First and Third Thursday at Noon @ Harvest Hill's Dwinell Room
Second and Forth Thursdays at Noon on Zoom
GET YOUR SPEAKER IDEAS TO STEVE WHITMAN.
Upcoming Programs
November 24, 2022 - NO MEETING THANKSGIVING DAY
December 1, 2022, In person at Harvest Hill, Dean Cashman, Classification Talk
December 8, 2022, via Zoom, Program TBD
December 15, 2022, No meeting, INSTEAD, we will have our HOLIDAY PARTY and FAMOUS YANKEE SWAP on DECEMBER 16, 2022 at THE QUECHEE INN AT MARSHLAND FARM
December 22, 2022, via Zoom, Classification Talks by Bruce Bergeron and Ernst Oidtmann
Our District 7850 Governor Caroline Earle started her talk by reminding us that only 7 months remain in this Rotary year. She challenged us to think about we can accomplish between now and 30 June 2022.
DG Caroline Earle
Earle then went on to describe what she described as mandates for her, and initiatives for clubs to consider. It is her hope that the club will review the initiatives and take on addressing at least one of them. The three initiatives are: Infrastructure, Membership and Coordinated Social Media Campaign.
#1 – Infrastructure
She shared that historically only 2 of 7 presidents remain members of their Rotary Club after their year as president. She presented the hypothesis that one of the reasons for this is that Club presidents can be overburdened when the club’s infrastructure isn't robust enough to make the job of the leader doable. This leads to leader burnout. She asked us to consider the following:
Is our Club's committee structure robust enough to make sure the members are aligned and engaged in helping to get the work of the Club done? Without a robust structure, a club isn’t set up to have an impact her at home and around the globe.
Robust committees provide a forum for members to be engaged in the work of the club, and to help complete projects that are important to the club as a whole.
Engaging members can help identify untapped resources within the club to accomplish great things.
In addition, our District exists to support clubs, but it is a job that can’t be done by the District Governor alone. Earle reminded us that every member can be a resource to the District by helping with membership; various youth services such as the Rotary Youth Leadership Award conference and Youth Exchange; and many aspects of our Rotary Foundation programs, etc. She asked, “Can you step-up and help?” The commitment needed can be as small as an hour/month or more is you have time to give.
Earle will send us a resource that has been developed by Rotary International call the “Club Health Checklist”. It can could be filled in by all members to help us identify roadblocks that may exist in our club that keep us from being a vibrant club. In addition to the checklist, RI has tools to help clubs identify ways to overcome roadblocks.
Carolyn went on to share a story about a foster parent program in Barre that role is to rescue children in crisis from their homes 24/7. Often the child leaves the home with only the clothes on their back. This was presented as a issue to Barre Rotarians who saw a need, and stepped up to create a clothes closet for these children. It was an example of Rotarians identifying a needed and working to solve a community problem quickly. Word got out that this was happening, and it has helped them attract new members. This never would have been a project if the Barre Rotarians took it on as an initiative.
#2 – Membership
Earle has received formal notice that our District is on notice from Rotary International that our membership total is too low…under 1200 members. If we get below 1100 members, we will not be viable as a stand-alone District. We will not have enough members to do the work that falls to the district. Our members are our key resources to our communities and to Rotary as a whole.
Our Club members are key to growing our membership. If our members aren’t engaged/involved in the work of the club, they won’t be asking others to join the club. She believes that are many “unclaimed” members living and working in the City of Lebanon. We have a responsibility to find these unclaimed members. Earle is aware of all we are doing to support our community. She believes that if others knew what we are doing, we would be attracting new members, and this would even help us engage members as if everyone is doing a little, no one will have to do a lot. A club with too few members, can achieve all that the club can be.
Our District is working to build a more robust membership committee with the goal to help us develop strategies to engage current members, and attract new members.
#3 – Coordinated Social Media Campaign
The District now has a point person (Courtney Jarecki) to coordinate our District’s social media campaign. It is Earle’s hope that every club will identify a person to be the point person for our Club's social media. Courtney has done a review of all social media being used by the clubs in District 7850. She may know our social media platforms better than our members know them. Carolyn is sure that Courtney will share her finding with us.
The district will be offering $400 social media grants to help clubs develop their social media platforms. It won’t be a ton of money, but a starting point.
Courtney can’t provide free help to clubs, but a club could contract with her to help in this domain.
