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| History of the Milton-Freewater Rotary Club. | Club Projects |
| Meeting Dates | More about Rotary International |
| Executive Board | More about District 5100 |
| Statistics | Club Members and Classifications (to follow) |
| Club News | (open) |
The club was chartered as #3030 on 11 January 1929 with 27 members.
| Meeting Date | Mailing Address |
| Tuesday at 11:45 | P.O. Box 346 |
| Community Building | Milton-Freewater, OR 97862 |
| N.E. 5th Ave. and Ward Streets | |
| Milton-Freewater, OR 97862 |
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| 2009-2010 President: David Marshall |
| President Elect: Linda Hall |
| Secretary: Chris Wallace-Burlingame |
| Treasurer: Chris Wallace-Burlingame |
| Past President: Larry Widner |
24 August 2010
President Dave
Marshall was absent, so member Jesse Maxwell called the meeting to
order in his absence.
Dick Fellows was visiting as a guest Rotarian.
Pete Peery brought his wife and Fran Hendricks as guests to the
meeting.
The program chair, Lynn Crawford, introduced the guest speaker for the
meeting - Lawson Knight of the Blue Mountain Community Foundation. Mr.
Knight challenged his audience to pair up and share what our most
meaningful donation had been in the last 12 months. After this exercise
was complete, he shared with the club the differences between Private
and Community Foundations. He shared that in 2007 Americans voluntarily
contributed $306 billion in charitable contributions. Of that
staggering amount, only 4% was contributed by companies or businesses.
The rest was from individuals. The federal and state governments offer
many tax incentives as rewards to charitable contributions.
Private foundations are privately owned, managed and controlled. They
are under much stricter regulations and are even required to pay excise
taxes of 1% in many cases. They also have limited deductions from the
government.
The Community Foundations are public charities and are regulated by
their public scrutiny. They generally support many more community and
public projects.
Blue Mountain Community Foundation is such a community foundation which
supports causes in the Walla Walla Valley. The Foundation has over $30
million in assets, 275 separate accounts of different charities being
supported. Over $1 million in charitable grants are given out each
year. The Blue Mountain Community Foundation gives out an estimated
$200,000 in scholarships to area youth each year as well.
Mike Swinnerton then gave a brief update on the MF Area Foundation
Board, which also supports many local youth and community assets such
as the Ross Lee Scholarship Fund, and the Frazier Museum Foundation.
Mike reported one of the MF Area Foundation’s more recent contributions
was for the resurfacing of the Mel Bennett Tennis Courts.
Mike Swinnerton was the winner of the “split the pot” drawing.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
31 August 2010
The Milton-Freewater
Order of the Eastern Star, Loyalty Chapter #47, prepared the lunch for
the members and guests at weeks lunchtime meeting. There were no
visiting Rotarians this week.
Honorary members Bob Coblens,
Richard Meier, Pete Peery and Richard Robison joined us for lunch.
Linda Hall and David Shannon
reminded everyone that there are still some chairs and mailboxes
available for painting and they will be auctioned off at the
Oktoberfest event in November. Linda will be collecting the finished
art work by 01 October. David still has some mailboxes primed and ready
to start the artistic painting. Contact Linda at 541-938-8242 or David
at 503-861-7975.
John Thunell reminded everyone that
the Rotary Golf Tournament this year will take place on 12 September
2010 at the Milton-Freewater Golf Course. The 4-person scramble format
will be used again this year. Get your teams together and signed-up.
This week, John will be contacting businesses who signed up to provide
lap prizes as he collects those donations.
President David Marshall reminded
everyone that District Governor Barb Crozier will visit the club on 21
September 2010. The District Governor visits each of the 70 clubs in
the district at least once each year. The District Governor is a member
of the Camas-Washougal Rotary Club.
There was no program today and
President David Marshall took the opportunity to discuss some of his
plans for club projects this year.
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