Our District 7930 Rotary Foundation Committee is looking for additional new volunteers for the coming Rotary year 2024-25. If you are passionate about doing good in the world through the many projects supported by our Rotary Foundation, please consider joining this important district committee. We have several different working groups on the committee, focused on areas such as global grants, district grants, polio eradication, annual fund, Paul Harris Society, global scholarships, endowment, and major donors. If you are potentially interested in joining the committee and would like to learn more, please reach out to incoming District Rotary Foundation Chair 2024-27 Alexander Falk via email at al+7930@falk.us - thank you!

Parkway Rotary is looking for 2 or 3 volunteers to assist us in serving meals to homeless veterans at New England Center and Home for Veterans on Court Street in Boston around the corner from City Hall. It will be April 25 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. Please contact either Brunna Cunha, Club President, or Ray Fitzgerald, Club Treasurer if you can help us out. Thank you.

The Rotary Club of Chelsea is holding a Chelsea Rotary Derby to raise funds to support their local scholarship program and send twenty Chelsea youth to Camp Rotary for a week. The event will be held Thursday, May 2, 2024, at Anthony’s in Malden. Tickets for a chance to be a horse owner are $100. Four tickets will be drawn to represent each of the four horses in the 1st race, twelve tickets will be drawn to represent each of the six horses in the 2nd and 3rd races. The race will be 10 “furlongs” in length. Betting on individual horses will be conducted. There will also be numerous door prizes. Dinner tickets are $60 and are separate from the $100 race tickets. Corporate sponsorships are available for $1,000 and include four race tickets, four dinner tickets. For race or dinner tickets please contact Bruce Mauch at 857 544-9041. Checks should be made out to Rotary Club of Chelsea Charitable Foundation.  You can also Venmo the funds to Douglas-Mauch, scan the QR CODE on the flyer or click here. 

Is there a hero in your life, past or present? Why not honor them by sponsoring a flag in their name at this wonderful community event? The honoree could be a veteran, an active-duty service member, a first responder, police, firefighter, EMT, teacher, coach, an essential worker, a family member, humanitarian, or best friend. Your hero's name will be personalized on a medallion, which will be attached to a full-size American flag and will be given to you as a remembrance when the display is taken down.

Flags will be proudly displayed at the Amesbury Servicemen's Memorial Honor Roll on Main Street (across the street from Amesbury Middle School). Flags will be on display starting Memorial Day, May 27th through Flag Day, June 14th. You can recognize your hero by sponsoring a flag for $75.

Sponsorships are available for business and community groups. Each sponsor will receive the number of flags list below, in addition to special recognition on Amesbury Rotary's website and all publications. Sponsorships rates and benefits are as follows: