Please consider joining a Rotary Club of Seattle committee for greater fellowship. Our committees need your help, and we have a lot of great opportunities to choose from. They are the foundation our club is built upon. Please contact President Jimmy Collinsor Fiona Ronyai in the office for more details.
Do You Have Any Musical Instruments to Donate to Students in Need?
Music4Life is a non-profit and project of Rotary District 5030 that distributes musical instruments to public school students in need.
We welcome any gently used musical instruments you wish to donate. They can be delivered directly to these local music stores that are now open: American Music in Phinney Ridge and Kennelly Keys Music in Bellevue, Lynnwood, and Everett.
Please accompany your instrument with the PDF donation form, linked below.
Our Rotary Cares team is ready to listen and to support you. One of the wonderful things about our club is that you have many friends --you just need to reach out to tap into our amazing network of caring people. Please contact our Rotary Cares Committee Co-Chairs are listed below to let us know how we can help.
Video of Seattle 4 Rotary Programs are available online thanks to the generous support of our Seattle Rotary Audio Visual Sponsors.
Special thanks to our Gold Level Sponsor, Bob Alexander.
In addition to supporting our club, becoming a Seattle 4 Rotary Audio Visual Sponsor brings many benefits. To learn more, click here, or contact Caroline for more details at Caroline@seattlerotary.org.
SPONSORS
Wednesday, September 8 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
On Zoom
How Will the Seahawks Perform This Season?
Steve Raible
"Voice of the Seahawks," Steve Raible, will share his thoughts about the upcoming Seahawks' season. Learn what Steve thinks our team's prospects are for a winning year as new recruits and coaching staff are integrated into the Seahawks' game plans.
A longtime broadcaster and original Seattle Seahawk, Steve has been a fixture in the Pacific Northwest for almost half a century. Raible entered broadcasting in 1982 following a six-year career as a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks. A second-round draft choice of the expansion franchise in 1976, Raible came to Seattle after graduating from Georgia Tech.
Steve has called the biggest games in Seahawk history, including the Super Bowl 48 championship over the Denver Broncos.
Join Steve for an entertaining program.
EACH ONE, BRING ONE
To register a guest or someone interested in membership, please contact Fiona Ronyai.
President Jimmy rang the bell promptly at 12:30 in the Westin Hotel’s Cascade Ballroom, followed by the day’s anthem, America the Beautiful, led by Cynthia Chirot accompanied by Burr Stewart. Bill Center delivered the day’s inspiration that took the form of an update about past president Todd Summerfelt’s battle against cancer. “Cancer is an insidious disease inflicting untold anguish,” Bill said, “as Todd has been grappling with cancer since the first of the year but doing better than expected. "
President Jimmy asked past president and KING-TV anchor Mark Wright to introduce and interview the day’s featured speaker, Paul Shoemaker, founding president of Social Venture Partners International (SVPI) (www.socialventurepartners.org), and one of the Northwest’s leading experts on activating social change agents, and how individuals can be the most effective. His new book, Taking Charge of Change: How Rebuilders Solve Hard Problems(www.paulshoemaker.org/taking-charge-of-change) describes how the social, economic, and health challenges facing America in the 2020s are radically different than those we faced even one generation ago.
Consul General of Japan and fellow Seattle 4 Rotarian, Hisao Inagaki'sInstagram account is getting attention around the world after folding a crane every day, praying for everyone's health and peace, and posting it on Instagram. He recently marked one year with the 365th crane. Consul General Inagaki is not done. He plans to continue while he is in Seattle and then he will donate his work!
We will be celebrating his one-year anniversary with Seattle 4 at our meeting on September 15th.
Sunday, September 12
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Einer Handeland's
Dahlia Garden Tour
Fellow Rotarian, Einer Handeland and his wife Marilyn have been working with dahlias for over 40 years and would like to invite you to tour their stunning garden filled with 700 dahlias including 160 different varieties. Wellspring is providing vases so you can take a few blooms to brighten up your home! Iced tea, lemonade, and wine will be served.
Parking is available in front of the house as well as within a parking lot at Trinity Lutheran Church --just three houses north at the corner of 85th Ave SE and SE 40th St. Wheelchair access is on the north side of the house. If you need additional information, please contact Einer at 206-755-0630.
Grand Park is a large plateau on the north side of Mt Rainier very near the National Park's northern West-East boundary. It offers great views of Mt Rainier on a sunny day. Hikers will meet on Mercer Island and leave at 7:00 AM. Group size will be limited to 12 and will be for members only.
Want to HELP future leaders prepare for post-secondary education?
UNCF in partnership with Seattle 4 Rotary presents the Portfolio Project. The Portfolio Project is a free 11-week bridge to success program targeted to underrepresented emerging scholars in their Junior and Senior years of High School. The mission of the Portfolio Project is to equip students across Washington and Oregon State with the resources needed to reach their aspirations of post-secondary education.
As a mentor, you will inspire, guide, and motivate, your student while they navigate through the daunting college and scholarship application process.
This year we’ve implemented the Support Squad. This cohort allows two Rotarian mentors for each group of portfolio project students. This provides a team approach for mentors and students. It allows the pairing of mentors to share the time commitment. For example, if a mentor has a prior commitment on a Portfolio Project Saturday.
These events are a great way to meet fellow Rotarians safely in an outdoor environment. The walks are free and the dinner is optional.
You won't want to miss this one! Our fellow Rotarian Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly, will provide a captivating tour chronicling the struggles, transformation, growth, and prospering of the International District. She will show us where Chinatown, Japan Town, and Little Saigon are. We will start the tour at TP Tea Washington (679 South King Street, Seattle, WA 98104) where you will enjoy some Boba Tea. Our tour will include a visit to the Northwest Asian Weekly Building (formerly housing the iconic Kokusai Theater), the historic Panama Hotel, Danny Woo Garden, the 113-year-old Maneki Restaurant, the oldest Japanese Restaurant in the United States, Wing Luke Museum, Uwajimaya Asian Supermarket ending at Tai Tung (655 South King Street, Seattle, WA 98104) with a classic dinner designed by Assunta at a cost of $20. Parking will be provided nearby.
As we begin to emerge from the effects of the COVID19 pandemic, we are excited to announce our upcoming Rotary District 5030 Conference to be held in Coeur d’Alene, ID to be held on the weekend of October 1-3, 2021.
We can’t wait to get together face to face and hold this event as it will be the first District Conference to be held since the spring of 2019 in Spokane, WA.
Seattle 4 Rotarians are invited to help solve the mystery. This year's annual fundraiser will include games, a raffle, and a prize to the best detective (be sure to dress the part!).
Rotary Club of Seattle
1326 5th Ave Suite 342
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-623-0023
Caroline Bobanick
Executive Director
caroline@seattlerotary.org
Fiona Ronyai
Membership and Communications Manager
fiona@seattlerotary.org
We love to see our Rotary members promoting good works in our community and abroad! If you have a project or fundraiser that you are excited about and would like to promote to your fellow club members, please check in with our Executive Director, Caroline Bobanick, or Membership and Communication Manager, Fiona Ronyai, before distributing information or invitations through our email roster. We value the privacy of our members’ contact information and can let you know the appropriate ways to reach out to folks in our club. Thank you!!
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