Visiting Rotarians were Brandon Peterson from Tigard Breakfast Club, Lou Ogden from Tualatin Club, and Kevin Mannex from the E. Salem Club.
Other visitors were Mark Miller and Jaime Valdez from the Tigard Times, Ryan Flatley, Alison Stone, and Mark Theodoruff.
Cheron Calder presided over the meeting for Bill Monahan who was absent. She spoke enthusiastically about the PETS training she attended last week. It was a whirlwind weekend and she garnered many great ideas on rejuvenating the club. She called Marland and asked if he could talk for a few minutes, to which he replied, “For you, I have hours.” Cheron presented Marland Henderson with a new Rotary pin as a symbol of his exemplary service to our club and community.
Please let Cheron know if you are not on a committee and/or if you have a passion for a particular area. She wants to be sure all members, new and old, are plugged into the club’s many avenues of service. There is a need for people to help with programming. We also need one more cashier to help at meetings.
Please remember Clancy Kilburn with a note, call, or visit. He is recovering from surgery and hopes to be back at the meetings within the month.
There will be a club raffle next week.
Jack Schwab reminded us that the Good Neighbor Center will hold its annual fund raiser, Storytelling for Adults, at the Broadway Rose Theater on March 10. Get your tickets online or from Jack.
Our two outbound exchange students, Ethan and Evan, and our inbound students Isha and Gabrielle were joined at the meeting by Ervanny, outbound from two years ago. Ervanny is at CCC this year and plans to transfer to PCC to study radiology. She is also working as an assistant to one of the country officers at District 5100 which she said is a great honor. Isha joined the tennis team at THS. Evan is busy with track where he participates in long jump. All the students have been busy baking and selling cookies to raise funds for ShelterBox.
Paul and Judy Miller’s grandson is the member of the Catlin Gabel Inven Team of high school students that developed a solar powered “juice box” that can run small devices such as mobile phones. The students have distributed the first 10 units to members of a homeless “shelter pod” camp in Portland. They received a $10,000 grant from Lexus that will be used to build more of the units. Kudos to these teens who are the very definition of Service above Self.
Paul and Judy made a donation to the club in honor of their grandson’s recent achievement.
Sergeant Conrad entertained us with a quiz about passports. Who knew that Nicaragua has the most secure passport in the world with 17 different elements?! Germany has the most powerful passport with non-visa access to 177 different countries. Sweden’s passport is not far behind, allowing access to 176 countries.
This week’s book is Fifty ships that changed the course of history: a nautical history of the world by Ian Graham
From the Publisher:
“A visual history of economic development in fifty ships, starting from the earliest known record, Pharaoh Khufu’s solar barge (roughly 5,000 years ago), to MS Allure of the Seas, the biggest passenger ship ever built (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall).”