Lunch Meeting Program

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Program: District Conference Leavenworth, May 2023

Sponsor: Guy Evans

Tuesday’s speakers will be Colin Brine and Dr. Mike Worden from the Leavenworth Rotary club. Dr Worden is currently serving as president of the Leavenworth club. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from Duke University. In addition to Rotary, he also serves on the Leavenworth School Board. Mr. Brine is the executive producer of the District Conference and is the co-founder and principle consultant for Be Clearly, a consulting firm dedicated to bringing people together for good.

Dr. Mike Warden

Colin Bryne

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 club ticket is an additional $1, with 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

Satellite Meetings

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.

Dear Rotarians,

This coming week we will be hearing from the Leavenworth Rotary club and the planning efforts to-date for this spring’s District 5060 Conference. The dates are May 18-21st.  

Here are five good reasons to attend:

1. It will open your eyes to the bigger world of Rotary.
2. You will make new friends.
3. You will come back to our club energized and enthused.
4. Leavenworth is fun!
5. Leavenworth is close!

I set a goal at the beginning of my presidency to have five of our members attend District Conference.  I invite you to consider being one of those five.

Yours in Rotary, 

Guy Evans

ps. Be sure to checkout the website for the conference, Very inspiring!

Yours in Rotary,

Guy Evans

This is Your Last Chance

Our Rotary Club Life Flight membership renews on March 31, 2023. The discounted rate for this year is $65.00 per household. So that we can process your payments and deliver a group check in advance of the deadline, please provide your payments to Club Treasurer, Dan Hodge by no later than March 7, 2023. Please make checks payable to Rotary Club of Lake Chelan. You may mail checks to P.O. Box 601, Chelan, WA 98816 so that they are received by the deadline.

Not a member but want to be? Enrollment is now open for Rotary members, their friends and families who would like to join Life Flight under our membership.

If you would like an application for membership, wish to discontinue your membership, or if you need to make any changes to your membership information (including changes to mailing address or household members included in your membership, which will require a new application form), please contact Julie McCoy at julie@juliemccoylaw.com or (949) 422-2819.

Last year, the Foundation raised over $434 million and funded more than 1,190 global grants, 470 district grants, and 225 disaster response grants to help communities thrive.

Rotary Direct is one of the easiest and most secure ways for donors to support the Foundation; because contributions are automated, donors don’t need to worry about sending checks or remembering to make an annual contribution on time. 

Rotary Direct saves time and reduces administrative costs. Monthly, quarterly, and annual gift options are available. Members can enroll at the Rotary Direct page, return a completed Rotary Direct enrollment form, or enroll by phone by calling the international office at 866-976-8279. 

The new staff housing is nearing completion. The new housing will consist of four individual suits each having two bedrooms and a sitting room/kitchen. A major improvement over the existing housing.

Teachers are assigned to a school by the government. In rural schools teacher have to live at the school and until they arrive they have no idea what to expect.

my existing bedroom...

... next to my kitchen

... my new home is almost complete

The Manson High School Interact Club is holding a community drive to collect hygiene and self-care supplies to help fill the shelves at Chelan Valley Hope. CVH provides these staples such as diapers, shampoo/conditioner, toothbrushes/toothpaste, body lotion, deodorant and other hygiene items to community members in need. They will be used in the hygiene pantry as well as the Little Essentials outdoor pantry. Please bring hygiene items to this week's meeting.

Cash donations or checks made out to Chelan Valley Hope are also welcome.

In Kenya, I visited with a smallholder farmer using new tools and practices to fight back against climate change.

I planted drought-tolerant seeds, fed and weighed chickens, and used a mobile phone to monitor weather forecasts and local crop prices. These were a few of the chores I was given during my visit with Mary Mathuli, a smallholder farmer in rural Kenya.

I arrived expecting to hear her talk about the record droughts and smaller harvests many farmers are experiencing throughout Africa. Instead, to my surprise, she led me out to her fields to show off the innovations that are allowing her to continue to grow crops and earn an income despite the drastic changes in rainfall and weather patterns. She put me to work so I could understand how these new agricultural inputs and practices can make a big difference in their lives. 

This experience taught me a couple important lessons. First, my farming skills—like holding a chicken and swinging a hoe—need some work. Second, and more importantly, I got a personal reminder of how resourceful and resilient African smallholder farmers like Mary are. Battered by years of drought and other extreme weather patterns, they are developing new skills and embracing new technologies to adapt to some of the toughest conditions for growing crops and raising livestock. 

