Last week 29 Rotarians joined in for our meeting about ACE's. It was great to see everyone again. Meetings will be held up to 45 minutes in length.
Our next club meeting on May 6, 2020 will again be held as a virtual video meeting on ZOOM. Meeting will be most likely held this way through May.
I have previously sent you an email invitation with the ZOOM link. 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
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.
spoke with Toni. She said her pantry is getting people from outside of Saco now but they’ve been able to manage so far. Hannaford and Shaw’s no longer allows her to purchase case of food. She said funding is great but what her pantry is in need of most are the following items:
1. Jars of jelly 2. Complete pancake mix 3. Syrup 4. Chicken soup in the can 5. Tuna and chicken in the can 6. Hand sanitizer 7. Clorox wipes
Biddeford –
spoke with Don Bisson He said any funding allows them to purchase a lot of food. If we were to donate food items, here is what his pantry needs most:
1. Hamburger helper 2. Taco meals 3. Canned fruits and vegetables 4. Baked beans 5. White spaghetti only (they return any other pastas) 6. White rice 7. Soup and crackers 8. Canned ham, fish or chicken 9. Mac & cheese 10. Peanut butter 11. Raisins and other dried fruit 12. Cereal
Drop off at Fausto’s home:
3 Libby Drive Biddeford, ME 04005
You can leave the food in the vehicle in the driveway or on the front step.
Delivery will be on THURSDAY MAY 7th in the morning. If donating, please have it there prior to 10am on Thursday. It’s Mother’s Day weekend. It would be nice to have the food we donate available for the weekend.
Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club continues serving local communities
Members meet through Zoom.
SACO — This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club. As they learn to navigate through this crisis, meeting regularly to discuss ways to continue their spirit of giving, changed. Like many businesses and organizations, since the state shutdown, the club continues to connect weekly using the Zoom meetings platform. Club President Fausto Pifferrer stated, “Meeting every week keeps our Rotarians engaged and informed. It is important for us to continue the foundation our forefathers established and reach out during to our communities in this time of crisis”.
The club reallocated funds and organized a COVID-19 subcommittee with a mission to provide financial help to those organizations who characteristically are first line providers. Conrad Welzel, chair of the COVID-19 committee, announced $500 was allocated to Apex Youth Connection in Biddeford. The group has been distributing free Healthy and Active Care Packages to area families every Friday for the past four weeks. Items such as food, personal care products like soap and toothbrushes/toothpaste, a physical activity to help keep kids moving, and an at-home service project. “All year long, Apex Youth Connection is getting area youth ‘out there,’ connecting with their community, the outdoors, and their futures,” said Melissa Cilley, executive director of Apex. “We are still connecting remotely with our youth, but it became clear very quickly that area families needed more support — especially around weekend food needs and personal care items. We are so grateful to the Biddeford-Saco Rotary, Biddeford Walmart, and other area businesses and organizations who have helped make that support possible.” The packages will continue at least through the month of May every Friday from 3 to 4 p.m. at Apex’s satellite location at 46 Sullivan St. in Biddeford.
“Unquestionably, providing $500 to the Biddeford food pantry and the Saco food pantry was important,” Welzel said. “They already serve our communities and the closure of some of the smaller pantries due to the pandemic, they have both seen increased traffic at their respective facilities.”
They also approved purchasing ten $50 in grocery gift cards to help local families living in Old Orchard Beach.
An additional $1,000 in funding was approved for Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center in Biddeford. “They support everyone who passed through their doors. They know the immediate needs of our citizens and are able to stretch every dollar donated to their organization,” Welzel said.
The club meets every Wednesday from noon to 12:45 p.m. via Zoom. For more information on becoming a Rotarian, visit Biddeford-sacorotary.org.
The Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club awards a Scholarship of $1,000.00 for either a four (4)-year or two (2)-year degree to a Senior graduating from Biddeford High School, the Regional Center of Technology, Thornton Academy and from Old Orchard Beach High School who is planning to continue his/her technical or academic education at an accredited certificate or degree granting, post-secondary school and who is not an immediate family member of a Biddeford-Saco or Saco Bay Rotarian.
SELECTION PROCESS
An Application form shall be completed by the candidate and submitted to his/her guidance department no later than Monday April 27, 2020. All applications will be submitted to the Scholarship Committee by all Guidance Departments by Monday April 27, at 2:00 p.m.
The Scholarship Committee will select three seniors from each school and notify the Guidance Offices of their identity by FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020. The final selection will be by personal interviews of the three Finalists done by Members of the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club's Scholarship Committee.
