August 2018 – Board Meeting Minutes

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Lake Chelan Rotary Fund Meeting

Minutes – August 9, 2018 at 3pm

Call to Order: 3:02pm

 

Attending: President Ty Witt, Past President Lester Cooper, President Elect Tom Tochterman, Vice President Kelly Allen and Secretary Tiffany Gering.  Directors: Brian Patterson, Karen Pembroke and Kirk McGovern. Fund Directors: Karen Feek. Club Members: Kim Dunbar. Absent: Treasurer Sandy Calicoat, Kate Tomlinson and Terry Johnson.

  1. Approval of Board Minutes: Kelly made the motion to approve the board minutes, Karen Feek seconded the motion. Motion carried.
  2. Financial Report – Sandy Calicoat: We will approve July’s financials in September.
  3. Old Business
  • Shine-on, Chase, Vineyard Run
  1. New Business
  • Operational percentage
  1. Grant Requests
  • Thrive Chelan – $1,000: Tom made the motion to have Ty speak to Glenn to have specifics on where the money would be spent. Kirk seconded the motion, motion carried.
  1. Adjournment: 3:48pm

Next meeting: September 13, 2018, 2018 at 3pm

Sage Board Room, Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce

 

Lake Chelan Rotary Board Meeting

Minutes – August 9, 2018 at 3pm

Call to Order: 3:49pm

Attending: President Ty Witt, Past President Lester Cooper, President Elect Tom Tochterman, Vice President Kelly Allen and Secretary Tiffany Gering.  Directors: Brian Patterson, Karen Pembroke and Kirk McGovern. Club Members: Kim Dunbar. Absent: Treasurer Sandy Calicoat, Kate Tomlinson and Terry Johnson.

  1. Approval of Board Minutes (emailed): Kelly made the motion to approve the board minutes, Brian seconded the motion. Motion carried.
  2. Financial Report – Sandy Calicoat: We will approve July’s financials in September.
  3. Attendance Report – Rick Nedrow (emailed): Lester made the motion to decline Tom Kophs resignation, Kelly seconded the motion. Motion carried.
  4. Old Business
  • Past DG visit – Wenatchee pot luck tonight
  1. New Business
  • Freenotes Harmony Music Park – BeverLi Joi
  • DG Nomination 2021-2022: Tiffany made the motion to nominate Jordana Laporte for DG, Kelly seconded the motion. Motion carried.
  • Committee Assignments
  • Pingrey Mural Chairperson
  • Rotary Directory
  • Volunteer Tracking App – Kelly
  1. New Member Proposals
  • Honorary Member – John Anderson: Tiffany made the motion to make John Anderson a lifetime honorary member, Brian seconded the motion. Motion carried.
  1. Committee Reports
  • Social – Kelly Allen
  • Speakers – Mary Pat Scofield
  • Vocational Service – Kirk McGovern
  • International Service – Kisiriri Project – Lester Cooper
  • Youth Exchange – Kate Tomlinson, Mandi Dawson and Susie Hepner
  • Club Service – Brian Patterson
  • Community Service – Ty Witt
  • Membership – Paul Gunn, Randi Burchett
  • Newsletter – Karen Pembroke
  • Scholarships – Mary Watson – additional McKellar Scholarship

Other Business – Good of the Order

Adjourned at 5:05pm

Next meeting: September 13, 2018 at 3pm

Sage Board Room, Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce

 

Golden Egg Hunt

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2018-2019 Scholarships

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Rotary Winterfest BBQ

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Nkoilale Parent Conference Update

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Hello everyone,

I believe that you are all doing fine. I am doing well too. We had a nice break. It has been raining since we closed. The place is now very beautiful.

I would like to inform you that we held a meeting with the parents and the kids last week. I am so grateful that they all managed to come. As we all know, these kids came to school against their parents’ wishes. There is always need to monitor the relationship between them so as to make sure that these kids get support, love and encouragement from their parents. The only way to establish this is by having a one-on-one forum with them. In our meeting, we discussed the following issues:

  • parental guidance and support
  • discipline
  • self motivation and hard work
  • responsibility

We had a wonderful time together and everyone participated in the discussions. They are all thankful for the support they are getting from you. All parents have now changed their attitude towards education and promised to be 100% supportive towards their kids education.

With love,

Grace Namunyak.

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Nkoilale Primary School has a New Teacher

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Marcia Meyer is a retired teacher from Portland Oregon who wanted to volunteer as a teacher in Kenya. I thought she will be a great fit for Nkoilale primary and her and Grace will make a great team and as you can see in these pictures, they have become BEST friends, In fact they are roommates.

I spoke to Marcia earlier this morning and she told me that she felt so natural being in Nkoilale she spoke very highly of Grace, and she LOVES the Kids. She has been their only 10 days and she having a great time with the kids and visiting the village and meeting the locals. She is planning on staying and volunteering at Nkoilale until April next year. She will be sharing her story with us when she gets settled.

Nkoile New Taecher

(Grace Wrote this) Today I took Marcia to Seiyio’s home. She was very happy to see her at home. We had a very long talk and I took a video. I will see how it will get to you. We also passed through Nickson’s home. Good news is that, Marcia met Nickson’s sister who is ten yrs old and has not been enrolled to school. She asked me to ask her if she would like to go to school. She was so sad that she started crying and that touched Marcia’s heart that she decided to sponsor her to school. We are going to visit the family on Sunday in order to meet with her father. We would like to talk to him to allow his daughter to join school in January. I hope all goes well and Sinore joins school in the New Year.

 

Nkoilale New Teacher with Grace

Golf Tournament

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Kosen – Trip to Kenya – August 2014

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Hi Everyone.

My family and I are back home from our Trip to Kenya.  My wife Diane and My daughter Hailey had a wonderful time visiting family and friends for the first time.  We also had time to go on a 3 days safari in Masai Mara which coincided with the wildebeest migration season.  This Safari was also very important to both Hailey and I, in Aug 1978 my Dad took me on safari, I was 5 yrs old and at 5 yrs this was my daughter’s first safari and from the look of things she is a natural.

On Sept 10th I met with Grace and presented her with 2 Laptop computers that were donated by Lester Cooper from the Chelan Rotary and also gave her the money to pay for the kid’s tuition (fee) and shopping for the 6 new kids as well as for the other 9 that we have been supporting from the beginning of the year. I also had time to visit with the kids and they were very happy and thankful to each and every one of you for your Love and kind support. They told me to let you know that they are working very hard at school and they want to make us all proud. Grace gave me their school report form and their performance was impressive. I will bring the report forms to our next meeting.

Dr Claver, Andy Kunkel and I also visited the 5 of the 9 solar lights beneficiaries and to our delight every one of the solar Kits was working perfectly. We had to change only 1 bulb that had gone out.  These families have kept the solar kit in a very good condition. We left Grace with 8 extra bulbs for replacement if needed.

The Lights continue to have a great and positive impact to the community, I talked to the women and they told me how the lights have changed their lives both financially and socially. They make the traditional necklaces, bracelets and other Masai traditional bead work at night and sell them to Tourist during the day and also have time to do other family chores during the day. One story was even more compelling, one of ladies told me that she put one light outside of her house facing the livestock coral and ever since they have not experienced any incidents with the predators like Leopard, hyenas or lions attacking or even killing their livestock. For the Masai People livestock are a very major source of income and livelihood. Thanks to the solar lights for they have deterred these predators from coming into the village at night, the village and more importantly the people are safe at night.

The children continue to enjoy doing their homework and studies at home without any worries about darkness setting in or getting sick from smoke from kerosene lamps or firewood.

“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” -Howard Zinn

 Kosen