The Westbrook Regional Vocational Center award ceremony was held on the evening on May 21. This celebration of student achievement saw a standing room only crowd at the Westbrook High School auditorium.
Pat and Cliff Plummer, representing Westbrook-Gorham Rotary, awarded 23 academic scholarships and 3 toolships totaling $12,250. Congratulations to all of the deserving graduates!
This week we are featuring the Gorham RYLA 2015 participants, sophomores Noah Bird and Kara Ellsmore.
Noah is an all-star goalie for the GHS ice hockey team, and a longtime volunteer with Maine Special Olympics. Kara is a high honors student who plays volleyball and Tennis. She founded and is president of the GHS chapter of Girl Up, a worldwide organization that is part of the United Nations Foundation that invests in girls to change the world.
Congratulations to these two deserving students from Gorham!
Each “trade” group who does some aspect of the work on our house projects was represented at our luncheon today: Building Trades, Drafting, Heavy Equipment Operation, Electricity, and Commercial Drivers (CDL). The instructors introduced their discipline, then each student stood up and introduced themselves. The seniors told us a bit about their future plans. Some will be going directly into the workforce and several will be going to college in the fall. Students in attendance hailed from all of the schools served by WRVC: Westbrook, Gorham, Windham, Bonny Eagle, and Scarborough.
We learned that the dry wall is up in House and the home was being vinyl sided that week (see new pictures in http://portal.clubrunner.ca/6948/PhotoAlbums/rotary-house-45 ). We also learned that the Electrical students are working on an overhaul of the Dunn Street Legion Hall with materials donated by Home Depot and Lowes.
To all members, your help is needed to make our participation in Westbrook Together Days a success!! As you patronize our local restaurants, sandwich shops, cafes and coffee shops, please consider asking them to donate gift cards to promote literacy. Any denomination is welcome - $5, $10, $20, $25.
During Westbrook Together Days, anyone donating a new or gently used baby, children or young adult book will secure one entry per book donated in our drawing. Please share this information with family and friends.
Please bring any donations to our weekly meetings or contact Julie Hamm or Christine Johnson for pick up.
