Newsletter - Archive  Mar 24, 2009

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Volume #1	Date March 24, 2009	Issue #19

Our Next Program:  Students of the Month for March

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Paul Beswick of the Portsmouth Club

         ~ Guests:  Shapleigh School February Student of the Month Colin Crake,

                           his mother Beth, and his sister Kate, and his teacher

                           Steven Frost,  and Ken Murray our guest speaker

       News: A lot of Happy/Sad dollars were contributed in honor of Joyce's great

                   St.Patrick's party last Tuesday, and the very successful Senior's

                   Dinner Sunday.

      Meeting Program:  

                         .Today Julie filled in as president Pro-tem, a last minute

             call from Sue reported that her car would not start.

                     There was a Taste of Kittery Planning Meeting after the regular meeting.

            The Taste of Kittery is one of our two major fundraisers, and will be held Thursday

             May 7th at the Lion's Club.

                      Today we had our Shapleigh School Student of the Month for February. 

             Colin Coker.  Colin came with his mother Beth and charming younger sister Kate,

             and his teacher Steven Frost. Colin likes golf, math and band. His teachers took special

             note of his great attitude and intellegence. The club also learned that he won the

             award for remembering the most decimal places for the mathematical  number

             "pie', having memorized it to 21 decimal places!  As always, it was wonderful meeting

              one of our great Kittery students and his familiy.

      Teacher Steven Frost introduces Colin       Vice-President Russ has Colin sign a book

                                                                    to be donated in his name

                     As Russ had Colin sign the book to be donated to the Kittery School library

             in Colin's name, he related the fun time he had last week when he volunteered to

            read "Cat in the Hat" to students. When he checked the inside cover he found that

            the book he was reading was one that our Club had donated through our speaker's

            books program.   

                     President Elect Julie introduced our guest speaker, Ken Murray, Director of

             Volunteer Services at the Southern Maine Agency on Aging.(SMAA)

                     The SMAA (www.smaaa.org) is one of seven agencies around Maine

            providing support services for people over 60 years of age.  The Agency runs

            several different programs including Senior Advocacy and Assistance, caregiver

           support and assistance, grocery shopping, home maintenance and repair, and

           adult day services. Two of the programs are the Meals on Wheels program in which

           several Club members volunteer, and Bill-Paying Assistance, which President-Elect

           Julie volunteers for.

                       The Agency uses over 800 volunteers and is looking for more volunteers

           for its programs, opportunities are available in:

             a) Benefit Councilors

             b) Health Insurance councilors

             c) Meals on wheels & Senior Dining Centers

             d) "Matter of Balence" coaches

             e) "Living well with chronic conditions coaches"

             f) Maine Senior Games

             g) Check writing Assistance

             i) Grocery Shoppers

             j) Minor Home Maintenance and Repair 

      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). 

           Brad won the raffle and pulled the five of Hearts, losing $238

Upcoming Programs: 

               March 28 ~ Kittery Community Auction to benefit the Traip Boosters ,

                                 the Kittery Recreation Department, The Kittery Rotary Club

                                 will have an RI and club information display there

               Matrch 31 ~ The March Traip and Shapleigh Students of the Month

               April  7 ~ Layne Case on Autism Resources , she also a local Artist  

               April 14 ~ Paul Wolf will speak on the current economic outlook

               April 21 ~ The meeting will be at York County Community College as

                                  part of  the District Assembly 

                May 7th ~ Taste of Kittery!

     TOK is coming!

Birthdays:   April 3 ~ Greg , April 24 ~  Dan

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

                          March 31st ~ Greg & Alan,  April 7 & 14 ~ Susie & Marie

Club Reminders::

                     Happy/Sad Dollars on Student of the Month meetings support the

             third grade dictionary project

                     Happy/Sad dollars for the rest of the meetings this quarter will be donated

             to 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.