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Wenatchee Rotary - Noon Thursdays at Red Lion

March 05, 2020

Volume LXIX - No 35

March is Rotary's Water & Sanitation Month

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Makeup opportunities at area clubs. (Area 8)

Community service since 1921

- CONTENTS -

ROTARY AMBASSADORS
MEETING ROOM/MENU
SPONSOR OF WEEK
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
WEEK IN REVIEW
ANNOUNCEMENTS/NEWS
CENTENNIAL ....#50

ALL SITE SPONSORS
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
EVENTS CALENDAR
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
POLIO-PLUS DONATIONS
CLUB ORGANIZATION
OUR RYE STUDENTS

ROTARY AMBASSADORS AT NEXT MEETING

SPONSOR OF THE WEEK

Please try to arrive by 11:30 AM.

All members are always welcome to greet.

If unable to attend, please greet at your next meeting.

Future assignments are tentative.


	Brett	Ken	Dan	Sue
Date	Future	Weeks	Looking	Ahead
03/12	Ross	Rounds	Rowe	Shermer
03/19	Smith	Sparks	Sparks	Speidel

Regular Board Meetings : 3rd Thursday, 4:30 PM, Cadman Room.

Cashmere Valley Bank

We remain committed to the

principles that we feel are

best summarized as

"the little Bank with the

big circle of friends"

(509) 662-1644

Menu and meeting room: Columbia River Room - March 05----Baked Ziti w/Italian Sausage, Chef's Choice Seasonal Vegetables, Tossed greens with dressings and condiments, Garlic Bread, Chef’s Choice Dessert & Coffee Service.

(Thanks to Alyssa Polson of Red Lion staff for providing this update weekly)

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS

See previous editions for other important notes

Listen to most of the announcements HERE.

President-elect-designate Alice Meyer presided in place of vacationing Mike Kintner.
Mystery Rotarian. No Mystery Rotarian last week (following PP Bill Murray the previous week). This week, the Big Fat Juicy Clue : Our Mystery Rotarian loves wine, bike rides in the Wenatchee Valley hills and roads, is a voracious reader and also owns and operates his own successful small business.
Guests: Gene Anderson introduced again Diedre Galloway, Community Relations Director at Avamere-Wenatchee. Ricardo Iniguez introduced his brother Jose' (Rotary in Kennewick) who will be singing with the Wenatchee Synphony on Saturday. Jose' graced us with about 30 seconds from an Italian aria.
Joe St. Jean spoke about volunteer opportunities and thanking those who assisted with Special Olympics. But mainly he wants 6-8 people on March 14 to help with the Green Bag food distribution, and then later with other activities in May. See below. We are also helping Camp Zanika with funding a special project. Joe also described the Carol Norton Scholarship opportunity. More later on all of these things. Listen to this and other announcements HERE. See Joe's brag below.
CAMPFIRE Fundraiser. Campfire WoHeLo Luncheon. Tom Everly is seeking support for this important fundraiser which has an opportunity for a matching grant to help deserving local kids attend Camp Zanika. This annual event is on March 4, 11:45 AM to 1 PM at the Convention Center; Rufus Woods will M/C.
Federal Reserve speaker on April 8. We will meet on Wednesday at Pybus to host the regional VP of the Federal Reserve. Advance tickets of $20 will be available at the next meeting. All 7 local clubs invited to fill the limited seating of 125.
All-Service-Club Luncheon May 1. The speaker will be Bob Mortimer. More later.
Help needed for Westside HS yearbooks. Principal Kory is seeking more sponsors to offset rising costs.
Next week. GWID with Mike Miller.
Joe's BRAG, continued. Just between us sports fans...our grandson's Glacier Peak team won Friday night to get a bye into the quarter final round of the 4A State Basketball Championship to be played this week at the Tacoma Dome. They currently are 24-0. Great fun! See tournament brackets HERE. Rankings - Overall 24-0 ; District 14-0 ; National Rank 102 State (WA) Rank, 3.
CARMEN needs a ride weekly; volunteers wanted. Beatrice needs to have some fun.
Useless Trivia forced on Alice by president Mike, in his absence.... A list of rejected names for Disney's seven dwarfs, Tubby, Wheezy, etc. Useless indeed.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

“Service above Self” is the Rotary motto

Date: Saturday, March 14

Time: 9 a.m. - Noon

Who: Green Bag Food Distribution Program – Chelan/Douglas Community

Action Council

Where: 1422 North Miller – north on Miller, past Denny’s

and before the railroad tracks, by Franz Bread Outlet.

The warehouse entrance is behind the building.

Need: 6-8 Wenatchee Rotarians

The Wenatchee Rotary Club has volunteered to help during the Green Bag Food Drive on Saturday, March 14. we will be assisting in the re-bagging, sorting, and boxing of the food items for distribution to needy families.

