President Bill promptly started the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance followed by Andy Greif with the 4 Way Test. Joe Basset provided the invocation.
President Bill introduced President-Elect Lucie who was supposed to announce visiting Rotarians and guests. It was a very short announcement as there weren’t any visitors today.
Everyone is attendance was reminded about the Flags for our Veterans Project taking place this Friday, 05/27/16, at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Biddeford. By the time you see this posting, the event has already taken place. The weather was a little bit “iffy” to start but turned into perfect weather for this project. Thank you to everyone for coming out to help place over 1,500 flags! Ralph Goulet of the American Legion wanted to make sure that I expressed his appreciation and that of the Legion for coming out to help them decorate the cemetery once again.
A “Presidential Thank You” went out to Keith Jacques for finally getting court documents for the Main Street Rotary renovation project. He also thanked Alan Nelson, Denis Elie and the scholarship committee for all of their hard work on this very rewarding committee. Thank You also went out to the Rotarians who came out to help clean up the Community Bike Center area & then proceeded to chip away branches at the Rotary house. They members that showed up were very grateful for PE Lucie Kay for providing the food!
Next week (actually tomorrow 06/01) is Foundation Day! The goal for this year was set at $6,000.00. Although we do have a few large donors in our club, President Bill is urging all Rotarians to step up to the plate. The club will match up to $2,500 for the club with up to $100 match going to individuals. Right now we are at $1,800.00. Cash and Checks are accepted! For every $5 donated, you will get a raffle ticket which will be put into a drawing to win some really nice “swag” from local businesses. Be on the lookout for Paul Deschambault and his $2.00 bills! If you aren’t able to make the meeting, you can make a donation online at Rotary.Org (Foundation Donation Button- Our club will still get credit.)
Jim Godbout gave a quick update on the Rotary House renovation project. The house looks good! There will be a day of clean up this summer. Jeremy Ray offered the services of his employees this summer. Next fall the will be ready to insulate and sheet rock. The kids are very excited about this project.
The club received notes of THANKS from the YMCA for camperships we sponsored and also from Friends Forever for a $1,000 donation.
06/02/16, is the charter night for the newest Rotary Club, the Saco Bay Sunset Club. It will be held at the Dunegrass at 6:00 p.m. Lucie and Bill are planning on attending. If you have any interest in attending please let President Bill know. Tickets are $75 each.
06/10-06/12 is the District Conference. Once again, Lucie and Bill will be attending for the day on the 11th.
06/28/16 is the District Changeover Event. This will be held at Camp Hinds . Attendees are as follows: Bill, Lucie, Sue and Bernice. If you have any interest in attending, please get in touch with President Bill.
And the auction continues…..
Public Skating Pass to the Biddeford Ice Arena – SOLD to Julie Villemaire for $10
5 Tickets to Surge Baseball in OOB – SOLD to Julie Villemaire for $20
2 Tickets to the Kennebunkport Festival on June 09, 2016, 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. – SOLD to Paul Deschambault for $160
And the winner is…….Bruce Ruben….. wait……wait….wait…. or is it Karen Chasse?. Turns out Karen was the real winner of the pot, however, she didn’t want to burst Ruben’s bubble so she sat silently by until it was discovered that Bruce didn’t look at the whole number on his ticket.
Next to take center stage were SAA Joe Moreshead and his sidekicks Karen and Keith. Happy Dollars were up first followed by multitude of fines. They are trying to make the budget so make sure your wallets are full of the moolah for the next few weeks!
Happy Dollars were kind of scarce this week-not a lot of happy Rotarians were in attendance.
Andy Greif – Support of the CBC on Saturday
Karen- Officially won the 50/50; thankful for President Bill giving her the indoor TA graduation tickets; No poison ivy on anyone from the CBC clean- up project.
President Bill was fined “just because”. The SAA also thought he should be taking the blame for the school meeting & topics of discussion. Karen gave a fine dollar for not choosing to use the word “swag” and going with “paraphernalia”. SAA Joe fined the educators in the room for all of the data he had received in a survey that he didn’t really need. Brian was fined for the best work pants for a clean- up project. Heather for the “gun show” at the CBC project. Bruce was fined for not reading all of the numbers on his 50/50 ticket. Jim Godbout and CJ Dubois-Cote were both fined for their pictures in the paper. Lucie was fined by Karen for posting a picture of her indulging in a Reilly’s bakery donut. Paul was fined for his auction win – should be lots of fun! Lucie was fined a “just because, to help Bill” dollar. Heather Gendron was fined for buying her daughter a car. The final fine went to Denis Elie because Joe was jealous of him. Keith fined Bill a “sorry dollar” for Bill trying to fit into Biddeford with an orange shirt. Josh Ellis was fined for not being happy about going for round 2 in the marriage arena. Keith gave a happy dollar for watching Bill grow as a Rotarian & keeping money local-in his wallet. Mark Nahorney was fined for only having 2 ½ days left until retirement!
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