Rotary

Today we celebrated student recipients of the following 2023 scholarships:

• Woodinville Rotary at Woodinville High School: Hope Rogers, Joseph Cappelletti
• Woodinville Rotary at Secondary Academy of Success: Owen Larson
• Woodinville Rotary Presidents Memorial Scholarship: Nina Josephson
• Jaimeson Jones Memorial: Whitney Nakata

It was also great having parents join us for this special celebration. We are so proud of these outstanding scholars and wish them continued success in their future endeavors!

It was wonderful seeing SFN Executive Director and WRC Charter Member John Hughes and SAS Counselor Laurie Broulette at the Grange this morning. They have served the NSD students for many years alongside one another.

Nancy Balin presented her classification talk which included her passion for men’s health in memory of her son Jaimeson. We are thrilled that she found a home with Woodinville Rotary!

There is no morning meeting next week as we will be at our monthly social: 5:30pm at Rooney’s on May 30. Join us!

Good Morning Woodinville Rotary!

The dynamic duo of Dave and Ken stepped up to man the front table and tackle the SOA duties this morning.

Erv kept up a steady promotion of the April 22 Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Event in Bellevue from 10-3pm.

Our guest speaker was Bonnie Feldman from Viva Farms, who spoke on their incubator program.

President Sandy invited new member Joseph to the podium to share his classification talk. Welcome to the club!

There’s no morning meeting next week as we are having an evening social on April 25 at @calientekitchenandbar from 5pm. Hope to see you there!

Good Morning Woodinville Rotary!

Tom R. led an enthusiastic raffle selling campaign at the front desk. Northshore Interact Co-President Nina brought a “Mother’s Day Momosa Basket” for our upcoming auction, as a contribution from Northshore Interact. Many have their eye on the lovely basket!

VP Marshall facilitated the meeting for President Sandy and brought levity to the front podium.
Our guest speaker was Margaret Atwater, Senior Property Manager of TRF who presented plans for a mural facing DeYoung Park. It’s a beautiful design that captures the feel of our wonderful city. Local artist Will Schlough created the colorful concept. We are looking forward to seeing the mural this Summer!

Congratulations to Joseph for receiving a Paul Harris award as presented by Foundation Chair Dr. Tim Burner. Raffle prizes were plentiful and Bob picked the white marble, with plans to donate his winnings to the RI Foundation.
Join us for breakfast at the Sammamish Valley Grange on Tuesdays from 7am.

Good Morning Woodinville Rotary!

VP Marshall is back in town and heartily manned the front desk. We had a full house at the grange this morning with lots of events announced and a lively exchange of ideas.

Erv announced that the upcoming ion battery recycling event on April 22 in Bellevue is the first all district event under Rotary International. Gather your items and mark your calendars!

Our virtual guest speaker was Ethan Bryson from Natural Urban Forests who spoke on their services for creating self-sustaining, native forests. The Miyawaki Method used to create Urban Forests is based on the pioneering work of Japanese botanist and ecologist Professor Dr. Akira Miyawaki.

And lots of fines were administered for various shenanigans.

Join us for breakfast on Tuesday mornings, 7am at the Sammamish Valley Grange.

The Woodinville Rotary Club has announced plans for their annual Spring Fling auction and this year’s theme is The Roaring 20’s. The auction is the club’s largest fundraising event, which will be held on April 29, 2023, and feature a “raise the paddle” campaign to support Bridge Receiving Center’s efforts to provide a healing start for children entering foster care.

The Bridge Receiving Center provides a safe and nurturing environment for children who have experienced trauma or abuse. The center aims to reduce the trauma of being removed from their homes and placed in foster care by providing a welcoming and supportive environment, with trained staff and volunteers who offer comfort and care.

“Every child deserves a safe and loving home, and the Bridge Receiving Center is doing incredible work to make that a reality for children in our community,” said Sandy Kallio, President of the Woodinville Rotary Club. “Rotary is a peace building service organization, so our missions are aligned. We are honored to support their efforts and we hope our community will join us in raising funds to help them continue their important work.”

