- Lance Calloway was in Palm Springs for a “US Soccer” meetings, round of golf at Indian Wells;
- John Templeton heard from Dick Stark, bought his tickets to attend a fun Husky football game last Saturday;
- Jim Johnson birthday - 73 years young, and upcoming trips to work on the slavery issue;
- Tonja Myers great to be back at the club, next week heading out to the East Coast for a cruise!
- Bryant extended deadline one week for pre-event wine purchases!
- Erik Dyrland lost his mom last month at age 92;
- John Purdie: a second daughter got married last week; one to go!
- Mimi Ferlin with a check for hurricane recovery, and reminder that her 12-yo grandson (Hunter) will be on the tv show Modern Family October 9th;
- Anna for hurricane relief;
- Mike Bates hurricane relief;
- Debbie Kiene missed meetings, lots of summer time with grandkids, son recovering spinal injury, and story about a pear!
- Martin Mead went to Bozeman, MO to see daughter at college, fly fishing on Madison River, and selling his former shop-building in Cordata;
- Anika great to come to our meetings, and a special shout-out to Lesa Ferguson for her valuable assistance with an insurance issue (https://representatives.countryfinancial.com/lesa.ferguson/)!
- Eddie successful family weekend at fishing derby;
SAA by Eddie
Fines for misc. sins, and This Day in History trivia!
Program
Lance introduced April Barker and Seth Fleetwood, candidates for Bellingham Mayor.
April talked about the importance of building more housing housing, in particular affordable housing, that includes both seniors and childcare. Bellingham becoming more racially diverse as well and our housing solutions need to be inclusive. April looks forward to solving these issues and is up for the challenge. Homelessness in Bellingham: a subset of the homeless population causes the most visible problems, and we need to have the resources and places to deal with those individuals in particular.
Seth Fleetwood is inspired to run for mayor and has a hopeful vision for the future of Bellingham. Seth says we have to accommodate big future population and infrastructure growth in the city: Housing, homelessness, and growing the local economy are the most important issues, solving them while still maintaining Bellingham’s special unique character. He would try to reach broad agreements how to accommodate more people reaching across different groups. Seth was one of the people who helped initiate the growth forums that have taken place over the past 15 years.
Bill Dattola wins the raffle.
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot