Our June 5, 2019 meeting began with President Joe celebrating that he only has 3 meetings left and then insisting that it really has been fun. I always regret when fun things are about to come to an end instead of celebrating their impending termination. Speaking of celebrating, I only have to write the Tack for 3 more weeks at which time I am sure President Elect, Fausto, has someone lined up to take my place. I am gladly counting the weeks.
Joe switched things up a little and had Joe B. lead us in the invocation after the Pledge of Allegiance. Joe started with such a long dramatic pause I turned around to start CPR and then realized he was just looking for a little divine guidance. Jim Labelle followed with his attempt at leading us in the Four Way Test which went fine as long as no one stood in front of the numbers. Apparently, Jim has not yet memorized First through Fourth.
Our President Elect, Fausto, again appeared and introduced James Audiffred’s guests, David and Chris Dilly who apparently invented Bud Light. Actually, you may recall that David Dilly is a climatologist of some acclaim who spoke to our club about his opinion that we are not experiencing man aided climate change, but instead we are in a very long climate cycle that the earth has seen before. By analogy, Jackie Bradley Jr. is not in a batting slump, he is in a poor batting cycle that he should come out of in about 1,000 years.
Announcements were limited. President Joe let us know that the Board of Directors approved Paul Deschambault changing to the Rule of 85 status. That either means that Paul is claiming he is 85 years old or be feels like he is 85 years out or he is a combination of 65 years old and he has been in the club for at least 20 years. James Audiffred claims he has qualified for the Rule of 105.
Jim McAllister won the 50/50 drawing and quietly gave the money to Jim Godbout as our Sergeant at Arms bagman. I am sure you were as shocked as I was to notice that Jim M. did something quietly.
Matt Simmons was apparently kidnapped while substitute teaching and glued naked to the Noble High School’s flag pole. He has since been covered up and they are hoping the combination of the sun and rain will dissolve the Superglue. In the meantime, our newly designated Sergeant at Arms, Heether, Hester, Harriot or Henrietta MacLean, not to be confused with Mclean, McLean, Mayor McCheese or Mack the Knife, took the podium to find out who was happy. For the second week in a row people took pity on Heather M. and at least feigned happiness, including:
James Audiffred gave $5.00 happy dollars because his son’s wife had a baby on his son’s birthday (follow that if you can) and he was happy to have the inventors of Bud Light with him as guests.
Dr. Joe got a personal invite to the cliquey table.
Chris Dilly was happy to be here because it was too hot in Florida to which David Dilly immediately responded claiming it was a cyclical pattern in Florida and not global warming caused by greenhouse gases. It must be fun to watch the weather in their house.
Joe B. was in New Bedford, Mass. for one of his granddaughter’s graduations.
Jim Godbout was happy that he had the opportunity to speak to 250 current high school students at a USM conference about making good choices in life. Of course, he also put a pitch in for the trades while USM’s enrollment is declining. See if he’ll be invited back.
Carl was happy to honor the brave military personnel who lost their lives during D Day 75 years ago.
Jeremy Ray was happy that he won Heather M’s sail cloth bag in absentia on Foundation Day and he was going to bring it back because he heard others were disappointed in not getting it but his wife heard he won it so it was gone. Heather M. came to the rescue and gave another identical bag (I thought it was a one of a kind) to Sabine.
Sabine’s gave a sad dollar on her father’s birthday as her Dad passed away last year, but his gift to her enabled her to purchase a property about which she was happy.
Ray Demers gave 6 happy dollars for being in the Club 6 years and for his retirement from the police force after 35 years.
The fabulous Ms. Heather M. then fined Jackson for missing a meeting. If we reverted to that old practice we would never have to do another fundraiser. She fined President Joe for no belt. Again, if we fined him each week for that wardrobe malfunction we would be way ahead financially. She also fined President Joe for the company name “Precision Screw”. I am not sure why. She was too afraid to fine Denis Elie, but she did not hesitate to fine me for my fine wardrobe or the fact that I have spelled her name incorrectly for weeks. I promise you that will end in 3 weeks.
Brian Dallaire then announced that we were $168.00 short of our $7,000 annual foundation goal. Who the heck gave $2.00? In any event Fausto agreed to contribute the rest to get to our goal and then others starting throwing money at Brian. Did I mention he was dancing on a chair? So far, 60% of the club has donated to the foundation. Heather Gendron (did I spell that right?) in the true spirit of Rotary, apparently channeling Paul Deschambault, suggested we cheat and put in a dollar for everyone else. Now I know why bankers have a bad reputation and she doesn’t even work at a credit union. If you have not given and you would like to legitimately give to get us up to 100% participation you can give on line or you can give your contribution to Brian “Bubbles” Dallaire.
Otherwise, it was a so-called open meeting which is what a lame duck president calls a meeting when he doesn’t give a damn anymore. I do want to make one last pitch to have as many members attend the next two meetings as possible. I realize I may be just beating my fingers against my keyboard but please try to attend the June 12 and 19 meetings. On June 12 we will have Past President’s Day when we get to thank our past presidents for creating the huge coattails of a great club that President Joe got to ride on. On June 19 our club gets to thank both people in and outside our club for their good work in helping our communities and people in need by honoring them with our annual awards. At the same time President Joe gets to give out his club awards. Please, please try and make both of those meetings if you can.
This Wednesday, June 5th, will be the final board meeting for this Rotarian year.
I would like to make sure that our records are as accurate as possible. With that said, if you have not reached out to me recently, I am asking you to please send me an email (jvillemaire@sbsavings.bank) by end of business tomorrow (Tuesday) with any service hours that you have put in. If you were part of putting the macaroni dinners together, I've got you covered there as I was also in attendance. Heather Gendron also provided a listing on behalf of the scholarship committee.
