Duck Dash Winners & Sponsors Recognized

And Some More Paul Harris Awards

With New President Simona in Colombia, our first meeting of the new Rotary year was chaired by our President Elect and Duck Dash 2019 Chair, Bryce. Probably appropriate since our meeting was dedicated to thanking our Duck Dash sponsors and recognizing a couple of our winners. But before recognizing winners, some Paul Harris Awards were made. The award is a recognition of at least $1,000 being contributed to the Rotary Foundation in the person's name or application of accumulated points from previous gifts.

Three Paul Harris Awards were given, all related to the Great Stilly Duck Dash. Funds we raised have been used to build the playground and splash pad at Haller Park. Rotarians Bryce Duskin and Linda Byrnes were each recognized for their project leadership. In addition, Terry Marsh, a non-Rotarian, was recognized for making our our wood duck plaques--113 to date.

Paul Harris Awards

Since Linda, upper left, already has her Paul Harris plus 8 (meaning $9,000 has been donated in her name), with this contribution she becomes a major donor and no long receives a new pin. Bryce, on the right, is recognized with his Paul Harris plus 3. Foundation Director, Kathy McCone presented the awards to Linda and Bryce. Cindy Huleatt announced the Paul Harris Award for Terry and Kathy presented the pin in the lower left. In the lower right you can see an example of the wood ducks Terry has made in his shop.

Winners

All of our 2019 winners are from or are connected to Arlington. First prize winner, Michael Leon, is out of town and will be at our July 25 meeting.

	One of our members, Jennifer Rancourt, is the Judge at Cascade Division of Snohomish County District Court. Because of her position, she is prohibited from selling Duck Dash tickets to the public. She therefore purchased tickets herself in the name of charities. One of the charities, and the winner of the 2nd prize of $5,000 was the Arlington Community Food Bank. Mike Simpson, Board President, and Carla Gastineau, Director of the Food Bank were present to accept the second place check. Thank you Jennifer!
	Jodi Erickson, of Arlington, had the 3rd fastest duck. She has been purchasing tickets for many years from Cindy Huleatt. It finally paid off. She is employed at Arlington Hardware and is seen below as accepting the certificate for Arlington Hardware. Jodi's husband Greg just retired as athletic director for the Marysville School District. The timing is right Jodi to use these funds for some traveling!
	Group Photo of the 2nd and 3rd place winners.

Our sponsorship chair, Jola, gave some statistics and facts. We initiated the sponsorship program 15 years ago to help us defray the $30,000 to $40,000 in Duck Dash expenses. Since then we have raised over $600,000 in sponsorships helping us raise funds for the two Haller Park projects. In 2018 we raised over $105,000 from our generous sponsors allowing us to give $55,000 in scholarships this year to graduating seniors. We have made a commitment to dedicate half of funds raised from sponsors for scholarships.

The only continuous sponsor for 15 years is Bailey, Duskin & Peiffle. Eagle Family Dental and Nelson Petroleum have donated for 14 years. There are several 12 and 13 year donors. Dwayne Lane's Chevrolet stepped up 7 years ago to be our platinum sponsor, donating $10,000 for each of those years.

Not all of the Duck Dash sponsors could be present, but here are photos of those that were represented receiving plaques and/or certificates:

Dwayne Lane's Chev.-Platinum	Eagle Family Dental-Gold	McCarthy Construction-Gold
Skagit Regional Health-Silver	Arlington Electric-Silver	Arlington Health & Rehab-Silver

Arlington Pharmacy-Silver	Cascade Kropz-Silver	Edward Jones-Silver
Grocery Outlet-Silver	R.L. Chippendale Accounting-Bronze	Bailey, Duskin & Peiffle-Bronze

Roy Robinson Chev.-Bronze	Alliance Partition Systems-Bronze	Arlington Hardware-Bronze
Banner Bank-Bronze	Blue Bird Cafe-Bronze	Joe Klein Farmers Insurance-Bronze