FALL FOOD DRIVE

Our sincerest Thanks to all of you who participated and all of you who donated food durring our Fall Food Drive Benefiting the Auburn Food Bank!

This years drive was made more urgent by a recent October break-in and theft at the Food Bank.

PI Reporter Brad Wong writes:

"Burglars hit two Seattle-area food banks this week, making off with about $4,000 worth of frozen meat and an estimated $2,000 worth of computer equipment.

Each crate holds up to 60 pounds of meat, said Joe Tice, the pantry's director. But unless the burglar had a place to store the meat, he added, it probably has thawed and gone to waste...
The stolen meat could have helped families in crisis for about three to four months."

Being hungry is never easy; but compound the financial hardships families face with the constant images of holiday merriment and plenty...and you have a recipe for dispair and disapointment. Please, join us as we try to make a difference.

And don't miss the opportunity to volunteer at the Food Bank durring Winter Break !

We will be Packing and wrapping Holiday Baskets for local families; the event is scheduled for December 19th. Come alone, or bring a friend; but come!
See Melinda Rose or Kathie Marquardt for details.
Plans are being discussed for another Food Drive in the spring.

Auburn Food Bank, 930 18th Place N.E.; phone: 253-833-8925.

Minutes For Nov. 16th, 2006

Minutes
For Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Call to Order.

Officers Reports:
President – Thank you to those who participated in the Adopt-A-Road. Announced that tonight was the last night for ASE testing.
V.P. – Call for the names of people who have not received a certificate from ADDA in the mail. Please give your names to Marianne Lee or Felix.
Treasurer – Nothing to Report.
Secretary – Announced that Secretary will be making up some help sheets for future officers and chairs, and that we would like to get a few words from each person in a position this quarter on their job.
Reporter – Photo of first adopt a road showed at the end of the meeting.

Chair Reports:
HPPV- Show of designs to date.
Field Trip – The field trip is still on to Utility Vault.
Food Drive – Building on the success and planning that was used this quarter for the food drive, should we hold a food drive each quarter? Decision was made to hold a vote next quarter as to weather or no we will have one. Also, those interested can help out with the Christmas baskets at the Auburn Food Bank. This will happen after the quarter is over, so at this time we are only looking to see if there is an interest. There are 6 people who are interested in helping with the food baskets. When more details are available, we will continue this topic.
Giving From the Heart – no new information.
Anything New? – no.
Meeting Adjourned.

Minutes for Nov. 9th, 2006

Minutes
For Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Call to Order.

Officers Reports:
President – Reminder that Second adopt a Road is on Monday.
Treasurer – Jackets and Shirts have been paid for. Current balance is $2155.52 in that account.
Secretary – Nothing Reported
Reporter – Photo of first adopt a road showed at the end of the meeting.

Chair Reports:
Lunch – Lunch will be catered from Chihuahua’s . Won by vote over BBQ.
Field Trip – HDR introduced as an option. Vote taken between all choices, tied between HDR and Utility Vault. Second vote tied between Utility Vault and HDR. Third vote taken, Utility Vault won 12 to 6.
Adopt a Road – There will be no advisors on the Monday date.
Food Drive – Barrels arrived and decoration will take place right after this meeting. Poster are ready to hand. Need a few volunteers to help hand out leaflets on Monday for half an hour.
HPPV- Group has some new members. There is a suggestion box posted on the back wall. There is also a suggestion folder for files on the technology drive.
ASE Testing – The first night is tonight. We could use a few more people to come down and give the room supervisors a break.


Meeting Adjourned.

Minutes for Noverber 2nd, 2006

Minutes
For Thursday, November 2, 2006

Call to Order.

Officers Reports:
President – announcement that there will be a scholarship banquet next week. Don’t forget that the first adopt-a-road is tomorrow. It may rain. Participants will meet anyway and decide what to do about the rain at the time. There will be a dry run of the ASE testing on Wednesday Nov. 8th at noon with Felix.
V.P. – If you need a club shirt, please see Felix.
Treasurer – Nothing to report.
Secretary – Minutes for the meeting are being posted in the break room and on the blog.
Reporter – The club cannot place an ad in the Current for the Food Drive because there will be no new issue of the current that comes out before the food drive ends.

