Westbrook Community Night at the Ball Park – Benefit Recovery Liaison, a program of the Westbrook Police Dept. Wednesday, August 15, 2018. The Portland Sea Dogs take on the Trenton Thunder, AA Affiliate of the New York Yankees at 7:00 PM. Ticket $9 Westbrook Night at Sea Dogs
District Night at the Sea Dogs – Sunday August 19 at 1:00 PM. Gates open at 11:30 AM - $26. To purchase tickets: https://groupmatics.events/event/Rotarydistrict7780 Tickets purchased through this link are for the Picnic Area in Right Field. Includes buffet that runs from 11:30am until 2:00 PM - hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ pulled chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, Coca-Cola products & Sea Dog Biscuits. Cash bar. Contact bob.wester@icloud.com with questions.
Community Food Drive - Co-Sponsored by Westbrook-Gorham Rotary and Westbrook Kiwanis. Hannaford Drive a Saco Biddeford Savings parking lot- Saturday August 18, 10AM-2PM. Contact Sarah Hutchins to volunteer.
Rotary Night Out - Tuesday August 28 5:30PM- In place of our usual lunch meeting, join us for an evening at a local establishment. Look for details soon. Friends, spouses and children welcome. Just let us know so we can plan for enough food!!
Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Annual Golf Tournament - Tuesday September 18, 2018 at Gorham Country Club.
The Locker Project - Fresh food and baked goods distribution in Westbrook. Two or three volunteer needed for each date during the summer at either Westbrook Community Center (WCC) or My Place Teen Center (MPTC). WCCarrival 4PM on date: Aug 8. MPTC arrival 3PM on dates: July 25 & Aug 22. Help lay out food on tables and interact with the kids to encourage them to take items. You will be a welcoming presence, making sure people know they are invited to take food. Everyone is invited to bring food home with them. If you can help on any of these dates, please contact Christine Johnson. For more information, or to donate, visit their website: mainelockerproject.org
Crutches 4 Africa Work Detail – Thursday July 26, starting about 5PM - The Saco Bay Sunset Club is planning to ship a container to Africa in August. We will be packaging various products for shipment so that they can be more efficiently loaded a few weeks later. Location: 20 Gooch St. Biddeford, ME. CONTACT PERSON: Dennis Robillard 468-0043. Also, if you have any mobility items to donate, please bring them to one of our next two meetings on July 17 or July 24. Those items will be taken to Biddeford on the 26th.
Donate Blood – American Red Cross has put out a call for blood due to low supply. Please consider donating during a drive near you or at the Blood Donation Center on Forest Ave, Portland. Upcoming locations in our area: St Annes Church, 299 Main St, Gorham, Friday 7/20 1-6PM; Gorham High School, Morrill Ave, Gorham, Monday 8/13 1-6PM; Cinemagic, County Rd, Westbrook, Friday-Saturday 8/17-8/18, 10AM-5PM. For more locations: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood
Can Tabs for Ronald MacDonald House – Ongoing - Thank you for continuing to collect can tabs.Please bring your collection to any meeting this spring/summer. Pat and Cliff Plummer and looking forward to accepting them for Ronald McDonald House.
CLYNK for Literacy - Ongoing - Don't forget to keep filling those bags to help fund the children's books we ask our speakers to sign for the Baxter and Walker Libraries. Extra bags are always available at our meetings. If you have been working on filling a bag for a very long time (6 months or more), please consider returning it and starting a new one. Thank you for your ongoing support of this fundraiser!
Donate to our Club's Charity through Amazon Smile – Ongoing - If you order items from Amazon.com, even if not very often, you can help Westbrook Gorham Rotary Club Charities. Go to http://smile.amazon.com/. Search for our Charity and select it. You may need to login to your Amazon account before being able to finalize your selection. Then, when you shop Amazon.com (always starting from http://smile.amazon.com/) a portion of every purchase will be donated to our charity.