Earle ended her talk by:
Challenging us to take on at least one of her initiatives,
Sharing that Rotary has been transformative for her. Her membership has been a uplifting and positive experience.
She challenged us to go out and find those “unclaimed members” who are wandering about in Lebanon.
Rotary of Lebanon Club
November 17, 2022
David Crandall rang the bell and called the meeting to order at 12:03 PM. He let us know that Ernst couldn’t be at the meeting to play the piano, and Phil Bush was unable to come to pay a folk song on his guitar. So David planned another opening:
David let us know that although Abraham Lincoln did not deliver the Gettysburg Address on this day in history, but this is the day he wrote it. David then read one of the most memorable and relevant speeches of all time:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
David the invited Steve Whitman forward to introduce our speaker, District Governor Caroline Earle.
Introduction
Caroline Earle is the founder of Earle & Freeman, PLC, a law firm located in Montpelier, Vermont. Caroline has focused her career on providing legal advice and counsel to individuals, businesses, and government in civil, employment, business, estate planning and probate matters. Caroline started her journey toward the law at Indiana University School of Law, graduating with a J.D. (cum laude) in 1993. Since then, Caroline has practiced exclusively in Vermont in both the private and public sectors and has served as Chief of the Civil Litigation Division with the Vermont Attorney General’s Office as well as Commissioner of Human Resources for the State of Vermont. Caroline is a dedicated Rotarian, having served as President of her local Rotary club in 2017-18.
Caroline then delivered her remarks after reflecting that by going first, she would need to earn her meal, and that the heat was one since she was now following Abraham Lincoln.
Read about Carolyn’s talk above.
Caroline then had the honor of presenting Bruce Bergeron his Paul Harris Fellowship +4.
Bruce Bergeron and DG Caroline Earle
Caroline then presented us a certificate recognizing our Club’s commitment to Polio eradication in the past Rotary year. She then presented a banner that indicated our Club was the #3 Club in Rotary Foundation Giving in 2021-2022. She expressed her thanks to our Club’s commitment to supporting our Rotary Foundation.
President-elect David Crandall and Caroline Earle
Bill Secord presented our Kilton Library Children’s book in honor of Caroline Earle:
Teaching your little brother his first word dibs is funny. Until he starts calling dibs on everything, from your parents' bed to a real airplane to the White House. What's next? Calling dibs on the moon? Sure enough, Julian's little brother, Clancy, calls dibs on NASA and blasts off into space! Julian is glad to have Earth all to himself...at first. But Julian begins to miss Clancy. Can he harness the power of dibs to rescue his little brother? This humorous take on sibling rivalry is by Laura Gehl, author of the hilarious picture book I Got a Chicken for My Birthday.
We then dined on a meal of seafood lasagna, stuffed shells and penne Boulonnais.
After lunch it was time for happy dollars:
Angela reminded us that all the information has been distributed about our Holiday Basket children. Please sign up to help a child or consider giving Angela some money and she will purchase gifts for you. Now is the time to be Santa.
Marilyn Bedell gave a happy dollar for Caroline Earle’s visit; and announced her sister would be going home a week from Monday after being in a variety of healthcare facilities since April.
Karen Clements let us know this would be the last meeting she will be able to attend as she is moving back to Portland to be closer to family. She let us know her 4th grandbaby is on the way. (Wishing you only the best as you transition back to Maine.)
Hank was happy that there was lobster in the lasagna.
Ron Michaud shared his grandson, Wesley, completed the hike on the Appalachian Trail.
JoAnn Lemieux showed us a variety of trinkets she received from the Italian motorcycle group that visited in September.
Ron Bedell was happy that Caroline Earle was with us today. He shared that to-date, 30 people will attend the holiday dinner at the Quechee Inn. Its not too late to RSVP.
Willy is happy his daughter is arriving today via plane in Manchester, and his son is driving in for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Bill Secord provided us an update about the Bel Canto Holiday Concert
Caroline Earle was happy to be with us today.
Tim shared that the sidewalks in Key West came up an hit him. His proof was the "booboo" on his left arm. Anna took good care of his injury. He is looking forward to the arrival of a grandchild in April.
Charities Report
All active members received this notice from Bruce Pacht via email:
This is your official notice of a vote to take place during the regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Lebanon on Thursday, December 1.
The bylaws of the Rotary Club of Lebanon Charities, Inc. (“Charities”) require that appropriations of $1,001 or more “. . . in whole or in aggregate to a single recipient in a single year, must be approved by the members.” (Section 9.2) The “members” of Charities are all members in good standing of the Rotary Club of Lebanon.
