Shriners presentation to Rotary Club
2020-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Al Kader Shrine Center, 25100 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States

Habitat For Humanity
2020-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Al Kader Shrine Center, 25100 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States
Rich Truitt and Kari Johnsen will speak to the Club.

Building Women’s Economic Independence
2020-03-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Al Kader Shrine Center, 25100 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States
Lisa Palermo, Development Director, Oregon Tradeswomen, will speak to the Club.

My Year Long Youth Exchange in Argentina
2020-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Al Kader Shrine Center, 25100 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States
Ari Lauthner, an outbound student in the Rotary’s Youth Exchange program, will tell the Club about her time in Argentina.

From Grief to Resilience: Tips On Dealing With The Devastating Loss Of A Loved One
2020-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Al Kader Shrine Center, 25100 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States
Dave Ripley will speak to the Club on this topic.

Club Meeting: What is Trellis?
2021-01-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Julia Ansberry, executive director of Trellis Inc. in Oregon City, will be this week’s guest speaker. She will explain how her organization helps people with disabilities to achieve their best potential and become thriving members of society.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Meet Your Rotarians!
2021-01-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
It’s time to meet your fellow Rotarians! Today, three of our own will present what are known as “classification talks.” They’ll talk about their career paths and what led them to be the person they are today. Presenting today will be Hilly Alexander, Kyle Bunch and Brad Hansen!
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Fostering Futures
2021-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Dr. Suzan Huntington will be this week’s guest speaker. She is the president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Aid Society for the Portland Metro Area, which was founded in 1885 and is Oregon’s oldest child welfare agency. Suzan is the third female president for the organization and the first president to have been adopted. Having earned a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management, from the University of Nebraska and a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, Suzan has more than 20 years’ experience in the nonprofit and higher education arena. Suzan was raised in Baker City from the age of four and her parents still reside there.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Rotary Peacebuilder Clubs
2021-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Mike Caruso, a Past District Governor for Rotary District 5100 (Northern Oregon and Southern Washington), will be the guest presenter. Joining him will be Jake McMichael and Laura LaJoie, both members of the Rotary Club of Wilsonville. Together, they will give a presentation on Rotary Peacebuilder Clubs and what it means to be one. (Our club has started that journey.)
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.
Mike Caruso’s bio:
Mike is currently serving as the District Rotary Peace Fellowships Sub-Committee Chair and Chair of District 5100 Peacebuilder Clubs Committee. He served as District Governor in District 5100 during the 2011-12 Rotary year and oversaw the birth of the Peacebuilder Clubs program in 2011. He joined the Newberg noon Rotary club in 2001 having his daughter Amelia as his sponsor. He retired as senior vice-president of Caruso Produce Inc. in Jan. of 2005.
Following graduation from the University of Portland, he served in the Peace Corps for 3 years working in Tuberculosis Control, primarily with the 16 aboriginal tribes in Malaysia. In 1974 upon completion of his Peace Corps experience he married his wife Amelia and entered the family business, Caruso Produce Inc., until his retirement.
Mike has served as director as well as treasurer for Oregon Common Cause, and served as chairperson of the state board of directors of Helping Hands Re-entry Outreach, arguably the state’s most effective organization involved in the transitional housing process of preparing those suffering from drug and alcohol related addiction back to becoming productive members of society.
Mike has also participated in the Rotary Foundation’s Major Matching Grant process and helped organize 10 hands-on projects sponsored by the Rotary Club of Newberg in Guatemala consisting of Dental, Medical, Water, Education, Electrical, Construction and Micro-Finance groups beginning in 2004 and continuing to this day. He has also travelled in Rotary related work to Cyprus, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon in recent years identifying Peace-related humanitarian projects. He is a recipient of The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service as well as the Rotary International Service Above Self Award.
Mike and his wife Amelia have lived in Dundee for more than 46 years and have five children (three daughters and two sons) and ten grandchildren.

