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 one of our Rotary Cares Committee Co-chairs 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.
Get Involved - Join a Committee!
You can find a full list of our committees with descriptions on our website. Contacting the committee chair, listed below, is the best way to find out how to get involved.
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.
Denise Moriguchi, President, CEO, and third-generation family leader of Uwajimaya, an iconic local Asian grocery retailer that has been serving the Pacific Northwest for over 90 years, will talk to the company’s past, present and future. Learn about the company’s history, tales of survival, resilience, and change over 90 years, and what lies ahead.
Meet our new Membership and Communications Manager, Fiona Ronyai. Fiona will take charge of both membership recruiting and our member services. She will also be in charge of the Totem.
Fiona comes to us with more than 16 years of conference services experience with hotels in the US and Canada. For 10 years, she was the Director of Catering and Convention Services for the Crowne Plaza downtown receiving a glowing reference and Manager of the Year awards for 2014 and 2018. During her career, she coordinated Canada’s first gay wedding as well as the official visits of Prince Andrew to Toronto and of Nelson Mandela to Ottawa.
Hearts & Wine 2021 will be unlike any other as Harvest Against Hunger shifts to bring you a memorable online event. This winter’s fundraiser will include many of the elements you love from the annual in-person event—engaging and entertaining speakers, fellowship, and opportunities to do good things for our community.
There are several options for participating - including free registration. Register to attend yourself, rally a group for a virtual watch party, and check out the silent auction items (bidding starts February 8) below. We can't wait to see you there!
Join fellow Rotarian Tiffany Lewis, Chief Cookie Officer of Cookies with Tiffany, and other Rotarians for an engaging virtual hands-on (and delicious) cookie class on Thursday, February 25th. Tiffany will showcase her most sought after and famous s’more cookie, routinely touted as the best s’more cookie in Seattle, while sharing all her insider secrets to making the perfect cookie. Part science, part laid back fun, you won’t want to miss this!
Additional Details:
Cost: $60 which includes all ingredients (except eggs, butter, and vanilla extract), instructions, two baked cookies and a memorable evening with your fellow Rotarians.
Ingredient Pick Up: Cookie kits are pre-measured dry ingredients and will be provided for pickup at Voula's Offshore Café (658 NE Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98105). Choose a day and time for pickup that’s convenient for you:
Additional Ingredients Needed for Class: 2 sticks of butter, 2 eggs, and vanilla extract.
Special Equipment Needed: Stand-mixer or hand-mixer in addition to a nonstick baking sheet (preferably with parchment paper), oven, two bowls, whisk, spatula, butter and eggs, our included cookie kit, a cookie scoop or spoon, and a great attitude.
Seattle 4 is in competition with district clubs to see which club(s) can save the most lives. Help Seattle 4 save lives. Paul Harris Fellowship points will be awarded to Seattle #4 blood-drive participants. Anyone who makes a blood donation before March 17th will also automatically be entered into a drawing for one of 9 new cars through Bloodworks Northwest's giveaway.
For one reason or another, only 40% of the general population is eligible to give blood. This is why we particularly celebrate those Seattle 4 members listed below who have done so:
Steve Bamesberger
Jeff Borek
Ken Colling
Jimmy Collins
John Crissey
Sten Crissey
Larry Granat
Cathy Gibson
Nancy Cahill
Robyn Grad
Beth Knox
David Mayfield
Jaimie Mendez
John Steckler
Ben Wicks
Bruce Williams
Dennis Williams
David Woodward
If you have donated blood but do not find your name on the list, please email Sten at stencrissey@gmail.com. Thank you!
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:
Shoko Toyama
Chief Development Officer at Plymouth Housing. YRL Membership with a Human and Community Services Classification. Proposer - Lynn Beck.
Gordon Okumu
King County Health and Environmental Investigator with Department of Natural Resources and Parks. YRL Membership with a Government and Policy Classification.
Proposer - Bailee Neyland.
Linda Lowry
Business Development Representative at Bloodworks NW. Individual Membership with a Health Care Classification.
Proposer - Sherry Calvert.
CONTACT US
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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Meet our new Membership and Communications Manager, Fiona Ronyai. Fiona will take charge of both membership recruiting and our member services. She will also be in charge of the Totem. 
