Rotary Club of Kirkland Downtown past president Jan Martinka spoke to the club about a major international grant she helped write with the Bellevue Breakfast club.
Newport High School students install computers as part of the international grant Jan Martinka described. The grant also funded sewing centers.
The Rotary Club of Kirkland held a virtual meeting on June 12, 2023 using the Zoom platform.
President-elect Gary Cohn called the meeting to order at 6:18 p.m.
Gary led us in the pledge.
Attending were Pete Anderson, Bob Auslander, Scott Becker, Gary Cohn, Terry Cole, David DeBois, Jocelyn Ellison, Doug Evanson, James Feek, Monica Fratita, Rashmi Garimella, Margie Glenn, Isabelle Kalisa, Jim Meniketti, Amy Mutal, Rick Ostrander, Joanne Primavera, Patti Smith, John Storbeck, and Alice Volpe.
Guests:
This evening the club’s guest was the program presenter, Jan Martinka from the Rotary Club of Kirkland Downtown.
The club's board of directors has scheduled an additional "all teams" club meeting next week, on Wednesday night, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The singular purpose of the meeting is to focus on organizational matters for the rummage sale. All club members are needed to ensure the planning is sound and the rummage sale is a spectacular success. The photo in this story is an example of the many Great Kirkland Rotary Rummage Sale signs that are now popping up around Kirkland. Club members may obtain those signs and other materials at Banner Bank on Park Lane.
During its June 15 meeting, the club's board of directors decided to try the Madison House facility in Totem Lake for club meetings. The board decided unanimously to hold two in-person meetings, the first on Monday, July 17, and the second on Monday, August 17, to develop a sense of the venue and the menu. Menu specifics, including refreshments, and dinner pricing is being arranged and will be reported in an upcoming edition of The Spokesman.
Rotary dues statements were sent to all active members on June 1, 2023. Payments are due by Friday, June 30, 2022. A reminder statement was emailed on June 15 to all Rotarians with outstanding accounts. As of June 15, half-way through the month, 48% of club members have paid their dues. Please remember that nonpayment of dues jeopardizes membership in the Rotary club.
Drew Fialho is a senior at Lake Washington High School, where he has served as Associated Student Body president, director of KANG TV News (an award-winning broadcasting program), vice president of LINK Crew (freshman and new student integration program), three-time captain of the Boys' Tennis Team, captain of the Track and Field Team, and as an editor helping to organize the production of a 300+ page yearbook.
Drew also serves on the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association LEAP Board, a board of students representing the 225,000 student-athletes state-wide and providing the WIAA with student feedback.
Fellow Rotarians of the Bainbridge Island club have provided Kirkland a number of documents that provide tremendously helpful insight into the organization of the club's annual auction and rummage sale. Remembering that the Bainbridge club has been conducting this fundraiser for over 60 years and has very deep experience with the planning and execution, it is incredibly valuable to be able to create a picture in your mind's eye of how such an event appears and how it's managed. There are four documents loaded into the ClubRunner organization documents area, and they are accessible using these links (your log-in is required).
The club held four meetings during May 2023, the first and third Mondays were in-person at the SOI Thai Restaurant & Bar, the second Monday was held exclusively via Zoom, and the fourth meeting was an all Rummage Sale team gathering. Overall club attendance for the month was 49%, an increase over the first three months of the year, but impacted by only one-third of the members participating in the rummage sale "all-teams" meeting on the 22nd. The club's membership remains at 36 active members effective January 30.
Club members' readership of the bulletin, The Spokesman, in May was noticeably better than the past four months. Readership rates were 83%, 80%, 80%, and 74% for the four editions, and 79.3% overall for the month. This better than the five-month average of 76.4%. A bulletin is "read" when the email containing it is opened by the recipient.
The club’s board of directors met on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at Prevail Wealth Management. Highlights included an update on preparations for the Great Kirkland Rotary Rummage Sale; board approval of a new meeting location for two meetings this summer; planning for the leadership transition; and discussion of a draft budget to be circulated in anticipation of moving to QuickBooks online on July 1.
The club's board of directors has scheduled an additional 
During its June 15 meeting, the club's board of directors decided to try the 
Rotary dues statements were sent to all active members on June 1, 2023. Payments are due by Friday, June 30, 2022. A reminder statement was emailed on June 15 to all Rotarians with outstanding accounts. As of June 15, half-way through the month, 48% of club members have paid their dues. Please remember that nonpayment of dues jeopardizes membership in the Rotary club.
Drew Fialho is a senior at Lake Washington High School, where he has served as Associated Student Body president, director of KANG TV News (an award-winning broadcasting program), vice president of LINK Crew (freshman and new student integration program), three-time captain of the Boys' Tennis Team, captain of the Track and Field Team, and as an editor helping to organize the production of a 300+ page yearbook.
Fellow Rotarians of the Bainbridge Island club have provided Kirkland a number of documents that provide tremendously helpful insight into the organization of the club's annual auction and rummage sale. Remembering that the Bainbridge club has been conducting this fundraiser for over 60 years and has very deep experience with the planning and execution, it is incredibly valuable to be able to create a picture in your mind's eye of how such an event appears and how it's managed. There are four documents loaded into the ClubRunner organization documents area, and they are accessible using these links (your log-in is required).
The club held four meetings during May 2023, the first and third Mondays were in-person at the SOI Thai Restaurant & Bar, the second Monday was held exclusively via Zoom, and the fourth meeting was an all Rummage Sale team gathering. Overall club attendance for the month was 49%, an increase over the first three months of the year, but impacted by only one-third of the members participating in the rummage sale "all-teams" meeting on the 22nd. The club's membership remains at 36 active members effective January 30.
Club members' readership of the bulletin, The Spokesman, in May was noticeably better than the past four months. Readership rates were 83%, 80%, 80%, and 74% for the four editions, and 79.3% overall for the month. This better than the five-month average of 76.4%. A bulletin is "read" when the email containing it is opened by the recipient.
The club’s board of directors met on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at Prevail Wealth Management. Highlights included an update on preparations for the Great Kirkland Rotary Rummage Sale; board approval of a new meeting location for two meetings this summer; planning for the leadership transition; and discussion of a draft budget to be circulated in anticipation of moving to QuickBooks online on July 1.
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