May 30 2019 Meeting of West Bay Rotary

30 May 2019

 

Buckets on the Table: Camden Public Library

 

Speaker: Tom Peaco, Classification Talk

 

A previous Camden member, Tom is a Mainer from New Gloucester. Tom was an Eagle Scout in his teens and attended Syracuse University for 2 years then moved to Maine and graduated from University of Maine in 1988. Tom worked for the Boy Scout council in Portland and was married in 1994. He left Maine for a spell and moved back to become the director of Make a Wish director for 18 years. He has 3 children. Tom was President of Camden Rotary in 2009-2010. In 2011, Tom changed careers (since Make a Wish moved to Portland) moving to PenBay Chamber Director and has been there ever since. Tom also serves on the Rockland/Thomaston school board, a little league coach, and an umpire for high school/middle school baseball. Tom just received the Chamber Executive of the Year award. Tom has offered to be our West Bay Tree Sales chair!

 

Ella Pierce: Semester in South America, a traveling school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ella is an Interact Student and will be president of Interact this fall. She attended a semester in South America where the students lived with 5 teachers and 18 students 24/7, an all female group. No classroom settings but stayed in hostels and treks. They experienced a lot of cultural and governmental differences and participated in community service projects (building a fence, cleared a ditch on side of road, roadside trash pickups, working on a farm to harvest corn). The students trekked many miles lasting 3-6 days. A wonderful experience!

 

Committees:

 

Brunch this Sunday, 0900 at Jan and George’s Home!

 

Annual Dinner, June 27 at Samoset, $35 per person, please pay before the event!

 

Jazz in June parking and ticket sales, Saturday 11-3pm, June 15….SHOULD be warmer parking and sales weather!

 

Next weekend, Public Landing in Camden work, signup sheet will be passed.

 

June 22, July 27, August 17 Habitat for Humanity opportunities.

 

Collected all the ducks (we think). The project netted $12000! Online sales were great, over $1800.