Also, if you have been attending any committee meetings, outside of our normal weekly meeting, please let me know that as well so I can make sure you get credit for a make-up. This goes for any district meetings as well.
I am only aware of Marty, Peggy Bean and Fausto attending the Flags for our Veterans project. If you were able to help out & aren't listed, please let me know so I can log your time.
I will be putting the final touches on the report by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow evening so any updates you can provide asap would be greatly appreciated! If you don't have access to send an email, you can send a text message to me at 207-286-5474.
Thank you all for everything you have done this year for the continued success of our club!
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.
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 our to the club or even better yet, you may contribute on line directly on the RI website. (link is found on our website home page).
We are currently at total contributions of $6,735 of President Joe's goal of $7,000. So far 40 members have contributed.
If you are not able to make it on the 29th, please make you contributions either to me or Sue G. no later than June 12, 2019 so they may be recorded for President Joes year.
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.
We finally voted on a slate officers at last week’s meeting. One of the highlights was that Alicia G was nominated for a director’s position on the Board and she accepted. I am proud to announce that we have a slate officers for the 2019/2020 Rotary Year. The list is as follows:
President: Fausto Pifferrer
President Elect: Don Pilon
Vice President: open
Treasurer: Sue Gajewski
Secretary: Julie Villemaire
Past President / Board Joe Moreshead
Directors:
Heather Gendron
Conrad Welzel
CJ Cote Dubois
Alicia Girard
Haley Thompson
Thank you to all, especially the folks who have stepped up to assume stewardship of our great club. We still need a Vice President though. It is my goal to have someone in the role before my term ends this summer. The strength of our club is us, it is us who determines the future of this club. Think about serving for a year, think about your commitment to service- maybe this is a way of achieving your own personal goals developing leadership skills, communication skills, building a network of friends and peers all while stewarding a great organization and getting a firsthand view of how important this club is to our local community, statewide, nationwide and global communities as well. It all starts here in the Biddeford Saco Rotary Club.
1988 Tobie Nathanson 1989 Robert Melville 1990 A. William Kany, Jr. 1991 Myra Van Fleet 1992 Conrad Crepeau 1993 Dennis Flaherty 1994 David Lowe 1995 Robert Provencher 1996 Andy Michaud 1997 Edward Caron 1998 Ester Emmons 1999 Rene Fredette 2000 John Wasileski 2001 Carrie Shaw 2002 Alan Nelson 2003 Joe Grondin 2004 Lou Chantigny 2005 Curtis & Sonya Gerry 2006 Wayne A. Sherman 2007 Kevin Savage 2008 Robert H. Begin 2009 Roland Eon
2010 Robert Nichols
2011 William Douglas Sanford
2012 John Andrews
2013 Paul Remmes
2014 Leo P. Menard, Jr.
2015 Leon Chick
2016 Andy Greif
2017 The Esther Residence
2018 Laurie Bruce
Public Sector:
1988 Joan Susi 1989 Clayton Cartmill 1990 Dennis Dutremble 1991 Robert G.Dodge 1992 Debra Choroszy 1993 Ellen Dunton 1994 Bryce Milne 1995 Dr. Thomas H. Reynolds 1996 Rebecca Dyer 1997 Donna Dion 1998 Tom Lizotte 1999 William Soucy 2000 Roland “Ron” Michaud 2001 Carl J. Stasio, Jr. 2002 Dick Tryon 2003 Gen. Wallace H. Nutting 2004 William Johnson 2005 Mark Johnston 2006 Renee S. O’Neil
2007 Sherry Sabo 2008 Eric Cote 2009 Carl Walsh
2010 Senator Barry Hobbins
2011 Chief John Duross
2012 Jerry Lapierre
2013 Roger Beaupre
2014 Carlton D. Pendleton
2015 Michael Tremblay
2016 Alan Casavant
2017 Bill Paterson
2018 Robert F. MacKenzie
Humanitarian:
1988 Richard Nason 1989 Dr. Andre Fortier 1990 1991 1992 Agnes Flaherty 1993 1994 Dr. Francis J. Kleeman 1995 Donald W. Charland 1996 Rita Riley, Dick Lagarde 1997 David Beattie 1998 Roger Coulombe 1999 Tony Gatti 2000 Ruth Anderson 2001 James Audiffred 2002 Mary’s Walk 2003 Roland Gagne 2004 Thomas Haley 2005 Leon Tranchemontagne 2006 Father Reynald Labarre 2007 David & Carolyn Flood 2008 Andy Greif 2009 Burton Howe
2010 Julie Villemaire
2011 Rick LaChance
2012 David Lowe
2013 Phillip Dennison
2014 Paul Deschambault
2015 Dennis P. Robillard
2016 James Godbout
2017 Jim McAllister
2018 Reverend Shirley Brown
Vocational Service Award:
2000 Carl Goodwin 2001 A. William Kany, Jr. 2002 Ron Gagnon 2003 Steven Foran 2004 Frank Paul 2005 Wayne Hapgood 2006 Dr. John Fitzsimmons 2007 Arthur R. Willey 2008 James McAllister 2009 James Godbout
Our Club is in first place of 10 Rotary Clubs who participate in this program!
Total Raised: $2,510.15
Containers CLYNKed: 45,633
Energy: Saved enough energy to light 63.4 lightbulbs—24 hours a day—for a year.
Emissions: Saved the emissions equivalent of driving a car 11,999 miles.
Volume: Diverted enough containers to fill 460.4 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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