RCoMH Scuttlebutt - June 7, 2024 (Jul. 07, 2024)

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This week!

Which of the exciting goals below would you like to begin to plan?

Choose the 3 you'd like most to explore at this week's breakfast meeting on

Tuesday, July 9.

Let's make them happen!

~~~ RESULTS OF THE MEMBERS' ~~~

GOAL SETTING SESSION HELD ON JUNE 18

Marblehead Harbor Rotary

Goals and Strategies for 2024-25

Membership

• Recruitment

Increase Active Membership

5 new members

10 new members

Recruitment Breakfast

Invite people to 8 a.m. recruitment breakfast

• Retention

Newcomers Potluck Dinner

Host an Alumni Dinner Potluck

More fellowship opportunities

Rotary Awareness

• Increase public image with more frequent updates of / in

Website,

Social Media

Newspapers

District Newsletter

Photos

Photos showing members doing hands-on things

Update website and social media more frequently

Purchase a “Rotary Meets Here” Banner for Outside the Building

Wear Rotary Pins Everywhere

Service - More Community Involvement and Presence

• Nurturing

• Collaboration

• Co-Op events with Marblehead Rotary

Collaborate with other philanthropic groups

Collaborate with other organizations for maximum impact and community building

• Host a meeting of all Marblehead non-profit groups

• Check in with COA, Elderact, Sherry Fine, Joan McCormack

• Support mental health programs and initiatives

• Stop Polio Now – Purple Pinkie Day at Crosby’s

• Coat Drive / Winter Clothes Drive

• Food / Can Contributions

• Then educate public about where they go and whom they benefit

• Assist a homeless or immigrant family

Education as Service

• English as a Second Language

• Reading to Children

• Read to School Children

• After-School Help / Tutoring

• Trades

• Scholarships

• Form mini-groups around club Members’ Own Special Interests, like history and art

Environment

• Work to make Holiday Pops as environmentally responsible as possible.

• Hands-on climate projects that could be adopted by the whole town and beyond

• Hands on participation with the tree and bench project

• Plant "Hope Gardens" - vegetables and / or flowers

for food, for mental healt, for schools and childcare centers, personal gardens and community gardens

Example from Michigan schools https://hopegardensgr.org

Club Leadership and Financial Stability

• Support 1-3 members to attend Rotary Leadership Institute on April 26, 2025

• Additional fundraisers to safeguard against any operating deficit

• Fundraising for club

• Fundraising for the community

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Our Fourth of July cards were delivered to the 411th Engineer Brigade

in time for Independence Day!

A note from Chaplain Major Patricia Greaves...

June 17, 2024

I pray all is well.

Thank you for the 4th of July cards. I will hand them out. Greatly appreciated the snacks. They really come in handy when we travel. Such a blessing.

We are in preparations to return home so I will pass on your information to my replacement

CH (CPT) Ricardo Hosein. I cannot promise he will respond.

We leave in August, so this will be my last note.

Thank you and The Marblehead Harbor Rotary.

Keep taking care of soldiers.

THANK YOU!

CH(MAJ) Patricia Greaves, Kuwait 2023-24

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CURRENT SERVICE PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES

1. Marblehead Food Pantry Donations - July 9

Non-perishable food and hygiene items

Spaghetti sauce has been especially requested

2. Snacks and Treats for Overseas Military Personnel

As you saw in Chaplain Greaves's note above...

Our service people greatly appreciate gifts of snacks and toiletries. We'll be collecting items to send out as soon as we can fill a box.

Here is a list of items prepared by Joan Cutler:

NOTE: No Chocolate - It Melts

• Jerky

• Individual packages of

Nuts

Trail Mix

Peanut Butter or Cheese and Crackers

Powdered Drink Mix (with Electrolytes if possible)

Life Savers

Granola Bars

3. Aluminum Pop-Tops

Please remember to bring these in.

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PLEASE SIGN UP

FOR FRUIT AND SWEET BITES

FOR JULY & AUGUST.

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MISSION STATEMENT

"As members of the Marblehead Harbor Rotary, we

focus primarily on local community needs and opportunities through "Service Above Self." Accomplishing more together than we can individually, we also strive to connect and lend support regionally, nationally, and internationally by cooperating with new and well-established humanitarian programs, which are important to the health and well-being of people around the world."

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Is there something that you would like covered in the weekly Scuttlebutt? Please let Jessica know at jdharbar@comcast.net

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Thank You, Everyone!