We can return to Harvest Hill's Dwinell Room starting March 31, 2022 at 11:45 AM. The meeting on April 7, 2022 will be at the Dwinell Room too.
At our meeting on March 17, 2022, we will discuss if all meeting should be in person, or should we have a mix of Zoom and in person until the AV conferencing equipment is install at Harvest Hill. Stay tuned to updates.
March 17, 2022, Noon, President's Meeting
Agenda - Discuss return to in person meetings, Zoom meetings and hope for hybrid meetings and food costs; Aid to Ukraine
March 24, 2022, Noon on Zoom, Susan LaMontagne will speak about her Adventures in the Arts and on Broadway.
Susan Lamontagnestarted dancing at the age of 3 like so many. Her training includes, Classical Ballet, Jazz (Mu. Theater plus others), Modern and tap. She has trained in NY, Japan as well as many other places. Her 22 year professional performing career included Broadway, National and International Tours, including Fosse (Original B’way co), CATS, West Side Story, Starlight Express and the NY Metropolitan Opera’s The Merry Widow to name a few favorites.
March 31, 2022, 11:45 AM, In Person Meeting at HARVEST HILL's Dwinell Room at 11:45 AM, A Celebration of Service to Rotary
April 7, 2022, In Person Meeting at HARVEST HILL's Dwinell Room AT 11:45 AM
April 14, 2022 Location and Speaker to TBA
April 21, 2022 - President's Meeting, Location TBA
April 28, 2022 ,Location TBA – Joe Major, Executive Director at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center
Joe Major is a 20+ year veteran of the health and wellness industry. He comes to UVAC from Sport Fit tennis club in Bowie, Maryland. A graduate of Howard University, Joe has managed ten clubs during his career. He has been responsible for such clubs as the Chevy Chase Athletic Club, the Downtown Athletic Club in Miami and West End Executive Club in Washington, D.C. Joe also served as the district manager for the Western New York region of World Gym. Joe, a native of Buffalo, loves golf and was an all conference tennis player while at Howard University
How can your school partner with Rotary to change lives?
Prepare & Deliver a five-minute speech which relates this topic to teamwork and Rotary values.
Each of our contestants demonstrated that they have spent time reflecting on the topic they were to address in their talk for the 2022 Speech Contest. Each had spent time researching Rotary and our values.
The order of speaking was determined by the students’ class schedules.
Muhammad Bin Sleen who is a junior exchange student from Pakistan at Randolph High School.
Marina Fernandez who is a junior exchange student from Germany at Randolph High School.
Riley Naylor who is a freshman at Lebanon High School.
Grace Coughlin who is a Junior at Hanover High School
Muhammad Bin Sleen
Muhammad began his talk with a quote from Past Rotary President Barry Rassin, “Drive to do more, to be more, to create something that will live beyond each of us.” Muhammah then talked about the role Rotarians could have in instilling their passion for caring for others with students. He explored several ways Rotary Clubs could work with students:
Involve students in community clean-ups or ask for help planting trees to help us protect our environments locally.
Hold seminars and talk to students about Rotary values and the share the importance of serving others.
In addition to speech contests, we could hold essay writing contests that encourage students to learn more about Rotary.
Establish a local model United Nations for students to learn more about our global community. We could then consider sending students to other regional or national model United Nations as a means to educate students more broadly about the UN.
He concluded his talk by stating to find ourselves we should consider losing ourselves into the service of others.
Marina Fernandez
Marina shared that the internet can be a positive way to share information about Rotary and its role in the community. She reflected that many things done by Rotarians will change and save lives. Rotarians and Interactors should work to be helpers. By working together, we can do projects to improve our communities. She reminded us that students can provide new perspectives as projects are developed and implemented. She reflected on her exchange student experience as a means to help students fulfill their dreams and hopes that Rotary will continue to promote youth exchange. Rotarians shouldn’t underestimate the importance of sharing their life experiences. By collaborating with students Rotary would be able to change and save even more lives.
