RCoMH - Scuttlebutt - December 1. 2024 (Nov. 29, 2024)

Happy December!

Thank you Linda and Vince for providing last week's

fruit and sweet bites!

Thank you to Bob and Francie for providing

this week's breakfast.

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Plan for the Day!

Guest Speaker - Robyn Burns, Salem Food Pantry

Activity - Preparing Happy Holiday Cards for

Military at Camp Beuhring in Kuwait

Please see background info on Camp Beuhring below

Sign-Ups for Holiday Pops positions

Pops Updates

Pops tickets are being delivered and mailed out!

Balcony tickets are still available.

Available to purchase right now:

• Raffle Tickets for a chance to win the original art

• Notecards featuring Ian's artwork

Volunteer Sign-Ups!

This is an all-hands on deck event!

Honorary Members are especially welcome

to join in on the fun of being part of Pops.

Opportunities include

• Set-Up on Friday, December 13

• Concert Greeting and Ushering

• Will-Call Ticket Table

• Raffle Ticket and Notecard Sales on The Landing

• Take-Down

And, because we are all hosting this event,

we should all plan

to welcome our guests and audience members

and keep a vigilant eye on the safety and well-being

of all our guests and audience members.

You can sign up for any of these roles

via the sign-up sheets at our breakfast meetings

or by emailing Jessica at jdharbar@comcast.net

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Club Elections - Tuesday, December 10

Nominating Committee will share the names of those running for election to our Board of Directors.

Even now and up until election day itself,

you can still submit your own name or the name of others

to be added to the ballot.

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2 Important Local Service Opportunities

~ REMINDER ~

Toy Drive - now through December 10

Please bring unwrapped new toys

to our breakfast meetings through December 10.

Also, there will be a special celebration at

The Beacon Restaurant and Warwick Cinemas and Event Center

Thursday, December 12 at 6 p.m.

with special musical guests Funbucket at 8 p.m.

More information at

thebeaconmarblehead.com

https://thebeaconmarblehead.com/toy-drive-1

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~Reminder~

Marblehead Food Pantry still needs our help!

This is one way we can serve our community and

help make things better.

Items especially needed are

• macaroni and cheese

• hot chocolate

• pasta sauce

• cereal

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Rotary International's 2025 Convention

will be held in Calgary, Canada

June 21-25, 2025

Register now for discounted savings

For more information, visit

https://convention.rotary.org/en-us/

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50/50 CARD DRAW

The club's portion of the 50/50 will go to aide

victims of the Helene and Milton Hurricanes

We are now looking for the Queen of Hearts

1 ticket = $1 • 6 tickets = $5 • 12 tickets = $10

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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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Background on Camp Buehring, Kuwait

from Wikipedia and militarybases.com

Camp Buehring (formerly Camp Udairi) is a staging post for US troops in the northwestern region of Kuwait. From its founding in January 2003 to the present date, the base was used for military troops heading north into Iraq and is the primary location for the Middle Eastern Theater Reserve. The areas surrounding Camp Buehring, known as the Udairi Range Complex, is largely uninhabited, except for a few nomadic Bedouin tribes raising camels, goats, and sheep. Camp New York is nearby, in the same Udairi Range Complex.

Camp Buehring is named after Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Buehring who was killed in Baghdad on October 26, 2003. Buehring was among the highest-ranking U.S. casualties of the Iraq War. Camp Udairi was renamed in his honor in 2004.

Camp Buehring is a sizable United States Army post: It is capable of accommodating about 14,000 mostly transient soldiers at any particular time. Nearly all of the U.S. Army units that served in Iraq passed through the post during the period of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Those soldiers used Camp Buehring to become acclimated to the desert conditions before moving into Iraq. They also received additional survival training. For example, improvised explosive devices – IEDs – were an ever-present danger in Iraq, so soldiers were instructed on how to identify and avoid them. They also received training in handling vehicle roll-over.

It has also been used by Kuwaiti, Korean and British troops.

Serving in a remote and inhospitable environment can take its toll on the well-being of military personnel, so leaders devise ways to insure the spiritual, mental and physical fitness of troops.

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Is there something you would like covered in the weekly Scuttlebutt?

Please let Jessica know at jdharbar@comcast.net

by Saturday night;

Scuttlebutt is written and sent out on Sunday mornings.

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Thank You, Everyone!

Are you feeling "The Holiday Magic of Rotary"?