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Committee reports:
Raffle: We are only 7 tickets away from having sold every single one! Amazing work. Thank you Karen Chasse and the whole raffle team!
Charitable: Jim Godbout will need volunteers on the morning of Monday November 15 to help move foam flooring tiles from XL Sports in Saco to My Place Teen Center's new building in Biddeford. Please watch your email for a signup request. Many hands make light work, especially when moving foam...
Joe M has a request from Nick Blunier of Common Roots Studio to help fund his Artbus project. It does not align very well with our charitable giving guidelines. Melissa Cilley or Jess Muise will reach out to see if there's a way to mesh it with their work.
Please sign up for a shift at Window Dressers Biddeford Build if you can. Some of us are heading over after the meeting on the 17th. Here is the signup link.
UNE Rotaract (Mike Burman/Justine Bassett): Rotaract is having Ann Hussey speak about polio next week. It continues to be a busy and active club. Some Rotaract members may volunteer for the Window Dressers build.
Program: next week our speaker is Commander Mike Gibney of American Legion Post 26, on the experience of the Vietnam Veteran.
There is no meeting on the 24th (day before Thanksgiving).
There is no meeting on the 24th (day before Thanksgiving).
Happy dollars:
Brenda is happy for her husband David's 65th birthday; he looks 45
Ken is happy to have friends who help with construction projects. That's what the Club is for :)
Bill P is happy that Susan is back, and his family is getting a new puppy, a Burmadoodle
Roland is happy because it looks like snow in Quebec
Susan has a happy $20, good to be back, thanks to Club members for attending Chuck's wake and funeral, thanks to Roland and to Heather M for helping out at the last minute when needed... that's what the Club is for...
Cynthia is happy to be in the Club, at the $20 level!
Conrad is happy to see such great meeting attendance!
Melissa is happy to give her last dollar to Rotary!
Fines from S-A-A Jim LaBelle:
Marty was fined for getting elected to Biddeford City Council, and for driving an EV
Mark N was fined for also driving an EV (how did Heather M not also get fined for this, Jim???)
Brian D was fined for looking too happy on Zoom, in Florida, surrounded by the beach and palm trees
Conrad fined for being happy 52 weeks in a row
50/50 was won by Bill Paterson. Congrats Bill!
Our speakers were Stephanie Eklund and Kasey McDonough, of A Home for ME (a program of Spurwink), promoting foster parenthood. There are currently 2200 children in Maine across all age ranges looking for forever homes. It is a statewide problem. There are hundreds of kids just 8 or 9 years old in the program looking for homes. Many foster families will receive a stipend.
If you can help please do -- there are ways other than fostering to help out, as well.
Save-the-Date: Wreaths Across America (led locally by Graig Morin of Brown Dog Trucking) has requested our help on Saturday December 18 at 9AM to lay wreaths on the graves of veterans in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Biddeford.
Here is Steve Morin's invocation for the week, thank you Steve. We are always pleased to have volunteers to give the invocation/inspirational thought, and this is a good one:
“To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do travels a circle and returns to you many times over – but remember, life isn’t about what you get, it’s about you become”- Dennis Gaskill
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