At its meeting November 16, the Charities board of trustees approved an allocation of $2,500.00 to the Better Life Social Organization (BLSO) in Nepal, an organization we helped last year with funds for food relief to persons living in dire poverty from loss of employment opportunities at the lowest levels of pay such as rickshaw drivers, porters and others.
The current request is to assist in providing water filters to approximately 145 households containing about 600 persons who “lack access to clean drinking water, including those who drink pump water without proper filtration.” The project “aims to eradicate waterborne diseases and reduce the amount of time that family members spend fetching water.”
Lebanon Rotary’s contribution, together with funds raised by BLSO, would provide simple filters to the target households, and would also provide replacement “filter tubes” every 6 months for an experimental period of two years. Replacement filter tubes for each household may be obtained for a cost of about $7.00/year for 2 filter tubes. The goal will be for families to absorb that cost after the two years of support come to an end.
Recipients of the aid will be households in Bhaktipur, “ . . . a town in Ishwarpur Municipality in Sarlahi District in the Janakpur Zone of southeastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 12,183 people living in 2,261 individual households.” (Wikipedia)
Bhaktipur is about a 6-hour drive (though only ~124 miles) from Lalitpur, the town in Nepal where BLSO is headquartered. Lalitpur is Nepal’s 4th largest city which had a population of ~226,000 in 2011 and suffered extensive damage from the 25 April 2015 earthquake. (Nepal’s total population is about 30 million.)
The motion will be “That the Rotary Club of Lebanon approve allocation of $2,500.00 to BLSO as proposed by Charities.”
Bruce Pacht
Chair, Charities Trustees
Members Present: Marilyn Bedell, Ron Bedell, Bruce Bergeron, Dean Cashman, Hank Clarke, Karen Clements, David Crandall, Jim Damren, , Tim Guaraldi, Will Koppenheffer, JoAnn Lemieux, Ron Michaud, Angela Nelson, Bruce Pacht, Phil Rentz, Bill Secord, Paul Tierney, Steve Whitman, Cal Wolfe, John Yacavone
Guests:
Ethan Swain, Granite State Development Corp.
Speaker District 7850 Governor Caroline Earle
One Profits Most Who Serves Best
Queen of Hearts Draw
John Yacavone had the wining raffle ticket and pulled the 6 of Clubs. So the hunt for the Queen continues.
Car Wash
Car wash was won by Bruce Bergeron, which made us smile, so we did a second draw and Will Koppenheffer got the car wash.
Youth Service - Our Interactors at Work
Our interactMembers volunteered for the annual Lions Club eye screening held at both elementary schools. Katherine, Max, Bradlee, and Aavarika. Job well done!
Youth Services Committee Report
November 8, 2022 YSC Agenda and Minutes
Committee Members: Phil, Rudi, Ahmad, Bruce, Curtis, Joy
Attendance: Phil, Rudi, Ahmad, Bruce P. ,Joy
NEXT MEETING WEDNESDAY DEC. 14TH 12-1 ZOOM
Subcommittee Updates
Speech Contest Update: Phil and Rudy Date: Round 1 Thursday 2/2/23
Topic:
Why is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Important?
Club Round 1 – Prize $200 - Club insert date, time, location & contact info for its speech contest –Rudy will talk with members about roles for contest in January and it will hopefully be in person,
** Club Instructions: Club Round 1 Speech Contest must be held by Feb 20, 2023 **
Area Round 2 – Prize $300 - insert date, time, location & contact info for Area Round 2 Contest - LHS, MRHS, and Ledyard Feb. break is 2/20-2/24
**Club & Area Governor instructions: Area Round 2 Contest MUST be held by March 15, 2023*(Phil will contact Ed about hosting and a date, possibly March 2,2023, John Y. will contact KUA)
District Round 3 – Prize $500 for the Two Finalists
Up to ten other contestants from other Areas’ Round 2 Contests at District 7850
Assembly held Sat April 1, 2023 at Northern VT University, Lyndonville, VT.
Estimated time 10am-2pm.
District Round 4 – Prize $750 Winner & Prize $500 Runner-Up
Two Contestants from Round 3 will speak at District 7850 Conference held Saturday
April 29, 2023 at Jay Peak Resort, Jay Peak VT. Estimated time 11am-1pm.
