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Video Club Meeting April 8
ZOOM Video Conferencing
Apr 08, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

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Apr 08, 2020

Essay Contest POSTPONED

Presentations

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Club Information

Welcome to our Club! Rotary District 7780 -- Club Number 6294 -- Est. 1920

Service Above Self

We meet Wednesdays at 12:15 PM

Run of the Mill Public House & Brewery

100 Main St
Saco, ME 04072
United States

District Site

Venue Map

President

Fausto Pifferrer

President-Elect

Donald Pilon

Vice President

Martin Grohman

Treasurer

Susan Gajewski

Secretary

Julie Villemaire

Director

Alicia Girard

Director

CJ Dubois-Cote

Director

Conrad Welzel

Director

Heather Gendron

Director

Haley Thompson

Director

Jim Godbout

Immediate Past President

Joe Moreshead

Foundation Chair

Brian Dallaire

Youth Protection Officer

Ray Demers

Webmaster

Brian Dallaire

Program Chair

Conrad Welzel

Member Birthdays

Joe Moreshead

April 12

Jim Audiffred

April 13

Kathy Shea

April 17

Sarah Neault

April 22

CJ Dubois-Cote

April 23

Julie Villemaire

April 28

Fausto Pifferrer

Have a great day!

JOIN THE VIDEO ZOOM MEETING 4/8

Posted by Brian Dallaire on Apr 06, 2020

Our next club meeting on April 8, 2020 will be held as a virtual video meeting on ZOOM.

I have previously sent you an email invitation with the ZOOM link in Marty's name. Simply click on the link starting at noon. This will give you time to check your computer for connection, and to see if your camera and microphone are operating. To avoid stray noises and feedback on the mic, it is recommended that you use an earpiece with mic.

Also at the bottom of the email, there is a link for you to register or decline so that we know to expect you.

If you need any help, feel free to give me a call at 207.289.8375

Thanks

Brian Dallaire

In-Person Meeting Cancellations Until Further Notice

Posted by Susan Gajewski on Mar 26, 2020

These are certainly crazy and scary times with many businesses closing, folks staying home, mixed messages on the news and the uncertainty of what we can buy for food and supplies. I hope everyone is feeling okay and helping neighbors and older folks as best as they can. Be safe.

Due to the Coronavirus and the recommendation for social distancing, we will not be meeting in-person until further notice. We don’t know when the restaurants will be allowed to re-open or when the ban will be lifted concerning gatherings of ten or more people. I really miss all of you and miss our fun weekly gathering.

Our 25th annual Essay Contest was to be held on April 8th will be postponed and is dependent on the school schedule and whether or not the students go back to school this spring. We haven’t made any definite plans yet.

Our centennial celebration is postponed and will hopefully be scheduled this fall. Fausto is going to talk to Gina at the farm about their available dates and we will keep you posted. All of the Rotarians from the UK have had to cancel their travel plans to attend in May but I hope they can make it in the fall.

Stay healthy and we hope you can enjoy this time with your families.

I think that’s everything but if anyone has questions, please reply to this email and I’ll do what I can to get your answers.

All the best to everyone.

Susan

Biddeford Saco Rotary Club

Sub Committee for Coronavirus Community Service/Projects

Posted by Conrad Welzel on Apr 01, 2020

Hope you are HEALTHY!

The Biddeford Saco Rotary Board of Directors met today 4/1/2020 (via Zoom) and discussed what we should be doing as a club to help out in our community during the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis.

It was decided to create a small sub-committee to determine a list of projects/priorities that the club could support during this crisis. These could be in the short term immediate and /or long term and are needs now or will be most likely needs in our Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach community.
Once we have a list the Board or Club can decide if this is appropriate.

Don Pilon and Haley Thompson both volunteered to join me on the Sub-committee. We are looking for a some more volunteers. We can meet using Zoom.
Please email or call me if you are interested or have any ideas, or questions by this Friday morning at 10 am.

Thanks Conrad

831-5832

cwelzel2017@gmail.com

Observations from the Peanut Gallery Regarding the COVIC-19 Related Lockdown

Posted by Bill Kany on Apr 05, 2020

I realize that the Peanut Gallery has been on hiatus for a while, but with all that is going on I felt that it was important to share the Gallery’s twisted view of all of this crap and particularly the lockdown imposed by the Governor for the month of April. While some appear to perceive the lockdown as a wicked April Fool’s joke, I think most of us know that this is real. So real, in fact, that I must issue a disclaimer. I know that this entire coronavirus pandemic has hit some of your businesses hard so if I am poking fun at the situation it is not intended to minimize what you are going through in any way. While we all need to keep washing our freakin’ hands we also need to laugh a little.

