Dr. Ariana Bailey grew up around the world as a child, living in places like Indonesia, Vietnam, and England. From a very young age she knew she wanted to be a vet. It all started on vacation with a strong desire to help street animals in Bangkok, Thailand at 10-years-old. Since then her love for animals has grown and went from a hobby to a career.
Ariana earned her veterinary degree at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She now lives with her husband Matt in Standish and has a St. Bernard named Archer, a standard poodle named Lana, and her cat Cyril. Her main hobbies are international traveling, cooking and hiking.
Before joining Dehler Animal Clinic, Dr. Bailey practiced in both Brewer and Skowhegan, Maine. She has special interests in preventative medicine, international travel certificates for animals, and exotic medicine.
The Locker Project - THIS WEEK! Fresh food and baked goods distribution at Westbrook High School in the cafeteria. Two or three volunteer needed for each of these upcoming dates. Approx 1:45-3PM each time. Sign in at front office and go to cafeteria. Wednesdays May 30 and June 13. First event at Westbrook Community Center will be June 27. 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. This a great way to de-stigmatize free food distributions, particularly in the case of fresh food that would otherwise be wasted. If you can help on any of these dates, please contact Christine Johnson. For more information, or to donate, visit their website: mainelockerproject.org
Back to Summer Bash - THIS WEEK! To benefit Discover Downtown Westbrook. Thursday May 31. Two seatings 5:30 and 7PM. $25. At Westbook House of Pizza on Blue Note Plaza in downtown Westbrook. For more information and to purchase tickets: https://whennow.com/event/blue-note-bash---fundraiser-dinner or contact Deb Shangraw.
Westbrook Together Days - THIS WEEK! A Westbrook-Gorham Community Chamber Event at Riverbank Park Main St - Friday June 1 4-10PM and Saturday June 2 7AM-10PM. Food, entertainment, and fireworks – fun for the whole family! Come support local charities like MPTC, Kiwanis, Boy Scouts and more. Parade Saturday 10AM.
Clean up Day at Camp Hinds - Saturday June 9, 146 Plains Road - Raymond - Starting 9AM until finished. Jobs included staining/painting shed and new RYLA RIDGE Avery Pavilion, spreading mulch and clearing trails. Please bring wheelbarrow and outdoor tools for clearing trails, shovel, rakes. Send email to Phil Giordano if you are interested and can help to philtastic7780@gmail.com Bring a boxed lunch.
Camp Registration and RYLA Welcome - Camp Hinds - Sunday June 24, 7:45AM to 12:30PM – Direct and sign in students, speak with parents. After registration you can tour the campus and stay for the big RYLA opening at 11:00 followed by lunch. Please contact Danielle Treadwell at danielleptreadwell@gmail.com to reserve a spot for helping.
Princeton Elementary School Literacy Project - Books are being collected for the library at the Elementary School in Princeton ME in Washington County. Books will also be given to students in Grades 1-8 for their personal use. A week long Literacy program will engage the students in active reading for one week in July. Gently used donations are welcomed. Classics are encouraged as well as series. The goal is to collect up to 800 books. Please bring donations to any meeting between now and July 17.
Reminder! Can Tabs for Ronald MacDonald House – Ongoing - Thank you for continuing to collect can tabs. Please bring your collection to our meeting on May 15, or any subsequent 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.
Henry Saunders' 90th Birthday Party - Saturday June 23, 2018, 11AM- 3PM, including social, light lunch & cake cutting. 15 Long Point Rd, Standish, ME. Casual attire. Bring your swimsuits, lawn chairs, towels, and sunscreen. Come enjoy the lake views and pebble beach. Members who know Henry are welcome to attend. RSVP to Henry's daughter Leslie McManus. 105 Otter Dr Standish ME 04084 207-642-3057. If you have picture or a story to share, please send them along with your response. A scrap book is being made to present to Henry. Please no gifts.
Gorham Community Night at the Ball Park - Benefit Just Love Ministries which fights human trafficking. Buy your tickets today!! Thursday, July 12, 2018. The Portland Sea Dogs, AA Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, take on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, AA Affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays at 7:00 PM. Ticket $9 Gorham Night at Sea Dogs
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
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.
Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Annual Golf Tournament - Tuesday September 18, 2018 at Gorham Country Club.
There are lots of upcoming opportunities for networking, sharing, and learning with Rotarians from across our District. Also featured are some fun fundraisers being held by nearby clubs.
5th Annual Touch a Truck – Fundraiser and Family Fun Event of Scarborough Rotary – Saturday June 2, 10AM-2PM, Scarborough Downs - 90 Payne Road - Scarborough, ME $5 person/$20 family. Get up close and personal with Fire Trucks, Police Vehicles, Bucket Trucks, Tractors, Heavy Equipment, Delivery Trucks, School Bus, Book Mobile and so much more. Concessions available and other vendors - Pony Rides, Music, Face Painting and more.
Maine Outdoor Challenge – Join the Portland Rotary Club during June 4th - 6th and try your hand at some of Maine’s outdoor sporting events. Put together a team of 5 to compete in archery, clay shooting, fly fishing and more. To learn more visit Maine Outdoor Challenge and help us raise money for the Boys & Girls Club of Maine. All sporting events take place at the LLBean Outdoor Discovery School.
9th Annual Golf Tournament – Fundraiser of Bridgton Lakes Region Rotary – Saturday June 9, 8AM - Bridgton Highlands Golf and Tennis Club. For more info email George Klauber: georgeklauber@gmail.com
Final Campfire at Camp Hinds – June 26, 6-10PM or you can just come for dinner at 6:00 -7:4PM. Cost is $10.00. Get a great feel of how campers experience RYLA. If interested, please send Phil an email at philtastic7780@gmail.com.
Promptly at 7PM, the capacity crowd in the Westbrook High School Auditorium stood for the posting of the colors by the students of the Public Safety Honor Guard, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Director Todd Fields welcomed the students, families and friends to the annual awards night of the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center. The program continued with short speeches by two student speakers - Westbrook student Isabelle Harvey of the Medical Applications program and Gorham Student Derek Kuusela of the Automotive program.
Next, teachers presented outstanding student awards by program. Each program could spend up to $200 to purchase a program-appropriate gift for their chosen student. Sixteen different programs were represented, including Culinary Arts, Electrical and Building Trades. The gifts selected lined the front of the stage during the event.
Chef Limoggio presenting award to top Culinary
student Domonic Masselli
Much of the evening was spent awarding a wide variety of scholarships and toolships. The top CTE (Career and Technical Education) student was Omer Khalil from Business Studies who received a $2000 scholarship. Idexx awarded several $1000 scholarships. Many other organizations awarded $500 scholarships including the DECA Award presented by Mike Foley, Westbrook/Gorham Chamber of Commerce Scholarship/Toolship, Cumberland County Credit Union Scholarship, Westbrook Women’s Club Award, and Saco Biddeford Saving Scholarship, among others, and in addition to several memorial and family scholarships. There were also awards named after or founded by former instructors like Dave Moon, Mike Kane and Richard Plaistead.
The final awards were presented by Pat Pummer on behalf of Westbrook Gorham Rotary. She was proud to present 3 toolships and 20 scholarships totaling $11,500. When Pat announced the number of scholarships, there was an audible gasp from the audience.
Pat Plummer presenting one of 23 Rotary Awards
The event continued with the presentation of program certificates to the students who walked across the stage to receive a handshake from Todd Fields. Immediately following the program, Chef Limoggio and several of his first-year students put on a reception in the lobby and front courtyard of the WRVC. The wide variety of savory and sweet treats were well-received by the crowd.
Congratulations to all of the graduates. As Todd said in his closing remarks: If you do what you love and love what you do, you will never work a day in your life.
The Mount Washington Hotel was the setting for the 2018 District Conference, The Rotary Summit May 4-6, 2018. Our District Conference was unique this year as it was a 5-District Conference including adjacent Districts 7790, 7850, 7910 and 7930. These Districts cover much of Maine, NH and VT, along with parts of MA and Quebec. Westbrook-Gorham Rotary members Jason Beever, Henry Saunders and Christine Johnson attended. They were joined by Karen Marie Reilly and Linda Beever.
