Rotary Club of Alderwood-Terrace

We had a wonderful Back to School shopping event at JCPenney at Alderwood Mall. We were able to take 60 lower-income kids from three Elementary Schools to get a back to school wardrobe.

New clothes empower kids to succeed and feel like they fit it. It’s always wonderful to see their smiling faces and we wish them an amazing school year!

Thank you so much to the employees of JcPenneys for coming in early, giving of their time, finding sizes and helping to donate a school backpack for each kid filled with supplies! We love our partnership and look forward to this event every year because of your dedication to our community!

Time for Back to School shopping again at JcPenneys on Sunday.

But we filled the backpacks today! We LOVE this event where we take 60 kids around JcPenneys to get a brand new wardrobe for their school year. If you ever want to come and volunteer, let us know!

Come join us at Shakespeare in the Park Lynndale Park! Every Thursday night for the next four Thursdays!
Tonight is the Two Gentlemen of Verona! We are so very proud to sponsor this event!

Such a wonderful evening for our annual auction! Well done for Denim and Diamonds 2024 Auction!

We had great participation and back to the “good ole days” of dueling bids! Thank you to all who attended and donated to help for next year’s budget!

Very proud of one our local students … wishing her well tonight!

Mountlake Terrace High School grad Lily Gladstone is making history! Gladstone (Blackfeet/Nez Perce) is the first Native American nominated in the Academy Awards' Best Actress category. Gladstone is nominated for her performance as Mollie Burkhart in the historical drama "Killers of the Flower Moon." She already won a Golden Globe for her performance.

Back in 2004, Gladstone's Mountlake Terrace classmates named Gladstone "most likely to win an Oscar" in the school yearbook.

We are excited to have our annual auction back at Edmonds College this year! Please join us to raise money for our community programs! Hope to see you there!

What a lovely evening for our annual Holiday Basket Auction!

Well done Rotarians on selling our baskets to each other and raising funds for some families at the holidays & sponsoring 60 kids for back to school shopping next summer!!

Thank you Project Girl Mentoring Program for hosting us and Pacific Northwest Catering for providing an amazing meal and service.

We’re happy to support Clothes For Kids this morning at their transforming lives breakfast. It is amazing the amount of confidence new clothes do for a kid … it’s a little bit that changes lives.

If you have a fall cleaning of your closet, please consider donating your clothes to Clothes for Kids in Lynnwood.

We inducted a new member this week! Welcome Bret… so happy to have you as a new Rotarian.

Bret owns Vinyl Lab NW Signs & Graphics if you need anything wrapped!

We had our back to school shopping event JCPenney this morning before the store opened. We were able to get 40+ kids a back to school wardrobe and backpack with school supplies!

Thank you to all of the volunteers that helped in this program and giving of their time and money to help these kids have new clothes for school!

Thank you to JCPenney and all of their team members for donating the backpacks and helping us shop. Your partnership is invaluable!

We inducted a new member on Friday to start our new Rotary year!

Congratulations Patrick and welcome to Alderwood Terrace Rotary!

We are going to be at our NEW LOCATION as of tomorrow morning! Come join us at the Community Life Center

19820 Scriber Lake Rd Suite #2, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Friday mornings at 7:00am Social - 7:30am Meeting

Was a GREAT night last night for our Annual Gala and Auction with a Cinco de Mayo theme!

Thanks for all who attended and donated to help our community!

Thank you so much to Rotary Club of Mill Creek for your continued partnership in helping and we look forward to reciprocating at your Auction on May 20th!

Congratulations to Mountlake Terrace High School's Chillout 1778 Robotics Team on their WIN at Glacier Peak High School last weekend! It was a wild competition with many challenges, and we are so impressed by the dedication and creativity of these students! Our club is a proud sponsor of Chillout 1778 and we can't wait to see what's next!

We are back on for our Annual Gala and Auction! Please put the date on your calendars!

Cinco De Mayo - May 5th at 6:00pm!

I was honored today with a 3 Ruby Paul Harris…. So glad all of dollars going to the Rotary Foundation means clean water and sanitation, health and hope in areas that were once ravaged by diseases like polio. It offers economic development and new opportunities.

Or Back to School shopping event was a success this morning!

We had 30+ kids able to join us this morning to get a new wardrobe. Thank you to our volunteers, our partners from Rotary Club of Mill Creek and JCPenney for giving us every discount to make it all work!

