Calling all Presidents-Elect, Club Treasurers, Club Secretaries, Public Image, Membership, and Foundation Chairs -- and all Rotarians!

Our 2024 District Learning Assembly takes place Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at Four Points Sheraton, 1 Audubon Road, Wakefield!

Important learning sessions start at 5 pm, followed by fellowship, our District Managed Grant Qualification, and a special presentation by Rotarian Bill Gormont on Succession Planning.

This is an important and worthwhile session for all Rotarians. Register today. A buffet dinner will be served and a cash bar will be available during fellowship and dinner.  Click here to register. 

Through a Rotary connection, I have heard that an Interactor from Brazil, District 4540, is honored to be taking a course at Harvard mid-April and is unable to afford housing. She and her Rotary network are asking if anyone is generous enough to host her for one week: April 17-22.

 

Please reach out to Daniel Rondi through email at danielrondi@adv.oabsp.org.br for more information

Tomorrow (March 19) is the day! Rotarians, their friends and families are all invited to the area's culinary spotlight: Peabody's Taste of the North Shore. The event will begin at Danversport at 6 pm. Join us for a celebration worthy of our 20th anniversary! We have a record number of restaurants (30!), a growing list of sponsors, and fantastic activities (grab bags, raffles, silent auctions) throughout the night working together to make this best Taste yet.

Don't have your ticket yet? Go to peabodyrotarytaste.com. Admissions will be sold at the door, but if we sell out of raffle tickets (we did last year), you won't be able to purchase them upon arrival. Don't miss out on your your chance to win $10,000. Purchase one of only 300 raffle tickets sold for the grand prize, today!

We hope you'll join us tomorrow night for food, fun and fellowship as we raise money for scholarships supporting the next generation of Peabody leaders. 

Salem Rotary presents A Night at the Speakeasy Annual Auction, March 20, 6 pm at Historic Hawthorne Hotel. Please save the date and get your tickets today!

Your $125 ticket includes creative food stations, a silent auction and raffles as well as a fabulous, good time!

We hope to see you at the Speakeasy! Creative attire suggested but not required!

For tickets or more information, visit: https://salemrotary.com/event/a-night-at-the-speakeasy/. We look forward to seeing you there! 

The Rockport Rotary Club is hosting an International Potluck For Polio on Thursday, April 4th, starting at 5:30.  Entrance cost is $25 per person and it will all go to Polio!  If you would like to join us please contact Ingrid Brown and let her know if you’ll be bringing an app, salad, main meal, dessert, or beverage to share, what country you are representing, and we are encouraging costumes.

For World Polio Day last year more than $836,000 was raised online. Let’s add to what D7930 can add to our donations by June 2024! 

The Rotary Club of Chelsea recently had as their guest speakers the project managers from the Northeast Metro Tech DECA Chapter.  DECA is a non-profit student-run organization that prepares high school students in business, marketing, finance and hospitality.  The student members participate in various business events and competitions to advance their knowledge and leadership skills. 

 

In thispicture are Michelle Broome, Chapter Advisor, Lilliana Mendez, Project Manager, Julianna Arevalo, student, Almi Abeyta, Chelsea Public Schools Superintendent, Iliana Reyes, Project Manager and Jennifer Hassell, Executive Director Chelsea Chamber of Commerce. 

On March 12 the Somerville Club welcomed Eileen Ryan, Founder of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston. Eileen gave an excellent and animated presentation on current and future environmental issues with plastics. She updated the Club on proposed bills in the Massachusetts Legislature and provided materials for members to become active in the process. The Club looks forward to following up with Eileen and Andrea Lacroix, the District Environmental Chair. 

 

Pictured here left to right are Sylvia Walker, Co-President; Gene Ferraro, incoming Co-President; Eileen Ryan, Beyond Plastics Greater Boston and Gilda Nogueira, Somerville Member,