LakeViews Issue No. 48 for May 30, 2023 | |
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Lunch Meeting Program
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Speaker: Candice Ducrocq, Youth Exchange Student
Program Sponsor: Susie Hepner
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This week our speaker will be Candice Ducrocq, our Youth Exchange Student from France. Join us to get her perspective about living in Chelan for this past school year and about some of her favorite experiences while she's been here. | |
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Meetings are held every Tuesday at noon at Sorrento's Ristorante at Tsillan Cellars. We offer a hybrid meeting format with the option of attending in person or joining on Zoom. The cost for lunch is $12, and for those not buying lunch, the sitting fee is $4. Each ticket is an additional $1. Ticket sales supporting club operations, half of which is paid to a lucky winner based on weekly drawings.
Join Zoom Meeting by clicking on this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89260341676?pwd=aGx4S3gxWkUwbWZ0bEczUWVTT082UT09
Meeting ID: 892 6034 1676
Passcode: RCLC
Dial in: 253-215-8782
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Satellite meetings are not formal but we keep these standing dates for members who want to gather for fellowship and some Rotary talk:
1st & 3rd Thursdays of each month - Ancestry Cellars in Manson, 5 p.m.
2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month - Coffee meetings - The Family Bean, 131 S Apple Blossom Drive #101 Chelan, 7 a.m.
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Rotary Attendance and Participation | |
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Members are responsible for tracking your own attendance online. Watch for your weekly Wednesday email and let Brian Patterson know if you need assistance.
What counts as attendance? What really matters is your involvement and connection with others! While of course we would like to see you at Sorrento's each week for our lunch meetings, going to a Satellite meeting, attending online, participating in a committee meeting, project work sessions, community service work and other Rotary participation all count! View the attendance report at April 2023 Attendance
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District Conference in Leavenworth | |
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Lake Chelan Rotary Club was well represented at the District 5060 Conference in Leavenworth last weekend, with about ten club members attending or volunteering at the event. We participated in the Rotary Expo Village with a 911 Glass Rescue booth, along with Tom Tochterman sponsoring a RAGES (Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species) booth. On Saturday, much of the conference was centered around a hands-on project challenge that engaged local youth and Exchange students as well as Rotarians. Learn more about the outcome of that in the Youth Service section below.
Lake Chelan Rotarian Lester Cooper was honored with the District 5060 Edward F. Cadman "You Are the Key" Award, which was a surprise to him. His long time friend Mary Ann Warren described the significant impact that Lester's work to bring resources to impoverished communities in Kenya has made for so many students.
The conference also featured outstanding inspirational speakers including Kikkan Randall, 5 time Olympian cross country skiier, and Ed Viesturs, renowned mountain climber, along with great entertainment from The Paperboys.
Thank you to the Leavenworth Club and all those from other clubs who worked hard to make this a great event. Next year - on to Penticton, BC for the District Conference!
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Each week we get a countdown from Russ as to his retirement date - and it's almost here! Rotarians and friends are all welcome to stop by to congratulate Russ on June 9. | |
Nearly 400 people have registered for Cycle Chelan as of early this week! Watch for your volunteer assignment if you do not yet have it. Thank you to the numerous Rotarians who are very busy these final weeks before the event with signs and road logistics, food and drink, boat transportation, the post-ride event, registration pickup, sponsorship recognition coordination with the participating wineries and more. Make sure June 24 is on your calendar and keep sharing our event with everyone you know who might want to ride that day. | |
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The next Rotary highway road cleanup is scheduled for Tuesday, June 6 at 3:30 pm. All interested in helping will meet at Lakeside Park & Ride. A signup sheet was passed at the last Rotary meeting and will be available again this Tuesday. Questions? Please contact Don Christenson at 509-990-7414. | |
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Students Engage in District Conference | |
Addie works on building the storyboard | |
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One of the focus activities at this past weekend's District Conference was a workshop intended to discover a challenge in our own community, design a solution to address the challenge, develop a model to depict the solution, and share the solution with others. Our club attendees were fortunate to be joined by several students including inbound Exchange Student Candice, and Manson High School sophomore Addie Richmond, Manson Senior Nate Katzer, and Abby Prieto, a student from Wenatchee, who were there to represent RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). The challenge identified was that there are elementary school reading deficiencies evident, particularly with first and second graders, due in part to some students not having English spoken or read at home. A storyboard was created by the students and a video created to explain the challenge and potential solutions. This will be shared and reviewed for future action. They also participated in a bike building event on Friday, Building a Dream, with completed bicycles granted to children in the community.
