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Friday, June 07, 2019
Welcome to the
Rotary Club of Portland, Maine!
Portland Rotary
Service Above Self
We meet Fridays at 12:15 PM
The Clarion Hotel
1230 Congress Street
Portland, ME  04102
United States of America
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Portland Rotary
will meet
Friday, June 07, 2019
at the Clarion Hotel
1230 Congress Street, Portland
Earle Leavitt's Celebration of Life


Long-time member Earle Leavitt passed away this past March 12th. A celebration of Earle's life will be held at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland on Saturday, June 8th at 1:00PM, followed by a gathering for friends and family at 125 Vaughan Street, Portland.

*06/07/19 Heather Davis, Learning Works
Heather Davis joined the LearningWorks team in September 2016. Prior to LearningWorks, she was the executive director of The Telling Room, a community writing center in Portland, for five years. Heather earned a BA from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, where she studied philosophy, literature, and the history of math and science. She earned an MA from Goddard College, where she designed an individualized program that combined coursework on youth development, arts education, and creative writing with a practicum as a writing teacher at TRUCE, the Harlem Children’s Zone’s after school arts and education program. Heather relocated to Portland, Maine in 2008 from Austin, TX, where she co-founded a youth writing center called Austin Bat Cave and served as the senior grant writer for Creative Action, a nonprofit arts education organization.
 
She is a member of the Institute for Civic Leadership’s Upsilon class, where alongside peers from the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, she studied a facilitative leadership model designed to foster deep collaboration in the workplace. Her professional accomplishments have been recognized by a St. John’s College Award of Merit, which is given to outstanding alumni in recognition of their achievements within their chosen field; the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which presented a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program award to Young Writers & Leaders, a literary arts program for refugee and immigrant youth that she designed and launched at The Telling Room; and the 2018 Metamorphosis Visionary Leader Award.
 
She is a 2019 Maine Network Partners Fellow. Heather lives in Portland with her husband Matt and two children.
 
05/31/19 Deb Nelson, Author - Finding Health After Cancer
Deb Nelson is an integrative nutrition life coach consultant and author. On Friday, she presented the experiences of the many inspirational people who have beaten or are managing cancer successfully with the help of proper nutrition and lifestyle changes. Ms. Nelson captured their stories in a book that she authored.
 
Her book, Finding Health After Cancer, had the beginnings in the Yarmouth Rotary Club where she met a friend and they would often go on walks to together. They trained and competed in many of the various hikes and races to help raise funds for cancer fighting agencies. While reading a book about sports training and nutrition, she came across a statement in stating that cancer has a hard time living in an alkaline environment. This statement peaked her interest on the topic, and partly led to her career choice.  She started doing research on nutrition and its relationship to cancer, and she came across many stories whereby people are helping to manage or beat their cancer with lifestyle changes and by eating specific diets, which coincidentally may have an effect on raising the pH in the body towards alkaline.

She believes there are many paths to health when one receives a cancer diagnosis and like a young child might do, she recommends asking questions about it until you really understand what it is you are being told.   
 
Ms. Nelson shared many different stories including those from the owner of Scratch Bakery, a nurse, a doctor and a journalist. One of the cancer survivors recommended to her that people get a dog. Dogs may take your mind off the cancer, they require exercise from their humans, and they often are a reason for stress reduction.

For more information, visit bewellcg.com  or contact Ms. Nelson at: deb@bewellcg.com

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Photo L-R: President John Curran, Deb Nelson and PP Bob Traill.)
 
05/31/19 Bits & Pieces
Every Rotary meeting has a familiar format, but each is wonderfully unique. President John called us to order to leave adequate time to fit in the multitude of recognitions we so appropriately announce. Our invocations have been refashioned to become moments of inspiration, the intent and meaning are unchanged. Dave Small (photo at left) proved that point with words of introspection from Mother Teresa, which were attuned to our ‘Four-Way Test.’ Mother Teresa asked “that we be kind, be honest, be happy and do good any way because in the end its between you and God.”
President John called upon PP Laura Young to lead us in the singing of the National Anthem.  We sounded as fine as ever and the meaning was felt by all. How appropriate that our Pledge to the Flag was led by PP Bob Traill.

Our guest list was light in numbers, but weighty in terms of personality. Our one true guest will likely be a new member soon. Several snow birds were welcomed back: Meredith Small and PP Don Lowry, along with the return of our Savannah friend and summer guest of distinction, Kirk Duffy.

President John noted that Rotarians are always doing noteworthy deeds. Recently Justin Lamontagne (photo at right) was called to visit Congress in Washington, DC and testify on behalf of the Maine Commercial Realtors Association. His accomplishment of carrying the message for the Association was prominently noted in the local press.

The many generous deeds and gifts from the Portland Rotary Club are of significance within the community and given from the heart without expectations. We heard from the Betsy Ann Ross House, who attend to the ever-growing needs of homeless female veterans, thanking us for our donation to their cause. We also got thanks from the University of Southern Maine for our gift to the school's outreach program to assist recent émigrés to the state.

Another organization who was a recipient of our Veterans' gifting, was the K9 Service Project -member Mike Robinson presented Dustin Carson of the K9 Corp with a check from our Club. (photo at left L-R: Dustin Carson and Mike Robinson).
 