The Spring Fling auction will feature a variety of items up for bid, including vacation packages, gift certificates, and unique experiences. The highlight of the evening will be the “raise the paddle” campaign, during which attendees can make a direct donation to the Bridge Receiving Center.

“We know that every dollar makes a difference, and we are committed to raising as much as we can to support this important cause,” said Marilyn McGill, Chair of the Spring Fling auction committee. “We encourage everyone to join us for a fun evening of fundraising, and to help us make a difference in the lives of children in our community.”

The Woodinville Rotary Club’s Spring Fling auction will be held on April 29th at the Inglewood Golf Club. For more information on the event, to purchase tickets or to make a donation in support of Rotary’s initiatives, please visit the club’s website at:  https://woodinvillerotary.org/annual-fund-raising.

If you are unable to attend the auction, you can still make a donation directly to Bridge Receiving Center on their website at: https://bridgereceivingcenter.org/donate.

Article to appear in the Woodinville Weekly.

@northshoreinteract Co-President @ninajosephson_ came to remind everyone about the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Food Drive on Saturday, March 18 from 12-3pm at the Sammamish Valley Grange. Erv bestowed a new Rotary nickname upon “Majestic Nina” and she received a warm welcome from all.

Happy Double Birthday Week to @realtor_somm_allison and Dave Hunter. Cheers to another trip around the sun!

Our guest speaker today was Bryan Hampson from Main Street Property. Bryan talked about current downtown projects including Eastrail Flats. This mixed-use development will include a public plaza, townhomes and retail businesses and tasting rooms. The anticipated completion date is Q2 2025. SOA Pat creatively procured a new auction sponsor, sealing the deal with a handshake.

Good Morning Woodinville Rotary!

We had a full house and full agenda today as President-elect Laura Hall filled in for President Sandy.

Environmental Leads, including Ken, Nathaniel and Erv gave us a preview of the upcoming quarterly focus areas and Pat reviewed the quarterly schedule. Adam Vidoni presented his classification talk and had time for a lively Q&A session.

Dave Hunter was featured on the front page of the Seattle Times with an article on pollination. Well done!
SOA Tana worked the room and levied fines galore. Bronco brought back a special hot sauce pack from Mexico for the raffle table. Happy dollars were plentiful and Keith picked the white marble!

Good Morning Woodinville Rotary!

Past President Andy skillfully ran the meeting this morning while President Sandy is enjoying sunshine.

We welcomed guest speaker Jenna Burchell from DTG Recycle. Jenna filled us in on the many areas of construction, demolition, & manufacturing recycling that DTG covers, with a facility right in Woodinville.

Great seeing Bronco back at the Grange, ready to promote the April 22 Earth Day lithium battery recycling event. SOA Mike ably collected fines and raffle prizes included maple syrup from Woodinville Whisky Co.

A Happy Belated Birthday to Michael Tenhulzen! We sang at last week’s meeting, but will be happy to sing a song at the club social coming up Tuesday evening.

There’s no morning meeting Tuesday February 28, but all are welcome to join us at @locustwoodinville from 5:30pm for our monthly social.

We had a fun and amazing meeting that reminds us of why we’re in Rotary–to have fun with great people while giving back to the community. Thanks to Erv for leading the “Having Fun is Serious Business” presentation, Marilyn for presenting the $17,700 cheque to NSD GLAD and all of you for prioritizing non-profits that make a difference. Last week we allocated $56,200 funds to the following:

* $17,700 NSD GLAD (Auction raise the paddle)
* $18,500 Scholarship Foundation of Northshore, (up from $10,500 last year. $5k each for 2 WHS scholarships, $3.5k SAS scholarship and $5k Rotary Presidents Memorial Scholarship)
* $5,000 Girl Scouts of Western Washington
* $5,000 Bridge Receiving Center
* $5,000 Dolan’s Birthing Center (Haiti)
* $3,000 MAPS MCRC: Essentials First
* $2,000 Water Harvesting Tanzania project

Reminder, if you would like to join Rotary International President Jennifer Jones at the District 5030 Gala on Oct 7, please sign up here: District 5030 Foundation Gala

At our meeting today we enjoyed classification talks from our newest and one of our oldest members.

