SCUTTLEBUTT
Tuesday Jan 21
Greeter: Rosaleen Doherty
PRESIDENT’S CORNER:
SERVICE PROJECTS AND OTHER IDEAS
1. Service Project Meeting – ALL ARE INVITED
This Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 4:00 PM at 5 Traeger Road, MHD (Rosaleen's home), to discuss club member’s ideas for service projects.
2. Membership Drive Activity – Kathleen will update the club on the membership drive at the meeting on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. The goal is for each member to bring on a new member prior to June 30, 2020.
3. Guest Speakers – Kathleen wants to give Mike Cognata and Bill Bartin a shout out for the good job they’re doing bringing guest speakers to our meetings. But please remember that it's up to all of us to help make our meetings interesting, vibrant, and engaging. Please help identify and recommend to Mike and Bill interesting and knowledgeable guest speakers.
FOOD PANTRY CONTRIBUTION FOR JANUARY
Sugar, flour, and baking mixes
BAGELS AND CREAM CHEESE THIS WEEK
Interact is looking for eight volunteers this week to help with their annual bagel and cream cheese fundraiser at Marblehead High. That’s two persons per shift as follows:
Thursday, January 23
from 7:15-9:00 AM and 10:15-11:00 AM
Friday, January 24
from 7:15-9:00 AM and 10:15-11:00 AM
Volunteers please click here to e-mail Jim Nye and sign up. He will also pass a sign-up sheet around at the club meeting.
CAREER DRESSING
Do you have clothing you'd like to donate?
Salem State's "Student Closet Project" is welcoming donations of dry-cleaned/laundered, new or gently used men's and women's career-appropriate clothing that needs no repairs in all sizes to provide students with professional apparel for internships, interviews and new jobs.
If you'd like to contribute, please bring the items to our Tuesday morning Rotary meetings or leave them on Jessica Barnett's front porch at 217 Humphrey Street in Marblehead no later than Tuesday, February 4.
These items are being requested:
- Blazers/suit coats
- Dress shirts/blouses
- Dress pants
- Skirts/dresses
- Sweaters/cardigans
- Brand new dress socks/nylons
- Professional bags
- Belts
- Ties
- Clothing hangers
FUN AND DRINKS HELP PEOPLE TO TO SCHOOL
We will host the annual scholarship fundraising dinner at The Landing in the last week of February. John Lindahl reminds us of what our club’s scholarship trust is, and what it does in an ongoing blurb series.
“The mission statement of Marblehead Scholarship is “To grow, manage, and administer scholarship funds to meet our community’s needs.” That’s why we developed creative solutions to financing education with the Enhanced Scholarship, the Fraffie Welch and the Second Chance scholarships. We summarize it in our motto, “Lighting the way to brighter futures.” If you’d like to get more information on how we work, contact Becky Linhart or John Williams.”
What: Marblehead Scholarship Fundraising Dinner
When: February 25th, 2020
Time: TBA
Where: The Landing Restaurant
81 Front Street, Marblehead MA
PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING DINNER
February 12th is World Peace and Understanding Dinner. This evening is going to be very exciting, interactive and focused on Creating Peace. District Governor Joan Arsenault says PeaceJam will be moderating this evening and we is asking that youth and community leaders be invited.
PeaceJam works with 14 Noble Peace Laureates and has been nominated for 8 Nobel Peace Prizes. Please consider sending and paying for at least two youth to attend.
Invite community members interested in Peace!
This is an interactive evening and we will be challenged to do 10,000 Acts of Peace by June 1, 2020
What: District World Peace & Understanding Dinner
When: Wednesday February 12th, 2020
Time: 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Spinelli's Lynnfield
10 Newbury Street, Peabody, MA 01960
Cost: $20 Youth/Students/Rotaract
$45 Rotarians.
POLAR PLUNGE IS A COOL IDEA
3) If you register by February 1, 2020 AND have raised (as recorded on Mobile Cause) a minimum of $25.00, you get a free shirt. If not... shirts will be $5 at the door while supplies last.
6) ALL participants MUST have a waiver signed and participants must be in high school or older. High school students must bring their waivers SIGNED by their legal guardian. Visit our site to download a waiver today.
What: Polar Plunge to End Polio
When: Saturday, February 29, 2020 (snow day March 14th)
Where: Cape Anne Motor Inn, Long Beach, Gloucester MA
Time: TBA, based on tides
POEM OF THANKS FOR ROTARY’S NEW YEAR’S EVE DIN DIN CREW AND SPONSORS
By Judith Black
Please note the night would have been pot-luck
without Dr. Rice and Lenny’s big bucks
Plus the smaller lucre from Rotarian pockets
Meant we would incur no financial debts
With 60 pounds of waiting pork chops
Luis set off to sear and flip-flop
And Mike and Joan were predisposed
To 40 lbs of sweet potatoes
Heidi, Don, Tricia made quick work
Chopping 30 pounds of onions, they did not shirk
Jeff and Kathleen their stuff they strut
as 30 pounds of apples were perfectly cut
The Hawthorne Family, thank-god for all three,
Assembled brilliant cookie ice-cream Sundaes
With her own knives, Linda amasses the veg.
Cleaning and chopping, at the counters edge.
The clients were happy, their tummies fed
But it was New Year’s Eve, not time for bed!
So off we went in sweet harmony
To celebrate and feed our own tummies
Thank you Kathleen Murphy and Judith Black for your contributions to this edition of Scuttlebutt.
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