Portland Sunrise Rotary's Back Cove 5K - Saturday, October 14. A worthy and fun event that is back for its second year. This race is run on a waterfront trail around Portland's scenic Back Cove. This year, proceeds will benefit Polio Plus and Rotary's hurricane relief efforts. For more info or to sign up: Portland Sunrise 5K
The Locker Project at WHS - Wednesdays Oct 18, 12:45-2PM. Meet rear of Westbrook High School, distribution takes place in the cafeteria. Fresh food and vegetables, along with baked goods are available for any student to take home. Food provided by Hannaford, Shaws and other local markets. Volunteers needed to pick over and display produce on tables, interact with students, encourage them to take items. Most jobs require no heavy lifting. If you can help, please contact Christine Johnson.
Intercultural Community Center Fall Fundraiser Gala – Friday November 10, 7-10PM – Dance the night way with Motor Booty Affair. Seasons Grille & Bar 155 Riverside St, Portland ME. Cash bar, appetizers, prizes, silent auction. $50 or tables of six for $300. Proceeds benefit Power School and Learning Programs of ICC. For more information or to purchase tickets: ICC Fall Gala
Duffle Bags for Guatemala - Head into your attic or dig through that box in the basement! Scott Linscott is looking to collect 18 military duffle bags. Most will be filled with school supplies for kids in Guatemala. Other bags will be filled with additional needed supplies. This is for the FBC trip next spring to Oratorio Childcare Center in the eastern region of Guatemala. If you can help, please contact Scott.
Hurricane Harvey Relief& Recovery - The Rotary Foundation has established three Donor Advise Funds to support Rotarians in their relief efforts for the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey in Houston and other parts of the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Irma in Florida, and Hurricane Marie in Puerto Rico Information about contributing to any of these DAFs is available on the Rotary website. To donate: Make check payable to The Rotary Foundation DAF and send to Rotary DAF, c/o NRS, 12 Gill Street, Suite 2600, Woburn, MA, 01801, write the name of the fund on the memo line. Or you can make a credit card donation at: Rotary DAF Contribution. Be sure to note the fund name and number on the form.
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.
The District Vision and Planning Committee is hosting the 10th in a series of “Vision to Plan” Workshops on Thursday, October 19th, 2017. They will continue focus on Club Leadership Development, and will add a new focus area: Inter-Club Collaboration. Skills developed at these workshops benefit all as Rotarians, as well as in other personal activities.
They will continue work to help clubs in sharpening the annual planning process. The training will benefit new and experienced club leaders, committee members, and new Rotarians who are looking to make a difference. All clubs, whether the club has been Visioned or not, are welcome.
SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time based) objectives and goals will be discussed and developed in breakout sessions. The skills developed will help lead to stronger and more engaged clubs.
Event Details
Workshop (6-8 pm): South Portland Housing Authority, 100 Waterman Dr. South Portland, Maine. The registration fee of $10.00 covers a light meal and supplies. The fee can be paid at the door or in advance. Make checks payable to District 7780 and mailed to: Tony Wagner, 11 Todd Road, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107
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Optional Social Hour (4:45 – 5:45): This is a well-attended meet and greet of participants before getting to work. Snow Squall Restaurant, 18 Ocean St, S. Portland. Cash bar and appetizers are available. Located just around the corner from the workshop location.
Please plan to join us and RSVP by email to: tony.wagner163@gmail.com
Work on the next Rotary house through the WRVC has begun. This will be the 46th house since the program's inception in 1956. The house is located at the very end of Declaration Dr, a dead-end street in a Pride’s Corner neighborhood.
The building envelop has been determined. Some clearing has been done to allow the property to be surveyed by Sebago Technics. Look for more updates as the design and build progresses.
With President Bill Chadwick visiting his son in Texas, President Elect Kate Wight ran the meeting. After a wonderful lunch prepared and served by Chef and the culinary students, we conducted our meeting.
- CLYNK: Thanks to all who returned bags this most recent quarter. We are expecting a check for about $111 that will be used to defray the cost of children’s books we ask our speakers to sign.
- October in Rotary: October is Economic and Community Development month. Also, World Polio Day is October 24. RI has requested that all clubs celebrate in some way and publicize this special date in their community.
- RotaryFoundation: Our club is making good progress to goal for both annual fund and polio plus donations. Thanks to all members for this great progress. Steve Rand noted that 11 members are signed up for Rotary Direct, an easy way to donate at regular intervals monthly, quarterly or yearly in any amount. He would like to help at least two more members sign up. It is easy to do on line at www.my.rotary.org and click on the menu option for The Rotary Foundation. If you have questions or would like to learn more, please contact Steve.
- Club Protection: Dave Rolfe reminded us to always be aware of potential exposure when working with youth or other vulnerable persons. We’ll be reviewing District training material and an upcoming meeting.
- Interact: The Gorham High School club is now up to about 100 members. Both Westbrook and Gorham clubs will be sending students on the Rotary UN Day trip in November.
- Vocational Service: Judith and Owens were to meet with WRVC staff after the club meeting. The lot at the end of Declaration Dr is “challenging” due to elevations. The lot survey has been completed.
- Community Service: Reading program at Village School Gorham is expected to resume. Kate will contact the school to discuss a start time. If you are interested in participating this year, please contact Kate Wight. The Locker Project continues at WHS each first and third Wednesday of the month. Volunteers will be needed from our club at least once a month. Contact Christine Johnson if interested in any date. We will continue to publish local opportunities to help in our community in the Scribbler each week. If you know of a local fundraiser or hands on service project that you think our members might be interested in, please send into to cejinmaine@gmail.com
- Golf: The tournament was a big success with what we believe to be record income. Final numbers will be available soon after remaining payments are collected. We had a record 44 hole sponsors this year. Steve challenged us to reach 50 next year. We had 15 teams this year and we are challenged to reach 20 teams for next year. Please let Steve Rand or Ethan Johnson know of any suggestions for next year’s tournament. One change will be much larger font on the hole sponsor signs!! Target date is September 18, 2018.
- Christmas Trees: The trailer needs to be painted, and the suggestion is to make it festive (possibly red and white stripes). Targeting Saturday Nov 4 to paint and possibly include WHS Interact. Kate would like the following additions to make the sale area more festive this year: Music to play while we are open (Carlo has speakers he can loan us), small Candy canes to hand out, create a hashtag we can use in social media, Square so we can take credit cards, Santa on one or two weekends.
We have been receiving many requests to provide programs recently so have not assigned members to specific weeks as we have done in the past. If you have an idea for a program, please contact Christine Johnson. We are currently seeking programs for November and beyond. We have THREE speaker openings through the first of the year.
Here is the list of upcoming dates with speakers and their sponsors:
* 10/10 - WHS Interact and RYLA with Bruce Dyer - Dave Rolfe
* 10/17 - Scott Linscott - Classification Talk
* 10/24 - Lawrence Furbish - World Polio Day
* 10/31 - Owens McCullough - New Rotary House Update
* 11/7 - Kate Wight - Classification Talk
* 11/14 - Abigail Cioffi - Downtown Westbrook Coalition - Phil Spiller
* 11/21 - In-Meeting Service Project - Details Soon!!
* 11/28 - Dave Perron -Exec Dtr Big Brothers/Big Sisters
*12/5 - Club Assembly
* 12/12 - No Meeting - Christmas Party at the Reidman's
Pat's Pizza 844 Roosevelt Trail, Windham, ME 04062
Portland - Fridays 12:15PM at Holiday Inn by the Bay or Clarion
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OR you can always claim a make up by attending Rotary-sponsored events of our club or other clubs like fundraisers, 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