Newsletter - Archive  Dec 16, 2008

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Volume #1	Date December 16 2008	Issue #6

Our Next Program: The club Christmas Celebration

Last Week's New's:

     Guests and Happenings:

         ~ Visiting Rotarians: Dick Santoro of the York Club

         ~ Guests: Pierre Brazeau

         ~ Special News Shared:

                      Many shared stories of the days without power, Obie shared that many in town still

                      are without power. Bill had a particularly bad week including a flat tire, family

                      accident, client having a heart attack in his office - all before the long loss of power.

                       Greg reported the arrival of twio new grandchildren. Dan reported that the package

                       sent to Kenya had arrived safely and was much appreciated, now more can follow.

                       Dave A invited everyone to his church's farewell party for him at 2 pm Sunday at his

                       church, he has been paster there for 36 years.

       Club News:

                   The Senior's free Holiday Dinner last Sunday was canceled due to the power loss in

                     town. This was Club Assembly and the remaining Club news is included               

                     under "Program"

      Meeting Program:  Club Assembly

                -The Club decided to hold a Senior's Dinner in either January or February. Dave

                  explained the startup of a new soup kitchen program called Table of Plenty

                  and Sue asked the club if they were ready to commit to being one of the

                   teams hosting a meal every 6-8 weeks. The Club decided to hold off deciding

                   until we are more familier with it.Greg said that Kittery Estates and the

                   Lion's Club were going to work together as   one of the teams.

               - The slate of officers for next year as well as the Vice-President for the current year were

                  presented by President Sue and approved by the club. Julie will be President, Russ will

                 be Vice-President for the rest of this year and President Elect for next year, Brad will be

                 Vice-President next year, Joyce will continue as Secretary and Bill will continue as

                 Treasurer. Recommendations for the remaining Board positions will be presented later in

                  the (Rotary) year.

               - Membership Chair Pam introduced a new concept called "Briefly Business"  Local

                 business people will be invited to be our guests for a meeting and given a couple of

                 minutes to tell us about their business. The intention is to provide a non-intimidating

                 way to get them to know about Rotary and hopefully to get interested in the Club.

               - President Sue announced that the Board had decided to commit to sponsoring a

                 Student Exchange candidate, Josh Brazeau from Portsmouth. Josh's father Pierre

                  Brazeau was at the meeting and explained that Josh was a senior in high school and

                  interested in computer engineering. Josh plays soccer, lacrosse, skiis, and does indoor

                  track. Responding to the challenge to get an "out-of-the-box" experiance, his first

                  choices for places to go are in the far east.The club is looking for someone who is

                  would like to be the point person for the Club's involvement in the program.

               - This was the day the Club made the presentation of the Dictionaries to all the Kittery

                  Third Graders. After the meeting, Ellen, Russ, Marie, Julie, and Dave went to Frisbee

                  School.  Once again the Dictionaries were very well recieved by the Students and Ellen

                  had followed the system set up by Russ of personalizing each one, an effort that

                  obviously made a big hit with the students. In each class we talked about Rotary and

                 about the importance of learning and caring for each other. We also noted that almost

                 one third of the children were still without power in their homes.after 5 days.

      50-50 Rafflle

          (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). 

            Sue C drew the Ace of Hearts and lost $18.50

            Michael Cucco won the $100 calender raffle, his calender was sold by Ellen

Upcoming Programs: 

         December 23rd - Christmas Program, Ashleigh Dorrbecker will play the keyboard for us.

         December 30 - No Meeting

         January 6th -Meliisa Paly will discuss the Kittery Land Trust

Special Events Coming Up:

          December 18 ~  1 pm to 7 pm  Rotary Blood Drive at the Lion's Club, Volunteers are

                                     needed

Birthdays:

     Dec 24 Bill , Dec 27 Russ; Dec 30 Dee & Jeff

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

   Dec 23 & Jan 6 Russ and Dave G

Club Reminders:

  This Quarter we are providing our Happy/sad Dollars to Kittery holiday Baskets. We are also

           collecting food, clothes and gifts for Kittery Holiday baskets

  All of the donations need to be in by the Saturday, Maureen offered that anyone who has donations

     can droip them off at Ocean bank and she will take them over to Barbara

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.