I am honored to serve as your club President for the 2022-23 Rotary year. We have shown that we have limitless potential as a club to make a positive impact on our community, and I am excited to work with each one of you to maintain the momentum that grew out of our community fridge service project. 

 

My goal is to communicate with you through a weekly email or bulletin. I ask for your patience as I work through some of the new features in Club Runner that I am unfamiliar with, like the read more button at the end of each section that will take you no where if you click it! 

 

I welcome your thoughts, ideas, feedback and perspectives and am comfortable with all forms of communications. Feel free to text, email, call, or speak to me in person. I will try to get back to you promptly, and recognize that we all have busy lives outside of Rotary that may mean responses are not instantaneous. 

 

My goals for this year are to rekindle our speakers program, identify new fundraising opportunities, complete an emergency preparedness kit service project, expand our membership, continue to support the community fridge, and make time for fellowship and conversation when we are together for lunch meetings to strengthen our relationships. 

 

Thank you for placing your trust in me to lead our club. I look forward to working together throughout the year. 

 

Today we celebrated Art's upcoming 90th birthday with citations and special visits from Senator Moore and Representative Kane. Art's daughter, Kathie, joined us for lunch and was able to hear Art share his reflections on his time as a Rotarian (42 years!). Kathie is pictured here with Art, displaying one of his citations. 

Mark your calendars:

 

Wednesday, June 29th at 5:30 PM- Club social at Amici's Trattoria located in downtown Shrewsbury. Parking available in the lot near the bank, at the library or at the old Beal School. This is a casual gathering with cash bar and food. 

 

Thursday, June 30th at 7:30 PM - Bylaw revision committee meeting via Zoom. A link was emailed to those who indicated interest in participating. Email Beth if you need the link resent or would like to participate. This is the first meeting of this committee tasked with revising our bylaws. 

 

Monday, September 19th- Annual visit from DG Victor Tom and AG David Kaiser. Board members- please plan to arrive at the Pub at 11:30 am for an in-person Board meeting with the DG and AG. Regular lunch meeting to follow at 12:15 with DG as our speaker. It is always great to have good turnout at this meeting so please mark your calendars now so that you have the best chance at being able to attend.