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2007

 

January

Jan. 9 - WNC Executive Committee meeting

Jan. 20 -- WNC Board of Directors annual meeting

Jan. 23 -- John Hamer speaks to Edmonds Rotary breakfast meeting

Jan. 24 -- John Hamer meets with Bill Gates Sr. at Gates Foundation

Jan. 26 -- River Park Square project team meets at WNC office

February

Feb. 3 -- WNC Public Forum on Student Press Freedom at Tacoma News Tribune auditorium

Feb. 5 -- River Park Square project team meets at WNC office

Feb. 17 -- John Hamer speaks to Whidbey Island Lincoln Day Dinner, Oak Harbor

 

March

March 2 -- John Hamer speaks to Covington Rotary

March 5 -- Board Development Committee meets

March 8 -- John Hamer speaks to Northshore Rotary

March 13 -- John Hamer speaks to Green River Community College class

March 21 -- John Hamer speaks to Cascade Women's Club

 

April

April 6 -- WNC Executive Committee meets

April 12 -- WNC Reception for Peter Horvitz at Hyatt Regency Bellevue

April 18 -- WNC Quarterly Board Meeting at Fremont Studios

April 26 -- John Hamer speaks to Snoqualmie Valley Rotary

May

May 4 -- WNC Executive Committee meets

May 5 -- WNC's River Park Square Report posted online

May 6 -- WNC's River Park Square Report published in Spokane Spokesman-Review

May 7 -- John Hamer and David Schaefer meet with Bill Gates Sr.

June

June 15 -- WNC Executive Committee meets

July

July 27 -- John Hamer speaks to University District Rotary

 

 

2006

January

Jan. 4 - WNC Executive Committee meeting

Jan. 24 - John Hamer speaks to Washington State Beef Commission, Ellensburg

February

Feb. 4 - WNC Board's Annual Meeting

Feb. 8 - WNC Public Forum in Spokane on Spokesman-Review's coverage of Mayor Jim West

Feb. 15 - John Hamer on Tacoma CityClub Panel with Cliff Rowe, WNC Member Emeritus

Feb. 24 -- Hamer attends Spokane County Democrats' dinner honoring Tom Foley

March

March 3 -- WNC Executive Committee meeting

March 10 -- Hamer attends Spokane County Republicans' dinner

April

April 4, 6 -- News Council presentation and student mock hearing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma

April 5 -- Mock student news council hearing at Central Washington University, Ellensburg

April 18 - Edward R. Murrow Symposium at Washington State University, Pullman (Hamer on media ethics panel)

May

May 3 -- WNC Board Meeting

May. 15 - Deadline for applications for Knight Foundation grants to start new news councils in other states

May 31 -- Deadline for Dick Larsen and Herb Robinson Scholarship Applications

June

June 15 -- Larsen and Robinson Scholarship winners announced

July

July 13 -- Reception for Scholarship winners and families, WNC office

July 29 -- WNC Board Meeting/Retreat, Ellensburg (overnight on CWU campus)

August

Aug. 15 -- WNC Awareness Committee meeting

Aug. 25-26 -- Society of Professional Journalists' annual convention, Chicago (Hamer on news council panel)

September

Sept. 7 -- River Park Square audit team meeting, WNC office

Sept. 14 -- Journalism Day, University of Washington, organized by WJEA President Kathy Schrier, WNC executive assistant (Hamer did two sessions on media ethics)

Sept. 19 -- Hamer moderates Public Relations Society of American panel on media and PR ethics, KOMO-TV

Sept. 29 -- Mock student news council hearing at Central Washington University, Ellensburg

October

Oct. 12 -- Seattle Times interview with David Bowermaster, WNC office

Oct. 21 -- WNC Hearing in case of King County Sheriff's Office vs. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Town Hall

Oct. 25 -- WNC Board Meeting, Pyramid Alehouse

Oct. 31 -- Lunch with Editor David Zeeck at Tacoma News Tribune (John Hamer & Karen Seinfeld)

November

Nov. 9 -- Gridiron West Dinner, WA State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle

Nov. 11 -- Gridiron West Dinner, The Davenport Hotel, Spokane

Nov. 15 -- Student mock news council hearing, Seattle Pacific University

December

Dec. 1 -- River Park Square audit team meeting, WNC office

Dec. 8 -- Republican Radio interview, John Hamer and Sheriff Sue Rahr

Dec. 25-29 -- WNC office closed for holidays

(Check back often for newly added events.)

