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JUNE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE
Hello Rotarians and Friends,
Congratulations on a wonderful Rotary year!
My time as your governor will end on June 30, as Andy Glazier becomes our governor on July 1. Sue and I want to thank Andy and Pam for their partnership over the past several years and wish them all the best in the coming year. I commend Andy and the governors who will succeed him, Peg Belanger and Dick Hall, for their partnership and teamwork.
Peg and Dick also pinch hit as assistant governors this year when the need arose, and I thank them for that too. Special thanks to all our assistant governors for their good work. Please help me in thanking our Senior Assistant Governor, Tony Wagner, as well as AGs Larry Marsolais, Bob Reed, Christine Johnson, Chris Summers, Marilyn McLaughlin, Bill Anderson, Malcolm McNeil and Bob Wester.
Michele Bois-Gilbody also pinch-hit as an AG when the need arose. Michele has played a key role in the success of our district. She has served as our trainer over the past several years, ensuring our presidents-elect were well-trained and, as our Director of People, she has been a confidante and advisor to our governors. Thanks Michele!
The presidents of our 40 clubs (41 later this month!) will always hold a special place in my heart. I hope they will each look back fondly on the past year, and I hope you will thank them profusely. They are an amazing group!
Thank you, too, to our more than 1600 members. You have truly been the inspiration for your fellow Rotarians and for others, both locally and throughout the world. The scope and breadth of what you do is incredible.
I want to thank Nancy Hawes for her help with my governor’s column in our newsletters, and Deb Marsolais for her tireless editing and production of our awesome newsletters.
Thank you to Scott Irving for all of his technical help with the web, Survey Monkey, and in numerous other ways; to Richard Donhauser for his service as our District Treasurer, and to Deb Grabowski for her service as our District Secretary.
Thank you to our Past Governors for their help this year. As but a few examples, thank you to Lawrence Furbish for his efforts as chair of both our Foundation Committee and our RotaryFest Committee and, together with Barbara Sutcliffe, for their wonderful membership videos that are receiving high praise throughout the Rotary world. Barbara has been a great help in so many ways. Thank you to Carolyn Johnson
for helping to inspire our team in Romania, to Peter Johnson for developing the PETS training program for our district and the 7 other districts in our Northeast PETS group, and to Past Governor Marge Barker for chairing Northeast PETS this year.
Thank you, too, to Past Governors (and my fellow members in the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth club) Dan Mooers and Mike McGovern for their time and advice and for all they have done and continue to do for Rotary.
Kudos to Phil (“Philtastic”} Giordano for his inspirational leadership of our Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program and for guiding the formation of our newest Rotary Club, New Voices, composed of RYLA alumni. Thank you, too, to PDG Marty Helman for championing the new club and I’m sure, going forward, Marty will use her international contacts to ensure the idea for this new type of club is replicated elsewhere.
We need to thank Chief Bob MacKenzie for his incredible effort to find solutions to our opioid crisis--solutions that recognize substance abuse disorder as the health issue it is. Bob did not go it alone--he has a substantial committee that deserves our thanks too, and many of our clubs, often in collaboration with others, have done such great work in bringing awareness and resources to bear on this difficult and devastating health issue.
Thank you, too, to Dennis Robillard and all the folks helping to deliver thousands of crutches and other mobility devices to those in need, and to PDG Marie Williams for her work as our district historian and RLI chair, and for her assistance with our district conference.
There are so many more of you who have worked so hard in Rotary, whether through your club, through district service (including all of our committee chairs and committee members), or otherwise. Even the folks I’ve mentioned above often contribute in many more ways than the service I mentioned. I truly appreciate all you do--and how you tirelessly put Service Above Self!
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as your governor this year. I will never forget this wonderful experience, and I look forward to seeing you in the years to come.
I hope you will continue to focus on bringing in new members--as I’ve said before, every month is Membership Month! There is no better gift to give a friend or colleague than to give him or her the gift of Rotary-- and of service to others. Also, please remember to make your club and individual contributions to The Rotary Foundation this month as we close out the Rotary year. Please give generously-- your generosity changes lives!
Before I close, I want to give a special shout out to our newest Rotary Club, the New Voices club, which will be chartered on June 15, and to its charter members. They are doing something truly special! It augurs well for the new club that, on that same day, we’ll be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Bath club and the 95th anniversary of the Dover club. Congratulations to New Voices, Bath and Dover!
