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What a night we had on Tuesday July 10th at our Paul Harris Awards & Installation Dinner! Dave Sellers was outstanding as our Master of Ceremonies during an amazing evening of Paul Harris Recognitions, Thank you’s, dinner and the Installation of Susan Goorvich Paley as President, and of our 2018-2019 Board of Directors.
WHEN: TUESDAY, MAY 29, from 6PM to 8PM.
LOCATION: The Price Center, 27 Christina Street, Newton MA.
This event has been developed for all Rotary Clubs and their local partnering stakeholders interested in preventing addiction. The purpose of this event is to learn about this Rotary-driven and championed community-based model and replicate it in your own club communities.
This model has been developed to raise awareness about what works to prevent addiction and join efforts to engage in evidence-based strategies to address and reduce it at the local level.
This is the first of what will be many community-based seminars hosted and made available through Rotary. Come and learn about how easy and effective the Rotary Addiction Prevention Seminars can be to help your neighbors and friends learn about, identify and act to prevent addiction. This is a model that any and all Rotary Clubs can implement in their own communities to effectively begin to address addiction at the local level.
Objectives of the Seminar:
1) Learn about some of the driving forces of addiction
2) Collaborate with local leading community stakeholders and professionals on preventing addiction
3) Replicate this model in your own community to raise awareness and initiate change that will effectively work to reduce rates of addiction
Rotary Clubs are encouraged to register 1 - 3 club members with 1 - 3 community stakeholders interested to partner with their club on addiction prevention activities in their community.
Refreshments will be served. Please note that The Price Center does not allow smoking on the property.
If you would like to serve on the Rotary Addiction Prevention Task Force, please click HERE to email Paul Sullivan. Rotary membership not required.
Thank you to Justin Sallaway for offering to host the 1st Rotary Addiction Prevention Seminar at the The Price Center, 27 Christina Street, Newton MA.
FREE ENTRY before March 1st!
*TWO Divisions – Adults ages 20+ and Youth ages 13-19*
ENTER NOW to be in the running for up to $1,000 in prize money PLUS a matching grant donated to the Newton-based charity of your choice.
Click HERE or visit NewtonHasTalent.com to enter now!
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by November 14th.
Newton at Home (who's director is a Rotarian) needs help providing leaf raking to it's members on November 10, 11, 18, & 19 from 10-12 and 1-3 each day, and is looking for volunteers to help out! Can you, your family and/or your colleagues spare a couple of hours to help some of your elder neighbors? Volunteers will need to bring their own rakes and gloves. The folks you'll be helping will provide leaf bags and snacks. To register please CLICK HERE to email Newton At Home Director Maureen Grannan. Please specify which date and time you'd like to volunteer for. Newton at Home is a non-profit organization that assists Newton residents over 60 to live independently and safely in their homes. This is a wonderful community service in which several Rotarians participated last year.  |
Here is your opportunity to have a hands-on role in eradicating Polio:
Join Rotary on an upcoming trip to Accra, Ghana, West Africa in October 2017 to participate in a polio immunization exercise, attend the 12th Annual West Africa Project Fair, and engage in a hands-on work project. Attached is detailed trip information. Please feel free to share this information with the Rotarians in your club as soon as possible as we have a limited amount of space and expect this trip to be filled in the next week or two.
Trip Dates: October 03 – 12, 2017
Travel to: Accra, Ghana, West Africa
Per Person Price: $1,689, double occupancy
Program includes: Hotel accommodations, transfers, most meals, polio immunization exercise, hands-on community service field work, West Africa Project Fair registration, special Rotary and fellowship events, sightseeing, etc.
In October 2017, North American Rotarians will travel to Accra, Ghana for a life changing experience. Have you ever heard a Rotarian speak about their personal experience participating in a polio eradication exercise, a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or work on a humanitarian grant? These trips have a profound effect upon the individual. For those of you who have gone on one of these trips you know, and for those of you who have yet to enjoy this experience, you should.
The experiences you have stay with you forever. You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impoverished neighborhood, and for the next few hours, you change. Small children come up to you to say thank you. Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life. You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes. It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfortable; it is exquisite.
The West Africa Project Fair is endorsed by the Rotary in Africa Committee (ROTA), who is trying to generate greater connectivity between the African and North American Rotarians to generate greater support of the projects of Africa. Your involvement, or your club’s involvement, in this Fair would not only provide an opportunity for project support, it would also help your members to grow and to understand the benefits of being a Rotarian. Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do anywhere else. This trip is just such an experience.
Even if you are unable to join us this year, please feel free to announce this program in your club over the next month, get it on websites, and get it in newsletters. Encourage your members to participate – help Rotary Make a Difference.
Contact info: Jolene R. Bortz,
Rotary Club of Oakland-Uptown Past President
JBortz@HowardTours.net
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The Rotary Club of Newton was delighted to present 3 scholarships during the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast to Jadon Smith, Nattalya Brown, and Amanda Powers. Congratulations to these talented young women - Rotary wishes you the best!
Presenting the awards are (l-r) Newton Rotary President Paul Sullivan, Rotarian and Prayer Breakfast Benefactor Marie Presti, and Mayor Setti Warren. Superintendent of Schools David Fleishman is shown to the right.
We were doubly honored to be present when Mayor Warren recognized Newton Rotary Members Jack Fucci of the West Suburban YMCA and David Sellers of the John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club with 2017 Mayor's Community Service Awards! Way to go, Dave & Jack!
Above: Jack Fucci withe Mayor Warren
Above: David Sellers with Mayor Warren
Please join us for a working meeting to exchange ideas on how Rotary Clubs in Massachusetts can lead or participate in projects that deal with the opioid addiction problem in the Commonwealth.
