Newsletter - Archive  Mar 3, 2009

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Volume #1	Date March 3, 2009	Issue #16

Our Next Program:  York County Community College

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Ed Mallon, Portsmouth Rotary, Joe Carlton Wells Rotary,

                                 and our guest speaker Glenn Michaels of Brunswick Rotary

         ~ Guests: Genevieve Benton, our first "Briefly Business" guest

                      Our first "Briefly Business" guest, Genevive, gave us a two minute

               review of all that her company "APERFECTMOVER" does. Her talk was

              reinforced by both Susie and Pat who remarked about the great help

              Genevive has been to their residents, and by Brad who noted how much

              Genevive and APERFECTMOVER has done for Fair Tide.

              www.APERFECTMOVER.net.

Genevieve talking to the club about her business

                Dan presented a thank you note from his friend Alex in Kenya who we

              have sent two boxes of clothes for the local villagers. The customs duty

              on the boxes is about $20 and the club will wire him reimbursement for

              the two boxes we have shipped todate.

                   Marie reported on the excellant World Understanding & Peace Dinner

              program held on February 28th

                                   The young man on the right above is Ryan McDonnell.

                           He was the keynote speaker at the WU&P Dinner. He was one

                          of Rotary's Ambassadorial Scholars studying in South Africa when he

                          and 16 other Ambassadorial Scholars put on a 1300 mile, 20 day hike to

                          raise awareness of the plight of AIDS orphans. Ambassadorial Scholars

                          are one of the many programs funded by the Rotary Foundation

                Joyce mentioned that DG Brad had given her sister Penny a Paul Harris

             Fellow multiple in recognition for all she has done for the District.

                 At the Dinner DG Brad introduced the new District Governor Nominee

            (DG 2011-2012) Gary Speers of the Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Club

Gary Spears with Jeff

                  Dave displayed the award Kittery Rotary received for being the No. 2

            per capita donator to the Rotary Foundation in 2007-2008. 

                This month we are again putting on a drive for the Rotary Foundation and

            donations will be matched as long as the budgeted Club funds last.

               Susie informed us of an upcoming police benefit spaghetti dinner and

           an Art in Bloom event to be held in the coming weeks at Kittery Estates.

           She invited any artists in the club to take part.

                 Dave reminded everyone of the Club's Free Dinner for Seniors to be held

            March 22nd at the Kittery Recreation center.

               Today was Joyce's birthday ~ we sang "Happy Birthday" to her.

                 Jeff reminded everyone that April 21st was District Assembly at the YCCC

            in Wells. This is a Tuesday and he hoped the Club will make that the

            club meeting for that week. Marie is going to be the Registrar .

                 Editor's Note:The host club ( the incoming District Governor's Club i,e,~us)

            provides support. This will be officially discussed at this month's board meeting

            and Club Assembly, but everyone is urged to mark their calendars so we have

            a large turnout to support Jeff . This is the roll-out District event for the District

            Governor for the next year. 

      Meeting Program:  .

                This was our first meeting after voting to change locations and we were glad

          to see that our visitors found us. We had a great breakfast and a very good

          turnout. President Sue had to work and President-elect Julie took the gavel.

Glenn talking about Volunteers of New England

              Glenn Michaels represents Volunteers of New England  and he told us

         about the many different programs for seniors, youth, and for released

         prison inmates. The program he highlighted was Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D,

         a camp the club supports a camper to, and Russ French has been a strong

        advocate and volunteer at for years. Russ had to leave early so he was not

        there to hear all the good things said about him. Glenn reminded us that summer

        was coming and they would be holding Camp in a few months despite the snow

        currently piled outside. Check out Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D. at  

         http://www.voanne.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1544

Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D. is one of Volunteers of N.E.'s programs ,

 Russ is a regular leader there and the Club is a supporter.

             Julie chaired a fund raising meeting afterward . The decision was made that

          we would do Taste Of Kittery again, news received from an attendee at the Blood

          Drive was that another town organization planned a pizza event this spring. The group

          liked the idea of a pizza event but thought that earlier in the year and and done

          for fun rather then needing to make a significant amount from it would be best

          Pat mentioned that we need to focus on seaching out really good silent auction

          items..

      59-50 Raffle

          (50% of the pot goes for club administration and 50% goes to the lucky individual if their       

          raffle ticket is chosen and they select the one joker hidden in the ever-decreasing deck of

          cards. If the joker is not drawn then the pot rolls over to the next week). 

          The birthday girl was the raffle winner but she missed the Joker

         and lost $183.50

Upcoming Programs: 

         March 10 ~ York County Community College

         March 17 ~ Club Assembly

         March 22 ~ Free Dinner For Seniors at the Kittery Recreation Center

         March 24 ~ SMAA

         March 28 ~ Kittery Rec/Booster Club Auction - Kittery Rotary will have

                          an information table at this event, it will be an opportunity

                          to show what we do and to promote the Taste of Kittery

         March 31 ~ Students of the Month

Birthdays:  March 8 ~ Frank & Julie,

Upcoming Greeters. Making sure no one feels like a stranger here:

          March 10 & 17 ~ Jeff & Julie, March 24 & 31 ~ Greg & Alan

Club Reminders:

         Happy/Sad dollars on Student of the Month days fund our Third Grade

            Dictionary Project

         Happy Sad Dollars on other meeting days this quarter support Foot Prints

          Food Pantry

Do not forget to regularly check the calendar of our Web Site for long term schedules and the photo Album for updates on our Program pictures and Activity pictures.