Please join with our Fellow Rotarians from across District 7930 as we kick off the new Rotary year. We will be installing all 49 Rotary Club Presidents along with the President of the Rotaract Club of Boston. Gather your club members to come and support your incoming President and register a table or two as we introduce the 2017-2018 Rotary Theme - Rotary: Making a Difference. What a perfect theme as it is really what we are all about. The work that members, under the leadership of their President, do year in and year out in service to others. Celebrate what we have done and become inspired about what we can do.

This summer, the Chelsea Rotary Club is once again sponsoring 20 lucky Chelsea students between ages 7 and 15 to an all expense paid week of overnight camp at Camp Rotary in Boxford, MA. Since 1998, the Chelsea Rotary Club has sponsored over 270 children at the overnight camp with the help of many generous community partners. The Chelsea club provides transportation to and from camp, pays all tuition, field trip, cabin picture and camp store fees as well as gives each scholarship winner a backpack filled with toiletries, beach towels and all kinds of items they can use for their week at camp.  

An overflow crowd of Lynn Rotarians, family members, friends and colleagues of local attorney T. Richard Cuffe attended Thursday’s meeting at the Porthole Restaurant to recognizes the many contributions Cuffe has made to the Lynn community.

The Peabody Rotary Club recently completed its latest District Managed Grant project. New playground equipment was purchased and installed at Citizen’s Inn over two weekends in April and May. On the weekend of the District Conference in May, Peabody Rotarians, with the help of Rotarians from Ipswich, Amesbury, Reading and Hamilton-Wenham, landscaped the area, spreading woodchips and mulch and planting flowers. Peabody Rotary thanks Terri and Mike Doerfler (Amesbury), Bob Arsenault, Bob Gravino and John King (Ipswich), Ann O'Connor (Hamilton-Wenham) and Brian Snell (Reading) for their invaluable help. Citizen's Inn has been providing housing for homeless families for thirty four years. Executive Director Corey Jackson is a Peabody Rotarian.

Rita Orchanian, the incoming Burlington High School Interact Club President for the 2017-2018 school year was introduced to the members of the Burlington Rotary Club at its June 9th meeting. Rita has been in The Interact Club throughout her time at Burlington High School and will graduate at the end of the next school year.

 

Pictured above from left to right are our Club's President Brad Bond, the next Interact President Rita Orchanian, our Club's President-Elect John Tuccinardi and Rita's Parents Andrea and Zohrab Orchanian.