MAY 6, 2003
Beth Klingele GUESTS:
We welcomed Lynda Sissom, Assistant County Auditor and guest of CORKY MATTINGLY, Lynn Buchanan, and Carol Cavanaugh, guest of Pres. Elect RUSS DIX. Carol is a pending new Yakima Kiwanian who will be inducted soon!
We were greeted by budget babe DAWN ALIVERTI and led in prayer by STEVE SOELBERG. New member DAN EVANS called bingo.
VELMA CRAWFORD TO RETIRE SOON
We received the sad news that our long time, award winning club Secretary, VELMA CRAWFORD will be retiring in 3 months. We will miss her!
YARD SALE A HUGE SUCCESS!!
SPENSER HATTON reported that the first annual Kiwanis Yard sale made just under $3000. Great job Spenser. Over 1/3 of the club membership participated in this fun fundraiser. Special thanks to CAMI LEONARD for leading the pricing crew and donating $100! STEVE SOELBERG for securing a great location, CHRIS CHRISTMAN for his amazing sales ability, ROGER BELL and LYNN SMITH for the use of the Quality Transportation trailer and transportation of goods to our sight. SALLY BALDWIN and husband JIM, for just being them and many others who helped out.
IT’S OFFICIAL
KIRSTEN STOFFER asked the club for a voice vote on accepting “ALL CHILDREN MUST PLAY” as a long-term club project. The club voted unanimously to accept the worthy cause as an ongoing project. Now we can officially raise money and carry it over to future years for the playground equipment for special needs kids at Martin Luther King School.
ROCK THE GAP
May 31st, Saturday is ROCK THE GAP, which will be a fun event featuring local restaurants, beer, beer, beer, wine and local music. Funds raised will be used for the Yakima Greenway and the ALL CHILDREN MUST PLAY project. This event will be held after the Gap2Gap Race from 3:30pm to 10pm. AMY NEAL passed around a sign up sheet, for helpers. And Kirsten and Amy handed out tickets to willing sellers. The tickets are only $10! If you can sell some contact Kirsten or Amy.
GAP2GAP FAMILY EVENT
VENETTA MILLER announced some really fun events for the kids at our GAP2GAP Family Event, there will be a dunking booth, face painting, food for sale and many other activities for the youngsters. Contact Venetta to volunteer.
CAMP ROGANUNDA WORK DAY JUNE 7th
The annual Camp Roganunda workday is scheduled for Saturday June 7th announced by JOHN WARREN. Be prepared to eat and do a little work. Bring work gloves and bring a friend. Sign ups will be going around for the next few weeks.
CLERGY DAY NEXT WEEK AT THE OTHER RED LION
Don’t forget to bring your favorite clergy next week to our meeting next week and the DOWNTOWN Red Lion. Yakima School Superintendent Ben Soria will be our featured speaker, so you won’t want to miss this meeting. Note that MARY BETH WRIGHT is bringing not one, but two clergy! (Apparently she needs a little more spiritual help than most.)
PROGRAM: SAM REED, SECRETARY OF STATE
We were honored to have the Secretary of the State of Washington, Sam Reed as our speaker. Mr. Reed is the 14th Secretary of State replacing long time Secretary Ralph Munro in 2000. Sam is also the past president of the Olympia Kiwanis club and he shared some of his ideas for recruiting new members, such as holding prospective new member receptions.
Sam Reed was the Thurston County Auditor for 20 years before becoming Secretary of State, so he had lots of valuable experience to bring to the office. He started work and immediately had to deal with the Florida voting debacle, a 7.2 on the Richter scale earthquake, and he was served with a lawsuit over the blanket primary issue. He also took on the role of being the State Librarian after a bill introduced by our own Jim Clements brought that facility under the direction of the office of the Secretary of State.
Secretary Reed has implemented numerous efficiencies to the office including online candidate filing. Washington is the first state to do this. Also he is implementing digital archiving of state records, again we are the first State to do this.
NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED:
The club elected the following new officers and board members. Congratulations to all:
PRESIDENT: Russ Dix
PRESIDENT ELECT: Lynn Smith
VICE PRESIDENT: Steve Pickett
2003-05 BOARD MEMBERS: Wendy Aguilar, Sally Baldwin, Cheri Ergeson and Joe Kennish
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