Day 1 of the Maine Lockdown.

I started my day by carving a notch on one of the 2x4s in the garage to mark the first day of the lockdown. I have no idea how long this will last so I might as well keep track of the days. Of course, I do have access to a calendar, TV and the internet, but I intend to keep notching that 2x4 until this is over or I have chewed all the way through it.

I am out on work release each day, yes banks are an essential business along with real estate agencies, bike repair facilities and garden stores and green houses. While I get that people need access to their money and credit, I am not sure why we really need access to pansies and can’t people fix their own bikes for a month. Other than work release I kind of feel imprisoned. Perhaps that is because most TV shows have had their spring finales already, heaven forbid they film more than 12 episodes of a show in any one year, or perhaps it is because I cannot go buy a car if I feel like it.

No, I think it is just a lost sense of freedom. You know, “freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose….” What the F, oh yeah, Joplin was a drug addict.

I guess we all take being able to go wherever we want for granted. Like I really need a haircut. Well, barber shops and hair salons are non-essential business along with my usual back up of dog groomers so I am getting a little shaggy. I guess it is okay to have your cat groomed but dogs are shit out of luck. I can tell you that when you throw nail technicians, cosmetologists, electrolysis services and laser hair removal into the mix of non-essential businesses we are not going to have to worry about social distancing because who will want to get close to a bunch of hairy mustachioed women with chipped nails. Six feet my ass, try 20.

Who the hell eats bats anyway with the possible exception of Fausto who said: “I grew up really poor Cuban in Philadelphia. We ate anything we could get our hands on including rats and bats, and it didn’t affect me in the least. Did I mention I grew up poor? Did I mention I’m Cuban?’

But I digress.

Good news for many, medical marijuana dispensaries are classified as essential businesses. So if you are out and about and driving around a little stoned and you get pulled over by the cops just tell them you’re on the way to Stoner & Company and you’ll be fine. Just a little free legal advice.

I am worried about the Moresheads. They are going to have to eat at home for at least a month and a half. How barbaric!

I understand that the Maine State Golf Association is lobbying the Governor to move golf courses into the essential business category. Hell, the Governor said we can go for walks, so why f up a good walk by throwing in a set of golf clubs. Frankly, if I am deprived of the ability to wear plaid in public for a month I may go mad.

I swear to God if my neighbor looks at me funny again for burning tires in my backyard I am going to fashion my shovel into a shiv. I will get him before he gets me. Whoa, time to drink some more Purell, beer ran out on day 0 of the lockdown – poor planning on my part.

All right, back to work release. Stay safe, stay home and laugh when you can. I will check in later to discuss all the f’ers who have stashed away enough toilet paper to wipe every ass in China three times, and frankly that is where I would like to send them and what I would like to require them to do.

Day 2 of the Maine Lockdown.

Notched the 2x4 in the garage again. My wife is looking at me kind of funny, but I long ago became used to that. I have noticed that when I have a bit of down time, like this entire month of April, I tend to read things on line, or in the actual newspaper that still gets delivered in a tube next to my mailbox, that I would not usually read. Yeah, I still get a real paper. Old school I know, but think of this. Gilligan’s Island aired for 3 years and every day Thurston Howell, III got the Wall Street Journal claiming his paper boy had a really good arm, but the same paper boy failed to tell anyone he was throwing the paper to a customer marooned on an island in the middle of the Pacific. Of course, that is completely irrelevant, but think about it anyway.

So, as I said, I have some time to read things I usually don’t read, and I decided to read Jim Labrie’s Chamber Newsletter. Yes, Jim I know that admission may have cut you to the core, but you’ll get over it. In reading the newsletter I came to Jim’s Closing Thoughts in which he wrote:

T.S. Eliot’s epic poem The Wasteland starts with: “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” Dude was right! [Only Jim Labrie refers to T.S. Eliot as “dude”] And this April is going to be an especially cruel month. We’re hoping that you stay well and can help other community members in need whenever possible. Our collective health is the most important priority right now as we all continue to do what’s difficult but necessary to beat this virus.

Here’s a more inspiring thought from T.S. [Jim is clearly very close with T.S. Eliot because he gets to call him T.S. and dude]: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” Don’t exactly know that that means, but how great is it going to be when we can all re-engage as a community once again and rebuild our collective momentum? We still have a challenging journey in front of us, but Spring’s eternal promise of renewal will come eventually – and with it a refreshed perspective and appreciation for what we’re all missing right now … each other!

