Events

Please sign up to sponsor a meeting.  In comments please include the meeting that you are interested in sponsoring and Kathryn Nelson will get back to you to confirm that date is still available.  She will also includ more information about the sponsorship benefits and timing. 

Today is a double feature. We'll hear from Jumping Joey Waters and meet the recipients of the Phase 2 Tacoma Rotary #8 Community Service Grants.

Joseph Waters is an Irish former professional footballer who played in England and the United States. He lives in the United States where he coaches Tacoma Stars of PASL and youth soccer teams. He retired from Bellarmine Preparatory where he served as the soccer coach for 29 years. 

Fourteen nonprofit organizations will receive grants.

Start June off with service! Join the team at St. Vincent de Paul for the monthly sort.

10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

It's time for one of our favorite events - the EFN Repack! 

Bring your friends and family and give us a hand.

$100/each

Celebrate five of the most popular Chinese Festivals with food and beverages with your hostess Elaine Chan.

Let's visit the Tacoma Little Theatre for a Rotary social and networking opportunity.  

Our host for the evening is Chris Serface, Managing and Artistic Director.

There will be food and drink and for those who wish to stay after the Rotary program, there will be a live reading. 

Please help our host plan by registering early. Thank you.

Our Speaker

Tony Teravainen has served as the President and CEO of STEP (Support the Enlisted Program) since 2014. He has been involved with the organization since 2009 as a volunteer, director, and then board chairman. 

He provides guidance enabling the organization to become a successful and viable partner to young military families and transitioning veterans in Southern California and Washington. STEP has assisted more than 100,000 military and veteran family members and Mr. Teravainen has helped 5,700 families in financial crisis move to self-sufficiency through financial counseling intervention. 

He was previously a consultant on strategy and process improvement with Booz Allen Hamilton and manufacturing leadership with Sony Electronics. He has undergraduate degrees in business management and nuclear engineering, a master's degree in Executive Leadership for the University of San Diego, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Liberty University.

Married to Jaclyn with two daughters and a son, Tony resides in the Highland Valley area of San Diego County where he enjoys ranching his livestock and tending to his orchards.

Support The Enlisted Project (STEP) is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization, with the mission of building financial well-being among active duty and recently discharged enlisted military and their families. STEP is headquartered in San Diego, California, with an office in Santa Ana, California, and Tacoma, Washington.

Today's meeting is at the Pacific Harbors Council of the BSA, 4802 S. 19th Street, where we will perform an in-meeting service project with the Red Cross following our program. 

Join the Projects Committee as they install four Little Free Libraries today.

Contact co-chair John Schneider at 206.353.9868 for location and time. 

Dr. Anna Jensen is the Executive Director of the Tacoma Youth Symphony, the assistant principal bassist of Symphony Tacoma, the principal bassist of the Tacoma Opera Orchestra, and regularly performs with orchestras across the region. 

   Her passion for the music translates to her deep involvement in education. In addition to instructing positions at Pacific Lutheran University and Central Washington University, Dr. Jensen was the education manager for both Symphony Tacoma and the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association where she managed the Evergreen Music Festival for 12 years. She has taught on the faculty at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and at the University of Puget Sound. Her double bass students have placed in the top three at the state level numerous times and frequently win concerto competitions. In recognition of her outstanding teaching, Dr. Jensen was the recipient of the "Outstanding Master Teacher Award" from the American String Teachers Association - WA Chapter and the "Friend of Music" award from the Washington Music Educators Association.

   Receiving her doctorate in musical arts degree in double bass performance at the University of Michigan, she studied with Dr. Diana Gannett and was a graduate student instructor. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan (DMA and MM) and Central Washington University (BM) and has been the recipient of the Mildred Tuttle Fellowship, the Farrell Merit Scholarship-Grant and was awarded the Presser Scholar. When not performing or teaching, Anna can be found making mud pies with her four young children, hiking in the woods, or encouraging her own family’s improvisational skills and joy of music!Dr. Jensen brings 15 years of nonprofit administrative experience to TYSA. Growing up in a large, musical family with five siblings, Dr. Anna Jensen was primed to excel at the double bass—while also developing a remarkable capacity for intuiting the needs of diverse learners. She embodies that rare combination of extraordinary musician, dynamic teacher, and leader.

