Newsletter - Archive  Jan 5, 2010

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Volume #2	Date January 5, 2010	Issue #26

Our Next Program:  Classification Talks ~ Russ & Randy

Last Week's News:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: None

         ~ Guests: Cathy McWilliams, past club member, Tamara Milliard, Jared Morse

         ~ News: Cathy McWillams announced that Kennebunk Savings Bank donates dollars

                      to match the number of hours their employees volunteer each year and she

                      presented the Rotary Club of Kittery with the funds that represented her

                       volunteer hours for 2009. Thank you Cathy! We miss you and hope you

                       can rejoin some day.

                            President Julie announced that the nominating committee will need to

                        come up with a candidate for the 2010-2011 Vice-President and the rest

                        of the Board for next year, and the club will vote upon them when presented.

                       The names of the President and President-Elect and Secretary have been

                       sent in to RI.  

                       Today the Club wiill be presenting Dictionaries to the Third grade classes -

                         see the pictures below.

      Meeting Program:

               Tamara Milliard was introduced by Greg Rydza. Tamara was asked to give a

         "Briefly Business" presentation introducing herslf and her business.  Tammy is the

          owner of Simplicity Hair Designs and is now operationg a salon at Kittery Estates.

         She is open to the public as well  and can be reached at 439-4600. 

Greg introduced Tammy to the Club

             Tammy's father was a 25 year Rotarian and Past President of his club and hopefully

         we will see a lot more of her on Tuesday mornings. Susie proudly showed off Tammy's

        design of her hair. Getting right in the spirit of the club Tammy said she provides discounts

        for men with hair limitations (maybe a wax and shine for a certain gleaming dome ;-0).    .

            Our main speaker was our own PPx3 Sue Czarnionka, who spoke on "A Healthy Heart"

       Sue talked of her experiances as a cadiological care nurse and explained the causes and

       symptoms of heart disease. Her talk was very timely since not too long ago District

       7780 (our District) lost a very active club president to heart attack.

                                   Past PresidentX3 Sue promoting the maintaining of a healthy

                                   heart ~ tough news for those who hit the eggs and bacon

                                          and passed up the oatmeal and fruit

      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). 

           Dee won the raffle and drew the 8 of hearts, losing an unknown pot!

                 (Bill forgot to bring the running tally, but the pot grows

                   for at least another week ~ whatever it is!

Upcoming Programs: 

         January 12 ~ Classification Talks

           January 19 ~ Club Assembly

           January 26 ~ Students of the Month

           February 2 ~ Russ Hilliard returns as our guest to talk about his experiance in

                                  Africa

Birthdays: Januafry 10 ~ Sue C.

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

           January 12 ~ Jeff & Obie

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 ( The board

             will decide the recipient for this quarter at the next Board meeting)

            Post Meeting: After this week's meeting Ellen, Russ, Pat, Dee, and Dave went to

      Mitchell School to hand out the Dictionaries we have supplied to the Third Graders.

      Each dictionary is labeled with the students name and is theirs to keep. The dictionaries 

      were immediately put to use by the Third Grade teachers, Mrs.Lantz, Mrs. Sama, and

      Mrs.Wilson

The students immediately started exploring their books as soon as they received them

           . The teachers of their following grades(5th & 6th) know the students all have their 

      own dictionaries and will continue to use them in their classes through school.

      Providing third grade studentsis a project started by a lady in Georgia in the early 1990's

      and picked up by many Rotary Clubs in the USA since the late 1990's as part of a

      continuing effort to promote literacy in their communities. For many students it is their

      first personal book and the only dictionary in their home. The effort taken to personalize

      the books and present them individually by name is rewarded with the obvious sense of

      pride expressed by the students . The students are also impressed to find out how much

      other information can be found between the covers of the dictionary.

A great bunch of kids and I am sure we will see many

 of them back as Sudents of the Month

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.