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James Nevers – our upcoming president, announced that the last board member to complete his board is Dave Debois who will be the President Elect. The club approved the entire board once again.

Cheryl Guenther discussed an event for Music Mends Minds being held on February 14^th – more details to come.

John Woodbery reminded everyone that there is no meeting on the 20^th due to the holiday and also wanted his board to remember the board meeting on the 8^th at 6pm – dinner at 5:30pm.

November 25, 2019 Spokesman

Posted by James Nevers on Nov 25, 2019

Minutes

Meeting 11/25/19

Scribe : James Nevers

Meeting called to order at 6:35.

Flag Salute: John Pruitt

Inspirational Moment by John Woodbury – Quote from George Washington recommending Thanksgiving Day as a National Holiday

Visitors: Patty Shinstrom, Cherese Bourgon from Bella Sirena Salon- visiting and interested in becoming involved with Rotary- recommended to attend by Dave DeBois, and Bella Chaffey who has submitted her application to join our club.

Parents of our Student of the Month – Anisha Bhardwaj - Mritunjay and Rubbi Kumari

Club Announcements

James Nevers asked the club if anyone was interested to volunteer for a board position next year to let him know.

Board meeting on the 11^th will be a packing event instead. More information to follow

Kirkland Performance Center has thanked us for the donation for Bill Woods birthday

Steve Shinstrom thanked us for last week’s donations for Movember. $300 was raised

Patty Shinstrom asked for volunteers for Reading Buddies. 3 more are needed to make the program work this year.

We are continuing our contract with the Woodmark Hotel for next year.

Our Student of the Month, Anisha Bhardwaj gave her talk. She is a senior in the Cambridge program and has received top exam scores. She hopes to attend Wesley next year and should hear back soon. She is the president of her school’s DECA program and has been to Internationals multiple times. She has also started a junior model UN nonprofit to help bring the club into middle schools. She has also started the Redmond Youth Political Advisory Committee to perform public service in the community.

Anisha hopes to continue to server her community wherever she ends up. We thanked her for her time with us and wish her the best!

Program tonight was Music 4 Life and the presenter was David Endicott. His organization helps put musical instruments in the hands of students in need. Most instruments are donated from adults and research shows that students who play in instrument do better in other areas. They are endorsed by Rotary, an Official district 5030 project, and are now in 14 schools. They have also helped donate recorders for 3-4^th graders and harmonicas. They received over $157,000 in donations last year and are on track to beat that this year.

President John ended with a historical anecdote and ended the meeting at 7:24.

December 16, 2019 Spokesman

Rotary Minutes

Meeting Date: December 16, 2019. The meeting was called to order by President John Woodbery at 6:30 p.m. The flag salute was led by Rick Walter.

Inspiration Moment: The “inspiration moment” was introduced by John Woodbery. John discussed the poem “Winds of Fate,” which was a favorite of John’s father-in-law for the proposition that the “hardest part of any job in life is getting started.”

Introduction of Visitors: Mike Hunter introduced Stefan _______, who has been a frequent guest at our meetings. Our speaker, Teresa Valley, introduced her guest Fernanda _____.

Club Announcements: There will be a Board meeting on December 18 at Amy Mutal’s office. There will be no meeting on December 23 or 30; meetings to resume on January 6, 2020. There will not be a social event in January and Steve Shinstrom will reschedule Bunco for next year. Trish Stromberg and Mike Hunter described how much they enjoyed the purchasing and wrapping of gifts for the John Muir children on December 11. The breakfast on December 14 was a success. Thanks to Dave DeBois and Joe Getzendanner for organizing.

Special Announcement: Don Dicks presented the Paul Harris award to Rick Ostrander.

Happy Dollars: Rick Walter collected Happy Dollars to present to the Woodmark Hotel staff to thank them for their great service. The Happy Dollars were presented to “Joe” and another hotel employee.