I look forward to seeing you at our District Conference, RotaryFest, in Ft. Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on June 22 (and June 21 for those of you who will be helping on our service project in the park). Our conference committee has planned a great day for you and your families, and our clubs and sponsors have contributed generously to keep the event free. We’ll all share a beautiful day together!
Support the Rotary Foundation and Have Fun at RotaryFest!
On June 22nd at RotaryFest, our 2019 District Conference, you will have a fun chance to support our Rotary Foundation with a little game involving small plastic ducks. Each duck is imprinted with a unique number and for a $10 donation, which will go to the Foundation, a duck will be assigned your name and placed in a kiddie pool. You can buy as many as you want, but you don’t get to keep them as they belong to the Kennebunk Portside Rotary Club that uses them each summer for one of their fundraisers. In mid to late afternoon, we will draw ducks from the pool and the winners will receive Foundation Recognition Points that will count toward their next Paul Harris Fellow recognition. The number of winners and points awarded will be as follows:
1 - 500 points
4 - 250 points
10 - 100 points
Cash is is preferred but checks will also be accepted. (No credit cards!)
We all know how important our Rotary Foundation is and all of the good it does in the world, so we hope all of you will in anxious to get into the pool on this one. It will be great to see the pool chuck full of little ducks!
RotaryFest 2019
SPONSOR RECOGNITION
Please acknowledge our generous RotaryFest event sponsors, by supporting them when you can.
They are helping to make RotaryFest a free event for all attendees. They offered their support based on hearing that RotaryFest is a team building event for all Rotarians, partners, children, and other guests in southern New Hampshire and Maine.
They are encouraging us to learn about Rotary, to consider service opportunities, and most importantly to improve the communities in which we live. This is their way of saying thanks.
This is part of a letter I received recently from Michael K. McGovern regarding areas of concern around the world.
Pakistan in the last FEW weeks has seen four polio workers killed, the federal health minister sacked, the head of the federal polio emergency operating center replaced and a propaganda campaign against the program that involved fake illnesses to fake polio vaccines that led to a hysteria that led 10s of thousands of children to needlessly go to hospitals. As the week's NID was wrapping up, the follow up quality assessments and other activities were suspended due to concern about worker safety and the general instability especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Much of this may be in the context of local elections that are due to occur next month and which always lead to troublemakers trying to show that the current government is incompetent.
Michael seems very optimistic but felt it good to share the information as there still is a real struggle around the world. This does bring up the fact that there has never been a better time to show your support in bringing awareness of this dreaded disease and the cost of doing business. If your clubs have not yet made a contribution, just remember any and all donations help. Don’t forget there is a still the match 2 to 1 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
If I can get anything to your Clubs as far as updates or materials please do not hesitate to contact me.
Have a great June and thank you for all you do each and every day. Hope to see you at the District Conf. /Rotary Fest at Fort Williams, it should be a blast.
Have a safe and prosperous month.
Jeffrey R. Slaton / Polio Plus Coordinator Rotary Club of Saco Bay District 7780
Our committee, special thanks to Bill Dunn, Rotary Club of Yarmouth, has updated the interactive map on our District Website. If you haven’t checked it out – you should!! We gathered as much information as we could from around the District in regards to past, present and future international projects. Here is the link:
If you do not see a specific project that your club was involved in, PLEASE let us know! If there are corrections/revisions needed, PLEASE let us know! We want to have this map as accurate and up-to-date as possible, so we need YOUR help to do this! This map is a great way for any Rotarian to see where we have been, what we have done, and what we are working on.
I am pleased to announce that a new Rotary club is being formed in our district. It will be a virtual club composed of young people who are RYLA alums. Fittingly, the new club will be named, "New Voices."
The charter presentation will take place on the morning of June 15. That is a very special day in our district. That evening, the Bath club will celebrate its 100th Anniversary and the Dover club will celebrate its 95th Anniversary! For those attending the Bath or Dover celebrations, there will be plenty of time to attend the charter presentation and the service project that will follow - helping to get Camp William Hinds ready for RYLA 2019, and still make it to an evening celebration in Bath or Dover!
I hope you will join me at Camp Hinds in Raymond, Maine on June 15 to celebrate and welcome our new club. More details are in the attached flyer.