Riley Naylor
Riley began her talk by quoting Danny Thomas, “Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.” She then focused on the role that Rotarian could play in mentoring high school students. She reflected on the Rotary 4-Way Test as a framework for her thoughts on assigned topic. She then focused her thoughts on the role Rotarians can provide through mentoring. Solid mentoring can result in lasting change in the lives of students. Rotarians could help students develop leadership skills and other skills that will help them learn how to be resilient. She believes we could educate them about topics that aren’t routinely covered in schools. She shared that when you have a passion, you can make a lasting impact on those around you. Her hope would be that we could create projects that will make a difference in our community
Grace Coughlin
Grace began her talk by telling us that she made a cold call to John Donahoe, President and CEO of NIKE, Inc. She was delighted that he took time to talk to her, and when she presented him with two questions about what would lead her to success, he replied, mentoring. He shared that he would not have the success he has today without the mentors in his life. Grace then challenged Rotarians to establish mentoring programs in the high schools as a means to help develop the future leaders in our communities and around the globe. She reflected on the First Object of Rotary, The Development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. She believes that when students get to know seasoned professionals like Rotarians that they can provide advice, help a student to set goals, understand what it means to be accountable, and help teach students how to mentor the kids coming up behind them in school. Grace shared that she spends time as mentor at the middle school as a way to help prepare kids for the transition to the high school. Grace then offered that she would be willing to be the in-school liaison with Rotarians to set up and help organize a mentoring program at the high school. That this would be a great way to provide service to youth.
Post Meeting we learned that the judges selected Grace Coughlin as the winner of the speech contest. Congratulations to Grace!!
Moorings
Today's meeting included our members, and Rotary members from Hanover and Randolph, and faculty from Lebanon, Hanover and Randolph. The chatter prior to the meeting focused on our speech contestants, and welcoming them to this special meeting organized by our Rotary District 7850 Assistant Governor, John Hockreiter.
Meeting review:
12:03 p.m. — John Hochreiter started the speech contest by having the contestants share a little information about themselves. We then moved in to the speeches.
Muhammad Bin Sleen who is a junior exchange student from Pakistan at Randolph High School.
Marina Fernandez who is a junior exchange student from Germany at Randolph High School.
Riley Naylor who is a freshman at Lebanon High School.
Grace Coughlin who is a Junior at Hanover High School
See synopsis of their talks above.
The speeches ended at 12:30, and this ended the formal part of the meeting, and the judges then stayed on to make a decision about which student would be moving on to Round 3.
Thanks to John Hockreiter for organizing the round of the speech contest!
Reminders from last weeks meeting.
Upcoming Projects
Listen Community Dinners – They are resuming in April. Go to the sign-up page at Listen’s website. 2nd Tuesday in April is Lebanon Rotary’s first opportunity.
Our Club will be back to doing meals on even months beginning in April. Sign up to help on the Listen Web Page.
Here is the information we got from Larry Lowndes, Community Dinner Manager:
Your team is keeping the same calendar date - the 2nd Tuesday of even months. So that's April 12th. We just ask now that individuals of your team sign up for each cook-date they plan on attending. This helps us with reporting requirements.
Previously, we have not asked team members to do this. Now however, your registering for events will greatly help us organize, relieve back-end data entry, help facilitate monthly reporting, and will allow us, if necessary, to provide Covid contact tracing. When you arrive at the dining hall, you'll need to punch-in when you arrive and punch-out when you leave. The kiosk is right where you hang your belongings, in the 'Dry Storage" room by the dishwasher.
Please visit the webpage created exclusively for your team at http://vhub.at/lebrotbefore your next visit. We recommend bookmarking it in your web browser and using the address to access your account. It will save you and us time. Also, please consider sharing the link with other members (or potential members) of your team.
Once on your team's webpage, you will see the dates that your team is registered for. If you personally plan on attending any of the events, click the “Sign Up” button next to the dates (or cancel events that you can no longer attend). At that point you'll be asked to set up your account if you haven't done so already. Be sure when asked to click the checkbox stating that you are interested in the Community Dining Hall.
If you are already registered on Volunteerhub, be sure to update your Listen 'affiliations'. You'll find them after you sign in, on the upper right when you click on your name. By doing so, you can find classes and other information.