Representatives from all clubs and districts are welcome.
WHERE: West Suburban YMCA, 276 Church Street, Newton, MA 02458
WHEN: Monday, March 6th, 7:30 - 9:00pm
COST: Free - just bring ideas.
PLEASE REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE
- See more at: http://newtonrotaryclub.com/event/district-7910-opioid-prevention-task-force/#sthash.eUqawhph.dpufPlease join us for a working meeting to exchange ideas on how Rotary Clubs in Massachusetts can lead or participate in projects that deal with the opioid addiction problem in the Commonwealth.
Representatives from all clubs and districts are welcome.
WHERE: West Suburban YMCA, 276 Church Street, Newton, MA 02458
WHEN: Monday, March 6th, 7:30 - 9:00pm
COST: Free - just bring ideas.
PLEASE REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE
Congratulations to our January "Student of the Month" Ethan Weiss! Ethan is a sophomore at Newton South High School and was recognized by Rotary Club of Newton and the The Village Bank for his outstanding community service.
This recognition includes a scholarship for Ethan to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Weekend (RYLA) in June. The award was presented by Maureen Grannan.
Congratulations Ethan!
Pictured: Maureen Grannan (SOM Coordinator) and Ethan Weiss
Heading over to the West Suburban YMCA Saturday morning?
Want to help the Rotary Club of Newton do good in your community?
These two things align because our president Paul Sullivan will be selling our January Lottery Raffle tickets from 9am-12pm in the lobby of the Y.
For $10 you will be entered to win $100 for every remaining weekday in January, $150 for every Sunday and $500 on January 31st. AND if you win, your name goes BACK in the basket so you can win again (it happened twice last year!).
We sell 1000 tickets at most - MUCH better odds than the state lottery.
The best part? Every penny of your donation goes to the community service projects of the Rotary Club of Newton.
So bring cash, a check, credit card or even remember your Paypal password and you'll be in on this.
Can't make it to the Y? Email us at RotaryNewtonMa@gmail.com and we'll get as many tickets to you as you want.
Thanks and good luck!
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There's still time to buy a Rotary "Holiday Lottery Calendar!
For just $10 you are entered to win $100 EVERY weekday, $150 EVERY Saturday and the grand prize of $500 on January 31st.
Every dollar raised supports our community service projects and grants.
Get your ticket from any Newton Rotarian, or CLICK HERE to email us and we'll handle the details.
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Dictionaries for Newton's 3rd graders were labeled in record speed this afternoon, and we had a great time too!
Thanks to Dave Sellers and the Boy's & Girl's Club for the space and the pizza! We start distributing in a couple of weeks. Pictured are Dave, Rae Mintz, Maureen Grannan, Sue Peghiny, Ron Faccenda and Jack & Paul Sullivan.
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The Rotary Club of Newton was honored to award Mrs. Audrey Cooper, the Reverend Howard Haywoood, and brothers Veer and Shiv Sawhney Paul Harris Awards this evening.
Mrs. Cooper and Rev. Haywood were recognized for their outstanding community service, and Veer and Shiv were recognized in honor of a gift made to Rotary International by their grandfather Manjit Sawhney, who is a past Governor of District 3010 in Delhi, India.
A wonderful article from the Newton Tab about the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast and the awarding of the Rotary Club of Newton scholarships:
A celebration of Newton’s legacy of education, tolerance and eliminating barriers to opportunity took center stage in Chestnut Hill last May.
Well over 500 people gathered May 20 inside the McElroy Commons at Boston College for the annual Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast, a tradition started 41 years ago by Ted Mann. From 1972 until he died in office in 1994, Mann was the city’s longest-serving mayor. Known for his candor and hands-on approach to leadership, the event has since been named in his honor.
Mayor Setti Warren presented Mayor Mann Community Service Awards to education and civil rights activists Hubie and Katherine Jones, longtime Newton residents.
“This is one of the rare days in Newton when we come together not around politics or policy, but to recommit to the values of our community… to break down barriers and provide opportunity for all,” Warren said.
The mayor recounted how Mann sought his assistance during a time of racial discord at Newton North when he was a junior in high school.
“I was scared to be sitting in the man’s office,” he said.
Mann asked the teenager who would two decades later succeed him at City Hall to do his best to ease the friction between black and white students.
“We live in a complex world…there is ugliness,” he said. “But there is a playbook in this room, written by people, some who have passed away like Ted Mann. We can espouse these values and do the really hard work to bring people together.”
Award Recipients: Mathena Abramson - METCO - Attending Smith College, Andrew DeNucci - NNHS - Attending MIT and Hyunnew Choi - NSHS - Attending Princeto. Shown with Rotary Club of Newton member Tony Bibbo.Wicked Local Photo/Ayrika Whitney
School Superintendent David Fleishman presented Newton Rotary Anthony J. Bibbo Scholarships to Mathena Abramson, Hyunnew Choi and Andrew DeNucci. Abramson, a METCO student at Newton North and representative to the School Committee, will attend Smith College in the fall. Choi will attend Princeton University after graduating from Newton South. DeNucci, a captain of the Newton North football and lacrosse teams, will attend MIT.
Attorney General Maura Healey, the morning’s featured speaker, spoke about her priorities since taking office five months ago.
“When I ran to be the people’s lawyer and to run the people’s law firm, it was to fight for everyone in the state,” she said.
Pledging to fight for equal access to education, employment and health care and to pursue criminal justice reform, Healey touted her office’s recently announced Division of Community Engagement, which seeks to “see life through the eyes of others and to meet people where they live.” The new division responded earlier this month to reports of racial tension in Worcester, she said.
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