Zoom only, this week and next! Starting March 30, we will be back at Dizzy Birds.
Thanks for all you’re doing for Rotary. I’m incredibly gratified to tell you that on Friday, our Club wired $3,910 to RC Oradea. This money will be used for mattresses, bed sheets, clothes and food for Ukrainian refugees. If you sold minigolf sponsorships back in August, raffle tickets in December, and are selling syrup now, you made this kind of impact possible. Additionally, many Rotarians added on individual donations, including Julie Villemaire who personally paid the wire transfer fee.
The Red Ribbon project is hitting on all cylinders. Red Ribbon is a national effort. It is the largest drug prevention program in the United States. I was traveling this week on a plane to Arkansas and I saw someone else with the Red Ribbon lapel pin. Here is what we are doing right now:
- 6,800 T-shirts ordered. That is a Red Ribbon T Shirt for every student grades K-12 in Biddeford & Saco.
- The shirts will feature a design from an area student. This design competition is underway. You can see the submittal guidelines here. Designs are due on the 17th (Thursday).
- We will need help sorting the T shirts into sizes and getting them ready for distribution to each school. After we sort at Jim's facility, we will deliver to the schools the week of April 25th to coincide with planned events around substance misuse.
Now for the important part, we got to sell some syrup! Here are the latest stats, let’s get after it, we need this funding for some very good causes. Sales end in only 17 days.
Here are the team stats:
Here are the individual leaders:
Thank you Roland for all your work to make this a success. Syrup will be available for pickup or shipment on June 4. This would be a good time to email all your friends with your sales link.
Looking forward to seeing you on Zoom the next two weeks. On 3/16, we have Anastasia Juma Sinawa, Children's Rescue Center, Kenya, which is a project we are currently funding. See the difference our funding is making!
And we expect a big crowd, possibly more than 100, for 3/23, because our speaker will be PDG Sergii Zavadskyi, RC Kyiv-City (Ukraine).
Then, let’s get back in the groove of great in-person meetings, like we’re known for – remember, there are three Rotary clubs in Biddeford-Saco. We’re the fun one :)
In closing, it’s Pi Day. Back at engineering school, we had a fight song:
Secant tangent cosine sine
3.14159
Kick em in the shins
Kick em in the knees
We got higher SAT’s
:)
Marty
