Debuts and Discoveries 2016: Buy your tickets before 12/31/15

Taste the newest wines, beers, ciders and spirits
Event set for Saturday, February 27 — Hangar 30, Magnuson Park
Tickets available now: https://usrotary.org//debuts-and-discoveries/
Save 25% off the night-of-event ticket price if you buy your tickets before 12/31/15 (they make a great holiday gift)

Please join us — Saturday, February 27, 2016 for a terrific night to support community and taste the newest in local craft beverage makers. Hanger 30 at Magnuson Park (see map) Buy your tickets before 12/31/15 for just $30 and save 25% off the night of event ticket price.

Tastes from the newest Washington state wineries, breweries, distilleries and cideries….splendid food from some of Seattle’s best food trucks….purchase exclusive bottles to take home!

University Sunrise Rotary presents a tasting smorgasbord of the latest local beverage creations. Complementing these new flavors in the historic Sandpoint Naval Air Station Hangar 30 in Magnuson Park will be the varied bites of the hottest new food trucks. Purchase bottles of the beverages that you like best as you leave!

The Saturday, February 27, 2016 event’s primary proceeds will support the Outdoors for All Foundation, which is dedicated to enriching the lives of thousands of children and adults with disabilities through adaptive recreation activities like skiing, cycling, hiking, kayaking, camping, rock-climbing and more. As executive director for Outdoors for All and as a member of University Sunrise Rotary, I’m doubly pleased to be associated with the 2016 event!

Saturday, February 27, 2016 Hangar 30 at Magnuson Park

Presented by University Sunrise Rotary Club and Seattle Uncorked

Debuts&Discoveries - lots of happy people

30 new wineries, distilleries, breweries and cideries!

Taste the newest tastes!

Great fun, food, fellowship and tastes!

Splendid variety of tastes from some of Seattle’s best food trucks

Great deals on your favorites!

Friends, fun and splendid tastes to support our community!

2016 Primary Beneficiary

Hope to see you there! https://usrotary.org//debuts-and-discoveries/

Save the Date: February 27th, 2016

Third Annual Debuts & Discoveries

Saturday, February 27th, 2016

Building 30 at Magnuson Park

7700 Sand Point Way NE—Seattle

Introducing new Washington Wineries, Breweries, Distilleries & Cideries; all with new Washington State products plus the hottest new Food Trucks. More information coming after the holidays.

Purchase your ticket here!

Rotary November Food Drive + Team Challenge

November Food Drive:

Over the next two club meetings please bring canned food as part of the community service committee’s Thanksgiving food drive benefiting the University District Food Bank. This will be the first way you can earn points for your team as part of the new team challenge! (more info on the challenge below).

Bring dry/canned food items for the next two club meetings – November 12 & November 19
Items will be sorted by the color teams and weighed – Thank you Pam Mushen for making the color sorted boxes!
Points will be accumulated for the color teams as part of the new team challenge
1 pound of the food = 1 point for your color team
Hats are encouraged for maximum fun

Community Service Color Team CHALLENGE

Between now and the end of the Rotary year in June the community service committee is thrilled to introduce this challenge to our color teams. Points can be accrued by participating in various community service activities organized by the committee.

How to earn points for your team:

One hour of labor at sanctioned community service projects = 60 points for your team
The community service committee may announce other ways to earn points, similar to the November Food Drive

Why participate:

Exemplify the Rotary maxim, Service Above Self
Your team could win Mimosas and Donuts at a club meeting in June
Unlimited bragging rights

Looking forward to performing great work with you all for the rest of the year. Have fun, get stuff done!

Thank you,

University Sunrise Rotary Club, Community Service Committee

Teri St Onge, Chase Carter, Betsy Conklin, and Pam Mushen

Relay for Life 2015

Cancer survivors, Betsy Conklin, Dave and Pam Mushen, Chase Carter, Sandi and Ron Espiritu complete the Survivors’ Lap at this weekend’s Relay for Life.

American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay for Life walk is August 15: Sign Up

HI all,

A few folks have asked me if there’s a way to donate for the Relay for Life walk if you can’t participate. You can donate online to our team here. Or, we can accept cash or check donations at any Club meeting. As a team, we have already raised $1,350–a great start!!

