Boothbay Harbor Rotary

	Album Name	Date	Description
	Rotary Auction 2010	Aug 7, 2010	This year we debuted a separate Tool Shed as well as a book collection. These, a growing Silent Auction and tried-and-true Big Auction, Boutique and Flea Market, coupled with fabulous sunshine and good fellowship under the leadership of chair Jim Botti, led to a remarkably successful (and exhausting!) weekend.	View

	Rotary - Lions Golf Tournament	Jun 5, 2010	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?	View

	Rebuilding Together	May 15, 2010	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.	View

	Soup Bowl Supper	Mar 25, 2010	For the past 14 years, our club has joined with the Watershed Center for the Arts in creating a sell-out community event. Watershed and Rotary artists make the bowls, and under the able leadership of Jim Botti, Rotarians and local restauranteurs prepare soups, chowders, chilis, plus salad, rolls and desserts. Then we all dig in -- and go home with a full belly and our very own pottery bowl!	View

	Chamber After-Hours, 2010	Mar 17, 2010	We opened our doors to a Chamber of Commerce After-Hours on St. Patrick's Day in 2010. We moved back the tables, brought in appetizers, wine and beer, and sprinkled with blarney and good cheer. Laura worked her magic; Viv played Irish music on the piano, and we celebrated in style.	View

	Basketball Tourney	Mar 13, 2010	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.	View

	Winteract family fun festival	Jan 9, 2010	Interact, our high school affiliate, raises money for the causes they care most about. For the past two years they have put on "Winteract," a winter family fun festival,with all the proceeds going to the local fuel assistance fund. We toboggan, snow-shoe, enjoy Deb's famous chili and Adam's burgers, and indoor games when the air gets a bit too chill.	View

	Winter Dance	Dec 12, 2009	For the past two years we've organized a December winter dance. We request corporate sponsors, turn the American Legion hall into a winter wonderland, dance to the sounds of the Big Chiefs band, enjoy great appetizers and cameraderie, and all the proceeds benefit the home heating oil fund!	View

	Veterans Recognition Night	Nov 11, 2009	Each year we honor our vets, active duty personnel, Gold Star honorees as well as families of currently deployed troops with a special recognition dinner. We thank them for their service, and they thank us for inviting them to dinner. We began this tradition in 2006, and already it has out-grown the Clubhouse!	View

	Friends Forever	Nov 1, 2009	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.	View

	Hometown Heroes 2009	Sep 17, 2009	Hometown Heroes is our club's response to 9/11: We invite all our local First Responders -- police, fire, EMT, communications and Coast Guard -- plus their families for an indoor picnic of burgers and dogs. In 2009 our own Christin and Chelsie were among the special awardees, because they each responded with quick thinking and rapid action in a time of crisis.	View

	Lobster Bake 2009	Sep 10, 2009	It wouldn't be the end of summer without a club lobster bake, and this year 60 Boothbay Harbor Rotarians and family members met for cheer and crustaceans at the Southport Yacht Club. The evening was hosted by Cy and Sandra Seifert, and enlivened by good fellowship and fun.	View

	Rotary Auction 2009	Aug 1, 2009	Our Auction has grown into a lot more than an auction: The Silent Auction has joined the Boutique and Flea Market as critical to success, and the entire weekend is a full-participation, feel-good time for neighbors, friends, and oh, yes, Rotarians. Also this year, the Interact Club did a great job at the Food Concession! All the hard work, the prep, and the 100% club participation paid off with fabulous receipts in a recessionary season!	View

	Changeover 2009	Jun 25, 2009	Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Clubs once again held a joint Changeover event at the Botanical Gardens. Amid a great turnout and fabulous weather, the "gavel was passed" (and so was the wine and beer). Governor-elect Jeff Pelkey joined in, and we marked a successful year finished, a new year about to begin.	View

	Home Town Heroes	Sep 11, 2008	“What if a disaster happened here and we hadn’t said thank you to those we lost?” Hometown Heroes is our club’s annual opportunity to fete our fire, police, communications, Coast Guard and other first responders and thank them for the job they do every day to protect us and help keep our Region a great place to live. Here’s some of the festivities at Spruce Point Inn from 2005 to 2008.	View

	Lobster Bake 2008	Sep 4, 2008	It's a long established tradition that end of summer at the Boothbay Harbor Rotary club means a lobster bake, and in recent years it's taken place on the Isle of Springs, hosted by Mike and Lynn Thompson. Mike starts the fire early in the afternoon, Daren Graves lends his boat to help transport the crowd, and everyone turns out for a glorious evening and lots of good eats. Here’s some of the action from 2008.	View

	Rotary Auction 2008	Aug 2, 2008	Are we getting smarter, or what? This year Annette and Jim Stormont pulled together a Silent Auction, which reaped major $$$. And we “outsourced” Gaterade and water sales to the Interact Club, and refreshments to the East Boothbay Methodist Church. Summer Rotarians, Rotarian spouses and kids all pitched in, and a great time – and good fundraiser – was enjoyed by all.	View

	Changeover 2008	Jun 26, 2008	It’s getting to be a tradition – the Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Clubs meet at the end of June at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens for a picnic celebration and to hand the gavel to the incoming president. In 2008, the club celebrated a great year just past with outgoing president Skip Kreahling, and looked forward to even more good things to come with incoming president Andy Hamblett.	View

	Group Study Exchange to the Philippines	Feb 1, 2008	Group Study Exchange is a Rotary program that offers young professionals a month-long opportunity to experience another country. In 2008 the District's team included both leader Marty Helman and two team members from our Region. They traveled to the Philippines, and then the Philippine Rotarians reciprocated by sending a team to visit us here.	View

	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.	View

	Gulf Coast Rebuilding	Oct 26, 2007	Three club members joined Rebuilding Together's "Rebuild 1000" in 2007 and traveled to Gulfport, Mississippi, to help rebuild after Katrina. They worked on one of six houses that over 100 volunteers painted, plastered, puttied and made move-in ready. Earlier, Rotarian Marty Helman volunteered in a New Orleans suburb, and came back to raise money to rebuild a soup kitchen in Slidell, Louisiana.	View

	Rotary Auction 2007	Aug 3, 2007	The weather gods were benevolent, the community was generous, and the bidders were enthusiastic at the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club’s 50th annual Charity Auction and Flea Market on Saturday, August 4. The result was record receipts, which in turn will result in record giving to our Boothbay Region over the next months. Check out the action and all the fun on a hot, hot weekend in 2007.	View

	Changeover 2007	Jun 28, 2007	The brand-new Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens was the bucolic setting for our annual “changeover” event in June 2007. We shared the evening with family members and our neighbors from the Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Club, as well as both incoming and outgoing District Governors. Outgoing president Marty Helman (who looks very relaxed in these pictures) “passed the gavel” to incoming president Skip Kreahling (who looks exceedingly tense).	View

	Rotary Auction 2006	Nov 12, 2006	Our Club's biggest fundraiser -- and FUN raiser -- each year is the Auction and Flea Market, which takes place the first Saturday on August on Boothbay Common. But the Auction itself is just one day -- preparations take place all year long, as we receive calls from donors to haul their collectibles away, and as we price it and prepare it for sale and generally turn "trash" into "treasure."	View

	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?	View

	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.	View


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