   With 20+ years in performance and education, Dr. Jensen can develop an instant rapport with youth of all types, quickly establishing a sense of trust and shared respect that makes learning comfortable and effective. From instructing students at a Big Ten university—to developing curriculum for preschoolers—to coaching underserved teen players—Anna Jensen is keenly perceptive and gifted at quickly pivoting and adapting a lesson so it can be received by anyone. She builds students’ music skills; but more importantly, she builds self-esteem.
 

Tacoma Youth Symphony Executive Director and Conductor Dr. Anna Jensen will share its work and we'll hear from some of its young musicians along with insights from the TYSA Education team.

We'll also take a little to celebrate graduating seniors from local high schools as the Scholarship Committee announces its awards for 2022.

Save the date! Tacoma Rotary #8 is helping with a build.

Please use this link to learn more and sign-up on the Habitat for Humanity website. You must be registered with them in order to participate. 

The location is described at the above link. Gil Quante is the contact for this project.

Today we honor those who have served our club through the year and recognize those moving forward in leadership roles in the new administrative year. 

Today we'll celebrate the good work of our committees in the 2021-2022 administrative year. This meeting promises time for socializing and fun. Don't miss it!

Dale Roberts is the Governor 2022-2023 for Rotary District 5020. He and President Maria will launch a new year of engagement and service. 

There are seventeen Tacoma Rotary #8 lunch meetings between July 7 and December 15, 2022.  Be thrifty and purchase the meal plan!

For only $387, you'll be preregistered and prepaid for all lunch meetings through the end of the year. Plus, you'll save money, and help the club to boot. What a great deal!

Join us as we embark on a new year of Rotary. Imagine all the good we will do in our communities. 

District Governor Dale Roberts and President Maria Harlow will inspire us with plans for 2022-2023. 

Save the fireworks for the 4th. Join the team at St. Vincent de Paul on July 2 for the monthly sort.

10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Today we'll visit the distribution facility for Raising Girls, a local nonprofit that provides necessary hygiene products to young people in Western Washington. We'll be performing a service project today for the One Bag Drive. 

Rotarian Sharon Chambers-Gordon is our host today (think of this as our Rotary @ 5 meeting for the month). She's promised complimentary Jamaican cuisine for the Rotarian volunteers. 

We hope you'll join us!

If you are bringing a guest with you this week, - or if you are a guest or visiting Rotarian -  please email us here to let us know. Thank you.

Chief Avery Moore says, "In partnership with community members we are all “one team” so it will take unity and working together to affect crime and improve quality of life issues in Tacoma. I am very optimistic about our future."

Let's go to Point Defiance Zoo! 

The Zoo Society and Ruthann Howell are our hosts today as we visit the zoo after hours for a little networking, engagement, snacks, and fun. Please arrive at 5:30 p.m. for this event. 

Enjoy sweeping views of Commencement Bay at the annual pool party thrown by Carolyn Weyrick. There will be drinks, appetizers, a grilled fish dinner, pool, hot tub, and lively conversation all around the evening fire with friends. This is a fundraiser experience for Tacoma Rotary #8 members and guests.

Limited to 24 participants 21 and over. 

You will receive a confirmation email from the system, and several days later, a follow-up email with details. 

It Takes A Chorus Fundraising Auction Co-chair Cindy Grady and a few of her friends are hosting a Pig Roast. You're invited! 

It's a fundraiser experience that you don't want to miss. Enjoy a Cubano, "I Love Lucy," themed afternoon with Rotarians and their guests, live music, libations, great food, and even better company.  

Buy your ticket and you'll be provided the location and more information as we get closer to the day.