High School students from schools all over our district are invited to a weekend at Camp Rotary in Boxford.  We can accept 80 students and the program traditionally is sold-out with a waiting list. This year, we were forced to hold RYLA during the weekend that many schools hold their graduations.  This is making it difficult to find students.  Please help us find students!!

Come join the Chelsea  Rotary and the Everett Rotary Club on Thursday, June 1, at Town Line Luxury Lanes from 7-9pm for their annual Bowl-a-Thorn.

 

This will be a fun night of bowling to support Chelsea's Local Service Projects and Everett's Annual Scholarship.

 

The theme this year is Sports, so come dressed in your favorite sports themed attire. Prizes will be awarded for the best dressed individual and team.

 

The Rotary Club of Winchester celebrated its 90th Anniversary at a recent meeting. The club was Chartered on April 28, 1927. The membership commemorated the event at their regular weekly luncheon with Jack Kean presenting a retrospective of the club's first 90 years and its countless financial contributions and service projects in support of the Winchester Community and beyond.

 

Dave Landry, current club president is flanked on the right by Cheryl Meehan, District Governor and on the far right by District Governor Nominee Bob Wood. To the president's immediate left is District Governor Elect Dave Gardner and Rotary Club member and Club Historian, Jack Kean.

 

The Rotary Assembly of April 19, 2017, gathered 150+ Rotarians and non-profit Partners from District 7930 in a combined networking and educational forum. Our district leadership in collaboration with the district Homelessness and Hunger Initiative planned and organized educational sessions and a Showcase for non-profit shelters, food pantries and similar organizations to enlist Rotarians in service opportunities to support their missions with technical and professional skills. The goal was to match skills with needs in areas such as social media, accounting, marketing, and contracting services among so many other possibilities.

The Assembly also offered a program track for effective advocacy techniques and tips to staff executive boards.. Jonathan Tetrault, from the Boston Food Bank, shared an update of the hunger trends in our area: Bob O’Hara coached attendees on how to create more impact when advocating, and Abbie Von Schlegal provided her insight on how to build a successful non-profit board.

 

The Assembly track provided the traditional training for Rotary Club leadership including Presidents-elect, Secretaries and Treasurers. The third session in this track provided the background to the next step in Visioning: Vision to Action.