Club Service One, Avenue Chair: Mark Ford

This avenue of service deals with the membership, recruitment, orientations, and inductions. The committees are:

1) Rotary Ambassadors

a. Recruitment of new members

b. Orientation of new members

c. Plan and implement the induction ceremonies

d. Track and notify Rotarians of absences

e. Plan and implement an Anniversary Card program celebrating club member’s anniversary dates.

f. Award a rotarian with the 4 avenues of service award

Names: Names:

1)Candace Sanborn	5)John Butera
2)Nancy Gallagher
3)Chuck Karter
4)Allyson Karter

2) Fellowship Events: Plan club fellowship events

a. Determine different groups we’d like to invite to our meetings

(Examples would be a spouse day or a child day, or co- worker day).

b. plan at least one event with our sister club, St Nicolas

c. Establish a plan to capture Augusta’s bell for the fellowship of the bells.

d. Work with the committees of ways and means to find invite the college, high school and other rotary clubs for a fellowship event

e. Plan an outing suitable for the families of our club

Names:

1)Sue Giguere	wecare@gwi.net	5)
2)John Fortier		6)
3)Scott Bullock
4Tom Martin

3) Bi-Laws review: Review our bi-laws and revise for the future

a. Determine a process for review

b. Determine the process for change

c. Keep the club and board informed

d. Distribute a completed copy to each rotation

Names:

1)Dave Whittier	5)Mike Roy
2)Cathy Langlais	6)Wayne Theriault
3)Mert Rowe	7)
4)Bill Arnold	8)

Club Service Two, Avenue Chair Tom Davis

Works to plan and implement an efficient and interesting meeting

1) Invocation

a. Have an invocation ready for each meeting to be read by a committee member

b. Plan a schedule for rotation

Names:

1)Alice Anderman	ddave@gwi.net	5)Wayne Theriault
2)David Anderman	ddave@gwi.net	6)Marc Pitman
3)Butch Merritt	Butchm@gwi.net
4)Tom McCowan	tmccowan@verizon.net

2) Music

a. Plan an appropriate song for each meeting

b. Arrange for a piano player

c. Try a couple of new songs that require more participation

d. Sing happy birthday at least monthly to honor the monthly birthdays.

Names:

1)Flo Vashon	Flo@flovashon.com
2)Susan Latimer
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3) Rotary Information

a. Plan a quick rotary minute to be read by a committee member each week

b. Produce a schedule or rotation for the minute

c. Utilize the RI website during the presentation

d. Produce a quarterly newsletter

e. Publisize rotary’s role in the effort to eradicate polio

Names:

1)Candace Sanborn		Rose Blanchette
2)Seth Sherwood	ssherwood@banknorth.com	Mike Roy
3)Glenn Leavitt
4)Joe Jabar

4) Programs

a Plan informative and interesting programs that are tasteful

b Plan the programs around the monthly theme

c Plan 3 new member inductions with the Ambassadors committee, and three PHF meetings with the Foundation Committee

d Schedule four club assemblies, one per quarter and the last meeting of the yr

Names: email address Names: email address

1)Allyson Karter		5)Lousie Smith
2) Mary Derosier		6)Sarah Sugden
3)Steve Kelleher	Kelleher@adelphia.net	7)Jim Julia
4)Cynthia Corbin	ccorbin@wabi.tv	8)

Community Service Avenue, Avenue Chair, Wally Buschmann

Work with the local community on local projects, both labor and funding

1 Centennial Trail Committee:

a. Continue the work of the trail project

b. Work to have more Rotarians involved

c. Plan a rotary meeting around the trail with the program committee

d. Work with KMT on planning the next step for our trail

Names:

1)Elery Keene	Tom McCowan	Mike Satow
2)Lisa Simm	Boyd Snowden	Sheryl Millard
3)Dave Whittier (Chair)	Doug Legg
4)Tim Beals	Keith Cook

2 470 Steam engine restoration

a. work with the City Committee for guidance and support

b. attend the city meetings

c. Develop a goal for our club to complete in one year in conjunction with this project. It should include half the membership.

d. At the conclusion of the year, provide a wrap up and what needs to happen next

Names: Names:

1)Peter Lyford	5)
2)Elery Keene	6)
3)Ken Vlodek	7)
4)Louise Smith	8)

3 General Community Action: select a charity of the month to send a contribution from the service cups and fines.

a. from your seat, announce weekly the charity and how they are using the funds

b. review requests for other funding

c. determine camper ship funding channels

d. find a labor project

e. communicate who will be making the announcement

f. join together with another local service club to conduct a joint project that contribute through a hands on effort and planning

Names: email address Names: email address

1)Eric Haley	David Bernier
2)Erica Nardi	Bill Thompson
3)Mary Derosier
4)Ann Beverage

4) Tree planting: keep an inventory of trees to be planted at certain times and places.

a. plan an arbor day off site meeting with and plant a tree during the meeting

b. Manage the current inventory and location

c. re-stock the current inventory

d. plan and implement a flower garden in two locations

1)Butch Merritt

2)David Hallee

3)Pat Freidmann

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5 Salvation Army Bell Ringing: Works with the Salvation army as to date and times for bell ringing

f. Determine the days

g. Set the times

h. Communicate a schedule

i. Ensure participation

1)Roger Knauff	Glenn Leavitt
2)Keith Cook	Charlie Gaunce
3)Rose Blanchette	Ed Oliver
4)John Picchiotti

International Service Avenue: Avenue Chair, Kim Lindlof

This avenue plans and implements world community service projects.

1) International Service Project, Bob Jacobs

a. Find an international service project in support of water management issues

b. Use the foundation to apply for matching grants

c. Plan and implement the project

d. Complete necessary paperwork for the grants

e. Project to be completed at our year end

1)Bob Jacobs	5)Jerry Tipper	gtipper@somtel.com
2)Jim Nicholson	6)Sally Harwood
3)Tom Davis	7)Peter Garrett
4)Mike Satow	8)Boyd Snowden

2) Rotary Foundation: Looks to expand educate and award Rotary’s highest personal commitment of service above self.

a. Plan a program for the club around the foundation and their works

b. Induct 5 new Paul Harris Fellows from the club

c. Award 6 community PHF from the club

d. Develop a process to continually encourage new PHF

e)Develop a process that has each new member begin with a sustaining PHF

1)Karen Heck	Sheryl Milliard
2)Deb Achramowicz
3)Ken Viens
4)Reg Perry

3) World Service Committee: Looks for opportunities to support global needs

a. Similar to Community Service Committee, on an alternating monthly basis, review and determine where the money will be going from the Cups and fines

b. Work with the above committee to determine which month will for which project.

c. For that month, announce weekly where the money is going and what is being done with the money.