If you have any questions, please contact Larry Lowndes.
As always, thank you for your support and all you do for Listen Community Services!
Best regards,
Larry
Food Drives for Listen – Tim Guaraldi: We have 3/19, Saturday, and 4/30, Saturday reserved. Both will be at the Lebanon Coop at Centerra. Bill Secord will set up a Doodle for 9 am -1 pm with 2 folks plus Tim needed during each shift.
From Bill Secord: After following the link to the Doodle survey below, please checkoff the times you are available to help at our Listen food drive on March 19. The calendar that the survey shows can be confusing, so use all your hard-acquired technological skills to combat the insurrection. Click in the tiny check box for each hour you are able to help at the Co-op on that day. If you CANNOT help on Saturday, March 19, click the option at the bottom of the calendar that says you cannot find a time.
Event Details: Saturday, April 16, 2022, 9-11 am behind Jake’s Coffee, 227 Mechanic Street, Lebanon, NH
2022 Foam Collection Day in Lebanon
Lebanon, NH
Sustainable Lebanon is once again partnering with the Lebanon Rotary Club to offer a polystyrene (Styrofoam) collection day on Saturday, April 16, from 9 - 11 am at 227 Mechanic Street in Lebanon (behind Jake’s Coffee). The event will take place rain or shine.
Various types of foam will be collected for recycling, including polystyrene #6 (EPS), polyethylene #4 (EPE), and #6 XPS insulation board foam which will be driven to a recycling facility in Massachusetts. This includes packaging foam used for TVs, computers, and appliances, as well as foam coolers. Food service foam, including clean food containers and egg cartons will be collected and recycled separately. We ask that all tape and labels be removed and all foam is clean, dry, and free of food residue or other debris.
PLEASE NOTE: Foam peanuts should be brought directly to the UPS Store at True Value Hardware in Hanover.
Additional information shared about Styrofoam:
Marilyn is working with DG Mike Carrier and two other DGs that cover clubs in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and Cindy Heath to broaden the collection opportunities with other Rotary Club in Northern New England. There’s a company in NJ that renders Styrofoam into ingots (using a “densifier”) the ingots may be stacked using far less space than the raw Styrofoam until one has enough for a tractor-trailer. Perhaps the Gilford Sanitation Dept could be a hub for collection and ingot-forming. Apparently, there’s a company in Quebec that may be using these ingots as home insulation. There’s another firm in MA turning Styrofoam into picture frames which, when done, can be re-densified!! Marilyn is learning more about Styrofoam than she ever envisioned learning.
Phil Bush: Phil is also a member of Sustainable Lebanon. He reported that the last time, we accepted a lot of stuff that wasn’t recycled and is now resting in a member’s cellar. The news releases this time will LIST things that are acceptable. As to the trade-off between the fossil fuels moving the Styrofoam—Phil reports that it’s still a net gain to do the recycling.
Paul Tierney: Are we tied into any of the really big users, like the medical facilities? Marilyn is speaking to D-H and Cindy is talking with the others.
Phil Bush: He shared that Sustainable Lebanon has hired Jennifer Grant to be its part-time program manager.
Paul: Have we spoken to the Hartford and Norwich waste folks to try and remove Styrofoam from their flow? Marilyn: Initially, we are working with individuals and setting up systems to deal with higher volumes.
Ahmad: I reached out to Lebanon’s Solid Waste group. They recommended that we use the high school as a collection location. They would be willing to talk with us about what they are looking at in terms of overall solid waste, electricity generation, etc. Marilyn will pass along the information to Jane Mason for a possible program and will also mention the information to Cindy Heath.
Rise Against Hunger – Friday, April 22; Mascoma Valley Regional High School.
Truck arrives 10:30 am; packaging starts at noon. Rotarians may come whenever they want,
Golf tournament – Ed Friedman
We are in full search mode for sponsors and teams. Reach out to your friends, associates and businesses to increase the sponsorships. Ed will distribute forms for solicitation. Tournament is May 26 at Eastman. Volunteers are needed especially to help with break down – too many of us disappear at the end, so this year, let’s have more than just Ed, Bruce Bergeron, Marilyn and Ron. Break down tents, tables, etc.
