4th Annual Southern Maine Cornhole Invitational - Saturday October 13, 2018 1-6PM. At Gorham Sports Center. Benefit for Gorham Business Exchange and WESTBROOK-GORHAM ROTARY. Order a custom set of boards for $250 (ordering deadline Oct 1) which are yours to keep with carrying case. Enter a team of two for $50 (through Oct 10, $60 after). Fun for friends and family with prizes for both top and bottom tier teams. Our club is looking to sign up 10 teams and sell 10 boards. Please share with your friends, colleagues and with local businesses. To sign up a team or order your board go to: https://gorhambusiness.org/cornhole-tournament .
Locker Project Fresh Food Distribution – In this school year, produce distributions at Westbrook High School will take place the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month: Sept 12 & 26, Oct 10 & 24, Nov 14 & 28, Dec 12 , Jan 9 & 23, Feb 13 & 27, Mar 13 & 27, Apr 10 & 24, May 8 & 22 and June 12. Any date changes will be announced in the Scribbler. Time: arrive by 1 PM depart by 2:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.
Rotary Night Out - Our next Rotary Night out will be Tuesday Oct 16, followed by Tuesday Nov 20. Both starting at 5:30 PM. Locations to be announced.
Tips for Charity Luncheon - Friday December 7, 2018 - Part of the annual Festival of Trees. Come join the Rotary table at the Westbrook-Warren Church. Two seatings at 11:30 AM or 12:20 PM. Contact Christine Johnson to reserve your spot.
Westbrook Middle School – Current needs for WMS: deodorant; new or gently used shorts, tee shirts and other light summer wear for kids age 10-14. New socks and underwear are always appreciated. WMS now has a room called the Falcon’s Nest from which these items will be distributed to children in need. You can drop items at the Middle School during the school day or bring to any Rotary meeting.
The Locker Project - This week! Fresh food and baked goods distribution in Westbrook. In this school year, produce distributions at Westbrook High School will take place the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month, starting with September 12 and 26. 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 Look for Back-to-School dates shortly.
FBC Westbrook Monthly Community Meal- Saturday September 15, 2018 - Free Community Dinner at 755 Main St, 4:30- 6PM. - Stuffed Shells, salad, garlic bread, dessert. Open to all. Donations accepted but not required.
Rotary Annual Golf Classic - NEXT WEEK!! Tuesday September 18, 2018 - Follow this link to our webpage to download and share the brochure: 24th Annual Golf Classic Information If you have not done so already, please work your local contacts for various sponsorship levels: $100 Hole, $450 Gold, $600 Platinum. Sign up a team for $360 or donate prizes and gift cards for our raffle. This is one of only two big fundraisers, so we need help from all members to make this a success.
My Place Teen Center Dinner w/Don Campbell - Wednesday September 19, 2018 6PM- Frog & Turtle Gastro Pub. Fundraiser for MPTC. $100 per person. Reservations required at: Call 207 591 4185 or e-mail Meghan@thefrogandturtle.com
Reading Friends - Our program at Village School Gorham - Starting in October. Commit to one day a week from about 8:50-9:50 on a weekday morning of your choice for the number of weeks of your choice. Or share duties with a partner. You will be assigned up to 3 students in either 1st or 2nd Grade who will read to you for about 15 minutes each. If you have not volunteered in the school before, you will need to complete the school-based background check at: https://www.gorhamschools.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456678&type=d&pREC_ID=990378 If you have questions or need assistance with completing the form, please contact Christine Johnson cejinmaine@gmail.com
Read With Me - All three Elementary Schools Westbrook - Starting in October. Commit to one day a week on day and time mutually agreeable in selected school. Or share duties with a partner. You will be paired with two students with whom you will read 15-20 minutes each. If you have not volunteered in the schools before, you will need to complete the school-based background check. https://www.westbrookschools.org/volunteer If you have questions or need assistance with completing the form, please contact Christine Johnson cejinmaine@gmail.com
Run the Ridge Trail Race – Saturday October 20, 2018. Benefit for Discover Downtown Westbrook. Early bird registration is just $20 through the end of Labor Day weekend with discount code RTREARLY. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/671770303157442/
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.
Foundation & Membership Seminar - Saturday November 3, 2018 - 8AM. Husson College Westbrook. Educational seminar designed for Membership Chairs, Foundation Chairs, and other club leadership interested in these topics. Sign up details soon.
Rotary Fest (AKA District Conference) - Friday-Saturday June 21-22, 2019 - Fort Williams, Park Cape Elizabeth. Friday service project and cook out for volunteers. Saturday packed with fun and educational events for adults and kids, and another service project opportunity. DG John and the Planning Committee are working hard to make this a free event for all. Watch for more details.
Phil Spiller introduced our speaker and special guest on September 4, 2018 - Kristina Egan Executive Director of Greater Portland Council of Governments. Kristina has been with this organization 2 years and has lived in Maine for 8 years, during which she worked for Mass Transportation in Boston. Quite the daily commute!
Kristina considers herself an incurable optimist. She showed us a “word cloud” derived from a local survey conducted to identify a vision for our region. Words are represented in larger or small type depending upon the number of times they were used. Prosperous, Sustainable, Thriving, and Vibrant top the list.
Transportation is a means to attain many of these ends - and there are a lot of things happening in transportation in our region. Cumberland has a ride share program. Transit West’s Husky Line was a very recent and important expansion of service through Westbrook and Gorham. Eastern Trail will soon be closing a gap in Scarborough. Some are looking at the opportunity for a rail side trail north of Portland. More communities, like Westbrook, are adding charging stations to improve electric car mobility.
To reach the goals of a prosperous, sustainable, thriving, vibrant region, we need to connect communities. The role of GPCOG is to bring people together to build that future. With a confusing number of funding sources and acronyms, and a need for cities and towns to commit funds as well, the work of bringing people together around co-ordinated plans can be a challenge.
Overall Metro ridership is strong, but there is always room to improve and optimize transit routes. Recently, GPCOG combined staff into a single team with PACTS (Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System) staff. This will allow them to integrate their core mission of public health, energy and economic development with the Greater Portland region’s transportation funding decisions.
If you have an idea for a speaker or program, please contact Christine Johnson at cejinmaine@gmail.com or Phil Spiller at pdsflynavy@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 November.
Here is the list of upcoming speakers and programs:
* 9/18 - No Meeting. Golf Tournament
* 9/25 - Scott Linscott/Christine Johnson - website updates
* 10/2 - Club Assembly
* 10/9 - WHS Interact - Tentative
* 10/16 - Rotary Night Out - Program TBD
* 10/23 - Ariana Bailey - Classification Talk
* 10/30 - Heather Perry - Superintendent Gorham Schools
* 11/6 - TBD
* 11/13 - TBD
* 11/20 - Rotary Night Out
Don Zillman - Prof of Law at UMaine Law School
Program in recognition of Armistice Day Nov 11, 1918
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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