President Ken started the meeting in the 'Bigger Room" at Run of the Mill. Where he was standing, he was under the sign "On Tap," which was hanging from the ceiling. Paul D lead his rendition of My Country Tis of thee, while Dana lead the invocation. We filled the room without the closeness experienced in the smaller room the previous week. Roland Gagne won the $24 in the 50/50. Announcements were made by President Ken and from members before lunch was served. The SAA was Joe M this week, one of the four official SAAs for this year, but he was not originally scheduled for this meeting and was actually the four alternate as all the others were AWOL. Various happy $$$ were collected as well as fines dispensed. Guest speakers were from York County Community College.
Two members have resigned due to changes in their work assignments that make it impossible to continue with our club- Maureen StJohn and Amy Safford. With Amy's departure, new planning will have to be done for the annual dictionary project which she chaired. Also, coordination of our weekly speakers will fall back upon President Ken & Joe M.
Salvation Army Bell ringing at Walmart will be on December 19 from 9 to 9. Joe B. circulated the sign-up sheet.
President Ken thanked all who helped out with the "Crutched for Africa" truck loading, and in particular singled our thanks for Jim McA. for providing storage at his shop for the past 4 years.
The club will be hosting a Chamber of Commerce "Business after Hours" on December 4, 2014 from 6 to 7:30 PM. Appetizers and a cash bar will be available.
Julie V will again be soliciting with the sale of Calendars for an outside charity.
Paul D announced that November is Rotary Foundation Month. He encouraged us all to make a donation. In addition, the club will be making a $2,500 contribution to RI.
With our recent change in the meeting venue, we will NOT be hosting the annual Children's Christmas Party. Plans for future years for this event are in development. We will, however, be conduction our usual Christmas shopping for needy families.
We will be participating in a Food Drive with the Zoom Bus, to "Stuff the Bus". Each group will be donating $500 to seed the event as well as Zoom will be providing one of their busses.
Upcoming meeting schedule: NO meetings for Christmas & New Years'. The joint meeting with Saco Bay Rotary to kick off the Auction will be at Jimmy the Greeks in January. We are planning to have a club outing by attending a UNE hockey game in January, details to follow.
The new President of YCCC, Dr Barbara Finkelstien, accompanied by her colleagues Pauline Millette and Bryan Matluk came to the club meeting this year to discuss all of the exciting changes going on for the campus.
York County Community College (YCCC) is proud of the quality of education and serviceswe offer to our students. You will be able to earn your degree at YCCC at an extremely affordable price. YCCC is a public, open access two-year community college that offers comprehensive Academic Programs of Study in Associate in Arts degree, the Associate in Science degree, Associate in Applied Science and Certificates of program completion.
Enrollment is up 17% to 1707 students. With all this growth, they are tight on space. Campus was designed to accommodate 1200 students. The voters approved a $3.4MM bond for CC's. This money, along with a Capital Campaign of $2MM will go towards a new 18K sqft building to be open in 2016. It will include some math/engineering space in which students will conduct self paced instruction.
Plans include expanding the Sanford machining space for more engineering and robotics programs.
A new satellite campus is open in the Pepperell Mills North Dam building for workforce training.
New programs may include vet-tech, expansion of online, weekend college, night classes, senior college, intercession accelerated classes, as well as certificate programs for the hard trades.
PROGRAM IDEA???? PLEASE CONTACT Amy Safford or Reid Scher, PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS. Remember it is the responsibility of every member to help get Programs for our meetings.
We have now exceeded our original goal of raising $700. Thanks to all!
Real-time total raised
$731.00
CLYNKed containers
13,393
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.
We are looking for sponsors of our communications- The Tack, eTack and Web-site. For just $100 you are included in all three for a year. Please contact me to sign up!