Well said, Mr. Labrie, well said. And with that I will head back to work release to make sure all of you have access to your stinkin’ money and credit.

Days 3-5 of the Maine Lockdown.

Starting to weaken the structural integrity of the 2x4 in my garage with three more notches. Forgive me, but it was the weekend so I will consolidate days 3-5.

Before I go any further (pun intended) I have to address the toilet paper shortage. Let’s face it, while horrible in so many ways Covid-19 does not cause diarrhea in most people. Notwithstanding that fact, when I went to the grocery store this weekend I found more unicorns in the unicorn isle than I found toilet paper in the paper goods isle. So what the hell? It’s like buying extra life jackets to head off on a desert safari.

The so-called experts call it panic buying and apparently if one person panic buys then it becomes the instinct of everyone who sees that person buying to want to buy the same thing. I would love to get my hands on that first person who headed into a Costco and bought up 5 jumbo packs (that’s 48 rolls each) of Charmin. Why couldn’t that same bastard have panic purchased 5 huge cans of lima beans or tapioca pudding? What the hell does one person do with 240 rolls of toilet paper?

Let’s do some math. Believe it or not there are toilet paper statistics and a roll of toilet paper is supposed to last the average person 4 days. Now Jackson Brown is so full of crap his last name is Brown so we’ll assume he uses one every two days, but he is the exception and not the rule. So 240 rolls will last the average person 960 days or a couple 480 days. For a single person that is over two and a half years! For a couple we are looking at about a year and a half. I am only speculating here, but I am thinking that there will be plenty of toilet paper a month from now, so the compelling need to stock up for 2 years mystifies me.

The average jumbo pack of toilet paper is also about the size of a shopping cart. Where does one store 5 grocery carts in your apartment? Frankly, so much toilet paper has been purchased I am picturing Aroostook County completely clear cut and now we are heading for the Amazon rain forest for our next round of 2 ply.

Are there other uses for 240 rolls of toilet paper? Gymnasts cannot go to the gym to practice so maybe they are filling foam pits with rolls of toilet paper in their basements. Maybe the jumbo packs make great beanbag chairs that you never, and I mean never, have to leave. Now I understand that the Sears and Roebuck catalogues are long gone so we don’t have the same backup system we used to have, but I am guessing a lot of people still have those Encyclopedia Britannica’s on their bookshelves for decorative purposes or that old edition of Moby Dick that they will never going to read, so they’re covered in a pinch (pun intended again). With that kind of paper reserve please leave a roll or two on the shelves for the next guy.

The government keeps saying that we are all in this together (actually that is Saco & Biddeford Savings’ tag line so I am considering a trade mark suit) while Maine’s translator for the deaf stretches her face in ways that were never intended for the human body (Sponge Bob Square Pants was never that distorted). If we are all in this together please leave a couple of rolls for the next guy or invite him into your house to use the head.

April 4 and I did get my haircut. No, I did not go to some back alley illegal barber shop or bring in my own stylist. First, I normally go to Supercuts so I do not have my own stylist and second I don’t have a stylist. No, Holly cut my hair. She used to cut it all the time, but it has been a few years. I strategically need to wait until I have not pissed her off because there is nothing worse than a spouse hovering over you with a sharp pair of scissors in her hand (remember they are so sharp you are not supposed to run with them in your hand), and your appearance for the next month or two entirely is entirely at her mercy. Since it had been a long time since she had cut my hair I lowered my expectations to having it look like something between Sinead O’Connor and Ed Sheeran (does he own a comb?). It actually came out quite well, and I now figure I can make it through a couple of months without my hair offending too many (but hell no one is going to see me anyway).

Finally, I noticed over the weekend a bunch of motorcycles on the road. Frankly, I never really pay any attention to motorcycles, but I had to wonder where does one go on an essential trip on a motorcycle? But then I realized that this whole lockdown thing has heightened my sense of freedom just a little bit more, not unlike a blind person having a far greater sense of smell or hearing. Trains on the tracks across the river from my house seem that much closer, as I wonder where they are heading. I find myself pondering where the few cars on the Turnpike are going and why, and yes, I wonder where the hell those Harley’s could possibly be going that is so important, followed by a sense of envy that they seem free to go where they want. I suspect we are all craving freedom a bit these days, and perhaps one small benefit of this whole horrible nightmare may be that we won’t take our freedom so much for granted any more, but then again maybe I have just always wanted a motorcycle.

