I am privileged to be a member and past president [2020-2021] of the Middleboro Rotary club and honored to be the Assistant District Governor [AG] of our area 4, Dist 7950.
The Rotary Club of Middleboro is proud to be a sponsor of this year's Middleboro PrideFest! There will be lots of vendors, raffles, live music, food and a wine/beer garden by the Bartending Service of New England! This event will be held on Saturday, June 24th from noon to 4:00pm on the Middleboro Town Hall Lawn. If you are interested in participating as a vendor or if you have any questions, please contact: middleboropride@gmail.com.
Our current Club Secretary, Bob Saquet, met David Stalk, President of the Forfar Rotary Club in Scotland. Notice the official regalia, and Bob was presented with their banner. Two interesting speakers - one spoke about donating loads of food and toiletries for Ukraine and a woman from Australia spoke about her work to bring health and sanitation to remote villages in Nepal.
In support of School on Wheels [SoWMA] each year we run a backpack and school supplies drive. We’ve been able to provide them with large quantities of donated new stuffed backpacks for their Backpack program. This year they are looking to collect 9,000 backpacks and school supplies.
The Rotary Club of Middleboro would like to congratulate this year's Rotary CEF Scholarship winners!! We have invited the winners and families to be our dinner guests at an upcoming meeting and they can tell us about their future plans. They will receive the first of their two payments of $500 each. Five awards will be made this year.
At our last meeting on May 31st, Craig Chapman and John Brunelli were our guest speakers. They came to us from New Englanders Helping Our Veterans, a group that is devoted to all veterans in need regardless of their time in service or deployment status.
For our ongoing Book Box project, we coordinated with the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Middleboro and again enlisted the help of Middleboro High School Innovation Coordinator Tony Chiuppi and several of his students to build and install a box at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in downtown Middleboro.
Rotary Club of Middleboro Community Yard Sale, 10am to 2pm Sunday, May 21 on the Middleboro Town Hall lawn. This was our second Community Yard Sale. We were grateful to have had nice weather for the event, and are planning another Community Yard Sale later in the year. This is always a great opportunity to clean out your attic, garage, shed or whatever and make a few extra bucks! Watch this space for details once we have the next one scheduled.
Rotary Day of Service, May 20th from 10am to 2pm - The Rotary Club of Middleboro helped the Town of Middleborough prepare for their event to honor our Hometown Heroes by hanging Patriot Banners downtown.
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