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Birch Bay Village
1 Village Inn Rd
Bar Harbor,
ME 04609 United States
I received this message via email and wondered if this might be of interest to any of you. Please let me know and I will respond.
Hello Bar Harbor Rotary,
My name is Kathyrn Palmquist and I am a member of the Grantsburg Rotary, in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. We have a student from our local high school that is attending the Summer Field Institute this summer. His name is Mark Riewestahl. He is an outstanding student, who is going to be our outbound student in 2017. His family is hosting our in-bound student this fall.
He was wondering if a Rotary member could pick him up at the airport July 23rd and could host him for the evening before the Field Institute. He would also need a ride to the camp. We would very much appreciate your help!
Their family is fundraising for the trip. His mother is a Lutheran minister and they are a lovely family. Can you see if anyone in your club can help Mark this summer? Thank you!
Kathryn Palmquist
Please be sure to sign up for the Annual Awards Night Dinner happening on June 15 at Asticou Inn. Please plan to join us to celebrate a year in review and many outstanding achievements.
If you haven't yet, please sign up for our annual dinner, Wednesday June 15 at the Asticou in Northeast Harbor. We have a lot to celebrate. We'll have a social hour and a cash bar at 5:30, then sit to eat at 6:00 and begin awards and presentations at 6:30.
$28 per person includes choice of entree, popovers, salad, and ice cream sundae. Entree choices are hanger steak, salmon, chicken marsala or fettuccine with pesto and asparagus.
Please RSVP to Liz at lizgraves@gmail.com by Wednesday, or in person at Wednesday's lunch meeting. She'll have the current list at the meeting if you'd like to double-check or make changes. Please plan to pay by cash or check on the day of.
In case you missed the announcement in the MDIslander, our very own Rotarian Dave Woodside has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of Bar Harbor Bankshares -- the parent company of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. From the announcement, Dave, "has been a member of the board since 2003... His in depth knowledge of the retail and hospitality industries both in Maine and across the country provides significant expertise to the board in these important segments of the Maine economy." Join me in congratulating Dave when you see him next.
As they become available, we will be posting copies of the Board of Directors meetings in the bulletin. Please take time to review what is happening in our club.
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In his address to convention attendees on Tuesday, 31 May, Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith proclaimed that The Rotary Foundation has never been stronger than it is today.
Bolstered by generous contributions from members and robust programs like PolioPlus and the Rotary Peace Centers, the Foundation's good work is drawing public notice, Klinginsmith said: CNBC, a leading consumer and business news outlet in the U.S., ranked Rotary No. 5 among the top 10 charities changing the world in 2015.
"Isn't it clear that our Foundation is truly better than ever before?" said Klinginsmith, who reported...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was among the first to welcome Rotary members and friends to the 107th Rotary Convention, heralded as one of the largest-ever gatherings of Rotarians and the most multicultural assembly of nonprofit leaders in Korea.
He offered a message of gratitude: “Rotarians do remarkable work around the world,” Ban told the thousands of attendees gathered at KINTEX, the Korea International Exhibition and Convention Center in Goyang city, on the outskirts of Seoul. “You help the United Nations reach our goals, and you help the world understand the United...
This year's World Water Summit on 27 May in Seoul highlighted the progress being made:
Over the last 25 years, more than 2.5 billion people gained access to improved drinking water, and 2 billion who didn't have adequate sanitation now do.
Child deaths from water-related diseases dropped from 1.5 million to just over 600,000.
The UN Millennium Development Goals' target for clean drinking water was met five years ahead of schedule.
But for the 1.8 billion people whose drinking water remains contaminated and the 2.4 billion without access to proper sanitation, progress is still too slow, said...
