Comedian Jerry Caruso brought laughs to our Club on its 6th birthday!
Opening remarks from the President
- Mary toasted to our Clubs 6th birthday and accomplishments: 5 global Grants, District Grants, for ending Polio, for supporting seniors, high school students & veterans. To many more years!
Happy/Sad
- Mary couldn’t be happier to be a part of our Club
- Sarlah is looking forward to Spring & happy that case management program is starting March 1st
- Rich is happy for yesterday’s weather, sad for today’s weather. Overall very proud of our Club not in a selfish way but for all the people around the world we are assisting in Malawi, Afghanistan, Dominica Republic, Puerto Rico, Kenya and closer to home
- Karin happy for 6 amazing years
- Carl proud as well
- Steve is sad just came home from Costa Rica and there’s cold weather
- Chris shared that Laura is at the Ayer Club, happy to have biked 15 miles yesterday and could ski today
- Dana looking forward to ski tomorrow
- Carol sad it was 35 degrees colder but also proud of Mary who checked in on Zone Conference and cheered her on! Proud of how many from our District attended.
- Jacky had a chuckle at kids learning to ski at Wachusett with so little snow
- Bob happy for 5 Global Grants, had no idea that we would become one of the most outstanding clubs in the country. We are small but might. Very proud!
- Nanci happy for our 6th birthday and excited to see daughter in Philadelphia
- Don happy birthday – shared that he tried to confirm a meeting in Westfield, got dressed up, drove out there but had the wrong meeting date!
- Ray happy birthday to our Club, happy there was an article in Boston Globe about Razia’s Ray of Hope
Updates
- District Grant change: Jacky shared that proposals must now be in by June 1st but rough draft needs to be in by March 10th. Grants are now not limited to 1/year and no longer limited to $1,500. Criteria will be changing slightly with the biggest change is that grants are no longer sent on a rolling basis but at the same time - decisions based on best use of funds. Examples from the past include videos for Healing Garden, Nature Connection & Cultivate Care build. Please share ideas with Jacky as soon as possible (ideas submitted so far include RFK School and Habitat For Humanity).
- To continue tradition of Global Grants every year, please share ideas with Mary. All ideas from all members are welcome
- Dogs2Vets (April 29th, 11am-3pm): Energy is great! Lots of activities planned (disc throwing, obstacle courses, and more). Radio stations are looking for six, $10,000 sponsors for us. Volunteer lists being put together now to fill in, maybe Interact, Lions and Boy Scouts could help.
- Service Day (Saturday, February 24th): some members are participating in Habitat For Humanity Dedication in Fitchburg and others going to Watertown Boys & Girls Club and can choose between 6 projects. May 12th will be a Service Day in Framingham
- Pizza Night Membership Recruitment (March 6th) at Slaters.
- Reality Fair (April 6th) is a great tradition of ours. Chris passed around a sign up sheet.
- Red Sox Opening Day (April 5th) is another fun day for us to watch the game & have a cookout with senior citizens in Stow
- Carl shared work happening in Worcester for urban planning with help from professionals on how to define space that he is involved. The concept is being moved into neighborhoods – cleaning up the land, replace a barrier wall with more appropriate elements, and a community garden. One other main aspect is putting a neighbor-to-neighbor support system to support one another. Interested in helping? Contact Carl or Steve for more details
- Applications for RYLA are being accepted now (a total of 3 available). If you know a sophomore please get them an application, we don’t want anyone to say “I didn’t know about that.” See Bob for details.
- Ray share that Repair Café is looking for facilitators to help Stow, who has already run a few, and Lancaster who has expressed interest.
Guest Speaker - Jerry Caruso, Comedian
Need some laughs? Watch Jerry Caruso starting around 42 minutes into the video. https://www.facebook.com/NashobaRotary/videos/1587219441367451/
Need some laughs? Watch Jerry Caruso starting around 42 minutes into the video. https://www.facebook.com/NashobaRotary/videos/1587219441367451/