I would like to first take this opportunity to thank you and your club members for your continued support and enthusiasm for our Rotaplast Missions. Fundraising efforts are underway to support our seventh consecutive District 7930 sponsored Rotaplast Mission.  I will "Share Rotary" as Mission Director, with our next location which I'm pleased to say is Antofagasta, Chile.  Rotaplast had a mission at this location three years ago and there were many surgeries performed .Three years later, there are a large number of children remaining in need of our help. Rotaplast has been invited back by the Rotary clubs and the hospital staff to provide another Mission. I am very excited to be going on this mission and to lead a team made up of medical and non-medical volunteers mostly from our district. I am attaching a Non-Medical application which you can print and give to any interested Rotarians in your club. Please have completed applications faxed to me at 978 683-9110. I will be happy to answer any questions at any time regarding this mission by email or by phone 978 683-9793. Our days are long and the work is demanding but so rewarding, as we practice "hands-on" world community service together. The children's lives are forever changed and so are those of the Rotaplast volunteers. Though we will be working hard and not vacationing during our visit, I am told it is a beautiful country with strong Rotary support for our Team. We will be sponsored by one to three Rotary clubs.

As Rotaplast Ambassador it is my duty to collect the funds needed to support the mission costs. Our mission estimated cost is US $70,000.  The mission needs to be paid for three months before our departure so that supplies and medications can be obtained and packed.  I am grateful to DG Julia for obtaining 100% support for this mission from our Presidents at PETS last March. I ask that you support two or more children's surgeries so that we can meet our mission costs. The three Rotary clubs will locate the poor children in need of surgery. They anxiously await our return in January.  Please start sending your support now, so that I can pay for half of the mission soon and follow with the remainder by early November.

Donations from Rotary clubs and individuals, can be made out to D7930 Rotaplast and sent to me at:       625 Great Pond Road, North Andover, MA.01845

I thank you, in advance, on behalf of the children.

You are truly Amigos de Los Ninos.

Onwards & Upwards,

Donna-Lee Young Rubin PDG

Rotaplast Ambassador

Mission Director  Antofagasta,Chile

   Welcome to our new Web Site. I know that everyone has been very interested in getting a new site up and running and have something that could be updated easily and on a regular basis so that all of our members can stay up-to-date and informed about all of the activities of the club. As you explore our new interactive site, you will find a member login page where you will be able to access additional features of our site that include updating your own profile, adding a phtograph to your profile, and even a member list for your use in contacting your fellow Rotarians.

   I hope that as time goes forward we will also be able to add members of our Interact club so that they can be more closely tuned into our club and its activities, and so that we can post stories about their activities and upcoming events.    

   The Board has worked extremely diligently to bring this new feature to our club, and it is our sincere hope that we will have updates posted on a regular basis, such as upcoming events, speakers, meeting notices and changes, etc.

   We hope you find this format beneficial to you going forward.

Julie

Dear fellow Rotary Club of Marblehead Members:

As many of you are aware, at last Thursday's lunch meeting we voted to send four Shelter Boxes to Haiti.  Two boxes to be funded out of the Club's treasury and the other two will be paid for out of donations at our lunch meetings by means of "passing the hat".

Each box costs $1,000 and due to the generosity of those present last week we raised have already more than paid for one box.

Once again here's a quick background regarding this initiative: Rotary International is in the midst of an effort to deploy Shelter Boxes to Haiti.  These boxes are filled with the basic essentials for ten people to survive with over the next 6-10 months as the rebuilding takes place. This aid goes directly through Rotary connections in Haiti. Consequently, these boxes do not end up in government warehouses or on the black market and is our guarantee that our sponsored boxes will actually help families in need.

To date 3,300 shelter boxes have been dispatched to Haiti by Rotary.

Thank you for your support.

Jeff

Written by Tanya S. DeGenova

Press Release for Immediate Release: Marblehead Rotarians get a Lesson on Bhutan, a Country with ties to Boston, where the Measure of Progress is its "Gross National Happiness"!

Last Thursday, the Marblehead Rotary Club was treated to a fascinating talk and photo show by two of their members, Corine Barone and Andy Stone, about their travel to Bhutan, a small country high in the Himalayas between Chinese Tibet and India.    Corine is a pediatric dentist in Marblehead, and Andy is a new Rotarian, recently retired as General Counsel of a medical device company.

Corine and Andy described the country’s beautiful monasteries, fortresses, and shrines set in a landscape of green rice fields, rivers in deep valleys, all with a backdrop of the snowcapped Himalayas.  They recounted their hikes the to the Tiger’s Nest, an historic and beautiful monastery commemorating the introduction of Buddhism to the country.   This iconic complex is set on a cliff 3000 feet above the valley floor.  They shared examples of the colorful fabrics, costumes, and masks used in daily life and the country’s festivals.  They described their adventurous flights, in the country’s specially altered airliners, to the its only commercial airport located deep in the Paro valley, and flanked by towering mountains.

Many may remember that in 2011, the new king of Bhutan, Jigme Wangchuck,was married in a spectacular Tibetan Buddhist wedding featured on American television, and worldwide.  The King is a Celtics fan due to his close ties to Boston, having attended Cushing Academy, Philips Andover, and Wheaton College before a master’s degree from Oxford.  He is the 5th of the Wangchuk dynasty, which has guided the country’s transition from a closed society in 1907 to an emerging democracy and successful economy, while developing the widely known concept of “Gross National Happiness” as its measure of progress.

