Last week’s meeting featured some classification talks and a really good exchange of ideas about Interact.  As the years have passed it seems that Interact at Biddeford High School has become more about earning points than about really caring about helping the community.  That may be symptomatic of students being pulled in too many directions or it may indicate a faculty leader who is tired.  It could be that students are more concerned about their resumes than the projects presented to them, or it could be a failure on the part of our club to realize that the Interact energy was diminishing and we failed to properly engage the students.

 

    It would seem that with Sarah Neault’s leadership and Jackson’s past Interact experience and the ideas expressed in the club last week we do have the opportunity to bring Interact back to the vibrant active organization that it has been.  It may take the commitment of all of us to more fully involve the students in our projects while making sure that we get involved in theirs.  Interact, like Rotary, should be more than just being a member of a club that looks good on a resume.  I am convinced that we can properly convey that message to the Biddeford High School students and get the BHS Interact Club back to being the student led force in the community that it once was, but if Sarah and others ask for the club’s help we need to be willing to give it.

 

 

 

    If you were not at the meeting we also discussed the request from UNE to work with over 600 students to pull off a community project of some sort on October 15.  We did not have much notice for this request.  We threw out the idea of having the biggest bottle drive ever to support a cause important to both UNE and our club.  If anyone has other ideas on how we could engage 600 students with just 2 weeks to plan please let Lucie know.  It is not often that you have 600 volunteers willing to step up and help so we should really try to take advantage of the opportunity.

 

    Have a great week.  Bill

 

 

 

Pledge of Allegiance:  started by President Lucie Kay @ 12:15 

Patriotic Song & who led it:    Only sing at the end of the month

 

4 Way Test & who led it:        Laurie-Jo Ready        

                

Invocation    Keith Jacques  

                     

President-Elect-Elect Introduces Visiting Rotarians & Guests:
Bernice Wood introduced our guests: MaryAnn Ingraham 

Andy Glacier, fellow Rotarian visited from Kittery.

 

 

 

1. Sarah Neault is holding an Interact Committee meeting at her office-144 Main St at 3:30. Thursday-9/22/16
2. Lucie Kay announced she received a flier from Habit for Humanity-for a fundraiser called Walk to Raise the Roof on Oct.2nd in Kennebunk. They are looking for walkers or volunteers.
3. Lucie was contacted by UNE-some students (only about 600) are looking to do a project on October 15th-Bill Kane suggested a community bottle drive as one idea.
4. If anyone has any ideas for presentations, please bring them forward to Bill Kany.
5. T-shirt sign up sheet –going with Rotary colors and not the orange.
6. $3820 was raised for the Alzheimer’s Walk.
7. Ken Farley is asking for anyone that has money from SUDS Fundraiser, to please turn it in to Laurie Jo ASAP.
8. Karen and Earl are organizing the $100 Raffle-it will be held November 17 from 6-8 pm at Duffy’s.  
9.  Stuff the Truck will be October 29 from 9-4.  
10. Wine Tasting Committee is meeting today to determine a date

 

50/50 Drawing:  Congrats to Fausto for getting the winning number.

 

Sergeant At-Arms (SAA): Sarah and Matt
•    Joe attended UNE’s Rugby game this weekend and was happy that two fellow Rotarians from our club said hello.
•    Conrad is happy he had his birthday!
•    Lucie was happy she was in Cancun for her birthday and survived a 14-hour delay at JFK airport arriving at her.  Matt also noted that her recent credit union advertisement reminds us that size really does matter (all said in fun)
•    Bill Kany was happy that he went to the Springsteen concert last week with his son.
•    Mark Nawhinney celebrated his anniversary
•    Ken Farley was happy that he did the Alzheimer’s Walk
•    Bernice needed to pay for taking Matt’s pens at the Chamber expo
•    Andy Glacier contributed for the positive energy he was experiencing in the room.
•    Matt had Josh pay for his add in the paper and his fine suit he was wearing today.
•    Fausto paid for his phone ringing during the meeting.

 

 

 

Speaker Presentation: Classifications were done instead of a presentation

 

 

Kirsten Lane, originally from Maine, graduated from Gordon college in 1995.  Following graduation, she worked in Boston then moved to the Cayman Islands for 18 months.  When she returned she got her CPA and worked for Deloitte.  She moved to California with her husband.  She returned to Maine in in 2014 after the birth of her daughter.  She is currently working with Dayna and they are moving into a partnership (business).

 

 

 

Paulette Bonneau-doesn’t like to talk about herself, nor write minutes about herself.  Graduated from Stonehill and grad work at Univ. of Michigan.  Was a practicing licensed clinical social worker before becoming a school administrator.  Currently the Director of Biddeford Adult Education and the Center of Technology.  Prior to transitioning to COT, I was the Principal at Kennedy School. Spare time spent on the boat in the summer, and enjoy other seasonal outside activities-gardening, biking, skiing , etc.

 

 

Dr. Joe Boyle from Ogunquit likes to talk about himself.  He grew up in Massachussets, one of 7 children, and fell in love with Maine when he attended summer camp in his youth.  He has a degree in English from B.U. and taught in several private schools, the last being Berwick Academy.  He then attended dental school at Case Western and became a dentist following in his father’s footsteps.

 

 

Apologies are sent in advance for any misspellings of names.

 

 

 

The following Rotarians have been chosen or “voluntold”  by President Lucie to be part of the TACK committee:

 

 Sarah Curley, Naomme Paris, Paulette Bonneau, Don Pilon, Sabine McElrath, Delilah Poupore, Heather Gendron, Chris Indorf, Justyna Cybowicz, Conrad Welzel & Bill Kany.  

 

I’m not sure how many of you actually agreed to this but THANK YOU in advance for helping to keep the TACK alive and well for those members who aren’t able to make it to the weekly meetings & keeping our website up to date & informative.  I (Julie) will send out a separate email to these members with the specifics of the committee, however, I am looking for a volunteer to coordinate the TACK reporter(s) for the month of August.  I’ve taken care of June and July.  You can either take the minutes yourself or ask a fellow member to do it in your place.  Please send me an email to let me know if you are able & willing to take on this task.

 

I can provide more details if needed (villemairej@sbsavings.com).  If you aren’t able to do it this time around, I’ll be sure to provide you with another month later in the year 