Ally Baehr filled us in on her life and exploits as a lifelong volunteer with everything from Girl Scouts to Make Way for Books, a literacy support program based in her old town of Tucson. She has a family member who was stricken with polio so Rotary’s worldwide Polio Plus program hit close to home. Ally has a long history in working with non-profits and has been an active member of Rotary for about three years. Her move to Woodinville will undoubtedly be a good thing for our club.

Bob Guide filled in with a talk about his slightly longer history. Bob emigrated from the Czech Republic in 1940 and was fortunate enough (and worked hard enough) to get his Masters and Ph.D. before working in chemical engineering for most of his career. Later this year he will be celebrating 50 years as a Rotarian. He told us about some of his Rotary activities, including a Country Store run by Longview Rotary that worked well to raise funds before EBay, Google, and some other new services put a serious dent in their business. That Club also sponsors the Tour de Blast bike ride, something that would clearly be more fun on a Harley or, as Pat Ford suggested, on an electric bike. Bob mentioned that our breakfast club is more relaxed than the noon club he was in before.

We enjoyed the company of Isaac Everett, who is visiting a few clubs to consider becoming a Rotarian. He was a guest of Pat Ford.

Our 35th anniversary soiree remains in a date-pending status. We really want to celebrate but will wait until we can do so safely.

There is an upcoming District 5030 project to improve the Duwamish River Riverbank on April 16, 2022 from 9:00am-1:00pm. There is a volunteer information and sign-up page that you can find here. Our resident expert is Erv DeSmet who can fill you in.

Our annual auction fundraiser is still set for April 23 and the committee could use some additional members. Please contact Marilyn McGill to sign up to help.

Our Board of Directors meeting will be next Wednesday, January 26th, 6:30PM at Andy’s house. Please let me know if you need the address. Those who are apparently healthy and feel safe and comfortable attending in person are welcome and encouraged to do so. For those who wish to attend via Zoom, that link will be the same as for our weekly breakfast meetings: https://zoom.us/j/95542099576?pwd=MlFHcnk4RUQzdjhENktkTUpDVkJIUT09

See you next week.

What a wonderful experience we had this morning! Twenty one members attended the first face to face (and hug to hug) meeting of our Club in 15 months. We also participated in a simplified breakfast which should reduce the cost of our meetings. Life is good!

Here are a listing of resources our speaker Kelly Rankich provided to us.

Recycling Providers  

Waste Management North King County: http://www.wmnorthwest.com/nkingcounty/recycling.html http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-and-disposal/where-does-it-go#/categories

Recology: https://www.recology.com/ 

City of Seattle: http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-and-disposal/recycling

Rubatino: https://rubatino.com/ 

Waste Management’s Position on Plastic  

https://www.wm.com/us/en/recycle-right/plastic-exports 

Plastic Film Information  Educational Resources  

Documentary: The Story of Plastic: https://www.storyofplastic.org/ 

Book: Garbology by Edward Humes  

Project Drawdown: https://www.drawdown.org/  

2040: 2040 Home Entertainment US – Together Films 

Waste and Washington State Single Use Plastic Bag Ban: https://ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Reducing-recycling waste/Plastic-bag-ban 

Plastic Film Thickness info: https://1bagatatime.com/learn/what-is-a-mill/ 

Special Recycling Resources 

Ridwell: https://www.ridwell.com/ 

Terracycle: https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/ 

Threadcycle: https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/dnrp/solidwaste/programs/ecoconsumer/threadcycle.aspx 

What Do I Do With?: https://info.kingcounty.gov/services/recycling-garbage/solid-waste/what-do-i-do with/ 

Household Hazardous Waste: https://kingcountyhazwastewa.gov/households Corks: http://www.corkforest.org/find-a-dropbox/

