Welcome to the Rotary Club of Middleboro

Community Service ... Our Rotary Club of Middleboro engages in it in many ways all year long.  Most recently it was in the clean up & beautification of the John F. Glass memorial island that we adopted.

We added seasonal touches last fall -- cornstalks & pumpkins - and followed that up with a large snowman for the winter.  So this Spring week on May 1st we gathered there as a group, tools in hand and with many flowers and plenty of mulch and set to work

Special thanks to Heather, a nearby neighbor, who also brought plants and her helping hands. And, since it takes a Village, special thanks also to the couple walking by who stopped to inquire of our efforts and then offered their assistance and pitched right in!   That's what it's all about!!

We hope to have more Middleboro citizens join us for our next round coming soon. Check us out here and on Facebook, or just Ask Quack!!!

This week, in lieu of our regular meeting on Wednesday April 3rd, we will be attending a fundraising event for the Lane family of Middleboro.

The Networking Group USA and the Cranberry Country Chamber are hosting a fund-raiser to benefit the family of fire victim Jasmine Lane at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 at Loon Pond Lodge, 28 Precinct St., Lakeville.

 

Monetary donations of any amount will be accepted. Those donating $1,000 or more will be recognized at the event and on social media.

 

Tickets are $25 at the door. The event features live music, cash bar, food, raffles and a silent auction.

 

All costs are covered, so all proceeds will benefit the family.

 

For more information, contact brendon@cstonefinancial.com or pdziura@cranberrycountry.org

IT'S HERE!!!  The Rotary Club of Middleboro 35th Annual Auction is LIVE!!  Online bidding started on February 26th at 10am EST and will continue up to the live broadcast on March 10th...

 

Here is a link to our auction website:  https://new.biddingowl.com/middlebororotary.  We are in the process of adding items so there's not much there now, but there will be more in the coming weeks!

 

On January 10th we had the pleasure of meeting Missy Garlisi as our guest speaker.  Missy Garlisi is the Membership Chair for District 7950.  She is also a successful real estate agent and instructor for Keller Williams. Her late dad was a long time Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow.  Missy earned a Paul Harris in 2009 and again in 2022.  She has served on the district membership committee since 2017 and has chaired it since 2020—the Covid year which was a real challenge.
Missy brought us some good points about what motivates people to join Rotary... 

On Thursday, July 20th, the Rotary Club of Middleboro helped to sponsor this year's Family Day held at Conway House in Middleboro.

 

Conway House is a local homeless shelter for women and children offering advocacy, counseling by referral, a community kitchen, some clothing, medical care nearby, a day program and transportation.  They are located at 14 East Grove Street in Middleboro.  This year's Family Day was well attended, and they were able to provide bags of clothes, toys and other items for the children thanks to generous donations form the community.

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.

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.

 

In 2013 the Middleboro Rotary club partnered with Middleboro Public Schools to create an innovative tutoring program called Rotary Rays which serves students in grades 4 and 5 at both the Mary K Goode and Henry B Burkland Elementary Schools.  Participating students and their parents enter into a contract where the students agree to attend all sessions and work at home an additional hour per week with their parents, and the parents agree to make sure their child attends the sessions and does the homework.  Over the years students who have participated in the program have made dramatic gains in their performance on MCAS.