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 1 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
The Westin Seattle* and on Zoom
*Covid-19 vaccination required
*Masks required inside at all times except when eating per the governor's mandate
Rebuilders: Leaders We Need for the Decade Ahead?
Paul Shoemaker
Paul Shoemaker, a writer, and speaker to socially conscious and civically active leaders, in the public, private and non-profit sectors, will share his profiles for change agents who he "dubs" "Rebuilders" and offers the five vital traits change leaders need to solve big problems.
Join us as Paul discusses the complexity of social, economic, and health challenges facing us in the 2020s that are radically different from those we faced even one generation ago. He argues the pace and downward path of inequities in America over the ast 25 years is not socially, morally, or economically sustainable. Paul will share his view that traditional leadership is not sufficient to rebuild an America that has become too uneven and siloed.
MEET ROTARY CARES
Your Rotary Cares Committee will have a table in the lobby this week. Please stop by to make sure your ClubRunner profile is up to date. They will help you make any changes. If you would like to learn more about what the committee does, please join their table at lunch. They will also be at the September 15th and October 6th meetings.
EACH ONE, BRING ONE
To register a guest or someone interested in membership, please contact Fiona Ronyai.
It is my honor to introduce our newest member, Dr. Yvonne Richards. Yvonne is the Director of the Tutoring Center in Covington, WA. Her classification is Education, and her membership has been sponsored by Doug Seto.
President Jimmy calls the meeting to order promptly at 12:30 p.m. followed by the song of the day, “You Are My Sunshine’ led by Trish Bostrom accompanied by her banjo, and the day’s inspiration by Tom Mesaros.
The day’s short program featured Downtown Seattle Association President/CEO and fellow Rotarian Jon Scholes, who provided an overview of the ‘state of downtown’. He began by thanking Rotary for meeting twice monthly downtown at the Westin, as a vital piece of the renewal and recovery of downtown. “We have turned a corner beginning with a $15M plan to revitalize downtown with additional beautification and events to draw people to the center city,” he said. For information about the DSA’s collaboration with the City of Seattle, Visit Seattle, and private organizations visit www.loveseatown.com. He reported some encouraging information: 87% of visitor foot traffic has returned compared to a normal week; hotel occupancy is at 70% and more people moving into downtown than ever before. “There is still plenty of work to do,” he said, “including pivotal elections that everyone should get educated about including the Compassion Seattle charter amendment to help folks on the street get back on their feet”.
Seattle Sports Commission president and Seattle #4 president-elect nominee Beth Knox introduced the day’s featured speaker, Art Thiel, a respected local sports reporter/columnist who spoke about the impact of student athletes’ compensation and the reckoning of big-time college sports. Between the soccer festival, Seahawks pre-season, the Mariners being relevant, the Storm’s great win along with the Kraken launching has kept the veteran sports reporter busy.
“For more than 100 years the business of college sports has been the golden goose of the NCAA grip on amateurism,” he began. “It is all happening this summer as college football and men’s basketball have taken such a precedent over colleges and universities, where misplaced priorities have taken over college sports following recent rulings and Legislation that provide name, image, and likeness (NIL), the term to describe reforms that are shaking college sports”.
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.
You won't want to miss this one! Our fellow Rotarian Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly, will take us on a tour of the International District showing 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, Denny 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) for dinner and beverages. 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.
Unless protests are received in the time period required (seven days), the following will receive a "Welcome to Rotary" notification that their membership has been accepted:
Navendra (Navi) Jha
Software Development Engineer – Amazon
Young Rotary Leader Membership with Technology Classification
Proposer: Nyasha Tunduwani
Catherine Darley
Director – Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine, Inc.
Individual Membership with Health Care Classification
Proposer: Liz McGrath
Jennie Cox
CFO – JTM Construction
Corporate Membership with Construction Classification
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
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It is my honor to introduce our newest member, Dr. Yvonne Richards. Yvonne is the Director of the Tutoring Center in Covington, WA. Her classification is Education, and her membership has been sponsored by Doug Seto.