The smiles leaving the event were priceless….. #

We are ready for our back to school shopping event on Sunday! Thank you JCPenney for donating the backpacks for the 40 kids that will benefit from this event

We welcomed our honorary member Sunil from India. He has been coming to the club since December while he is visiting his son here in Lynnwood. We presented him with his own Alderwood Terrace Honorary Member badge today

Shakespeare in the Park is back! We are excited to sponsor this wonderful series.. tonight is A Midsummer Night's Dream at Lynndale Park Amphitheater.

"Last year, a two-year-old c**t finished dead last in his first race. Disappointed, his owners placed him in a “claiming” race where anyone could take the ownership for a fee. An older man purchased the c**t after missing the chance to claim another horse he wanted. He said it was his last attempt to find some success in the racing industry.

The c**t won by 17 lengths, and his new owner was encouraged. But, in the races that followed, he finished third twice, fourth once, and fifth once. His owner, however, still believed in him.

2022 was the c**t's only chance to race in major thoroughbred races, which are limited to three-year-olds. The day before the Kentucky Derby, the field of horses was already full, but then, at the last moment, a famous trainer scratched (withdrew) his horse. The c**t took that place in a field of twenty horses, just 30 seconds before the entry deadline. Suddenly, he was in the game. He had a chance.

All the metrics and predictors were against him. Neither his owner, his trainer, nor his jockey had ever been associated with any horse in the Kentucky Derby. His jockey had never even won a major event. They were decidedly outsiders and newbies in an extremely elite arena. On the morning of the race, his odds of winning were set at 80 to 1, the second longest odds in Derby history.

Halfway around the track, the c**t was 16 horses back from the lead. He couldn’t even be seen in the field of view of the drone camera flying above the race. He was a nobody, a throw-away, an inconsequential participant.

But then, he made his move.

He began working his way through the crowded pack, finding a few narrow, fleeting opportunities to improve his position. As they headed toward the finish line, he had miraculously moved up to fifth, then fourth, but still, no one had noticed him. Everyone’s attention was firmly focused on the battle between the two famous front-runners.

Only seconds before the finish, he suddenly, almost magically passed the two front-runners. The announcer struggled to identify him and say his name in time. He said, almost in a single breath, “Rich Strike is coming up on the inside ... Oh my goodness! The longest shot has won the Kentucky Derby!”

Where there is life, there is hope.
Anything is possible.
Don’t let anyone count you out.
Persistence and determination beat the odds."

H/T Cyd Cowgill

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Y’all wanna teach your kids a life lesson in 2 minutes? Show them the replay to the Kentucky Derby Race.

1. Not the best starting position
2. Not the biggest or best horse
3. Only made it into the race on account of another horse having to scratch
4. $30,000 horse against multi million dollar horses

It ain’t always about having the best of everything or being the biggest and favored. It’s about the size of heart and dedication to win and excel in everything you do!

Well done Rich Strike!

on the Northern coast of Portugal, West of the Pena Palace.

Our President writing the name on our tiny Home…. Valor!

We made a difference today!

We build a tiny home for the homeless in Seattle and we named it Valor.

All were able to participate and build at many levels and enjoy a morning of community helping community!

It was inspirational and empowering

“ In Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.

About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly.

At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

After one hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

This experiment raised several questions:

In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

If so, do we stop to appreciate it?

Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…

How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?”

The Love Rabbi-Yisroel Bernath

So excited to introduce our Educators of the month this month! These educators are continuing to put our kids first during this difficult time....We salute you!

Steve VandeGriend, is from Lynnwood Elementary School and has a passion for engaging kids to continue learning and be stewards of the community. His map behind him is a showcase of where all his kids are from!

Martha McCorkhill has been at Hilltop Elementary School for over 35 years and is a bright ray of sunshine to all she meets. She believes in positive impact and is a natural born influential leader.

Terrance Thomas is reinventing the online learning experience of at Edmonds e-Learning Academy. He creates hands on experiences of science weaving technology, the environment and the natural world to help kids excel in understanding the world around them!

Three Fabulous Educators were honored this morning for their continued efforts in training our kids during this challenging year! This is an awesome thing we love to do as Rotarians to be able to step up, acknowledge, reward and celebrate these teachers!

Congratulations to Christine Lambert from Martha Lake Elementary School, Amy MacDonald from Meadowdale High School and James Allred from Lyndale Elementary

Keep up the great work guys!

We also honored Kerri Grennan from Cedar Park Elementary on her role as the student intervention coordinator for the school.

She has been relentless in solving technology problems and keeping all kids online to help their learning!

Thank you for being so dedicated to our youth as this year has been a challenge for so many trying to accomplish distant learning.