Jason Beever & Christine Johnson in the lobby
of the Mount Washington Resort
The standard agenda of speakers and breakout sessions was enhanced with a family program designed for children on both Friday and Saturday, an Interact Program on Saturday, and a Youth Exchange Program based at the AMC Highland Center Lodge at Crawford Notch. All of these programs intersected with the General Program at various times over the weekend, the most notable of which was the Rise Against Hunger food packaging project on Saturday afternoon. Rotarians, Interactors, Youth Exchange participants, and family members young and old helped measure, weigh, seal, label and box 20,000 meals. Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organization that distributes food to the world’s most vulnerable. Their goal is to end hunger by 2030. https://www.riseagainsthunger.org/
Rise Against Hunger Food Packaging
The opening session keynote speaker on Friday afternoon was Shirley-Pat Chamberlain, a youthful and passionate literacy advocate from British Columbia. She created the Write2Read Project (https://www.writetoreadbc.com/) with the objective of increasing aboriginal literacy one Learning Center at a time. Shirley-Pat spoke at Northeast PETs in 2017 where a spontaneous outpouring of donations was leveraged with funds from the 8 District and Foundation matches to become enough to build another library. Her work demonstrates again and again the power of Rotary.
The Friday evening keynote speaker was Rotary International President Ian Riseley. Prior to his presentation, our own Henry Saunders had an opportunity to speak with him! Ian mentioned that he normally does not attend District Conferences since there are far too many Districts for him to be able to attend them all. However, he was interested in joining our multi-district conference because he saw it as a possible model for the future, a means to have a more impactful conference, especially in regions of the world where Districts are smaller and/or shrinking. He gave a lighthearted commentary on the process by which he selected his theme – Rotary Making A Difference - and the accompanying logo. Apparently, it was a quick decision on his part without much in the way of branding input or discussion with RI staff as would normally be the case. During his talk, he placed emphasis on Peace as Rotary’s next big challenge as we finally eradicate Polio once and for all. During this Rotary year, he will have hosted six presidential peace conferences exploring the connection between peace and Rotary’s five other areas of focus plus environmental sustainability.
Henry Saunders & RI President Ian Riseley
On Saturday, we heard from President’s Representative Karen Wentz at breakfast. Saturday also brought two break-out sessions which covered topics like Vibrant Clubs, Opioid Crisis, Polio, Youth Exchange, and Leadership. District Business Meetings were held with award presentations. The day closed with an inspirational speech by Travis Roy (https://www.travisroyfoundation.org/) and a variety of musical entertainment.
Travis Roy
Sunday morning’s jazz breakfast was followed by a memorial service for all Rotarians who passed during the past year. The brunch keynote was given by Razia Jan, Founder and President of Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation (https://raziasrayofhope.org/). Born in Afghanistan, Razia moved to the US in 1970. She was the proprietor of a small tailoring business for 20 years and served as President of the Duxbury (MA) Rotary Club. She has been involved with many humanitarian efforts over the years including sending care packages to US troops in Afghanistan and coordinating delivery of 30,000 pairs of shoes to needy Afghan children. In 2016, she was awarded Rotary’s Service Above Self Award. Her current focus is on empowering girls and young women through education in community-based schools.
In closing, the five District Governors each offered a few words about their years and the conference. They each thanked the large number of individuals across several working committees that pulled this amazing Summit together.
Christine Johnson, Henry Saunders, Karen Marie Reilly,
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:
* 5/29 - Pete DeWitt - Idexx
* 6/5 - Final Club Assembly of 2017-2018
* 6/12 - Anna Turcotte - The Republic of Artsakh
* 6/19 - John Grew - Maine Audobon
* 6/26 - Changeover
* 7/3 - No Meeting -Happy Independence Day
* 7/10 - No Lunch Meeting - Evening Event
See you at the Lobster Bake
* 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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