Boothbay Harbor Rotary

	Album Name	Date	Description
	Tropical Heat Wave	Jan 28, 2012	Our fourth annual dance to raise money for the home heating oil fund was a Carmen Miranda inspired evening at the Botanical Gardens with great food, dancing, fellowship, and even a limbo contest!

	International Service Opportunities	Nov 23, 2011	Rotary makes it easy for its members to travel internationally to help people in need around the world. This album shows what some of our club members have been up to in the fall of 2011.

	Veterans Appreciation Night, 2011	Nov 10, 2011	Our Veterans Appreciation Night happened to fall on the Marine Corps birthday, which led to a celebration of all the services' birthdays, and an amazing number of birthday cakes. Check out the action.

	Friends Forever	Oct 27, 2011	Friends Forever is a joint project of Rotary and the YMCA that each year brings 10 teens from Northern Ireland -- both Protestants and Catholics -- together for several weeks in our area and teaches them that they have more in common than they think. Our Rotary Club has both sponsored and hosted the Irish teens for many years.

	Hometown Heroes	Sep 15, 2011	Hometown Heroes is our club's response to 9/11: We invite all our local First Responders -- police, fire, EMT, communications, Coast Guard regulars and reserves, and Red Cross -- plus their families for an indoor picnic of burgers and dogs. The venue is the American Legion Hall and the feeling is tremendous.

	New England Patriots Alumni Game	Aug 20, 2011	We invite New England Patriots Alumni to town for a flag football game against our local Hometown Heroes (Chief Bob Hasch, quarterback), preceded by a football clinic for the kids. Everyone has a great time, plus the money raised goes to the Hometown Heroes fund as well as other local charities.

	Rotary Auction 2011	Aug 6, 2011	The 54th annual Charity Auction was a terrific event. In the last five years, we've added the Boutique, the Silent Auction, and the Tool Shed, plus the Interact's Food Concession, to the traditional Big Auction and Flea Market. This year saw the addition of the 50/50.

	Changeover Cruise 2011	Jun 30, 2011	All hands on deck! We celebrated our Changeover on a beautiful Maine evening on board the Harbor Princess. The festivities included welcoming two new members and the event was catered by our own Laura Francis.

	Rotary - Lions Golf Tournament	Jun 5, 2011	It's always fun when Rotary and Lions get together for our almost-annual joint golf tournament, and when Brenda Blackman chairs the event, we know it will be a success. It's also remarkable how much money Bill Bailey can make just selling mulligans and dispensing philosophy, and who knew that Vic Taylor was born to be an auctioneer?

	Rebuilding Together	May 13, 2011	Rebuilding Together is an opportunity for neighbors to help neighbors who need an extra hand doing maintenance in their home or yard. One weekend a year, we come together to paint, scrape, roof, thwack and hammer and generally help out our neighbors who may be too elderly or physically unable to keep up with the maintenance on their homes.

	Soup Bowl Supper 2011	Mar 31, 2011	For 15 years, our Rotary Club has partnered with Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts on this dinner. And for 15 years, participants have enjoyed a feast of soup, chowders and chili, donated by local restaurants and gourmands, plus salad and desserts, and gone home with a one-of-a-kind hand-crafted soup bowl.

	Basketball Tourney	Mar 4, 2011	Every year since before women's sports have been fashionable, we've cohosted a junior-high mid-coast basketball tourney. While the boys play in the gym at the Y, we staff the girls' tourney at Boothbay Region Elementary School. That means staffing the door, the refreshment stand, and working as timekeepers.

	Safe Passage/Camino Seguro	Feb 1, 2008	Our Rotary Club has a multiyear commitment to Safe Passage/Camino Seguro, a program that makes it possible for 550 children whose parents are pickers on the Guatemala City dump to go to school. We have organized several Rotary Foundation grants to support the program, and we've also helped build a community garden and sports field. Most important, we've donated our time and energies to the kids.

	Looking Back at Lobster Bakes	Sep 1, 2005	The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club has celebrated the end of summer with a lobster bake for as long as even Ken Honey can remember. In years’ past the event was held at Howie Friant’s place on Boston Island, and if these photos are to be believed, the day was a stag affair more often than not. Take a trip down memory lane with these photos, which date back to the early ‘80s. Recognize anyone’s younger self?

	Looking back at Rotary Auctions	Aug 1, 2005	In 1957, the club voted to take over Lobster Time, previously a project of the PTA. That year, the price for a lobster was set at $1.50, and the fundraiser netted $895. Then the club expanded the event to include an auction starring Brud Pierce as auctioneer, and eventually the lobsters were superseded by the more lucrative sale of donated stuff. Here's some of the photos from the Clubhouse archives.


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