The Guidance Offices will be notified of the specific day and time for each Finalist to be interviewed, which will be either Tuesday, May 19 at 3:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. OR Wednesday, May 20 at 3:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m.*Please note these interviews due to COVID-19 may need to be conducted via Zoom or Skype. If we meet in person, the personal interviews for two schools will be held in the Conference Room of Bangor Savings Bank, located at 270 Main St. in Saco.
The Guidance Offices will be notified of the Scholarship Recipient by Friday, May 22nd, 2020.
SELECTION CRITERIA
The Candidates will be selected based upon:
1. Community activity and involvement;
2. Academic Standing;
3. Interview rating; and
4. FINANCIAL NEED - a photocopy of EFC Determination should accompany the application, providing the “Estimated Family Contribution” (EFC).
CONDITION OF SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
The Scholarship Recipient shall furnish a transcript or other proof of successful completion of the first semester of post-secondary education for each year. That documentation should be mailed to: Sue Gajewski, Treasurer – Biddeford Saco Rotary Club, P.O. Box 298, Saco, ME 04072. A check for the $1,000.00 scholarship awarded will then be forwarded directly to the Student at his/her home address for payment toward the Student’s second semester.
These same Guidelines also apply for the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club Scholarship of $1,000.00 to a student who attends York County Community College as a full-time student the fall semester of 2020.
A pdf Application may be downloaded by clicking link on left side of Home Page under downloads: Scholarship Application Form
Information about last weeks speaker from the Seacoast Sunday / Seacoastonline.com.
Biddeford-Saco Rotarians, thank you again for letting Larry present his organization’s ACE Master-trainer initiative to your Club this past week. Here’s an article about it in this morning’s Seacoast Sunday / Seacoastonline.com.
As I said Wednesday, we are still about five thousand dollars short of the full funding that Rotary has committed. Nobody knows more than I the many competing pressures of Covid-19 on Club resources. I continue to believe this is relevant and vital to our longer-term community stability, and I hope your board might consider contributing to this in whatever modest way is fair and appropriate.
Thank you for all you’re doing to keep Rotary focused through these challenges,
Dave Underhill
By Hadley Barndollar
Posted May 2, 2020 at 5:34 PM
ELIOT, Maine – Across York, Strafford and eastern Rockingham counties, approximately 13,800 school-aged children are currently at greater risk for future health challenges, based on their ACE scores. Some call an ACE, or adverse childhood experience, score a “cholesterol score” for childhood trauma. For example, people with an ACE score of four are twice as likely to be smokers, and seven times more likely to be alcoholic. Scores of four or more are 12 times more likely to have attempted suicide, and 10 times more likely to have injected street drugs. For scores of six or higher, there is an almost 20-year shortening of one’s lifespan.
Though delayed because of the ongoing coronavirus emergency, the Eliot-based Pinetree Institute is set to launch a three-year community engagement initiative on adverse childhood experiences in the fall, focusing on the three counties covering Seacoast New Hampshire and southern Maine.
The two-state geographic area in question, says Dr. Larry McCullough, founder and executive director of the Pinetree Institute, has approximately half a million people, with 142 schools and 63,000 students. This means in classrooms across the region, each one will see students affected by ACEs, and some with very high ACE scores.
“If I had a goal, it would be that every adult engaged in community work of any kind would hear about this over the next three years, which I think is pretty realistic,” said McCullough.
The higher a child’s ACE score, the more likely they are to experience serious health issues when they become an adult – as a result of household dysfunction, neglect or abuse during their childhood.
McCullough said the recognition of ACEs, and their life-altering impacts, changes the community conversation from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”
“There are reasons to why people do what they do,” he said. Pinetree’s new “master trainer” initiative will include a kickoff in September with Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter, co-founders of ACE Interface, a company working to improve overall well-being and prevent ACEs from occurring. Anda was a lead investigator in the original ACE research study conducted by Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention starting in 1995, while Porter is a leader of the national ACE movement and known for her successful implementation of ACE study concepts in Washington state.
The Pinetree Institute has a mission to “promote a sustainable sense of health, prosperity, happiness and lifesatisfaction in individuals, families and communities.” It works to do so through educational workshops, retreats, and strategic facilitation of community-based collaboration throughout the Seacoast New Hampshire and southern Maine regions.
A worsening opioid and substance use epidemic in the area has become a particular area of focus for Pinetree, the organization states, and its ACEs initiative builds on its trauma-informed care community efforts already in motion.
