Newsletter - Archive  Dec 22, 2009

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Volume #2	Date December 22, 2009	Issue # 25

                  Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Years!

Our Next Program:  Will be January 5, 2010

                                We will not meet next Tuesday, December 29th

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Honorary Rotarian (and Past President and long time secretary)

                                         Lezlye Shea

         ~ Guests: Josh Olson, Robert Olson, Kelcie Drury, Caitlynn Drury, Jennifer Drury,

                         Ellen Robinson, Cindy Rutherford

         ~ News: Treasurer Bill announced that the Bodacious Babes Christmas Cabaret show

                       and Dinner hosted by Kittery Estates brought in $1580 for the Rotary Club of

                       Kittery. Many thanks to the great team at Kittery Estates for their support!  

      Meeting Program:  

                    .We had the Shapleigh School December Students of the Month for our last meeting

              of 2009.

 Josh Olson is introduced by teacher Ellen       Kelcie Drury is a Shapleigh 4th Grader and our

 Robinson. Josh is an 8th Grade Student, well   youngest Student of the Month ever. Teacher Cindy

recognized for being an excellant role model      Rutherford extolled Kelcie's ebullant personality

     President -Elect Russ congratulated Kelcie, Josh, their parents and teachers and then

   surprised them by giving them the floor by themselves to answer questions by the Club

   members. As seen in the picture on the above right, they were both more then up to the

   task. Our congratulations to both of them and we are sure we will be seeing more of them.

   When hit with the standard "What do you think you want to be after school?" Kelcie snapped

    back quickly with a perky smile -"A chemical engineer" which was met with a chorus of

    "Go for i!!"

              Our major  support project for this quarter is the Kittery Holiday Baskets, who this year

       are helping over 129 families  including about 175 children.  The club has donated over

       $1600 in clothing, gifts and food this quarter. The last couple of days have been time for 

       collecting, sorting and packing up gifts and food for the Christmas distribution which takes

       place today, Tuesday the 22nd

            Contributed toys and clothes need to be sorted to find sizes and age appropriate items for

   each child. In some cases where matches cannot be found a team of buyers uses donated funds

   to provide a basic set of new clothes and toys for each child. After all the sorting, the gifts need

   to be bagged and tagged and moved out to make way for sorting and boxing the food.

    On the last day fresh food is purchased (several thousand dollars worth) and distributed.

    Each box is numbered and has the number of children and adults and any special needs.

     A couple of families live in places without ovens and can use only foods which can be

     prepared on a hotplate, others are diabetic. Food is provided in proportion to the size and

     ages (chidren vice adults) of each family.

    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). 

              Susie Rydza won the raffle but was busy with her guests so

             Greg drew the card for her, picking the 6 of diamonds and lost $91!

Upcoming Programs: 

Birthdays: Dec. 24 ~ Bill, Dec 27 ~ Russ, Dec 30 ~ Dee & Jeff

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

                January 5 and 12 ~ Obie & Jeff

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 went to 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.