Flag Salute & Invocation by Tony Freeland
Visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: Paul Bulanov (Keller Williams RE agent), Stan’s son Steve, Cindy Mellema (Anna’s guest), Chuck’s wife Elsie.
Announcements
Next Week no lunch at Northwood: It will be a tour of Bellingham PD, meet there!
Our club is offering a “Bob Becker memorial scholarship" for a Squalicum HS student, see John Purdie if you want to be involved john.purdie@mountbakertheatre.com
Scot Swanson with a recap/summary of the revised MOA with the City for the Bloedel Park “Docks for Kids” project. Bellingham Marine is our dock contractor, and Anchor QEA is our engineer-designer. Fundraising is going well, but we still have a ways to go. https://www.docksforkids.org/our-mission/
Program
Brad Cornwell introduced Diane Trough. She got her start working in 1970’s as the first female law officer in Napa, CA. In 1987, she was hired as a fraud investigator for the Attorney General’s Office in WA. Sheriff Elfo recently asked her to come back to work on a cold case file (the Mandy Stavik murder in 1987). Through many thousands of files, she arrowed a field of 270 possible suspects down to 70, and then down to one - using DNA. That suspect is now on trial for the murder.
Doug Wight wins the raffle.
Respectfully submitted,
Stowe Talbot