Come enjoy lunch at the Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church during the Festival of Trees. On Friday December 11, Westbrook-Gorham Rotary President Christine Johnson will wait on your table in the hope that you will tip generously. Proceeds benefit the Westbrook Food Panty and the Good Samaritan Fuel Fund.
There are two seatings of eight: 11:30 and 12:20. Tickets are $5. Meal is hearty soup, sandwich and dessert prepared by church members. A great deal for the price! Please speak to Christine at the next Rotary meeting, call or email to reserve your seat. Cell: 653-0869 Email: cejinmaine@aol.com
Let’s make this a successful event and fill our table for the two seatings!!
On Friday November 13, Rotarian volunteers Christine Johnson and Paul Emery prepared the evening meal at My Place Teen Center. Friday is often a simple meal, such as warming up leftovers from earlier in the week. Here we see Paul and Christine preparing garlic bread using bread provided by The Baker’s Bench located on Brackett St in Westbrook. We joined the kids upstairs during the meal and had a chance to chat with many of them. What an energetic bunch!
The next opportunity to volunteer is December 11. Please contact Steve Rand or Deb Shangraw if you are interested. We encourage you to see this wonderful Center first hand.
Congratulations and thank you to Judith Reidman for achieving the Paul Harris +2 Fellowship level. Her generosity to the Rotary Foundation over the years is much appreciated. She is seen here with President-Elect and past W-G Rotary Foundation Chair Jason Beever (left) and District Governor-Elect Marge Barker (right).
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Contributions to the Rotary Foundation by Rotarians count towards Paul Harris recognition levels. Life time giving is used to achieve each level, starting with $1000 to become a Paul Harris Fellow. Each increasing level represents an additional $1000 of lifetime giving.
Funds may be designated to whatever Rotary cause donors wish: Polio Plus, Share Fund, Endowed Funds, or to support a specific cause in one of Rotary’s areas of focus: Promoting Peace, Fighting Disease, Providing Clean Water and Sanitation, Saving Mothers and Children, Supporting Education or Growing Local Economies.
Terry Hodskins (second from left), a Wells Rotary Club member, launched a quilt project on behalf of Wells Rotary Club in 2001, naming the project WRAP-A-SMILE. The name recognizes the fact that repair of a cleft lip enables a child to smile for the very first time. Since its inception it has grown quickly. Every time there is publicity about Wrap-A-Smile more quilters begin stitching.
Quilters are a group of ladies (and sometimes guys too) that purchase or have fabric of all descriptions that they cut up and re-assemble into interesting patterns. Over nineteen thousand small and colorful home-crafted quilts have passed through Terry Hodskins’ hands on their way to children in distant hospitals and clinics, who will be wrapped in one of these donated quilts while they are recovering from surgery.
Wrap-A-Smile is devoted to supporting the medical missions of Rotaplast International and Alliance for Smiles. Rotaplast International is an organization which began as a project of the Rotary Club of San Francisco. Rotaplast Doctors go on missions to countries around the world, offering free surgery to repair cleft lips and cleft palates.
If you would like to take part or know someone who would, quilts should be baby/lap size, child-friendly colors and 100% cotton. The smallest size 36 x 46 and larger size 40 x 60 and any size in between. They should be machine quilted or hand tied, as they may be washed in rivers and are generally exposed to difficult conditions.
All inquiries should be made to Terry Hodskins . More information about Rotaplast International can be found at www.rotaplast.org.
For those who missed it, you can read about the success of the Rotary District 7780 Dress Up To Drive Out Human Trafficking fundraiser held Friday Oct 30 in downtown Portland. This article appeared in the Scene & Heard column of the Maine Sunday Telegram on Sunday November 8. Among the pictures - Westbrook’s own Patty Rand, wife of Westbrook-Gorham Rotary past-president Steve Rand.
We hope you will join us for our annual Christmas party at the home of Judith and Ed Reidman, December 8, 7 Enchanted Ln, Westbrook. A sign-up sheet for the event will be available at upcoming meetings shortly.
As usual, we will have a Yankee Swap for any who wish to participate – suggested value $10. Always a fun time! Also, this year, we will be collecting Toys for Tots. If you want to help, please bring a new unwrapped toy to the party. If you won’t be able to attend, you can always bring a toy to a meeting or drop it off at the office of Deb Shangraw, Emerald Property Management, 752 Main St, Westbrook (across from My Place Teen Center).
Please also consider asking your friends, neighbors and colleagues to join us in supporting this wonderful Marine Corp tradition.
As we enter the gift giving season, please consider visiting this site: http://purchasing4mycause.com/ When you buy a gift from Purchasing 4 My Cause, and name us as your charity, 15% percent of your purchase is returned to Rotary Club of Westbrook Gorham.
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