York ME Rotary - The Rotary Beacon - Archive (Aug 22, 2003)

The Rotary Club of York, Maine Rotary International Theme 2003-2004: "Lend a Hand" Jonathan Majiyagbe, President Rotary International Trish Hunter, Rotary District 7780 Governor	Officers		2003-2004

	President		Steve Lapointe
	President Elect		Doug Gray
	Vice President		Richard Santoro
	Treasurer		Chris Kehl
	Secretary		Ann MacAulay
	Directors:	Club Service	Annette Fazio
		Fundraising	Paul Salacain
		Club Service	Tom Spence
		Vocational	Tom Elias
		International	Stacie Kerrigan
		Marty Ulan Award	Patricia Murray
		Sergeant-at-Arms	Jim Colson Erik Bergeron
		Chaplain	Jud Knox
		Past-President	John J. Rainone

August 22, 2003

GUESTS: Mike Pugh, Nan Stevens, Bruce and Charles from NY and little Tom Simpson

HAPPY DOLLARS: Melanie Ladd – celebrating her 20^th wedding anniversary this week; Ray DeFeo - Katie left for Endicott College today; Greg Villa – for the Saugus Little League team; John DeStefano for having Adam Thompson detail his truck (my apologies to John who won the raffle and I mistakenly printed that Paul Salacain had won in last weeks newsletter) and Sudie Blanchard had a happy dollar reference the library.

SAD DOLLARS: Ray DeFeo – Katie's going to Endicott College today

BIRTHDAYS: None

CLUB ANNIVERSARIES; none

LATE: Kevin Webb and Ross Thompson

FINES: Fred Muehl / Kevin Webb / Tom Simpson / Paul Saltzman / Bret Rankin / Melanie Ladd / Mark Ergman / Ed Benway / Scott Stevens / Steve Pelleter

MEETING/ SPEAKER; The guest speaker for today’s meeting was Trish Hunter, District Governor. She spoke about Rotary International’s mission to reduce poverty, improve literacy (in the U.S. there are 44 million functionally illiterate people) and to expand the Rotary Family. Next year Rotary will celebrate its 100^th year, therefore Trish has challenged our club to designate a centennial project. Additionally, Trish informed us that the Rotary Polio Eradication project has significantly reduced the number of new cases of Polio (in 2002 there were over 1900 new cases and so far for 2003 there has only been 235 new cases) and that the District raised $400,000 in support of Polio. Trish’s main goal for this year is to increase public awareness of Rotary and the great contributions Rotary does for our communities and society.

DATES to Remember: April 24, 2004 – Spring Dance @ Portsmouth Sheraton and weekend of October 31^st is the District Conference in Montreal.