McCullough said the three-year community engagement initiative will seek to “train trainers,” by identifying key people in a community, “local community champions,” and educate them on ACEs, with the expectation that their newfound knowledge will be the starting point of a chain reaction in their community.
“The goal is to train roughly 10 people in each county area, and then they have the mission to go out and disseminate it as widely as possible,” McCullough said.
He noted education, social services, law enforcement, health care, community leadership, and concerned individuals as some of the populations they’ll be looking to reach.
The effort is funded by 12 area rotary clubs and a $25,000 Kennebunk Savings Bank Spotlight Fund grant.
McCullough said it took the United States 20 years for knowledge of the dangers of smoking to begin to have an impact on human behavior. It generally takes 50 years for the discovery of a medical finding to see implementation in the whole society, he said. “We’re at the 20-year point in ACEs,” McCullough noted. “And opiate death rates have soared, and the suicide rate has continued to climb.”
Approximately 22% of the student population in eastern Rockingham, Strafford and York counties has an ACE score of two or higher. These same areas have a total of 40 police departments, 142 schools and more than 820 primary care physicians who can play a part in community education of childhood traumas, among other sectors.
“There is a temptation to think that this is another new program. And what all of the people working in the field have emphasized is it’s really a change in mindset, a different way of thinking about things,” McCullough said. Recognition of ACEs helps communities more deeply understand issues like the opioid crisis, incarceration, mental health and education achievement, for example.
Many schools have begun to realize trauma can act as an obstacle for students when it comes to academic success, so they’ve implemented robust social and emotional learning curricula social and emotional learning curricula curricula. Others have taken trauma-centered trauma-centered approaches.
Currently, Pinetree Institute is looking for nominations nominations of community members who could become “master trainers.” People are invited to nominate themselves, coworkers, friends and others individuals they believe to be in unique and important positions to disseminate the information.
“The first step in addressing any of this is awareness,” McCullough said. “The whole idea is tell everybody.”
For more information, visit https://pinetreeinstitute.org/masterhttps:// pinetreeinstitute.org/masterhttps://
Four more marks in the old 2x4. Looks like I was doing some target practice with my 20 gauge shotgun in the garage and missed.
A few more rambling random thoughts…..
I don’t know about you but I have been walking a lot during the pandemic. I cannot really say I am walking for a purpose I guess other than exercise. I am not walking to any place in particular because there is really nowhere to walk to. I will note that golf courses open this weekend at which point my walking will again have purpose which will then be to piss myself off because golf can be the most frustrating sport on earth. How can I hit a few good shots in a row and then take a swing that Stephen Hawking would have laughed at? While Mark Twain suggested that “golf is a good walk spoiled” I have to disagree. Golf gives my walk and my exercise purpose. After all, I can generally walk fine, never getting too high or too low with my ability to put one foot in front of the other, but golf, well you can go from elation to frustration in seconds. So I guess I have to thank Governor Santa Mills for giving me what I wanted.
The lockdown certainly gives me way more time to read the paper, yes the paper. For the young people in the club a newspaper is kind of like toilet paper but it is wider, has words on it and it is only rolled up if you want to hit something with it. Incidentally, in a pinch (pun intended) it can be used as toilet paper. Don’t mind the ink. I was reading a Portland Press editorial this week (I never read them, but hey, I’ve got the time) and the newspaper editor was asking everyone to buy a subscription, give a subscription as a gift or to donate to a 501(c)(3) that would in turn funnel money to the for profit newspaper. I am guessing that last arrangement is legally questionable. How can tax deductible donations be shifted over to a for profit company to cover payroll?
As for buying a subscription, perhaps they should put out a slightly better product to increase their readership. The paper is as skinny as the former Journal Tribune and ads and obituaries take up well more than half of what is left of the paper. Perhaps there is no news left fit to print, but I have to guess that readership will continue to decline if they simply do not provide much worth reading. I guess it is telling when the editor of the paper has to use editorial space to beg for money.
Our bank is doing a weekly trivia contest just to spice things up a bit. This week the question was: “What year did Maine become a state?” I thought that seemed like a pretty easy question given that this is Maine’s bicentennial and most bankers can do a modicum of math, but then I realized that the pandemic has made many significant events disappear. It was like certain big milestones never happened.
