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Lake Views
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Official Newsletter of Lake Chelan Rotary
For more information about us go to the website at
Issue No. 10 for 9-6-2016
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Please enjoy the award winning Lake Views newsletter of Lake Chelan Rotary. The year
2016 is Lake Chelan Rotary's 90th Birthday having been Chartered in on March 24, 1926.
Our Club meets every Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. at
Tsillan Cellars in Sorrento's Restaurant.
Tsillan Cellars is one of the Chelan Valley's preeminent wineries.
Our satellite meeting is held at the Vogue - the valleys Gathering Place on the 1st and 3rd Thursday at 7 a.m.
Please join us at either of these meetings - an invitation is not required. Visitors are always welcome.
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Our Program for Tuesday, September 6
Do You Recognize This Gentleman?
He is madly scrambling this week to figure out what he wants to put into his first Club Assembly. Will he make it exciting with an in depth analysis of his budget for this year? Maybe he will show us all the family photos from the summer camping trip. More likely he will discuss his goals for this year at Lake Chelan Rotary.
Plan to attend and enjoy the unassuming humor of President Kevin Abel.
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The Leavenworth Rotary Club has generously granted $5,000 to establish a fully-supplied science lab at the Hope International School located in Liberia. The Hope Project is headquartered in Plain, Washington and has been providing assistance dating back to the end of the civil war in Liberia.
With their help, Hope International School opened its doors to 400 children in November of 2007. Today, there are 1,200 Pre-K through 12th grade students attending the school.
From left to right in the photo below are: Al Aden, Leavenworth Rotary International Chairman, Dave Frazier, Joseph Cummings, Principal, Jackie Frazier and Ken Kohnhorst, Immediate Past President, Leavenworth Rotary.
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Please take this survey!
Lake Chelan Rotarian Guy Evans is involved with the Open Space Vision process for our community. The Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision will be a comprehensive community-based vision for balancing strategic protection of open space and recreation with continued local development
. It will help local communities make informed decisions about protecting important resources, including open spaces, water quality, and recreational opportunities.
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You can get involved by participating in their community survey (www.surveymonkey.com/r/Chelan
). Everyone who responds to the survey is eligible to win $100 in "Lake Chelan Bucks." We would also love to have you attend our stakeholder meetings to share your views. The first stakeholder meeting will be held October 5th.
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Join the City of Chelan, Lake Chelan Trails Alliance, Chelan-Douglas Land Trust, and The Trust for Public Land on October 5th, at 5:30 in the City of Chelan Council Chambers. This will be the initial stakeholder meeting of the Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision project.
Click below to take the survey:
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Letter to the Editor from Grace and Chief Lester
Hello everyone. I hope this message finds you all in good health. I am doing well. All the boys and girls are doing great. The August holiday is over and now they are ready to go back to school tomorrow.
This is just a polite reminder to all our sponsors to remember to deposit your contributions towards the school fees of the kid each one is sponsoring. We have done very well in the last year and looking forward to more good things in the future.
Thank you for your love, care and will to share. You are a true blessing to our lives. Ashe oleng' everyone!!
With much appreciation,
Grace Namunyak
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In order for you to receive a Tax Receipt, remember to send your check to the following address:
Lake Chelan Rotary Community & International Fund "The Fund"
PO Box 601
Chelan, WA. 98816
The Lake Chelan Rotary Community and International Fund is a 501(c)3 organization under US IRS Tax Rules.
All school fees have been paid through December 2016. The Lake Chelan Rotary Community & International Funds provides Grace with US $1450 every 4 months. This covers the cost of school boarding fees plus $20 for each of the 24 students in the program (21 girls and 3 boys). The $20 is used to provide needed personal items, toiletries, and uniform replacement. The money needed comes from your donations, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar coins collected by Lake Chelan and other Rotarians and donations from other persons interested in the program. We are trying to build up a reserve so that students can be guaranteed their expenses will be paid as they journey through their primary school eduction.
