How fitting that Todd Engle‘s first meeting as our new club president was held at Friendsview. The staff always does such a nice job when they host us. Thanks to all, and congratulations, Todd!
PANCAKE BREAKFAST COMING RIGHT UP!
Promotional materials for this July 29 and 30th Old Fashioned Festival event at Memorial Park are now available for you to use. See Jeff Lane to get fliers or rack cards, and help promote this important fund raiser for our club. The results help us do good work in the community. Please see Curt Walker if you don’t have your tickets yet. There are still some unfilled volunteer slots, so sign up via Paula Radich‘s recent email if you haven’t already. Please contact Spike Sumner if you are interested in sponsorship.
BUT FIRST, THERE’S BREWS AND BBQ
This fun event, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, has a new date this year–Friday night, July 21st from 4 to 10pm and Saturday, July 22nd from 12 to 10pm. Location is First Street and Howard. Admission is $5, or VIP entry for $15. Please contact Sheryl Kelsh at the Chamber for more info: 503-538-2014.
Insider tip: Sheryl says there will be a BBQ competition next year, so get those recipes out for testing…..
AND EVEN BEFORE THAT,
THERE’S TUNES ON TUESDAYS!
Newberg’s summer concert series starts tomorrow night, July 11 at 6:30pm with Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts. Grab your lawn chair and come enjoy a fun summer evening. Weather is supposed to be great. And be sure to mark your calendar for July 25, when our club teams up with the Earlybird Club to sponsor the concert featuring Dancehall Days. Should be a blast.
A representative from the Tigard Noon Club visited our meeting to let us know that their Foundation is helping to sponsor “10 Pianos; 10 Pianists” featuring Michael Allen Harrison and host Bill Schonley. This unique outdoor concert benefits music education and will be on Sunday, July 30 from 6 to 8:30pm at the Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Aloha. Order tickets online at http://tengrandsonthegreen.com or call 971-238-7442.
MEETING GUESTS:
We were honored to have a visit from the new president of the Earlybirds Club, Gary Stewart.
Curt Walker introduced Warren Good, a Rotarian from McMinnville who worked for Providence, and is a licensed realtor in both Nevada and Oregon.
Our summer marketing intern from George Fox University, Dominique Thibault, also joined us.
SPEAKER:
Andy Comfort discusses projects in Masatepe.
Andy Comfort, a 2016 George Fox grad with a B.S. in Global Business, shared his story of working with a nonprofit agency to help the community of Masatepe, Nicaragua. According to Andy, who comes from a family of missionaries, one important goal is to serve the children, and 550 kids have been helped so far. “The nonprofit believes in ‘food, freedom and forgiveness,'” he said. “We bring people together, and we work alongside the invisible.”
Especially notable are efforts to build preschools and the “One Egg” program, which provides an egg a day to every preschooler in the community to provide nutrition.
The teams working with the nonprofit have also have been involved with creating an alcohol rehab center, a “Girls Night In” program to provide youth group fellowship, and they have created both egg and pig farms to provide food. To try to get some type of economic activity going, “Beto’s Bistro” was created. Not only does it provide a coffee house, but it addresses what had been a lack of neutral community gathering space. A Chamber of Commerce was started two years ago, and they are working to attract members, and develop programs and activities. You can support these efforts by buying products through Betos.org.
