January 28, 2021 Meeting of West Bay Rotary

Pre-meeting Chatter! Finally, winter in Maine! Lucky is still sitting in the back of the car! Glad to see everyone this morning! Rodney is in this month’s Rotary magazine! Sand on your car in Maine, sand in your car in the south! More snow coming for Maine! Check you environment behind you so we are all visually prepared for Zoom!

 

Buckets on the Table:  New Hope for Women (drop off donations to Kim at the bank in Camden –next to Hannaford- or mail to PO Box 1033, Camden 04843 – or website donation site using the donate button).

 

Poem for the Day: Jim Povec – New Hope, Next Week –

 

Speaker of the Day: Club Assembly

 

Committee Reports:

 

Treasury: Monies are still good! We have raised money - yard sale, Lucky’s raffle, tree sales. Gave $1000 to district manager, polio plus, received grant for Meals of Hope, gave out 3 scholarships! Member giving (-foundation) $4300 EREY, $2020 WB Foundation, Buckets $1360+405+1000. We are still managing to be a generous presence in our community!

 

Book Club: (members also include Camden Club) Feb, 5 pm by Zoom. Entangled Life\Merlin Sheldrake. Contact Kristen for link! Booklist is on the website!

 

Community: Next Habitat Project will be in February 6^th. Let Tim Dresser know if you are interested in hanging out with some builders! (Philbrick Ave, Rockland) Come Join Us!! Habitat is active every month and into the summer. No grants have gone out due to no money coming into from our events.  Yard Sale and e-waste event in the future

Interact: 12-17 kids involved, $500 in the account, ornament, bake sales, pack for one less worry, unloaded trees, habitat, candy sales in Feb, tote project, help give out food at the school and other activities.

 

Vocational: Applicants are about the same, more students are attending ME colleges to save money, March 31 is the end date for applications.

 

International: Equator and Lesutu project participation.

 

Public Relation: next week

 

Membership: Looking for an interim lead for this. A co-chair is in the wings but still need another chair!

 

Secretary: Several passing of members, lost a couple satellite members but added two to the club. Around 57% members still coming into zoom meetings, current methods of operations to be published next month. Still participating in activities despite Covid, short on a couple areas of funding due to Covid. Will have a couple more club assemblies over the next couple months, check out website for committee minutes. Have been talking about a phone tree to contact members that are not coming in to zoom meetings. Will be seeking volunteers to make phone calls to these members.

Satellite: Club has continued to meet at different locations. Have raised $5000 thru events, trivia night, corn hole, painting raffle and tree delivery event. Visiting speakers were able to be worked out during zoom meetings. Greatest challenge is growing the club.

 

Fellowship: Cruise on Appledore, Pie Swap, looking forward to a cookie sale for Feb – proceeds going to New Hope. Feb 6^th sign up list for cookies with pickup on Sat Feb 13^th! Upcoming Events - Dinner to go, Trail walk, Appledore Cruise, BBQ!

 

WB Foundation: focusing on publicity, working on an investment policy ($21K), remember us in estate planning. Fund raising has been good this year, working to allow scholarships for youth. Looking for non-physical activities to raise funds.

 

RI Foundation: About 2/3 thru the year with a goal of $12K (have raised $8K) for foundation, $92 average per WB members and $38 average outside of WB. Club has enough points to give 4 Paul Harris Awards. 32 WB members with enough foundation points could be given to others for Paul Harris Awards. District Project on environment (7^th area of Rotary), be thinking about what an environmental project should be. Club Foundation analysis available for review by members.

 

17 New Hope temporary homes available in the community. New Hope is expanding their services to community.

 

Next Week’s Speaker: unkown at this time