Newsletter - Archive  Apr 7, 2009

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Volume #1	Date April 7,2009	Issue #21

Our Next Program:  The Financial Outlook

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Kittery Honorary Rotarian and Kittery Charter Club

                                        Member Dave Avery

         ~ Guests: Our guest speaker Layne Case; Frank's wife Ruth Clark, with Frank & Ruth's

                          granddaughter (who lives in Alaska)  Aaren Ellsworth. Aaren was

                          a Rotary Youth Exchange participant about 10 years ago. She now

                          does research in Kodiak Alaska, spending three months a year at sea.

         ~ News --  Susie announced that President Sue had refered two new Kittery Estates

                       residents to them in her professional capacity and that Sue had said she

                       could not take the Referal bonus, therefore the bonus would be donated to

                       the Rotary Club of Kittery, a big big thank you from the Club to Kittery Estates

      Meeting Program:  

                       President Sue reminded everyone of the upcoming District

                Assembly April 21st, which will be our club meeting that day. This will be

                DGE Jeff's District Assembly and we hope for a large club turnout. We need

                to send the names of those who will attend in by April 9th.  The club will pay

                the $20 registration cost. They need to know the numbers to prepare name

                tags, order food, etc.

                   Jeff said he was going to have a "packet stuffing party" probably next Thursday

               and he invited all who can to come help, details by email later.  As the District

               Governor of 2009-2010's home club we are the "Host Club" and we have committed

               to help him in anyway we can.

                     Pam reminded everyone that the next blood drive is Thursday April 23rd.

                      Julie reminded everyone that our annual Taste of Kittery is May 7th. The food

             looks like it is all set. We need great silent auction items (get them to Pat). Tickets

             are $30 again and includes beverage including wine.

                      Greg introduced our guest speaker  Layne Case. Layne is a writer, a publisher,

              a literary  agent, a story teller, a book distributor, and workshop leader. She

             published her first book in college and had the original drawings and manuscript

             with her. Layne is the owner of Amity Publications in Barrington NH   Information

             on her literary agent is available at info@amitypublications.com.

A very talented individual, Layne covered the many aspects of her work.

                             Susie bought one of the books to be Layne's "Speaker Book" for her to

 sign and to be donated by the Club in her honor to the school library

                  Layne is a distributor for Future Horizons, publishers of  resources and conferences

              for autism and Asperger's Syndrome at  www.amitypublications and also at

              www.letsmakefaces.com.  Layne shared the information that the State of Maine is

              number 2 in the nation for diagnoses of autism at some degree. However she said that

              Maine had one of the most extensive service programs to support children with autism

Frank and his granddaughter Aaren listening to Layne describe some of the

 resources available through her work.

      50-50 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). 

         Dave Avery won the raffle and drew the 7 of spades ~ losing $272

Upcoming Programs: 

                 April 14 - The Financial Outlook

                 April 21 -  Club Meeting will be the District Assembly starting with

                                 registration at 8 am at the YCCC in Wells, the program

                                  completes at 1 PM

                   April 23 ~ Kittery Rotary sponsored Red Cross blood Drive

                  April 28th ~ Students of the Month

Birthdays:  April 24 ~ Dan

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

                      April 14th Greg     April 28 Susie & Marie

Club Reminders:

                Happy/Sad Dollars on Student of the Month days support the Third Grade

                   Dictionary Project

            Happy/Sad Dollars for this last quarter will go to Footprints Food Pantry, next

                 quarter the funds will go toward the Oil and More Program. (They will get the

                 funds in July in order to plan for the next heating season) 

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.