Our annual Lobster Bake at the home of Henry Saunders on Sebago Lake was well attended again this year. Nearly 60 people joined the fun, chowing down on lobster or steak, corn, and potatoes, along with various salads and desserts. While we dodged a few raindrops right at the start, the sky cleared and we enjoyed a great night of fun and fellowship.
L: Bill Chadwick, Henry Saunders, Deb Shangraw,
R: Ellen Stinson, Julie Carmichael, Dan Willett, Walt Stinson
L: Dan serves up hot dogs to Bill Gowen and friend
R: Bruce Saunders, Steve Rand & Kathi Perkins enjoy a laugh
During the festivities, President Deb Shangraw gathered us around the flag pole for the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer lead by Past President Bill Chadick. Past President Bill then presented a Paul Harris Fellow to Henry’s daughter Lesilie Saunders McManus. He also presented a Paul Harris Fellow to Kenneth Saunders, the late son of Henry and Marjorie Saunders. Henry proudly accepted the award on his behalf.
L: Bill presents to Leslie Saunders McManus
R: Bill presents to Henry as Lesilie and Steve Rand look on
A huge thanks to the Saunders family for again hosting our lobster bake and for their generous support of the Rotary Foundation. Also, thanks to Dan Willett and Nelson Harmon for organizing, Walt and Ellen Stinson for cooking and Mike Foley for taking care of the steaks (and watching over the steak knives!).
The farmer/owners of Cabot have a program to recognize and reward volunteers. Recently, Jo Sabel Courtney, a representative of their Department of Gratitude made the rounds of Rotary clubs in southern Maine. She provided some individually wrapped cheeses as a small thank you for all the great work that Rotarians do. We enjoyed that cheese during our lobster bake.
If you register on the Cabot Reward Volunteers site and report hours, you can win cash and prizes for your good work, whether Rotary related or not. For more information, visit: https://rewardvolunteers.coop/
On June 19, 2018, our Foundation Chair Steve Rand and President 2017-2018 Bill Chadwick presented member Christine Johnson with a Paul Harris Fellow + 6.
2017-2018 was an excellent year for Westbrook-Gorham Rotary’s Foundation giving, with total donations of nearly $20,000 to the Annual Fund and Polio Plus combined. Watch for more advancing Paul Harris Fellows in the coming weeks!
Our annual Service Above Self Awards for graduating eighth graders at Westbrook Middle School were presented by Becky Albert on behalf of Westbrook-Gorham Rotary on Wednesday June 20, 2018 at an awards and recognition ceremony at the WMS auditorium. These students were selected by their teachers as exemplifying the Rotary motto of Service Above Self.
The winners were Quentyn May and Kayla Rairdon. The two students were recognized for being good citizens in and out of the classroom. Kayla, daughter of Gary and Laurie Rairdon, works on the Westbrook Strong 5K race that raises funds for the Matthew Rairdon Scholarship Fund. Quentyn also volunteers in the community and plays alto sax with an interest in jazz. Congratulations to both students.
Books were donated to the WMS Library in their honor. The book titles this year were: Build Your Own Rockets and Planes by ROB IVES and Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt For Martin Luther King Jr's Assassin by James Swanson.
If you have an idea for a speaker or program, please contact Christine Johnson at cejinmaine@gmail.com. We are also interested in ideas for periodic evening meetings, service projects in lieu of meetings, or in-meeting service projects
We are now scheduling programs for August and September.
Here is the list of upcoming speakers and programs:
* 7/17 - John Lobosco - District Governor Visit - Be the Inspiration
Rotary is about fellowship, as well as service to our community. Even if you must miss a meeting, you can remain engaged by attending Rotary-sponsored events of our club or other clubs like fundraisers, by selling Christmas Trees, by volunteering at our Golf Tournament or our Road Race, or by attending District events or training. Just let our Secretary Mike Foley know when you have participated in any of these activities at mfoley@me.com
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