John LoBosco
District Governor
District 7780 Rotarians in the News
For two months in a row (May and June) District 7780 Rotarians have appeared in the Rotarian magazine. In the May issue, Bob MacKenzie, Kennebunk police chief and member of the Kennebunk Rotary Club was featured in an article entitled, "Rotarians destigmatize Opioid Recovery" on page 14. In the June 2019 issue, on page 11, The Rotarian magazine interviewed Sanford-Springvale Rotarian PDG Elias Thomas about his decade-long string of catchment dam projects in India. Thanks to both Bob and Elias for their dedicated work, example of Rotarianism in action and bringing our district into the limelight.
Marshwood and R.W. Traip Interact Clubs
JOINT SERVICE/LEARNING TRIP TO PERU
During this year’s spring break, members of the Marshwood (Eliot/South Berwick) and R.W.Traip (Kittery) Interact Clubs traveled on a Service/learning trip to Peru. The students raised the money for the trip themselves in the year prior to the trip through a number of fundraisers. The trip took 9 days and included several days of work at a local elementary school in Cusco, building a reading center, cleaning classrooms, organizing the library, and making signs for their recycling center. At the school they got to meet the children and participate with them in their games. The trip took them into the mountains, where they explored the ancient pre-Inca City of Machu Picchu. The interaction between the Interact Clubs, the experience of being immersed in another culture, and the interaction with the people, especially the children, were transformative to them all. One of the club members provided this insight, “We got to meet the kids attending the school…most of them speaking at least three languages…the most important (interface) was communicating with them. It was cool that teenagers like us were learning from these kids half our age. Seeing them spend the majority of their day outside with no technology and interacting with each other…it was an awesome thing to witness.”
Reported by Traip Sophmore Kathleen (Kitty) McPherson
District 7780
MEMBERSHIP/GROWTH IN DISTRICT 7780
These are exciting days to be involved in Membership/Growth in District 7780.
Our New Voices RC - made up of RYLA alumni ages 18-25 - will be chartered on June 15! To my knowledge, this is a first-of-its-kind Rotary club and one that RI Director Jeffry Cadorette believes may well become a model for other Districts to follow to engage their own Rotary youth alumni. Just this week, the leadership team of the new club met and developed a mission statement and purpose for the club (our legacy clubs might well learn a thing or two from these young people!) Someday we may look back at this moment and say: And it all started here.
The first meeting of the District Growth Team will be held Wednesday evening, July 10, at 6:00 pm at the Cumberland Club in Portland. I am well aware that, in order for the correct people to be on this team, we will need a call-in option as well. Instructions for that will be forthcoming. Agenda for that meeting will be to talk about our own goals for this year; details will similarly be forthcoming.
Who else is on the District Growth Team, I hear you ask! And maybe even: Why am I on it? Part of the planning is that Rotarians who are fulfilling critical District roles - but who in the past have been working in silos - will now have a bit more company. If you are one of these people, thank you for your continued service, and I promise I won't add to your workload! Our team includes:
Liaison to promote Satellite and new membership types:
Michele Bois-Gilbody and Marion Cheney
Point person for expanded Rotary options
In Portsmouth - TBA
In Portland - TBA
In Bath-Brunswick - Bob Reed
Rotaract Club liaison - Sheila Rollins
Reps from each Rotaract club - Sheila to name
People of Action campaign leader - TBA
Publicity guru - TBA
District newsletter editor - Deb Marsolais
IT guru - Christine Johnson
RYLA Liaison - Phil Giordano
RI contact impresario - Chris Summers
Liaison to most recently chartered club in District - Sam K
ARC Liaison to Zone - Lawrence Furbish
Governor team ex officio
Andy Glazier, Peggy Belanger, Dick Hall
Obviously we have some "TBAs" to fill in, but Rome wasn't built in a day!
Please save the date of Saturday, October 5 for our Rotary Rocks! day at USM in Portland. RI Director Jeffry Cadorette will be the keynoter, and I can promise you an exciting, exuberant day. Meanwhile, I hope to see as many of you as possible at the Chartering at Camp Hines on Saturday, June 15. Jeffry will be here for that as well, and to present the new club members with their charter pins and membership bling. Plan to stay for lunch and a RYLA workday and register by email: NewVoices7780@gmail.com.
Thanks so much!
Marty Helman
District Growth Chair 2019-20
District History for June 2019
NO REPLIES
Request for June! I am going to continue with the same request from May!
