Merrimack Valley Hospice House

Thursday's speaker will be Joan Stygles Hull, President and CEO of the Home Health Foundation Family of Agencies which includes Home Health VNA, HomeCare, Inc. and Merrimack Valley Hospice. The three agencies serve over 80 communities in Southern New Hampshire and the Merrimack Valley. Joan will speak to us about her organization's campaign for a Merrimack Valley Hospice House. It will be located in Haverhill on a 39 acre parcel of land off North Avenue near Plaistow. The estimated cost of the project is $8.5 million. You may learn more about the Home Health Foundation from their web site.

March 18, 2008

This is our most important fund raiser of the year and everyone's support is needed. Items are requested to be delivered by May 2nd. Download a PDF copy of the auction form or you may pick one up at Thursday's meeting.

Penacook Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center honored the George C. Wadleigh Foundation and the Griffin-White Foundation with the 2008 Outstanding Service to Seniors Award at its fourth annual awards dinner and silent auction last Saturday evening at The Haverhill Country Club. Pictured above are Haverhill Rotarians from left Julian Rich President/CEO of Penacook Place, Kick Fallon, Bill Klueber, Cindy Ryan, David Thomas, Bonnie Michaleas, Jonathan Miller, Bill Barron, and Bernie Clohisy. Also in attendance were Tim Coco, Darlene Beal, Joan Hull, Frank Novak, Linda Sundell, and Chuck Traver.

Jim Rogers - Owner of Clean Machine Car Wash located in Ward Hill
Proposed by Dale Rogers

Keep up with what's happening in Rotary District 7930.
You may download a copy of the February/March Newsletter or visit the web site:http://www.rotary7930.org

Julian Rich spoke to us about Cleveland's Rock and Roll hall of fame. Check out their web site at http://www.rockhall.com/

March 20 - Joan Stygles Hull, President and CEO of the Home Health Foundation
March 27 - Coleen Sullivan, the Haverhill Sports Foundation
April 10 - Charlene Bauer and Juan Gallegos, Chelsea Rotary's Columbian Medical Facility
May 8 - Masaru Komura, Ambassadorial Scholar from Japan, studying at the JFK School of Govt., Harvard University Project.
We are looking for a club member willing to pick Masaru up in Cambridge the morning of May 8th and a club member to return him after the meeting.
June 5 - Reverend Paul H. Dionne, Atkinson Congregational Church
See John Cuneo if you have an interesting speaker for our meetings.