Dr. Mary O'Neill, the Career Experience Coordinator at Housatonic Valley Regional High School (HVRHS) was the Guest Speaker at the 3/26 Salisbury Rotary Club, held at Geer Village.  The topic was Rotary Interact Clubs and the possibilities to reinstate our club at the high school.We have been trying to establish an Interact Club for some time now.  She was accompanied by the Assistant Principle at HVRHS as well as two students.  There were 600+ students when the SRC’s Interact Club was active, vs 300+ now.  Students’ time is spread pretty thin now given all they are doing but there is interest in doing community service.  Further discussions to be had.

Pat Wright was the Salisbury Rotary Club’s 3/12 luncheon speaker at Noble Horizons, informing the group about Chore Services, the NW Corner’s leading resource for non-medical services for seniors and disabled residents for stay-at-home services.  Chore Service is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and 100% of its funding and donations support its mission to help senior and disabled residents within the community remain safely and independently at home.  FMI: https://www.choreservice.org/

 

Salisbury Rotary Club, one of 59 clubs in District 7890, was visited by District Governor Kate Simms at today’s weekly club luncheon held at Noble Horizons.  Introduced by club  VP, Randy Chappell, she spoke about her goals, programs and hopes for clubs in our District.

Lynn Martorell Gumbert was the 10/30 luncheon speaker for the Salisbury Rotary Club, held at Noble Horizons.  Lynn was a 2008 recipient of the Club’s Back-to-School Scholarship for which she expressed her appreciation noting it allowed her to become an esthetician (facials, manicures, pedicures, etc.), 37 years after graduating from high school!  More recently, she has become a certified End of Life Doula and counsels individuals, families and friends dealing with end of life issues and questions.  She referred to the surge in the elder population as the “Silver Tsunami.”

Salisbury Rotary Club welcomed Past District Governor Eileen Rau who spoke and had a slide presentation on giving to the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.  Gifts to the Foundation result in funding projects around the world to improve health, support education and alleviate poverty and for approved grants and programs to clubs  in our District 7890.  FMI:
www.rotary.org/give

A combined dinner meeting of the Salisbury Rotary Club & Canaan Exchange Club, held at Geer Village on September 18, was the occasion to hear about the United Way of Northwest CT’s current annual campaign to raise $775K to benefit 26 not-for-profit orgs serving the communities of CT’s NW Corner.  SRC President Pat Gallaway (L) and Exchange President Terry Dougherty (R) hosted the gathering that heard from UW staff, including executive director, Owen Quinn.