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

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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