Meeting of November 13, 2018 #20 (5278) was called to order by President, Amy Norman. Our Greeters were Sean George and Brian Hollingshead.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Colors were presented by the Navy JROTC from Everett high schools.  The Pledge of Allegiance was led by President Amy, and the National Anthem was sung by Danielle.

 

 

Thought of the Day was presented by Jerry Tucker who thanked our veterans and paid homage to William Stacy who gave his life serving his country.

 

Don Steward introduced visiting past Rotarian Ron Jacobson and his daughter Rachael;

 

Sean George introduced the Reed Family and Kelli Thode, from the American Red Cross, guest of Will McMahan; and Susan from Hopeworks, guest of Ed Petersen.

 

Meeting Sponsor was Jim Staniford owner of the General Mercantile (Grand Leader).  Jim did a slide presentation of the remodel and gave us numerous interesting facts about the process.  He then invited us to an open house on Nov 15^th.

 

Announcements:

 

 

 

Happy Dollars/Birthday Bucks President Amy led off by fining Garth Fell for his TV appearance; Garth graciously donated $100 so Brian Evans and Jake Marsh were let off from fines; others with happy bucks were Janice Ellis with a special thanks  to Greg Tisdal for the efforts with youth cleaning the gravesites of vets this month, Ed Rubatino, Ron Jacobson, Roy Yates, Darcy Cooper, Pat Doud.

 

Raffle prizes were awarded to Steve Juntwait, and Walt Greenwood

 

 

Program:  Greg Tisdal introduced Todd Britsch who presented our program about “Where are our children going to live?”  Todd proceeded to tell us about the effects of the number of houses, people becoming new residents (drivers), interests rates, unemployment being low, media impact, Chinese buyers, head tax on companies in Seattle, the price of homes, new housing, and the supply of vacant land/lots. In the end, he suggested that we could move north and houses would be harder to come by in the future in any case.

 

President Amy thanked everyone and told us about the program for next week on the Ivar’s Waterfront Project to be presented by Bob Donegan and introduced by her mother, Jane Jones.

 

Before adjourning the meeting, President Amy asked us to be inspired by Mark Nesse, and to be the kind of inspiration that Mark was.

 

Meeting adjourned by President Amy Norman.

 

This week's Crew:

     Reporter:             Barb George

     Photographer:     Walt Greenwood