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IN MEMORY OF OUR DEPARTED
FELLOW ROTARIAN
ROBERT S. "BOB" THOMPSON
WHO PASSED AWAY JANUARY 30, 2007 |
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SOMETHING NEW |
This
week’s
Rotary Foundation
Thought
is about the
Paul Harris Society. The
Paul Harris Society is a
district-administered
recognition for those who
elect to personally
contribute US$1,000 or more
each year to the Annual
Programs Fund. Started three
years ago by Past District
Governor Wayne Cusick in
District 5340 in San Diego,
USA, societies have now been
adopted in more than 80
districts worldwide.
Individual districts handle
all associated recognition
for this program, however,
the Trustees recently
endorsed the Paul Harris
Society, and TRF is
developing a standard
wearable recognition item.
Paul Harris Society
contributions are eligible
towards Rotary Foundation
Sustaining Member, Paul
Harris Fellow, Multiple Paul
Harris Fellow and Major
Donor recognition.
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What would you like to add to the Calendar? Programs for our
club are listed in the Calendar below.
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February - World Understanding Month |
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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5 |
6
McMinnville Interact |
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8 |
9
Dennis Wickham DGN |
10 |
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12 |
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Steering Committee Meeting Community Center 11:45 AM |
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Board
Meeting Tequilla Grill 11:45 AM |
15 |
16
James Gorry Inbound Exchange Student |
17 |
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19 |
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McMinnville Interact |
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22 |
23
John Ailstock Vocational Talk |
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opening |
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Greeters:
Nancy Nelson
and Ray Fields
Meditative
Moment: Jan Fyant
challenged our thinking with a fable encouraging us to more fully
appreciate and be thankful for others.
Pledge:
President Art Bradley |
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INTRODUCTION OF VISITING ROTARIANS &
GUESTS |
Eve Barnett
was introduced by Ray Fields. Eve was a long time member
of our club until she, Norm, and their boys moved to Vancouver,
WA. Eve is District coordinator for Interact.
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Andy Benedict was with us again, much to the pleasure of
Carol Benedict.
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Jerry Sherwood,
(left) Past president of our club and now an honorary club
member was introduced by Dale Tomlinson.
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MEMBER RECOGNITION &
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Chuck
Pattishall presided—something was said about holding the microphone in Elvis
style. Absent but needing
to be recognized were: Rosemari Davis, Dick Ecker,
Ed Gormley (perhaps preparing for the Ball tomorrow),
Dan Corrigan and Skip Huwaldt.
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Johannes
Goddik seemed a bit
surprised when asked to comment on his upcoming anniversary. He
recovered very nicely. This coming Monday he and Roelie will be
celebrating their 51st anniversary.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
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Guy Everingham
had two brags about his daughter. He and Vickie were very
pleased when she became engaged a few months ago. Additionally,
his daughter has gone through the arduous task of trying to get
into Physicians Assistant school. She was accepted out of a
pool of hundreds of applicants.
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Ray
and Yasuko Fields will celebrate their 17th
anniversary February 3rd. “We never would have met if I had not
been for Rotary.”
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Ryan Arzner
needed to apologize for a recent incident in a local restaurant
involving his 6 year-old. It seems that some crayons got away
from the child and clobbered President Art in the face.
Despite the seriousness of the incident no one was transported
to the ER.
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Paul Elias
recognized Walt Haight for recent acknowledgement of
service by Walt, his wife and daughter to the community.
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Walt
recently welcomed home his wife Dawn and daughter Delaney
(re-bound student of ours who spent last year in Japan) after
leading a Linfield class examining the health practices in Japan
related to the longevity of Japanese folks. Johannes Goddik
was a great help in getting one of our club flags to Dawn in
time for her to present the flag to a club they visited in
Japan.
