Brent Grening, CEO of the Port of Ridgefield will join us to share insights about the Discovery Corridor, projects the port is working on, and the importance of the Discovery Corridor to economic development in North Clark County.

Current Port of Ridgefield projects include construction of the new SW Region Headquarters for the State Department of Fish & Wildlife, completion of the Pacific Wood Treating environmental cleanup, construction of the Pioneer Street Rail Overpass and construction of dark fiber optics infrastructure in the Ridgefield Port District and the Discovery Corridor.

This week's meeting is Thursday, Jan. 5, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center. We'll be in conference rooms C/D on the third floor of the hospital building. Parking is free in the structure and attendees are encouraged to use the skybridge to the hospital building.

Plans have been made for rescheduling the club's Christmas/Holiday party at the home of Dan Sockle & Susan Stahl (2806 NE 157th St., Vancouver, WA, 98686) on THURSDAY, DECEMBER. 29 BEGINNING AT 5:30 p.m.

As originally planned, Dan and Susan will provide:

• Relish tray (olives and other pickled items)
• Swedish or barbeque-sauce meatballs
• Sliced baguettes and artichoke-jalapeno dip
• Vegetarian rollups
• Onion dip and chips
• And a variety of beverages

They are asking each attendee/couple to bring ONE of the following:

• a favorite appetizer/finger food, OR
• a favorite dessert easy to just pick up (cookies) or pre-sliced for easy self-serving, OR
• a bottle of wine

AND, just for fun, please bring a wrapped gift, preferably not obvious as to content:

• Not to exceed $20 in cost
• Tasteful humor most welcome

Upon arrival, a number will be affixed to each gift. The member/guest will then select a number out of a basket to ensure they do not pick the same number just affixed to their gift. We'll do a "White Elephant" gift exchange a little bit into the evening.

Spouses, significant others, guests, families and potential Rotarians are most welcome.

Please RSVP, including the number in your party, by Dec. 27 by emailing Dan at [email protected]. If you RSVP'ed "yes" to the original date and still plan to attend, there's no need to RSVP again.

Many thanks to Becky Sims, owner of DreamDinners Vancouver, for her presentation about DreamDinners last night at our first Thursday meeting of the Rotary Club of Three Creeks at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center.

DreamDinners is a Food preparation center, where customers assemble & pack a selection of meals to take home & cook. The mission of DreamDinners is to give families the ability to cook healthy meals with reasonable portion sizes and have dinner at the table together, despite busy schedules.

Becky provided samples of DreamDinners food, and conducted a drawing for three free three-serving meals, won by Steve Pash.

Thanks to our guests at last night's meeting - Paul Montague and Dennis Wickham (both visiting Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Greater Clark County), Tina Pash, Jeff Stay (visiting from the Rotary Club of Woodland), and Azar Gwaslav.

President Susanne also presented second readings for Tina Vlachos and Jolene Nelson, who have applied for membership in the club.

Two more gifts have been presented to the Rotary Club of Three Creeks.

Paul Montague, a past-president in the Rotary Club of Greater Clark County, was in attendance at our club meeting last night to present us with a LCD projector that he personally purchased for the club.

We're also grateful for our sponsor club, the Rotary Club of Camas-Washougal, for a cash contribution of $100 to help us with our funds to get the club's bank account started.
Many thanks to our friends and fellow Rotarians who have helped us get the club started!

Many thanks to those who participated in the Rotary Club of Three Creeks toy drive for Santa's Posse.

At last night's club meeting, a very nice collection of toys was picked up by Service Projects Director Steve Pash, and delivered today.

Here is a picture of the toy drum and some toys we dropped off. Steve says we almost filled the box with the toys that were donated. Great way to start out with service to our community, Three Creeks members!