Corine and Andy told of the warmth and generosity with which Bhutan hosts tourists, the free health care and education it provides for its citizens, and the care taken to preserve its breathtaking environment, while measuring its progress with the concert “Gross National Happiness”.  Both are looking forward to a return to this country known as the Last Shangri-La.

A nice article in this week's Marblehead Reporter about the good the Marblehead Rotary Club is doing in our Community. We were pleased to have a live reporter present at our fundraiser and got coverage both in the online and printed editions (p. A4) of the paper.

- Tanya

 Photo legend: (from left): Paul Crosby, Shogofa Amini, Beth Grader, Buck Grader and Marblehead Rotary Club President, Chuck Bachner.

 http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/news/x2082699523/Marblehead-Rotarians-attend-Peace-Dinner#axzz2Lvdo4lOD

Marblehead Rotary Club President Chuck Bachner and club member Zach Newell participated today in the 3rd Annual Rotary District 7930 Polar Plunge in Gloucester, MA.

This event raised over $55,000.00 to eradicate polio worldwide.

 Written by Tanya S. DeGenova

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/news/x766866647/Rotary-Polar-Plunge-to-combat-polio-moved-to-Feb-23#axzz2KivxKFM9 

Written by Tanya S. DeGenova

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/news/x2105875940/Marblehead-Rotarians-ready-to-take-the-plunge-for-polio 

Written by Tanya S. DeGenova

www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/newsnow/x1146189662/Marblehead-Rotarian-spends-holidays-helping-people-of-Morocco

I will be giving a full presentation with slides at our lunch meeting on Thursday, February 7th, 2013.

All Rotarians,  Interact, Rotoract club members and guests are welcome to attend

Members of the Marblehead Rotary Club lent a hand to the
Cape Ann Department of Children and Families Christmas Party
Saturday at the Beverly High School.

Over 120 local children joined Santa for some Christmas fun!

From Left: President Chuck Bachner, Tanya DeGenova, Carl Edwards and Cahir McCoole

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Written by Tanya S. DeGenova

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Written by Tanya S. DeGenova

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/news/x1783173332/Marblehead-Rotary-welcomes-Salem-State-librarian#axzz2DI2vTOIR 

The Marblehead Rotary Club is pleased to announce this year's Lobsta Raffle winners: Aileen Ryder, Jack Hackett, Don Humphreys and Ken Bane all of Marblehead.

The Marblehead Rotary Club held the Lobsta Raffle Drawing at its weekly luncheon July 19, 2012 with the help of members of the Bell Elementary School "Weird Science Team".  This year's winners are: Aileen Ryder, Jack Hackett, Don Humphreys and Ken Bane all of Marblehead. Each winner will receive 20 lbs of fresh lobster donated by Marblehead Lobster Company.

The Lobsta Raffle is the club's primary fundraiser for Marblehead Rotary Club's campership program.  Through this program, the club is sending 26 children from Marblehead off to camp this summer.  In most cases these kids would not go to camp without the campership program and the Lobsta Raffle.  The $12,000 raised in this year's raffle comes from the combined efforts of Marblehead Rotary Club members, along with students in the Interact Club at Marblehead High School, and Patti Churchill and Cynthia Davis at Marblehead Chamber of Commerce Information Booth. Marblehead Rotary Club is especially grateful to Mike Kiernan of the Marblehead Lobster Company, who every year donates 80 lbs of fresh lobster to help Rotary send kids to camp.

Robin Bert, the coach of the "Weird Science Team", was thrilled to have her team assist  the Marblehead Rotary Club with the drawing, inasmuch as the Rotary club was one of its team sponsors last May, when the first and second graders were raising funds for their trip to Iowa to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind World Championship competition.

The Rotary Club of Marblehead engages in numerous ways with Marblehead's youth including its scholarship and campership programs, the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Interact Club for high school students, Rotaract Club for college students, the annual Easter Egg Hunt, The Rubber Duck Regatta, and as seen most recently, Marblehead's Got Talent!  In addition, the Club is launching this year Heads Up MHD !  to build collaborative efforts to support the Marblehead Housing Authority's "Helping Hands Program" and "Intergenerational Activities Program", MarbleheadCARES "Alcohol Poisoning Awareness Campaign", the Marblehead Council on Aging, "Community Garden" and the YMCA "High School Summer Opportunity Fair". 

(From left): Members of the Bell School "Weird Science Team": Allen Ehrhardt, Schuyler Schmitt, Sean Kenney, Logan Perkins with Club President Chuck Bachner and Bella McNally, Ashleigh Maude with Vice Chairman of the Lobsta Raffle Committee Bill Coolidge.

Respectfully submitted by:

Tanya  S. DeGenova
Chairman of the PR Committee

We Won!

The 6th Annual "Duct Tape Regatta" Saturday, June 23rd at Fisherman’s Beach, Swampscott.

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Even with the heat today, the Marblehead Rotary Lobsta Raffle is off to a great start!


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Back row, from left: Alexander Falk, Jack Attridge, Carl Edwards, Bill Coolidge, Eileen Perry,
Carl Siegel, Paula Bachner, Cahir McCoole, Jim Nye, Marjorie Empacher, Dieter Empacher

Front row, from left: Carly Robb, Laura Whitehill, Hunter McCoole, Molly Sweeney, Jen Perry,
Allison and Jen Bachner

More heat on Sunday and more tickets sold!

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Eating hotdogs, listening to bands, and selling raffle tickets!

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July 4th: Fireworks and Raffle Tickets!

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