Put September 9 on your calendar for the next volunteer event cleaning up trash in the public spaces of Seattle. Watch your email for more details.

• About We Heart Seattle: Click here.
• About the trash pickups: Click here.

University Sunrise Rotary is endorsing a project called Lucy’s Pantry. Lucy Wight is a high school freshman and Girl Scout. She started her project last year. She provides diapers and other personal items to a low-income community in Mill Creek.

She is working to get her Girl Scout Gold Star and this is a great opportunity for everyone to “help”. Please go to the website and purchase items.  Your donation of personal products will be delivered directly to Lucy when you choose the Girl Scout Troop address.  Thanks for your help.  Any questions? Contact me at my email, pdmushen@gmail.com. 

The list is called 

“Lucy’s GS Toiletries Pantry” on Amazon 

Here is the link!

By Ron Espiritu

After a 16-month delay, 73  American Heritage dictionaries were finally delivered to the 4^th grade class at Broadview-Thomson K-8 School. As part of the District 5030 Dictionary Project, our club was schedule to give the dictionaries to the 3^rd grade students in Mid-March 2020.  Because of the covid shut down, we had to  wait until in class learning resumed.  On Monday, June 6, the books were hand delivered to 4^th grade teacher,  Tia Rizk.  Unfortunately, none of the students were allowed to participate due to school policy.

Before June 30, the end of this Rotary year, the Club will purchase more dictionaries for the 3^rd students who did not receive the books this school year.  Sometime after the new school year starts in September, we will give the books to the 4^th graders at Sand Point Elementary, Lichton Springs K-8, and Broadview-Thomson K-8 Schools.

Volunteers from the University Sunrise Rotary Club spend 2021 Memorial Day building Tiny Houses for the homeless. Participants included Ed Bronsdon, Michael Bronsdon, Dan Byrne, Walker LaFleur, Michelle Lee, Mike Madden, Lee Raaen, and Tom Ranken. Friends that participated included Cathy Bronsdon, Steve Fawthrop, Tremain Kentop and Evan Kentop.

Arriving at 9 a.m., we kept plugging away until the middle of the afternoon with a break for lunch. The club made great progress on three homes.

We were able to name one of the homes. The protocol required that we come up with a name that started with the letter “F,” so our home is named the “Four-Way Home.”

The day closed at the nearby Two Beer Brewery.

Our team leader, Michael Bronsdon received the following email:

Hi Michael,

Kudos to your Rotary Club for a wonderful day!  You really made a difference!

Thanks again.

Barb and the rest of the Team Leaders:  Tom, Mark, Anne and Carol

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The Binaytara Foundation, a cancer non-profit located in Issaquah, WA, is conducting a paid focus group with the Fred Hutch Cancer Institute to learn about the health information needs of current and former cancer patients and their non-medical caregivers. 

Binaytara Foundation develops and implements educational programs to help cancer patients understand how to manage their diseases. The valuable inputs of our focus group attendees will help shape the format and contents of educational materials we can develop for cancer patients and their families. 

• Participants are compensated and receive a $30 Target or Amazon gift card for their time 
• These focus groups are held over Zoom video conferencing.
• Focus groups are 1-1.5 hours with 2-3 people/session

More information about the focus group and a sign-up link can be found here: https://nwcs.binayfoundation.org/focus-group/.

Note: This notice is a public service and not a project of the club.

Many residents in our state do not have access to quality medical care from licensed physicians. Your help is needed to improve the availability of primary medical care in underserved communities.

The vision of Washington’s community-based medical school is to prepare students to become healthcare leaders that are ready to serve Washington communities where they are needed most.

The Rotary Scholarship supports students preparing to be the healthcare leaders for an underserved community. The first recipient will be selected in Fall 2021 with support through their four-year study. Three more scholarships are needed for successive years.

Donations of at least $20 per District 5030 Rotarian will fund one scholarship for the first year and an endowment for it’s successive years. To learn more or make a donation visit bellevuesunriserotary.org/rotary-scholarship.  

Seattle 4 is helping Bloodworks NW at Bloodwork’s two-day Pop-Up Site Blood Drive at the Seattle Aquarium on Tuesday February 16 and Wednesday February 17 and they could use our assistance.  

The Pop-Up site is in the Aquarium’s Mezzanine Cafe and could be hard for some people to find.  A way around this predicament is to recruit greeters and guides to provide needed direction.  It seems like it’s a perfect opportunity for Rotary!

I have this picture in my mind of folks, in their best Rotary garb, complete with a Rotary Facemask, giving this needed guidance.  I see Rotary brochures displayed on the table out front enticing donors to join a local Club.  My vision also includes many Rotarians lending their arms at the Aquarium doing their part to to save up to three tives.

Our idea is to split the days up into at least one-hour segments (perhaps two to three people in each segment).  This requires a lot of Rotary People Power as Tuesday’s drive is from 9 am to 4 pm and Wednesday’s is from 9 am to 5 pm. 

Blood donors are required to register before their donation.  Use of this link, https://dslnk.co/Rotary5030, helps Bloodworks track that the donor is a District 5030 Rotarian. I’m scheduled to donate at Noon on that Tuesday.

Please send Jaime Mendez (Seattle 4 Volunteer Coordinator) and me the names of the individuals who would like to be part of the greeter/guide team.  It would be nice to include the name of their club, as well as the times and date they’d like to help out.  We will put together a final volunteer schedule as soon as we know how many people we have to work with.

Thank you for your cooperation and for being a leader in Rotary District 5030!

Alan Merry

Past District Governor

Rotary District 5030