• District News, again.  As you have heard from DG Richard, we are putting together a zone wide Foundation Gala. I’ve been tasked with putting together a district wide committee of volunteers to help me coordinate and champion this event for D5060.
• Muffy.  Keep Muffy in your thoughts and prayers. Muffy just had hip surgery yesterday and is on the mend. 
• Readers.  An ask from the Community Foundation scholarship program for scholarship readers.  Great service opportunity for anyone in our club who has the time and interest.  She asks folks to respond by Feb. 15, so it is time sensitive. This is not tied to our Wenatchee Rotary Foundation scholarship program as  we have our committee set for this scholarship season.  It may be too late, but if you have a serious interest, contact Joe or Julie Mott <julie@cfncw.org>.
• Allan.  10 Things you Don’t Know About a Fellow Rotarian -  Allan Galbraith.  See below.

• Rotary Grants Available.  Joe St. Jean says:  "Good News!  Your Wenatchee Rotary Community Outreach committee is excited to announce that they will be accepting spring grant applications starting March 1.  The committee members, Susan Albert, Eric Nelson, and Joe St. Jean, are pleased that, once again, the Club has allocated funds for the intent of helping our local community.  We have a tremendous “track record” of doing that in a variety of ways in the past.  The ideal projects for your committee to consider are those that provide a needed service or those that support a worthy cause.  As always, we are encouraging applications where Rotarians can be directly involved in fulfilling our motto of “Service above Self.”    The Community Outreach updated grant application can be found under “Grants” on the header section of Wenatchee Rotary’s website starting March 1.  This year’s deadline for application will be March 31."
• IMPORTANT DISTRICT TRAINING.   Excellent no-cost Rotary training opportunities are upcoming on ZOOM, especially for new members (but all Rotarians can benefit). View the list and register HERE.   

Teresa Bendito is a community organizer and co‐founder of Parque Padrinos, a grassroots community organization that leads park advocacy, relationship building, and culturally relevant outdoor experiences in South Wenatchee, Washington. Teresa is currently completing an accounting degree at Central Washington University. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, who instilled in her the importance of civic engagement and public service, and she’s served in a variety of leadership and volunteer roles at organizations in her community, including the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the Community for the Advancement of Family Education (CAFÉ), the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, and The Trust for Public Land. 

Teresa is the recipient of several honors and awards, including the Forward Award from the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition and the Our Valley, Our Future’s “One Community Award” in recognition of her role in co‐founding Parque Padrinos, advancing a community vision for a neighborhood park renovation in her neighborhood, and collaborating with others to break down institutional and cultural barriers in Wenatchee. Teresa is passionate about leveraging diversity, placemaking, and civic engagement activities to address the needs of her community. 

Recent news story about Teresa...    9/24/19 Wenatchee World, Rufus Woods  

Paul Hessburg is a research ecologist who builds models of historical and modern era conditions in large forests and studies what factors make them behave as they do. In fact, much of his research is trying to decipher what is normal. In his research, Hessburg wants to know how the forests we inherited worked before we changed them. What did "natural" look like, and what specifically did we change about naturalness? What's still working well, and what could use a hand down?

Hessburg has spent most of his adult life (35 years) in his dream job. He works for the USDA, Forest Service, at the Pacific Northwest Research Station, where he is stationed at a field laboratory in Wenatchee, WA, US. That's located about five blocks just east of heaven, he says. He has a doctorate in Forest Pathology from Oregon State University, and he has been working in forestry for 40 years. He's also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 

In 2017, Hessburg was awarded his Research Station's Distinguished Scientist Award, and he will be awarded his Agencies' Distinguished Scientist Award for 2017, in February of 2018.   View his 'TED' Talk HERE.