This past Thursday, members of the York Maine Rotary Club visited York Hospital to deliver a donation to benefit the Recovery Center. The funds from this donation were raised during our March Madness event, which York Hospital was a huge contributor to this fundraiser.  Thank you York Hospital for all the good you do!

 

This morning, we welcomed back one of our founding members- Jim Bartlett!  Welcome back dear friend!  We've missed you!

Candice Simeoni, Karen Connelly and Mike Maloney made a presentation to the York Maine Rotary Club about their organization York County Elder Abuse Task Force.  To learn more about what this amazing group is doing for our community, or to find out how you can help, please visit their website at www.yceatf.org

 

Cooper, our first 2019-2010 York Middle School Student of the Month told us about how he plans to send his award to End 68 Hours of Hunger.  Cooper is shown here with principal Dr. Barbara Maling and his teacher Susan Frank.  Great job Cooper!

Bill Parks and his group visited the club this morning, and told us about their adventure in Guatemala where they visited a community in 2017 to help construct a home for a single mother, and also brought books to the local school children.  During their visit, they observed that the playground at the St. Augustin School was outside in the blazing sun, and needed cover.  When they came back to the States they began a fundraising campaign to raise money for a covered structure.  As a result of their efforts a covered pavilion area has been built at the school that is used as an outdoor play area for children and also a community gathering area.  Great job Habitat for Humanity!

 

It's that time of year again!  Join us for our Annual Turkey Trot!  To download an application, 

please see the Home Page Download Files.  

 

Yep!  You're reading that correctly!  We have officially SOLD OUT of our 2019 Car with a Cause raffle tickets! 

 

Next stop~ HARVESTFEST~ October 19th, 2019 to learn who this year's winner is!  I hope it's YOU!!!

 

State Representative, Patty Hymanson who represents District 4, and is also on the Health & Human Services Committee visited us yesterday to inform us of all the good things happening at the State House.  She provided us with a list of bills that had passed during the last session, and answered questions from our members on what different bills were about.  Thank you Dr. Hymanson for a great meeting, and for all you do to help our State!

On Friday, August 2nd, we pulled our July 2019, $500.00 Car with a Cause Early Bird Winner.

Congratulations to:

R. Hershbery, of York Maine!

Thank you for your support!  

 

We welcomed Chelsea Fitton, who is the Sr. Program & Community Engagement Manager from Friends Forever International, along with several students and staff to our meeting last Friday.  The students told us about life in Ireland, and how even in 2019 there remains a divide between Protestants and Catholics.  To learn more about this amazing organization that is bringing kids together, please visit their website at www.ff.international

 

June 21, 2019

 

Another great meeting day in the books!

 

The morning meeting started with a presentation by York High School student Ella.  Ella has a girl scouts project that she has been working on, where she is proposing to erect Little Libraries in 6 different locations throughout the Town of York.  Ella made a wonderful presentation on where the 6 locations areproposed, what is needed for each Little Library, and even provided a schematic on how they would be constructed.    We were HAPPY to provide her with a donation to support these efforts!

 

Next, we welcomed our newest member Fred Diehl.  Mr. Diehl lives right here in Town, and is the local Edward Jones representative located on Woodbridge Road.  Welcome aboard!

 

Last, but certainly not least, we welcomed our speakers, Jacob Ouellette and Josh Sawyer from the Sanford Mainers Baseball Organization.  Mr Ouellette told us about this wonderful league and the wonderful things that they do for kids in the community. In the above photo President Toni Joerres presented them with a check to support their summer youth camp program.   To learn more about this organization or to see the game schedule, please visit their website at www.sanfordmainers.com 

 

 

Another busy meeting!! This morning started by congratulating the recipients of the York Rotary Clubs 2019 Scholarship winners.  The top photo includes Erica Waterbury, Erika Shea, Hannah Gennaro Sophia Newton, Payton Nickerson and their families.  Such an amazing group of young future leaders!

 

The next order of business was to draw the May 2019 "Car with a Cause" early bird winner.   Ms. Gennaro helped by drawing the winning ticket # 436, belonging to B. Medeiros of Center Barnstead, NH.  We will be mailing a check to him, AND will be putting his ticket back into the tub to be eligible to win again!  Congratulations!

 

Lastly, our speaker today was Jim Christiansen of the Amenyo Foundation.  Mr. Christiansen told us of all the good his organization is doing in Ghana.  To learn more about the Amenyo Foundation, please visit their website at www.amenyofoundation.org.