PP Jim Willey (photo at right) informed us that a number of our Club’s volunteers met with the kids in the Cedar Unit at Long Creek and gave them a service project to do…..planting seedling plants for Memorial Day and were fed some wholesome Burger King food that they loved.

PP Dick Hall (photo at left) reminded us that the Foundation is an integral part of Rotary and asked us to give and/or become sustaining members. If you have made a pledge, including ‘Circles of Five,’ please be sure to get your check in before the close of the Rotary year on 6/30/19!

President John reminded us that RotaryFest (District 7780 Conference) being held on June 22nd is soon coming and our Club meeting on Friday, June 21 is being supplanted with a club service day at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth to help with the clean up and set up for the event. Please come with your work clothes, rakes and shovels and get into some good old-fashioned Maine hospitality.

(Photo at right L-R: Member Jan Chapman, Kate Gardoqui, Andrea Levinsky, and Naulissa Tuza.)
 
Our Club’s efforts to assist newcomers to our country, who move into Maine, has been well received. Proving that we put our money where our mouths and hearts are, we gave 2 scholarships to APHS students to attend the Racial Equity Institute. Kate Gardoqui, Senior Associate from Portland High School and teacher Andrea Levinsky, along with one of the students, Naulissa Tuza, told us about the program and how important it was to them.

The weekly raffle was conducted by PP Loretta Rowe and the speaker drew Erik Greven’s name to give him a chance to find the Queen of Hearts. Much to the delight of everyone else who had hopes of having their own name drawn, Erik found the Ace of Clubs, allowing the “pot” to continue to grow.
 
June Birthdays & Rotary Anniversaries

NOTABLE DATES FOR MEMBERS IN JUNE
Member Birthdays
   5th - George Crockett
   7th - Peter Goffin
 13th - Laura Young
 15th - Rusty Atwood
 19th - Roger Asch
 21st - Paul Gore
 21st - Ralph Hendrix
 21st - Tom Ranello
22nd - Alex St. Hilaire
24th - Justin Lamontagne

    
Date-Joined-Rotary Anniversaries
   2 years - Doreen Rockstrom
   3 years - Chris Thomas
   5 years - Erik Greven
   8 years - Julie L'Heureux
 24 years - Roger Asch
 25 years - Larry Gross
 27 years - Roger Fagan
 29 years - Bob Clark
 32 years - Tom Talbott
 36 years - Charlie Whittier
                  

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

RotaryFest 2019

Registration for RotaryFest 2019 is open! 

To register, go to https://rotary7780.org/event/district-conference-1/. As you hopefully know by now, this is Governor John LoBosco's one-day, FREE, District Conference to be held on June 22nd at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth. Even though it will cost you nothing, we need to know if you will attend so we know how much free food to plan for and how many children will be there for the many activities we have planned for them. We do have an alternate location lined up in the unlikely case of bad weather.

So please, register early and we look forward to seeing you at what will be a distinctive and very fun District Conference.
 

Volunteer Opportunities

Following is a list of our Club's volunteer projects. If you know of other opportunities, please contact Loretta: lrowe@maine.rr.com

 
Project
When
Who to Contact
Preble Street
Resource Center
Soup Kitchen
4th Wednesday ea month
3:30-6:30 pm
Contact Gracie Johnston
Game Night
Long Creek
Youth Center
 
3rd Tuesday ea month
Mike Fortunato
michaelk.fortunato@gmail.com
or Jim Willey
This Week's Duty Assignments
Invocation:  Gracie Johnston
Program Reporter:  Bob Martin
Bits & Pieces Reporter:  Dick Hall
Registration/Greeter:  Jan Chapman
Sell Meal Tickets:  David Clough
Raffle:  Jerry Angier

Collect Meal Tickets:  Dick Giles
Sgt-at-Arms:  Matt Tassey
Rotary Meeting Locations

If you would like to mark your calendars,
we are scheduled at the following locations
through
August 2019:

2019
Jun   7 - The Clarion
Jun 14 - The Clarion
Jun 21 - Fort Williams, Club Service Day
Jun 28 - The Clarion

Jul 05 - NO MEETING - Observance Independence Day
Jul 12 - The Clarion
Jul 19 - The Clarion
Jul 26 - The Clarion

Aug 02 - The Clarion
Aug 09 - HADLOCK FIELD - Sea Dogs
Aug 16 - The Clarion
Aug 23 - The Clarion
Aug 30 - 
NO MEETING - Observance Labor Day

Blue BOLD dates are scheduled Board meeting days.

Any questions, please contact Loretta at: lrowe@maine.rr.com
 

Ongoing Item Donations Needed
The following items are needed on an on-going basis. Please feel free to bring them to a meeting where we will collect and distribute them to the appropriate projects.
 
Crutches4Africa - Crutches, canes, folding walkers and wheelchairs to be shipped to Africa. Contact: Roger Fagan, drrogerfagan@gmail.com
 
Toiletries for the Shelters - Collect those tiny bottles of toiletries you are paying for during your next hotel visit and bring them home for members of our society who find themselves staying at a shelter and in need of personal hygiene products.