Program: Sarah Cave, Kaitlin Maguire, and Victoria Wenick, “Dealing With Aging Parents: The Long-Term Care Landscape,” April 13, 2023


Sarah Cave

Sarah Cave joined Always Best Care after 15 years in healthcare administration and eight years in higher education administration and consulting. She began her career at ECG Management Consultants and Providence St. Joseph Health, and later served in executive strategy and business development roles at the system, local, and regional levels with PeaceHealth, an integrated delivery system of hospitals, medical groups, and ancillary services in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.

In 2014, Sarah became the Chief Operating Officer of the University of Washington School of Public Health, where she was responsible for human resources administration, facilities/space management, and other operations. She later joined the faculty of the UW Master of Health Administration Program and launched Sarah Cave Consulting, working closely with healthcare executives and physician leaders in the Pacific Northwest on strategic planning, business development, collaborative ventures, and governance. Since 2019, Sarah has been the Program Director of the MHA Program, the Senior Director of the Health Management and Informatics Programs, and continued her role as Associate Teaching Professor. Sarah is a member of the University Sunrise Rotary Club.

Kaitlin Maguire

Kaitlin Maguire serves as the Operations Manager for Always Best Care Seattle. Among her responsibilities are office management, caregiver recruitment, and scheduling. She enjoys helping connect individuals and families with loving and experienced caregivers. Kaitlin began her career in healthcare as a Certified Nursing Assistant, working with seniors in assisted living. Since then, she has worked in various roles for an orthopedic practice and received her Master of Health Administration from the University of Washington.

Kaitlin Maguire aspires to leverage her experience to create a caring, professional, and high-quality environment for clients and caregivers. Kaitlin enjoys hiking, being outdoors, gardening, and spending time with her fiancé and two Boston Terriers.

Victoria Wenick

Victoria Wenick is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and the Director of Philanthropy for Covenant Living at the Shores, which is a nonprofit Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) on Mercer Island. She oversees raising funds for the Benevolent Care Fund which helps community members who have been good financial stewards, yet have outlived their resources and can no longer afford the services or care they need. Victoria has served as a University Sunrise Rotary Club member since February of 2022.

Big Taste: Lost Ring

I have in my custody a ring which was found after The Big Taste event in the hangar. If it is yours, please contact me with a description of the ring so that I can return it.

Contact me at Lincolnferris@outlook.com.

Lincoln Ferris, President, University Sunrise Rotary Club

THE BIG TASTE: Thank You!!

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Thank you for your support of the 2023 The Big Taste. We hope you had a great evening with us and will plan on returning next year.  Please expect a “save the date” announcement for next year’s Big Taste in the near future.

More than 600 people attended this year’s event held at the historic Sandpoint Naval Air Station “Hangar 30” in Seattle’s Magnuson Park, and we as a community raised over $44,000 to benefit Outdoors for All, who provides adaptive and therapeutic recreation for children and adults with disabilities,  We Heart Seattle, an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need and the University Sunrise Rotary Foundation, which creates positive, lasting change locally and globally through service, investments in the community, and building close relationships.

To see photos from this year’s event provided by Garrett Padera, visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/USRotary/photos

Thank you to all our corporate sponsors:

Thank you to all the amazing tasting vendors:

  • Bacovino
  • Bauman’s Cider
  • Beauchamp Imports
  • Bellingham Cider
  • Cedar River Cellars
  • Dahlman Cellars
  • Drum Roll Wine
  • Elevation Cellars
  • Empyrical Orchard & Cidery
  • Fremont Brewing
  • Georgetown Brewing
  • Greenwood Cider
  • Guardian Cellars
  • James Bay Distillers
  • Julian Margot
  • Magnuson Brewing
  • Market Vineyards
  • Naches Heights Vineyard
  • Northwest Spirits
  • Nota Bene Cellars
  • Patterson Cellars
  • Republic of Cider
  • RR Poet
  • Sky River Mead
  • Smoky Rose Cellars
  • Structure Cellars
  • Sunken Cellars
  • T2 Cellar
  • Temple Distilling
  • Wohlfert Craft Distilling
  • Zzaphoria Spirits