Styrofoam, plastic film, large cardboard: http://www.styrorecycle.com/ 

Prescriptions: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/disposal-unused-medicines-what-you-should-know/drug disposal-drug-take-back-locations 

Latex Paint: https://www.paintcare.org/states/washington/ 

Beauty Products (Nordstrom collecting for Terracycle):  https://www.nordstrom.com/browse/nordstrom-cares/getinvolved?breadcrumb=Home%2FNordstrom%20Cares%2FGet%20Involved&fbclid=IwAR0- RJ90v0WsohUTTU91Gjt9u7Hz5SC-uSTHR3OXmLBcNaXwLCqXhvvT8d0 

Light Bulbs: https://www.pse.com/rebates/recycling/light-bulb-recycling/locate-a-recycling-center  

Construction Demo (wood, concrete, drywall, plastics and much more):  https://www.dtgrecycle.com/facilities/woodinville-west/ 

Recycling Information  

https://berecycled.org/?webSyncID=cb94e1d9-bb36-e30a-cab3-2885a22c68d3&sessionGUID=1a6aa8bc-d47b-b2e7-d0c2-d04aa4d911eb 

https://www.recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-facts 

Get Involved: Volunteer, Advocacy Groups, and Legislation 

Zero Waste Washington: https://www.esw.org/member/zero-waste-washington 

Single vs multi-stream recycling: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-era-of-easy-recycling-may-be coming-to-an-end/ 

Oceana: https://oceana.org/ 

Alliance to End Plastic Waste: https://endplasticwaste.org/ 

WSU Snohomish County Extension Sustainable Community Stewards:  https://extension.wsu.edu/snohomish/naturalresources/sustainable-community-stewards/

Here is a recap of this morning’s meeting, in case you missed it:

1. Happy Birthday to Mark Ihrig (5/20)!
2. This morning’s presentation was by Jason Scorse on the environmental impact of our food choices. The information was very relevant in conjunction with other speakers we have seen, had a great number of discussion questions afterward. You can contact Jason for more info at profscorse@gmail.com.
3. The Environmental Stewardship Committee will meet tomorrow, May 19 at 7pm by Zoom. Contact Pat Ford if you would like to attend at patdford@outlook.com.
4. Tomorrow early afternoon, Ken Ohnemus is looking for some helpers at the farm to replace the hop poles so the hops can grow. Reach out to him directly at kohnemus@gmail.com.
5. Tune in to view the scholarship breakfast tomorrow morning at 9am or 10:30am (see email that was sent out for details).
6. Tri-Club Food Drive for Woodinville Storehouse on May 29th at the Grange from 12-3 (see email that was sent out for details).

Upcoming Events:
May 26: BOD Meeting
May 19: ESC Meeting 7pm, Zoom
June 5: World Environmental Day, planting event with Mid Sound Fisheries 9am-12pm

Have a great week!

Remember that there is a Tri-Club (Woodinville Rotory, Rotaract, and Interact) food drive at the Sammamish Valley Grange on May 29th.

Pat Ford is celebrating her birthday this Friday, May 14, 2021- She wore her pajama top that says, “Live what you love,” good words for all of us.

Our Speaker, Dave Hunter from Crown Bees – www.crownbees.com, dave@crownbees.com

Dave started out talking about his approach to agriculture which is to ask “why, what’s the root cause of this” in approaching any problems from the loss of bees to the lessening of crops. Bees are the only animal that is absolutely essential to our food supply. We are using more chemicals and the chemicals are not very selective. Roundup kills everything. Dave has found that growers change at the speed of a glacier and even when there is a good solution that will help them, they are agonizingly slow to adopt it.

Vision of a future

• Right crop in the right location
• Polyculture is in tune with nature – multiple crops together
• High insect load, low pest load – other bugs eat pest insects
• Little outside irrigation needed
• Soil is regenerated
• High revenue/acre
• Food is grown near/in populace

Dave mentioned an example of 30 people with 70 acres that was too much for them to keep up with so they dropped down to 17 acres and it is supporting all 30 of them.