Chair Reports:
Lunch – Vote taken on Potluck vs. Catered. Catered wins by 3 votes. Next meeting the club will vote on who will cater the lunch.
Field Trip – Kenworth only can accommodate tours in the afternoon or on Saturdays. The other option is Utility Vault. Another possibility is Concrete Tech. In Renton, they still need to be contacted to see if this is possible. If there are no other ideas by next week the club will vote on one of those two options.
Adopt a Road – It may rain tomorrow, so bring a rain jacket for the road clean-up. Some items should not be picked up such as needles or anything hazardous. If such items are found King County will be contacted to pick them up. Please meet tomorrow here 10 minutes before noon.
Food Drive – Barrels will arrive on Nov 8th between 10am and noon. Barry, Duane, Terry and Terry have volunteered to help move them upstairs from the loading dock in this building. Signs are being provided by Ron as a donation to the club. Other signage is in the works for the barrels. Someone will wear a sandwich board and walk around the campus informing people about the food drive. Positions will last 30 minutes and be at the time most convenient for the participant. We do not know yet if the Food for Parking Fines idea will go through.
Giving From the Heart – We have a family of three that we will be adopting this year. Gift wrapping part will be scheduled when we are closer to the date and know the day that we will be shopping.


Meeting Adjourned.

Minutes for October 26th, 2006

Minutes
For Thursday, October 26, 2006

Call to Order.

Officers Reports:
Advisor- Announced Advising Day. Will be on Nov 1st. starting at 9am. Please come as many classes are only once a year and without a minimum number of students they may be cancelled. Let instructors know on Advising Day if you plan to take any of these classes.
President – Call for volunteers for HPPV. Announced meeting of HPPV group after today’s ADDA meeting. Reminder that ASE testing is coming up soon and we could still use a few more people.
Treasurer – Current Funds listed on board. Names of expenses that we will need to pay also listed. If you want to give to the Foundation contact Patty Saint in Student Services psaint@greenriver.edu
Secretary – December calendar posted.
Reporter – Presented Blog. Web Address is http://green-river-adda.blogspot.com

Chair Reports:
Lunch – Tom Weisweaver will be the speaker for the lunch which will be on Dec 7th. Still not decided if it is catered or potluck.
Field Trip – We are still looking for ideas. Please see Laura if you have any ideas. Current possibilities are Kenworth and Utility Vault.
Adopt a Road – We have eleven volunteers for the first date and nine for the second date. If anyone wants to sign up there is still plenty of space.
Food Drive – Barrels will arrive on Nov 8th. The Food Drive will run for one week from the 13th of Nov to the 17th. Barrels need to be decorated. Discussion of using oversize printer for signs, or using print shop to make signs for outdoors. Idea brought up for having a Food Drive in the spring because this is the time of the year that the food bank runs low on food.
Camera – Announcement that we can borrow the camera from the Math department. Motion was brought to vote on purchasing a camera in next meeting.
Giving From the Heart – We have a family of three that we will be adopting this year. Ideas for looking for donation of a meal for the family to go with gifts.


Meeting Adjourned.

Minutes for October 19th, 2006

Minutes
For Thursday, October 19, 2006

Call to Order.

Officers Reports:
Treasurer – Funds available for Giving from the Heart are just over 500 dollars.
Secretary – Sign up sheet for HPPV passed around with sign in sheet. Sheet will be posted after the meeting so that anyone else with interest can sign up.
Reporter – We will talk about getting a digital camera for the club.

Current Business:
Giving from the Heart.
Discussion of how funding works. Money comes from ASE testing revenue and is deposited in the foundation fund. That money is then available for charitable causes, one of those being Giving from the Heart. Currently there is enough money in the fund to participate in GFH this year. This fall’s revenue from ASE testing will go into the foundation fund, and will be available for charitable causes in 2007. It has been established that anyone wishing to donate to this fund (the foundation fund) may do so at any time, however the money will not necessarily be spent on the Giving from the Heart program.
By vote the club has decided to sponsor one family with 4 to 5 members.

