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Rotary Club of Bedford March 12, 2013

Meeting Location: Bedford Glen Double-Tree Hotel Location:

Peter Colgan President 44 Middlesex Turnpike Robert Cassidy Pres. Elect Bedford, MA 01730 Victor Tom Pres. Elect Time: Margarita- Tuesday; 12:15 PM Kaliviotis Pres. Elect Melinda Nicholson Secretary Joel Berenson Treasurer

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Calendar: March 26 Suzanne Kellner-Zinck will be demonstrating the benefits of hypnosis April 2 no program yet April 6 Pay it Forward launch party April 9 Richard Simon from the Nashoba Valley Rotary Club will outline his club’s dental clinic in the Dominican Republic April 12 Concord Pops April 16 Club Assembly April 23 Cory Waite will share his experience with as a member of the Bedford Interact Club April 25 Pay it Forward day celebration and 10,000 meals event April 30 Kris Ansin will present a program on the Mali Health Project for Women

Rotary Moment: President Pete was searching for his Rotary moment this week. His thoughts were rambling back and forth wondering just who was on board with our Pay it Forward project when he received a picture from Christine showing her girls in the middle school. Low and behold in the background of the picture was a blackboard and on the blackboard was, you guessed it, “Pay it Forward” right out there for everyone to see. That was a great moment!

RYLA: We have our interviews scheduled for late March in plenty of time to select our students and get the completed paperwork in to the District. Kevin pointed out if a Rotarians child is qualified, and wants to attend, and assuming the interview goes well, they should be guaranteed a slot. We currently are budgeted for 7 students, 3 returning Rylans as facilitators, and one returning Rylan as a group leader.

Concord Pops: The Concord Rotary club is again sponsoring a Pops night with the Concord Band. It is Friday April 12th and the cost is $25 per ticket. Bob Cassidy has the tickets. The Concord band concerts are always terrific and always have guest soloists and surprises making for a most enjoyable evenings entertainment. If you and your family are interested please contact Bob and he will take care of the rest.

New Members: Our Rotary club is rebuilding. Under the strong leadership of Christine (last year) and Peter (this year) our club has mushroomed from 21 in Jan 2012 to 35 in March 2013. membership committee is doing something very very right! Today we inducted two more new members into our club. Mike Sullivan, who is the Regional Manager for Stop Hunger Now, and Debie Malone currently working as a Realtor at Re/Max in Chelmsford. Both bring with them dynamic resumes and a long list of accomplishments and are showing no signs of slowing down. Get to know them as they join with us to make Bedford, and our World a better place to live. Program: Chaz Weyer and Peter Jepson were with us today from Engineers Without Borders. A group of volunteers who develop and supervise construction of projects to help people around the world who need help. Thus far their organization has completed or are working on over 350 projects in 45 developing countries.

Today they talked to us about water projects they are currently working on in two different towns ( Mkutani and Mapinduzi) in Tanzania. The area is bone dry 8 months out of the year and the only source of water is a muddy stream which flows by the towns. People, domestic, and wild animals alike all share the same stream. Chaz’s short term project is to capture rain water off the medical clinic roofs in a cistern which they are building out of local brick and mortar. When done it will provide the cleanest water they have ever had. In the future they hope to dig a well 100 meters into the ground where there is abundant water but that is still a ways away.

The local people are very grateful for all that is being done for them but are falling short at doing the maintenance needed on the various improvements resulting in the work quickly deteriorating. To combat that Engineers without Boarders makes the local residents raise all the funds needed for materials and construction with the hope that will act as in incentive for the local villagers to keep the facility improvements in good working order.

