Danvers Rotary Bulletin
June 18th, 2018
President Bill welcomed 13 Rotarians today and a invocation was read by Don Desmond. We had Sheriff Brad Hunt on duty.
Today’s meeting was a special gathering, knowing this was President Dr. Bills last day with the gavel. The meeting had a good attendance and delicious food. Great way to start the summer with hot dogs, burgers, soup and assorted salads.
Today’s Rotary Moment was brought to us from President Elect, Jacqulyn Shambaugh. Being a part of the District Installation Dinner was her special moment.
Reminders:
Future President Shambaugh Installation dinner will be on June 26th at Pellanas
- June 26 - We will induct Jacqulyn Shambaugh as our President for 2018-19 along with her slate of officers and directors.Invitations are out, contact Jackie to rsvp by June 16, with your dinner choice;,Tuesday June 26, Pellana Restaurant 530-830. Filet, Roast Chicken, Salmon, cash bar, wonderful setting and dining, $50 pp. jshambaugh@altoforno.com
- The chess tables planned for the library patio are waiting for the DPW and Peabody Institute to get their timing together but is progressing.
Updates:
- June 13 - The Farmers’ Market opened. Great start with returning and new vendors. Bring your friends, relatives and your $$ to future gatherings. Thank you to everyone for getting the signs out promoting the market. First week had a great turnout.
- Sunset Cruise went well. Great crowd and lots of fun was reported.
- June 28th – Concert at the Rotary Pavilion
- This week at the Farmers Market the DHS singers will be performing
Committee Reports:
- Secretary’s Report – Gary Nangle updated us. We were at 52% attendance throughout the year. Looking for a President Elect. There is also an open BOD seat.
- Treasurers Report – Dan Dougherty - we have $500K in our endowment. Reminded us that our Centennial celebration is also coming up.
- Community Service – Becky Killborn – Neal Waldman reported that the Chess Tables will be installed soon at the library.
- Membership – Jacqulyn Shambaugh updated us on perspective members. We have 4 people that are interested in joining. Looking forward to an increase in September.
- Foundation Report – Gary Nangle reported the following
- We have reached 88% of our Annual Program Funds Goals of $3525
- #of club members 37 active, 20 contributing, 54% contributing
- We have a number of Paul Harris Follows in our club. Passed out a sheet identifying those who have achieved this great level.
- Farmers Market – Matthew Schroeder.
- 19 Vendors, 36 applicants, July 11 will have backyard growers, $20 per vendor, we offer sponsorships and additional sponsorships will be available
- Fundraising – Don Desmond updated us on wiffleball, and a number of other fundraising events that took place this year. All very successful
- Scholarships – Mary Beth O’Connell
- $6500 was given out at the DHS Scholarship Night
- $1000 Joe DeLorenzo Scholarship
- $1500 Ralph Ardiff Scholarship
- $4000 Mark Regan Scholarship
- $6500 was given out at the DHS Scholarship Night
President Bill thanks everyone for all their hard work and successes.
Attendance Awards handed out by President Dr. Bill
- Marybeth O’Connell
- Don Desmond
- Jacqueline Shambaugh
- Tom Standring = Note 52 YEARS of PA
- Gary Nangle
- Lenny Mercier
CARDS – Annelie Serios and Tom Standring were our lucky Loosers today
Sheriff Bradley Hunt collected $136, among the highlights;
$50 Gary – Great Fathers Day and Raffle
$20 Bill – Baseball Champs/ son had 14 Strike Outs. 2 shy of a no hitter
$5 MaryBeth – Bills last meeting
$5 Kids Bop Concert with family for fathers day
$5 Annelie – Bills last meeting
$5 Jacqueline – 1 more Board meeting for Bill
$5 Dan D – Great US Open
$3 Alden – Red Sox
$5 Larry – Heat Wave
$5 Neal – Nothing!
$3 Tom – Nothing Special
$5 Brad – 1st Fathers Day
Submitted by John Somes
Becky shared a Rotary Moment, when she went to Endicott Park and watched the Essex Tech Students plant our 40 apple trees in the new Rotary Sponsored Apple Orchard. The trees were 4 feet high and included 5 varieties of apples. This represented our 40 Rotary members, one tree for each member. The Essex Tech teens will help maintain the orchard as part of their studies. Salem news will be doing a story on the project. 
