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Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
-Assistant District Governor Dennis Robillard
Committee updates:
Raffle: sales are going very well. November 3 is the due date. Some members are looking for more tickets to sell. If you do exchange tickets please let Conrad know what number you exchanged so he can track it. We will do the big drawing on Nov 17! Thank you Karen Chasse for your leadership, and I think I heard Carl Goodwin had sold 33 tickets! Amazing!
We were very pleased to induct our second new member in two weeks, Justine Bassett! Welcome Justine!
Happy Dollars:
Jane Foley, $3, one for each of the job offers her daughter, a newly certified Physical Therapist, has received!
Ken Farley: $5, for his son getting his Coast Guard Engineer's license
Fausto: $10, glad to be back, and apologies for all the "sorry I have to be in Vegas" excuses he gives to miss meetings :)
Carl: sold 33 tickets (wow)
Brian D: happy/sad -- heading to Florida, so he'll be moving to the Zoom screen for the winter
Paul D: me too, same as Brian
Jen F: $10, Hakim and his family, who she spoke about last week regarding the dramatic rescue from Kabul, are getting closer to a relocation plan
Mike B: happy to see fellow UNE colleague Justine join the club (thanks Mike for sponsoring a great new member!)
CJ: happy to be back in person!
Kim R: daughter's artwork was a big hit at Saco Pumpkin Fest; and her house is under contract for sale
Joe M: took compass navigation class at APEX and very much enjoyed it (note: this happened because Jim LaBelle put together a Chamber bike ride with APEX a few weeks back and Joe met the instructor, thanks Jim that was a cool event!)
Brenda: her pageant winning granddaughters had a booth at Pumpkin Fest and it was very helpful. (Marty is happy there was a good reason he was stuck in traffic for an hour :)
ADG Dennis: the Saco Bay Sunset Club parked cars for OOB Taco Fest and it was a big success
Conrad, $2, happy for family to be together
Melissa, happy orienteering classes at APEX are a success
Fines from S-A-A Jim L:
Marty: $10: Forget to open the meeting with the Four Way Test! That fails the Four Way Test!!
CJ: looks too happy and tanned
Jane: too cool, drives a truck
Our speaker was Phoebe Little from Window Dressers. Window Dressers measures and makes, with volunteers, interior storm window inserts for low income households. In fact, any Biddeford/Saco resident can order them; but they are free for qualified low income people (including tenants). Oil prices are up, and there's still time to suggest people who could use a warmer apartment this winter.
This is an exciting Rotary volunteer opportunity and if you can help with the build, which will be held at the Biddeford Church of Christ at 266 Pool Street in Biddeford from Tuesday Nov 16 to Saturday Nov 20, you can (and should!) sign up here.
Closing note: PP Joe has announced a Movember moustache/facial hair challenge, to raise money for cancer treatment and men’s health issues particularly testicular cancer, prostate cancer and mental health: 50 BUCKS goes to the person male / female, they / them to the charity of their choice who has the best facial hair on November 17th as voted on by the club. You must be present to win (Zoom attendees included). Stick on moustaches qualify. Anything goes. Just win that vote. And word is just in that Pierre and Cynthia are matching the challenge, so it's up to $100 for the charity of your choice if you win!
Speakers this Wednesday are Stephanie Eklund and Kasey McDonough, A Home for ME (Spurwink), and the food is pizza (Ricetta's is famous for their pizza). Looking forward to it!