Club Meeting: Oregon’s Kamikaze Kids
2021-02-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Sportswriter and author Bud Withers will be the guest speaker. He will be discussing his new book on the Dick Harter era of Oregon Ducks baskeball, Mad Hoops: The Dizzying, Floor-Burning Ride of the Kamikaze Kids of 1970s Oregon. Withers has more than 45 years of sportswriting experience, covering mostly college athletics for papers such as the Eugene Register-Guard and Seattle Times.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: What is LegalShield?
2021-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Wilsonville Rotarian Mike Bishop will give a presentation on the LegalShield program. A classification talk by a Wilsonville Rotarian will also be presented.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Promoting Early Learning and Literacy
2021-02-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Josephine Caisse, youth services librarian at the Wilsonville Public Library, will be the guest speaker this week. She will discuss how the library goes about promoting early learning and literacy.
Jo has had the honor of working at several public libraries in Oregon and Washington with most of her career specializing in library services for youth. Jo currently serves on American Library Association’s Early Childhood Services and Programming Committee. She has been trained in the Public Library Association’s and the Association of Library Services for Children’s Every Child Ready to Read program which focuses on educating parents and child care providers on important strategies of nurturing pre-reading skills for young children.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Author Ellen Urbani
2021-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Author, speaker and Oregon resident Ellen Urbani will be our guest speaker this week. Her topic will be, “Service Above Self: How a Mistake Became a Motivator.”
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Population Research
2021-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Our guest speaker, Charles Rynerson, will discuss population research and the 2020 U.S. Census. He is a research associate at the Population Research Center (PRC) at Portland State University. A Portland native, he has worked as an applied demographer for 30 years at PRC, the San Diego Association of Governments, and the San Diego Unified School District. At PRC, Mr. Rynerson is State Data Center Coordinator, helping the public access and understand information from the U.S. Census Bureau. He also has prepared enrollment forecasts for more than 25 K-12 school districts in Oregon.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Town Center Plan Update
2021-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Wilsonville city planners Miranda Bateschell (planning director) and Kim Rybold (senior planner) will discuss the Wilsonville Town Center Implementation Plan at this week’s club meeting.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: The Basics of Medicare
2021-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Our guest speaker, Jennifer Allain, will give an introduction to the basics of Medicare, including the different parts and how they work together. She will discuss Medicare qualifications, what parts A and B do, and the differences between Medicare Supplementals and Medicare Advantage plans. Guests will learn how to enroll in Medicare, how it works if you’re covered by an employer, and how to navigate connecting with your benefits. She will share references and answer questions; however some plan specific details and personal questions will need to be addressed separately.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.
Jennifer is the owner of The Insurance Coach LLC. She is a 2010 graduate of Florida Atlantic University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a major in Interdisciplinary Studies and double minors in Psychology and Sociology with a Certificate in Women’s Studies. She was also active duty with the U.S. Army for eleven years in the role of Military Police which included tours of Sarajevo, Kuwait, and Iraq. For the past 11 years, though, she has been helping individuals, families and seniors get health insurance they can afford, understand, and use.
Note: The topic was changed from a previously scheduled program, Soles 4 Souls, which was cancelled.

Club Meeting: The OLCC and Cannabis
2021-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Our guest speaker will be Marvin D. Révoal, a member of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC). He will talk about the implementation of cannabis legalization in Oregon.
Mr. Révoal was appointed to the OLCC by Gov. John Kitzhaber in 2013 and was reappointed by Gov. Kate Brown in 2017. He served on the Oregon Workforce Investment Board, as well as, numerous nonprofit and community boards. Marvin is currently VP of Business Development at Wilson Heirgood Insurance. His past experience includes serving as a Marine and as a police officer in Oregon for 20 years.
Marvin has used all of his years of business experience relating to board development, strategic planning, financial stability, and continuation planning to help develop the recreational cannabis industry in Oregon and maintain Oregon as a control state for the benefit of Oregonians.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Empowering Families in the Community
2021-04-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Dr. Mayra Gómez, Cindy Lindsley and Maria de Lourdes Horton of the West Linn-Wilsonville District will speak about how the Family Empowerment Center is empowering families in the larger West Linn and Wilsonville communities, and helping them adjust to the circumstances of the pandemic.
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Dr. Mayra Gómez was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. At 15, her family moved to Oregon where she graduated from Roosevelt High School in North Portland. She obtained a bachelor of science in public policy planning and a bachelor of art in sociology and Spanish from the University of Oregon in 2002. She went on to pursue her master’s degree in urban education at the University of California-Los Angeles. She began her teaching career as a middle school social studies teacher in Los Angeles.
Once in Oregon she served as the AVID coordinator, social studies and English language development teacher at Gresham High School. As an administrator, she has held the positions of assistant principal at Reynolds High School and Federal Programs Coordinator at Centennial School District. She earned a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership and Curriculum Development from Lewis and Clark College in the spring of 2017 and is currently the director of college and career readiness in West Linn-Wilsonville School District. She remains active in the Gresham community as Vice Chair of the Gresham-Barlow School Board and Board Chair of El Programa Hispano. Her passion is empowering and encouraging marginalized youth to pursue a higher education, be change agents in their communities and serve as mentors to younger generations. Dr. Gómez credits her success to the mentorship of community members who believed in her and the endless support and encouragement from her family. Now she strives to do the same for her students.