Becky introduced Debbie Gilmore and Kathy Gauthier from the Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds. The topic this week was a new program "Property Fraud Watch Service" that is now offered to our District. While there has not been a major issue with fraud in our area to date, it is becoming a big issue in larger cities and the Registrar feels it is only time before fraud becomes common place. With filings being done electronically it is easier for this to take place since you don't physically have to sign paperwork. Presently most issues of fraud are family related. This new service can be signed up for online and Deb and Kathy encouraged everyone to periodically check the paperwork on their properties. When you sign up for the service you will be notified by email anytime that any paperwork is submitted at the Registry of Deeds. This was you will know if anyone files anything related to your property. Another thing they were recommending for each of us was to take advantage of the Homestead Act and that when any changes are made to the deed of a property a new Homestead must be files. Example of this is when a property is put into a family trust, as many of us are taking advantage of. It was very obvious that our Salem Registry of Deeds office is all about Customer Service and the Registrar wants his staff to be as helpful as possible. Kathy and Debbie are making the effort to meet every Rotary Club and will be working to meet other clubs and groups throughout the Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds. Great speakers this week. 
This week's speaker was Christopher Sanborn, who happens to be the Danvers Harbor Master and the Director of Natural Resources at Endicott Park. Today's talk was about Endicott Park and the 165 acres of recreational land available to the community as a great resource. Also at Endicott Park is the Danvers Historical Society's Endicott Estate that sits on 11 acres. There are over 200,000 visits to Endicott Park a year. The Dog Park is a local favorite and the Nature Center is the newest addition/program. As President Bill's major project this year, Rotary and the Community, with the help of students from the Arbor Department of Essex Technical High School, will restore and plant an Apple Orchard at the park. Bill's plan is to plant an apple tree for each Rotarian in the club (40 trees). The partnership with the High Schoolers in the Arbor program will be a great one since they can help to plant, maintain and oversee the orchard for years to come. Chris Wood who heads up the Arbor Department at Essex Tech was with us this week, mentioning that he was excited to be part of the project and that it will be a great opportunity for his students to maintain the orchard as part of their program. It is estimated that in as little as three years the trees till develop fruit. There will also be a picnic area near the orchard and care will be taken to keep it safe from any spraying and maintenance of the trees. Bill thanked Rotarian John Zannino for his knowing and introduction for Mr. Sanborn and Mr. Wood. This program will be another great connection our club has with the Town. Even got President Bill in the picture.
Matt introduced Deborah Burkholder from IC Transitions, who is a HR Stratagist. Her business is new to the Danvers Community and is located at the Staples Work Bar. The purpose of IC Transitions is to work with and help individuals who find themselves unemployed for an extended amount of time, helping them tackle tough challenges. Even with unemployment numbers at record low levels in Massachusetts there are a number of people, especially in their older years that find themselves without work for a variety of reasons and with their are factor it is hard to find work that matches their talent. Most businesses are hiring younger individuals as they can pay them less. For the older available employee to accept a position that pays 1/2 of what they were used to making, it is difficult to start over. Many spend years trying to locate the right job, which opens a new category of unemployment, extended unemployment. Today most Americans can't cover a $400 emergency bill from any savings, as they live week to week. This program was launched in Danvers to help those with this issue and help them find meaningful work. Working from the Work Bar is great as there are 180 professionals, all types of businesses with a variety of talents. Presently they raise funds for their office space and everyone volunteers in the group, helping to coach what used to be for ages 45 and up and now is also working with those younger. They are looking to fund the growth of their business.
Here Deborah is clearly telling a Work Bar story about President Bill.
Dee Rielly and a fellow volunteer from St. Vincent DePaul visited with us this week to thank our club for stepping up to help when they did not know where to turn. Dee remembered a conversation she had had with Matt Schroeder when she and fellow workers were panicking, just as the holidays were approaching for the winter break. Two homeless families, living in local hotels were going to be without gifts for their children, one having 4 children with one still believing in Santa Cullen on the roof. Knowing that helping these families with food was never an issue, but she had no avenue to secure toys and such for the children. Remembering her conversation with Matt, she called him, just hoping that he could help or give her suggestions. As we all know Matt and how he works, he told Dee that he would take care of it with the club resources and he did just that. The had their holiday with the belief of Santa in tack and these two families were taken care of in a manner that our club is know for. Thank you Matt for all you do for Rotary and all you do for the community. I, for one, am proud to have you as a friend and fellow Rotarian.