Happy Dollars: Bill won the door prize  and Art gave the 50/50 draw his best shot, but unfortunately was just as unsuccessful as the rest of us. Sigh  Cliff was happy he has another pair of new sneakers from New Balance (something about his daughter working there---hmmm), Christine was happy to be seeing “once upon a mattress,” Linda was happy to have her daughter and her daughter’s fiancée in town for the weekend, somehow through all that her two grandchildren now have British accents?, Joel was sad the Bedford boys hockey team lost in the regional finals but was very happy for the excellent hockey they played all season, Diane was just happy and wore her traditional million dollar smile, Andy was happy to see the temperature steadily climbing (I do not think he likes winter; what do you think?), Britton was all hyped up about shorts and flip flops (do I sense a vacation?), Natt was thinking how great it was to be a Rotarian and passed around some photos of the group that traveled to Newport RI to see the Polo matches last year he would like to see us do more of that this year, Pete was real happy Ralph’s wife Jean is a graphics artist and did our Pay it Forward posters. The Four Way Let’s Make Up! Test Chelmsford 12:15 p.m. Radison Hotel; Acton-Boxborough 12:15 p.m. Holiday Inn, 1. Is it the Maynard 6:15 p.m. Payton’s River’s Edge; Boxborough; Restaurant; N. Reading 12:15 Hillview TRUTH? Reading 12:15 p.m. Peter Sanborn Place; Country Club; Waltham 12:15 p.m. The Chateau 2. Is it FAIR to all Lexington 12:15 p.m. Waxy O’Connors Restaurant; Wilmington 12:15 p.m. concerned? 3. Will it build Clinton 12:15 p.m. The old Timers Restaurant; Ayer 6:30 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant; Brookline 12:00 GOODWILL Hudson 6:00 p.m. Hudson Portuguese Club; Holiday Inn; Burlington 7:30 a.m. Bickfords; Concord and BETTER Wellesley 6:30 p.m. Wellesley Community 12:15 p.m. Colonial Inn; Marlboro 12:15 p.m. Coral FRIENDSHIPS Center; Woburn 12:15 Holiday Inn Select Hotel; Seafood; Westford 12:15 p.m. Westford Grille; ? Billerica 7:30 a.m. Billerica Marriott Courtyard Nashoba Valley 7:15 a.m. Great Brook Farm 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL Locations verified 12/6/10 Burlington 12:15 p.m. American Legion Hall; Littleton to all 7:30 a.m. Ken’s Cafe concerned?

PAST PRESIDENTS 1956‐57 Glenn Sims 1975‐76 Ed Moore 1994‐95 Ralph M. Hammond 1957‐58 E. Gottschalk 1976‐77 Winston Bridge 1995‐96 Holly A. Chaney 1958‐59 Ron Davis 1977‐78 “Syke” Bumann 1996‐97 Milan W. Jackson 1959‐60 John Bowen 1978‐79 Matt Tomassian 1997‐98 Gregory S. Symko 1960‐61 George Doherty 1979‐80 Peter Kilmartin 1998‐99 Florence A. Rossi 1961‐62 Frank Hennessey 1980‐81 Lawrence Carlton 1999‐00 Robert M. Kennedy 1962‐63 Robert Mead 1981‐82 Paul C. Dick 2000‐01 Heidi A. Pusatere 1963‐64 Clifford Hughes 1982‐83 David Valdina 2001‐02 David R. Hannum 1964‐65 Fred Olson 1983‐84 Jack Wilson 2002‐03 Joel Berenson 1965‐66 J. Clive Enos 1984‐85 Peter Corea 2003‐04 William Waite 1966‐67 Nathaniel Brown 1985‐86 Robert A. Cassidy 2004‐05 Meg Packenham 1967‐68 Donald Drew 1986‐87 Ottfried Weisz 2005‐06 Susanna Natti 1968‐69 Joseph Bruno 1987‐88 Kenneth W. Luther 2006‐07 Terrence Parker 1969‐70 Ralph Collins 1988‐89 John B. Debaun 2007‐08 Lea Ann Knight 1970‐71 John Whalen 1989‐90 Kenneth R. Walcott 2008‐09 Virginia Clerkin 1971‐72 George Benson 1990‐91 David J. Rossi 2009‐10 Victor Tom 1972‐73 Maurice Nolan 1991‐92 James W. Harrill 2010‐11 Cliff Rober 1973‐74 Pat Sciaraffa 1992‐93 Peter Light 2011-12 Christine Pinney 1974‐75 Ed Moore 1993‐94 Norma A. Barton