2005
 

January

 

Jan. 15 - Deadline for applications of potential new WNC board members

 

Jan. 24 - New Members Committee meets to select new board members

 

Jan. 31 - Attend reception for Cheryl Dell, new publisher of The (Tacoma) News Tribune

 

February

 

Feb. 5 - WNC Annual Meeting to welcome new board members. Guest speaker: Ken Bunting, Executive Editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

 

Feb. 12 - Attend Asian American Journalists Association banquet.

 

Feb. 17 - Co-present CityClub breakfast with Peter Jennings, ABC News, on "The Media Today."

 

Feb. 24 - Tape KWPX/SCAN-TV's "Public Exposure" show with host Stan Emert.

 

Feb. 25 - Meeting with Bill Gates Sr., WNC Member Emeritus.

 

March

 

March 1 - Tape KCTV's "15 Minutes" show with host Andrew Huff.

 

March 4 - Student Mock News Council Hearing, Everett Community College.

 

March 7 - Presentation to John Knowlton's journalism class, Green River Community College.

 

March 8 - Cyrus Krohn and John Hamer on KUOW-FM (94.9) "Weekday" show with host Steve Scher.

March 9 - John Hamer interviewed on SCAN-TV's "Public Exposure" program at 7:30 pm (Ch. 29 or 77) by host Stan Emert, WNC Public Member.

 

April

 

April 1 - WNC Board Social Event, 6 to 9 pm.

 

April 2 - WNC Board Retreat, 9 am to 3 pm.

April 7 - Student mock news council hearing at Seattle University journalism class with Professor Tomas Guillen.

 

April 7-10 - Cyrus Krohn, WNC President, keynote speaker at National High School Journalism Conference in Seattle. John Irby, WNC Media Member, also speaker at event. WNC information table.

April 12 - Mock student news council hearings at Whitworth College and Gonzaga University, Spokane.

 

April 13 - Murrow Symposium at Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, Pullman. John Irby conducts mock student news council hearing. John Hamer on "Ethics of Blogging" panel.

 

April 14 - Mock student news council hearing at Central Washington University, Ellensburg.

April 25 - John Hamer moderates Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) regional convention panel on investigative reporting.

May

 

May 4 - WNC President Cyrus Krohn on "Publishing Today" panel, Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.

 

May 5 - WNC co-presents David Broder, Washington Post columnist, at City Club lunch, The Westin Hotel, noon, on "State of the Union: A Journalist's Perspective."

 

May 10 - WNC co-presents Preview Forum luncheon event at Evans School, University of Washington, on topic of "Consuming the News in the Age of Blogs." WNC Vice President Steve Silha helps moderate.

 

May 12 - WNC co-presents Preview Forum dinner event at Evans School, University of Washington (same topic). WNC Member Cindy Zehnder and John Hamer help moderate.

 

May 14 - Deadline (postmark) for applications for WNC's Dick Larsen and Herb Robinson Scholarships.

 

June

 

June 1 - John Hamer speaks to Columbia Tower Rotary Club, Seattle

 

June 8 - John Hamer speaks to Special K breakfast group, Bellevue

 

July

 

July 20 - WNC Executive Committee meeting

July 23 - WNC Board meeting; presentation to WNC Scholarship winners

 

August

Aug. 5 - WNC Executive Committee meeting

Aug 8-14 - John Hamer, John Irby and Stephen Silha attend Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) meeting in San Antonio

 

September

 

Sept. 8 - John Hamer on George Cole's radio program on Spokane Public Radio

Sept. 10 - John Hamer speaks to National Federation of Press Women conference, Seattle

Sept. 16 - WNC Executive Committee meeting

Sept. 19 - John Hamer on George Cole's public television program in Ellensburg

 

October

 

Oct. 6-7 - John Hamer attends Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA) meeting in Wenatchee

 

Oct. 8 - John Hamer and John Knowlton will attend Pacific Northwest Association of Journalism Educators (PNAJE) regional conference in Portland and conduct mock news council hearing with journalism teachers.

Oct. 29 - WNC Board Meeting

 

November

 

Nov. 9 - WNC's 7th Annual Gridiron West Dinner "toasts" Bill Gates Sr. and Mimi Gardner Gates

 

Nov. 21 - WNC Executive Committee meeting

 

December

 

Dec. 8 - John Hamer speaks to Sammamish Rotary Club in Issaquah

Dec. 15 -- WNC Executive Committee meeting
 

2003 Event Calendar Archive.
2004 Event Calendar Archive.