Cindy Lindsley grew up and graduated from the neighboring city of Canby. During her youth, she competed against West Linn-Wilsonville athletic teams. She also worked at the Wilsonville movie theater. Cindy was also raised with a strong growth mindset from her parents, who worked within the West Linn-Wilsonville School District. Perhaps safe to say, Cindy was an honoree WLWV district community member from a young age. Upon graduating from the University of Oregon in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and business, she dove into the events industry as a caterer, florist, designer, and finally launched her own wedding coordination business in 2015. Alongside her venture as a small business owner, Cindy served as the director of special events at the Hillsboro Chamber and found great joy in connecting with community members. During her time with the chamber, the largest event, the Hillsboro Latino Cultural Celebration, attracted over 10,000 people.
Fast forward a couple years and Cindy entered the West Linn-Wilsonville School District family as the Community Services Manager. In this role, she helps to monitor the district’s safety and security plans, school boundaries, facility use/coordination, and community activities integrated into the district. In 2020 when the pandemic hit, Cindy’s department pivoted and accepted oversight of the district’s newly launched Family Empowerment Center. Cindy believes that the schools are the hearts of the community, and that while the pandemic has hit hard, in ways it’s also made us stronger than ever before. ‘In the rush to return back to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth returning back to’ (by unknown).

Maria de Lourdes Horton is the bilingual family engagement specialist at the Family Empowerment Center. She holds an architectural degree from the School of Architecture at the University Autonomous of Yucatan in Mexico. She also has an asssociate’s degree in teaching English as a communication tool. In Mexico she worked for an architectural firm as well as an English teacher for the high school section of the school she attended since kindergarten. She came to Oregon 21 years ago when she got married, and is now a U.S. citizen. She and her husband lead a family of nine: two adults, two teen boys, two dogs, two birds and one cat.

Maria has worked for the district for 18 years. She started working in the fall of 2002 as the secretary/registrar at Boones Ferry Primary School in Wilsonville. After 10 years she became head secretary at Lowrie Primary School, when it opened its doors in the fall of 2012, where she remained until the fall of 2018. She then got a position at the school district office as an administrative assistant for the human resources department. In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic crisis arose, her work changed direction. She began connecting families in the community to the resources they needed for the switch to online learning. That summer, she accepted the position of bilingual family engagement specialist, and since last October, she has been working at the newly formed West Linn-Wilsonville Family Empowerment Center.

Maria enjoys art and watching movies and documentaries. She loves the Pacific Northwest, as her maternal line passed through this area a few thousand years ago.