Annelie Sirois did her classification talk this week and what a great talk it was. She was born and raised in Sweden, leaving home at 19 to come to America as an Au Pair, for a family in Salem. Having 12 siblings, she explained how things are quite different in Sweden. High School ends earlier than in America, with most finishing their education around 18 years of age. Once you move out, you are out and on your own, where we are used to having our kids leave, come back, leave and come back, until around 25 or 30 when they can be out and on their own. I guess being the second oldest, Annelie must have been used to taking care of kids. This Rotarian is a single mom with three children 11, 16 and 18. She has a lot of energy and is a hard worker. She owns McClair Real Estate in Danvers and was sponsored by President Bill. With three employees she loves selling homes, loves to renovate them as part of the program. When asked how often she sees her family in Sweden, she said that she has tried to bring her kids their a couple of times and recently went by herself a couple of years ago as her mom was ill. Things in Sweden are much slower with family home away from the busy area. She was educated to be a Preschool Teacher. Loves the Realty work and home renovations that people need someone to manage. There were many questions and it was so interesting to hear about her life. Bill reported that she is a remarkable present wrapper as well. Great job Annelie and it is wonderful to have you in the club. 
With a little help from Danversport, President Bill announced the winner of the Cruise. Chris Culkeen, ticket sold by Jacki wins the cruise. While we all wanted to win, at least most of us knew the winner. 
One of our newest members, John Zannino took the challenge and took part in Rotary's Polar Plunge last weekend. If you want to support his efforts you can go on the District Web Site and make a contribution to the plunge. May thanks John for your jumping in to represent our fine club with this effort. The picture is from a previous meeting but John is the young good looking one in the middle. Sorry Tom and Bill, but he did take the plunge........
Annelie Sirois stepped in this week as a new Sheriff in Town. She did a great job collecting a total of $83.00 from everyone for their variety of reasons. Annelie is one of our newer members and she found that it is a great way to get to meet all the members by checking out their name tags or asking a members name who forgot to wear their badge. With most donating for the New England Patriots, others donated for the speakers, the weather, snow, vacations and even for the new Sheriff. Great job Annelie and thanks for stepping up.
Gary Nangle carefully pinned Past President Mary Beth with a new pin for attaining her Paul Harris Plus One level with Rotary International's Foundation. Individuals are awarded a Paul Harris award for contributing One Thousand Dollars to the Rotary International Foundation. The Thousand Dollars can be paid, pledged over time, showing support for the International Foundation. Many Danvers Rotarians pledge to donate One Hundred Dollars each year. This adds up quick towards attaining this award. Our Danvers Club has it's own Endowment Trust that is used to support many of the projects we support. Danvers Rotarians are encouraged to support both our Danvers Rotary Endowment along with the Rotary International Foundation. As a side note, everyone should know that 1/2 of the money donated to the International Foundation comes back to the district after a few years, to be used for local projects. We have been able to utilize these funds for some of our Danvers projects. Gary represents us on the Foundation Committee. Great job Mary Beth and we are happy that Gary did not stab you with the Paul Harris pin. Gary, sorry I need to get some better pictures of you.
Ridab was a joy to share conversations with at lunch this week. She traded banners with President Bill and shared discussions with all of us at the table. She has been in the Jordan Club for some time and prior to her time there she had been President of the Shanghai Club. Why is she here you might ask? She has a brother and sister in Salem and Peabody that she is visiting thru the month of December. Have to say that she is a remarkable Rotarian and well versed in Service Above Self. Their big fundraiser is a Grand Dance Social where they raise all sorts of money. 
Richard Keithahn and Chelsea Rosato were inducted into our club this week. With Tom Standring away, Neal stepped up and did a great job welcoming them into the club with true excitement. Rick is a Manager at the Danvers Citizens Bank, located at the Stop and Shop. Chelsea is a DS Consultant. We will learn more about these two when they do their classification talk in the near future. So when you come to the next meeting give these two new Danvers Rotarians a warm welcome.
Are you ready cruise??? Well Cruise Raffle Chair, Don Desmond is looking forward to one of the 400 available tickets to win this Nine Thousand Dollar Cruise. This cruise of a lifetime is going to a lucky winner on February 12th, at our luncheon meeting. Tickets are $50.00 each with no more than 400 being sold. So you are not comfortable around the water? Winner can take $6,000 in cash and fly to Bermuda instead. Either way there will be a winner and it could be you. Don was passing out tickets at the meeting and would like to see every Rotarian sell their share of the tickets. They would make a great holiday gift for that special person that will ask you to go with them. This year's cruise will be in a two bedroom family suite, featuring a large tub and balcony for seven days. There are so many extras that go with this package. I am attaching a copy of the handout that includes all the information to share with your friends, loved ones and others. SELL, SELL, SELL!!!
