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ROTARY CLUB OF THREE CREEKS

President Daniel steps down for family reasons

10/21/2021

 
Citing a couple of significant family health concerns that will change the way he and his family will allocate their time, Club President Daniel Spanski Dreffin has resigned his presidency, effective immediately, and will be leaving Rotary.

Daniel's wife Kaaren has also resigned her position as President Elect of the Greater Clark County club, and has stepped down from Rotary due to the health issues the family needs to take care of.

We wish the Dreffin family all the best in caring for their family members. Thank you to Daniel for the commitment he made, and the time spent, to prepare for service, and his time spent as Club President. It's no small task, and the club is grateful.

The club board of directors will work through a process to replace President Daniel for the remainder of the current Rotary year.

President Elect Andi Costello, in accordance with the club bylaws, will preside over a special meeting of the club board, and the October 21 club meeting at Round Table in Salmon Creek.

Back to the Future: We'll meet at Round Table Pizza in Salmon Creek on Oct. 21

10/18/2021

 
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Going back to the place of this club's beginnings, we are going to try Round Table Pizza in Salmon Creek as a potential new meeting space for the October 21 meeting.

The location has been recently remodeled since 2016 when we originally met there. The back meeting room is said to be able to accommodate 30 or so people for a club meeting. It's also got three TVs available to us. Pizza, salad bar, beverages are all available and encouraged, so be sure to arrive early and place your order.

Round Table Pizza Royalty is located at 13009 NE Highway 99, Vancouver, near the Safeway in Salmon Creek, just east of the Salmon Creek Burgerville.

Three Creeks returning to in-person meetings

7/30/2021

 
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As the Rotary Club of Three Creeks returns to in-person meetings, Club President Daniel Spanski-Dreffin has announced a new location for club meetings.

Effective Thursday, Aug. 5, the club will meet in person at Moonlight Events (10017 NE 6th Ave. in Hazel Dell) on the first and third Thursday of each month.

Moonlight Events houses both large and small events with indoor and outdoor space. Our club will have access to both spaces, depending on the weather and the desires of the club with each meeting.

The Event Space we will use includes access to internet, a projector & screen. We can bring our own food and can have a no-host bar available to us during club meetings.

Until further notice, club meetings will have a hybrid setting, providing for club members, visiting Rotarians and guests to participate in our meetings without having to attend in person.

More information about the meeting will be posted - and shared with the club via Tributaries and our app - in the next couple of days.

Three club board vacancies filled via vote

7/9/2021

 
In accordance with the Rotary Club of Three Creeks bylaws, the 2020-21 board of directors voted today to fill three vacancies with the resignations of Audra Smith and Rian Davis.

Smith had previously been elected to the president elect nominee and club administration director positions, while Davis had been re-elected to serve as sergeant at arms in 2021-22.

The club board voted to appoint Nelson Holmberg as president elect nominee, Kinsey Dhoot as club administration director and Laura Miller as sergeant at arms.

Club bylaws require a vote of the sitting board with a simple majority to fill vacancies. In the case of the president elect nominee position, Holmberg will be on the ballot for the 2022-23 board later this year for confirmation in the club's leadership succession.

Andi Costello is the club's current president elect, and she will serve as club president in 2022-23. If confirmed by the club this fall, Holmberg would serve as Costello's president elect and be club president in 2023-24.

Club elections also allow for nominations in all positions, including the presidential line, as well as write-ins, if voters prefer different options.

Bukoski, Riley introduced as proposed members

7/8/2021

 
Wendy Bukoski and Craig Riley have been introduced as the most recent proposed members of the Rotary Club of Three Creeks.

President Daniel Spanski-Dreffin conducted the first reading of both proposed members at the club's July 1 meeting via Zoom.

Bukoski was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has lived all over the West Coast. She considers Honolulu, San Diego, and Portland my hometowns. Bukoski lives in Felida with her husband, two children, two dogs, and a handicapped kitten nugget. She managed operations at FISH of Vancouver for four years and currently works for Friends of the Children - SW Washington in development. She helped launch the Friends' new chapter during the pandemic and has a healthy respect for how much goes into building something new from the ground up!

In her spare time, she enjoys riding bikes, mushroom hunting and foraging, kayaking, and sledding with her family. She is an enthusiastic, yet "vertically challenged" snowboarder and former kickboxing instructor.

Riley is a former member of the Rotary Club of Vancouver, having made the decision that the Three Creeks club was a better fit for him.

He is managing partner of Medicare Help Now. Having grown up in Southern California, Riley moved to Portland in 1969 to attend Lewis & Clark College. He never left the Pacific Northwest. Riley and his wife Karen have four children and nine grandchildren.

In his spare time, Riley enjoys swimming, pickleball, kayaking and travel.