Our first student (Eric) will graduate from Nkoilale Primary School in November 2016. We have a plan to help Eric move forward into secondary school (high school) and hope to sustain him throughout his secondly school education. We hope to get a jump on providing secondary school education funding for all the students. An account has been set up in "The Fund" to do exactly this.
As many of you may know the boys dormitory burned to the ground a few weeks ago and all was lost. The boys are now living in the dining hall. Each boy now has a bed to sleep on and a new foot locker for personal effects. Almost everything has been replaced (with the exception of the building). The Lake Chelan Rotary Community & International Fund is helping with the recovery effort as requested. We are being guided by Grace. The Fund will be providing each of the 147 boys with a new school jacket sometime in the next few weeks. Grace will be getting each boys size and will then go to Nairobi to get the best deal possible. Once this is done the boys will have all that they need from a day to day perspective.
Chief Lester
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This month our social get together will be at Tildio Winery, 70 E. Wapato Lake Road in Manson. It will be on Wednesday, September 21, starting at 5:30 p.m. Beverages will be for purchase, and food and appetizers will be what you each bring. So plan for a great event with your favorite dish to share with your fellow Rotary members. Put it on your calendar.
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How to identify your club's membership problem
By Richard Cunningham, Rotary Club of James River, Richmond, VA
(Editors Note: I don't think we have a membership problem, but this article was interesting from the point of view of analyzing problems in a Rotary Club. TCW)
My club is a relatively young club (10 years) and does not carry some of the baggage older clubs do, although we certainly have had our problems. The club had dwindled down to just four members at one point before I transferred into it in 2012.
Near the end of 2012, a small team embarked on a structured and planned process of cultural change. Under the umbrella of "Service-Centered Leadership," we have been able to achieve some amazing results. The club has grown to 24 members and is on its way to stabilizing at 40 active members, at which time we will look to seed another club.
What is the secret of our success? We take a strategic, not tactical approach. Our core membership message mirrors RI President John Germ's recipe for growth: engage members in community activities. We have dynamic projects in both basic education and literacy, and maternal and child health. Every one of our last five new members has a connection with either the medical field or education, or both. One new member was a transfer, who switched because their previous club was not involved in any major projects. We have also reached out to the recently retired; two of our newest members just retired this year.
I say all this not to brag, but to share what can be achieved with a vision, a plan, high volunteer expectations, and a solid, sustained team effort. Almost every member of our club is engaged. We do not settle for less in a new member, and have been committed to this approach for three years now.
We've shared our message at zone meetings and in discussion forums. When coaching leaders how to help a club with membership issues, we always advise they first take a hard look at what they are dealing with. The first step to problem-solving is always identifying the real problem. We've often found it to be one or more of the following:
- A deeper root problem. In almost all cases, there are several other areas of club operations and leadership that aren't going well. Declining membership is usually the symptom of a deeper dysfunction, not the root problem.
- Lack of a sustainable strategy. These are clubs with few plans for keeping a pipeline of future leaders. They may be led by a group of mostly inexperienced Rotarians with less than three years in Rotary, or by a highly experienced group who like the prestige of leadership but have long since lost their passion for steadily improving the club.
- Mired in status quo. The club may have been dysfunctional so long that the leadership team has no experience of a vibrant club. All they have seen is the current state and they don't actually know what "good" looks like.
- Lack of knowledge. The leadership team has never honestly diagnosed the problem. They have a lot of guesses, but no facts. It could be retention, a lack of prospects, an inability to close the deal on prospects, lack of curb appeal, the existence of "toxic" members, or something else.
- Lack of history. The leadership team doesn't have a sense of the club's membership trends. They don't know how many members have joined or resigned in the past decade, or seen any patterns in the club's membership.
The first step to addressing your club's membership problem, or helping another club, is to do some fact finding. Pull whatever membership history is available and see what it tells you. Even if it doesn't provide answers, it should tell you the questions you need to be asking as you engage your club in solving the problem.
