
Our guest today was David Smith and Kurt Ryan. No Rotarians from other clubs today.
Announcements
JC said that we have been approached to participate in a ski day with other clubs at Mission Ridge. Anyone who would like to do this, check with JC, no date has been set yet.
Today we also welcomed back Chuck Dronen who had taking a temporary leave of absence. So we pulled his badge out and made it official. Welcome back Chuck!
Happy Bucks
JC was proud of all the seniors at school, where she participated in the Senior Presentation. Gil had attended the Leavenworth club and mentioned that one of the members awarded Gil’s company a contract to replace carpet in 92 rooms at a Hotel there in town. Sara was glad that she was not in the paper this week. Barb mentioned that she got a phone call from Nat, our former exchange student. Dick Milner was on his way to Hawaii. Tracy was going to the airport to pick up Bret from China
Fines
Only 2 fines today, Randy Smith and Dick Ryan.
Program
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FFA apple and pear judging |
Our program today was introduced by Bill and it was from the High School. The FFA apple and pear judging team. Kristene Williams is the teacher for this program. The winner receives a $1.000.00 scholarship. For this presentation the Rotarians had an opportunity to participate in naming the apples and pears on display. And then at the next table we had a chance to name the diseases that affect the fruit. Everyone seem to have fun trying to identify and learning how bad we were at getting correct answers. Thanks Kristene for a very good program.