APRIL 16, 2002
Russ Dix Our members are what make our club so special. See for yourself:
BARB GRECO
Gregarious greeter and thoughtful Invocator.
SALLY BALDWIN
Introduced guests of which there were two. Jim Baldwin (who has some relation with the person doing the introductions) was hosted by ROGER BELL and Lynn Buchannon joined us as usual.
BRIAN BLOUNT
Reported on the interclub to Selah Tuesday morning. DOUG COCHRAN, PAT DANIELSON, RICH LEWIS, DIRK MARLER joined BRIAN.
Clean up / Green up (or Donuts & Dirt) will happen Saturday. Meet at 8:30 @ the shelter back by the ball fields. Cleaning begins about 9:00 and should be finished by 11:00. Show up with gloves and a good attitude.
DOUG COCHRAN
Reminded the committee chairs of the meeting Wednesday @ the Camp Fire Office, 5:30 pm.
SPENCER HATTON
SongFest finished in the black for the first time in a long time thanks to generous sponsorship by Argus Insurance.
He also announced the yard sale sponsored by the Yakima Chapter of the Washington State Father’s Network. Saturday from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm at the old Video Update building on the corner of 24th and Nob Hill. If you want to donate any items, please drop them by Thursday between 10 am & 7 pm.
RICH WOODRUFF
Called a game of Bingo won by STEVE BOEKHOLDER (who sat right next to this scribe).
MEL LIGHT
The sergeant of the day got many laughs with his famous sayings that were associated with club members.
SALLY BALDWIN
Introduced the program, Mark Layman from the Department of Ecology. His team is responsible for hazardous waste cleanup and spoke to us about methamphetamines. Washington State is number two in the nation in numbers of discovered meth labs. He explained meth is a problem because it is so easy to make. It would take less than an hour to gather the materials to make an extremely pure, powerful stimulant that would keep a user “flying high” for days. A single dose will last for up to 8 hours and can be tweaked to keep a person on the go for as many as four days. Meth works by turning on every pleasure receptor in a body and has no withdrawl symptoms, but it so damages those receptors that when a user stops taking meth they feel absolutely nothing. It is estimated it would take a user 16-18 years to get totally clean. After giving us the facts, Mark then took us through an easy step by step recipe for making meth with common products. The process was so easy it is no wonder that Mark’s office was responsible for 2,000 cleanups last year. Unfortunately, he had already worked on 11 this week.
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