March 29, 2010 Spokesman

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."  (The above speech by Nelson Mandela was originally written by Marianne Williamson who is the author of other similar material.)

Greeter was Shirley Van Nostrand

Visitors:

Patty Sims' husband Steve and daughter Lauren

Christine Addison from the Bellevue Breakfast Club

Joanne Burns, a potential new member with a history in Rotary- her grandmother on her mom's side was the 1^st Woman in her Rotary Club in North Texas and her grandfather on her dad's side was a Rotary club member in Portland, OR.  Joanne is originally form Orange County CA and a graduate of UC Santa Barbara. She works in business development for Quintiles NC based company that does clinical research.  Joanne is based form her home and travels quite a bit for her job.  She moved to Seattle with her husband for his job with T-Mobile.  They moved to Kirkland two months ago.  Joanne is excited to learn more about Kirkland and becoming a member of our club!

Announcements:

Scribe is needed for several weeks, most importantly next Monday April 5^th.  John Pruitt volunteered.

Pat Swenson - The Reading Buddies program at John Muir Elementary has openings for leaders. There is time to read 1 or 2 more books before the end of the school year!

Kirkland Rotary Foundation Auction is on April 24^th- There are a sign up sheets for attendance and auction items on each table

Christine Addison, Development Director of KITH- Luncheon on April 16th will be hosted by Richard LeMieux author of Breakfast at Sally's.  Funds raised will be for families in transition from homelessness to stability. They are looking for table captions, you can call or email Christine at 425-576-9531 christinea@kithcares.org

Program

Pat Dye presented Shirley Van Nostrand with her Blue Badge

Then the party began as Pat Dye & Pat Swenson hosted the baby shower for Patty Sims.

Gifts in Patty's honor can be made as a donation to Baby Corner Rotary First Harvest

Check written to Kirkland Rotary Foundation which is a 5013c.

As Patty began to open her gifts Pat Swenson announced a contest for guessing the time and weight of the baby.  Pat is donating the cash prize of $100!  She passed out the forms and the winner has to get both the answers correct!  The fun is that we already know Patty is having a planned birth date of April 18^th!!

We had a Q&A form Pat Dye as the gifts continued to be opened and so far no name has been picked out, although it is a boy.

A fun story: How Patty and Steve met. On a Blind Date!  Steve was on his way to Idaho when his car broke down in Ellensburg.  The work was going to take 3 or 4 days so he rented a jeep and had went on his trip.  When he returned the car still wasn't ready so he called his Dad in Yakima to pick him up and then called an old friend he used to work with to go out for a drink.  She asked him if he was still single.  Yes he was.  She brought Patty along and the rest is history!!

Ernie got up and made a really bad joke about old women and old wine.  You got to love Ernie even if you don't like the jokes!

Pat Dye closed the shower for Patty Sims by honoring her for her work as the Rotary Club Youth Exchange Officer for the past two years.  She does so much work behind the scenes coordinating the exchange students and their host families and the activities that they do while they are here as our guests. Thank you Patty for all you do for Rotary and the exchange students! 

In Closing

Jim Feek closed the meeting with another Ole and Sven story.   

Raffle Drawing

We almost forgot! Bill Taylor's wife Sandy "won" the raffle by sharing the biggest pet peeve she has with Bill..he can't hear!    (hearing aids Bill!!)

Sarah Brooks Scribe for an evening.