Northwind September 17, 2015

Posted by Timothy Villhauer 
on Sep 19, 2015
 
 
Meeting Called to Order:  1230 by President Sharon.  In attendance Rick, Pati, Dale, Jake, Bill, Rollo, Ken. Jim S, Sharon, Marlene, Rocky, Jim B, Julie, Brian, Stan, Linda, Greg, Laurie, Tim.
Pledge of Allegiance:  Led by President Sharon
Invocation: Marlene
Guest of Rotarians: None
Visiting Rotarians: District Governor Bill Robson and Assistant District Governor Bill Gorman
Returning Rotarians: Marlene returned from a birthday bash in Maui.
Birthdays: Pati on the 23rd.
Announcements:
  - The Career Fair will be Thursday March 31st.  Dale has reserved both BTC and WCC, hoping to have Alex Parker as the keynote speaker (he is with NASA and worked on Project Pluto).
  - Rollo 9/19 Fellowship bus ride to horse racing is cancelled.
  - 24th no regular meeting, show up at for the Duck accounting at Norms, separate message to come.
 - Ken asked if we want the November Foundation dinner at noon or in the evening?
   - Sharon reminded everyone that Board meetings are on the 4th Wednesday, so next week on the 23rd.  November and December will be adjusted.
  - Dale made multiple announcements during Fines to announce that The Feed the Need Food Truck Round Up is on the 26th at Civic Stadium 11 AM to 3 PM.   See Dale for tickets.  They are looking for volunteers to women up the beer garden (Marlene that means not just guzzling, but also taking tickets, etc!)
 
Happy Bucks:
  Bill $20 donated blood, happy Jake is doing a great job with the Masters at Arms, will start to donate platelets which takes 2.5 hours since Kris needed them.  Dale $2 bought used textbooks for daughter. Jim S IOU since the only cash he had was $1 used for ticket. Ken $1 for 19 of 25 members being in attendance, the DG and ADG. Brian $5 Canadian happy to see DG Bill again. Marlene $2 discouraged, celebrating in Maui her 21st anniversary of 40th birthday. Rocky $2 happy. Laurie $5 to see DG Bill, Oregon Duck fun and player of week in NFL. Jim B $? Being able to take his wife out to dinner.  Sharon $2 all of our distinguished guests. Stan $5 Margaret and him were able to visit son Don in Spokane. Pati $$$$$$$s for an undisclosed birthday. Rollo $? Conference in Whistler.
 
Fine Master:  Once again we were blessed with fair, benevolent, fun, respected and appreciated Fine Master.  He started off with $1 fines if not wearing your Rotary pin or equivalent, if your favorite NFL team won, if you don’t have a favorite NFL team, no tie.  Rick soul patch or shaving malfunction?  Pati for crying she is never fined, Marlene for the passive aggressive remark and an undisclosed adventure, Jim B for the last second hand off of Fine Master duty to Tim, Laurie for Ducks game (she did not know the results! Oh the humanity!), Linda had a phone ring which sounded like a dollar flying out of her grip to the clubs collection box.  There were others lost in the moment of doing double duty.
Banners: None
Program:  ADG Bill Gorman introduced DG Bill Robson who proceeded to thank and acknowledge WCNR works and projects.  He informed us he see’s his job is to represent the Clubs in District 5050, he is not a Club member but is an officer of RI, the Rotarians in the Clubs makes Rotary work.
1) Membership is very important, on the rise in North America.
  He recognized Marlene for recruiting a new member.
2)WCNR since it was chartered in 1973 has donated to Rotary Foundation $350,000, currently 19 Paul Harris members, 2 Benefactors, 1 major donor.  He then presented a PH +7 to Jake for over $8000 US in donations to RI.  He is in awe of WCNR.
3) He then donned his Captain Hat.  The District Conference 2016 will be held at Semiahamoo Resorts 4/28 – 5/1.  The featured speaker will be Dee Ross who will be a 2016 Rotary Director, one of 17, 1st from the northwest of Canada and US.  She was born in South Africa, was on Dr Christian Barnard surgical team for the worlds first heart transplant.  It will be FUN!
Polio Plus: Nigeria was declared to be not endemic, so only Afghanistan and Pakistan are left and the whole world has both been 6 weeks without wild polio reported, and that is the incubation period for wild polio!  It takes at least 3 years to declare but its possible that in 2019 or 2020 we may have eradicated polio from the face of the Earth.
He then recognized Sharon, Juli and Marlene as World Class Rotarians.
DRAWING: Greg won a spectacular bouquet of dahlias from Pati’s garden.  Rick drew the 6 of clubs, the pot grows.