Remote Meetings
Bar Harbor, ME United States of America
Due to the pandemic, we are currently meeting via Zoom. 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 topics presented).
I hope your week is off to a wonderful start, and that you have been able to enjoy this spring weather! This Wednesday at Noon we will be joined by Emily Ellis, the Executive Director of Acadia Fire FC. Please watch your email for Zoom details.
Acadia Fire FC (AFFC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit sports organization serving Down East Maine. AFFC is offering one of the best soccer educational experiences in Maine. AFFC is unique in its unwavering focus on teaching players how to be the best dribbler, passer and goal scorer. Players of all ages have access to the highest-level coaching and competition through multiple practices per week focused on improving soccer skill and team tactics. I hope you will join us on Wednesday!
Some members have reached out with updates over the last several days, and below is one from our friend Judy Holmes.
“I’m in Montana for the winter, several feet of snow just shoveled off the roof, making it now easy to walk up from the snowbanks around the cabin. Both my Saint Bernard Gretel and I like the view, picture attached. I look forward to driving our camper home in May and wish everyone a glorious spring.”
Finally, I know you all join in me in extending sincere condolences to Martha Abbott and her family. Her mother, Emma L. Richards, passed away last week. Here is a link to the obituary. https://obituaries.bangordailynews.com/obituary/emma-richards-1081807931. Martha, you are in our thoughts and prayers!
The $2 million grant goes toward Rotary club-led Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia program; an additional $4 million contributed by partners the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and World Vision USA.
Rotary-led Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia awarded US$6 million to reduce burden of malaria in heavily affected districtsLUSAKA, Zambia (March 9, 2021) — To help end a leading cause of illness and death in the southern
Flowers discusses the inadequate management of wastewater in rural communities, bridging partisan divides, the ways those two topics intersect — and how Rotarians can be part of the solution
The Supurunda Water Supply Project in Papua New Guinea has been a successful example of how Rotary is advancing peace and providing clean water and sanitation.
