Lake Report (Aug 16, 2016)

Our Rotary Club Meetings are at the Lake Stevens School District Educational Service Center located at 12309 22nd St NE. We start at 7:30 am. There is a robust continental breakfast available beforehand. Visitors are always welcome. Our mailing address is PO Box 908 Lake Stevens, WA 98258.

Sep 16, 2016
Hazel Borden
Alzheimer's - The Longest Day

Sep 23, 2016
Sonia Gustafson
Lake Stevens Library

Oct 07, 2016
Harv Jubie
The Permanent Fund of The Rotary Foundation

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Breakfast Sponsors

August 19 - Dave Johnson

August 26 - Laurie Westover

(meeting at Fire Conference Center)

September 2 - Lance Morehouse

September 9 - ???

(meeting at Fire Conference Center)

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This Week's Meeting

Posted by James Monroe on Aug 15, 2016

Our meeting this week includes a presentation on CPR by David Petersen, Public Educator/Assistant Fire Marshal, Lake Stevens Fire Department. Seattle and the Puget Sound Region is a leader in the nation with CPR-trained citizens. You are part of the solution of saving lives. David has been with the Department since 2009 and was promoted last fall to provide fire prevention and fire safety information to our community.

Ed Note: We recently discovered that last week's Bulletin never got sent to our readers due to WiFi access difficulties. We apologize. We have included the articles that were in that edition.

CONTEST: Be the first person to correctly identify from where the photograph at the top of this bulletin and at the top of our website was taken from by 7:30 am, Friday August 19th.

Around the Club

Posted by Gary O'Rielly on Aug 17, 2016

AquaFest 2017: Our program last week was a thorough discussion of AquaFest/Duck Dash 2016 followed by a discussion and suggestions for 2017. Tracy sent out a AquaFest Wish List 2017, so please review the list and enter any of your thoughts. It is apparent that we have to change our Duck Dash race. 1) The last two years, Catherine Creek water flow has been too low. A number of suggestions were made and a number of alternatives are being discussed. 2) The booth needs more signage announcing the Duck Dash ticket sales and the Diaper Dash. 3) Our participation in the parade. Another part of the discussion involved more members being in charge of the different areas of AquaFest/Diaper Dash/Duck Dash and the race; booth sign ups which Tracy has already volunteered to do; AquaFest signage; Duck Dash tickets sales, sponsors and signage; parade entry and signage and set up & tear down; Diaper Dash marketing and signage just to name a few of the examples discussed at our meeting.

Board Meeting: The Board meeting included an outline of the 2016-17 budget; input from Sam regarding AquaFest and changes that are needed to help us achieve a better and more profitable outcome while putting more people in charge of the various activities. Gary announced that several members need to pay their semi-annual dues.

Around the Club, Community and District:

Sept. 10th District PR Boot Camp #1 - Marketing and Strategic Planning at the Silver Reef Casino Hotel in Ferndale. This is the first of three PR Boot Camps designed to assist club Rotarians in marketing our events, working with other area clubs and promoting our club and Rotary as we get ready to celebrate the final case of polio and the 100th Anniversary of the Rotary Foundation.

Sept 12th - Skate Park - Open house by the Lake Stevens Parks Commission, the City and County and a presentation by Grindline showing three skate park designs. Skate boarders were encouraged to complete the questionnaire distributed by Grindline at their initial meeting. To access the Grindline questionnaire, you can to skate park Facebook page at https://surveymonkey.com/r/QXVKJMY. Please share this information with skateboarders and young people interested in the skate park. Input is needed within the next few days.

Sept 17 or 24th - Park and Roadside Cleanup. More information to follow.

Sept 24th - RLI in Mount Vernon at the Best Western Skagit Valley Inn and Convention Center.

Oct. 15th - District Pr Boot Camp #2 on Club Runner.

Nov. 05th - District PR Boot Camp #3 on Facebook and social media.

Lake Stevens Fire

Posted by Gary O'Rielly on Aug 09, 2016

Our program August 6th was our own member, Kevin O'Brien, Chief of the Lake Stevens Fire accompanied by Dave Peterson, Assistant Fire Marshal. Lake Stevens Fire serves the City of Lake Stevens, Hartford, Frontier Village, Cavelero, Glennwood, Georgetown, Machias and Forest Glade as well as Soper Hill, Sunnyside and Ebey Island north of the Trestle.

Kevin talked about their planning process, "Planning for Tomorrow-Serving People, Saving Life and Protecting Property." New recruits go through twelve weeks of Academy training in North Bend. Lake Stevens Fire is involved in technical rescue training at Station #83 - Machias and they partner with communities in the surrounding areas; participate in National Night Out with a library booth presenting books to young children for someone to read to them which is courtesy of the Friends of the Library. Theme, secret agents of safety. The department serves 42,350 with paramedic service to Granite Falls and Lake Rossinger. The department has 88 employees from firefighters, paramedics to administration support and volunteer chaplains.

Lake Stevens Fire is about to embark on architectural design for the most reasonable facilities such as Station #83 at Machias which only houses two employees. In terms of LSF leadership, Deputy Chief Larry Huff has been around for 21 years. The newest member is Deputy Chief/Fire Marshal Mike Messer.

LSF prepares an annual yearly report of their operations. Fires are fairly low at 3%. Big grouping of emergency calls. Service strategy Fire and EMS is that they attempt to reach us within 4-6 minutes. The department provides wild land firefighting support. The next fire engine will be here in January. It such a great honor to have such a great Fire Department in our community with great leadership and a wonderful group of employees at all levels of the Department.

Cavelero Park Community Outreach

Posted by Gary O'Rielly on Aug 09, 2016

The City hosted an open house with Snohomish County Parks, Lake Stevens Park Board and Grindline Inc. at an open house on Monday, August 8th to discuss the new Skatepark at Cavelero Park and provide input on the elements to be included in the 15,000 sq. ft. design.

Mical Shapiro, Marketing & sales/Lead Deisgner from Grindline was on hand to give the community information on the skatepark and some of their history. Shapiro has been a skateboarder since 1986 and has skated all over the world and in competition. The company has built skateparks all over the United States and in our own region. From Iron Horse Park in Baker, MT to North Houston Skate Park to Roxhill Park in Seattle to Texas and Hawaii, they have been deeply involved in the design and development of Skate Parks.

Shapiro distributed a Cavelero Skatepark questionnaire and comment form. Unfortunately, most of attending were adutls and very few users of a skatepark. Also attending the meeting was Tom Teigen, Director Snohomish County Parks, Recreation and Tourism who praised our Rotary Club for being such a long time advocate of a Skate Park in Lake Stevens. Incidently, Tom is an accomplished skateboarder as well and our biggest county supporter for the skatepark. Several Council members along with Mayor John Spencer were on hand. Several Rotarians from our club were on hand for last nights meeting.

Input on the design concept is needed within the next 7-12 days according to Mical Shapiro. On our SkatePark Facebook page, Jim Kelly has set up the following web link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QXVKJMY which is the equivalent of the Grindline questionnaire. Please share this with teens and those skateboards in our community who can offer input into the design process.

The next public meeting with the county, city and Grindline is scheduled for September 12th at 6pm. Location to be announced at a later date.

Program Ideas Sought

Posted by James Monroe on Aug 07, 2016

We are seeking ideas for our weekly programs. If you have a subject, presenter or idea for our weekly programs, please contact James Monroe with that information. Thank you.

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September 7, 2016