Planned Parenthood is one of the nation’s leading providers of high-quality, affordable health care, and the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With or without insurance, you can always come to us for your health care. Most birth control, annual exams, HIV testing, cervical cancer screening, and STD testing will be covered for free, with no copay. Jillian Danley, Donor Relations Officer for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho will be joining us this week to educate our membership about the wide range of services offered by Planned Parenthood at their Wenatchee location.
WEDNESDAY MAY 1 - ALL-SERVICE-CLUB LUNCHEON
(No regular meeting on Thursday)
WENATCHEE CONVENTION CENTER GRAND BALL ROOM, 121 N. Wenatchee Ave. Coordinated by Wenatchee Central Lions Club, sponsored by Numerica Credit Union.
Tickets $25 per person, or $225 per table of 10.
Get Tickets at the festival office or online here for thisApple Blossom Event .
THE APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL IS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS. Queen Savannah Slife, Princesses Elizabeth Popoff and Oliva Lancaster were our guests Thursday. We had a large attendance.
Queen Savannah
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Oliva
The 3 lovely young ladies of the Royal Court were introduced by our own Bryan Campbell, Prince Regent of the 2019 festival, and a 31-year Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow. Bryan explained a little about the Applarians and praised club members who contribute to the success of festival each year.
Each girl spoke humbly and articulately about their personal lives and interests, and their activities with the 100th Royal Court, while expressing obvious gratitude at being selected. They were poised and confidant as each spoke on various topics and answered lots of questions without hesitation. They also sang a cute song (The Blossom Party Never Ends) which promoted all of the festival sponsors.
These young ladies will be representing Wenatchee at many festivals all over the state of Washington throughout the summer along with their chaperones, Wendy Focht and Allison Womack.
After their presentations, Pete presented them a box of fresh custom cupcakes from Cupcake Blues.
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Savannah is the daughter of Eric and Daphne Slife. Savannah played soccer, basketball, participated in DECA, and has volunteered in many special education programs at her high school. Savannah is involved in Young Life and has been working at the Worx Kid’s Club for 3 years. In Savannah’s spare time she enjoys being active, cooking, painting, and hanging out with friends.
Savannah currently is a full time Running Start student at Wenatchee Valley Community College and completing her associates degree. After graduation, Savannah plans to attend Washington State University and major in elementary education with later plans of getting her masters. She also plans to continue pursuing her own nationwide company, Twisted Tomboy, which she started when she was only 11 years old.
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Olivia is daughter of Rick and Sandra Lancaster. Olivia is the Senior Drum Major of the Wenatchee Golden Apple Band where she plays three instruments, is the treasurer of her school’s Honors Society, and is a returning letterman of cross country and track and field. Olivia also works at Mission Ridge as a ski instructor in the winter, and harvests cherries in the summer. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, being in the outdoors, and hanging out with friends. After graduation, Olivia will be attending Gonzaga University.
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Elizabeth is the daughter of Don and Lisa Popoff. Elizabeth is the Red Zone leader for the student section her high school’s athletic events, editor in chief for her school’s yearbook, and involved in leadership positions including Natural Helpers and Link Leader. Elizabeth has been a competition dancer at the Academy of Dance and Performing Arts and Fabulous Feet Dance Studio for nearly fourteen years, works as a teacher at Fabulous Feet, and interned at RH2 Engineering for the past two summers. In her spare time, she enjoys baking, watching movies, and going on coffee dates with her friends. After graduation, Elizabeth plans to major in biochemistry at the University of Washington and continue her passion for dance.
President Pete opened the meeting of the Susan Wagner of of Rotary clubs and made or allowed the announcements:
Michelle Shermer spoke eloquently for the membership Committee explaining WHY we should ASK others to join us. Listen here to Michelle.
RYE student Chloe is in Kelowna, BC for the event known as Adventures in Tourism. Andy Petro announced our next Exchange student coming after Chloe: Beatrice Sandrini of Italy, who turns 17 soon. Host families will be needed. Brittany Dudek was approved by the board to attend the RYLA experience May 23-26; she was also an exchange student (to Korea 4 years ago).
There will soon be a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recent Rotary Park improvements.
We had one member who showed up to help with the Second Harvest food distribution last week: The Inimitable Chuck Jinneman! Way to go Chuck!
Pete mentioned that he attended the Rotary Leadership Institute over the weekend where he saw an excellent Rotary video which offered many good reasons for WHY we are Rotarians. To watch it, click hereRotary Peace Video .
Fellowship dinners are coming soon.
Pete's Good News: Susan Wagner, the wife of the area's first apple shipper, founded the Apple Blossom Festival, 100 years ago; the first Queen was Fern Powell. It was called Blossom Days.
Our wonderful exchange student Chloe (Belgium) has been in Kelowna, BC this week attending the annual ADVENTURES IN TOURISM event. Our members cheerfully chipped in enough cash to make this possible for her, to add to her growing list of exciting activities. Soon she will hopefully speak to the club with details of her experience. See 3 photos below.
CENTENNIAL AWARENESS SERIES
#14 - OUR PAST PRESIDENTS - #14
Our fourteenth club president :
Harvey Mills
The club sent many under-privileged children to summer camp and sponsored a cabin at Camp Zanika.
Join Kory Kalahar & John McDarment on the Centennial Committee . Help plan the January 16, 2021 big celebration gala at the Wenatchee Convention Center.
CAROL NORTON
Loved, respected servant of this club and Rotary for 42 plus years. She served as Executive Secretary beginning in in 1967. She left the club in June 2012 and was an honorary member until her passing on March 26, 2019.
Thanks very much to those of you that have given toward the new Carol Norton WSU Scholarship fund. So far we have raised $2375 against an initial goal of $10,000. Please keep this perpetual scholarship fund in mind and if possible include in your giving budget. Gifts are tax deductible and there are many ways to give:
One time cash or check
Pledge and budget over two or three years
Bequest - Include an amount in your will
Help in reaching out to Legacy Members or PR in the community
Keep up to date with Karen Russell on her personal Caring Bridge page.
Karen is the faithful partner of Jim Russell, Wenatchee Rotary president 2016-17.
They were led to relocate to Western Washington in June 2018 because of their daughter's health problems. Now, Karen has serious health issues of her own. Jim is an Honorary member.
We are a stand alone nonprofit managed by members of this club. Each year one third of this board is up for reelection; or after two terms replacement. The annual meeting of the Foundation will be during the Club's May 16th lunch meeting and the election will take place at that time. See chart below for list of current officers and board.
We encourage any of you interested in running for an open position to let me know. We are a working board (about an hour per month of your time plus a one hour meeting most months). We seek two skill sets: 1. Those interested in helping us grow our corpus - fundraising. 2. Those interested in helping award scholarships and gifts. This is a fun and rewarding board and I hope you will consider joining us.
SPEAKERS. Are you thinking of sponsoring a speaker? Guidelines are posted on our website under the main menu. Or click here.
End Polio Now/Club 60: Our ambitious goal was set by President Pete at $10,000. On April 18, donations by club members to the Club-60 cups was $38.04 (minus the Canadian coins)bringing our total to $7,291, or $21,873with the Gates match! This equates to 36,528 lives potentially saved!
$7,291
Note: We continue our 10-year relationship with the Gates Foundation. Since 2013, they have matched each dollar with $2 toward polio eradication. Collections at KPQ on Polio Day were $1,133. Read about 2018 World Polio Day, October 24
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WENATCHEE CONVENTION CENTER GRAND BALL ROOM, 121 N. Wenatchee Ave. Coordinated by Wenatchee Central Lions Club, sponsored by Numerica Credit Union.
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