Coffee and Chat before the meeting.
Eric Lewis and our District 24 Legislative team. L-to-R are Representative Steve Tharinger, Representative Mike Chapman and Senator Kevin Van De Wege. The three had just finished the 2023 Legislative session.



Showing nothing but appreciation, Colleen Robinson presents a Gold Coin to Eric Mahnerd for all his endeavors on behalf of Habitat for Humanity.
Playing it forward, Eric presented the same Gold Coin to Becki Roberts in acknowledgement of her shared efforts.



Welcome to both Zoomies and Interact!
Sequim HS student Katherine Gould greats the club.



Our recent Good News Giving recipient was the Sequim Food Bank.
A grateful executive director, Andra Smith, picks up a check.

Two Paul Harris Awards?
Indeed. Receiving two (yes two) Paul Harris awards was member Steve Tharinger. Steve received both his 7th and 8th PH recognition.
Congratulations to Steve!


Sen. Kevin Van Wege is one of 49 Washington state senators.
This is the year we had a four-month legislative session (vs three-month session). While there was far too much to cover in a short period of time, Kevin certainly gave us some headlines from his side of the house.


Moving across to the opposite side of the capitol building is the House of Representatives. Rep. Mike Chapman likewise offered additional color on debates and important bills that passed in Olympia this year.


District 24's Rep. Steve Tharinger had significant role as Chair of the House Capital Budget Committee.
In fact, Mike Chapman credited Representative Tharinger as a major player in much of the increased funding back to the North Olympic Peninsula for major projects.
In Chapman's words, "having someone chair this important committee from our district is highly unusual. In fact, this has never happened before."


After a few minutes from each, the balance of the meeting was for Q&A.
Our club even agreed to extend the meeting a bit longer due to the rare opportunity of having all three of our legislators at one single time.


Past president Brown Maloney ran last week's meeting as well as moderated the morning program.


Making us all smile is Tom Hartig - even our guests.