Christine Egelstad receives to Paul Harris certificate and pin from Bob Howe, chair of our Club Foundation on Friday, February 6th.  Rotary International honors individuals who donate $1,000 or more to the Rotary Foundation with a certificate, pin and medallion. 

The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. Since it was founded over 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.  Thank you, Christine.

Supporting the Hawks as part of the Rotary 12’s and the Super Bowl on Sunday at 3:30pm

Rhianne Janovich, Waste Management was our guest speaker on Friday, 23rd.The core values by Waste Management are sustainability which is a community effort in Lake Stevens. Waste Management contract with the City runs through 2030. There are ten employees in Lake Stevens. The contract with the city includes bulk item pick ups are available along with garbage and recycling. For bulk item pick up, just call the Waste Management office. The life cycles of materials are important to understand because it all ties together to reduce, reduce and recycle.

The Recycling Center in Woodinville daily intake is over 650 tons per day. Recycling matters because their are economic and environmental benefits. If you didn't know this fact, every product we make comes from some material on earth. It's up to us to determine where the materials end up.

Two of our Club members had ribbon cutting ceremonies hosted by the Greater Lake Stevens Chamber of Commerce on Friday morning. Lake Stevens Charitable Thrift ceremony at 10 am owned and operated by Jeff and Rickelle Pegrum and Global Credit Union managed by CaSandra Sargent followed at 11 am. A nice crowd representing the community with Mayor Brett Gailey and Councilwoman Tosha Edwards joined members from the Chamber, Rotary and community welcoming these two businesses to Lake Stevens.

Cliff Kraushaar gave an impromptu classification talk on Friday, January 9th. Cliff has been a banker for the past 34 years. Both of his parents have been in Rotary for 40+ years and attended many, many RI Conventions all over the world. Cliff was raised in Southern California and wanted to be a broadcaster. As part of that dream at the UCLA KUCLA broadcast center, Cliff interviewed Al Gore, U. S. Senator Alan Cranston and Jeb Bush.

Cliff started in the mortgage business and turned to commercial lending blending banking with arts and science. Cliff has worked for GE Capital.  He was a Junior Achievement volunteer. He has coached a lot of soccer in his life, keeping the same group together for eight years until they turned 18.  Married to Susan. Dan McQuire was his high school quarterback.