Stay healthy and stay home.

Words of Encouragement from District Governor Andy Glazier

Posted on Mar 26, 2020

These are crazy times.
This is seriously testing the ability of all of us to adapt and substantially restructure our lives.

But, we can do it. We will do it. We will survive!

Our world has changed.
Rotary North America and Rotary throughout most of our world has now ceased all in-person meetings. Rotary has even cancelled our flagship event of the year, our Rotary International Convention.
Rotary Clubs are still functioning.
Many of your clubs have me included on your email lists. Thank you; it’s fascinating to read about your brainstorming sessions. Some clubs coordinated with emails and conference calls. Other clubs promptly ramped up to to on-line board meetings, and to on-line club meetings. Well done.

And, clubs are now doing what?
I am amazed at the creative and innovative ideas and ways you have come up with to continue our Rotary mission of helping those who are less fortunate and those who find themselves in need. Good for you! Kudos to your club; kudos to YOU! Pat yourself on the back!

Some clubs are focusing on checking on our elderly and our vulnerable. Others on food insecurity; still others on supporting their local businesses. It all helps; it’s all good.
Share what your club is doing.
Please share what you are and what your club is doing to help, on our District Facebook page, Rotary District 7780.
Oh, and, please like our Facebook page. And visit it often…
Zoom, and more.
For those clubs in need of an on-line platform for meeting, our District has two Zoom Pro accounts. Each Zoom account can support one meeting at a time. Our Zoom accounts are available on a first asked first served basis. For details, please contact me, andyglzr@gmail.com, or our District Technology Guru, Christine Johnson, cejinmaine@gmail.com

Additionally, some members, and/or their businesses or employers, have Zoom and GoToMeeting accounts, and other on-line platforms, that they can share with Rotary. Conference calls work too.

BElieve
THEre is
GOOD in

The World

Thank you very much,

for taking care of yourself,

and for taking care of others.

Please remember,

We, here on earth, are one family.

Elbow bumps and love to you all,

DG Andy

PDG Drouin in the News

Posted on Mar 22, 2020

Look at what appeared in the Maine Sunday Telegram this past weekend. I feel a big fine coming especially since it was on the top of the front page!

Week in Review 3/11/2020

Posted by Brenda Pollock on Mar 17, 2020

Covid-19 and The Rotary Foundation

Posted on Mar 26, 2020

These are trying times, both health wise and financially. This is very evident at Rotary International headquarters in Evanston, IL where personnel are not being permitted to enter the building.

Should you be able and willing to make a contribution to the Foundation at this time, Elizabeth Davis, our Rotary Annual Fund Giving Officer, has sent the following guidelines.

1. The Rotary Support Center does not have phone or contribution processing capabilities at this time. They are only available to answer inquires via email. Their email address is rotarysupportcenter@rotary.org. Members should not email contributions to this email address.

2. Any contributions sent to One Rotary Center will not be processed for some time. Additionally, our capability for accepting faxed contributions has also been placed on hold indefinitely. We highly encourage members who would like to contribute to do so online at myrotary.org/donate.

3. At this time, our lockbox address, The Rotary Foundation 14280 Collections Center Drive, Chicago, IL, 60693, listed on contribution forms is active. However, should USPS discontinue service this will become an issue as well. Again, the best place to make a contribution is online at myrotary.org/donate.

I also know that some of you are using Rotary Direct to make your contribution. Others have already made this Rotary year’s contribution. I thank you very much for having done so. If you have not yet made a contribution, please consider doing so. In this time of worldwide crisis, our Rotary Foundation needs your help more than ever.

The Rotary Foundation Trustees recently met and made a number of decisions regarding grant options to give clubs and districts increased flexibility in dealing with the pandemic. These changes involve both District Grants and Global Grants and allowing Rotary Disaster Response Fund grants to be used in fighting Covid-19. (See separate story for details)

Meanwhile, despite the practical problems we are all experiencing regarding meetings, we want to strongly encourage clubs to go forward with planning for a District Grant application this year. A District Grant proposal can involve a Covid-19 response. I will shortly be sending out an invitation to join our live Zoom on-line Grant Management Seminar on March 31.

Stay safe and be well.

