Centennial Project
A new exercise facility in Greenway Park in Beaverton is the project that club members completed on June 23, 2005 to mark the 100th anniversary of Rotary International.
The existing exercise facility was constructed 22 years ago by members of the then-newly-formed Beaverton Sunrise Rotary Club.
Pictured at left are Sam Scott, left, and Brian O'Day digging holes for the foundation of the exercise station.
The new project was coordinated with Tualatin Hills Parks and Recreation District, owners of the park property. Becky Hanenkrat, club member, was in charge of the construction of the new exercise site.
MOVING BARK--Beaverton Sunrise Rotarians and members of the THPRD staff move some of the 90 yards of bark chips placed on the Greenway Park exercise site on June 23, 2005.
Construction on the site was done by a crew of Beaverton Sunrise Rotarians on June 23 under dripping Oregon skies. At the beginning of the day there was a level area with holes augered for the support posts. By the end of the day, the structure was completely assembled, concreted in place and covered with 12 inches of bark chips from a pile of 90 yards of chips.
PROJECT CHAIR--Becky Hanenkrat, directs work on the construction site on June 23, 2005. Becky headed up the project which celebrates Rotary International's Centennial Year. To her left is Jerry Burgess of Tualatin Hills Parks and Recreation District. Burgess was the park district liaison for the project.
ASSEMBLING--Tom Erickson, left and Carel Verlinden, right, work on installing components of the new exercise facility on June 23, 2005. In the background is Sam Scott, the only current Rotarian who was involved in the construction of the original wood exercise facility built by Rotarians on the site in April 1983.
Beaverton Sunrise Rotary also did extensive work on the restoration of the Fanno Farmhouse which is also located in the park.
Rotary was founded in 1905 in Chicago by a young businessman named Paul Harris. He enlisted four friends to meet for fellowship, to share ideas, trade business and to perform service for the community. The idea has grown to a worldwide organization with over 1.2 million members.
PRE-CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE--Becky Hanenkrat, right, Beaverton Sunrise Rotary Centennial Project chair, conferred early in 2005 with Jerry Burgess, Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation District representative about the then-upcoming exercise station which was built in Greenway Park on June 23, 2005 by Rotarians.
News stories show club's 1983 Greenway exercise project involved many members
Members of Beaverton Sunrise Rotary Club's predecessor, Progress Rotary Club, built the original exercise station which is being replaced by the current club's Rotary Centennial Project. The job was done in April 1983. Pictured at right is Don Shick, Beaverton, one of the club's charter members. This news story appeared in The Oregonian, April 19, 1983.
Two members of the Progress Rotary Club, which later changed its name to Beaverton Sunrise Rotary to more accurately reflect the community, were active in building the first exercise station in Greenway Park in April 1983. Pictured at left is Mark Gerton, club president at the time, and Sam Scott, charter member who is still an active member of the club and will participate in the construction of the new exercise station this spring.
Members of the Rotary Club put in more than 150 hours of volunteer labor to help build the exercise station in 1983. Pictured at left is then-club member John Foster manning the business end of a shovel.
Dan Hanenkrat
