Join us on Wednesdays at Noon, except for the first Wednesday of the month when we meet at 5:00 pm (check Facebook or the speakers list on this page for the location)
Birch Bay Village
1 Village Inn Rd
Bar Harbor,
ME 04609 United States
We had a fantastic turnout last week for our club assembly, almost full capacity! Thank you all for taking the time to come in and check out what we as a board have been up to, and where we hope to be in the future. I know that the noon time meetings can sometimes seem daunting, schedule wise. I would love to hear from any of you going forward, if you have any suggestions or feedback about the club and how you feel we can better serve the community as well as attract more amazing members like YOU!
This week is our evening meeting which will be taking place at 5 PM, at Project Social, across from the Village Green, on Mount Desert Street. There should be some amazing hord'oeuvres from our hosts, as well they have a fantastic and creative cocktail menu.
Please remember that if you are interested in the membership committee or just learning what they are up too, all are welcome to join them at 4:30 PM just before our evening meeting.
Also, PARK STREET PLAYGROUND! The day has finally arrived! Build day is this Saturday, the 9th, at 8 AM. This will be an all day affair, please be sure to bring proper footwear and clothes to work in. I have been told that there will jobs available for all ages and abilities. The age cutoff is 13 years old, participants under 18 will need their parents to sign a waiver, please let me know if you will need one, this will be an active construction site! There will be free build shirts for the first 75 participants to volunteer. Please make sure to notify Carrie Jones at Carriejonesbooks@gmail.com to be on the list, if you are not already. If you come and miss the shirt we would love to also see any Rotary shirts you may have in your personal arsenal, we need to represent!
As I am sure you all know, many of the cites along the Gulf Coast of the United States have been devastated by category 4 Hurricane Harvey with winds of over 130 miles an hour and over 50 inches of rain. It’s the heaviest storm on record anywhere in the U.S. outside Hawaii and it is still raining.
This severe rainfall has caused historic flooding along the Texas coast, including in Houston. Deluged towns in the region are in desperate need of aid as thousands of residents were forced to flee their homes. Cities like Rockport, Texas have been completely destroyed. The Greater Houston area with a population of over 6.5 million people (the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States) has had over 3.7 million people leave the region in the evacuation effort. Others remained trapped inside their homes, as entire neighborhoods were submerged
Hurricane Harvey is predicted to be the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S., with a damage cost exceeding Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. AccuWeather predicts that the damage cost will hit $160 billion
Earlier this morning, Presidential Aide Don Mebus and Past RI Director Greg Podd hosted a strategy conference call with governors from Districts 5930, 5840, 5890, 5910 and 6200 in Texas and Louisiana to develop a cohesive response.
A Gulf Coast Disaster Relief Donor Advised Fund (DAF) has been established by Greg Podd and President-Elect Barry Rassin through The Rotary Foundation to collect relief contributions. Don and Greg are working with leaders from the affected districts to create a process for disbursing DAF funds to their respective district foundations or local 501c3 organizations to support local relief efforts.
The Name of the DAF (Donor Advised Fund) is The Gulf Coast Disaster Relief Donor Advised Fund. The Account Number of the DAF (Donor Advised Fund) is 608 ShelterBox, Rotary’s partner for disaster relief, is providing tents for use as ‘privacy tents’ to be pitched within the convention centers housing families that have been evacuated. Please direct inquiring Rotarians to the web story on Rotary.org for the most up-to-date information or to contact RI by writing to relief@rotary.org. Attached is an information sheet regarding this established fund. Please share this information with your fellow Rotarians and Rotary Clubs.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give
The Public Image Committee has been very busy getting the word out about the Park Street Playground build date on Saturday, Sept. 9th and the Grand Opening on Saturday, Sept. 16th. I have submitted press releases to the Bangor Daily News, the Islander, and the local radio stations. I will follow-up with them to request that they send reporters to cover these events, if they're not planning to do so already. In addition, we have been posting frequent updates on our Facebook page. In addition to myself, committee members include Carrie Jones, Aurora Hilton and Liz Cutler. If anyone else is interested in serving on this committee, please let me know.
Clean water and sanitation is a human right. When people, especially children, have access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, they lead healthier and more successful lives.
Rotary doesn’t just build wells and walk away. Rotary members integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene into education projects. When children learn about disease transmission and practice good hygiene, they miss less school. And they can take those lessons home to their families, expanding our impact.
Rotary has issued a global challenge to its members, asking them to work collectively to improve education quality and access — particularly for girls — by working with communities to improve teacher training, curriculum, and water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities.
To be a part of this success, make a gift to the Rotary Foundation. Our goal is 100% participation with the MDI Rotary Club. All gift sizes and gift purposes are important and will be matched by our club up to $50. To make your gift, simply click here:
The membership committee is working to both recruit new members and engage current members. We’re happy to report the addition of Tim Rich and Clare Bingham to the club’s ranks. Both are set to be inducted in September.
We’re currently looking at promoting a monthly Service Saturday to entice new members who are focused on Rotary’s service aspects and also as a way to increase fellowship and engage existing membership. Simultaneously, we’re exploring different structures of membership and smaller groups of fellowship within Rotary. Think - a monthly hiking/walking fellowship or a beer fellowship or a book club. We’ll be sending out a survey asking for ideas, shortly.
Joe Losquadro has created a platform on the mdirotary.org website where we can all engage in membership discussion and ideas. Please visit it to see minutes and ideas.
Membership isn’t the work of just a committee. It’s the work of each of us to think about why we’re in Rotary, why we’ve stayed in Rotary, and also why we think other people should join us. The core of Rotary is friendship, service, and networking. We want to give our membership value for their dues and their time, so we’re working with the Admin Committee and Service Committee and Board to hopefully do just that.
Please let us know what YOU want from Rotary, if you have ideas for more engaging meetings or service projects, and finally if you have ideas for new members.
The membership committee meets every month for 30 minutes prior to the evening meetings and at the location of the evening meeting. Please stop by at any time and check out our minutes, which are posted on the website. Our next meeting is at 4:30 at Project Social on September 6. Come to the evening meeting a little early and join us!
When we introduced Rotary Club Central in 2012, it revolutionized goal tracking and planning for clubs and districts — no more filling out paper club-planning forms or passing along boxes of historical club information every time a new leader took office.
Rotary Club Central offered clubs and districts a quantifiable way to begin measuring local and global impact, specifically membership initiatives, service activities, and Rotary Foundation giving.
But as with any technological advancement, in a few short years, Rotary Club Central began to show its age, and Rotarians took notice. They...
At its January 2017 meeting, the Rotary International Board of Directors adopted a new zone structure for Rotary clubs.
Rotary bylaws require the Board to complete a comprehensive review of the 34 Rotary zones no less often than every eight years to ensure that each zone has an approximately equal number of Rotarians. The Board’s previous review of the zones occurred in 2008.
The Board earlier approved the creation of three regional workgroups to develop rezoning proposals for Asia, Europe/Africa, and the Americas. These workgroups comprised one representative (either a current director,...
Through The Rotary Foundation, Rotary members have supported thousands of projects that promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, save mothers and children, support education, and grow local economies. We’ve also led the fight to eradicate polio worldwide. As part of our celebration of the Foundation’s centennial, we’re honoring 20 global grant projects with special recognition. Learn more about the projects using our interactive map.
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