Lawrence Furbish
District 7780 Foundation Committee Chair

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Revised District Grant Policy

Posted on Mar 26, 2020

Request for Exceptions to Grant Policy to Allow Quick Response to Covid-19

Background:

The World Health Organization has declared the Covid-19 virus to be a pandemic. Rotary provides several options through which Rotarians can demonstrate their care and concern for their own communities and those around the world. Below is a range of grant options available to Rotarians to address this pandemic, including two decisions that allow flexibility to current policy.

District Grants

Districts can use district grant funds to support activities like the purchase of thermometers, masks, etc. Districts can use contingency funds from an open district grant, or repurpose previously planned activities for a Covid-19 response. Regional grant officers will be ready to answer questions to help districts with this option.

As of 12 March, US$30.3 million still remains unreported in district grant funding for 2019-20, indicating districts may have a substantial amount to immediately apply to Covid-19 projects if so desired.

As districts prepare to submit new district grant applications for 2020-21, we encourage them to designate funds for a Covid-19 response.

For those districts that may have exhausted their 2019-20 district grant funds, the decision below allows them to be reimbursed for Covid-19 related expenses dated back to 15 March 2020 out of their 2020-21 district grant funding.

Global Grants

Global grants are an excellent way to respond effectively to Covid-19. For example, if your community needs medical equipment, global grants offer a way to pay for these expensive items. The Rotary Foundation is expediting any applications for these types of Covid-19-related projects. Regional grant officers can be contacted to help.

In global grants, at least 30% of the financing must come from outside of the country where the project takes place. If the Trustees agree to waive this requirement for Covid-19 projects, it would greatly expedite the speed at which these grants can be developed.

Disaster Response Fund & Grant

Rotary’s Disaster Response Grants provide a fast and effective way to respond to local disasters. Districts can apply for up to $25,000 at a time, depending upon the availability funds.

The Rotary Disaster Response Fund makes funds available through Disaster Response Grants to help districts around the world respond to disasters. The fund accepts online and offline cash contributions and DDF. While the Foundation anticipates an increase in grant requests for Covid-19, this fund remains general and contributions of both cash and DDF will be used where Rotarians stand ready to respond to the disasters they are confronting.

The Philanthropy team will coordinate an announcement on Rotary.org alerting the Rotary world that Rotary supports districts in their efforts to address immediate coronavirus pandemic needs using Disaster Response Grants. This story can highlight Disaster Response Grants as a flexible resource in need of support by donors to encourage giving to supply funding for disasters around the globe. Philanthropy can also circulate a Covid-19 specific email appeal to generate giving towards this general fund.

We have seen some success with this approach over the past year; however, given recent economic turbulence and donor uncertainty surrounding Covid-19, an emphasis on gifts of DDF with secondary focus on giving from individuals is prudent.

Trustees may consider allowing districts to designate that their DDF contribution to the Disaster Response Fund is to be held exclusively for Covid-19 activities. This would not apply to cash contributions because at this time our system is not configured to direct cash contributions to a separate fund, and we want to provide options Rotarians can act on immediately.

Request to transfer $1 million from World Fund to Disaster Response Fund

Background:

The executive committee is giving consideration of steps to increase options for Rotarians to utilize The Rotary Foundations grants – including district, global and disaster recovery – to support Rotary’s response to COVID-19. Unfortunately, at this time, the disaster response fund has a balance of less than $10,000.

The general secretary recommends transferring $1 million from World Fund to the Disaster Response Fund. This decision offers the following benefits:

demonstrates the Foundation’s ability to be nimble and responsive;
expedites the Foundation’s processing of disaster recovery funds and grant requests;
will inspire districts and individuals to contribute to the disaster response fund which will increase the financial resources available.

The impact on global grants budget and other budgetary implications are hard to quantify at this time. If global grant activity mirrors what occurred in FY19, global grants would require approximately $36 million (FY19PA) of the $42 million FY19 World Fund budget. As of last week, global grant World Fund commitments were on the same trajectory as last year. Although directing $1 million from the World Fund reserved for global grants seems like a safe reduction, if global grant activity accelerates, perhaps to provide medical equipment in response to Covid-19, the Foundation may not be able to keep up with demand. However, the $1 million being considered is likely to be used for Covid-19 response in either case and the Disaster Response Fund would allow grants to be made more quickly and help secure additional contributions

Centennial Celebration

POSTPONED until the fall of 2020.