While more innovation is needed to help Africa’s smallholder farmers keep pace with the threats posed by climate change, Mary and other farmers in Kenya are adopting some incredible new tools and practices that can limit crop losses and help their farms thrive even in extreme weather: Chickens - Our first stop at Mary’s farm was her chicken coop, where she promptly handed me a large hen to hold. Chickens serve as a kind of hedge against climate risks because they can provide a reliable source of income, even in times of extreme weather. She sells eggs and the adult chickens for meat at her local market.

Drought-tolerant seed -  Next, we walked out to Mary’s fields, where she handed me bags of improved seeds that can handle extreme weather conditions. Mary uses drought-tolerant maize seeds and bean seeds, which she invited me to plant with her. I helped her dig a square planting pit, about a foot deep, which conserves rainwater. Then we dropped in the seeds, covered them with soil, watered them, and added a thin layer of straw on top to help provide some protection from the heat.

I was impressed by Mary’s entrepreneurial spirit and her optimism. She appeared to seize every opportunity to try out new technologies and agricultural practices. It’s one of the reasons why she was trained as a model farmer and Village Based Advisor. In this role, Mary provides guidance to several hundred farmers in her community, showing them how to use drought-tolerant seeds, raise chickens, and adopt other climate adaptation agricultural strategies. She is clearly doing a good job in this role because more than 90 percent of farmers in her area have embraced one of the new adaptation practices. 

Plant-Based Cookbook Fundraiser - Share Your Recipes

The Rotary Club of the Rivers is working on a fundraiser by compiling an International Plant Based Cookbook, and Lake Chelan Rotary is invited to get involved. As we know, Rotarians are People of Action, and to sustain our community leaders to keep the Rotary gear moving, this cookbook will contain nutrient-dense “food as fuel” recipes. 

They are looking to showcase delicious and nutritious recipes coming from the perspective of food as medicine. They would like to collect recipes from as many Rotary clubs as possible in order to put together a recipe collection in a book, which will also highlight the contributing Rotary Club Member and recipe author. 

Sales and distribution of this excellent reference book will be through third parties such as the Rivers Club and Lake Chelan Rotary Club, with 1/3 of the proceeds staying with the club that sold the book. This provides a fundraising opportunity for other clubs and is the same distribution model Kamloops West Rotary uses for their well-established Golf Card community fundraiser.

Plans are to sell the book for around $30, so each club would keep $10/ book. Please email Rivers Club Co-Chair Diane Golchert if you have questions or to submit your favorite plant-based recipe at dgolchert@shaw.ca.

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.

Wenatchee Rotary Roast & Toast

Make plans to join the Wenatchee Rotary Club on Saturday, March 11 at the Wenatchee Convention Center for the Roast & Toast of NCW's favorite newspaper man, Rufus Woods.

Help gently rib (or perhaps spit roast) Rufus and his past career as owner/operator of The Wenatchee World, as well as his good works in the community and region.

Proceeds benefit Alatheia Riding Center and Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council.

Dinner tickets are $100 and other sponsorships are available (see attachments HERE and HERE). Tickets are available at www.wenatcheerotary.org or you can call Pete Van Well at 509-679-5214 or email: pete2@vanwell.net.

District Conference Registration is Open

January 31 Lunch Meeting: Committee Talk - Youth Services Review

February 7 Lunch Program: District Conference Preview

February 14 Lunch Program: Chelan High School Principal Scott Granger



February 21 Lunch Program: Mike Steele - Legislative Update

February 28 Lunch Program: Committee Talks - Preserve Planet Earth and 911 Glass Rescue

April 11, 12 or 13: District Club Spring Training Experience (CSTE), Zoom, 5:00pm- 6:30 pm. Watch for details soon

President: Guy Evans

President-Elect: Russ Jones

Vice President: Kim Dunbar-Wall

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

Members are responsible for tracking your own attendance online. Watch for your weekly Wednesday email and let Brian Patterson know if you need assistance.

Lunch, Satellite, online and committee meetings, community service work and other Rotary participation all counts! View the attendance report at December 2022 Attendance 

Watch for a weekly email with a link to self-report attendance.

Photo was taken by Brian Patterson - "Selfie at Manson WinterFest 2023". Anne Brooks also shared this photo of Manson Bay, taken on January 27.

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.

Rotarians, please submit your items for publication to:

Lake Views Editor: Karen Pembroke kapembroke@gmail.com and

Assistant Editor: Lester Cooper lester.cooper@lakechelanrotary.org

Lake Chelan Rotary | 509-682-2521 | www.lakechelanrotary.org

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Rotary International www.rotary.org

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