Empowering Women to Thrive: Dawn Dietz and the Hoff Foundation Programs

Dawn Dietz, Administrator of the Hoff Foundation

Providing Help: Helping Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with Lauren Stiger

Lauren Stiger, Development and Volunteer Manager, Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County

Ryan Brown, Executive Director of LINC NW

Outstanding Student Awards: April 2024

From Puppies to Partners: Guide Dogs for the Blind: Snohomish Puppy Raisers

Our guest speaker, Rebecca Minelga, an 18 year Snohomish Puppy Raiser expert, and her current trainee, Coast!

Dr. Lee Harman: Miss Vicky's Triumph; A Journey for PolioPlus:

Meals 'til Monday Funded

Cinco de Mayo Party

Scholarships for Graduating High School Seniors

Carol Tichelman, District Governor

Local Businesses Donate 100% of Sponsorships to 2021 Scholarships

Dr. Pete's Classification Talk

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Super Bowl We had a family Super Bowl Fireside in the Teen Center at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club.  Here are a few photos from the album::

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1. Service
2. Fellowship
3. Diversity
4. Integrity
5. Leadership

1. Club Service
2. Vocational Service
3. Community Service
4. International Service
5. Youth

• Joined in 1974
• Club secretary 76-78
• President 78-79- changed name to North Snohomish County
• Hosted first rotary exchange student 1978
• Rotary project- joined board of Senior Center
• Served on and chaired many committees

• Trainings
  • District training assembly
  • RLI
  • Grants Seminars
  • PETS
• Support
  • Assistant Governor
  • Online help
• International Youth Exchange
• District Grants
• Global Grants
• Fellowship Opportunities Beyond the Club
  • District Conference
  • Rotary at Work Day

Alessia Rama & Italy

Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves

• Increase Our Impact
• Expand Our Reach
• Enhance Participant Engagement
• Increase our ability to adapt

• Rotary Learning Institute-Nov. 2 & Mar. 8-9
• District Training Assembly-Apr. 4
• Rotary International’s Learning Center (open an account-myrotary.org)
• Visioning-(the District has a team)
• The District 5050 Website

Leadership Snohomish County is the only leadership program specific to Snohomish County. Participants expand their leadership skills while gaining a greater commitment to their community.  One of the goals is to break the belief that jobs in Snohomish County are stepping stones to go elsewhere. 

3 different classes are offered by organization:  Signature Class, Young Professional, and Racial Equity.  Here is a summary of each from the organizations website:

Signature Program:  The Signature Class is for professionals with some leadership experience in community roles, from varied career, educational, political, and cultural backgrounds, who are ready to explore local issues and leadership strategies to prepare for civic involvement. 

Enrollment includes participation in a two-day retreat held September 19 and 20, seven all-day Education Days October-April (either the first or second Thursday of each month), participation in a team community impact project, a research interview, an all-day equity and inclusion workshop and a presentation day in May.

Young professionals Program: This program is for young professionals who are able to dedicate time and energy to developing themselves for the betterment of the community and ready for ongoing involvement in civic responsibilities.

Enrollment includes participation in a kickoff luncheon in October, six Education sessions (first Monday of each month, November through March), participation in a team community impact project, an all-day equity and inclusion workshop, and a presentation day in April/May.

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:

 

Sponsors

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

 

One community sponsor was represented at the luncheon-Terra Vista NW Consulting.  For a complete list of all sponsors, click HERE.

 

Although we also paid tribute to the Rotarian who sold the most tickets, we have a celebration to recognize member accomplishments on August 18.  Watch for a later story.

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Lee Takes Miss Vicky From Peking to Paris

Lee Harman and Bill Ward are under way !
 

One of our members, Lee Harman, is currently in the Peking to Paris Road Rally and here is a bit about the journey, that may have to come to a halt about halfway to Paris because of a breakdown. 

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While in Bejing (Peking), Lee Had to Have a Photo with a Peking Duck While our Club is Gearing Up for The Great Stilly Duck Dash

 

Read more below  and scroll on the album posted on this site of Lee's photos:

 

 

Red Cross-Snohomish County

Kelli Thode from the Everett Rotary is the Executive Director of the Snohomish County Red Cross.

In Snohomish Country the Red Cross has about 400 local Volunteers and they help all around the country.  There are 5 lines of service in the Red Cross, Disaster services, blood services, Preparedness Health and Safety services, International Services, Service to Armed Forces. 

IN Washington State there are 7 Chapters.  Snohomish County is one chapter and the office is in Everett.  Last year our chapter responded to 82 home fires in Snohomish County.  A disaster reaction team is a group of 2-4 people that respond to disasters in a home.  There are 5 teams that are on call 24/7 to respond if a disaster happens.  The captain gets the call, they drive out and meet with the resident to figure out insurance, housing and other needs.  They provide monetary assistance for food, emergency clothing and somewhere to stay.  They also bring blankets and comfort kits to help for the first 24-48 hours.