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Walt
also publicized the “Singing Valentine” program benefiting the
Jerry Paine Scholarship Fund and Gallery Theater. For only $35
your sweetheart would be serenaded with two songs from a real
barbershop quartet, and receive a beautiful rose and a
personalized card with a special message from you. A GREAT WAY
TO IMPRESS THAT SPECIAL PERSON WHILE BENEFITTING TWO GREAT
RESOURCES!!!!! Contact Walt Haight (503-435-1826; or
971-237-3516).
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Eve Barnett gave a brief update on her sons—who were often part
of our club meetings—before the Barnett’s move to the Portland
area. Sam is at U of O and involved in starting the Rotaract
club there. Their other son is at Mountain View High School.
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 Chuck
Pattishall introduced the next part of the meeting warning that there might be
some violation of the Four-Way Test before our very eyes.
Brent Adams, Corey Graham and Dan Gardner came
forward to introduce a presentation of “Rotary International
Projects”—the title of the first picture we all assumed to be
followed by some official Rotary propaganda. In fact we enjoyed
a series of pictures of President Art’s childhood to
honor his 50th birthday. Art was a bit
surprised!Surely the impish and plucky kid we saw as he moved
through childhood was actually, even then, a tri-athlete in
training.
 The ceremony continued as Corey placed THE OFFICIAL KING ARTHUR
velvet cloak around his shoulders, put the elegant fur-lined
crown on his head, and presented him with the official scepter.
(Writer’s question—have we seen a President be so very
red-in-the-face in recent years? And, recall Art’s
confusing use of the word “moderation” during his vocational
talk.) Dan continued with a 1957sports trivia game
oriented around questions in which Art would pay $1 if he
missed a question and Dan would contribute a $1 if a
member of the audience correctly answered the question. After
dramatic failures (by Art and the club) to answer
questions about the Tour de France winner, Formula 1 Champion,
Wimbleton Tennis Champ, etc., Walt Haight did correctly
observe that the winner of the 1957 World Series were the
Brewers. GREAT JOB BY BRENT, DAN AND COREY
AND CONGRATS TO PRESIDENT ART. (The two took complete
blame and noted that Brenda Bradley was faultess!)
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 Wayne
Bailey announced a
cooperative venture between Youngberg Hill Winery and Henderson
House. On July 10th the Winery will host a benefit
for Henderson House involving auctioning wine barrels decorated
by local artists. Wayne has collected barrels for 51
local wineries. Much like displays of large art forms in cities
(recall the decorated cows on the streets of downtown Portland)
the painted barrels will be displayed around town beginning
about June 1. Businesses could partner with artists to paint
the barrels. “We hope to raise more money for Henderson House
than ever before.” Contact Wayne if you are interested.
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MAIN EVENT |
 Pam
Ferrah, Workforce Analyst, Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties, is
an economist for the Oregon Employment Department. She discussed
labor market data from our tri-county area.
The
“unemployment rate” is a very misunderstood figure. It is not
the number of people collecting unemployment checks. Rather, it
is an estimate of who’s looking for work (only about 1/3 of the
unemployed collect unemployment checks). That is, it is a
percentage of the labor force (those working and those looking
for work added together).
The
unemployment rate is lower now than anytime in the last 6
years. Business owners are having a difficult time finding
skilled workers.
Yamhill
County unemployment rate has been dropping over the last years.
Today it is 4.9% down from 5.4% last year. About 1/3 to 1/2 of
the unemployed in our county are gathering unemployment.
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CLOSING
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President
Art presented a book
to SMART in honor of Pam's presentation today. He closed the
meeting by announcing the next two meetings as being February 9,
our District Governor Nominee Dennis Wickham and February 16,
James Gorry our inbound student from England
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Photos by Dennis Gray
Meeting text Frank Bumpus
Edited for the web by Ray Fields
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Did
you miss this meeting and need a makeup? Here is
a list of places that you can makeup on the web.
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District model eClubs
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Zone model eClubs
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"When
meeting day comes around, I do not have to decide
whether to attend or not, for that has already been
decided for me . . . it was one of the obligations I
accepted when I joined Rotary." -- A Rotarian |
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