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!
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!
Bill Gates to speak on polio eradication during regional Rotary conference in Spokane
Bill Gates is scheduled to speak in Spokane on Saturday, May 18, about joint work with Rotary International to eradicate polio worldwide. The talk will be before about 750 members of the service organization gathered for a conference from Seattle, Eastern Washington, Idaho and Canada.
Trail Clean Up/Saturday 4/13
Who: Members and friends of University Sunrise Rotary Club
What: Most of the clubs in District 5030 are teaming up to clean a large section of the Interurban Trail. University Sunrise has been assigned Section 7 on this map. The section is basically the trail along Dexter Avenue from the Fremont Bridge south to a pot shop on Hayes Ave. The entire section is about a mile each way, so 2 miles of cleanup.
Where: Meet at Thomas C. Wales Park. This is a pocket park at the intersection of Dexter and 6th. There are only about 2 parking spots at the park, but plenty of street parking within a block or two. Recommend parking on Dexter between Halladay and Wheeler. This is about a block away.
When: 9 AM Saturday April 13. Rain or shine. We will probably finish in 1 hour.
What everyone should Bring: One garbage bag, gloves, reflective vest.
What to Wear: Reflective vest. Rain coat, Rotary jacket, etc.
Group Gear: There isn’t much group gear necessary. Lee Raaen will bring 4 garbage picker-uppers (not sure what the technical term is for these devices). We could also use a couple of brooms and dust pan for dealing with broken glass.
RSVP: ryan@seattletech.com
End Polio Night – Mariners versus St. Louis Cardinals
Seattle Mariners have designated their July 3rd game night against the St. Louis Cardinals as “End Polio Night”! Special blocks of seats have been set aside and a portion of the ticket proceeds and additional funding will go towards the fight to end polio…estimated proceeds for the evening are over $30,000! And, this will be matched 2:1 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!
Some other fun things about the evening:
- Our own and Rotary International’s Vice President, John Matthews, will be throwing out the first ball!
- Following the game, there will be fireworks presented by T-Mobile!
A lot of work has gone into this by our own district PolioPlus
Committee Chair, Steve Crane, and a host of others. I encourage you to get the
word out to your club members, families and friends and support this great
event and the fight to end polio. Tickets are $25 each for View Level and
$45 each for Main Level seating and are only available on line at Mariners.com/Polio<http://Mariners.com/Polio>.
Please share the link.