SOMETHING NEW

OPENING
 

 

Greeters:  Jack Price and Erin Stephenson

Dave Pfendler provided the Inspirational Moment

Brandon Malloy  followed by leading the membership in the Pledge of Allegiance

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS
 

Van Keck introduced PHIL HUTCHINSON, current President of the McMinnville Chamber of Commerce and member of the Rotary Club of Newport

Dianne Haugeberg introduced the newest member of her family, KELLER.

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Chuck Pattishall introduced his wife, SHARON PATTISHALL, and LAURIE GARDNER, wife of President Dan Gardner

GIA BATTAGLIA, one of our 2008-2009 Outbound Students, JESSE GUINOT, current Inbound Student from France, LANE ROEMMICK, current President of the Mac High Interact Club and AUSTIN WUELLNER, current Rebound Student, took turns introducing themselves!

Carole Benedict introduced her husband, ANDY BENEDICT.

 

MEMBER RECOGNITION, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND BRAGS
 

Lane Roemmick, President of the McMinnville High School Interact Club, announced that he recently visited Doernbecker Children’s Hospital as part of his candidacy for the title of Mr. Mac.  He noted that there was a room named in honor of McMinnville High School!

Mike McKenzie was honored for his birthday.  Sources close to this observer noted that Mike is now eligible to receive certain benefits available to those achieving “retirement age” status.

Ryan Arzner announced that he has reached the grand old age of 32.  He is not eligible for benefits of any kind.

Frank Bumpus announced that he, too, was observing a birthday.  He acknowledged that if one were to double Ryan’s age, it would approximate his own

 

Leslie VanBlaricom announced that a recent fundraiser for Relay For Life netted $2,800.00. 

Lee Means reminded the assembly that this was Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and she listed several activities going on at Henderson House.

Brent Adams updated the group on the fortunes of the McMinnville Rugby team.  The team recently split a couple of games with a pair of club teams, and are preparing for the State Playoffs.

Sharon Larson announced that the local Eagle Scout Association is trying to contact past Eagle Scouts as part of the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

John Larsen thanked President Dan for painting the clubs storage cabinet and bringing it from the Community Center to the Ballroom.

Russ Rainwater announced that his company, Ameri-Title, recently was recognized as being among the state’s “best businesses”.

Chuck Pattishall took the opportunity to introduce late-arriving JOANNA TAPASA, Interact Advisor and honorary Rotarian.  Joanna announced that Interact membership has grown to the point where meetings have been moved from an undersized classroom to the library.

Kristi Brill took a few moments to review the latest edition of the Rotarian.  As always, she related several letters and articles that re-affirmed the good works that Rotary International performs around the globe.  Of particular interest was a feature about the ongoing polio vaccination efforts going on in India and Nigeria.

President Dan reminded the membership that the South Korean Group Study Exchnage Team (GSE) will be arriving shortly.  He thanked the following members for opening up there homes to the visiting group: Lee Means, Richard Weed, Dan Gardner, Jill Methven, and Dudley Frost.  Dan also thanked Ray Fields for coordinating this special event.

MAIN EVENT

Ray Fields introduced Mr. Deepak Dorje Tamang,  a development and environmental professional who comes to us from Nepal.  Mr. Tamang has worked in development & environment with major international agencies in Nepal and South Asia.  He continues to do so as a senior consultant specializing in organizational management, monitoring and evaluation, building capacity, and strategic development and community-based response to natural disaster mitigation.  Currently, he is a fellow at the World Forestry Center in Portland.

Mr. Tamang gave a presentation on the current environmental issues that exist in Nepal.  He embellished the talk with a wide variety of slides and statistics, including some wonderful photographs of the imposing Himalayan Mountain Range, the world’s highest.  He pointed out that the rate of deforestation in Nepal is currently outpacing reforestation, and that major efforts are being made to arrest this trend. 

CLOSING
 

 

Following the presentation, President Dan asked Mr. Tamang to autograph one of the books for the McMinnville Early Reader Program and presented him with the club pen as a gift to our speaker.

Photographs by Dianne Haugeberg
Captions by Walt Haight
Edited for the web by Ray Fields

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