I know, not the best picture of Gary. I will have to make that up to him later. This week Gary gave an overview of his recent Rotoplast Mission that he attended in the Philippines. He talked about how important this work is and the joy he received from seeing how it changed so many lives. The cost of the mission was $90,000 to run the mission at the Miller Hospital. Every volunteer had a special job that they had to do to make the system work. All volunteers were treated with great respect as they were giving of their special time to help others around the world. Families were so appreciative. Some were sadly turned away since they were too old or not prepared for the surgery. Others that could not be helped during this mission will be placed on the list for the next mission. The group of volunteers from our district joined a large group from the California area to make it happen. With no air-conditioning and weather in the 90s and humid, there were no complaints about the conditions since they were there to help. Gary recommends any Rotarian to go on one of these experiences to get a real taste of what Rotary does around the world.
Yes, it is that time of year when our Danvers Rotary Club gives every third grader in Danvers, a dictionary that they can keep for their own. If you payed close attention over the past few weeks we have been having College Students, Adults, and High School students talk about receiving their dictionaries and what they have meant to them over the year. As you can see in the picture to the right, all the children/people are not 3rd graders from St. Mary's Elementary School. The Friends Forever youth came and helped distribute the books and helped teaching the students the many things that a dictionary can help with. How it is more than just words and their definitions, but also held great information like sign language, information on counties and the individual states in the United States. Also there is the largest work in the our language with 1909 letters. That will be our secret word this next week. It was a great experience for the children to have the Irish youth attending, giving them a chance to ask questions about Ireland and how things differ there. The Irish youth were a couple of minutes late, since they had to get up, clean up and get dressed in the dark, travel around all the downed trees and make it to St. Mary's School for the event. They really were not late as there had been a smoke detector that went off, which brought the Fire Department to the school. A real life Fire Drill for the students. Have to say they did a great job getting everyone out in case there was a real fire or emergency. All and all a fun, exciting time with the 3rd graders.
We changed it up a bit this week as the students from the school had to get back early for educational commitments at Essex Tech. Lisa Berube and Marissa at senior staff from the school that reviewed the set up of the school that included an explanation of how students from all over the state are allowed to apply for entrance into the school with most of the actual students attending, represent the many towns in our North Shore area. There are 1,400 students attending in the 24 different programs. To give an idea of how many young adults seek this great education, for the 350 Freshman seats over 1,200 applied. This shows the importance of vocational and agricultural education and how important and lucky we are to have it right in our community. The two students Amy and Meghan, both seniors, spoke of how proud and lucky they are to have been able to have this education and how challenging it is. Staff member, Lisa, works the Co-Op department, placing the students in working jobs in the state, in their local communities. There are four new programs that are going to be offered, but the faculty were sworn to secrecy until the formal announcement is made about their areas. Students are given the opportunity to compete in their area's of expertise. Larry Raimondi has a grand child that is graduating from this school and echoed the quality of education that the kids are receiving there. Some of the students have taken part in RYLA, Rotary's Youth Leadership program, held at Camp Rotary in Boxford. Neal Waldman asked if they would be interested in having a Rotary Interact club, for the students to take part in. The Interact club is a Rotary Club for High School Students to take part in, giving them a great taste of community service and leadership. They seemed excited about the opportunity and President Bill will follow up with them. 
Steve Bartha addressed our club as our speaker but not only as our speaker. Steve is an honorary Danvers Rotarian. He started talking about how Bill asked him to speak and a good topic was his topic from a recent presentation about Danvers and how underappreciated the roll of recreation plays in the community. Standing a bit stiff, Steve joked about a recent injury he had from playing Pickle Ball. Last spring the town conducted a survey to help plan the future of the community. Information was compiled from 400 personal calls and 350 online responses. After evaluating the survey results it was shown that there is a 95% satisfaction. Statistics have shown that in the next 10 years Danvers will see an increase of 15 to 20% students being educated in our Public School System. Danvers has a vast amount of Open Space Recreational Facilities; Endicott Park, Rail Trail, LeBelle's Grove, Dog Park and a number of other parks as some of these spaces, along with the harbor, beach, Science and Nature Center, afterschool and summer programs. Danvers offers reasonable utilities and has a balanced mix of residential and business properties. Put it all together and Danvers is a much sought out community to live, work and bring up a family. Comprehensive planning, such as the Maple Street Industrial Rezoning would help with the lack of residential space. Questions about the Traffic Downtown, Water restrictions and public transportation was discussed. There is a need to increase storage of water during the wet seasons. While hard to permit before, the hope is that future storage ponds, etc. will be a possibility. Georgia Wilson from Danvers Town Hall was a guest of Karen Nelson.
