October 17, 2011 Spokesman

Posted by Pat Swenson 
on Oct 17, 2011
 

President-Elect, Patti Smith, opened the meeting at 6:30 p.m.  The flag salute was lead by Makaylaa Powers.  Tonight’s Greeter was Shellie Gehring.  Ernie Norehad delivered many amusing moments by reading from some of the local church bulletins---inspired us all to have laughter in our lives.

Guests:  Kyla Terashima, Student of the Month from Juanita High School.  Joe Castleberry from the Bellevue Breakfast Club, moving to our Club. Cynthia Fitzgerald, visiting from California and a possible new member.  Melisa and Josh, guests of our speaker, Jim Bak.  Eric Wilson, visiting for the 4th or 5th time and soon to be a new member. 

Club Announcements:  Bunco Night is this Saturday night, October 22nd, 6:00 p.m. at Steve and Patty Shinstrom.  If you wish to attend, just call or email Steve and let him know you are attending.  Bring either dessert or appetizer, along with wine/beer or other beverages.  Ann Hamilton reminded the members about the Lake Washington Technical College annual fund raising breakfast on Tuesday, October 25th from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. Everyone is welcome, please let Ann know if you can attend.  Patti Smith announced the Cabernet Classic a fundraiser for Rotary First Harvest on October 26th at 6-9:00 p.m.  Tickets are $50.

 

Special Announcement:  Don Dicks announced Paul Harris awards for three of our members:

Katherine Kehrli, Doug Carter and Brian Tucker.  Brian Tucker was in attendance and received his pin.  These members have contributed $1,000 to the international foundation.

 

Blue Badges Awarded to our newest Members:  Scott Becker, Ann Hamilton and Chris Morgan.  Thank yous to their Mentors:  Terry Cole, Shellie Gehring and Rick Walters. 

 

Happy Dollars this evening were collected from nearly every member with the monies going to the memorial  for John Overleese.  Members expressed sorrow at the loss of our member and friend.  John’s Memorial will be October 28th, Friday at KPC.

 

Program Topic:  Getting Out of Gridlock

Speaker:  Jim Bak, Director of Community Relations for INRIX, Inc.

Jim leads INRIX in their effort to raise awareness for their traffic services as well as builds relationships with key members of the communities the company serves.  INRIX develops high tech software platforms to show traffic flow on major routes as well as smaller arterial roads.  These programs allow drivers to see what would be the best route to take to get to a specific destination, including the best time of day to go.  INRIX collects data from various sources and updates their information within minutes, in order to give the driver an accurate reading.  The data comes from Observations (helicopters or cameras), Sensors embedded in the roads, and Crowd Sources (cellular phone data).  The objective is to give Real Time traffic flow with current conditions.

 

There was no Joker Pool drawing.  Meeting adjourned by President-Elect Patti at 7:45 p.m.