I really would like to collect copies of all the club’s Charter & Anniversary celebration programs that are out there. There is a lot of club/district history in them! Many have how the club was started, the original charter members, all past presidents, current members, original officers, etc.
We have a number of clubs who are celebrating their clubs anniversary this Rotary Year. At these events there is normally information about the start of their Rotary Club! PLEASE send me your club’s charter night program or even the program from your club celebration this Rotary year and let everyone in the District learn about your club and our District!!
Any that I get mailed to me at PO Box 142, Kittery Point, ME 03905, I PROMISE, I will scan and return them to you promptly. If you do not want to mail them to me as you may be afraid they will get lost in snail mail, scan them as a jpg file and email it to me at mawilliamspdg@comcast.net.
PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CLUB’S HISTORY!
Will you your name and your club’s name be here next month?
What will we learn about your club and the District?
Marie
Marie A. Williams, PDG
District 7780 Historian
Welcome New Rotarians!
Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Club welcomed their newest Rotarian, Tom Karod, a local attorney pictured here being inducted by President Jane Gavel (far right) with sponsor Lorraine Faherty (at podium)
The Rotary Club of Bethel
4TH ANNUAL MAY DAY 5K
The club held its 4th Annual May Day 5k, where funds were raised to support after school and enrichment programs for K-12 students in the Bethel Area
Pictured above (left to right) is volunteer Rotarians Michele Cole, Robin Zinchuk, Mike Steven, Kevin Finley, Jean Benedict, Cri-Cri Gorycki, Alison Aloisio, Mariann Goff, Lucy Abbott, Bob & Lynn Laux
Our small but mighty one mile participants and 5k runners and walkers.
CLUB RECOGNIZES TELSTAR STUDENTS OF THE MONTH
Pictured left to right: Macie Hallett, Dylan Bouchard, Aneah Bartlett, Kaity Killam.
We are so proud of our membership committee leaders who have excelled in bringing our membership to a new heights. We think that we achieved this with an all-out marketing effort through local news articles sharing what we are doing to enhance our community. We may have finally dispelled the notion that there is weekly required attendance. Our motto is “Engagement, not Attendance” Our members are now attending because we’ve made it fun! Our attendance was up from last year so we can only conclude that fun works!
As soon as spring arrives, we’ll be installing Little Libraries in special accessible sites for anyone to borrow a book. This is a joint project with the Chamber of Commerce and the Boothbay Harbor Library. So far, Rotary members have committed to four little libraries. Hats off to the notion of collaboration with other wonderful organizations!
The annual Soup Bowl took place late March and brought in 220 people to receive all you can eat soup, salad and dessert with a handmade soup bowl of your choice for $15. This is a collaborative effort with Rebuilding Together and the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, which prepares beautiful handmade soup bowls.
On April 25th we celebrated our 61st Lifetime Service Award to a non Rotarian resident who epitomizes Service Above Self. Around 90 local citizens showed up to surprise the recipient! She was given a Paul Harris and we hope that she will become a Rotarian.
Our collaborative program for Veterans called “Serve the Served” is going forward to meet our mission of bringing back into the community the veterans who have lost touch with others and would benefit from home visits and possible community activities. Rotary, our local community center, and the American Legion lodge are collaborating and have gathered volunteers who, after training, will spend a minimal of 3 hours a month with a veteran.
Vidalia onions were sold to Friends of Rotary and Rotarians. Many thanks to our awesome Onion Specialist, Doug Harley.
In Maine, weather notwithstanding, our surest sign of Spring is the return of the snowbirds. First one home this year was Don McClure, followed by PDG Gary and PP Judy Speers, and Paul Crandall.
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL EVENT!
Special events don’t just happen! Months of hard work and preparation make for the success of our annual Rotary/Lions Golf Tournament each July. Thanks to PP Rick Hagen and Shirley Tawney!
