Greeters:  Randy Hansen and Nick Hansen

 

 

Kelly Shepard tried to open the meeting for a missing President Steve Miller when suddenly a “Rockin’ Dead” President Steve appeared from his coffin to lead a haunting rendition of AC/DC’s Hells Bells. 

 

President Steve opened the meeting (#17 and #5323) with special thanks to Kelly Shepherd, Clayton Browse and Sean George for their assistance with the skit. 

 

After the Pledge of Allegiance, Kevin Nichols delivered the thought of the day titled the Old Reliable Magnetic Needle Compass.   The old compass is the foundation of today’s new positioning technology just as the Rotary’s 4-way test provides the foundation for our community works.  

 

Nick Hansen introduced our visiting Rotarian, Peter Anderson of the Ballard Club.  Nick also identified our visiting guests:   Amy Brown (Guest of Kari Petrasek), Jason and Steve Bighaus of Gateway Mortgage, Jasyen Garcia of the Everett Housing Authority who was here with today’s speaker, Ashley Lommers-Johnson. 

 

Brian Evans – for Students of the Month program – is looking for 2 volunteers for the December 17^th and January 21^st meetings to introduce and host the students for those club meetings.   Sign-up sheet went around.

 

 

Tom Rainville gave a bell ringer ($100) for his 89^th Birthday. 

 

David Cope also had a bell ringer for his 50^th birthday and his twin sister’s b-day

 

Sad $20 dollars from Marybeth Dingledy who recently had a car accident

 

Parker Compton have $20 Happy dollars for the lovely time she had at Gail Larson’s home for Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner event

 

Amy Norman gave $50 Happy dollars for Greg Lineberry’s international service and promoted the Roy Firestone event.

 

Michael Kvistad have $50 Happy dollars for his 42^nd birthday and his 15^th anniversary.  He also did a shout-out to Tammy Dunn on our club’s Facebook and Instagram pages

 

Roy Yates have his annual $20 Happy dollars for his ability to wear his Cowboy Roy hat

 

Peter Anderson of the Ballard Rotary was grateful to attend today and to be part of the Everett community with his involvement in the Heroes House NW that is now opened in Everett

 

 

Randy Hansen gave his Happy dollars as a follow up to Michael’s 42^nd and that it all changes with your 43^rd birthday as his family shared with him. 

 

Kari Petrasek have Happy dollars for the Village Theatre’s Spelling Bee and Will McMahon’s participation.

 

Kelly Shepard have her $20 Happy dollars for her enjoyment of Guess Who is Coming to Dinner and for Dead President Steve’s entrance today. 

Wick Temple have $20 Happy dollars for his 1976 T-shirt that still fits.

 

Greg Lineberry was winner of Box 1 that included an Uncle Fester light bulb

 

Greg Tisdel was the winner of Box 3 with beer glasses and Sam Adams brew

 

Tom Koeing was winner of Box 2 – Aquasox package, pretzels and Rotary lunch

 

Sean Kelly introduced the CEO of the Everett Housing Authority (EHA), Ashley Lommers-Johnson. 

 

Originally from South Africa, Ashley has been serving as the head of the EHA for seven years.  He has been with housing authorities for 25 years and has been in several locations including Baltimore and Seattle. 

The EHA has 1,750 housing units, mostly in Everett, but also in Lynnwood, Monroe and Lake Stevens.  They work with landlords mostly with the voucher Section 8 program.  They have over 4,000 households and 120 employees.   They serve household that can live independently and are a high performing agency with National recognition.  They manage a net worth of $320 million and are financially strong. 

They have recently invested millions in the Delta Neighborhood including Grandview, Baker View and Baker Heights transition from public housing to voucher housing.  They also serve seniors which is a high priority as that population is growing quickly.  They are also focusing more assets to homeless children housing. EHA has transitioned its funding base to Section 8 to create a more stable income from the Federal government when public housing became underfunded. 

Ashley finished the presentation with two inspiring videos of clients.   

President Steve presented Ashley with our thanks and a certificate for our Panama water project.

Kari presented the three winners of the costume contest: 

3^rd – Ralph Quass, Homeless

 

2^nd – Amy Norman, PP, The Elephant in the Room

 

Grand Prize winner – Rockin’ Zombie Dead President Steve

 

Thanks to our guests and to our Bell ringers – Tom Rainville and David Cope

 

President Steve reminded everyone on next week’s program with the RI Foundation month kick-off presented by Deborah Wright.

There was a reminder about Roy Firestone ticket sales. 

 

President Steve adjourned the meeting. Rotary Connects the World.      

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

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