York ME Rotary - The Rotary Beacon - Archive (Dec 19, 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

December 19, 2003

Birthdays: Jim Hager – 12/30

No Make-Ups: Steve Jendzejec, Dick Mirick, Steve Brett

Lates: Russ Peterson, Bill Anderson

Raffle: Elyse Kehl won the raffle.

Rotary savings account = $14,500

Stacey Kerrigan - International - talked about already having two host families for next year’s in-bound student. We are in need of one more host family for April through June 2005. Melanie Ladd will host the current international students for a group birthday party. We are looking for 2-3 volunteers who will take the kids on a Boston trip in April.

2004-05 Rotary appointments:

President– Doug Gray

President-elect– Dick Santoro

Vice President – Ray Bald

Treasurer – Chris Kehl

Secretary – Ann MacAulay

Directors - Mark Harrison, Paul Salacain, Paul Saltzman, Tom Elias, Andy Binger, Stacie Kerrigan

Festival of Trees: This year’s Festival made $2,000. There was a round of applause for Fred Muehl, thanking him for all of his hard work! There is a Festival of Trees committee meeting on Tuesday, December 30^th at 6:30 p.m. at Fazio’s.

Next Fundraiser—Raffling off a hot tub. Eight (8) tickets per member need to be sold. $25.00 per ticket.

April 24 will be the Rotary Spring dance at the Portsmouth Sheraton.

Update on the windows in the trailer in Kittery: A contractor has been located and will be paid directly after the work is completed.

Fuel Assistance- asking for $ to go to a fuel company to aid folks during the winter months; motion for $1,000 passed.

Club Service- letter going out to all business people talking about what is Rotary and who is in Rotary.

Thank you to the members who delivered the trees to people.

No meeting next Friday—December 26^th, next meeting on January 2, 2004.

Tom Spencer and his youngest daughter, Bridget, went up front to accept a small gift. Tom will be deployed in January to Fort Drum in Watertown, New York. He will then be sent to Kuwait on Feb. 1^st. There are 121 people in his group. Their mission is towards peace enforcement to try to restore security to Iraq. The mission is evolving on a daily basis. 365 days will be spent in Iraq—(feet in the sand for 1 year) in very austere conditions.

We all wish Tom luck and will miss him until his return!!

Bridget then closed the meeting.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!