Bukoski's sponsor is Carol Mackey, while Riley's is Susanne Holmberg.

Second reading for both proposed members will occur at the club's July 15 meeting, to be followed closely by an electronic vote by the board. If you have any feedback to share in regard to either proposed member, please contact a member of the board in writing.

Three Creeks leadership relays the baton to President Daniel

6/27/2021

 
More or less everyone who knows Rotary in our area knows that we tend to do a lot of stuff differently than most clubs do. Here's our transition between President Kelley Johnson Campbell and President Daniel Spanski Dreffin.

The club held a relay race with each past president, and DGE Jim Boyle, passing the baton along, ultimately handing it off to President Daniel, who's first club meeting is our July 1 meeting.

The relay was recorded and turned into a video that was premiered at the club picnic at the Holmberg home. If you were unable to attend, or would just like to see the video again, please feel free to view it by clicking the video above. The club will also post this video to the club's Facebook and Instagram pages, to the club's website, and to DACdb, so that Rotarians across District 5100 are able to see another of the unique things we do.

In case you didn't know, the club actually does have an actual running relay baton, which has printed on it, the Rotary of Three Creeks logo and the title "Presidential Baton". It will eventually have all of the club presidents' names added to the printing on the baton.

Thanks for being our special guest star, Jim Boyle!

Three Creeks, Lewis River Team up to Promote COVID-19 Shots

6/11/2021

 
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The Rotary Club of Three Creeks and Lewis River Rotary Club have combined efforts to help promote COVID-19 vaccinations, while using the success of the polio vaccine as evidence.
 
The two clubs combined to pay for a billboard along the northbound side of St. John’s Boulevard, just south of NE 78th Street. The billboard’s message, “The fight to end polio is proof vaccines work. Let’s fight COVID-19 together” highlights the true success of vaccinations around the world.
 
Since 1988, Rotary has been leading the fight against polio globally. There are just two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan – left on the planet where polio has not been eradicated.
 
For more than three years, there have been wild polio cases in only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Polio was declared officially eradicated from Nigeria in 2020. Through June 10, 2021, there was just one case in each nation.
 
“There is clear evidence that vaccines work,” said Rotary Club of Three Creeks President Kelley Campbell. “And Rotary is one of the organizations behind that. Like the billboard says, the near eradication of polio is proof that vaccines work. As Rotarians, we are proud to be a part of it, and if we can help even just a little bit, to end the COVID-19 pandemic, then we’ve done our job.”
 
Lewis River Club President Linda Allen agreed.
 
“Our two clubs are so proud to do something to try and make a difference in ending the COVID-19 pandemic,” Allen said. “Rotary has made a difference around the world tackling polio. We just felt like this was a great opportunity for Rotary to take a lead in making a difference here at home knocking down COVID-19.”
 
There is already evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations are making a difference. The “fourth surge” in Washington state during May was short-lived and case numbers continue to fall in Washington. This progress has given the state cause to re-open by the end of June 2021.
 
Visibility of this billboard is 40,000-45,000 cars per week.

Rotary of Three Creeks giving reaches nearly $45,000 in 2020-21

6/1/2021

 
CLARK COUNTY, Wash. – The Rotary Club of Three Creeks went unintimidated by the pandemic during the 2020-21 fiscal year.
 
And the club – less than five years old – granted almost $45,000 to local and international non-profits that serve children, veterans, hungry and homeless over the last year.
 
“This club makes me proud every day,” said Club President Kelley Campbell. “Not only do we have a passion for serving those in our community who we can help, but ‘Three Creekers’ are diligent about making the most of our opportunity to raise funds that we can grant to non-profits who serve those we – as a club – think we can impact most.”
 
The financial gifts awarded by the club in 2020-21 include:

  • Three $7,000 grants to help alleviate food insecurity (to Clark County Food Bank, FISH of Vancouver and North County Community Food Bank)
  • $6,500 to Clark College Foundation (earmarked to the early childhood center)
  • $5,000 to seed funding for a future Rotary Club of Three Creeks international service project
  • $2,500 to Clark Public Utilities Stream Team to aid in restoration of Salmon Creek
  • $1,500 to Innovative Services NW to help fund improvements to the early childhood learning facility
  • $1,500 to Council for the Homeless
  • $1,500 to Operation Helping our Heroes serving veterans
  • $1,100 in partnership with the Lewis River Rotary Club to purchase a billboard on St. John’s Road in Vancouver promoting Covid vaccinations
  • $1,000 Southwest Washington LULAC for a farmers market program
  • $1,000 to Shelter Box for emergency shelter kits
  • $850 to United Way of Lane County for wildfire relief
  • $627 to purchase new stuffed animals for children in the pediatrics unit at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center during Christmas.
  • $500 to Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Washington for a literacy program
  • $250 for community service project related expenses
 
The $45,000 that were disbursed in 2020-21 were raised during the club’s 2020 Fundraiser, Dancing with the Local Stars, which proved to be the final large-scale in-person event before the pandemic forced cancellation of such events for the rest of the year. Cyndi Holloway of Waste Connections was the Dancing with the Local Stars Grand Champion, raising nearly $20,000 to set a new fundraising record for the Rotary fundraiser.
 