Club Meeting: Housing and Services in Wilsonville
2021-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Julia Doty, director of programs for Northwest Housing Alternatives, a nonprofit based in Milwaukie, will give a presentation on the housing and services NHA offers in Wilsonville. She has been with NHA for over 11 years. Having served as NHA’s director of resident services for six years, she helped to build the Resident Services program from its inception. As director of programs, Julia oversees both the Resident Services and Homeless Intervention Services departments. This includes operationalizing grant-funded initiatives, measuring and analyzing outcomes, and developing partnerships which further program effectiveness.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Serve to Change Lives
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Shekhar Mehta is the president-elect of Rotary International and will be president of RI for 2021–22. He will join us via video to discuss how Rotarians can Serve to Change Lives, and to challenge us to do more and grow more. Incoming Rotary Club of Wilsonville president Curt Kipp will lead the club in a discussion of how they can achieve this for 2021–22 and beyond.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.
Shekhar Mehta is a member of the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, in West Bengal, India. An accountant, he is chair of the Skyline Group, a real estate development company he founded. He is also a director of Operation Eyesight Universal (India), a Canada-based organization. Mehta has been actively involved in disaster response and is a trustee of ShelterBox, UK. After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, he helped build nearly 500 homes for families affected by the disaster. He pioneered a program that has performed more than 1,500 life-changing heart surgeries in South Asia. He is also the architect of the TEACH Program, which promotes literacy throughout India and has reached thousands of schools. A Rotary member since 1984, Mehta has served Rotary as director, member or chair of several committees, zone coordinator, training leader, member of The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers, and district governor. He is also the chair of Rotary Foundation (India). Mehta has received Rotary’s Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Awards. He and his wife, Rashi, are Major Donors and members of the Bequest Society.

Club Meeting: Teaming Up: The City and the Chamber Help Small Businesses
2021-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Kevin O’Malley and Dr. Joann Linville will be our guest speakers at the April 22 meeting of the Rotary Club of Wilsonville. They will speak on the topic, “Teaming Up: The City and the Chamber Help Small Businesses.”
Kevin O’Malley was hired as CEO of the Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 2015. He has been an active participant in the South-Metro business community for years, having founded an electronic security alarm business, which he sold to a local Oregon Fortune 500 company 15 years later. He has also built a successful marketing consulting firm working with small and medium-sized businesses in the South-Metro and national markets. He served on the Tualatin Chamber Board for 6 years, including 2 terms as Board Chair. Kevin also acted as the Interim-CEO for the Brookings-Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Executive Director of the OBFAA, a state-wide trade membership organization; and Chairman of AIREF, a foundation which facilitated collaboration and partnerships between business and government to find solutions for Community problems.
Dr. Joann E. Linville was appointed to the Wilsonville City Council on Sept. 5, 2019, and re-elected in Nov. 2020 to a term that continues through Dec. 31, 2024. Prior to her appointment, she served as chair of the City’s Development Review Board (Panel A). Linville began her career as a nurse before transitioning into higher education, where she spent more than 30 years in faculty and administrative leadership capacities at several community colleges. Before retiring and moving to Wilsonville in 2011, Linville served as the vice president of learning services at Arizona Western College (Yuma, Arizona). Since retirement, she has consulted at several colleges, including a stint as the Interim Vice President of Instruction at Rogue Community College (Grants Pass, Oregon). Linville has earned two post-graduate degrees in education, a master’s degree from Western Washington (1994), and a doctorate from the University of Washington (2003). She also served on the board of directors for the Yuma Regional Medical Center. A resident of Charbonneau, Linville is immediate past president of the Charbonneau Women’s Golf Association and a volunteer rules official for Oregon Golf Association events.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Quarterly Club Assembly
2021-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville will hold its quarterly club assembly, where club business is discussed. This week’s program will include two classification talks from new members sharing their personal and professional stories.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: Resilience - My Story with a Brain Tumor
2021-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Lord Byron said, “Always laugh when you can. It’s cheap medicine.” It took 7 years for Jen to find the answers to the health issues that plagued her. With the plethora of doctors, medicines, and hospital vacations, the struggle to stay positive was real. The journey produced some great stories and discoveries about the resilience of humans, and most especially herself. Some of the discoveries were surprising as were the people she met along the way that were cheering from the sidelines. Hear her story about overcoming a brain tumor that was as elusive as it was deadly.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.
Jen Zappone grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania and moved to New Mexico in 1996. She served for 12 years in the U.S. Army Reserves and is currently a Peer Leader with WoVeN (Women’s Veteran Network). Jen started her New Mexico career in Mexico in Real Estate, working 13 years with a small real estate firm doing everything from company accounts to property management to real estate sales. The next fork in the road in her career was Information Technology: working with database management, data acquisitions and software implementations. Currently, she is working as a virtual project manager and executive assistant using her love of technology and desire for solutions to achieve results. She has been a member of Toastmasters International for over 25 years. In this time she earned her Distinguished Toastmaster award (DTM) — the highest award that you can achieve. She has also served as District 23 Director overseeing operations in New Mexico and Parts of Texas. Her Quirks: Jen is passionate about: Johnny Cash and any Pittsburgh sports teams.

