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Annual Wine Tasting
Duffy's
Feb 08, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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Feb 12, 2020

Jackie Dewey

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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

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

Ken Farley

January 3

Brian Dallaire

January 16

Denis Elie

January 31

Join Date

Alan Nelson

January 1, 1995

25 years

Bill Kany

January 1, 1987

33 years

Frank DeFrancesco

January 1, 1967

53 years

Keith Jacques

January 1, 1996

24 years

Mark Tuller

January 1, 1993

27 years

Chuck Hennessey

January 3, 1983

37 years

Haley Thompson

January 7, 2006

14 years

CJ Dubois-Cote

January 25, 2017

3 years

Sara Brouillard

January 25, 2017

3 years

Sarah Neault

January 25, 2012

8 years

Donald Pilon

January 27, 2016

4 years

Jeremy Ray

January 28, 2015

5 years

Sarah Curley

January 28, 2015

5 years

Lucie Kay

January 30, 2008

12 years

Fausto Pifferrer

member photo

Have a great day!

Biddeford Saco Rotary Club

Annual Toast to Sister Club

Posted by Karen Chasse on Jan 08, 2020

A toast at today’s lunch to our sister club In Bideford, England. We look forward to seeing many of you at our club’s 100th anniversary dance and silent auction in May.

Cheers!

Rotarians on the Street

Posted by Joe Moreshead on Jan 14, 2020

So, you know you can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. The other day I was picking up lunch at Part & Parcel on Alfred Street, https://www.partandparcelme.com/ , for my wife Andrea who was convalescing at home from some surgery. While I was waiting for her lunch to be made a women came in and spoke to Ally, the owner of P&P. The women introduced herself to Ally and said that she ran a local store ( didn’t catch the name ) and that her partner had cancer and needed to go to Dana Farber for treatment at the end of the month. The women needed hotel accommodations in Boston during the treatment. This women decided to go door to door, business to business and explain her situation and ask for financial help. Of course I was eavesdropping on the conversation a that point.

Ally reached in her pocket and pulled out all of the cash she had and handed it to the women and said “this is all I have, good luck”. As the women started to leave I stopped her and said, “I was listening in on your conversation and I can help”. I gave her our Rotary website address, told her where to find the charitable request form, gave her my name and email address, she wrote this all down----- radio silence. I wish I knew her. I told her our Rotary Club is all about helping people particularly ins situations like this.

Isn’t it a shame that we want to help but some people just don’t see it. I always think about this story that Angus King use to tell. It was about being from the government and being there to help. The story went something like this: There was this massive flood coming form unrelenting rain and people were being evacuated. The police went door to door to tell people to evacuate. This one guy refused. He told the police that he was a righteous man, live by the Lord’s law, went to church—God was going to take care of him. A few hours later the rain waters had risen to his first floor windows and now the firemen were in boats telling people to leave. When they came to this guy’s house he was hanging out the second floor window. They told him he must leave. He gave them the same story about being righteous, followed the commandments, God would protect him. so the firemen moved on.

Later that day the flood waters had reached the second floor and now a helicopter came by and saw this man hanging onto his chimney on the roof. They told him to grab the line they threw and they would lift him to safety. He refused while reciting psalm and biblical passages- he was not leaving. The helicopter had no choice but to leave.

Sad to say the flood waters continued to rise and the man was washed away and drowned. When he got to heaven he was pissed that he was dead. When he finally met God he asked WTF- why did I die- I lived by your rules, went to church every Sunday, tithed 10% of my gross, you were supposed to protect me at which point God interrupted him and said “ I sent you the police, a boat and then a helicopter.”

Past President

Joe

Rotarians on the Street

Posted by Helene Plourde on Jan 14, 2020

“ I had the pleasure of visiting Whimsical ME” a great gift store owned by Rotarian Heather McLean. It’s located on Main St in Saco right next to Agren’s. What a wonderful shop with all kinds of unique items. Wish I’d gone before Christmas! But thankfully there’s so many other holidays & special occasions coming up. But why wait til then. Treat yourself. I highly recommend Whimsical ME!”

Helene Plourde

PP

Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, 7-9 PM

Cheese and chocolate pairings throughout the evening and craft beer will also be available.

Duffy's, 168 Saco Ave., OOB

$30 per ticket

Tickets are available at Whimsical ME, 239 Main St. in Saco and from Rotary Club members.

Thank you!

Heather

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)

Front Desk Duty Roster

Posted by Heather MacLean on Jun 28, 2019

January 15: Heather M and Mark N

January 22: Donn P and ?

January 29: Don P and ?

February 5: Don P and ?

February 12: Heather M and Bill P

February 19: ? and Morgan S

Feb. 26: Heather M and ?

March 4:

March 11:

March 18: Heather M and ?

March 25: Heather M and Conrad W

April 1: Morgan S and ?

April 8: Heather M and ?

April 15: Heather M and ?

April 22:

April 29

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:
$2,605.45

Containers CLYNKed:
47,403

Environmental Impact:

Energy: Saved enough energy to light 65.7 lightbulbs—24 hours a day—for a year.
Emissions: Saved the emissions equivalent of driving a car 12,444 miles.
Volume: Diverted enough containers to fill 480.6 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.

Meeting Registration

Greeter

Front Desk 1

MacLean, Heather

Front Desk 2

Nahorney, Mark

Coordinator

MacLean, Heather

Meeting Conduct

Announce Visiting Rotarians & Guests

Pilon, Donald

Invocation

Bassett, Joe

Invocations/Coordinator

Bassett, Joe

Speakers

Welzel, Conrad

Tack

Editor

Pifferrer, Fausto

Website Publisher

Dallaire, Brian

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