30 July 2020
Buckets on the Table: Backpack Program (drop off donations to Kim at the bank in Camden or mail in)
Poem for the Day: Kristen Lindquist, BLT – Next week is Barbara Heard (forward the poem to Ken afterward for end of your publication! Will also be doing recipes!)
Speaker of the Day: Jeremy Martin, Camden Planning & Development
Jeremy works for the town of Camden for the last 2 years, making a big difference as director planning and community development. He has worked in this field for the last 20 years and enjoys the small town commitment of community members.
What’s been going on? Zoning amendments for housing affordability (to expand zones to add dwelling units for smaller homes), BTR (business transitional district – rezoned all downtown to B1), Bike trails with public access have been added near the state park, trying to brings families into Camden and are surveying property to add more homes to the community, Tannery Property (obtained a clean-up grant and envisions new vision for this space – addressing riverbank issues and working with EPA to remove solid waste material, no risk to human health at this time), Broadband working group is active (important as we have seen during Covid to learn and work from home, the need is significant – find ways to bring fiber to all the poles), Keep me Healthy grant (public education on covid, public health and small business technical assistance, adding picnic tables to downtown for eatery customers, keeping everyone is being safe - $102K so far), Pop-Up Friday for local businesses to help business owner to handle social distancing.
Committee Reports:
Jan: PAWS Golf events – Aug 14 tournament, Check George’s email for the link to support PAWS to buy ticket, Sept 10 wine & dine!!
Suzanne’s Visit at Camden’s Harbor Park, last Monday, District Citation Award winner in US and received Rotary Corn Hole boards as our prize! Pics were posted on facebook!
Community Service: Habitat, Aug 8, contact Tim, need 6 more folks
Aug 29, 8-12, outdoors, MRC (Aug 24 to begin bringing over items)
International Committee: Met and will be bringing things to board meeting, last Tuesday of the month will become the new meeting day
Kristen: book club is The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah, Sept 8th by Zoom!
Rotary $60K grant received funds for water program in Tanzania!
Joan: looking for members for interact committee, Covid challenged by schools and need to get creative!
Asking for volunteers for 2 At-Large members for the foundation board, contact Ken if you are interested! Will be voted on by members.
Next Week’s Speaker: Jane Lafleur, Community Heart & Soul