This Week's Speakers: LifeFlight Foundation Executive Director, Kate O’Halloran, and LifeFlight of Maine Chief Operating Officer, Bill Cyr
LifeFlight is Maine’s only air medical service and a nonprofit. They bring swift ICU level medical care directly to a patient, wherever they may be. LifeFlight of Maine is celebrating 25 years of safely transporting more than 35, 000 patients across Maine.
Bill Cyr became involved in EMS in high school and received his EMT certification at age 16. He knew he wanted to remain in transport medicine and nursing school was the path to that goal. He was hired by UMass LifeFlight in Worcester, and 10 years later joined Boston Medflight, worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming the Chief Operations Manager. In 2018 he moved to Denver, to help reorganize and expand the Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Neo/Peds transport program as the chief flight nurse/program director. He would be named as COO of LIfeFlight in May 2021. Cyr sits on the Board for the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association and has a master’s degree in healthcare management and informatics from the University of Massachusetts.
Kate O’Halloran grew up in Waterville, attended Brown University, earning a dual degree in economics and organizational behavior & management while playing varsity ice hockey. She earned her MBA from Babson, becoming the associate director of The Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and enrolled in a Ph.D program for educational leadership at Boston College. Returning to Maine in 2003, she served as the associate director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College, the director of major and planned gifts for MaineGeneral Health, and the director of Development and Alumni Connections at Carrabassett Valley Academy. She also spent three years as the vice president of the Rolfson Group, where she worked with clients across the nonprofit sector. Currently she serves as a corporator for Kennebec Savings Bank and on the Board of the Maine Association of Non-Profits. She was appointed the executive director of the LifeFlight Foundation in September 2020.
Community & Fellowship - From Locker to Salvage
by Tom Talbott
A cheerful crowd was on hand at our March social event at Salvage BBQ, fresh from volunteering at The Locker Project, filling bags with food and other items for those in need. At the social, we celebrated the birthday of Larry Gross, and toasted Patty Byers, a Paul Harris Fellow +8. Next month, April 20th, we'll repeat the process with another round at The Locker Project from 3:30-5p, before having some fun at another social -location TBD!
MUD SALE AUCTION UPDATE! BIG NEWS!
From Maine Mud to the Plains of Africa!
We have 18 donated items for our Mud Auction, including a great day of Casco Bay fishing with Jake Bourdeau. We need a lot more, so be looking around your house, garage, basement, for unique items you no longer use, but others might love. Deadline for donations - April 7th. Online auction April 8-15!
Now for the big news!Thanks to Portland Sunrise Satellite Club Member Art Howe, we will have two South African Photo Safari Tour packages based at Zulu Nyala Heritage Safari Lodge in Hluhluwe, South Africa, up for bid at the Mud Sale Auction! Click for Tour Website
Many details go with this, but here's the quick synopsis.
• The Safari for 2 is valued at $5950: 6 Days/6 Nights, with 2 Open Land Rover trips each day, lodging and 3 meals a day. It does not include airfare or transfers.
• The minimum bid is $3000.
• 45% of the gross bid goes to Portland Rotary, 50% to Zulu Nyala Reserve, and 5% to the Trout Unlimited Howham Fund (a 501c3), to conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. (The math = $3000 bid earns our club $1350)
• The highest bid over $3k gets the trip, and the second trip can be purchased for the same amount.
• The winner has 2 years to use the trip. If one person buys both to make it a family foursome, adults and children, fine. If we have two winners, they can travel on separate dates.
We have complete details, and will set up a path for you to view everything and answer all your questions. Art Howe has been on the trip, and will give us all the inside information on how great it is!
HOW TO SUBMIT an item for the auction. Please provide the following:
1. One good photo
2. Written description, including condition if used
3. Value - This is your best estimate on a fair market price. Research if
necessary to come up with the appropriate value.
4. Minimum bid - If you donate an item that comes with some expense to you
in money or time, the minimum bid assures a fair price is paid.
5. Fulfillment - Pick One
a. Small, manageable items -
Bring it to a club meeting, we will store it and deliver it to winner
b. Large, heavy, bulky item - you agree to deliver to winner
c. Large, heavy, bulky item - you request the winner pick up at your home
Email this information with the photo toDick Hall. Click his name!
Speaker Schedule
March 31 - Ron Joseph,Bald Eagles, Bear Cubs, and Hermits: Memoirs of a Wildlife Biologist
Club Executives President Bruce Jones President Elect Dick Hall Vice President Patty Byers TreasurerDick Hall Secretary Bruce Moore Board of Directors Ellen Niewoehner,
Bob Clark, John Thompson, Ben Millick,
Quinn Slayton Sergeant-At-ArmsJake Bourdeau
The Windjammer is published online by
The Rotary Club of Portland, Maine.
Contributing Editors Jake Bourdeau, Dick Hall,
Erik Jorgensen, Julie L’Heureux,
Ben Lowry, Zach Newell, Bruce Moore,
Tom Nickerson, Tom Talbott, Laura Young
Program Chair:Dave Putnam Managing Editor Tom Talbott
LifeFlight is Maine’s only air medical service and a nonprofit. They bring swift ICU level medical care directly to a patient, wherever they may be. LifeFlight of Maine is celebrating 25 years of safely transporting more than 35, 000 patients across Maine.
and nursing school was the path to that goal. He was hired by UMass LifeFlight in Worcester, and 10 years later joined Boston Medflight, worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming the Chief Operations Manager. In 2018 he moved to Denver, to help reorganize and expand the Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Neo/Peds transport program as the chief flight nurse/program director. He would be named as COO of LIfeFlight in May 2021. Cyr sits on the Board for the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association and has a master’s degree in healthcare management and informatics from the University of Massachusetts.
playing varsity ice hockey. She earned her MBA from Babson, becoming the associate director of The Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and enrolled in a Ph.D program for educational leadership at Boston College. Returning to Maine in 2003, she served as the associate director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College, the director of major and planned gifts for MaineGeneral Health, and the director of Development and Alumni Connections at Carrabassett Valley Academy. She also spent three years as the vice president of the Rolfson Group, where she worked with clients across the nonprofit sector. Currently she serves as a corporator for Kennebec Savings Bank and on the Board of the Maine Association of Non-Profits. She was appointed the executive director of the LifeFlight Foundation in September 2020.
A cheerful crowd was on hand at our March social event at Salvage BBQ, fresh from volunteering at The Locker Project, filling bags with food and other items for those in need. At the social, we celebrated the birthday of Larry Gross, and toasted Patty Byers, a Paul Harris Fellow +8. Next month, April 20th, we'll repeat the process with another round at The Locker Project from 3:30-5p, before having some fun at another social -location TBD! 
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