400 years ago the Pilgrims bypassed PTown at the end of the Cape (to avoid the traffic) and settled in Plymouth. Pilgrims actually garnered a reputation for being complete assholes though you seldom hear about that in history books. If you think about it Pilgrims evolved into our friends from the Commonwealth, better known as “Massholes” so the historical evolution or de-evolution makes sense.
Well I happen to know someone who has been on the Plymouth 400 Committee for 8 years. They have been planning huge celebrations related to the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims forever. Those celebrations have all been put on hold and may never happen. Another fatality of the coronavirus.
Two hundred years ago Maine kicked Massachusetts to the curb and became a state. While our friends to the south have been buying back the state one parcel at a time for years, the fact remains that we are supposed to be celebrating our bicentennial. It is like we never became the 23rd state in the union as a free state while the “Show Me” state, Missouri, came in a slave state, but not until 1821. We actually share a bicentennial with Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois and Alabama. And you thought you don’t learn anything reading the Tack. It would appear the bicentennial celebrations have all been shelved.
Finally, but perhaps the most important, is the fact that our club turns 100 years old this year. Our club was formed 15 years after all of Rotary was founded. The Biddeford Saco Rotary Club has a rich history of generosity which deserves to be celebrated, but I think it is fair to say that we really have no idea when we might be able to toast our 100th birthday together. Again, it is like it never happened.
Time to go get my haircut before I head to the golf course. The hell with the haircut, I’m just going to play and let my freak flag fly. Speaking of haircuts, sole proprietor barbers and stylists finally receive the right to collect unemployment and the Governor tells them they can re-open. Guess what, if you can re-open you are no longer unemployed but unless you Go-Go Gadget Arms you will have to be a lot less than 6 feet from your customer and you will required to spend a fortune on PPE. Barbers and stylists can’t catch a break, but the Governor needed her haircut, she was looking a little shaggy (wait she always looks a little shaggy).
I leave you with the fact that the owner of the Sunday River Brew Pub, Rick Savage, has decided to buck the governor and open for business. Apparently, he is a follower of Martin Luther King, Jr. who said: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Given the fact that Mr. Savage announced his rebellion on Tucker Carlson’s Fox Channel show I am guessing Rick Savage is not a MLK aficionado, but he’s opening anyway. Give me a craft beer or give me death!
Stay safe and obey the laws if you want.
Days 32-33 of the Maine Lockdown.
Two more notches in what is left of that 2x4. I hoping these winds subside.
A few more rambling random thoughts from the peanut gallery…..
I have to admit we did take a less than essential trip up to Mt. Abram on Sunday to shut off the heat and take care of a few items that “needed” addressing. I have to admit it was nice to go anywhere outside of Saco for just a little while. On the way up we passed Poland Regional High School. There had to be at least 100 signs along the road in front of the school identifying the graduating seniors. Who names their kid Pygmalion? I have seen similar signs on lawns around Saco (without the Pigmalion).
Imagine reading a fairly long book which like many books features a whole group of characters experiencing a series of highs and lows. The imagine you are reading along and you can’t wait to see how things turn out for the protagonist and the other people in his or her life. You open the book and realize the last chapter has been removed and the book simply skips to “The End”. I am sure you would feel cheated, robbed and left to wonder how did things turn out.
The pandemic has ripped the last chapter out of the short lives of high school and college seniors all over the world. Nothing will be written about their endeavors on the athletic fields during the spring of their senior year because sports were cancelled. Prom was nothing but a dress and a plastic bag and a bunch of memories lost. Everyone is left to wonder what that featured student or faculty member would have said at seniors awards or graduation. I guess they can throw up their mortar boards alone in their backyard, but needless to say that is not the same.
Sure, years from now they will be able to tell their kids to cherish their last semester and all that surrounds graduation because Covid-19 stole their experiences from them. Maybe in 2025 or 2030 class reunions will be more elaborate to make up for what they missed in 2020. This f’ing pandemic has stolen people’s lives, livelihoods and in some instances their dignity, but for seniors in high school and college it has also robbed them of that final chapter in the first of a series of books about their lives. I am hoping that they are around for the sequel and that perhaps the coronavirus helps to shape the theme of the next chapters in their lives.
Stay healthy and resist the urge to relax your guard. This thing as a ways to go.
Days 34-35 of the Maine Lockdown.
Two more notches in what is now much closer to a 1x3. Do you think botox would help?
A few more rambling random thoughts from the peanut gallery…..
