February 22, 2010 Spokesman

Posted by Rachel Knight

The meeting was called to order by President, Jim Feek at 6:30 p.m. The flag salute was lead by Pat Swenson. The Inspirational Moment was given by President Jim: "good town, bad town…it's what you make of it".

Introduction of Visiting Guests and Visiting Rotarians : Hearty welcome back to Gary Schuster, long time member and now member of Leavenworth Rotary. Exchange student, Selis was also present and busy at school.

Brandon Honcoop introduced Jackson Phillips, Student of the Month , who spoke about his community service interest with Boy Scouts and CampCorey and how valuable he believes professional relationships are to ones career. He is Publicity Chair for the Student Body at LWHS and would like to pursue studies at college in Business Development.

Announcements and Committee Reports:

Community Service by Mary-Alyce Burleigh: Don Dicks had done extensive research into community service projects that would benefit our Kirkland City Parks. He has spoken with the City and come up with a few different options for Rotarians. A survey was available to determine interest levels for this project.

GG announced that Jerry Marsh will take a short sabbatical: He and his wife Patty thank all the Rotarians who have been driving him - he will take a short sabbatical for his health.

District Conference by Pat Dye: Sign up on the District website: Rotary5030.org It will take place in Portland 14-16 May and a lot of great musical talent has been lined up in addition to the regular social and educational aspects of the conference.

Rotary First Harvest by Dan Bartel : Last one for Kirkland Rotary will be on Saturday March 2^nd so please mark your calendars.

Dave DeBois will provide CD's of Steve Brown's Toast & Roast: . If you would like a copy, please contact Dave at: ddebois@bannerbank.com

Club Service by Wilson Anhar: : Upcoming events:

March 13^th: 3^rd Annual Chili Cook-off between the Kirkland Police Dept and Kirkland Fire Dept

March 19^th: Bowling Party

April: Dave Aubry will advise when the wine tasting event will occur

April 24^th: Kirkland Foundation Auction at the Womens Club

June 5^th: "Duck Bake" party at Rich and Nan Bergdahl's house.

Shirley Van Nostrand introduced Dr. Vince Mosca: Educated at Duke and practiced in Toronto and now has been 13 years at Children's Hospital. He now focuses his research and practice on orthopedic and rehabilitative surgery for children with malformed feet. Children's formed a teaching relationship with Vietnamese pediatric orthopedic surgeons so they would be better prepared to address the needs of children in Vietnam.

Speaker introduced by Patti Smith: Andy Woppler, Puget Sound Energy. Andy presented a very thorough presentation about global warming, the pros and cons of various solutions, and the projects that PSE currently is engaged with in Washington. He addressed Hydro: basically tapped out in WA and expensive to maintain what we have, relatively;

Wind: The Wild Horse facility above Vantage on I-90 corridor has 149 turbines. Each Turbine can generate energy for 500 households. Each of the three blades are 129 feet long and are hollow fiberglass. The body or generator itself weighs 80 tons. Wind is a win-win situation for PSE, households, and farmers who are able to still cultivate acreage beneath the turbines;

Solar: oddly enough our NW cool weather is more energy efficient than hot weather of CA. Compared to Wind, Solar farms take up a lot more acreage.

Biomass: PSE has had some success with a Diary Farm and will install the second generator. Win-win for neighbors who live down wind from the farm as the manure is processed in enclosed generator and great for farmer who used to have to pay to have the manure hauled away.

Andy ended by saying, turn off a few of the appliances around your house that you don't use regularily - every little bit helps.

Ticket: David DeBois guessed the correct number and hit the town with $15!

Scribe for the evening: Rachel Knight