President's Message- for Feb 3, 2016

A few miscellaneous observations:

 

Please take a second to welcome new Members, Sabine McElrath. Justyna Cybowicz,  Don Pilon and Paulette Bonneau to the club. It is always nice to bring in new members but getting four in two weeks is fantastic.  If any committee chairs need help let me know and I will ask the new members about their interests.

 

We all need to take a moment and thank Fausto Pifferrer (yes, I actually spelled his last name and guess what it is now underlined in red).  Fausto’s company not only did a fantastic job catering the wine tasting event, but Fausto donated most of his fee back to our Red Ribbon committee.  That is going above and beyond.  Thanks for all you do Fausto.

 

I have to take a second and thank my employer, Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution.  It stepped up and increased its support for the auction to $2,500.00.  The extra $500 will go to sponsor the lobster bake item headed up by Joe Moreshead. As most of you know, our bank is incredibly generous, but I think it is necessary to sometimes acknowledge that generosity.

 

A friendly reminder that we have three weeks left to get our auction items in.  Please don’t procrastinate.  If you get them in early they can be inventoried sooner and the lives of people like Julie Villemaire and Joe Moreshead are just made a lot easier.  Please, please, please (Matt Simmons loves the “pleases”) get your items in as soon as you can.

 

Finally, while many of you loved January, let’s face it, it is going to snow.  Hell, we live in Maine.  Embrace the winter weather, love the snow and remember that there are a lot of people who need snow to make a living or to make winter more fun!  Spring will come soon enough, but for now pray for more snow and relish that we live in Maine and not some drought ridden, no season state.