September 25, 2014 Meeting of West Bay Rotary

Emily Lusher from the Camden Windjammer Festival joined us to receive proceeds from the West Bay club's fund raising, and thank the club. She described the club's support as a model of what the Festival would like to see from area service organizations. The Festival is operating in the red, and is exploring how to make the Festival sustainable.

Today's speaker, Chad Place, new member, gave his classification talk. Chad is a commercial lender at Camden National in Rockland. He grew up in Morrill, outside of Belfast, Maine. His family was in the lumber industry. He was very involved in sports as a child, and played basketball and golf. He's been a member at the Northport club for most of his life. He was part of the first golf team at the high school and was captain. He successfully competed with his father in the Father/Son golf tournament. In basketball, Camden was the arch-rival of Belfast.

He worked at Maine Bank and Trust, and Lincoln Financial in Portland, went to bar tending school, met his wife, Dawn, and moved back to Belfast in 2005. He worked at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont, eventually managing the warehouse. He joined Camden National in 2008. He and his wife built a home in Waldo. They have a five year-old daughter, and an infant daughter, and tap maple trees on their property.

In addition to getting more opportunities to play golf, he joined Rotary to build his network and give back to the community.

Buckets are for the Connections Program for parent and children

Terry Bregy presented Rotary Information and reminded us of his presentation a year ago about the products you can buy through the Rotary website and a few he found this week. He also shared items he found on Ebay, and the date for the “Hammacher Schlemmer” presentation on October 30, 2014, not to be missed!

Next Wednesday is a board meeting, Anderson Inn at Quarry Hill at 7a. All members are welcome to attend.

There's a Leadership course in Lewiston coming up, Saturday October 18, and Sandy Cox will be attending and wants to fill a car of West Bay Rotarians to attend

Barbara Heard is working on a Holiday Dinner at Cappy's in December.

Ken Gardiner and Terry Bregy are planning a a “Jello Man” competition in the wake of Shannon Thompson's presentation last week. She raised over $300 from Rockport Automotive, for a total of over $500 from her presentation at West Bay Rotary.

Paul Rogers, Peter Berke and Steve Dailey were part of a special presentation of additional Paul Harris Fellow recognition for their contributions to the Rotary Foundation.

Next week will be a club assembly.

Tobin Malone will be next week's speaker at Union's Knox County Sunrise Rotary, Tuesday at 7:30a at the Masonic Lodge on Sennebec Road.

Susan Dorr is helping out organizing materials at the Hospitality House, and anyone who can help on Tuesday morning around 9a is welcome.