April 16, 2007 Spokesman

April Birthdays were announced and Ken Hollingsworth led the Club in Happy Birthday.

Announcements:

District Conference is this coming weekend and we have 13 members attending.  Everyone is registered and we even have one on the bus.  (I think this is the wine touring bus, so this person may or may not make the conference.)

John Woodbery , Chair of the Foundation Auction Night on April 14^th, thanked DavidAubry for handling all the auction items, Pat Dye and Sharon Cavell for recording the sold items and collecting the monies, Chuck Brockway for his fabulous talents as Auctioneer, Gary & Ingrid Bruner and Jason Bruner for their excellent dinner, Alice Volpe for "colorful" decorations and everyone for their support.  We raised about $11,000.

Bills Woods was welcomed back from his annual stay in the Desert.  He brought us all up to date on his wife, JoMae's health.  She is doing much better and making progress every day.  Bill thanked everyone for their cards, emails, calls, etc.

Steve Shinstrom also passed around the Scribe and Greeter sign-ups.  Please help complete the empty spaces and fill in for a Monday night.  You can also email Steve and let him know you are available for any of the open dates.

Cheryl Bloodsworth announced the Duck Dash Kick-Off Party for May 1^st at the Wilde Irish Pup.  Everyone is invited (be looking for the evite).  The party starts at 5:00 and plans to go to 7:00. 

Pat Swenson asked everyone to "save the date" for the upcoming Golf Tournament on June 11^th at Mt.Si.  Al Hoviland and Alice Volpe will be co-chairing this event.  We are trying for a "shot gun" start, so we need 18 foursomes.  If you plan to play in the Scramble, please let us know.  IMPORTANT:   We will be pre-paying for our rounds of golf and carts by June 4^th, so that we do not have to collect the day of the event.  More details will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.

Rachel Knight - Membership Chair and In-Coming President, induced two new members into the Club.  These members have successfully completed their red badge duties and now have their blue badges.  Please welcome:  Jack Bloodsworth and Wendy Allen.

Mike Hunter also announced our new Scholarship Chair for the upcoming year:  Brandon Honcoop. 

Happy Dollars were collected by Chuck Brockway our esteemed Chancellor. 

Chuck even did 3 push-ups at the "urging" of Chuck Morgan.  (You had to be there to see  this!)

PROGRAM:

Our Speaker for the evening was Paul Camacho, CPA and Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Seattle Field Office for the Department of the Treasury-Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. 

Paul began by thanking our own Patti Smith for furnishing him with a list of all of our members and their Social Security numbers.  (Just kidding!)  After everyone's hearts started back up again, we knew we were in for a treat.  Paul is a very informative and entertaining speaker---what timing to have an IRS agent be our speaker tonight and our taxes due today!  He told us the type of cases that his office investigates and the kinds of activities that would trigger an investigation.  The IRS is interested in large cases and a majority of their leads come from Banks and the public.  Paul said it is a good idea to always be friendly to everyone---since ex-spouses, ex-partners, ex-employees, are the ones that often provide the leads.  A lively discussion followed the Paul's talk and he was happy to answer all questions.

The lucky ticket was Wendy Allen's, but she did not select the "blue" marble.  Her name will go in the "second chances" drawing. 

President Steve adjourned the meeting at 7:40 p.m.

Submitted by your Scribe for the Night:  Pat Swenson