Parading For Polio
At Ocean Park’s Old Fashioned Independence Day Parade, July 4, 2010
Thanks to Missy Bageant for the photos!
Books to the World
Thanks to Shirley Pryor-Pyne, Bob Hamilton and Bill Halstrum for heaving yet another big load of books headed for 3rd World Countries. Can we ever say enough good things about the Lockhards, who have designed and championed this project from day one? [more]
2010-2011 Board Prepares for the Coming Year
Incoming officers enjoyed a retreat at PE Lynn Raymer’s on Saturday. Check out their great new hats!
L-R: Nancey Olson, Lesley Ferguson, Peggy Taylor-Miles, Shirley Pryor-Pyne, Mike Karvia, Bob Hamilton, Cheri Diehl. Photo: Lynn Raymer
Ascend in 2010: District Conference
President Dick Fisher and PE Lynn Raymer, along with members Keith & Keleigh Schwartz, Shirley Pryor-Pyne and Ruth Carpenter, traveled to Welches, Oregon for this year’s District Conference. A grand time was had by all!
Here’s a photo of PE Lynn, telling Rotarians about our cooperative project with the Rotary Clubs of Tillamook, Seaside and North Tillamook County, “FOOD FIGHT”, a lighthearted competition designed to collect food for each community’s food bank(s). North Tillamook County kicked the rest of our back ends!!
Our club participated in the demonstration of club projects, shown on the displays behind Lynn. Below are Ruth and Shirley, showing our project Board, beautifully put together, don’t you think? It describes our Thai project that Shirley visited earlier this year, along with ADG Sharon Starr from the Rotary Club of Lake Oswego.
Ruth’s face says it all; Conference showed her what Rotary was all about and how she could make a difference!
Save the date! District Conference 2011 in SEASIDE, OREGON!
THANK YOU
Thank you to everyone who came out to bid on the amazing selection of art;
Thanks to District Governor Kristi Halvorson, Administrative Assistant Governor Sharon Starr and Presidents Elect Ellen Boggs (North Tillamook County) and Marian Derlet (Warrenton), and families, for joining us;
Thanks to our partners, the Boys & Girls Club of the Long Beach Peninsula, the North Beach Family Medical Center Dental Clinic, and the Peninsula Arts Association, without whom this event would not take place;
Thank you to each member of the Rotary Club of SW Pacific County Peninsula, for coming together at all the right times and with the right attitudes;
And a BIG thanks to Lesley Ferguson and her Oysters & Art planning committee for producing our best O&A yet!
Food Fight!
Why are these Rotarians smiling?
….because they hadn’t yet learned that their nearly 800 pounds of food didn’t even come close to beating the Rotary Club of North Tillamook County in the Coastal Clubs Food Fight this past month. North Tillamook President Peter Nunn announced that his club of just 17 members collected 1085 pounds of food during February! Oh, the suffering our club (31 members) will endure! At least we’re in good company; the Rotary Clubs of Tillamook (18 members), Warrenton (16 members) and Seaside (46 members) join us in defeat. And, the female half of our Peninsula Rotary club take solace in the fact that we collected 650 pounds to the men’s 119!
Each of the clubs distributed the donated food to food banks and distribution programs in the communities in which it was collected.
Way to go, Rotarians!
Oysters & Art: Featured Artists
BARBARA MALLON
Barbara is a local mixed media artist currently exhibiting in Ilwaco and Astoria. Her inspirations come from memories and experiences growing up in the Pacific Northwest. Many of her paintings are strongly reminiscent of marine coastal and benthic environments – the sights and sounds of a lifetime of observations carried out scuba diving, fishing, snorkeling, camping and exploring tide pools and wetlands here in Puget Sound, in Alaskan waters in and around Bristol Bay, and in the tropical waters of the Hawaii islands.
DON NISBETT
Although he was born in Missouri, the artist Don Nisbett has lived in the northwest for most of his life. Specializing in watercolors Don is as versatile as he is talented. Themes include crab, wine, fish, moose, golf, coffee and more. He stays busy throughout the year working on boat paintings, beach house paintings and fantasy portraits as well as other custom and commercial work.
You can find Don at the Crew House Gallery visiting with friends and fans while they sip on wine or enjoy some of his famous chocolate treats. Much of his work is customized while you wait. This is not your usual stuffy art gallery. Selling “Affordable art for real people” is what he does and you will find everyone from local fisherman to tourists are fans of Don’s art.
Don Nisbett’s Crew House Gallery
167 Howerton Way
at the Port of Ilwaco
Tel: (360) 642-8831
BETTE LU KRAUSE
Bette Lu’s adventurous spirit has taken her around the world by sea. As a merchant mariner on research vessels, tramp freighters, large oil tankers, and tugboats, she has explored many of the earth’s coastal regions. In 1991, she joined Lindblad Expeditions, first as a deck officer and a few years later as an expedition leader and naturalist, traveling and teaching in several wonderful destinations. Aboard her own 1934 36’ Monk wooden cruiser, she ‘gunk holed’ and kayaked around many lesser known islands and inlets of Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, Canada’s Gulf Islands and the fiords surrounding the first nation village of Alert Bay, BC. She has attended several special cultural events among the Kwak’wak’a’wak people. These days she lives in a small coastal town in Washington, and spends time in nature and painting in her home art studio. Much of Bette Lu’s art is inspired by the magnificent rainforests and salt water places of the Pacific Northwest.
Oysters & Art Featured Artist: Eric Wiegardt
One of the Peninsula’s most prolific and well-known watercolorists, Eric Wiegardt has generously donated his work every year to this event, and we are privileged to offer three of his original acrylics in his signature “loose” style.
With over 25 years of professional painting and teaching experience, and more than 3,000 students nationwide who have attended his workshops, Eric is in demand as an acclaimed instructor, art judge, and juror.
His art carries a strong sense of the Pacific Northwest, but his content comes from wherever he travels, seen in these three works: the interior of an antique shop, another from the Nahcotta Oyster Plant, and the third a historic view of the old gas house and smoke house as seen from the east window of his gallery.
Visit EricWiegardt.com | More information on Oysters & Art, coming up on March 20th
THE ANTIQUE SHOP 24 X 30 watercolor
GAS PUMP AND SMOKEHOUSE 16 x 20 acrylic
NAHCOTTA OYSTER PLANT 24 x 30 watercolor
Food Fight!
It’s our club vs Seaside, Warrenton, Tillamook & North Tillamook County!
Who can bring in the most pounds of food during the month of February?
Steve Pollock decorated this box, now at Jack's Country Store in Ocean Park. Donation boxes can also be found at beachdog.com in Long Beach and New Life Church in Ilwaco.