December 23, 2015 (Dec 21, 2015)

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Feb 03, 2016
Evening Meeting - Anchor Space
No speaker

Feb 10, 2016
Enoch Albert
Hospice and Palliative Care

Feb 17, 2016
Debra Deal, Executive Director Camp Beech Cliff
Acadia Winter Festival

Feb 24, 2016
President Sue Kropff
Club Assembly, President's Update to the Club

Mar 02, 2016
Evening Meeting - Location TBD
No Speaker

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President

Sue Kropff

President Elect

Shaun Farrar

Secretary

Nancy Corliss

Treasurer

Ron Wrobel

Club Administration

Scott Hammond

Public Relations

Carrie Jones

Service Projects

Shaun Farrar

International Projects

Susy Del Cid

The Rotary Foundation Committee

Amanda Mogridge

Member at Large

Steve Boucher

Webmaster

Joe Losquadro

Service Above Self

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

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Venue Map

Sue Kropff

Dear Club Member,

Chef Pasha did not disappoint at our Wednesday noon meeting. He delighted our palates with a salad bar, petite filet mignon, trout, baked potato, green beans and delicious mushroom cabernet gravy. The grand finale was a scrum delicious apple pie!

We were honored with a visit from Past President Dave Wells from the Ellsworth Noon time Club. Dave shared that 126 wheelchairs have been delivered to Belize. These chairs will go to 9 clubs to be distributed appropriately, Belize City receiving 44 chairs and smaller cities receiving 5 chairs each.

Annette announced the Pack a Bag for Belize Project and has since sent this notice of the project:

Pack a Bag for Belize

Mission - Rotary Club of Ellsworth and Rotary Club of Bar Harbor are sending a team to Belize in March 2016. The purpose of the mission is to distribute 126 wheelchairs to those in need of mobility. With the help of local clubs in Belize, we will distribute wheelchairs in Belize City, San Ignacio, Belmopan, and outlying areas over three full days. This mission is a multi-national humanitarian initiative with support from 10 Rotary Clubs, representing 4 Rotary Districts.

Need and Impact - The World Health Organization has identified wheelchairs as one of the most effective tools for assisting people with disabilities to become more productive members of their communities and that each wheelchair improves the lives of at least 10 people. It is estimated that more than 100 million people throughout the world are in need of a wheelchair but cannot afford one. A wheelchair is their only hope for mobility and independence. Roughly 3% of the population in developing countries is physically disabled and unable to afford a wheelchair. The majority of these people live in moderate or extreme poverty.

Pack a Bag for Belize - Another way to make a difference is by donating backpacks, pencils, school items, and deflated soccer balls to local school children in Belize. If you would like to help Pack a Bag for Belize, please make a cash donation or donate your items by February 23, 2016.

Yes, I’d like to support Pack a Bag for Belize

____I am donating a backpack or school items____I wish to make a cash donation $_______

Contact with phone and email: _________________________________________________________

Name of Individual or Corporation: _________________________________________________________

Mailing Address: _________________________________________________________

Rotary Club of Ellsworth Foundation ּ P.O. Box 741 ּ Ellsworth, ME 04605

The Interact Club will be painting Serendipity on the weekend of 2/5 to 2/7, PLEASE make the time to stop by to cheer them on, lend a hand and support their AMAZING work. This AWESOME group of young people are GETTING IT DONE in our community!!!

Please join us on Wednesday for our February evening meeting at Anchorspace, 337 Main Street at 5:00 pm to share fun and fellowship. This is a GREAT opportunity to invite a guest!!

I hope to see you ALL Wednesday evening.

Yours in Service,

Sue

Upcoming Meetings & Events

Meeting/Event	Date	Time	Place
Pre-PETS	2/8	6-9 pm	Bangor
Board Meeting	2/22	5 pm	YWCA
Rotary Birthday	2/23	All day	Everywhere
PETS	3/18-20	All weekend	St. George, Quebec

PolioPlus

PolioPlus is Rotary's massive effort to eradicate poliomyelitis from the world by 2000. It was launched in 1985 with the goal of raising US$120 million to immunize the developing world's children against polio for five years. The Polio Plus fundraising campaign that concluded in 1988 raised a record US$220 million, and by 2005, Rotarians' contributions to the global polio-eradication effort will approach US$425 million. Of even greater significance has been the huge volunteer army mobilized by Rotary International. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers at the local level are providing support at clinics or mobilizing their communities for immunization or polio-eradication activities.

In 1988, Rotary joined the World Health Assembly in committing itself to the eradication of polio by 2000, with certification of the medical milestone in 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary. Rotary works with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, national governments and others in the global Polio Eradication Initiative, the world's most extensive public/private health undertaking. By 1998, some 120 nations around the world had benefited from Polio Plus grants for polio immunization and eradication efforts, and thanks to the immunization efforts during the decade after 1988, as many as four million children who might have been polio victims were walking and playing normally. As a result of the efforts of Rotary International and its partners, more than one billion children have received oral polio vaccine and are protected from poliomyelitis.

In 1994 Rotary helped celebrate the elimination of polio from the Western Hemisphere. The Western Pacific is on its way to being certified as polio-free, and efforts are now focused on Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Polio can be eradicated for as little as US$0.50 worth of vaccine per child. Achieving eradication will be difficult (only one other disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated) and expensive (estimated cost to the international community is nearly US$2 billion). It requires National Immunization Days to immunize all of a polio-endemic country's children under the age of five, continuing routine immunization of children worldwide, systematic reporting of all suspected cases, rapid response to outbreaks, and establishment of laboratory networks.

No other non governmental organization has ever made a commitment of the scale of PolioPlus. It may be considered the greatest humanitarian service the world has ever seen. Every Rotarian can share the pride of that achievement.

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