Ahmad asked how can UV business help with the speech contest? Bruce suggested support for RYLA
Labor force growing locally to support
Interact Clubs:
LHS: Joy Meeting today at Ziggy’s with Windsor Interact about joint service projects along with Mascoma. (RISE)
LHS Interact donated $100 to Polio Plus last month
LHS had a very successful non-perishable food collection donated to Listen Pocket Food Pantry on Oct. 31
TShirts distributed on 11/7/22 Thanks to the Lebanon Rotary
LHS is volunteering with the Lion’s Club at the elementary school eye clinic’s on Nov 16th and 18th.
LHS is scheduled to work on Tuesday Dec. 13th at the Listen Holiday Basket day 10-12
MRHS: Bruce/Curtis/ Lindsay Collidge advisor, TShirts out to kids
Marketing: Bruce T Shirts arrived, Speech Posters printed (LHS) Digital Strategy around FB, Rudy will connect with the UV Home Schooling Association to share info with a single point of contact
RYLA: Promotion to 10th graders(by last year’s participants) in January ,applications, interviews, selection: Ahmad: Speak to 10th graders with RYLA’s from last year March, apply April 2023
District Interact Symposium April 28-30 Jay Peak District 70850
We are retaining funds to pay for 4 students to attend RYLA and 4 students to attend the District Interact Symposium in 2023.
Scholarships:
Review in January 2023
Lebanon Rotary Scholarship in Memory of Thomas Dauphinais and Lebanon Rotary
Do we want to change or first?
ROTARY CLUB OF LEBANON, NH SCHOLARSHIP GUIDELINES
For academic year 2021-22
1. Rotary scholarship awards shall be made to graduating students reflecting Rotary’s values as expressed in its mission: To provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill,
and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
2. Lebanon Rotary Scholarships are non-renewable. Only students continuing their education at an accredited 2- or 4-year college, or students attending a formal post-high school vocational training or apprenticeship program, will qualify for consideration of these awards. The award will be made via a check made out to both the student and the school or other institution where the student will continue studies, or to the supplier of tools necessary for such specific programs.
3. The Rotary Club of Lebanon will work with the appropriate office/personnel of Lebanon High School, Ledyard Charter School, and Mascoma Valley Regional High School, who will nominate deserving students for the Club’s annual scholarship awards. Selection of 2021-22 recipients shall be made by each school’s scholarship committee.
4. Lebanon Rotary will award up to two $1,500.00 scholarships for either academic or vocational/trade studies beyond high school at each school. The academic scholarship at Lebanon High School will be known as the “Tom Dauphinais Memorial Rotary Scholarship.” Each other scholarship shall be designated a “Lebanon Rotary Scholarship.”
5. Two submissions are required to apply for Rotary scholarships:
a. Applicants shall submit to the school’s scholarship committee a short statement (250-500 words either written, audio or video) sharing their thoughts on the following topic: “How will you find your own way forward as a responsible and productive citizen of high moral character over the next five years of your life?” Each school’s award committee shall value the applicant’s thoughts, honesty, and reflection of Rotary’s principles over the applicant’s mastery of the chosen medium. Financial need and available resources also shall be considered in making the awards.
b. Applicants shall provide no more than a single page listing their involvement in unpaid community service during high school. We want to know what the student did and why. For each different service experience, include the name of the organization along with an estimate of the total hours of volunteer work the student provided. For a continuing service commitment (such as working at the local food pantry for 2 hours per week) the student need not detail tasks for each 2-hour shift but rather simply outline the duties performed along with the estimate of hours contributed.
6. Each scholarship committee shall supply Lebanon Rotary’s Youth Service committee chair with the school’s scholarship recommendations together with each award-winning student’s name, written/verbal essay and volunteer listing. NOTE: Early communication of a scheduled awards assembly is necessary for Rotary to plan for an in-person presentation.
2022-23 Rotary Club of Lebanon Youth Service Committee
Chair; Joy Gobin,(jgobin@sau88.net), Philip Rentz; Rudi Fedrizzi, Bruce Pacht, Ahmad Haidari, Curtis Payne
Bruce Pacht to set up Zoom. Next meeting Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022 12-1
Thank you Note from Caroline Earle received post meeting:
Thank you for a lovely DG Visit to your Club. As discussed in my DG presentation, attached are excellent resources for any club in ensuring its continued member satisfaction, visibility, membership goals & impact. Even just choosing one of these resources & applying its strategies to your Club will enhance your Club productivity & success.
