THE ROTARY CLUB OF EVERETT meeting on June 13, 2017 was called to order and led in the Pledge of Allegiance at 12:08 by President Ed Petersen.

 

We were greeted at the door by Greeters Jessica Mitchell and Amy Norman

 

The Thought of the Day: Joe Claeys, who spoke about Rotarians as Change Agents. Examples like Dajabon, eradicating Polio, and other programs that allow us to help change lives. He challenged us to think about what causes us to change personally, asking what is enough to make us change?

 

We were entertained by an opening song by Mark Valentine and Neil Angst who dueled guitars and sang Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”.

 

 

 

Introduction of Visiting Rotarians by Jessica Mitchell:

 

Bill and Robin Kimet from Arlington club.

Guests: Marc Baker introduced Sgt Nelson Beazely from the Sherrif’s office

Janice Ellis introduced Daniel Nielson, our former exchange student from Denmark.

 

 

Announcements:

1. VOA Food Bank – Judi Edwards: June 22 11-1pm next sorting opportunity

2. Letter read by President Ed from CHS Scholorship chair Kimberly Taylor thanking Rotary for our involvement and benevolence to the seniors at Cascade and in our community.

3. Clothes for kids – Eileen Simmons: needing help collecting clothes from schools on June 29 9-12. Thanks to Rotarians for helping out to volunteer.

4. Card for Family of Past President Bill Dobler who passed 6/7/17 5.

 

 

Report from Daniel Nielsen: Daniel is in the area for the summer, working as a Cabin Counselor at Orcas Island for a few months, and then headed to S. Korea to study International Relations for an exchange through his Denmark college studies in Language and International Studies.

 

Happy Dollars/Birthday Bucks/Raffle:

Don Senter presented his painting for his incoming president Will McMahan-Judi bid for Will at $200 (since Will is in Atlanta at the Rotary International convention)

Bob Biel turned 95 last week and Ed added $5 to get a bell ringer.

Roy Yates spoke about Bill Dobler

Don Senter turned 75

Greg Lineberry happy he’s not the only guy in the room with a gun and Ty can’t shoot worth a damn

Bill Kimet from Arlington selling Duck Dash tickets

Betsy Baker-Bold for Hugo’s Bday on June 15 and an open house on Friday June 16 5-7pm to celebrate with him

new member Allison from United Way hosted a successful Spirit Academy event

Amy Norman happy this is her last fundraising announcement-needs money in by June 20 for end of fiscal year- we raised over $60k!

Scott Casselman happy to be back from PNW after going to LA and experiencing the craziness and crowdedness of the traffic.

Judi Edwards had a surprise bday party over the weekend and her niece had a knockout round in MMA at Clearwater Casino.

Marybeth Dingeldy is happy for her new convertible!

Ed Peterson thanking Allison for a wonderful and successful United Way event to address homelessness.

 

Raffle: Steam Engine donated by Marc Baker, made by our deceased member George Petrie was auctioned off for $350 to Steve Miller.

 

 

Raffle prizes: wine etc to Jim Wheeler, wine, coffee mug, a free lunch and a journal to Steve Ellis, Bargreen coffee card, wine, luggage tag etc to Eric Samuelson.

 

Auctioned off an old photo from Don Senter of past presidents  for $20 to Steve Juntwait.

Ed thanked John Olson for putting together a great year of programs for our club.

 

 

Program Introduction by John Olson: Snohomish County Sherriff Ty Trenary who was elected in 2014 after rising through the ranks. Ty is a former Rotarian and on the board of several community organizations including Dawsons Place, Pennies for Puppies, Academic Link and others.

 

Program: “Homelessness in Snohomish Co” presented by Sheriff, Ty Trenary: Ty started with some great friendly ribbing to Greg Lineberry and Marc Baker. Ty started out in law enforcement working with former Everett member Julie (then Willie) Freunholtz to connect police officers and kids in the area and he is thankful for Rotary backing that program which changed his life. He also then joined Rotary when he became chief in Stanwood because of Rotary’s community involvement and his respect for Rotary. Ty started his program with a review of the changes he has made in the department with driving and pursuit to reduce collisions and save lives of police officers and the public. More police officer lives are lost through single car motor vehicle deaths than any other way. Snohomish County Sherriff Department just won a national award for safety for their program to “Get there safely, not get there fast” with technology and programs to reduce speed and improve safety during pursuits. As for Homelessness and Opiod Addiction: “its unlike anything..unprecedented..in 30 years in this business”; he thought the meth problem was bad, but this one with heroin is unprecedented and is here to stay. We need our first responders to carry Noloxone kits to immediately treat OD’s. Now Fentanyl abuse is growing even more and even officers are dropping with immediate OD’s from Fentanyl when arriving at a scene. Fentanyl is a powder that can get airborne and is 30-50x more powerful than heroin). Sherriff Trenary stated that he does not support safe injection sites because of the burden it places on society. He realized that it is as important as an officer to pay as much attention to the after-effects of getting the handcuffs back after booking an individual. Ty on his first day visited every area of the jail, including Maximum Security which was filled with mental health patients who had been arrested for misdemeanors. He is more interested now in what happens after the person is arrested and now an imbedded social worker travels with the deputies. When they go into a homeless camp, they work on developing a relationship of trust, and when someone is ready to get help the first stop is the DOL to get ID and then get the individuals rehab help. Snohomish county has very limited inpatient rehab detox beds, so they use out of area facilities sometimes out of state paid by flights by funds pooled from deputies. They even celebrate the individual’s graduations and follow up with many of them for years. The department has been able to get 100 people clean in 3 years. He is not sure how to get ahead of the problem because of the sheer numbers of homeless and addicted individuals, but he is a strong supporter of supported housing. He is surprised by the demographic of the heroin addicts-how many of them were responsible adults who got injured and prescribed pain meds and are now addicted to heroin. One suggestion he gave was to not give panhandlers money (in his genuine experience, most of them are going for drugs, not food). He closed by stating that solving this problem will take a tremendous effort from a variety of people in the community. Ty fielded questions from Judi, MaryBeth, Dale, Eileen. 1:11 Thank you and wrap up by President Ed.

 

 

Next Program: “Everett Rotary Youth Exchange Students” by current Exchange Student Hugo Coutant and outgoing Exchange Student Espen Diamond, Introduced by Janice Ellis MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MAKEUP OPPORTUNITIES: 1. VOA Food Bank Volunteering, June 22nd 11am-1:00pm 2. Changing of the Guard – Year-end, June 27, at regular noon meeting at Legion 3. Rotary Board Mtg, June 30th, 7:30am 3rd Flr Chapel at Bethany 4. Wheeler’s Meeting, July 11th, 11am, Boys & Girls Club, 2316 12th Street 5. Bill Dobler’s memorial July 8 at 11am. 1:17 Closing Remarks and meeting adjournment by President Ed Rotary Serving Humanity