July 13th Meeting Notes

It was our pleasure to welcome Jim Byrd who is our Assistant Governor for District 5050 Area L to both the Board meeting and the regular meeting. We were also happy to once again have Brad Schultz as a guest. He is a part of our Rotary family and we need to have him officially join our fun loving group.

Ed shared how much fun he had sailing the past weekend and another life milestone of being marry to the lovely Chris for 52 years. Traci and Brad talked about their trip to Canada for a car show event, Alicia was thrilled that the permits finally came through for the septic replacement, Chet was happy to finally be walking again and Hank had a fun bike ride but got a sore butt.

It was the first meeting of the Rotary year with our new president Lyn Waldrop, and it went as swimmingly as expected. Lyn presented Ashley with her official President Elect pin and thanked her for her commitment to the Club.

Lyn thanked all the members for helping put together a fantastic and crazy “Rotating of the Wheel” on June 28th.  We had a few brave souls who showed us an interesting side and made the event very fun and special.

A huge thank you to all of those who participated in this busy weekend of volunteering. We had a record number of members come out to help with the Cool Bayview Night’s Car Show as well at the Choochokam Arts Festival.

We sang happy birthday to Doug Coutts who will be celebrating his birthday this coming Saturday.

Ashley did a great job of facilitating an assembly where potential projects for the coming year were presented and discussed. Following the presentation, members were given an opportunity to rate and vote on the ones they would like to see move forward.

Ashley announced that the next roadside cleanup will be on July 27th. We will meet at the corner of Honeymoon Bay Road and Hwy 525 at 4:30. The roadside cleanup will be done in place of the meeting and member’s attendance will be counted. Please let Ashley know if you can participate in the cleanup. A social will be held afterwards at the Taproom located at Bayview corner.

Lyn reminded everyone that the District 5050 Golfun tournament is coming up on August 7, and will be held at the Whidbey Golf Club in Oak Harbor. Our Club will have a team and all non-golfers are encouraged to sign up for the dinner. Have fun while supporting the Rotary International Foundation Polio Plus Program. There’s still time—Register now.