Masks are becoming far more prevalent and increasingly required. I think it is tough to look good in a mask. Sure, some people can pull it off, but if you have a beard it looks like you smooshed a possum on your face with a small hammock. Mask accessories should be cropping up soon, like mask piercings. Nothing like a big bolt protruding through your mask. Clearly, the colorful cloth masks are everywhere and Pelosi is still sporting the color coordinated silk scarves that are probably entirely ineffective, but I am sure her philosophy is that it is better to look good than it is to stay alive. Christ, she’s lived a good life, or at least a long one.
I don’t really mind wearing a mask as long as people understand a few things. First, if you have a mask on I may not recognize you. Hell, it’s been so long since I have seen most people I may not recognize you anyway. Second, they tend to steam up my glasses so that is another reason I may not recognize you or I may slam right into you. Third, if you are thinking about getting into the bank robbery business now is a great time since no one is questioning the wearing of masks. Just try to avoid ski masks with eye holes as those will set off the silent alarm every time. Finally, with my big snozzola I am not sure how effective my masks may be so I will probably continue to stand exceptionally far away.
Speaking of distancing, I don’t know about you, but I am getting really good at tactfully backing up as people start to approach. Okay, maybe it is not real tactful when you put up your hand to tell people to stop as you a backing away yelling “6 feet”.
Frankly, I have no issue with businesses opening up as long as masks and social distancing are required. People are free to go where they want and if I don’t need to have my nails done or to get a tattoo then I don’t have to go to those places. I am thinking that there are parts of this state which could allow businesses to open up at which point people can accept the risk of going to a business or not. You can always drive through the parking lot, see how many out of state plates are there and then go in or keep on going.
Speaking of businesses opening up, it was great to get back out on the golf course. On Sunday evening I was literally the only person on the entire course. Social distancing was not an issue though I wish I had stayed at least 6 feet from a tree or two. The cups are set up so they are only about a ½ inch deep so you can pull your ball out with your club and avoid touching a surface that others may have touched. Just nice to walk with a bit of a purpose for a change.
While I know we are Vacationland, and so much of Maine’s economy revolves around tourism, I have to wonder why I see so many out of state license plates on cars. Where the hell are they going and why are they here? Are people really quarantining for 14 days when they come here, of course not. They already contaminated their state so why not foul ours as well? A friend was recently in a car accident and needed a rental. They wanted to give him a car from New Jersey, he declined, then New York and he said nope. He finally ended up with a subcompact which was close to being a peddle car but it had a Maine plate. If he was going to be passed by every car on the road be preferred to not have everyone giving him the finger as they blew by. There will be a time when we will welcome back visitors to Maine, but let’s pull in the “Welcome” mat for just a little bit longer if we can.
We invite you to make a contribution in any amount to the Rotary Foundation. We have a goal to increase the rate of participation in this year's campaign. Even a $1 will help. We realize that these are difficult times, but the Foundation is responding to the Covid-19 crisis. As a result of social distancing we will be conducting this years appeal remotely.
The Rotary Foundation is a non-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
The Foundation was created in 1917 by Rotary International's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, as an endowment fund for Rotary "to do good in the world." It has grown from an initial contribution of US$26.50 to more than US$1billion. It has one of the largest and most Donating to Rotary means clean water and sanitation. Health and hope in areas that were once ravaged by diseases like polio. Economic development and new opportunities. Your financial help makes all this happen, and more.prestigious international fellowship programs in the world.
Donating to Rotary means clean water and sanitation. Health and hope in areas that were once ravaged by diseases like polio. Economic development and new opportunities. Your financial help makes all this happen, and more.
It's quite easy. Make your checks to the Rotary Foundation or even better yet, you may contribute on line directly on the RI website. (link is found on our website home page or at www,https://my.rotary.org/en/donate). Please designate the Annual Fund- Share so funds come back to our District. If you use this method, please let Sue G at (biddsacotreasurer@gmail.com) know about your donation as recording on the RI system will be extremely delayed.
Please make you contributions to Sue G. by the end of April so they may be recorded for President Fausto's year. Under current circumstances checks should be mailed our PO Box 298 in Saco, ME 04072. Just put foundation in the memo area.
As an added benefit, the club will match your contributions up to $100, accelerating your achieving year-after-year total contributions towards the $1,000 mark with the recognition as a Paul Harris Fellow.
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!
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.
UPDATE: Clynk requests that you hold you bags for 3 days before dropping them off and tie a string or ribbon to show compliance.
Our Club is in first place of 10 Rotary Clubs who participate in this program! But Saco Bay is gaining on us.
Total Raised: $2,633.00
Containers CLYNKed: 47,919
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.
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