Events

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Reserve your commemorative flag now, this event sold out quickly last year.  

Reservations will remain open until all the flags are sold.  

Theme is Spring Soirée, meal provided by Ray Morley – Beef Stew, salad, roll, cupcakes for dessert. 

Zoom session will start at 7:30 am, by invitation

Insoo Hyun is the Director of Research Ethics at the Harvard Medical School.  His topic will be research ethics in biotechnology.

There will be no Zoom option for this meeting. 

This morning's speaker will be Eric Magers, Executive Director of Seaside Sustainability.

 Zoom session will start at 7:30 am, by invitation

Buffet style meal by Vinwood Caterers, $65 per person

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Hosted by District Governor Elect Alexander Falk.

No meeting in consideration of the 4th of July holiday

Tonights meeting will feature a presentation on Dutch Oven Cooking by Cindy Quinn

 There will be no Zoom option for this meeting. 

Jennifer Williams of Ora Inc. will provide an introduction to the organization, talk about their plans for being part of the greater Cape Ann community including community outreach efforts, and how Ora can come together around vision impairment and curing eye disease. 

Speaker will be David McKechnie of Beauport Financial. David will be speaking about his project in Rwanda. Please read below for more information.

The hybrid Zoom session will begin at 7:30, by invitation only.   

About The Project:

About 10 years ago, David and his wife Elaine were invited to join their friend, Larry Rybka to go to Boneza Rwanda for the first time. At the time, there was no running water in the community of 28,000, they had just gotten electricity and had very little resources. When they were there, they met John Gasangwa. John told them; he had a dream of building a school on the hill. From there, their journey began. They purchased the land and began to fund wells for water. Once coming back home, David and Elaine began to get their local rotary clubs of Gloucester and Rockport involved. Over the years to come, they built a vocational school- Kivu Hills academy, a kitchen, put in 2 wells for clean water, and their most recent project was funding a generator that powers the school when electricity goes out.

The current project they are working on is a medical center. This is a project lead by Barb Culver; a retired Valmark Member and financial advisor from Cincinnati Ohio. In 2016, she was asked to go to Rwanda by Cheryl Rybka and that trip forever changed her life. When there, she asked the Rwanda Ministries translator, Sharon Montuni, what she felt was most needed and her answer was health care. The people of Boneza Rwanda did not even have medical supplies as simple as a band aid. Once the medical center is finished, it will serve over 5 million people in both Rwanda and Congo. It will offer dental services, gynecology services, and pediatric services. The hope is that as time goes on, more services will be added. The medical center will be called the Kivu Hills Medical Center. 

About David: 

David S. McKechnie is a Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Beauport Financial Services. With over 35 years of experience. He provides comprehensive investment, estate, and retirement planning with a focus on risk management. Outside of his professional occupation, David is involved in many professional associations and philanthropies. These include being a member of the Essex County Estate Planning Council, a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (Boston Chapter), a director on the Board of the North Shore YMCA, the Capital Campaign chair for the Cape Ann YMCA, Chairman of Advisory Board for the Essex County Community Foundation, a past board chairman for Shriners Burns Hospital for Children and actively involved volunteer of a U.S. nonprofit, Arise Rwanda that is based in Boneza Rwanda.

David earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Vermont in Economics. He then attended The American College and earned his title of Chartered Life Underwriter. David grew up in Gloucester MA and currently resides there with his wife, Elaine. They share 35 years of marriage. On his free time, David likes to spend time with his wife and two sons- Connor and Ryan, travel, and is an avid golfer.

Our morning speaker will be Carl Jappe, who will talk about his travels and wildlife photography.  

The hybrid Zoom session will bgin at 7:30, by invitation only.  

Kayla Mayo and Jen Perry of The Open Door will be today's guest speakers. Their presentation will be held over Zoom. 

Newly installed District Governor Alexander Falk will visit our club and will be our speaker.  Alexander is a Past President of the Marblehead Rotary Club, and also is President and CEO of Altova, Inc.

Zoom session of this meeting will begin at 7:30 am

potluck/BYOB

Open to All Members

Open to all Members

Hybrid meeting will start at 7:30 am.

Locaton to be announced.

Open to all Members

Open to all Members

By Invitaton only

Open to all Members, limited to 50 attendees. The event will be in the dining room (first floor) and will be catered by American BBQ. 

Business meeting at Appleton Farms

Judith Black will be presenting, "The Stories of Our Lives." Storytelling has thrived for thousands of years because the tales reveal ourselves to us.  Today, nationally renown storyteller, and Rotarian, Judith Black, will regale you with a hysterical story about parental learning curve and more.  Judith is the winner of storytellings most coveted, Oracle  Award.

www.storiesalive.com

TBC

No morning meeting in consideration of Friday's Masquerade Ball

Details to be determined. 

https://www.endpolio.org/world-polio-day

The annual Fall Foundation Heroes event is being rebranded as the "Robert C. Wood Memorial Heroes Celebration" in memory of the late PDG Bob Wood.

Stay tuned for more details...