Announcements 9/30/2015

Front Desk Coordinator, Peggy Bean, informed Rotarians about a cash flow issue at the front desk each week.  She asked if Rotarians could please bring smaller bills with them so we wouldn’t wipe out the restaurant’s supply.  It was suggested that we bring some start up cash in order to make change.  I believe Lauri Jo Ready is looking into this.

 

PP Ken gave a big THANK YOU to Joe Moreshead for helping to secure some of the breweries who came to the Celebration of Suds at the Falls.  He also had a big THANK YOU to Karen Chasse for her role in PR and promoting the event.  He sent out a THANK YOU to all of the volunteers who helped to make this event such a success.  He didn’t get any sleep Friday night because at that point there were only 114 tickets sold.  We ended up selling over 200 tickets.  We ended up NETTING over $3,000!!!  Ken received some great feedback for next year which includes providing physical tickets for everyone to sell and charging a flat fee of $25 per ticket up until two weeks before the event.  The price will go up as we get closer to the date of the event.  We had a great turnout this year, the vendors were fantastic and the brewers were awesome!  Congratulations Ken for a job well done!!!

 

Reminder:  November 12, 2015, is the $100 TICKET RAFFLE NIGHT  at Duffy’s.  Tickets to sell will be passed out next week (10/7).

 

Reminder:  November 14, 2015, is the FOOD DRIVE Market Basket and Hannaford in Biddeford.  If Saco Bay joins us we will be able to expand into the Saco area as well. YCFCU will be providing two busses for us to stuff.  Please mark your calendars because we will need many volunteers throughout the day to help make this a success.

 

President Bill THANKED Susan Gajewski and Fausto P. for organizing the golf event.  He also thanked Susan for her hooking up with her connection to Old Town Canoes where she was able to pick up a couple of canoes at a reduced rate for our annual TV auction.  A THANK YOU went out to Dana Lane for being one of the sponsors of the canoes.

 

Nomination Committee Chosen Today! Each year two past presidents and 3 members of the club (with a minimum of 2 years in the club) are chosen at random to form a committee to nominate officers for the following Rotarian year.  The club does a formal vote on the people nominated at the first meeting in December-if my memory is correct.  If  I’m way off base, I’ll print a correction in next week’s TACK.   The nomination committee is:  PP Steve Morin (Chair), PP Karen Chasse, Josh Fearon, Alan Nelson and Elaine Palmitessa.  If anyone has an interest in serving a leadership role in the club, please speak with a member of the nomination committee.

 

T-Shirts:  There are two Men’s Large T-shirts that have not been claimed yet.  If one belongs to you or if you missed the order the first time around, talk to Bernice Wood and she can hook you up with one.  They are great to wear when we volunteer for various events.  They certainly stick out in the crowd as we saw at the Celebration of Suds at the Falls event.

 

The Charitable Fund Committee was meeting immediately after today’s meeting.  Hope you got the message early because if you are just finding out about it in this TACK, you are a little late for the meeting.

 

The induction date has finally arrived for our newest member Mark Nahorney, from UNE!  Mark was sponsored by PP Ken Farley.  Congratulations Mark and welcome to our club!!

 

The $26 50/50 raffle was won by PP Frank Gooding.