The Rotary Club of Kirkland held a meeting on April 3, 2023 at SOI Thai Restaurant & Bar.
President Amy Mutal called the meeting to order at 6:15 p.m.
President Amy Mutal led us in the pledge.
Attending were Pete Anderson, Bob Auslander, Gary Cohn*, Doug Evanson, Rashmi Garimella, Margie Glenn, Brandon Honcoop, Jim Meniketti, Amy Mutal, Rick Ostrander, Joanne Primavera, John Pruitt, Karin Quirk*, John Storbeck, and Rick Walter. *Attended via Zoom.
During this month, 35 of 36 active club members were sent a survey regarding the key attributes of weekly club meetings.1 Ten questions were posed to club members, with opportunities to offer comments included. As of noon today, 18 members have responded. Survey responses are due by midnight on Thursday, April 6. The results will be published to members on Friday, April 7, via the ClubRunner email system. If you did not receive in your email inbox2 an invitation to participate from SurveyMonkey, or you have questions about the survey, contact Gary Cohn.
On March 19, Kirkland Rotarians Jocelyn Reiter Ellison and Isabelle Kalisa gathered at the home of Joanne Primavera to prepare lunch for twenty residents of Helen's Place. Joanne planned the menu and gathered all of the ingredients, and the trio prepared a four-cheese Mac & Cheese dish with broccoli, a green salad, and apple strudel. Jocelyn reports that all of the dishes were delicious! Helen’s Place provides a safe and stable space for women experiencing homelessness to rest and heal, and is a community partner of the Rotary Club of Kirkland.
This is a last reminder that the club's board of directors approved refunding to club members the balances remaining on their Rotary Dinner Tickets. A Dinner Ticket refund schedule identifying card purchase prices and outstanding balances is available to members by clicking HERE (log-in required). Members have until this Friday, April 7, to provide corrective information to the treasurer, Jim Meniketti. After April 7, all of the balances will be refunded by checks mailed to the members' home addresses. Rotary Dinner Ticket sales were suspended when the club moved to SOI Thai Restaurant & Bar for in-person meetings. Because the restaurant charges each attendee based on his or her dinner order, the Dinner Tickets are no longer useful for meal purchases. Revised club records indicate eleven Rotarians hold Dinner Tickets collectively worth $1,826.
The Rotary Club of Kirkland's 2022-23 scholarship program application process closed last Friday. This year 27 students began the online application process through the SmarterSelect system, and 18 submitted applications by the March 31, 11:59 p.m. deadline. Of the eighteen students vying for 11 scholarships worth a total of $28,000, nine are from Lake Washington High School and nine are from Juanita High School. No Emerson High School students chose to apply. Applicants will be interviewed by teams of club members led by Rick Walter (JHS) and Brandon Honcoop (LWHS). If you’d like to see the scholarships we are offering this year, click on this link:
The club held four meetings during March 2023, the first and third Mondays in-person at the SOI Thai Restaurant & Bar, the second Monday exclusively via Zoom, and the fourth meeting was one of this year's events, the pre-St. Patrick's Day gathering at Shinstroms'. The fourth Monday was a bye week. Overall club attendance for the month was 42%, an increase compared to the prior month, especially given the impact of the special event. The club's membership remains at 36 active members effective January 30.
During this month, 35 of 36 active club members were sent a survey regarding the key attributes of weekly club meetings.
On March 19, Kirkland Rotarians Jocelyn Reiter Ellison and Isabelle Kalisa gathered at the home of Joanne Primavera to prepare lunch for twenty residents of 
This is a last reminder that the club's board of directors approved refunding to club members the balances remaining on their Rotary Dinner Tickets. A Dinner Ticket refund schedule identifying card purchase prices and outstanding balances is available to members by clicking 
The Rotary Club of Kirkland's 2022-23 scholarship program application process closed last Friday. This year 27 students began the online application process through the SmarterSelect system, and 18 submitted applications by the March 31, 11:59 p.m. deadline. Of the eighteen students vying for 11 scholarships worth a total of $28,000, nine are from Lake Washington High School and nine are from Juanita High School. No Emerson High School students chose to apply. Applicants will be interviewed by teams of club members led by Rick Walter (JHS) and Brandon Honcoop (LWHS). If you’d like to see the scholarships we are offering this year, click on this link:
The club held four meetings during March 2023, the first and third Mondays in-person at the SOI Thai Restaurant & Bar, the second Monday exclusively via Zoom, and the fourth meeting was one of this year's events, the pre-St. Patrick's Day gathering at Shinstroms'. The fourth Monday was a bye week. Overall club attendance for the month was 42%, an increase compared to the prior month, especially given the impact of the special event. The club's membership remains at 36 active members effective January 30. 
Club members' readership of the bulletin, The Spokesman, in March rose markedly compared to the past several months.
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