Greeter: Patricia Sullivan
DID YOU EMAIL CYNDI YOUR RESERVATION?
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP DINNER IS TOMORROW
What: International Dinner with Northern Ireland Students
When: October 23rd @ 5:30pm
Where: Gerry 5 VFA
210 Beacon St
Marblehead MA 01945
Price: $22ish (pay at the door)
Come have dinner with your 50 best friends! Cyndi Kilbarger, Jessica Barnett, and Linda Bassett are spearheading the organization of this event so make sure you show your appreciation by showing up tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:30pm and check with them to see if they need help. Also, you may have missed the deadline to make a reservation, but check with Cyndi just in case. Click the names to reach Linda, Cindy, or Jessica. We heard about this dinner at last week’s Club meeting and now have the opportunity to meet this amazing group of Northern Ireland students, trying to make a difference in their troubled part of the world. The students are sponsored by Friends Forever, an organization RCoMH has been partnering with for about a decade. Please join us to hear our guest’s stories up close and watch their presentation about their trip to the United States.
LAST WEEK’S GUEST SPEAKER:
FRIENDS FOREVER
Chelsea Fitton and Cyndi Kilbarger
Ron Ammon of MHD Rotary, Jessica Barnett, Jim Nye, coordinator for Marblehead InterAct, Linda Bassett, Club President Michael Cognata, Friends Forever Director Chelsea Fitton, Cyndi Kilbarger, John Williams
RCOMH welcomed Chelsea Fitton, a Club friend and Director of Programs and Community Engagement at Friends Forever International (FFI), who spoke about Friends Forever programs. FFI has worked so far with nearly 2,000 young people from troubled parts of the world. Taking them out of the troubles and bringing them to America offers them a different vision of the world enabling them to make difference in their communities. They come from Israel and Arab countries, Northern Ireland (Catholics and Protestants), Africa and elsewhere. “No matter where you go, there’s a lot of people like you. You can become a champion of change”, said one student in a video streamed at our Club meeting. A dinner for visiting Irish Friends Forever students, hosted by RCOMH will be held tomorrow evening.
HELP THEM GET AROUND
Our guest speaker for this week’s meeting is Brian Dervan, from Cambridge Rotary Club. He will tell us about the Mexico Wheelchair Project, an initiative designed to help repair wheelchairs and keep disabled people on the move leading productive lives.
October Food Pantry Donation
Cereal
Poster by Jessica Barnett
The advertising sales campaign for the December 8th Holiday Pops is on. As Pops Chair Diane Barbour explained in our last Club meeting, this is our biggest fundraiser of the year and we need to make up for $2,500 worth of ads in memory of Fraffie Welch that have ran their course.
Diane has challenged Club members to bring in $1,000 each in ads. Ticket sales pay for the Pops expenses (Orchestra, Soloists, etc.), but the ad revenue is what we give away to the many causes the Club supports. As was custom in previous years Rotarians can buy $50 ads.
The next Pops related event is the artist reception Tuesday, November 6, 5:30pm, at the Abbot Library. During the reception you will be able to purchase raffle tickets for the exquisite 2018 Holiday Pops Art, donated by artist Patti Baker (see poster above).
Ticket sales begin November 7th. Balcony tickets will sell for $35 and will be available at:
- Arnould Gallery and Framery, 111 Washington Street
- Marblehead Bank, 21 Atlantic Avenue
- National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant Street
- Spirit of ’76 Bookstore, 107 Pleasant Street
Floor seats will cost $60 and will be sold by mail through the order form published in the Marblehead Reporter and downloadable online (we will have a link available later).