The Rotary Club of Dover
CLUB SUPPORTS SOFTBALL TEAM
As we come into the Spring season, it means another year of Dover Girls Softball. With the recent donation from the Rotary Club of Dover, these young girls have the opportunity to learn team and leadership skills while having fun on the softball field. Go Team Rotary! #teamrotary #dovergirlssoftball
CLUB FUNDS LIBRARY SHELVING
The Rotary Club of Dover thanks Cathy Beaudoin of the Dover Public Library for the opportunity this week for our members to have lunch and see the finished children’s book shelving that was funded by our Rotary Club. They look fabulous and the kids love how much easier that the books are to access. #partnership #rotarychildrensrenovationproject #serviceaboveself
Rotary Clubs of Falmouth, Scarborough and Saco Bay Sunset
CLUBS SUPPORT EPILEPSY FOUNDATION
Are you doing some spring cleaning around your house? Is someone you know moving or trying to declutter? Do you work at a place where the "lost and found" is overflowing? Well, you’re in luck! The Rotary Clubs of Falmouth, Scarborough and Saco Bay Sunset are partnering to help support the New England Epilepsy Foundation by participating in a clothing drive. Please help us raise funds for this worthy cause and the outstanding events that we do all year!
Here is a list of (new or used) items that we are collecting: Clothes, Uniforms, Fabric, Fabric Scraps, Yarn, Small Throw Rugs, Towels, Wash Cloths, Shower Curtains, Bath Mats, Drapes, Curtains, Sheets, Pillow Cases, Tablecloths, Cloth Napkins, Pot Holders, Blankets, Comforters, Duvet Covers, Sofa and Chair Covers, Shoes, Boots, Flip Flops and Sandals.
If you or your club has any ideas of businesses or places (schools, stores, lost and founds, etc.) that might have items available, please feel free to let us know. We'll even come and pick up!! We'll be collecting until the start of July. Thanks for your help and for spreading the word.
Kennebunk Portside Rotary’s President Cornelia Stockman recently presented KEMS (Kennebunkport Emergency Medical Services) with a check for $300 and a treadmill to help supply KEMS's new exercise room.
The Rotary Club of Kittery
ANNUAL SPRING AUCTION
May 3rd marked the return of the Annual Spring Auction. The auction is the principal source of Club Service Project funding for the upcoming Rotary year. Each year we showcase areas of service to our community - in the past we focused on hunger, then housing, and this year the focus was on local literacy and education in honor of our incoming Club President, School Superintendent Eric Waddell. The event requires the commitment and involvement of the entire club, and year long planning by the Auction Steering Committee. Taylor O'Donnell and friends once again provided great music for a very fun evening, which saw many of our fellow Kittery Rotarians and the Kittery After Hours Club, join us.
On left: Immediate Past President Linda Hirst and Auction Steering Committee Chair (and next year's President-Elect) Steve Bousquet are ready to Party with A Purpose!
Club member DGE Andy Glazier was hard at work - hanging signs and helping Pam run the wine auction.
The Rotary Club of Oxford Hills
CLUB HOSTS DECA STUDENTS
The Oxford Hills Rotary Club recently hosted several DECA students to hear about their experience at the National Competition recently held in Florida. In order to qualify for Nationals, the students need to place first or second in the State competition. Eleven students from OHCHS qualified to attend Nationals. DECA is an association of marketing, hospitality, finance and entrepreneurship students. They are given an assignment of a scenario role play and have 10 minutes if competing as individuals, or 30 minutes if competing as a 2-person team, to come up with strategy and problem solving to respond to the assignment. Over 22,000 students attended Nationals, and the OHCHS students were the only school representing Maine. These students are to be commended for representing our community in such a positive, professional manner.
Shown from L-R: Rotary President George Rice, Lexi Mack, Marian Lawler and Madison Akers. They were accompanied by their teacher/advisor Dr. Wendy Robichaud, who also explained about their program, their training and their competition requirements.
ROAD TOLL FOR POLIO!
The Rotary Club of Oxford Hills recently held a voluntary Road Toll for Polio and raised $1,700 in a 4-hour span. Shown here L-R, front row: Lynne Schott, President George Rice, Heidi Ortiz, Abigail Earle, Marianne Todd, and back row: Pat Cook, Beth Abbott, Bob Schott, Patty Rice, and AG Chris Summers. All proceeds will be sent to RI, and with the Bill & Melinda Gates match, their $1,700 becomes $5,100! END POLIO NOW!!
The Rotary Club of Portland
ROTARY READERS RECEIVE A THANK YOU
Portland Rotarians were among the volunteers who participated in the Lyseth Elementary School reading program. Children were each given copies of the books that were read to them by the volunteers. On May 17, a teacher, a parent, a group of the elementary students from Lyseth School, and the Portland Community Engagement Coordinator visited Portland Rotarians to deliver colorful gift bags and to read some of their adorable thank you notes to club members. Among the readers who received the thank you notes in the gift bags are pictured (from left) Laura Young (the volunteer reading program coordinator) with Bruce Moore, Jan Chapman, Ben Lowry and President-Elect Amy Chipman.