Non- Alcoholic Tastes From:

  • All the Bitter Zero Alcohol Bitters
  • Alpenglow Cocktail Co. Mixers
  • Amass Riverine Zero Alcohol Spirits
  • Athletic Brewing
  • Blurred Vines – Spark & Sharp Zero Alcohol Wine
  • Casamara Sparkling Botanical Waters
  • Cheeseland Cheeses
  • Grüvi Zero Alcohol Beer & Wine
  • Joyous Zero Alcohol Wines
  • Lolo Hops Zero Alcohol Beer
  • Noughty Zero AlcoholWines
  • Pathfinder Zero Alcohol Spirits
  • Roots Divino Zero Alcohol Vermouth
  • Spinnaker Chocolate
  • The Mighty Truffle
  • Tost Sparkling Refresher
  • Wilderton Zero Alcohol Spirits

We hope you enjoyed the free Photobooth sponsored by Fremont Dock, live music from the Ranken File, and delicious food from Off the Rez and Yummy Box.

We look forward to seeing you again next year.

With sincere gratitude,

-Victoria Wenick

University Sunrise Rotary Event Co-Chair

Big Taste Logo 2023

Program: Rick Steves, “European Travel Skills,” March 30, 2023

Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. But above all else, Rick considers himself a teacher. He taught his first travel class at his college campus in the mid-1970s — and now, more than 40 years later, he still measures his success not by dollars earned, but by trips impacted.

Rick is the founder and owner of Rick Steves’ Europe, a travel business with a tour program that brings more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. Each year, the company contributes to a portfolio of climate-smart nonprofits, essentially paying a self-imposed carbon tax. He also works closely with several advocacy groups and has been instrumental in the legalization of marijuana in states across the US.

Rick spends about four months a year in Europe, researching guidebooks, fine-tuning his tour program, filming his TV show, and making new discoveries for travelers. To recharge, he plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade mountains, and spends time with his son Andy and daughter Jackie. He lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school.

Program: David Lemieux, Audiovisual Archivist and Legacy Manager, “The Grateful Dead,” March 23, 2023


David Lemieux will talk about his work with the Grateful Dead, where he has been archiving their music and producing music releases drawn from their thousands of live concerts for almost 25 years. As their Legacy manager, David will speak about licensing the Grateful Dead’s brand, balancing the fine line between promoting and protecting their legacy.

David Lemieux has been the Grateful Dead’s official audiovisual archivist since 1999, and their Legacy Manager since 2010. Over the past 24 years, Lemieux has produced scores of Grateful Dead CD and DVD releases, many of which have been certified Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum by the RIAA®, as well as several Grammy® nominated boxed sets.

Lemieux was the Supervising Music Producer on the Martin Scorsese-produced career-spanning documentary on the Grateful Dead, Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story Of The Grateful Dead. In 2012, the Grateful Dead re-named their primary archival release series “Dave’s Picks,” as a testament to his expertise. Since 2007, he has hosted a daily show on the Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel, “Today In Grateful Dead History.”

Lemieux holds a BA in History from Carleton University, a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University, and an MA in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia. He currently lives in British Columbia, Canada.

Program: Paul Weibel, “Trailing Cattle on the Old Fetterman Road,” March 2, 2023

The University Sunrise Rotary Club will present our member, Paul Weibel as our speaker this Thursday morning. For thirty years, Paul has been living a part of the Old West, driving cattle in Wyoming.

Our Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal discussion. The formal meeting runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Join us. No registration is required.

Click here to join the meeting Thursday morning. Join us!


Paul Weibel is a retired IRS International Tax Agent and has been a member of Rotary since 1996. He spent the summers of 1965, 1966 and 1967 working on his cousin’s ranch in Wyoming and has been returning to do whatever is needed regularly since the mid-1990’s.

Each Spring, over a period of about eleven days, ranch hands and guests gather and move about a thousand head of Red Angus cattle from Douglas to Medicine Bow and then in the Fall back to Douglas, a distance of about 70 miles. 

