The Edmonds Rotary Club invites the public to the following lunch programs in May at Claire’s Pantry, 301 Main St., downtown Edmonds. Both meetings will start at 11:30 am.
May 7: Bridge to Success – Science Education in Rural Gambia
In February 2019, four members of the Edmonds Rotary Club set out to find a site in rural Gambia for a science lab. What in the world would prompt such an arduous journey? The club’s International Service Committee Chair, Lamin Manneh, happens to be a native of Gambia. After a visit to a school in Kenya the previous June, Committee Co-Chair Maggie Peterson and Manneh started collaborating on a literacy project in The Gambia, with an eye on the real need in the area for “pure” science.
A “Bridge to Success” project committee, which included club members Manneh, Peterson, Beth W. Kealy and Randy Hutchins, wrote and acquired a Rotary district grant, held five days of meetings with local government officials, spent three days in “the bush” in rural Gambia, and made nine school site visits. The committee discovered a perfect site for this science lab in the village of Niani in Wassu, on the Northern Bank of the Gambia River in Western Gambia.
The public is invited to come and hear about the project itself, the road to discovery and future plans for the “Bridge to Success” in rural Gambia.
May 14: Brett Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Propeller Airports LLC,
Brett Smith founded Propeller Airports LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Propeller Investments, to leverage airport privatization in the U.S. airport sector, including Everett’s Paine Field. Prior to Propeller, from 1999 to 2006, he co-founded and served as chairman and CEO of ei3 Corporation, where he was responsible for all corporate finance, strategic direction, licensing and partnership activities. From 1996 to 1998, he was director of business development at Presstek, Inc. where he was an integral part of the restructuring team for their equipment subsidiary. A licensed private pilot, he holds a bachelor of arts in Political Science from Emory University.
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