The American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay for Life walk at Cal Anderson Park on Saturday, August 15 from 10am to 10pm. The walk is less than a month away so I wanted to provide an opportunity for folks to sign up to walk or order a t-shirt that we designed for the event! If you are interested in walking, please:

Sign up for a walking time here, or email me an hour you are available to walk from when from 10am to 10pm that day. (See below for a copy of the current schedule.)
Officially register with ACS online or get a paper form from me or Chase at an upcoming Club meeting. To register online, go to this website, click “SIGN UP”, create an account, and join the team “USRC: Put a Little Prince in Your <3”. Feel free to ask me or Chase for help if you’d like to register online but need assistance.

Currently, we have 4 time slots that need to be filled so it’d be great to get a few more folks to join us! In addition, we have designed a team t-shirt (click here to see the design). The t-shirt will cost $20 and are available in sizes Sm, M, L, Xl, and XXL. Please feel free to order a t-shirt regardless of whether you can make it on the 15th. If you are interested in having a t-shirt, please sign up here, email me, or let me know at an upcoming Club meeting.

Thanks, all!

Betsy Conklin
clubservice@usrotary.org

Sand Point Community Block Party Photos

Thursday, June 25th the University Sunrise Rotary Club sponsored a Block Party the Sand Point Community Housing residents. Who says that Rotary isn’t fun? Here are some photos of Rotarian’s during the event.

Nancy Bolin’s comments on the Block Party sums up our orientation in hosting this event, “So proud to be a member of This a Rotary Club! After serving so many at Sand Point Housing’s community, I was able to deliver some of the extra food we had with the U Dist. Food Bank this morning. This gift was gratefully accepted! “

Our Week begins on Thursday

As a Thursday morning club, our week begins on Thursday but the excitement quite often happens other than Thursday. The past weeks were no exception.

June 11, President Mike Madden recognized several members whom he considered valuable to his having a successful presidential year: Tim Lenihan, President elect; Phill Briscoe, website management; Tom Rankin, Program chair; and Ken Mallock, Foundation director.

June 13th, The food drive for the University Food Bank provided ample opportunity for high jinks and shenanigans from USR members (boys! Jim Miller, Stuart Webber, and Phill Briscoe)

On June 14th the Reverend David Storm celebrated 50 years of his ordination into the priesthood.

June 18th, President Mike honors Merrill Mayer

Sand Point Block Party: June 25th

Ron Espiritu, our Club’s Foundation Treasurer, is working hard at today’s meeting writing checks for next Thursday’s big event, the Sand Point Block Party; while Jeff Mushen gives club members their assignments.

Joe Gruber, Exec Director, University District Food Bank

Last week’s program was an occasion to make one feel good all over. A $15,003 check was presented to Joe Gruber, Executive Director of the University District Food Bank. It is our charity of choice, benefiting from Debuts and Discoveries. The bulk of the proceeds is destined for Packs for Kids, ensuring good weekend nutrition for school children in need of it.

Packs for Kids was begun at Eckstein Middle School where it was estimated that one in five children had to struggle with hunger, impairing, among other things, their capacity to study. It expanded to other schools.

A healthy diet is the norm in these packs, to wit, fresh fruit, a healthy drink, and items of that variety. Packs are taken home on Friday. An average pack, whose container is reusable, costs $4.25. Work is afoot to bring it down to $3.50.Last year $30,000 was budgeted. Now the cost is $42,000.

Our support last year was seed money for the current year. As this relatively new program expands, more awareness and thus more funds are in the offing. There seems to be plenty of support. Eight schools are now in the program, meaning that the number of packs increases each year. Sandpoint elementary is soon to be included.

Sunrise Rotary is the foundation of support. Packs for siblings is now included. It stands to reason that, if a child requires this type of support, siblings are in the same situation. There are not just a few homeless students. Others are being sought and made recipients. Joe recalled a few anecdotes in which such help has made heartwarming differences.

Comment: Afterwards, someone told him, “Bless you for what you do.”

His answer was that he feels privileged to do it.

Need more be said?

Volunteer Opportunities

Saturday, June 13 from 11am-4pm We will be hosting a food drive for the at the Sand Point Metropolitan Market. We will be working in hour shifts for this event. Betsy will be passing around a sign-up sheet as we get closer to the event.

Saturday, August 15 We will be participating in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in Capitol Hill. The event goes from 10am to 10pm–we will be walking in one hour shifts during this time. If you’d like to participate, you can sign up here under the team “Uni Sun Rotarians”.