What needs to change

• Consumer awareness, become Prosumers
• Understand food security
• Increase pay of farmers by buying locally (CSA) Community Supported Agriculture
• Shift ChemAg to biological
• Right bees on right crops
• Legislate change
• Focus research on better organic/polyculture practices, then educate

Crown Bees Actions

• Collaborate and work with science
• Teach good practices
• Practice what we preach
• Programs Underway include the Cornell Mason Bee Edu, Community Garden Program, Bee Buy Back, and Native Bee Network

Of around 4,000 specie of bees, only one, the European Honeybee is managed.

Neonicotinoids are treated plants that kill insects that eat on them. You have to ask for non-neonic plants.

Support CSAs!

Here is a recap of this morning’s meeting, in case you missed it:

1. Happy Birthday to Mike Visse (5/2)!!! We hope you have a fun time with your joint celebration!
2. Congrats to April’s (REAL) Rotarian of the Month, Eric Greenwood!! Eric, you are a true MVP to our club for all the ways you are willing to jump in and help–from your annual work on the Scholarship Foundation, Auction Committee, and Warm Coats, to jumping in as needed on new projects like our pandemic food drives. Thank you for always leading by example, and being willing to jump in wherever help is needed!
3. Marilyn (and Elaine Cook) is organizing a meal train for Pam and her family. She has pneumonia and her husband and 3 kids all have COVID now. Her baby girl is due in a few weeks and their family could really use our support. When you see the meal train link come by email, please consider supporting this family. This is a very direct way to help members of our community feed their family in an immense time of need.
4. The Environmental Stewardship Committee will meet May 19 at 7pm by Zoom. Contact Pat Ford if you would like to attend at patdford@outlook.com.
5. This morning’s presentation by John Mathers of the San Francisco Rotary Club was one of the best! John’s polished presentation “the Economics of Building a Sustainable World” was packed with information about how we truly make a difference in Rotary’s 7th area of focus: Protecting the Environment. Here is the list of resources he shared with us:

   John Mathers, RCAT Network and Speakers Forum  – jgmathersevo@gmail.com  1(415) 720-0165
   Rotary Climate Action Team Network  – www.rcatnow.com – info@rcatnow.com
   Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG)  – www.esrag.org
   Climate Reality Project  (Al Gore and Team) – www.climaterealityproject.org
   Climate Feedback Loops – https://feedbackloopsclimate.com/
   Project Drawdown & Drawdown Review  – www.drawdown.org
   Gold Standard Carbon Footprint  – www.goldstandard.org/
   BrightAction Werenew Carbon Footprint Assessment  – https://brightaction.app/
   Green Business Certification California  – https://greenbusinessca.org/
   Green Business Certification Hawaii – https://greenbusiness.hawaii.gov/
   Green Business Certification Canada – https://www.gbcertified.ca/
   United Nations Association of the USA – https://unausa.org/join/membership/
   Citizens Climate Lobby Action – https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
   Sustainable Travel International – https://sustainabletravel.org/
   Impact Travel Alliance – https://www.impacttravelalliance.org/
   Global Sustainable Tourism Council – https://www.gstcouncil.org/
   Glooby Flight Comparisons – https://www.glooby.com/
   Ripple Cross-Border Payments – https://ripple.com/
   United Nations World Tourism Organization – https://www.unwto.org/
   Terrapass Carbon Offsets – https://www.terrapass.com/
   >Upload your projects (it’s easy): https://rcatnow.com/projects/share-project/

6. The Interact Co-Presidents’ speeches are tonight at 7:45pm on Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7613847355?pwd=bVhLTkJGd0FHSnd4bHhqK3MreU0wUT09

Upcoming Events:
April 28: BOD Meeting
May 19: ESC Meeting 7pm, Zoom
June 5: World Environmental Day, planting event with Mid Sound Fisheries 9am-12pm