In the words of the students: "I had such a great time. I really appreciate you giving us this opportunity! One of my favorite exercises was when we were asked to think about an issue in our community that could be 'reimagined.' The Chelan team came up with how to improve Manson’s test scores and get reading levels back up to grade level. It was incredible to see all the different solutions we came up with and perspectives from everyone. We all have very different backgrounds and did a really great job putting all of our knowledge together to create a solution. It was really inspiring seeing all the different ideas groups throughout the district came up. It was really great training on how to define a problem and a way to begin solving it. The whole district was able to collaborate and give advice on how to help other towns to improve their community involvement." - Addie
"Thank you for giving me the opportunity to attend the Rotary Meeting. It was a great experience that exposed me to new ideas and engaged me with my community’s leaders. I really enjoyed the seminars (building and giving bikes to elementary kids and finding problems in our own community/town and creating a solution and display board to show off the idea) and the inspirational speakers. I had fun at the special events and made some new friends from across the world!" - Nate
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Book Buddies Concludes at Manson and Holds Book Fair at MOE | |
This past week, the Book Buddies program concluded for the school year at Manson Elementary with Rotary sending second graders home for the summer with 5 books to keep in a special Rotary bag with their name on it. We celebrated with an ice cream social and volunteers were honored with beautiful succulents and a thank you photo to take home as a memento of our time together. | |
On May 17, Book Buddies held a book fair at MOE where all students in the second grade classes were given book bags and were able to pick out 5 books to take home to read this summer. First graders (not shown) were allowed to pick out two books of their own to keep at a separate event. The goal of the book fairs is to keep kids interested and engaged in reading over the summer and perhaps share the books with siblings and other family at home. | |
Rotary Club of the Rivers Satellite e-Club | |
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The Rotary Club of the Rivers is online the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at 5pm PT/8pm ET.
All are welcome and encouraged to join on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82337965825?pwd=c3RtSjFiSjlzUTdqWmRxR2lGcmM3QT09
Meeting ID: 823 3796 5825 Passcode: 651849
This club focuses on the environment and projects to preserve planet Earth, with members from Kamloops, Salmon Arm, BC, and Ontario. Join for fellowship and great speakers. This is a Satellite E-Club of the Rotary Club of Lake Chelan.
For news and to learn more, go to the website at Rotary Club of the Rivers.
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May 30 Lunch Meeting: Year-end Report from Exchange Student Candice
June 6 Lunch Program: Buzz on Biz Presentations - Dan Hodge and MHS students
June 13 Lunch Program: Scott Meyers - Chelan Valley Housing Trust
June 14: Club Board Meeting, 4 pm, Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce
June 19: Fund Board Meeting, 4 pm, Zoom
June 20 Lunch Program: Patrick Conrad, Hanford Mission Integration
June 27 Lunch Program: Social, Induction of New Board & Officers, Year in Review
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President: Guy Evans
President-Elect: Russ Jones
Vice President: Kim Dunbar
Treasurer: Dan Hodge
Secretary: Julie McCoy
Past President: Karen Pembroke
Director: Cindy Buboltz
Director: Tom Tochterman
Director: John Ausnes
Director: Lee Parker
Lake Chelan
Rotary Fund Board Trustees
Guy Evans
Dan Hodge
Connie Lorenz
Lester Cooper
Barry Leahy
Diane Leigh
Russ Jones
Susie Hepner
911 Glass Rescue
President: Julie McCoy
Vice President: Tom Tochterman
Treasurer: Brian Patterson
Secretary: Amy Mills
Directors:
Barry Leahy, Concie Luna, Lee Parker, Kirk McGovern
Admin Assistant: Megan Clausen
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This photo courtesy of the Lake Chelan Wine Valley, Photographer unknown.
If you have a photo of the lake or interesting sights around Chelan, please share with Lester Cooper for publication in a future issue of the Lake Views.
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