Club members also “passed the hat” at their May 20 meeting, raising $300 to contribute to a fundraiser for Martha’s Pantry.
 
The club also completed a tremendously successful pivot to its annual fundraiser during the pandemic. When dancing wasn’t possible, the club changed its fundraiser to a virtual event called Dining with the Local Stars – a competitive cooking show where nine well-known local business and community leaders cooked and raised money in a competitive format. Gaynors Automotive Vice President Tommy Gaynor was named Grand Champion after raising more than $14,000. He also won the cooking competition. Dining with the Local Stars raised $55,000 that will be disbursed to community non-profits in the 2021-22 Rotary fiscal year.
 
An announcement of the club’s 2022 fundraiser will be made in the fourth quarter of this year.

Dining with the Local Stars tops fundraising mark for Three Creeks

5/6/2021

 
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“Chef” Tommy Gaynor raises most money, sweeps awards
 

When the Rotary Club of Three Creeks was forced to pivot its annual fundraiser away from the in-person Dancing with the Local Stars to a virtual Dining with the Local Stars, presented by Taylor Transport event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no one was quite sure what to expect.
 
“Our conservative goal was to net $12,000 in funds that we could contribute to the community,” said fundraising committee chair Susanne Holmberg. “What we did was amazing! The sponsors who stepped up made a huge difference in covering the cost of the production of the event.”

The nine local stars who participated in the fundraiser collected $50,000 in net proceeds for the Rotary Club of Three Creeks’ community giving program.
 
The $50,000 bottom line is more than the previous record of nearly $43,000 set last year with Dancing with the Local Stars, held at ilani Casino Resort. It was the last major fundraiser held in person prior to the shutdowns caused by the pandemic.
 
“Yet again, the SW WA community stepped up and embraced our club’s efforts to make a difference in the community,” said Club President Kelley Campbell. “From the celebrity chef volunteers and business sponsors, to those who bought tickets and donated to their favorite chef, it was another example of the generosity of those who live and work in this region.”
 
Tommy Gaynor, of Gaynor’s Automotive, raised the most money, himself bringing in more than $14,000 to be crowned grand champion of Dining with the Local Stars. His cooking, too – despite comedic distractions from fellow celebrity chef Albert Angelo III – won over the judges and Gaynor also took home the Best Chef award for the event.
 
“This event was so much fun to be a part of,” Gaynor said. “And that we were able to raise so much money to allow this Rotary club to help kids, veterans, hungry and homeless in our community is a really big deal.”
 
Dining with the Local Stars, presented by Taylor Transport, was produced by the club, but the video recording and production was done by Vancouver’s Wager Audio. The cooking segment was recorded at Vancouver’s Second Mile Marketplace and Food Hub. The virtual event was streamed to a paid audience over the Remo platform, provided by the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. All event photography was shot by Vancouver’s Kate Singh.
 
This year’s Local Stars included Albert Angelo III, Juile Arenz, Tamara Fuller, Gaynor, Ryan Hart, Nelson Holmberg, Ryan Makinster, Tom Markos and Linda Reid.
 
The show can be seen in its entirety by viewing on the club’s YouTube channel. The direct link to the show is here (https://youtu.be/4wipP4ii438).


Heimbigner applies for transfer of membership

2/19/2021

 
Brian Heimbigner has applied to join the Rotary Club of Three Creeks.

Heimbigner, currently a member of a club in Georgia, has visited Three Creeks many times and found a "home" in our club.

His proposed transfer of membership has been read twice during club meetings and a vote of the board will conducted soon.

Born and raised in Eastern Washington, Brian is one of three siblings with a large extended German family of 30 cousins always nearby.

Growing up, Brian worked a lot of summers in many uncles' hot, dusty wheat farms or at his parents' furniture stores. Eventually, he worked 12 hour days, seven days a week at food processing plants through the summer to pay for college.

He attended Central Washington University, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin. He met his wife at Central and they have been married for 48 years. Together, they have a daughter in Wisconsin and a daughter in Sammamish.

Brian has been involved his entire career in multi-million dollar water and wastewater treatment systems with seven companies, involved in engineering, project management, financial, marketing, sales and general management. He has traveled to 41 different countries on business and a few on pleasure. In business, Brian's greatest joy was in developing our people while serving customers. In life, his greatest joy is his family and all of the people he's met along life's journey.
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