Rotary

The morning began with a rousing Veterans Day song line-up, led by songmeister, Jeff Samuelson. What a great way to start the day and honor our veterans!

A special thank you to Interim Woodinville City Manager, Dick Zais, for his frontline account of the “Eruption of Mount St. Helens”. We appreciate your excellent response as City Manager of Yakima during this historic disaster. Your Rotary colors are showing in fine style!

The October 13 meeting of RCW was very interesting, to say the least. Our featured speaker was Dr. Brad Remington, a plastic surgeon who practices at the evergreen Medical Center. He showed many pictures of pre- and post-operative features. It took me back to my Jr. High years when I used to sneak views of pictures in National Geographic. Seriously, the talk was very informative and was well received.

The auction registration and sale items are progressing with team Green in the lead. We need more group dinner items, which are very popular. If you haven’t registered yet, be sure to do that this week. Just go to www.maestroweb.com. It’s really easy.

Erv Desmet went to Bolivia in search of some exotic fish. I don’t know if he caught any, but he was able to capture some Bolivians to display his beloved Grace Town flag and explain the town’s history in detail with special emphasis on the duties of the town clerk and how many think that the clerk’s position is more important than the mayoral position. Many questions were asked by the Bolivian audience and thorough answers were provided. Erv claims the applause was extensive. He also explained how he came up with the slogan of “Having fun is serious business”. He noted that being in Bolivia-so far away from Grace and all authority figures-it seemed that the words just kept flowing in great numbers. I notice there was no mention of RCW in his report, or that he presented no RCW banner. Sounds like this needs an extensive explanation. See you next week when John Hughes et alia will update us on the Northshore Scholarship Foundation.