One Profits Most Who Serves Best
Upcoming meetings:
Board of Directors Meeting — Wednesday, April 13 , 2022 at 5 PM.Any member can attend, let Marilyn Bedell know if you would like the link to the meeting.
Members at the meeting:
Bill Babineau
Marilyn Bedell
Ron Bedell
Hank Clarke
Karen Clements
Dave Crandall
Jim Damren
Ed Friedman
Joy Gobin
Tim Guaraldi
Will Koppenheffer
JoAnn Lemieux
Jane Mason
Ernst Oidtmann
Bruce Pacht
Phil Rentz
Bill Secord
Marion Steiner
Paul Tierney
John Yacavone
Returning Member — Phil Bush
Prospective Member — Ryan Tremblay
Jimmy Brock — Rotary Club of Hamilton, Bermuda
Upcoming Service Projects and Fund Raisers
Hold the following dates for 2022
Listen Community Dinners to Begin Again, April 12, 2022!!
Styrofoam Collection — Next Collection being planned for Saturday, April 16, 2022, 9 AM to 11 AM
Mascoma and Lebanon Interact - Feed America Event — April 29
The Rotary Foundation creates channel for direct humanitarian support in Ukraine region
In response to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, The Rotary Foundation has created an official channel for donors around the world to contribute funds to support the relief efforts underway by Rotary districts and has designated its Disaster Response Fund as the main avenue for contributions.
To this end, The Rotary Foundation has approved:
Now through 30 June 2022, designated Rotary districts that border Ukraine and the Rotary district in Ukraine may apply for grants of up to $50,000 each from the Disaster Response Fund. These expedited disaster response grants can be used to provide relief to refugees or other victims of the crisis including items such as water, food, shelter, medicine and clothing.
During this same period, other impacted Rotary districts that wish to offer support to refugees or other victims of the crisis in their district can apply for $25,000 grants from the Disaster Response Fund.
Now through 30 April 2022, Rotary districts can transfer unallocated District Designated Funds (DDF) to support the Disaster Response Fund, directly supporting these Ukraine-specific humanitarian grants.
Contributions to the Disaster Relief Fund in support of Ukraine can be made here. All funds need to be received into the Disaster Response Fund by 30 April 2022 in order to qualify for use in support of the Ukrainian relief efforts.
Although the Disaster Response Fund will be the main avenue for Rotary Foundation support, Rotary and Rotaract clubs are also encouraged to create their own responses to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
In addition to support provided through the Disaster Response Fund, the Foundation is coordinating with partners and regional leaders, exploring effective solutions to the increased humanitarian needs.
We are in contact with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees – USA to prepare for and respond to the needs of those being displaced in Ukraine and to neighboring countries.
ShelterBox, our project partner for disaster response, is in communication with Rotary members in Eastern Europe to explore how it may offer support with temporary transitional housing and other essential supplies.
The Rotary Action Group for Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Migration is also mobilizing its resources to assist in this crisis.
More than 2 million people have fled Ukraine and are in dire need of emergency aid. The United Nations estimates that number could grow to as many as 5 million people displaced. Rotary clubs in Europe and around the world have stepped up their relief work, some working on the ground to help displaced families.
We will continue to monitor the situation in Ukraine and neighboring countries. Visit My Rotary and follow Rotary on social media to stay updated on how clubs can get involved and what actions Rotary members have taken and the impact it has had for people in the region.
For all other questions and to obtain more information, please contact the Rotary Support Center at rotarysupportcenter@rotary.org.
Rotary International Convention in Houston Texas 2022
RI Convention June 4-8, 2022 in Houston TX
Ron again announce that the Rotary International Convention will be in Houston. Read more by clicking here Registration fee until 15 December will be $475.
Please check the newsletter for meeting location. We can begin some in person meetings on March 31, 2022 at the Dwinell Room at Harvest Hill on the Campus of Alice Peck Day Hospital
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