Club Meeting: Wilsonville Myths and Milestones
2021-05-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Wilsonville City Councilor Charlotte Lehan will speak on “Wilsonville Myths and Milestones.”
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Charlotte Lehan was elected to office in November 2014 and re-elected to a second term in November 2018. From 2009 to 2012, she served on the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners, including two years as chair of the commission. Prior to that, she served on the Wilsonville City Council for 17 years, first as City Councilor from 1991 to 1996, and then elected as Mayor for three consecutive four-year terms from 1997 to 2008.
Lehan serves on the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries and on the Oregon Heritage Tree Committee. Locally, she is president of the Pleasant View Cemetery Association, volunteers with the Wilsonville-Boones Ferry Historical Society, and for several years has done Wilsonville history/geography presentations for second and third graders from in local schools.
Ms. Lehan has lived in Wilsonville nearly her entire life and is a graduate of Pacific Oaks College in California.

Club Meeting: Grand Ronde: A Modern Day Tribe
2021-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Chris Mercier, vice chair of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, will give a presentation entitled, “Grande Ronde: A Modern Day Tribe.” He will give an overview of the tribe and its activities, taking questions at the end.

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Chris Mercier was born in McMinnville and grew up in Salem, graduating from North Salem High School in 1993. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1998 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. During his undergraduate time, he took part in an overseas exchange program and attended Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador in Quito. After more than a decade off of school he attended one year at Michigan State University’s College of Law and is currently on leave from his studies there.

Chris has worked as a bartender, librarian, cage cashier, in Seattle coffee shops and even had a very short stint working for a fertilizer company. He also worked at Spirit Mountain Casino three different times over an eight-year span. He has been a contributing writer to the Tribal newsletter, Smoke Signals, and has also written for the Eugene Daily Emeraldand the McMinnville News-Register. In 2001, he won an award from the Native American Journalists Association and three more NAJA awards in 2002. He was elected to Tribal Council in September 2004 and re-elected in 2007, 2010 and 2014. He served as Tribal chairperson during the 2006-07 Tribal Council sessions.

Chris likes to travel in his spare time, having backpacked in Europe for six months and traveled Southeast Asia for eight months, visiting Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. He’s gone to South America as well. He enjoys reading, hiking, watching movies, kayaking, cooking and surfing the Internet.

Club Meeting: A Day in the Life of an EMS Pilot
2021-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Noel McDermott, who works for the Life Flight Network, will present “A Day in the Life of an Emergency Medical Services Pilot” as our guest speaker.
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Noel grew up in Salem, graduating from South Salem High School in 2002. He attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona from 2002-2006, earning his four-year degree and all of his ratings. He worked with Evergreen Helicopters, flying a fixed wing aircraft post Katrina and Rita in the Gulf of Mexico, then went to work for Horizon Airlines from 2007–2009. From 2009–2016 he worked for SeaPort Airlines, doing everything from being a first officer to director of operations. Following SeaPort’s bankruptcy in 2016, he went to Compass Airlines for a short while before joining Pacific Seafood as a corporate pilot on their Learjets out Portland. With the onset of Coronavirus in 2020, I was downsized from Pacific Seafood and joined Life Flight Network as an aviation compliance evaluator. He resides in Oregon City with his wife Samantha, a children’s reference librarian at the Wilsonville Public Library, and their two boys, 3 and 5.

Club Meeting: North Willamette Habitat for Humanity
2021-06-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Rich Truitt, chair of North Willamette Habitat for Humanity, will give an overview of the organization and the service it provides to the northern Willamette Valley.
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After earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering at Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. at Cornell University, Rich served for 50 years with the U.S. Public Health Service, assigned to the Indian Health Service. In several assignments throughout the country, he worked with Indian Tribes and communities to plan, design, and construct water and sewage systems and healthcare facilities. To assist with his work along the way, he earned graduate certificates in dispute resolution from Willamette University’s College of Law and executive leadership from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Rich maintains his license as a Professional Engineer in Oregon and Alaska.
Rich’s previous volunteer experience includes serving as a Big Brother; boys’ and girls’ basketball coach; advisor in setting up bookkeeping system for tenant farmers’ cooperative; English tutor for Laotian immigrants; boards of three churches; member of Development Review Board in Wilsonville; member of West Linn/Wilsonville School District Budget Committee; and Board Chair for Wilsonville Community Sharing (food bank and social services). He and his wife also participated in two previous builds for NWVHFH. Rich and his wife Toni Avery, live in Wilsonville, where they enjoy spending time with their four daughters and four grandsons.