Armed with facts, or at least questions, you can begin to develop intentional strategies to create a culture of membership growth.
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Silvia Learns about the Wild West
This past weekend our exchange student from Taiwan got a real eye-opener about life in North Central Washington. Her host family (Jeff & Jordana LaPorte) and host sister (Makela) spent their time at the Waterville District Fair showing their steer. As Silvia has had no experience with animals she is on a fast learning curve.
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Make Up Meetings around the Area!
Did you know that you can make up a meeting at the following places?
Wenatchee Downtown @ Red Lion Thur. Noon
Wenatchee North @ Town Toyota Center Wed. Noon
Wenatchee Sunrise @ Red Lion Tues. 7 am
Cashmere @ Cashmere Presbyterian Church Wed. Noon
Leavenworth @ Kristall's Fri. 11:45 am
East Wenatchee @ Shari's Restaurant Thurs. 7 am
Lake Chelan @ Tsillian Cellars Tues. Noon
Quincy @ Quincy Senior Center Thur. Noon
Okanogan-Omak @ The Flour MIll in Okanogan Thur Noon
Grand Coulee Dam @ Siam Palace Restaurant Wed. Noon
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This Week's Team
September 6
Greeter - Tiffany Gering
Asst. Cashier - Ty Witt
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The Board this month gave grants to Scout Troop 34 for bench construction and to the American Red Cross for blood drive sponsorship.
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Keep up with the Club decisions. To read the minutes of the
click on the underline in this sentence.
Want to go biking on the team with Kelly Allen to support Women Against Violence Everywere (the WAVE Foundation? The ride is September 18. If you can't ride you can also give! Contact Kelly Allen at kelly@kellyalleninsurance.com
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As you receive this newsletter your editor will be leaving on a cultural exchange To Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. For the next couple of newsletters please contact Les Cooper who will be filling in during my absence. TCW
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2016-2017
Officers & Directors
Kevin Abel
President-Elect:
Lester Cooper
Vice President:
Ty Witt
Treasurer:
Terry White
Secretary:
Tiffany Gering
Past President:
Jordana LaPorte
Directors:
Sandy Calicoat
Lexy Lieurance
Rick Nedrow
Phil Moller
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Tiffany is selling Kenyan handmade jewelry, made by Grace, our good friend and supporter of the Nkoilale project. $40 for necklaces and $8 for earrings.
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Future Rotary International Conventions
2018: 24-27June, Toronto, Canada
2019: 1-5 June, Hamburg, Germany
2020: 7-10 June,Honolulu, USA
2021: 13-16 June, Taipei, Taiwan
2022: 5-8 June, Texas, USA.
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September 1 - Satellite meeting at the Vogue @ 7 a.m.
September 6 - Club Assembly with Kevin whipping us into shape!
September 8 - Board meeting at Visitor Center @ 4 p.m.
September 13 - Fashion Show program from Main Street Gallery
September 15 - Satellite meeting at the Vogue @ 7 a.m.
September 15 - Membership Matters Training in Pateros at 5 p.m.
September 20 - VP Ty Witt scanning the community projects opportunities. Visitation from Cashmere Rotary
September 21 - Our social this month will be at Tildio Winery in Manson @ 5:30 p.m.
September 27 - Plan to attend the meeting with James and Janet Heg about their foreign service experience
October 4 - Our program will be Bess Detering, the President of Okanogan-Omak Rotary
April 28-30, 2017 - Dist. 5060 annual conference in Kelowna
June 10-14, 2017 - Atlanta International Rotary Convention
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Are you interested in joining Lake Chelan Rotary? Please contact Membership co-chairs Mary Watson (509) 670-3169
PO Box 601
Chelan, WA 98816
Newsletter editor: Tom Warren
thomas.warren@lakeChelanRotary.org
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