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The Rotary Club of Arlington is a
group of business owners, professionals
and community leaders that are
dedicated to making our world and our
community stronger.
We are committed to the ideal of
"Service Above Self"
while enjoying fun, fellowship and friendships
Ogie Shaw spoke to the club about child obesity.
Ogie Shaw is part of a national group that gives talk about health and fitness. 30 years ago 57% of children failed the “functional fitness test” just performing basic movements. America created the Presidential Council to attempt to get our kids healthy. Children are now even unhealthier. Our children will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Major cancers are prevalent due to the way we eat. We are getting more obese every year. Physical education is the first thing to get cut when budgets are cut. Children’s behaviors are substantially effected by the parents and adults in their lives.
Most people are not getting the exercise they need. Make exercise fun! You must work every muscle in the body to get real results. The recommendation is to work out 7 days a week. You are more likely to stick to the plan if you do it every day. Work until muscle failure, do as many reps until you can’t anymore. Injury rate goes down if you work out every day.
Work against resistance. Eat for nutrition do not eat for weight loss. Do not make changes to the way you eat that you won’t make permanently. We are a confused nation about the proper way to eat.
One of Mr. Shaw’s colleagues has rated and assigned points to over 3,000 foods. If you eat over 100 points you will reach the goal and reduce cancer risk. Cantaloupe is the best breakfast food. Romaine and spinach is better than iceberg lettuce.
Your body measurements can tell you if you may be at risk for cancers and other diseases.
Fitness majors in college are becoming scarcer. If exercise can’t be fun it better be fast.
5 minutes of exercise with controlled resistance is a great way to begin a routine and a great way to get in shape. Separate fitness from fun.
Stay motivated by accountability and measurement. Measure your fitness level once a week and exercise seven days a week.
The mission of Camp Korey is to honor the courage strength and determination of children and their families living with life altering medical conditions by providing them with a transformational experience in a fun, safe camp environment with specialized medical support.
All campers, no matter what limitations, can do any of the activities. The camp has specialized equipment and counselors to assist. Doctors and nurses on site. The kids get to focus on being a kid. Challenge by choice is a theme. The child gets to choose the adventure, where they start and where they end. They challenge the child but the child gets to determine what success means to them.
Rock climbing, horseback riding, painting, archery, zipline, and more are offered activities.
The children can relate to the other children at camp and be proud of their scars for the first time in their lives.
Camp Korey was founded in 2005 by Tim Rose and his family to honor the life of their son Korey who lost his battle to bone cancer age 18. The camp is part of SeriousFun children network with sister camps with the same mission, founded by Paul Newman. There are 30 camps throughout the world. The camp is dependent on private funding. All children can attend for free.
Camp Korey provides services for over 4,000 individuals with more than 30 different medical conditions each year. They are 80% volunteer driven and have trained medical professionals on site 24/7 during programming.
The camp offers residential summer camp, family weekends (families connect with other families), Camp to You (outreach program that brings the camp to the hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Puget Sound), and family day adventures.
Positive outcomes result from the week at camp. Some children’s providers attend camp to build relationships and increase comfort with the providers. Easier to form friendships, increased coping skills and resilience, increase in openness and self-esteem.
It costs about $2,500 per kid to host a child for the week of camp. Camp is open to children ages 7-17. There is a lengthy application process. Doctors review the children’s medical needs to ensure they can serve them. The camp has to turn away some children due to capacity.
The property for Camp Korey is located near Lake McMurray, just north of Arlington in Mount Vernon. It's the property that was once know as Camp Brotherhood. There are 23 existing buildings and there is a plan to add more and renovate. They want to expand their capacity. There are many volunteer opportunities year round.
Josh was a social worker and learned about SeriousFun through college. He started volunteering at sister camps and got hooked. Once he found out about the job with Camp Korey he knew it was perfect for him.
Before purchasing the property, the camp was on leased property in Carnation.
There are many volunteer opportunities and the non-profit is always looking for donations. For more visit Camp Korey's website: Click on Camp Korey
At our meeting on January 25, Arlington School District Superintendent Chrys Sweeting introduced four students of the quarter for us to honor.
