**Needham Rotary Newsletter**
March 28, 2017
The Needham Sheraton
We wished a Happy Birthday this month to Louise, Deb and Ted
Bob led us in singing America the Beautiful
Karen led us in prayer
Announcements
Gift of Life has a child from Panama at Children’s Hospital
Plant delivery to the nursing homes was much appreciated
Rotary had a team participate in the Needham Spelling Bee last week
We have possibly 3 students participating in RYLA in June
We will be helping build growing beds at the Needham Community Farm on May 13
We will be working on a project with Needham 4th graders during the week of 4/24
District Conference on April 28 – 30 in Providence.
We will be having a fund raising Carnival at Needham High School on July 7 – 9. Volunteers are needed to staff the ticket booths. We will also be selling tickets to a scratch ticket raffle at $10 each at the carnival.
Happy Dollars
Andy – bought his kids new bicycles this week
Kathy R – great vacation in FLA
Chuck – had great weather in FLA.
Louise – thank you for the birthday cake
Dan – happy about the upcoming carnival
Humor:
Ken shared a financial planning joke with us.
Speaker:
Marc Vermouth from Rise Against Hunger was the speaker. Rotary has an international relationship with Stop Hunger Now. The mission is to end hunger in our lifetime. The organization was founded in 1998 and sponsors the meal packaging program Needham Rotary has participated in. Volunteers in the food packaging program package meals that are sent internationally. Other organizations distribute the meals on the ground. Needham Rotarians sampled some of the meals.
Rise against Hunger also does agricultural development, small enterprise income generation and pre disaster funding.
**NEEDHAM ROTARY NEWSLETTER**
Sheraton Hotel
Tuesday: April 4, 2017
Pledge of Allegiance: Pres. Ted Shaughnessy
Song: God Bless America, led by Bob Cocks
Prayer: led by: Karen Wetmore
Guests: Brad White, who was inducted today, and Doug George, who has been on a leave of absence for a number of months: welcome back Doug!
Announcements: Ted brought us up to date on the young boy from Panama who came to Boston with his mother for surgery at Children’s Hospital. This was not an official ‘Gift of Life’ case, but Ted and Marilyn were quite involved. Success! The child and his mother are on their way back to Panama, and will be returning for follow up in the future.
**NOTE THE 5 ACTIVITIES AND FUND RAISERS**
Arbor Day: Needham Rotary will again be providing little trees to be delivered to the 4th graders at the Needham Elementary Schools during the last week in April.
Reality Fair Heads Up: Our club will be sponsoring the ‘Reality Fair’ up at Needham High School on Monday May 22nd. All hands are needed on deck, so please let Rich forte know that you can attend. Hours are 9:00 am to 1 pm.
Needham Community Farm: For the third year in a row, we will be helping NCF rebuild there growing beds at the farm on May 13th. Please reserve the date fo this morning event (9 am to 1 pm). We have some 9 members signed up, and would like to increase it. Please let Jim Brown know if you can join in.
Carnival: Ted (after a tremendous amount of work) announced that we have all the necessary permits and permissions, and are good to go for July 7-8-9. We will need folks to man the ticket selling booths for Friday 6pm to 10 pm, Saturday 12 noon to 10 pm, Sunday from 12 noon to 6 pm. We will have need of some 40 shits of 2 hours each. Look for the signup sheet next time..
Raffle Ticket Sale: We will kick off the $10 Raffle Ticket sale at the Carnival. We will be selling Raffle Ticket for $10 each. The winner will receive $1000 worth of Mass. Lottery scratch tickets, with the drawing to occur in October at our Pancake Breakfast.
Induction of Brad White: We are delighted to welcome Brad to the club, as our 33rd member. Brad has shown his interest and enthusiasm for rotary, and will be joining the Membership committee and the Public Relations committee. Welcome Brad!!!
Happy Dollars: Doug George $5 for his return to the club; Kathy for Doug’s return; Bob Cox, Tom and Chuck-Happy to be here; Erica for Gia getting her drivers license; Lois and Ron for spring; Andy Charles Bill and Ken for Brad White’s induction; Jim and Greg for both Brad and Doug!
50/50 drawing: Andy Winig had the qualifying ticket #341 but pulled the 8 of diamonds. So, the pot of $468 continues to next time.
Humor:
Historical Minute: Next time..
Guest speaker: A little mixup, so no guest speaker this week. We got out early!
Next meeting: Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The guest speaker will be local author David Zelsterman.
