The Parkway Club is looking for an individual or individuals to house a graduate student who will be attending Simmons College in the fall. The incoming student is our last year's scholar, Fransisco's sister. She has received funding for tuition but not for housing. Please contact us as soon as possible if you can host her for a month, a couple of months, or the full year.

 

Please contact President of the Parkway Club, Kelsea Whittemore at kelsea.whittemore@gmail.com.

The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club held the annual Red White & Blue Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, July 2nd.  I was a record-breaking success.  We served over 1,200 breakfasts while offering free pony rides and face painting.  The new addition to this year's event was a free water taxi from Manchester town center to the event location at Tuck's Point.  Not only did it alleviate the traffic backup and parking, but it was also fun for our guests.  One person who had lived in Manchester 20 years was overheard to say they had never been out on the harbor before. 

 

Pictured here are guests in their patriotic attire enjoying pancakes at the Red White & Blue on July 2nd in Manchester. 

At its regular meetings in June, Ipswich-Rowley Rotary welcomed two new members, Andrea LaCroix and Susanne Pedersen.

 

Andrea is well known in our area as a realtor with Churchill Properties who serves on the committees of both the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and North Shore Realtors.  She considers herself an environmentalist and hopes to support club initiatives that focus on sustainability.  Andrea donates her time and talent to numerous conservation initiatives, including the Ipswich Waste Reduction Committee and the Open Space Committee, and has organized town-wide cleanups in Ipswich.