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Juneau-Gastineau Rotary

Today’s Greeter Jill Matheson

Next Week Jackie Timothy

Today’s Program Fred Thorsteinson Pioneers of Alaska June 1 Club Assembly Using Clubrunner June 8 Troy Quinn Conductor, Juneau Symphony

Michelle O-Brien District 5010 Governor John Germ Rotary International President

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Richard (Chalyee E’esh) Peterson is Tlingit from the Kaagwaantaan clan. He grew up in Kasaan and is the former CEO of Prince of Wales Tribal Enterprise Consortium. Peterson is also former president of the Organized Village of Kasaan, mayor and city council member of the city, and a member of the Southeast Island School District Board of Education. He was elected president of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA) in 2014 and 2016. CCTHITA was organized in 1935 to pursue a land suit on behalf of Tlingit and Haida peoples (settled in the tribe’s favor by Congress in 1967). CCTHITA, one of only two federally-recognized regional tribes in Alaska, is a sovereign entity that represents 30,000 members and has a government-to-government relationship with the U.S. During his three-year tenure, Peterson and his management team have laid the foundation for a cultural immersion park (at the former Thane Ore House), for a language immersion day care, and for acquiring a government contracting company. Peterson sits on the boards of the Native American Rights Fund, the Alaska Federation of Natives, and the Governor’s Tribal Advisory

Makeups Matter! Juneau Rotary

Tues., noon, Baranof Glacier Valley Rotary Wed., noon, airport

58° Innovators Alternating Thurs., 5 pm

Rotating venues

Saturday March 25

10 am Foodland/IGA

All-Rotary Food Drive

TODAY 4-6:15 pm

Glory Hole Meal Prep

It’s a make up!

THIS MONTH 30 years of

Rotary admitting women, who now make up 20% of Rotary

Saturday June 3

10-3 Family Fishing Day at the Lake

Twin Lakes

Saturday June 17

9-1 How to Run

for Public Office FREE- Must register:

juneaulwv.org/run

Saturday July 22

3 – 6 pm Sandy Beach Quad-Rotary

picnic

It’s been 110 years since 28 men meeting in Nome formed the Pioneers of Alaska, a fraternal organization intended to meet social and civic needs of a colonial population in the Far North. White men who had arrived prior to 1900 were eligible to join a local “igloo.” While women were admitted in 1912 (the year Alaska enfranc-hised females – 8 years before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution), it would not be until 1982 that the Pioneers dropped a race-based admissions standard. Today there are 16 men’s and 16 women’s igloos; anyone who’s spent an accumulated 20 years in Alaska can apply. The mission is to collect and preserve Alaska pioneer history and to promote the welfare of all Alaskans. In Juneau, Igloo #6 supports JDHS Interact, the senior center, the Pioneers’ Home, the city museum, the whale project, and the Christmas dinner box project. Fred Thorsteinson, top, whose great-grandfather was a marshal in Eagle around 1900, is treasurer of Men’s #6.

TMHS senior Jonallen Eshnaur (with her dad, Stephen, left) receives her framed artwork and $100 from Mary Capobianco, who coordinated the Day at the Lake poster contest with the school district. THMS art teacher David Sheakley-Early, right, also was awarded $100.

Pioneers support preservation of Alaska’s colonizing history and social-civic projects

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2016-2017 Board &Committees

President Pam Varni

President-Elect

James Bibb

Past President Amy Lujan

Vice President

Kim Kiefer

Secretary Julie Olson

Treasurer Joann Lott

Administration Linda Blefgen

Community Service

Candy Behrends Nicole Legere

Vocational Service Rosemary Hagevig

Youth

Kevin Ritchie

Youth Exchange Officer Jill Ramiel

Interact Advisor

John McConnochie

Membership John Pugh

International

Nico Bus

Foundation Colleen Torrence

Sergeant-at-Arms

Doug Eckland

Public Relations Mila Cosgrove

Program

Jill Ramiel

Web Manager Claudette Kreuzenstein

Newsletter Editor Laury Scandling

January - Vocational Service / February - Peace & Conflict Resolution / March - Water & Sanitation April – Maternal & Child Health / May – Youth Services / June - Rotary Fellowships / July – Leadership

August - Membership / September - Education & Literacy / October - Economic & Community Development November - Foundation / December - Disease Prevention and Treatment

JGR club members Tuesday made a dozen KIVA loans to mostly construction enterprises in the Middle East, Africa, and South America. All but one of the loans was for $100. Total loaned since 2008 now exceeds $63,000 and the number of recipients has surpassed 600 (at 604). KIVA is a micro loan non-profit through which JGR invests loose change collected at the club, as well as loan repayments. (The repayment rate is 98 percent.) L to R, below: Ricardo, Robert Minch, Karla Schofield, Julie Olson, Candy Behrends, and Mary Capobianco.

Tulips in the garden of John and Linda Wynne are a reminder of JGR’s fundraiser, which launches Aug. 3.

Hosting youth around the world for 90 years Youth exchanges are a Rotary hallmark -- and Youth Services Month is an apt time to acknow--ledge the 9,000 youth experi-encing that opportunity today, The first exchange – a short six weeks during summer – occurred in 1927. Below, JGR’s inbound, Ricardo, reacts to a pineapple derivation of an Italian staple.