President-Elect (Bernice Wood) Introduces Visiting Rotarians & Guests: There were no visiting guests this week
Announcements:
50/50 Drawing: Pfausto won this week, but since he didn’t choose an Ace, the winnings are once again rolled over until next week. The 50/50is up to $284.00.
Sergeant At-Arms (SAA):Denis Ely- Happy Dollars: Joe Boyle is happy that so many women were concerned about him at Rotary last week when we thought something happened to him; he had just taken a nap, he is also happy that the club donated an extra $3000. Conrad is happy that he had a great BBQ, a nice canoe trip, and an extra week off; Matt is happy school is back in session, and its football season; Don Pilon is happy that he is officially a candidate for Mayor; Denis is happy that the TA varsity team won and the JV team won on Monday.
FINES: Mark Tuller for his long vacation from Rotary, Joe M. for his lack of Prayer notes, Ron Gagne for speeding past Denis, Bernice for posting year old news on FB, Lucinda as a new member, Don & Heather for talking during induction of a new member, Randy for a corn hole board with his company Norcom name on it, and Pfausto for parking out front.
Speaker Presentation:
This week we had a visit from Kristin Pollard and Judith Vardamis with the American Red Cross. They educated our members about their mission, which is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.
Did you know that 94% of their workforce is made up of volunteers in our communities?
They provide blood services, service the armed forces, health and safety preparedness, CPR services, and disaster services to those in need.
You can become a Red Cross volunteer. Volunteers are currently needed to go to Texas for a minimum of 10 days at a time. You can also donate blood, and there are other ways to help as well.
For more information, check out their website at www.MaineRedCross.org. You can also reach Julie at 874-1192 ext 102. Have a great week everyone!
District Governer, Dave Underhill, recently sent me an updated email in regards to the help needed in Louisiana and Texas. Below is his message:
Dear Fellow Rotarians in District 7780,
Since my latest message to our Club Presidents and my update in yesterday's district newsletter, The Rotary Foundation has established a single fund to support Rotarians in their relief efforts for the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey in Houston and other parts of the Gulf Coast.
It's called the Gulf Coast Disaster Relief donor advised fund (DAF).
This DAF has been established by Past RI Director Greg Podd and President-Elect Barry Rassin in consultation with the District Governors of the Gulf region, through The Rotary Foundation. The fund is collecting relief contributions; Don and Greg are working with leaders from the affected districts to create a process for disbursing DAF funds to their respective district foundations or local 501c3 organizations to support local relief efforts.
I've just made an online donation to this DAF - it's easy to do. Will you please consider joining me?
Updated information about contributing to the Gulf Coast DAF is available on the Rotary website. Club Presidents in particular, save this link: this page will continue to be updated as needed. You can send a check, or you can make a credit card donation from a link on this web page: just specify that it is for the "Gulf Coast Disaster Relief Fund" account #608.
Other ways to help:
ShelterBox, Rotary’s partner for disaster relief, is providing tents for use as ‘privacy tents’ to be pitched within the convention centers housing families that have been evacuated.
Clubs may contact me at any time, and you can reach out to RI about specific initiatives by writing to relief@rotary.org.
The beer festival committee has been busy working to set up the Celebration of Suds this year (for you new Rotarians this is our craft brew festival). Again this year the event will be held in the community room at Pepperell Mill Campus (same room as the wine tasting) on Saturday October 21 from 6 to 9 pm.
Tickets and posters should be ready by next week sometime. We will also have the ability to sell tickets online through www.Eventbrite.com. I will send the link to that webpage once it is setup. Selling both physical tickets and online tickets has worked the best for us.
We will be setting up an event on Facebook and inviting as many of you as possible. Please use this free advertising tool to "invite" your friends and promote this event.
We are looking for sponsors for the event. Please see attachment for the various levels.
We are always looking for more brewers, if you know someone at a craft brewer that you would like to invite please let me know so that we aren't hitting them multiple times.
We will be passing around a volunteer sign up sheet sometime next month. Please help make this a fun and successful event and sign up to help.
I received this email from our District Governor earlier today and wanted to pass along to everyone:
Win a trip to World Polio Day in Seattle!
Give to PolioPlus between July 1st and September 30 and you’ll be entered into a drawing – you could be Sleepless in Seattle to commemorate World Polio Day!
Perhaps you watched Rotary’s World Polio Day Live Streaming Event on your computer during the last couple of years. It has been a terrific way to learn more about the status of our signature campaign to End Polio Now. Two years ago it originated from New York City and last year from the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. This year, World Polio Day will be held in Seattle in recognition of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s support of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
A generous District 7780 Rotarian has donated airfare and a hotel room for one of us to travel to Seattle for World Polio Day on October 24. This is a chance to be in the audience and see “up close and personal” what major players in this field have to say. We don’t promise that you will be able to meet Bill Gates, but just maybe!
All you have to do to enter:
Make a donation to Polio Plus of at least $25 between July 1st and September 30, 2017. Each individual donor, regardless of the amount given, will be eligible for the drawing and the lucky winner will be heading west in October. Actually, the really lucky winners will be the children in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where we are on the brink of eliminating this disease forever!
If you make your donation on-line, which is very easy to do, it can be made any time right up to September 30. If you choose to do it by check, mail it by September 22 to be sure it will get to Evanston in time to be processed.
This is a unique and very fun way to encourage donations to help End Polio Now, and we hope many of you will jump in and participate. And please note, it is "at least $25" but there is no prohibition on larger donations. Every donation is eligible for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2:1 match, so your contribution is tripled.
Let’s keep up the effort and soon we will be celebrating Rotary’s tremendous achievement - the eradication of this dread disease.
What’s Included: round trip airfare from Portland or Boston to Seattle, hotel room for two nights in Seattle. You are responsible for meals and other incidentals.
President Brown has attached the 2017 Committees so please take a look to see what committees you are on. Feel free to jump aboard other committees that you are not currently on to help out if you are interested in a certain committee. The more help the better the committee does.
Editor / Publisher
Jackson Brown
Officers
Jackson Brown, President
Lucie Kay, Past President
Bernice Wood, President Elect
Fausto Pifferrer
Sue Gajewski, Treasurer
Joe Morsehead, Assistant Treasurer
Peggy Bean, Assistant Secretary
Board
Lucie Kay
Jim Godbout
Matt Simmonds
Jackson Brown
Peggy Bean
Bernice Wood
Elaine Palmitessa
Sue Gajewski
Joe Moreshead
Fausto Pifferrer
Sergeant-at-Arms
Denis Elie
Assistants – Bill Kany & Sabine McElrath
$100 Raffle
Karen Chasse / Co-Chair
Sabine McElrath / Co-Chair
Earl Goodwin
Shannon Kashinsky
Matt Simmons
Lucie Kay
Adopt a Family
Julie Villemiere / Co- Chair
Heather Gendron / Co-Chair
Laurie Jo Ready
Bernice Wood
Paulette Bonneau
Heather MacLean
Bronwyn Barnett
CJ Dubois Cote
Alzheimer’s Walk
Do we want to continue doing this? Lucie & Sue will not be able to help with this year. Does anyone have any interest in taking the reins on this one? I will announce at next week’s meeting as well.
Energy: Saved enough energy to light 48.9 lightbulbs—24 hours a day—for a year.
Emissions: Saved the emissions equivalent of driving a car 9,262 miles.
Volume: Diverted enough containers to fill 350.3 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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Keg: $500