Club Meeting: Mayor Fitzgerald Looks Forward
2021-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
Wilsonville Mayor Juile Fitzgerald will be our guest speaker. Having been elected mayor in November 2020 and inaugurated this past January, she will offer a look forward for where the Wilsonville community is headed.
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Mayor Fitzgerald previously served on the Wilsonville City Council (2013–16), during which her work included chairing the Transit Master Plan Task Force, helping to launch the Citizens Academy, and increasing Wilsonville’s future capacity for family wage jobs with development of the Basalt Creek Concept Area plan.
With a family background in agriculture and parents who often participated in community efforts, Julie majored in Animal Science at Oregon State University. After graduating — and while managing the family’s ranch and a herd of 1,000 sheep — she discovered her eventual vocation when she volunteered to lead a community fundraising drive.
In the years since, Julie has managed multi-million-dollar budgets and led significant efforts in Oregon’s charitable sector to promote education, health care, and conservation. Her career includes leadership positions at The Nature Conservancy, OHSU Foundation, Oregon 4-H Foundation and Silverton Hospital Foundation. She is currently Executive Director of the Oregon Zoo Foundation.
A past president of the Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Fitzgerald is currently on the Board of Clackamas Community Repertory Theatre, having previously served as Board Chair.
Julie enjoys spending time with her family: her husband, Bob, a retired librarian; three sons; two step-daughters; and two grandchildren. Her favorite activities include canoeing, walking, reading and live theater.

Club Meeting: U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader
2021-06-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (Contact club for details)
U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader will be the guest speaker this week, and will provide an update on what is happening in the U.S. Congress, and how it relates to his district back home. Schrader represents the 5th District in Oregon, which includes includes Lincoln, Marion and Polk counties, most of Clackamas and Tillamook counties, plus parts of Benton and Multnomah counties. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His vocational background is that of a veterinarian. He holds a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Illinois. He resides in Canby.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.

Club Meeting: How to Make a Rock Video in 20 Seconds
2021-07-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Al Kader Shrine Center, 25100 SW Parkway Ave, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States
Incoming Club President Curt Kipp will give an inaugural speech on the new Rotary Year, which runs July 2021 through June 2022. He will talk about club goals and organizing principles for the coming year.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets weekly Thursdays at noon to carry out its purpose of providing service and fellowship to members and the Wilsonville community. The club is holding hybrid “Virtual In Person” (VIP) meetings. Attend in person (if masked or vaccinated) at Al Bader Shrine Center, or attend virtually over Zoom. Guests are welcome. For more information, email president@wilsonvillerotary.com.

To attend on Zoom: Click http://www.tinyurl.com/Rotary97070 at meeting time and hop aboard!
To attend in person: Show up at the venue. To order lunch ahead of time (optional), click here. You must order by 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning. The restaurant this week is Slick’s Big Time BBQ.

Curt Kipp is the incoming president of the Rotary Club of Wilsonville. He joined the club in 2002 and during his time in the club, he has chaired the Wilsonville Rotary Summer Concerts, the Heart of Gold Celebration, the Public Relations Committee and the Community Service Committee. Curt served as club president in 2009–2010. He was honored as club Rotarian of the Year in 2007–08 and again in 2018–19 . He was recognized as a finalist for Wilsonville First Citizen in 2015 and 2018. He works at the Oregon Association of Nurseries, where he serves as director of publications and communications and editor of Digger magazine, a trade publication for the nursery and greenhouse industry. He was recognized for his work with the association with a president’s Five Star Performance Award for 2014–15 and 2017–18. He and his wife, Lexi, enjoy traveling and gardening, and he also enjoys running and hiking.