Our members donated enough money for a record 106 Christmas food baskets this year, which caused our Project Director Devin to proclaim "!!!! HOLY COW!!!!! ...As always, you are all awesome!"
We have been fortunate the last couple of years to have Grocery Outlet of Arlington as our food purveyor. We can get much more for our money! Mel Simpson, who owns the store with her husband Mike, is a member of our club. Mike is on the board of the Arlington Community Food Bank.
Mike Moves Food for Baskets Out to Load
The Food Bank provides us names of families who have requested food and have been screened for eligibility. This year it was able to provide names with addresses and phone numbers for delivery of 48 baskets in Arlington and 15 in Darrington. The balance of our donated food baskets were delivered to the Food Bank for pickup by families.
Life Church 360 in Smokey Point has been a supporter of our project. In addition to donating funds for 10 of the baskets and providing volunteers, it provides a trailer to transport the food from Grocery Outlet to the Arlington Boys and Girls Club where the food is sorted into the boxes
for delivery.
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This is the second year we have had help from the AHS Interact Club which our club sponsors. With all of the help, we were able to sort and fill boxes in just 14 minutes!
This annual project takes the place of our regular noon meeting. Box lunches were provide to members and the many volunteers.
Interactors also helped deliver boxes. Here are a couple of deliveries:
Some of the basket recipients were ready with thank you notes for our club. Here are a couple:
For more photos check out the album in the right column. There is also a carousal on our home page and on our Face Book page.
Brooke Burdick-Director of Community Outreach
Brooke Burdick from Habitat for Humanity (HFH) spoke to the club about the non-profit organization.
HFH helps low income families with low income housing. They provide for low income families by providing volunteer labor and financing. They believe everyone deserves a decent home to live in. HFH is one of the largest non-profit.
Many families apply for each project. A committee selects the recipient. Those not selected are referred to other agencies for housing assistance.
HFH builds locally and internationally. 20 people are going to Honduras this August. This is a more meaningful travel experience for people. The volunteers build next to local people. It is very enriching for the volunteers.
Volunteer groups from large and small businesses help with the builds.
HFH has stores around Snohomish County. One is opening in Smokey Point in the former Food Pavilion building in June. Furniture, appliances, home supplies are sold in the stores. All products are donated. Please donate! Donating materials and appliances keep it out of the landfills. Donating is a great way to recycle products. They cannot take all furniture or badly scratched materials.
HFH employs volunteers in the stores. A lot of high school students complete their volunteer hours in the stores.
A project in Gold Bar will begin in May. The property was donated. A small home will be built to support a family of four. Projects have been completed throughout Snohomish County.
HFH works with other organizations to educate people on how to get a home. They educate people how to repair credit and obtain a home loan without a down payment.
2 out of 3 children of families in Habitat homes will go to college. Homeowners are required to spend 500 hours building. They invest sweat equity in the property and learn how to take care of a home while building. Home Depot and Lowes provide materials and teach classes.
HFH has built in Houston after the hurricane. They built in Louisiana, Thailand, Honduras.
The new home owner owns the home, not the land. The owner can sell the house but it has to go through HFH and to a new HFH recipient. Any equity goes to the selling home owner.
If you are interested in volunteering please contact Brooke.
Dave Drummond, a film location scout and manager, spoke to our club about the film industry in Washington. He finds locations for film, TV, and commercial projects that film in Washington State. Once a location is identified he handles logistics on location.
Months before filming starts he reads the script with the director to identify what they are looking for in Washington. He then goes out to identify candidates for each location for the film (i.e. gas station, house, downtown, etc.). He then narrows them down with the producers. He negotiates payments, contracts, permits, budgeting, logistics. They will compensate the homeowners and business owners for the use of the property.
Drones have tremendously changed the film making industry. They provide cheap and easy aerial coverage.
The most challenging locations in Washington are in the forests, Mt. Baker, wilderness, remote locations.
Gray’s Anatomy films 85% of the show in LA. They come up to Seattle 2-3 times per year to films scenes in Seattle.
Approximately, 500-1,000 people work in film in Seattle.