This presentation discusses those drives.

Program: Rotary 5030 District Governor, Kae Peterson, February 23, 2023

Kae Peterson spent almost seventeen years at the Evergreen Health Foundation as Vice President of Development. Prior to that, she spent nearly ten years at Shoreline Community College in various roles including Senior Executive Director for Community Relations and the Foundation.

She spent nearly eighteen years as an elected Commissioner of the King County Fire Protection District #16 — Northshore Fire Department.

She has a BA in Education from Augustana College in Illinois and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Argosy University in Seattle.

Since July of 2022, she has been Rotary 5030’s District Governor.

Joseph Thomas, Law School Graduate!!

Want to say thank you to each of you and the rest of the club for the support to accomplish this. It has been the dream of my beloved Claudia and myself, and all helped us make it happen. We can now see a way to be of help to our fellow American Citizens. Airborne, all the way! –Joseph Thomas

The Big Moment Video……

Program: John Pierce, “An Analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” February 16, 2023


The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is an important federal act which endeavors to curb inflation by reducing the deficit, lowering prescription drug prices, and investing in domestic energy production, and promoting clean energy. The law will raise $738 billion and authorize $391 billion in spending on energy and climate change, $238 billion in deficit reduction, three years of Affordable Care Act subsidies, drug reform to lower prices, and tax reform. 

John Pierce

John F. Pierce, Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, focuses his practice on the structuring, development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects.  He represents clients in connection with power generation projects fueled by an array of traditional, renewable, and unconventional energy sources.  John also works with carbon mitigating credits, offsets and trading structures, the creation of carbon trading protocols and markets, carbon sequestration, other environmental attributes and related market-based means to add value to certain energy projects. John has advised and structured various financings of energy and energy-related projects. Additionally, he has infrastructure project experience where he has counseled on the development of port facilities (bulk and container), airports, toll roads, terminals, refineries and associated pipelines, and industrial zones.

Program: Rachele Bouchand & George Northcroft, “DEI Brings Members,” February 9, 2023

The University Sunrise Rotary Club will welcome Rachele Bouchand and George Northcroft this Thursday, February 9, 2023, as they address the topic: “DEI Brings Members.” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are hot topics in all organizations, including Rotary. George and Rachele will help us better understand how to –build DEI efforts that can build our Club–and all organizations.

Our Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal discussion. The formal meeting runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Join us. No registration is required.

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Long-Time Rotary Leaders Rachele Bouchand and George Northcroft will present their program on how to increase membership through the incorporation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion concepts.

Rachele Bouchand

Rachele Bouchand is a member and Past President of the Bellevue Rotary Club since 2009. She currently serves on the Rotary District DEI Committee and the Rotary District Strategic Visioning Team. She is the Assistant Governor for Seattle 4 and Creating Newly Formed Clubs. Additionally, she will be District 5030 Governor for 2024-2025. Rachele was also a member of the Rotary International Next Generation Conference in 2014. Lastly, she was able to blend her vocational and Rotary lives when she served as a member of the Global Polio Finance Committee.

Her Rotary classification is Consulting-Business. Rachele currently serves as Managing Director of Pathstone, where she is responsible for advising families and single-family offices on a variety of wealth management and estate planning topics. She has over 20 years’ experience working with multi-generational wealth.

George Northcroft

George Northcroft has been a member of the Bellevue Rotary Club (BRC) since 1989. In 2001, George served as BRC’s Sergeant At Arms. He currently serves on the Rotary District DEI Committee and Co-Chair of the BRC DEI Committee. He also serves on BRC Environmental Sustainability Committee and the BRC Diplomacy Committee.

His Rotary classification is Public Administration-Senior Active. He retired in 2017 as Regional Administrator/Northwest Arctic Region for U.S. General Services Administration where he was responsible for the management of Federal real estate, acquisition and information technology in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho. George is a business and civic leader with experience in financial management, marketing and operations in Fortune 500 companies and state, local, federal government.