Thank you for my wonderful gift as reading is my favorite pastime. I am honored to be part of a permanent library collection. 😊
Have a lovely holiday season & celebrate your continued impact on our world!
Best, Caroline, DG
Note: Email Marilyn Bedell if you would like to receive copies of the info Carolyn attached to this message.
Next Dinner December 13, 2022, Sign-up to bring some holiday cheer to our community.
If pictures were taken, I'll post them in the December newsletter.
Rotary Club of White River Junction's Polar Express
The Polar Express will be on the second weekend in December. The 10th and 11th. Tickets can be ordered by Clicking Here.
Holiday Basket Helpers for Listen
Listen 2018
Save the Date: December 12, 2022, 10 AM to 4 PM to help organize holiday baskets at Listen!! Drop in when you have time to help. If you plan to come in the afternoon, let Angela know so she can email you if we get done sooner than we think we will. Joy will be bringing some of our Interactors to help too.
Angela will be sending information out about our family/families that will need gifts once Listen gives her the details. Angela is always will to accept donations of money, and she is happy to go shopping for any of us who prefer this approach to supporting the families needs. The Club charities account will help support this project too.
Holiday Basket Families
Email from Angela...see the message she sent for our kids
Hi everyone! It is that time of year again, Listen Holiday Basket time! We have our kids!!!! This year it is back to normal which is SOOOOOO exciting. If you already know about the Listen Holiday Baskets feel free to skip the next paragraph.
For members who don’t know about the Listen Holiday Baskets, here is a rundown. Every year Listen has people apply for Christmas assistance. Listen focuses on clothing since other organizations focus on toys. Each child’s list has 5 clothing items along with sizes and colors and likes. Each family also gets a $50 grocery gift card for Christmas dinner. The club has a budget to purchase items and the grocery gift cards, but members also provide support. Some members choose items from the lists to purchase, but if you want to help, but don’t share my enthusiasm for shopping 😊, you could make a monetary donation to the club (tax deductible) and I will purchase everything needed.
Due to the charities budget increase, we have 15 kids, so instead of listing them in this email I attached an excel spreadsheet with all the kids listed and their items, sizes and likes (I have reached out for clarification on the sizes of the two highlighted items). If you want to pick items to purchase, just let me know what item(s) you will get, so that we don’t duplicate efforts. If you would like to donate money, send me an email with the amount (so I can plan for the funds available and items needed) and we can either catch up sometime in the next few weeks or you can mail a check to Rotary Club of Lebanon Charities PO Box 132, Lebanon, NH 03766.
The deadline for getting me items purchased is December 1. I will make sure I am at the in person meeting that day. You can also drop items off at my office at 24 Airport Rd, 4th floor or email me when you have your items as we can coordinate a meet up.
Please remember this is all voluntary and I am the only person who knows, please do not feel obligated to do something if you do not wish. Thank you in advance for your help! This is one of my favorite times of year and projects!
Ang
HOLIDAY PARTY and FAMOUS YANKEE SWAP
SAVE THE DATE — FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2022 at the QUECHEE INN, QUECHEE VERMONT
$60/person
Lebanon Casino Fundraiser - Spring 2023
Bedell Classic Golf Tournament - See you at the golf course in May 2023!!
Brew Fest 2023
Brew Fest on to
September 2, 2023
CHEERS!!
Top Stitch Rotary Vests and Jackets
John Yacavone has arranged for members to order light and heavier weight jackets and vest for us to wear when doing service projects...for days when our tees shirts just aren't enough to keep us comfortable and warm.
If you click the link below, Top Stitch has created a special website for Lebanon Rotary Club members to order the following clothing items.
1. Men’s and Women’s light weight jackets
2. Men’s and Women’s fleece vests
3. Men’s and Women’s fleece jackets
All jackets and vests will have Rotary Logo and club name.
Just pick your item and follow the instructions for ordering. If you decide to pick up your item at Top Stitch located at 233 Mascoma Street Lebanon, NH 03766 there will be no charge for shipping, otherwise shipping will be charged. If you have any questions about your order please contact Cody at Top Stitch at 603-448-2931. Turn around time is 3.5 - 4 weeks. Once you place your order your order will be processed no waiting on other orders to be fulfilled.
Here's hoping you will order some Rotary wear soon.
Rotary International News
Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday happens once a year, but your gift of Rotary will make a difference for a lifetime. This Giving Tuesday, consider making a special gift to The Rotary Foundation and together we can continue Doing Good in the World.
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