York ME Rotary - The Rotary Beacon - Archive (Feb 13, 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

February 13, 2004

Happy Dollars:

Ben Lovell finished the first month of his new job in Boston and all is going well;
John Rainone gave a happy $5 as he went to the Red Sox fantasy camp in Fort Myers Florida;
Russ Peterson’s youngest child is 29 today;
Mary Andrews told a funny joke;
Steve Brett gave a happy $2 for starting his own law firm---he gave thanks to Jim Bartlett and Tom Elias for the helpful advice.
Jim Bartlett gave a happy $2 as he just sold his house and closed on a new house; Ed Kimball informed everyone that he was going to win the hot tub!
Loretta Prescott announced that it was Girl Scout cookie time---24,000 have been sold and 6,000 of those will be sent to Iraq.
Ray DeFeo was asked to be the sub-governor;
Steve Jendzejec announced that Tom Spencer is now in Iraq,
the polar dip is on 2/28/04, and Cass did very well getting a personal best and she got accepted to Colby College (go White Mules!!);
Dave McElwain has UNH hockey tickets available for 2/14.

Guests: Ryan, Marco’s son.

No Make-ups: Rob Horowitz, Dick Mirick, Pat Murray, Russ Peterson, Don Sweet, and Steve Brett.

Lates: Too many to list (10)

Raffle: #737 Bill Anderson won! Donated to Food Pantry.

Steve’s info to the group:

Greeters next week: Paul Salacain and George Russell.

Board Meeting: 2/18/04, 6:30 pm at the Remax office.

Rotary Birthday Bash, 99 yrs. old, Tuesday 2/24 in Portland. There will be a speaker.

3/20/04-Rotary leadership institute at the Sheraton—please let Steve know if interested.

Please sell 4 hot tub tickets MINIMUM. Stress that it is for a hot tub or 5,000 cash!

Next week Spring dance tickets will be available.

Annette volunteered to be the Junior Achievement Representative!

Speaker: Beth Knight—Doug’s neighbor, she has 2 children, she is the Families Together Coordinator, a non profit organization which is an Adult Literacy Program. 1,000 people in York alone >25 years of age do not have their high school diploma! Families Together needs $ to buy food, books, bookshelves, and assorted materials. They work with teen parents, single moms, anyone who needs help. We all enjoyed making our Valentines!!!

Meeting Adjourned.