Secretary Frank has been sending reminder text messages using Group messaging. Reply 'STOP' when you don't want these anymore, or email Frank HERE if you are not getting them.
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ZOOM LINK. Any Rotarian or friend of Rotary may attend. "Waiting Room" enabled.
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Two classification talks were presented, first by Sean Cooper, then Matthew Michelson.
Sean joined the club February 6, 2020; he was sponsored and introduced by Garry Sparks. Sean is the President and CCO of Fit Financial Consulting LLC and best-selling author of “The Truth About Investing: Back to Basics”.
He attained his MBA with a focus in finance from the University of Colorado and his BSBA with a major in finance from the University of Denver. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) designations. Sean enjoys spending time with his wife, Anastasia, and two lops, Beast and Belle. In his free time, he tries to do as much hiking, SCUBA diving, traveling, and reading as he can. Some key dates in his timeline: Born in 1987, became a certified financial planner in 2016, married Anastasia in 2017. He grew up in Morten, WA. Some of his images are shown below help illustrate his story. He also showed a video of a recent scuba adventure, finding a huge eel.
L to R - Sean's dad, mom, brother, wife
Anastasia, brother-in-law and sister.
At home with wife and 2 pet rabbits
L to R - Matthew snoozing with "Beast",
dancing at wedding, scuba diving, at the beach with friends
Matthew Michelson was sponsored and introduced by PP Pete Van Well.
Matthew joined the club November 7, 2019. He is proud to be the Food Service and On- Premise Area Sales Manager at Swire Coca-Cola, USA, which produces, sells and distributes Coca-Cola and other beverages in 13 states across the American West, including parts of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. He has worked for Swire about 12 years, starting at the bottom. Born in Bremerton, he graduated from Omak High School in 2005 and attended Wenatchee Valley College. He has one older sister Sara, and younger brother Joshua. Growing up he enjoyed playing outdoor sports. and basketball. Some of his images shown below help to illustrate his story.
President Kory Kalahar opened the ZOOM meeting to 36 members with Thomas Everly as ZOOM host. As usual, Raz provided a flag for the pledge.
Important guest. Welcome Phil Schultz, Exec. Director, Wenatchee Rescue Mission!
FELLOWSHIP (continuing). Members are encouraged to join a small group of retired Rotarians meeting at Walla Walla Point Park each Friday morning at 9:30-10:30, at the parking lot nearest TTC. You will need lawn chair and your favorite coffee.
FELLOWSHIP (special). Several great events are happening this month.....
Rose' at the Rose’s; - Monday October 12th on the patio from 5-7; signup with Jill HERE. Bring your preferred wine/beverage, food will be provided.
Halloween at the Meyers'; get scary at Alice and Tim's orchard in Quincy, 10/31 (5-8 PM). More later. Save the date.
Virtual Beer Tasting. Made in Wenatchee: Wenatchee Valley Brewing Virtual Beer Tasting Event. October 14, 7-8 PM. $40 pp. Click HERE for info and registration; a joint project with the Museum.
Projects. Rich Peters is seeking more volunteers to help with many improvement projects at Rotary Park on Make-a-Difference Day October 24 (3rd Saturday). See email blast of 10/02.
Help for tribal fire victims. River Warrior Society is coordinating site cleanup for fire victims. 10/1 - 10/4.
District 5060 COVID Grant. A second COVID support grant for $1000 was available; we re-applied and CVCH has been granted another $1K reimbursement check for more PPE!
WORLD POLIO DAY. (Oct. 24). PPPPete Van Well reminded us of plans to observe the occasion again this year to include a silent auction with Auto-Mocha as a sponsor, matching each donation up to $1,000 (which means each dollar becomes $6 with the Gates match). There will be prizes (Treats/No tricks) for the top donations, including 4 dozen cupcakes from Jodi Gerber. We hope E. Wenatchee joins us on this. More later.
YMCA Annual Meeting. October 6, noon. To attend, contact Dorry Foster here: dorry@wenymca.org
Pandemic Bike Ride. Rescheduled to October 3. We wish Ken, Allan, and Jay our best.
Beatrice at Colchuck. Repeated if you missed it. We would like to add any photos of her to a new dedicated site page, as well as other past RYE students. See photos/info below.
Stupid Stuff by Kory. See below
Would You Rather? Would you rather be constantly hungry no matter how much you eat or would you rather be constantly tired no matter how much sleep you get daily? (Note - only 25 images can be seen)
IMPORTANT CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS APPLESEED:
Gene Anderson was a Cougar, not a Husky.
Gene threatened to accuse the secretary of being a Tar Heel.
STUPID STUFF BY KORY
Kory tried to be part of a rock band in his 30s, but decided it was stupid in light of his very busy life. The band was named "Rough Start. Not the smartest thing to do when I was teaching full time, working on my admin certification, waiting tables at Bob’s Classic two nights a week, and raising my three children. But...it was fun!"
The meeting of October 01 was hosted by Thomas Everly.
Before returning home to Italy, Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) student Beatrice Sandrini was treated to a hike at Lake Colchuck with two of our members, Bryan Campbell and Allan Galbraith.
To see the entire amazing collection, CLICK HERE, to reach a new site page, then click the "slide show" button for best effect. If you have other photos with her to add, send them to secretary Frank HERE. Frank would also like to create more site pages with photos of previous RYE students.
Note to Beatrice and other prior exchange students: get yours posted also.
The goal of the Project is to reach out to local homeless, high-risk & in-need teen students during the holidays to let them know they matter and have not been forgotten by their community. Top priorities of each year's main event are to: invite locals to "Stuff-a-Sackpack" with practical, fun and non-perishable food items as well as a handwritten card of encouragement. In addition, warm clothing & essential needs of teens are met as much as possible. Stuff-a-Sackpack was started in 2014 as an outreach for 80 teens at Solomon’s Porch and has evolved into partnerships with 5 local schools: Wenatchee High School, WestSide High School, Eastmont High School, Eastmont Junior High School & Wenatchee Valley Tech Center.
We are here to strengthen and enrich the downtown Wenatchee experience.
We are cheerleaders for local small businesses, defenders of our historic downtown, promoters of local culture and ringleaders of those who will help us! The Wenatchee Downtown Association is a non-profit organization that believes implicitly in the value of each individual’s contribution, whether it be financial contributions, great ideas or hours spent volunteering.
SPONSOR OF THE WEEK
Our current sponsors are those who generously sponsored our 2020 auction
Year-end membership - 178. The club hosted District 5060 TRF dinner, and begun preparations for a World Community Service project in Honduras under direction of Dr. Terry Sorom.
