President John opened the meeting with enthusiasm, anticipating hearing about another successful meal packing.
Happy Bucks
Minister of FunAaron Booker shared highlights from the meal-packing event. He noted there were 145 participants, including Interactors, Rotaractors, spouses, honor society members, community members, and even Steve Ban’s grandchildren, the most photogenic of this large crowd. The young people, especially, were a great addition. Aaron shared a picture of Roland pushing a broom, and congratulated him on being the hardest worker there. We packed a total of 35,640 meals
Guests:
George Halsell introduced our speaker Clark Roberts, his wife Karrie, Clarito Zapanta, Derick Krutsinger, Lance Parry, Kyle Weiss and Ryan Christensen
Paul Pelot of Worksource introduced our "Take A Vet to Lunch" Justin Poehls.
John Moffat introduced Bob Tull
Members on Zoom: Dennis Williams, Dick Tucker, Shauna Naf, Fred Kaiser and his guest Steve Woods
Club Events and Committee Announcements
Board of Directors Meeting
There will be a Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, March 19th, at 4:30 on Zoom. Please contact Sandee if you would like the link. rcob@comcast.net
District Events
The Rotary 5050 District Assembly will be held Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Kwantlen Polytechnical University, 12666 72nd Ave., Surrey, B. C., with registration beginning at 8:00 am and running till 2:30. All officers are encouraged to attend, as this provides leadership training, goal-setting for the upcoming year, and networking opportunities
The District 5050 Conference will be held at Harrison Hot Springs, May 1-3, 2026. Members were urged to consider attending. This link will take you to additional information:
Committee Announcements
Hands On Committee
Ward Naf announced upcoming projects with the Community Boating Center and the Ken Imus Clean Up in Fairhaven (4-11-2026). Details to follow. Our club is looking into other groups joining us, including Rotaract (a strategy that worked very well this past weekend with the Meal Packing).
Social Meeting March 30
Catherine Riordan reminded us that the last meeting in March will be a socially focused dinner meeting. For fun and engagement, there will be an activity involving photos we have on our phones. Optional Homework: find a picture on your phone that you love and tells something about you.
Precision bombing is the focus of this book. Could it make wars less lethal? Bill was trained and worked in related areas with B29 bombers. Precision bombing was first used in strikes on Japan, motivated in part by reservations about the extensive use of napalm. In practice, precision bombing was difficult, partly because of the jet streams around Japan, streams very familiar to pilots in the PNW. Bill noted the book was about two leaders, one humane, one ruthless, and that, as we know, awards go to winners, who are not necessarily the humanitarians.
Take a Vet to Lunch
Justin Poehls was introduced by Paul Pilot, director of the Workforce program.
Justin has a broad set of skills and interests surrounding the tremendous amount of data being collected on/by/for us. With his technical skills and experience, Justin is anxious to help organizations make more effective use of all this data.
George Halsell introduced our featured speaker, Clark Roberts from Ultimate Vision. Clark was accompanied by his wife Kerry and his service dog.
In the style of a motivational speaker, Clark used the lessons he has learned as a blind person to offer encouragement to us all.
Clark learned he would be going blind while in college at the University of Idaho. His diagnosis: Retinitis pigmentosa. After being told the prognosis, he was angry, depressed, scared, etc. What would his life look like?
Overcoming his initial depression and hopelessness about his loss of vision, Clark disproved the stereotype that the blind don’t have much of a life. He took on challenges, like skiing and bike riding, having a family, etc. Clark argues adversity doesn’t define us but refines us.
Eventually, Clark came to run a nonprofit corporation that promotes the message that ‘life doesn’t stop with blindness.” Clark advocates cherishing life, regardless of conditions.
His organization, IMPACT & Influence, uses the following acronym to explain how to successfully overcome any of life's challenges:
Intentional living - to act with a purpose or deliberate plan
Moving - completing actions to accomplish the plan
Passion - a deep interest or enthusiasm for turning the intended plan into a reality.
Alignment - success happens when values, goals, and actions align
Creative - using your imagination or ideas to produce a successful outcome
Thankful - being grateful to those who help you fulfill your goals.
His final encouragement was: "Don’t let your talents, abilities, imagination just sit on the shelf and go to waste."
RCOB apparel, including polo shirts, dress shirts, vests and hats is now available. These are items that every Club member simply must have in his/her wardrobe! Besides looking great, Club members will be contributing to branding for the RCOB as well as supporting our Club's Foundation, which will receive part of the proceeds.
Click on the button below for the the clothing catalogue, with the Order Form on the last page. Fill out the order form, turn it into Vinson Latimore at a meeting or email a scanned copy to embroidery@choicesscrubs.com.
Presentations:
Ultimate Vision Final 10.10.24.mp4