Home fires take the lives of more people annually than any natural disaster. Children and elderly are the most affected my the community.  Home fire campaign helps to distribute smoke detectors in homes and helps to set up home safety plans. 80% of people believe that they know what to do when there is a fire, but many of them don’t have a plan in place.  This is lifesaving for people.

National Home saving Campaign is a recurring program that the Red Cross will continue for years.  They are 10 year lithium ion batteries that won’t need to be changed. Also have bed shaker alarms for people that are deaf or hard of hearing.  Red Cross works with the fire departments to help implement this program.  On April 27 installed 444 alarms in Snohomish county.  Local Snohomish county has one Emergency Response Vehicle  (ERV) that goes throughout the country to respond to disasters.  Red Cross does shelter simulations to help in their training of volunteers.

Locally volunteers are always needed.  Also, if you know of anywhere where the Red Cross can find volunteers or can do a presentation they would love to hear from you.  Honoring Hero’s event every year at Tulalip is their biggest fundraiser of the year.  Also, have a board that helps to be a presence for the Red Cross in their community.  

Copan has about 8,000 people and their main source of income is tourism and farming.  There is an active Rotary club there that the Alliance is connected with.  They are putting in their money and are very active with the efforts. 

There are Mayan villages around Copan.  Problems include access to clean water, education, lack of opportunity for gainful employment, and healthcare access.  Some villages are an hour and a half away from the town.  The terrain is very hilly.  The roads can be impossible to pass under certain conditions. 

IPA’s two major projects include educational and rapid development.  They are supporting 59 schools.  7 kids are going to university.  IPA is supporting about 420 students directly and over 1,400 in the 59 schools.  They are serving about an 1/8 of the students.  Children are staying in school longer since they are being funded and not have to work the farms.

IPA started a pilot program about a year and half ago to assist three villages for “rapid development”.  They assist with creating and running a savings and loan, business planning and implementation, training on customer service, better agricultural techniques and crop expansion, home garden program, and training villagers on basic healthcare. 

A maternity clinic has been equipped by the Sedro Woolley club.  Emergency equipment has been provided to the Red Cross in the area.  IPA can provide minor surgeries and medications and crop training to improve health. 

IPA does water, grain silo, and power projects.  The budget is $200,000 to $250,000 yearly.  There are multiple sources that support the alliance including District grants and private donations.  

IPA is taking on five more villages for the rapid development program.

Our club can become a member of the IPA or donate directly to Friends of the IPA.  You can directly witness the positive effect of the projects, have an opportunity to travel, and meet people. 

For more on the IPA, click HERE

Workforce Snohomish

Rotaract in District 5050

And Snohomish County

W.S.U. Everett (North Puget Sound)

Tony Warner-Banner Bank Manager

EvCC's Aviation Technology Program

Rob Prosch

Rob is the Associate Dean of the Aviation Maintenance Technology Program at Everett Community College.  He is a member of the South Everett/ Mukilteo club and is the District 5050 Membership Chair. The program is FAA regulated and all students need to meet all FAA regulations and state regulations.  FAA inspects the program on a regular basis.  There is a shortage in the Aviation Technology field.  Because of this shortage salaries have gone through the roof.  Students leave the program making $80,000 per year plus overtime.  Students also have a 99% placement rate from the program.

Program has been at Paine Field over 51 years.  They also run the Avionics program.  This is all the electronics on the aircraft.  This program trains them to deal with all the technology on the plane.  They have an A&P Test Prep program.  Almost all student go through this program, also.  They have an industrial painting 40 hour program.  Also have a composites program.  Also looking at other programs to add and grow the division. 

Mechanics need to have FAA licenses to work on a plane.  To do this they need to have Certifications in Airframe Rating and Powerplant Rating.  There are 180 aviation technology schools in the US.  This is on a rebound as many shut down a few years ago.  There are 5 in Washington State.  The curriculum is the same, but the order they do things in is different.

There are certificates available in Aviation Maintenance technology, Aircraft Electronics, Aircraft Wiring, Airframe/Avionics, Aviation Maintenance Technology.  This can transfer to Clover Park for a BAS.  All of these have different timelines and are able to be combined for different needs.  2.4% of the entire aviation industry is female because aviation came out of the military, so it has been highly white male. 

Requirements for the program are that they need to be 18 years old.  They need to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.  They need to have no drug, alcohol, or felony offenses and need to pass a TSA evaluation.  They need to be able to read and write English because the language of aviation is English around the world. 

Students spend 2-3 hours per day in theory and 3-4 hours in lab and hands on projects.  They go to school 5 days per week, 6 hours per day for 4 quarters.  They move through the program as cohorts. The program has 160 students at this time. FAA mandates a minimum amount of attendance hours.  EVCC requires a minimum of 2,227 hours must be attained. The AMTS program costs $20,000 for the 2 year program.