Door prize winners: Peter, Ray, Marybeth, Charlie (guest speaker), and Laurie. Stacie won the happy dollars and put them towards the cause. Other folks also contributed to happy dollars, Stacie, Tricia, Jack, Rebecca, Peter, Carl, and Laurie. I apologize if I miss anyone. Thank you to Marc Rich for serving as Sargent at Arms tonight and thank you to Michael Houlsen for providing our IT support!
Jack Frost made an announcement that he would also donate to EREY (Every Rotarian Every Year) fund like Marc Rich, Saxon, and JoAnn had done at the previous Rotary meeting. They are matching EREY donations from March 10 until April 14. We are trying to reach our goal for donating to EREY. If we do not reach our goal, we will not be able to apply and/or receive grants next year, so it is particularly important that we reach this goal. It is extremely easy to make a one-time or recurring gift to EREY online on Rotary.org or you can bring a check to our next meeting and give it to our treasurer, Debbie. Check should be written out to EREY. Directions for making an online donation: My Rotary Homepage | My Rotary Go to My Rotary homepage and sign in. Click on the blue “DONATE” button in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Choose what you would like to support (for EREY, you should choose the box that says: Annual Fund-Share. Complete the page with your donation information (you can donate as small as $10 every month or any amount for a one-time donation) and then press the red “SUBMIT” button.
A $750 check was presented to Rebecca Toci for KidsPeace to be used for Easter baskets, the Easter Egg hunt activities, and dinner for the young people who live at KidsPeace in Ellsworth.
Gene read a thank you letter we received from the Beth C. Wright Cancer Center for our donation to them.
Stacie, Peter, and Gene are planning for the EHS Honors Banquet/awards to be held on Tuesday, April 14 at the Masonic Hall on Bucksport Rd. in Ellsworth. We will be having a spaghetti dinner. Stacie will be sending out a sign-up sheet for Rotarians to help. Rotarians who will be helping should plan to arrive no later than 5:15pm on that night at the Masonic Hall.
Stacie is still collecting small containers of Play-Doh. She has received 187 containers so far.
JoAnn mentioned that Membership Night is Tuesday, April 21 at 6pm in the lobby of the Moore Center. JoAnn handed out invitations and flyers for the event, encouraging all members to invite individuals that would like to learn more about joining Rotary. The membership committee will need all committee chairs to provide a brief informational presentation at the Membership Night. Also, if you would like to help with set-up or take-down for the event, please contact Saxon.
HCTC night will be on March 31, and Gene requested that Rotarians who can help sign up to help. He passed around a sign-up sheet, but please contact Gene if you can help.
We had a wonderful presentation with Charles (Charlie) Rolsky, Ph.D., Executive Director & Senior Research Scientist from the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill. https://shawinstitute.org/ Recommend you check out their website for more information. He did mention that they need private donations to keep providing all of the services they currently provide.
Next week’s Rotary meeting on 3/24 at 6pm in the Moore Center Conference room will be this quarter’s group assembly, so all committee chairs should come to the meeting with a brief presentation to share what their committee has been doing for this past quarter. Please contact Rebecca if you have questions. Thank you!!
Respectfully submitted by JoAnn Rodick
