Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be your Club President for this second year.

We decided to bring back the Lynn Rotary newsletter to highlight all the good work done every month by our Lynn Rotarians.

As of October 1, we have 61 active members and 8 honorary members. Other clubs want to know our secret sauce. We tell them folks join Lynn Rotary because “we do stuff.” While we surely love to get together over a meal at Old Tyme on the third Thursdays or at The Tiger’s Den in Lynn Tech on any Friday during the school year, truth be told, we’d rather fill a need than fill our belly. Every month our members show up at Greater Lynn Senior Services, Salvation Army and My Brother’s Table to help distribute groceries and meals. At other times we’re making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for MTB in the church basement at St. Pius V.

For more than 100 years Lynn Rotary has organized the Lynn All City Thanksgiving Luncheon for the high school football teams, cheerleaders and band. In January we distribute dictionaries to the 3rd graders in all the Lynn public schools. Three times a year we celebrate students who have overcome great challenges at our 8th Grade Recognition Luncheons. In May we co-sponsor the Special Games at Manning Field.

The list goes on! Who do you know who would love to be part of this? Who do you know who understands “Service Above Self?” Bring them to one of our events or a service project. And thank you for all you do for Lynn Rotary and in turn for Lynn.