It was a beautiful morning as University Sunrise convened for this week’s meeting at Ivar’s Salmon House.After a 10-year hiatus, UW climatologist Cliff Maas returned to our club to review issues of climate, climate change and, most particularly, the challenges of getting factual information about climate change. Maas is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He says that climate change/global warming is definitely a problem. But, he states, it’s currently very hard to derive an accurate picture from the press and social media in the current super-heated political environment. It was an engaging and stimulating talk!

Our program next Thursday morning will feature University of Washington atmospheric sciences Professor Cliff Mass who is creating some new waves. Thursday morning at Ivar’s Salmon House on Lake Union, 730-830 a.m. https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html

Today, at our first meeting during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we were visited by Valerie Robinson of the American Cancer Society. Valerie shared the facts, including that 1 in 8 women in the US can expect a diagnosis of breast cancer sometime during her life, that men can get breast cancer, too and that the best measure for early diagnosis is regular mammography. Valerie conducted a quiz on the disease in which some Rotarians got some answers right. And President Steve Barton donned a pink boa in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.

This morning District Governor Bill McElroy, accompanied by Assistant DG Basant Sing, visited University Sunrise and shared his vision of the strength of the Rotary community, the need to spread the work and boost the fun, the value of service to people we will never meet, and in one instance someone he did, and his excitement for next year’s district conference, to include a Guinness Book of World Records attempt. Thanks for coming by, Bill!

Our program this morning features Rotary District 5030 Governor Bill McElroy. “Rotary is family.”

How awesome is this? Great to see our club’s support in action benefiting Outdoors for All Foundation!

Future Rock Stars!

The New President of University Sunrise Rotary, Steve Barton!

Sand Point Block Party 2019

Our annual block party for residents at Magnuson Park was last night and over 300 people attended, laughed, ate, danced and played. Oh, and we lucked out with beating the rain later that night, too! Fun for one and all — fostering community for everyone!

Our annual block party for residents at Magnuson Park was last night and over 300 people attended, laughed, ate, danced and played. Oh, and we lucked out with beating the rain later that night, too! Fun for one and all — fostering community for everyone!