Charitable Funds Committee

Posted by Joe Moreshead on Mar 05, 2020

Happy March 5, 2020. I am writing to let everyone know that the Biddeford Saco Charitable Funds Committee is rising from the ashes like a Phoenix. At Wednesdays BOD meeting it was discussed to bring the committee back. Dennis Elie and I will co-chair the committee. We also have two members, our newest Rotarians- Jane Foley and Melisa Cilley- welcome! The board thought it would be a great way to get new Rotarians and give them a sense of what we do. But wait there is more, ( I love sales folks who keep using that phrase- but wait there is more ). The four of us want you to join us. If you have any interest in being on the committee just send me an email at jmoreshe@psmp.com . I will add you to the list. We plan on sending out our giving guide lines to committee members so they have a road map for giving.

It is pretty simple we have a budget that can be from $5,000 to $15,000+++ a year to use in support of our charitable requests. I’ll explain our funding sources at our first meeting. Our charitable request form can be found on our website http://www.biddeford-sacorotary.org/ , located in the top right hand corner of the front page. Check out the website, you can connect with other Rotarians, etc. Most folks will hear about us and get directed to the website to download the application and submit it. We will also regularly get requests from American Lung Association, Alzheimer’s, etc.- all of the big not for profits send appeals to our club.

As funds get requested, you will receive an email from the co-chairs that will have the filled out charitable application form, ( just as an aside- you will see information, SSN’s, discharge papers, etc. This information must remain confidential ), and any other supporting information. Read the request, do they mesh with our guidelines? Yes / No, not to worry that is what our meetings are for. If we have requests a meeting will be scheduled to follow a regular Wednesday meeting. Our regular meeting ends at 1:30 our committee will meet right after that. As co-chair I will send out a meeting agenda with a copy of all of the requests we will be discussing at least a week in advance. Our meetings usually last 10 to 15 minutes- not very long. We only meet if we have business to vote on. On occasion there are those emergency requests where the above meeting guidelines will take too long. On those occasions the co-chairs will send out the requests and follow up with email votes, etc.

Lastly, as a committee we only have authority to grant a maximum of $500.00 per request. Any requests larger than that will go to the Board of Directors for approval. Please join the committee and see where your money is going. Don’t you know that it is better to give then receive!

Yours in Rotary,

PP’s Dennis Elie and Joe Moreshead

PS: But wait there is more, I want to see how many people are reading the E-Tack- I have 25% discount on lift tickets at Sunday River- anybody want to go skiing?

But wait there is more, discounts on food and beverage as well—MMMMMMMMMMM, cinnamon buns at North Peak mid morning!

Note From The Publisher

Posted by Brian Dallaire on Sep 19, 2019

To all Tack note takers,

As a favor since I am remotely compiling the tack, please shoot me an e-mail once you have taken the notes. That way I will know who to anticipate sending me the typed up version later on.

Please submit your Tack notes to Brian Dallaire at bdallaire@usa.net and with copy to Julie Villemaire at Jvillemaire@maine.rr.com, no later than the Tuesday AM before the next meeting.

Thanks

Brian

CLUBRUNNER MOBILE

Posted by Brian Dallaire on Oct 08, 2019

Everyone’s Phone Number at Your Fingertips

Have you done the easy ClubRunner download yet?

How would you like to have not only your own Rotary Club members contact information but also the entire District at your fingertips? You can and so much more by downloading the new and improved ClubRunner Mobile App. You can also access club and district leadership, stories and events all with just a few clicks. Connecting to them is as easy as clicking on the phone number or email address.You can download it on the AppStore or GooglePlay and be on your way in minutes. Now would also be a good time to make sure that your profile is current, and if you do not have a picture saved, or your birthday listed, considering updating your information now! Reach out and collaborate with other like minded Rotarians from around our district and be the People of Action that your are!

Watch the short video here if you want to check it out before downloading.

Click to: Download on iTunes App Store (free)

Click to: Download on Android App Store (free)

CLYNK Update

Posted by Julie Villemaire on Oct 01, 2013

Our Club is in first place of 10 Rotary Clubs who participate in this program! But Saco Bay is gaining on us.

Total Raised:
$2,620.85

Containers CLYNKed:
47,685

Environmental Impact:

Energy: Saved enough energy to light 66.2 lightbulbs—24 hours a day—for a year.
Emissions: Saved the emissions equivalent of driving a car 12,538 miles.
Volume: Diverted enough containers to fill 484.4 lobster traps.

Fill up those green bags. If you need more bags and/or labels, just let Julie Villemaire know and she can hook you up…no charge!

Simple fill with returnables and drop off at any Hannaford.

Alternately, if you already have a CLYNK account of your own, you can designate you funds as a donation. Hit the Donate button and search for Rotary and you'll find our account.