It is our club’s first time in assisting the Green Bag Food distribution program.

Our Club has also volunteered to help on Saturday, May 9th, when the Green Bag Program joins with the U.S. Postal Carriers in an even bigger food drive. Please volunteer for one or more of these fun volunteer opportunities.

A sign-up sheet will be circulating at both this Thursday’s meeting and next Thursday’s meeting.

Questions? Want to volunteer? Contact Joe St.Jean at 679-5305 or joe98801@yahoo.com

[Editor's comment - Don't think this is all of it; Joe has lots more opportunities for "Service Above Self"]

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

MARCH 05 - IRRIGATION WATER - THE GWID STORY

(Greater Wenatchee Irrigation District)

With Mike Miller/Britt Dudek

Water diverted from the Wenatchee River, stored in Lake Wenatchee, and delivered to 29,000 acres of sagebrush and rocks via a complex of canals and siphons, with one crossing the Columbia River... That was the plan when the GWID Board had its first meeting on April 10, 1923. In the fifty years since then the plan changed but the purpose remains the same, to bring together water, land and sunshine to produce farms, jobs, homes and food. But calling it a plan is no longer accurate, for the dream of the original visionaries is now a ten million dollar reality.

Records show that as early as 1909 men were searching for means to turn more of the semi-arid land of the Wenatchee Valley and the shelf-land bordering the Columbia River into crop-producing, people-supporting assets. In that year, the Quincy Valley Irrigation Project, a forerunner of the Columbia Basin Project, was mapped by a U.S. geological survey team. The study, by Joseph Jacobs, proposed the diversion of the Wenatchee River for the purpose of watering the Quincy Valley, using a siphon to cross the Columbia River near the mouth of the Wenatchee River.

Twelve years later a cost study was done by Ivan E. Goodneur, a State hydraulic engineer, and in 1922 area voters formed an irrigation district to carry out the work his study outlined: to irrigate 29,000 acres situated in five widely separated blocks in the Wenatchee Valley as far south as Malaga.

At our Rotary meeting, hear the rest of this amazing story and more.

MARCH 12 - EVERGREEN MTN BIKE ALLIANCE

With Travis Hornby & Britt Dudek

https://www.evergreenmtb.org

WEEK IN REVIEW - FEBRUARY 27

The Community Foundation

with our own Beth Stipe

Future club president Alice Meyer opened the meeting with announcements noted above. She then recognized PP Gil Sparks (2010-11) who gave our speaker a glowing introduction (as usual). Since 1986, the Community Foundation of North Central Washington is your local community foundation, working with local individuals, families and businesses to build permanent charitable endowments to benefit North Central Washington. It is a tax-exempt philanthropic organization that helps individuals, families, businesses, and agencies support charitable causes throughout Chelan, Douglas, and Okanogan counties, and is one of the only resources for grant-seeking nonprofits in our region. Through the Community Grants Program, nonprofit organizations can apply for financial support to continue the important work that improves and enhances our communities. The interest earned from your gifts to the foundation’s endowment enables this important grant making opportunity.

Beth has been the Executive Director of the Community Foundation of North Central Washington since 2003 (when she also joined this club); she works with a 28-member board led by Gil Sparks. She holds a Master of Nonprofit Management and more years of nonprofit experience than she wishes to admit. She explained the purpose and current financial status of the organization. Listen to her presentation HERE . She used a very informative PowerPoint to illustrate the program.

Since she took the reins, the financial corpus has grown from about $12M to about $90M! It supports over 500 different funds, and is charged with managing those funds applying a conservative investment philosophy. The staff has grown from 3 to 5.

She described some of the programs.

GRANTS - Grant-making is a primary way the Community Foundation of NCW makes a difference in the community. CFNCW provides several funding opportunities that support nonprofit charitable organizations and public institutions. Grants are made available through established unrestricted funds and gifts from donors, such as the "Stronger Schools", and "Helping Hands" programs. She described two 30-day crowd-funding campaigns (Regional Impact Grants) Give Methow and Give NCW. Any non-profits can apply, and between 60-80 applications are received for each and each receives a site visit, resulting in more than 100 site visits per year and over $225,000 being distributed annually. The Give NCW campaign this year distributed more than $533K among 25 organizations!

Beth is Just as excited about the number of gifts as the amounts, and also the number of new donors. They try to assist the organizations better understand the psychology of giving. She noted that 53 % of all gifts are between $10-$50. About 53% of gifts come in through the Donor Advised Fund (DAF). On Mondays during the campaign, gifts spike due the Funday Monday opportunity, where donors are entered into a drawing to increase their gift. They administer 123 scholarships, with over 3000 applications and $650K in awards.

For much more, listen to her presentation HERE .