June 30, 2016 West Bay Rotary Meeting

West Bay Rotary

June 30, 2016

 

Jodi Heal - Classification Talk

 

Born at Pen Bay Medical Center and raised in the Midcoast.

She attended St. George elementary & stayed in the area most of her life

She is the youngest of three girls

 

Living in a small town is a very comforting feeling – about 50% of the town of Spruce Head was members of her family. 

 

Played basketball in High school, she also had her first taste of accounting in high school & wanted to take as much accounting as she could. 

She came to accounting naturally, both of her parents were business owners, sister has a MA in tax; other sister is a graphic designer. 

 

Went to Husson College for 2 years – didn’t think that on campus life was good for her.  Moved back to town, got an apartment and took courses on line.  During that time she started doing accounting for her mother’s business.  Wanted to have an independent job but mom wanted her to continue to be her accountant.  Got a job at Camden National – decided that banking wasn’t for her.

 

Decided that she was going to get her CPA – spent some time doing municipal auditing and loved it.  She completed her Masters while working at the CPA firm and doing her moms business accounting.  Passed the CPA exam and decided to go work for a larger firm.

She got a job in Portland and commuted every day - Worked 70 hours a week for 9 months a year.

 

During that time she was diagnosed with chronic Lyme.  After 1 season of a heavy schedule, she decided to scale back.  She still worked in Portland, but the hours were not as long.  The records of the new company she went to work for was kind of a mess – she got everything in order and then got bored.

 

She decided to open her own CPA firm locally.  She was called by a local manufacturing firm and they wanted her to come in to be their controller.  She does that three days a week, has her own business 2 days a week and does her mother’s books on the weekends.

 

Outgoing President Lisa acknowledged the hard work of members of the West Bay Rotary Community during the last year.

Club Administration – Mary Sargent

Programs & Co-Chairs of xmas trees – Terry Bregy

Fundraising – Ken Gardiner

Fellowship – Susan Dorr

ByLaws – Bruce Malone

Membership – Lisa Dresser

PR – Sarah Ruef-Lindqust and Jen Harris

Community Servce – Mark Coursey

Vocational Projects – Jim Potter

International Service – Deb Hitchings

Youth Programs – George Forestal

Youth Exchange – Heidi Karod

Rotary Foundation – Ron Hall

Charity Foundation – Mik Mikkelsen

Charitable Foundation Secretary – Tim Dresser

Treasurer – Kim Milton

Past Treasurer – Jane LaFleur

Xmas trees co-chair - Bob Rubin

Boats, Homes & Harbors, 2015 - Rodney Lynch

Toboggan parking chair - Steve Daily

EWaste - Tom Albertson

Duck Derby, In-coming President – Peter Burke

Secretary – Sandy Cox

Treasurer – Kristen Lindquist

Sargent at Arms – Barbara Heard

 

Special thanks to our breakfast team!

 

Rotary Serving Humanity – 2016/2017 Rotary Theme

Saturday July 16, 8-12, noon-4p

Sign-up sheets next week

 

Lobster Ride – August 30

We will run the beer garden

Shipyard & Andrews Brewing will donate the beer

Sign-ups next week

 

Greeter Sign-ups are available

 

Next week’s speaker – Club Assembly