An attendance record of 50 percent is required to remain an active Rotarian. Any missed meeting must be made up within 14 days before or after the regular meeting. To accommodate busy schedules, there are various opportunities to make up missed meetings.

Monday 12:15 PM
Danversport Yacht Club
Monday 12:15 PM
Exeter Country Club
Tuesday 12:15 PM
Glenn's Galley
Tuesday 12:15 PM
Caffe Paradiso in Lowell
Wednesday 12:15 PM
Angelica's Restaurant in Middleton
Thursday 7:30 AM
Cochichewick Lodge in North Andover
Thursday 12:15 PM
Redhook Ale Brewery in Portsmouth
Friday 7:30 AM
Rockingham Park, Belmont Room in Salem NH
Friday 7:30 AM
Lanam Club in Andover
Friday 12:15 PM
Sweetheart Inn in Methuen

President: Ira Korinow
President Elect: Julian Rich
Vice President: Sheryl Meehan
Secretary: Bonnie Michaleas
Treasurer: Bill Klueber
Director: Frank Novak
Director: Steven Goddu
Director: Charles Marvin
Past President: John Cuneo
Assistant Treasurer: Charlene Laprel
Assistant Treasurer: Chuck Traver
Sergeant at Arms: Buddy Baker
Assistant Sergeant at Arms:
Charlie Boule
Song Leader: Fred Battistini
Assistant Song Leader: Megan Shea
Pianist: Chandler Noyes
Assistant Pianist: Jim Vanderpol
Greeter: Dick Emerson
Assistant Greeter: Greg DiBurro
Webmaster: Tim Coco
Nairator Newsletter: Steven Goddu
Photographer: Michel vanRavestyn
Assistant Photographer: Bernie Clohisy
Community Meals: Bernie Clohisy
Youth Exchange: Mary Gale

Duck Race - Sell, Sell, Sell!

Thanks to everyone who signed up on the volunteer sheets this past Thursday at lunch. It's a great start. We need more volunteers in all areas but most especially for race day itself, the 12th, and for selling at an upcoming Fisher Cats game or two. Bonnie and Vince indicated a couple of games they might be able to do. I'll bring the game schedule Thursday, as well as what each of them said they might be able to do. Maybe you can match up with them and catch part of a Fisher Cats game, too.

If you haven't already, please use the link in last week's Nairator that we provided to put web banners on your company / organization / agency web site home page to help publicize the duck race. http://www.haverhillrotary.com/banners. Banners will help to direct potential donors to adopt ducks online at AdoptaDuckToday.com. A neat thing about the banners if you incorporate the code as Tim requests: the message can be updated centrally, so that all banners on all the sites can be changed in one step, for example, to say "ONLY ONE MORE WEEK TO ADOPT A DUCK!"

Sheryl and I met with representatives from WXRV - "The River" - 92.5 FM. They will have their mobile van broadcasting from the Yacht Club the morning of the race, hopefully timed to help announce the winner, as well as featuring it in PSA's in the next couple of weeks, and in a one minute interview to play during Friday morning "drive time." They will also feature the info in an email blast to over 10,000 recipients in the next few weeks.

Please keep SELLING personally and thinking of ways to get out more adoption papers. For example, Darlene just asked for 500 to go out in a mailing HCTV has going out soon. Have a great relationship with a pizza or Chinese take-out place? Ask them if they will tape or insert an adoption paper to each order. Let me know jcuneo@communityactioninc.org and I'll get you as many as you need.

Finally, we are running into a problem with availability of the duck containment booms. Are you a Navy or Coast Guard veteran or do you have a connection with the Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection? We need access to one or more of these organizations in New England. While there is a back-up plan, our first preference is to secure donated booms ( 250 feet would be ideal ). Please email me immediately at the above email address if you have a lead. Thanks!

President's Message

Dear Rotarians,

Thank you to Julian Rich who filled in for me last Thursday while Gail and I took a few days away for a little R&R. Don't forget to share with Julian ideas for a speaker. He is all set through most of September but welcomes your ideas along the way.

As you know, Haverhill Rotary is one of over a dozen organizations in Haverhill that support Community Meals which provides hot meals for many individuals and families in Haverhill who find it difficult, if not impossible, to do so on their own. We are part of the rotation of organizations to sponsor the weekly Monday late afternoon dinner at the Citizens' Center on Welcome Street. When it comes to our turn, our responsibility is to supply both desserts and the man and woman power to help serve the meals. It is for that reason that when asked to provide and deliver a dessert that we cooperate by doing so and it is for that reason that it is important to volunteer to be present and to help serve. If you find yourself not in Haverhill that day and thus not able to provide a dessert, it is important that you find someone not on the list to provide one instead of you. If you are unable to do that, then you should let Terry Beaton know or drop me an e-mail and I'll inform Terry.

Ergo, I would like to recognize those Rotarians who either were present at yesterday's Community Meals or who provided a dessert: Bill Adams, Darlene Beal, Paul Bertholdt, Phil Brown, Joe Cleary, Bernie Clohisy, John Cuneo, Diane Franz, John Hamel, Bill Klueber, Don Laing, Jonathan Miller and Richard Sundell. Also present were two Haverhill High School Rotary Interact Club members.

Those who were present were also the recipients of great reward for volunteering to be there. Most of those who eat at Community Meals express their gratitude to the community for providing the dinner. There really is no greater reward than to have someone say, "thank you" with a smile as they pass through the line.

When our turn comes around again, why not give a little time to experience one of the finest and rewarding moments that a Haverhill Rotarian can experience!

Rotarily yours,

Ira Korinow