Adopt-A-Road
Discussion of the details involved in combining both stretches of road into one day, and doing it on two days. A vote was taken to see what members would prefer. Vote was tied at 6 to 6. Because some members may not be able to participate on the day chosen for two hours, a second day was chosen. Adopt-A-Road times will be 12-1pm on Nov. 3rd and 12-1pm on Nov 13th. Felix will not be able to attend.

Halloween
President announced activities that are sponsored by student programs. One being the pumpkin carving contest and the other being the Halloween party. No member interest in organizing any ADDA Halloween event.

Lunch Speaker
Kathie will find a speaker for the lunch. The lunch will be on Dec. 7th.

Camera
Idea put forward for aquiring digital camera. The club will look for a donated camera. Kim will chair this activity.

Field Trip
Sign up sheet for field trip will be posted soon. Anyone with ideas please come forward at the next meeting. Kenworth and the Museum of Flight were put forward as ideas. A vote will be taken next meeting if we have any more ideas.


Meeting Adjourned.

Minutes for Thursday, October 12, 2006

Minutes
For Thursday, October 12, 2006

Call to Order.
Officers Reports Given.
Patrick: Spoke about ADDA poster contest. Information available at www.adda.com.
Spoke about design drafting contest and many categories. We will post deadline dates on calendar as they arrive.

Chairs
ASE Testing. Sign up sheet posted. Testing procedure explained. Some volunteers have signed up. More still needed. Need to find out if students who wish to volunteer can leave DT141 class to participate.
Adopt a Road. Chair will be Tammy who has experience with this. She will call to find about when we can get the supplies. Dates should be set by next week. Sign up sheet will be posted as soon as dates are know. Volunteers were asked what day would work best for them, and Friday was decided upon as the preferred day.
Field Trip. Laura will Chair. Sign-up will be posted later in the quarter. Field trip will be on Study Day at the end of the quarter. Past field trips were described. Those wishing to attend will vote on the places they would prefer to go at a coming meeting.
Speakers. There will be one speaker at the Lunch. It has not been decided if there will be additional speakers during the quarter. Still need a Chair for speakers.
Lunch. The last meeting of the quarter will be the lunch. There will be a speaker, but since there is no chair yet for speakers, we may end up with a representative from AeroTec who will most likely speak for 15 minutes. Kathie has taken the chair position for the lunch.
Food Drive. Melinda will chair the food drive. She has prior experience. Laura, Barry, Shiela, and Kathie have volunteered to help.
Giving From the Heart. Tammy and Monika will chair giving from the heart. It is still to be determined how many families the club will sponsor with the budget available.

Other Business
Some members would like a copy of the agenda before the meeting. A copy of the next meeting’s agenda will be available for each member who wishes to have one.

Website review. Need to look into current presence on the club online. Is the current website up to date? Do we want to start a blog? Can we do that? Options will be available in the next meeting. Kathie as Reporter will update which ever of the options that the club decides upon.

Meeting Adjourned.

Adopt a Road

would you mess with this group???

ADDA CLUB ADOPT A ROAD VOLUNteers

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Adopt a road cleanup...

What's the best thing about
working on the "Adopt a Road"
Crew? It's the Mickey Mouse
gloves and these cool
picking-up-thingy's!

Thanks Tammy, for Chairing
this project...

And for
not making us play see how many people can stuff into Terry's car!

Adopt a road clean-up.

Patrick says...

come join us! It's even

fun in the rain!

So, what have you
got in

your bag???

Welcome ADDA Friends
and Members!

Friday Nov. 3rd was our first of 2 scheduled
Adopt-A-Road clean ups just North of the Main Campus entrance. A hearty Thank You to all who were able to participate. The last leg of our "adopted" stretch of road is scheduled for Monday, and we would love to have you join us!

• Remember!
• Wednesday, Nov. 8th; "dry run" for ASE Testing night volenteers.
• Testing dates November 9th 14th and 16th @ &pm.
• Monday, November 13th; 2nd half Adopt a road clean up.