June Appreciation Meeting Follow-up

I would like to start by expressing my deep gratitude to the culinary and management team at the Muckleshoot Casino for their hospitality, great food and continued support of the WSCA. The recognition dinner held there in June was an array of their signature dishes from each one of their outlets. The most unique station was the s'more station. It was most definitely the station that caught everyone's eye. I, for one, will try to copy their display for a future event. For pictures of the event, click here.

At the dinner I was honored to be able to donate a check in the sum of 1,000.00 to the Washington State Restaurant Associations Education Foundation and ProStart.

As you know we teamed up with them during our Bite of Apprenticeship to raise money for ProStart and had a great turnout for this year's Bite. It was a great start and with the support of the WSRAEF we will be able to make this annual fundraiser a bigger and better event benefitting ProStart. 

National Convention

The National Convention is quickly approaching and the board has decided to send two of our apprentices to the convention all expenses paid. Luan Nguyen and Kiki Kalender are the two apprentices representing our chapter at nationals. They will have a report for all of us in September at our dinner meeting. 

Coming Events

We have a busy second half of a year coming up with elections and the Governor's Ball in January of 2017. We have formed committee chairs and will be working on logistics for the Governor's ball over the Summer break and hit it hard in the Fall when we return from break. It looks to be a very busy year for our association and I am looking forward to the challenges that are awaiting us and can't think of a better group of professionals that I would rather face these challenges with.

Enjoy your Summer and please be careful.