Biddeford Saco Rotary
7/14/21 meeting
via Zoom
Presiding: Marty Grohman, President
Pledge: Marty
4-Way Test - Nelly Rabadi
Invocation - Nasri Rabadi
Guests:
Nasri and Nelly Rabadi from Amman-Cosmopolitan (Jordan) Rotary
Announcements:
Brian - Please use the registration link on the meeting email announcements, we need head counts - next week we are in person at TA.
Marty - District Governor Dick Hall will be at next week's meeting. Bag lunch provided @$6 please reserve your lunch by responding to the appointment email from Clubrunner
Bill Patterson - August 4th meeting, in person at Biddeford Regional Center of Technology - featuring presentation on bees & pollinators by Dr. Don Hoenig
Conrad - programming:.July 28th on Zoom. Rotary Essay Contest winners will present to us.
Don - Mini Golf event...meeting today at Chamber at 4:30 pm. Courses - Pirates Cove, Martels & Raptor Falls.
This event is the weekend of August 14-15
Need sponsors
#50 $100 hole sponsors needed
Need members at the courses to engage the public
Will collect donations again at the courses - raised over $3,000 last year
GOOGLE sheet will be sent for sign-ups
Sergeant at Arms - Paulette
Happy Dollars
- Conrad - $5 - got to visit with his daughter and grand children
- Karen - $5 - got engaged this past weekend
- Dr. Joe - $5 - great speaker at Ogunquit Rotary - Don Pilon
- Morgan - $5 - his son Vaughn's 2nd birthday
- Roland - $1 - Paulette at the dinner at Tiqua on Monday
- Nasri - $20 - for all our club's hospitality
- Don - $5 - in an attempt to buy-off all fines in the upcoming year - LOL
- Paul - $1 - thanks to Roland, Sue & Chuck for the dinners
- Jill Eddie - 1 pound - July 4th in the UK is Thank You Rotary Day!
- Dennis Robillard - $ - Guest Speaker from Saco Bay Rotary - seeing relatives for the first time in a long time
- Jess - $1 - Biddeford Art Walk 5:30 to 7:30 this Friday
- Paulette - $5 - in honor of Fausto for his generosity
FINES by Paulette:
- Paul - you still have a car in the yard at the COT
- Heather McClain - not at your store when I visited...though store staff was great
- Roland - you & Nasri staying up late talking and Paula & Nelly couldn't sleep
- Karen - for getting engaged
- Susan -- for telling so many stories about the giant trolls at Coastal Maine Botanical Garden
Speaker:
Dennis Robillard - Crutches for Africa
The need is great and hates to see things go to waste.
Started the charity in 2004 with small shipments in cars - packed the insides with crutches.
Last shipment went to Afghanistan - as will the next.
Shipped at no cost to recipients
30k assistive devices sent from our district from 2011 - in 2019 sent 2 40' containers
Need new space to store crutches before shipping. Do we know of any space?
Monday the 19th from 6 - 8pm at 20 Gooch Street need help packing items
Greatest need - new space! Approx 1500 sf.
Next meeting at TA - 3rd meeting in our 101st year.
Meeting adjourned at 1:03 pm
