~ Newberg Noon Rotary Club Newsletter ~
Rotary Club of Newberg, Zoom Meeting
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
~ Call to Order ~
Immediate Past President Shannon Buckmaster welcomed Rotarians and Friends of Rotary to the Hybrid Live/Zoom meeting at 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at the Chehalem Cultural Center.
~ Flag Salute ~
Michelle lead participants in the Pledge of Allegiance.
~ 4 Way Test ~
Rick lead participants in the recital of the 4 Way Test:
Rotary’s Four Way Test of the things we think, say and do:
#1 – Is it the TRUTH?
#2 – Is it FAIR to all concerned?
#3 – Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
#4 – Is it BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
~ Announcements ~
Pancake Breakfast: Note that this is a lot of work and they are in need of volunteers. Please reach out if you would like to join it, it is a lot of fun. Aaron is in charge of the committee so get ahold of him to get involved. This is very important and we would be very appreciative to anyone willing to be on the planning committee.
Official Update on Leadership: Noted that there was an official vote of the board to make Becky Ankeny the New President Elect for our Club. Congrats!
Casey (EB Club): Noted that she is working on setting up group accommodations for the District Conference in Seaside May 19-22nd. It is a conference and training for Rotarians. She will also be coordinating group accommodations for the Rotary International Convention which takes place in Houston in June. Contact her for more information.
~ Guests ~
Casey Hostetler, Guest, Early Birds President Elect
Emily Garrick-Steeson, Guest
Madeline Candeaux, Guest
~ The Rotary Duck ~
Denise: Announced that Newberg Noon Rotarian Allen Methven passed away. He had not been active in the club for a few years, but was a very active member for many years, especially his work on the recurring Guatemala dentistry project. She donated in honor of his work over the years in the Club and in the Community.
Kathie F: Donated in honor of Allen.
Ralph: Noted that today is Polio Plus Day and donated in honor of his late uncle who died of Polio.
Jim: Was shocked to hear about Allen, as he was a great man and a great Rotarian, especially within the Guatemala Projects.
Larry: Shared about and donated in honor of Allen’s passing, his family member Michael Strober also passing, and in honor of his 4 grandparents from the Ukraine.
Spike: Donated in honor of Allen, a good friend who will be sorely missed.
Auggie: Donated in honor of Allen. Shared that Allen was one of the first Dentists who started the Guatemala project. He was a major force creating and driving that project forward. One of his goals was to get young dentists involved and he did that amazingly. Last time he participated was in 2018 before his health issue began. He donated a lot to the club and the club auctions. He was a great leader and mentor.
Curt: Donated in honor of Allen, a great man.
Geoff: Noted that Allen was an amazing, caring human being who enjoyed people, life, and was a wonderful person.
Kathie: Shared that she keeps bumping into Casey and is really happy to have gotten to know her.
Dan K: Listened to Dan R’s latest interview for The Giving Town Podcast, which was with Rubi Ramirez who works for Service Integration Teams, an amazing, lesser known resource. Listen to the podcast by clicking this link. Also noted that he is wrapping up the next Newberg Advantage Article which will be focused on the Senior Meals Program our Club has supported over the recent decades.
Paul: Shared a story about Allen where he and Paul went to Allens Vineyard to deal with bees. Allen was in too much of a hurry to deal with the bees, made them angry, and got stung on the nose. He was a very generous guy and helped Paul get into bees over the years. He let Paul take many of the hives on his property.
Karen: Welcomed the guest speaker.
Doug: Noted that his daughter is competing in a State Competition for Dance over the weekend and is hoping she wins.
Auggie: Shared another Allen story where he once taught Auggie about dealing with getting through Customs security. Often times they have a hard time convincing Customs that they are not bringing new equipment into the country in order to sell it, but rather to use it in volunteer work. Allen would open the box of new equipment and would use his wine opener to scratch the top of the equipment up before resealing it. He would then convince them that the equipment is used, in which case they would still open it and see that it is surely not new. Auggie has used the same strategy as well in the past.
~ Today’s Program: Historic Butteville Store with Jordan Scoggins ~
Jordan Scoggins spoke about his professional life and how he came to become a part of the Historic Butteville Store.
Jordan grew up in Yakama Washington, a child of very competitive family, his dad a sports editor of the local paper and his mom a popular high school teacher. He noted that his wife is very different than him: his family is about getting better, and hers is about being nice to people. She noted how lucky she was to have his drive to improve. He became a teacher and did that for 23 years, in the middle school level, very much enjoying it. He taught in Wilsonville with very privileged students, which drove him to challenge the kids and teach them life skills. He started a Young Entrepreneurship Club, which was inspired by a side business he had where he did catering and made more in one weekend than a whole month of teaching. He knew the kids wanted to learn hands on business skills and started “Junior Scoop” with 60 kids. They learned everything there is to know about making and selling Ice Cream. A friend of his tried the ice cream and convinced him to sell it to “Kids Day” at the Garden Center. Rather than selling it, they gave it away at the event. From that they began their business, learning about working a room, creating and marketing flavors including participating in professional events. Jordan worked full time as a teacher and also donated 20-40 hours a week extra towards the Entrepreneurship Club. The Club was making $40,000 – $50,000 per year, supporting clubs and programs within the school.
Eventually Jordan learned that in being a great teacher, he spent more time with other kids and not his own. That is when he decided to retire from both Teaching and Junior Scoop to spend more time with his family. In spending more time with his kids, he realized that teenagers, it seems, are no longer expected to get jobs or go out and experience the world, they instead have developed an unhealthy addiction to phones, which have taken the place of in person interaction and experiencing the world through adventure. So he told his teenage kids: its time to get a job – what do you want to do? what sort of a business would you want to start? They chose to make and sell ice cream, like he did in Junior Scoop. He started spreading the word that they needed a place to operate and someone invited them to pitch operating out of the Butteville Store. They used the slow pace of the COVID years to meticulously build their business and learn about business, now called Half Pint Brothers. They started selling ice cream Drive-Thru only, then started a deli selling sandwiches, then the indoors opened. They are being paid into a Roth IRA that they are allowed to manage and invest. They are learning, working, and having a great time working at the oldest mercantile store still in operation in the state of Oregon.
Jordan shared his disappointment at how little finance education young people get in school. There are such limited opportunities to learn how to deal with money and home economics/cooking. These values we need to make sure to teach our kids about. We also need to remember to instill on our kids the importance of providing amazing, personalized, thoughtful Service to customers.
To see more about their family business to to the Butteville Store, and see their website at https://halfpintbrothers.com/. Check in on their limited hours through their website.
Check your e-mails for Mike Caruso’s Zoom meeting access information.
~ Joke of the Day ~
To the thief who stole my glasses: I will find you. I have contacts.
~ Happy Quotes! ~
“When you have gotten to know a lot of people, and you have done so much for people: what happens?
They want to take care of you, because you have taken care of them.”
– Jordan Scoggins, the Guest Speaker during todays meeting
~ Published 3/22/2022: Dan Keuler, Newsletter Editor ~
