The Rotary Club of Duvall recently inducted three new members

Miriam Gilbert, chief executive advisor and founder of MiriamGroup is one of the new inductees. Her main focus has been on forming and leading high-performance leadership teams in the world of technology and systems, strategic planning, business design and development, and information technology outsourcing.

Miriam joined the Rotary Club of Tempe South in Arizona. Upon moving to Monroe (and moved the business) from Chandler, Arizona the end of last year to be closer to family she began searching for a Rotary Club in the Seattle area that was a good fit for her in energy and desire to serve. Thanks to Bill Falcon, she found the Duvall Rotary.

She was inspired to join Rotary through her work with the United Nations and Rotary’s involvement in eradicating polio worldwide and friends nationally and internationally who are Rotarians. Miriam Gilbert was sponsored by Bill Falcon.

Becky Nixon and her family have lived in the Snoqualmie Valley for 17 years and have enjoyed every one of those years with friends, family and neighbors.

Former mayor of Duvall, Becky married Sam Bellah while in office. Together they enjoy Blaine, age 11, in his last year at Cherry Valley Elementary, and Carly, age 21, in her senior year at Western Washington University. Becky is excited about Rotary and what it adds to the community. Becky Nixon was sponsored by Will Ibershof and Bill Falcon.

Doreen Booth is the City Hall administrator/planning director in Duvall. Doreen is married to a fellow planner, Michael Booth, and have a son, Gabriel, who is 2 ½ years old. She recently moved to Kirkland from Seattle and is excited to be living closer to Duvall.

Doreen has watched Rotary work in Duvall over the past two years. She has been very impressed by the organization of the Duvall Club and the fantastic committed people who now have a forum in which to improve their community.

Rotary has helped the city in many ways, including Duvall Days, the Youth Center and the Kiosk project. Doreen is always excited by the wide spectrum of our community represented and energized by the people in the meetings she has attended.

“I also feel we need to belong to organizations,” she said. “In a great book called ‘Bowling Alone’ by Robert Putnam, Putnam warns that our stock of social capital - the very fabric of our connections with each other, has plummeted, impoverishing our lives and communities.”

Doreen wants to help build our social capital again and she feels that the Rotary Club is the place to do it. Doreen Booth was sponsored by Lin McBride and Julie Lemery.

The Rotary Club of Duvall meets every Wednesday at the Twin Dragon Restaurant in Duvall at 7:15 a.m. Breakfast is $10 for members and potential members and $15 for everybody else including visiting members and guests.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarians who are members of more than 31,000 Rotary clubs in more than 165 countries