The Rotary Club of Portsmouth
DISTRICT REPORT
Frigid, rainy weather was no match for Portsmouth Rotarians May 3rd and 4th. We scraped, painted, spackled, dug, weeded and much more. All to help Portsmouth’s John Paul Jones House spruce up for the summer season and beyond. The effort, President’s Cleo’s Hands-on Project, accomplished much despite Mother Nature’s uncooperative resistance. About $40,000 in Rotary funds underwrote the work.
We continue to support Cross Roads House, a local homeless shelter. Rotarians cook and serve meals at the campus on a regular basis. Volunteers have been plentiful throughout this year-long commitment - a huge credit to Project Chair Tiffany McKenna’s inspiring leadership. There were even enough volunteers to staff the “graveyard” shift over Memorial Day Weekend.
Joanie Dickinson, Peter Taylor and Donna Harvey led The Portsmouth High Interact Club onto Rye’s Wallis Sands State Park beach for a spring clean-up. This time, truly nice weather prevailed.
Former Club President Bill Hurley and Joe Cunningham traveled to Biddeford, filling containers there with thousands of pieces of used mobility equipment. Bill leads the club’s Crutches 4 Africa team. That same day back in Portsmouth, Ramona Dow was coordinating volunteers at a Community Baby Shower.
Pictured above: Ramona Dow and Kathy Nickerson at the Community Baby Shower
The club let its literary side shine at Portsmouth Rotary Poet Laureate Dave Holden’s Annual Poetry Hoot. The thought-provoking event always culminates with Dave reciting Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias from memory…The Annual Vocational Awards and Club golf tournament are on tap for June.
Pictured to right: Dave Holden
The Rotary Club of Sebago Lake
ANNUAL PIZZA CHALLENGE
The Sebago Lake Rotary club hosting it's Annual Pizza Challenge where hundreds of families attended. This is one of their signature fundraisers which featured over a dozen of the local pizza makers showcasing their best.
The winner was The Beacon Pizzeria of Raymond, ME with their Thanksgiving Pizza, one of the favorites. They also won Most Creative Pizza.
The Rotary Club of Yarmouth
CLUB SUPPORTS MAINE FOODSCAPES
On May 4th, Yarmouth Rotary built and filled three raised garden beds for a Yarmouth family that qualified for a free home garden from Maine Foodscapes. Yarmouth Rotary also donated $1,000 to Maine Foodscapes.
Yarmouth Rotarian Celena Gervais levels one of the raised beds
The Rotary Club of Dover
18TH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT - JUNE 10, 2019
The snow may be on the ground yet Spring is almost here and so is golf season. Are you looking for a fun outing? Join us on June 10th. This is one of the ways that the Rotary Club of Dover raises funds to distribute to local and international causes.Come out, have fun and do good at the same time!
The Rotary Club of Oxford Hills
LOBSTERS FOR SCHOLARS - JUNE 12, 2019
The Rotary Club of Bethel
ANNUAL AUCTION & YARD SALE - JUNE 22, 2019
The Rotary Club of Rochester
29TH ANNUAL PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT - SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Updates and short articles with images or videos, and the names of new members and those who have passed, may be submitted to our Newsletter Editor, Deb Marsolais, at deb.marsolais@comcast.net to be included in our Monthly Newsletter. The District Newsletter is a means of communicating to other clubs in our district; items of interest, upcoming events, fundraisers, opportunities of service, or member news.
Deadline for July Newsletter Submissions: June 23rd
PLEASE NOTE:
As a precaution, unless you have obtained a written consent from a parent/guardian, every child’s face which appears in a picture submitted for the newsletter or website, will be edited so that it is blurred out in the picture. Since there may be situations involving abuse, neglect, custody dispute, etc., and parents wouldn't want their child's picture to appear in public, this is being done for the child's privacy and protection.
If you have a submission for the newsletter or website, and would like to have us post a picture with a child (children) in it, please let us know if you have received a consent, otherwise we will edit it accordingly.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Everyone’s Phone Number at Your Fingertips . . . and Much More!
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!
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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.
