Newsletter - Archive  Sep 29, 2009

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Volume #2	Date September 29, 2009	Issue #13

Our Next Program:  "The Mason's"

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Ellen Labrie,of the Portsmouth Rotary Club

         ~ Guests:  Past Kittery Rotary President Phil McCarthy

              The District Newsletter for September is published and is at

             http://www.rotary7780.org/Newsletter.cfm

                Kittery Rotary has two major fundraisers to fund service projects during the year.

            The first is the Celebrity Waiter Dinner November 5th. Tickets are ready. We need

             people to sign up to be table waiters and we need to sell tickets.

              The event was a great deal of fun last year and we need another great turnout to

            fund our next year's service work.           

            The club had a wonderful social Monday the 28th at the beautiful home of Frank & Ruth

        Clark on Chauncey Creek.  The event was coordinated by Susie and Greg Rydza. Kittery

        Estates Chef Todd Sweet not only provided the delicous entree but also did much of the set

        up and cleanup.for us. The McCarthys and Duncan McEachern joined us for the evening.

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    Susie and Todd coordinated the food             A beautiful setting for a gathering

                                  We had lots of great food                                  

Todd had volunteered his efforts and not being 'on duty" was able to join everyone sharing a glass of wine on the lawn overlooking Chauncey Creek.

An elegant setting                                        Chef Todd joined the party watching the sun set

The sun set over Chauncey Creek, Mathew and Peter Robinson joined us, Matt now towers over most of us, rumored to be 6' 3" and growing

 Originally from Florida Todd married a new Hampshire girl and is now firmly a New Englander. His stylish chef's outfit added a great deal of class to our "Potluck" social.

Luca displayed pictures of his recent adventures   Todd, Susie, the Brazeaus, Luca, and Paul C

 We were joined by our Rotary Youth Exchange student Luca Regallo and his host "parents" the Brazeaus. Luca brought pictures from the orientation weekend and last week's District organized rafting trip down the Kennebec. Many thanks to Our hosts, our event coordinators, and to Todd for a very great time.

As the sun set the party moved indoors               Carolynn and Allen are joined by our third host

Applause all around for a great evening with special thanks to Kittery Estates Chef Todd Sweet,

 who was up again at 6 am to make the Rotary Meeting Breakfast

      Meeting Program:  

           .Obie told of about his experiances at Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D.. A one week camp for 

         children who would not usually get a chance to go to Camp. The camp is staffed mostly by

         police officers from around Maine, Obie was the lone Fireman reppresentative this year.

             The councilor's provide mentoring and structure to the camp experiance that the mostly 11

         year olds had never experianced.  Obie reported the experience to be highly rewarding as

         well as challenging and the needs of most of the campers were significant.

"Fishy Kiss!"

            He enjoyed watching his cabin of wild campers develop into a closely knit and successful

          team. For the last several years Kittery Rotary has sponsored a camper to the camp, The

          town of Kittery sends five or six campers each year, funded by donations and the efforts of

          the volunteers.

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      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).

           Marie won the raffle and drew the 7 of Hearts, losing $404

Upcoming Programs: 

           October 6 ~ "The Masons" with Alan Robinson

           October 20 ~ official District Governor's visit and evening social

           October 22 ~ Kittery Rotary Sponsored Blood Drive

           October 28 ~ District Membership Seminar in Portland

Birthdays: October 6 ~ Obie, October 27 ~ Brad

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

               October 6 Sue & Bill

Club Reminders:

                Happy/Sad Dollars on Student of the Month meetings goes to fund

                  our Third Grade Dictionary Project

                Happy/Sad dollars for the other meetings this quarter go to Footprints Food

                Pantry, this was the last meeting this quarter, next meeting we will start collecting

                for Kittery Holiday Baskets

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.