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Program Last Week - INDIGENOUS ROOTS AND REPARATION FOUNDATION
With Mary Big Bull Lewis,
sponsored & introduced by Ken Robertson
The Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation (IRRF) is an Indigenous lead nonprofit established in 2021 to preserve history, culture, traditions and language through education and advocacy. Our goal is to provide a space on ancestral homelands for members of all tribes to practice cultural traditions, ceremony, and fellowship. This space will also serve as a hub for tribal members displaced by wildfire. IRRF strives to build relationships within our community for the purpose of Earth preservation, recognition of the intrinsic value of all species and ecosystems, ensuring clean water and air, and returning human activity to a balanced, sustainable level. READ MORE
View ATTENDANCE for this and recent meetings, including a multitude of interesting guests.
IMAGINE ROTARY.
Our 8th district Congresswoman Dr. Kim Schrier give a moving tribute on the House Floor this week, honoring our polio hero Carmen Bossenbrock. Click the image to watch. Reminder, view our scrolling photo collection of Carmen on our website (upper left).
NEW-MEMBER INDUCTION. Katie Blair, at long last, has joined the club which sponsored her for a Rotary Youth Exchange to France (2006-07) after she helped to establish our Interact Club at Wenatchee High School. Katie is shown here with her parents and sponsor PP Kory Kalahar.
PP Mike Kintner gave the traditional but unique charge in which he likened Rotary actions of service to great artwork which he discovered on Rotary websites
A charge is given at all inductions, and is intended to encourage and inspire all members, new and old.
Membership Networking Event on September 29, 5:30- 7 PM. Invite community members who are passionate about the environment, are looking for ways to make an impact in the community or want to hang out with like- minded individuals. Use the QR code. (Note - it is also P/E Michelle's birthday!)
October 22 - We need 5 people to sign up to help with two projects at Camp Zanika. Join Gary Provo,Sean Cooper and Thomas Everly for a day of service, connecting and lunch at the 59er diner. Sign up by emailing Gary Provo at garyallanprovo@gmail.com
Pete Van Well announced 2 Polio fundraisers for World Polio Day. The second annual pre-paid pickup dinner for 2 on October 22 (Make-a-Difference Day), $60. This year there will be options. A payment method will be provided next week. Volunteers are needed (5-10).
"Pennies for Polio" at Pybus, Fridays, 9-1.
ASSISTANT GOVERNOR (AG) VISIT. Area-8 AG Shanley Crane (PP E. Wenatchee Rotary) complimented our collaboration with other local clubs in continued cooperation in local projects. She reminded us of the D5060 annual business meeting October 15.
Shanley's big news was to announce that our own PP Mike Kintner will become the AG effective on July 1.
SERVICE.
FOOD TRUCK KNIGHT AT WVC. Wenatchee and Confluence Rotary Members turned out to support the WVC Foundation Food Truck Knight on Friday. Not in the picture was Alfonso Lorenzo, Xavier Arniez, Allan Galbraith, Jill Leonard, and Rachel Evey. Many Rotarians attended from all the clubs in the Wenatchee Valley.
PEACE POLE PROJECT DONATIONS. We are still encouraging Rotary Club members, families and friends to donate to the Peace Pole Project. Please see an updated story about the project here.
Print fundraising form HERE. Complete and mail with a check to: Wenatchee Rotary Foundation, PO Box 1723, Wenatchee WA, 98807-1723. The campaign will extend into next year.
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE PROJECTS. Natalie Williams of Wenatchee Rotary Enviros wants the club to know that we have two opportunities to make a positive environmental impact.
1) The Rotary Enviros invite all Rotarians to collaborate with us planting a pollinator garden on Oct. 22, which is Rotary's "Make a Difference Day (MADD)" focus. Three Rotary clubs are working together with the city to create the Wenatchee Pollinator Garden.
We have received permission from Wenatchee Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Services Dept. to use the small area at Columbia and Kittitas (Columbia Station Park & Ride lot, just east of the intersection) for our pollinator garden. We will be moving one-foot squares of rocks out of the way, cutting through the weed block, removing dirt into buckets, and planting native species plants. We will hook up drip lines to existing irrigation. It's definitely a gloves and knee-pads kind of project!
We need about 20 people from 3 clubs to show up at 10 AM, and bring a sun hat, gloves, hand trowel, knee pads & a 5 gal bucket (if possible).
Natalie will bring sharp knives to cut the landscape fabric.
Bring your own lunch.
2) A few Rotarians in various clubs have been pursuing the glass recycling issue for months. Momentum has reached a point where we need to collaborate. Three Rotary clubs will work together with the City and County to bring glass recycling back to the Wenatchee Valley. Come to our Brainstorming Kick-off and learn what avenues are already in work: September 30 at 4:30 at the Highlander Grill in East Wenatchee.
Check out the upcoming events for the Club, District 5060, and Rotary International
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT
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GREETERS THIS WEEK
Pete Van Well
ASSISTANT GOVERNOR (AG) VISIT. Area-8 AG Shanley Crane (PP E. Wenatchee Rotary) complimented our collaboration with other local clubs in continued cooperation in local projects. She reminded us of the D5060 annual business meeting October 15. 
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE PROJECTS. Natalie Williams of Wenatchee Rotary Enviros wants the club to know that we have two opportunities to make a positive environmental impact.