September 28, 2009 Spokesman

VISITING ROTARIANS

Brandon Honcoop introduced Tim Kehrli Spouse of Kirkland Rotarian Katherine Kehrli

 

Bill Woods introduced Terry C of the Redmond Rotary Club .  Terry served as President twice and announced that he is interested in joining Kirkland Rotary.  Reason?  "There were no Norwegian jokes in the Redmond Club".

 

GUESTS

John Overleese introduced Marty who is a neighbor of John's and owned several bands including the Motels.   John Woodbery introduced Amy L from CT

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Brandon Honcoop - Student of the month interview are gong back to the old way.  Sign out list was past around. Please sign up to host a Student Of The Month.

 

Rachel Knight - Tent City 4 dinner - prepare dinner for 100 residents of TentCity (now at Holy Spirit Lutheran in Juanita).  Rachel asked for Rotarians to volunteer she needed 4 but 8-10 people would be better.  Overwhelmingly many hands were raised and found her volunteers to make meatloaf. - email Rachel for more information.

 

Shirley Metcalf and Katherine Kehrli - Please join us November 7, 2009 for Lake Washington Technical College Foundation's 6th Annual Dinner and Auction. We will also be celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Lake Washington Technical College. This year's theme, Sailing to Success! - Around the World, features international cuisine prepared by local chefs as well as fine wines showcased by local wineries. Premier desserts prepared by our award winning faculty and students draw attention and excitement. Entertainment and activities will include a raffle and silent and live auctions. All proceeds from the auction and dinner is dedicated to student scholarships and the Student Emergency Fund.

 

Pat Swenson - Food Donations: Reminder to everyone, second Monday of every month please bring in your food donations.  October 12, 2009

 

John Overleese:  Once again it is Bunc/ko time. You figure out the spelling. Saturday October 17th at the Shinstrom's 6:00 pm. Theme is Baseball's Fall Classic in honor of the World Series which will be starting right around this time frame. So get your baseball items together and come for a dog or burger!!!

 

Pat again: Next Monday Oct 5, 2009 at 6:15p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Rotary is co-hosting this year's Kirkland City Council Candidate Forum with the Greater Kirkland Chamber of Commerce. Please RSVP for this meeting no later than Thursday October 1st she needs to get an accurate headcount and reserve needs to reserve seating ahead of time. Feel free to contact Pat Swensen if you have any questions.  Location: Woodmark Hotel & Marina Room, $22.00 per person.

 

Felicity Burdick - Thanked the international committee and provided everyone with the summary of international projects that Kirkland Rotary is providing funding for: 

 

Project 1: Wheel Chairs for the Disabled

Location: Polhura, Nepal

Kirkland Contribution: $1500

Summary: Handcapped children in Nepal are abandoned; these 10 wheelchairs will help the disabled have a chance at a productive life.

Rotary Contact: Joanne Primavera

 

Project 2: DisabledNewlifeCenter

Location: Katmandu, Nepal

Kirkland Contribution: $1500

Summary: Center educates and supports disabled children to assist them toward becoming self sufficient adults.

Rotary Contact: Joanne Primavera

 

Project 3: Comido & Mcedo Scholarship Programs

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Kirkland Contribution: $2500

Summary: Provide scholarships and books

Rotary Contact: Roy Selvidge

 

Project 4: Handup Congo

Location: Lotumbe, Congo

Kirkland Contribution: $3000

Summary: 3 schools with no desks with only 15 books for the entire village of 6000. Lotume is a remote village in the Congo only accessible by canoe for 200 km.

 

Pat Dye - Question: Where does the money for international project come from? Answer per Pat: From the Duck Dash ticket sales.  Pat again - Operation Warm Coats (Pat Dye/M. A. Burleigh) - Help distribute coats to children at John Muir (October 2^nd)  Pat and Mary Alyce need 6 people but 10-12 would be better. There was a showing of hands during the meeting and they met the number of Rotarians needs.  There is a specific organized process to distribute the coats so please contact Pay or Mary Alyce for specific instructions and details. Donuts will be provided and Steve Brown woke up when the donuts were mentioned. Location: 14012 132^nd NE, Kirkland, WA  98034

 

Mary Alyce Burleigh - The yellow sheet titled "Rotary Club Of Kirkland Community Service Committee" was distributed at each table.  It outlined each community service committee chair.  She emphasized the need to help distribute coats to children.

 

 

SPEAKER

Our speaker for the evening, introduced by Patti Smith, is Kevin Nalder , new Kirkland Fire Chief/Director

 

Key points: Because of the Annexation N. Finn Hill (Station 4) and Finn Hill (Station 25) will merge.  Service to a Woodinville Station will be under Kirkland Fire but the details still need to be worked out/bargained.

 

Kirkland Fires ISO compliance is currently at a 4 on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the highest rating.  Bellevue is a 2.  The lower the score the better off citizens will be due to lower home owner insurance ratings.

 

Kirkland fire supports all new housing to be fitted with sprinkler systems.  Builders don't like it because it adds costs to construction.  Current regulations require only new homes 5000 sqft or larger must have sprinkler systems, homes that are older are grandfathered and exempt from this regulation.

 

73% of Kirkland Fire Station calls are EMS/Rescue related only 4% are actual fires.

 

 

 

HONEY POT/ADJOURN

Rick Ostrander held the lucky ticket but alas, did not guess the lucky number!   So the pot grows - better luck next time, Rick!

 

President Jim reviewed all the above announcements again, and adjourned the meeting at 7:45pm with the final announcements:

 

Duck Dash Committee has only one member - Scott Rethke.  Jim asks for 3 more volunteers to be on the committee or he may cancel the duck dash all together for 2010.

Steve Shinstrom - Was going to provide a PowerPoint instruction on how to log into Club Runner and use the email system. Instead he will be sending out an email with instructions.

 

Past Presidents Luncheon is Oct 11^th.

 

Faithfully submitted,

       Roy Selvidge, Scribe