York ME Rotary - The Rotary Beacon - Archive (Jan 9, 2004)

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	Brett Rankin
		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

January 9, 2004

Guests:

Paul Salacain brought his father-in-law, Gene Brideau; Sue brought Perry, her brother from North Carolina; Mike Lee is still a guest.

Happy Dollars:

Steve Jendzejec is happy about the beautiful ocean scenery despite the cold.
Mike Lee is excited about being inside as it is so cold out, he also gave a shame dollar for leaving the Festival of Trees banner up for so long.
Marco is glad Steve McNair is playing his last game.
Rob Horowitz’s daughter is trying to raise $ for jump rope for the heart.
Ray DeFeo had a sad dollar for the young girl who was killed in a horrible car accident.
Gene Brideau stated that he was double skunked at cribbage.

Raffle:

Paul Salacain won the raffle yet again. Hmm, interesting!

The next Board meeting is on Jan 14^th at Fazio’s at 18:30. Club Assembly is Friday, 1/16/04. Doug Gray is soon to begin the initiation for the next president. District attorney Mark Lawrence will be the guest on 1/23/04.

Applications for the Rotary credit card is now available. Tony Mont showed his Rotary card.

John Ranone sent photos from recent past Rotary events via email—includes Festival of Trees, Harvestfest, the Governor’s visit, and the Grinch’s visit.

John DeStefano asked Rotarians to please bring used toner cartridges in and place them in the box for recycling.

Sandy Cohn, a new member, was nice enough to give us a classification talk. She currently is an insurance agent but was a nurse for many years. She has a master’s degree in nursing administration. Sandy moved here from New London, Connecticut. She loves the town of York and has been here 5 years. She currently owns the Bergeron Agency on York Street and does home, auto, commercial, and securities. Sandy has 3 children and 5 grandchildren! Thank you Sandy!

Mike Lee also was kind enough to give us a classification talk. He is a York native by marriage as he married Martha Leighton. Mike was born and raised in Virginia. His great x 4^th grandfather was Robert E. Lee’s brother! Items which are very important to Mike include family and legacy. Mike has six children. Mike describes legacy as what you give in terms of community service. He owns Lee Tree Company which was started 5 years ago. It is a full service tree company. His background is in urban forestry and his degree is from Univ. of Mass in arborculture. Thank you Mike!

Chris is off to the Caribbean next week.

Meeting adjourned.