Colin Levin and Ray Brown to Perform at “Enchanted” 2011 Holiday Pops - Saturday, December 10 - Abbot Hall
It
will, indeed, be “the most wonderful time of the year” when
baritone Colin Levin and radio personality Ray Brown take the
stage with The Hillyer Festival Orchestra in a musical program
that sparkles with wonder and enchantment for this year’s
Holiday Pops on Saturday, December 10 at Abbot Hall in
Marblehead.
Levin’s rich baritone voice will fill Abbot Hall with the
grandeur of “O Holy Night” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas” as well as special selections from Rodgers and
Hammerstein.
For the children and the child-within-us-all, Ray Brown, whose
voice is well-known by classical radio listeners, will narrate
the iconic story, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” accompanied
by full orchestra.
Dirk Hillyer and The Hillyer Festival Orchestra will treat us to
lush arrangements of Victor Herbert’s “March of the Toys,” a
selection from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,” and holiday
classics and delights.
Those arriving when the doors open at 7 p.m. for the pre-concert
Dessert Reception will be greeted with caroling by The
Marblehead Veterans Middle School Select Chorus and The Ovations
directed by Robert Tirelli.
Maestro Hillyer will lift his baton at 8 p.m. and the concert
will begin.
During intermission, Bette Hunt’s signature Holiday Pops art, “A
View From Prospect Alley,” will be raffled off.
And during the second act of the concert, Ed Bell will auction
off the baton and the right to conduct The Hillyer Festival
Orchestra in “Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer.”
Levin has appeared as a soloist with the Caramoor Music
Festival, Opera New Jersey, Opera Boston, Winter Opera St.
Louis, St. Petersburg Opera (FL), the Sugarcreek Symphony and
Song (IL), Illinois Opera Theater, and the Brooklyn Academy of
Music.
Performed opera roles include Figaro in both Il Barbiere di
Siviglia and Le Nozze di Figaro, Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette,
Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, Sid in Albert Herring, Dandini in La
Cenerentola, The Forrester in Janacek's The Cunning Little
Vixen, Morales in Carmen, Mr. Lindquist in A Little Night Music,
Baron Douphol in La Traviata, Starveling in A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Tobias Mill in Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Top
(cover) in Copland's The Tenderland, and the cover to the title
role in Hindemith's Cardillac.
Concert appearances include the baritone soloist in Ein
Deutsches Requiem, the Faure Requiem, Vaughan-Williams' Dona
Nobis Pacem, the Mozart Requiem, and Messiah.
Levin earned a Bachelor of Music from The Oberlin Conservatory
of Music.
Brown
is a music host on WGBH’s 99.5 All Classical radio in Boston,
and the narrator for Simon & Schuster’s Pimsleur Language
Programs. He is also the creator and host of the Talkin’
Birds radio show, heard on eight stations around New England and
on podcasts via iTunes and Talkinbirds.com.
Among his broadcast achievements, Brown’s been a Top 5 national
finalist in
Air Personality of the Year competitions from Billboard Magazine
and the
National Association of Broadcasters; his “Back Seat Governor”
radio promotion
was featured in a Time Magazine photo story; he’s received a
National
Association of Auto Dealers “Chassie” Award for radio commercial
performance; and his novelty record “Get Preppy (the Preppy
Song)” was played on radio stations in major markets including
Boston, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Detroit.
As a commercial narrator, Ray has voiced presentations for
Colgate-Palmolive, Hasbro Toys, McDonald’s, and the U.S. Coast
Guard, and serves as a regular off-camera voice on Boston’s
WBZ-TV. He has performed on stage as narrator in live
performances with the Boston Pops, the Boston Classical
Orchestra, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, and the Boston Landmarks
Orchestra.
Ray’s other interests include kayaking, birdwatching, politics,
and football. He lives in Boston.
Two Major Holiday Pops “Happenings” on November 10
- The Reception to Honor Bette Hunt - Holiday Pops Artist - at Abbot Library
- Tickets for December 10 Holiday Pops Concert Go On Sale
Marblehead,
Mass. -- Thursday, November 10 is a big day for Holiday Pops
fans: concert tickets go on sale and a reception to honor 2011
Holiday Pops artist Bette Hunt and premiere her “A View of
Abbot Hall from Prospect Alley,” will be held from 5:30 to 7
p.m. at Abbot Library, 235 Pleasant Street in Marblehead.
The artist’s reception is free and open to the public and
includes light refreshments catered by Linda Bassett.
In addition, balcony tickets for $35 each, raffle tickets for
Hunt’s original art for $5 each or 3 for $10, giclee prints of
the art for $50 each, and notecards featuring Hunt’s art in
packets of 10 cards for $10 will all be available for sale at
the reception.
While most people know Bette Hunt best as Marblehead’s official town historian and the high-energy guide who conducts witty and wonderful walking tours of the downtown, Hunt is also a trained artist.
The one tradition of the Holiday Pops art is that it includes Abbot Hall, a subject Hunt knows extremely well. In fact, in the many years she has created original art for the holiday cards she and husband Jack send to their closest friends, Hunt says she has probably only twice ever featured anything other than the iconic town hall.
Hunt’s Holiday Pops painting is worked in pen-and-ink and watercolor, demonstrating her artist’s eye for fine detail and nuance.
The Holiday Pops signature art has become an important tradition in promoting the annual concert, now in its 14th year, benefiting the work of The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor and VNA Care Network and Hospice. As a side note, Hunt was a charter member of The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor.
Following the artist reception, the artwork will be on display at Arnould Gallery & Framery (November 11-19), National Grand Bank (November 21-25), Marblehead Bank (November 28-December 1) and Marblehead Historical Society & Museum (December 2-4), and The Sea Gull (December 5-9) in the weeks leading up to the concert.
Tickets go on sale November 10. Floor seats are $50 each and balcony seats are $35 each.
Tickets for balcony seats will be available in person in Marblehead at Arnould Gallery and Framery, 111 Washington Street; Marblehead Bank, 21 Atlantic Avenue; National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant Street; and, Spirit of ’76 Bookstore, 107 Pleasant Street. They are also available in Danvers at VNA Care Network & Hospice at 5 Federal Street in Danvers.
The Holiday Pops concert will be Saturday, December 10 at Abbot Hall featuring Dirk Hillyer and The Hillyer Festival Orchestra. Concert night will begin at 7 p.m. with a Dessert Reception; the concert will begin promptly at 8 p.m. The raffle for Bette Hunt’s original painting will be held the night of the concert during the intermission.
Floor tickets can be purchased exclusively by mail using the order form in the November 10 issue of The Marblehead Reporter and at www.rcomh.org and www.vnacarenetwork.org.
In addition, order forms for logo art note cards, art prints, and raffle tickets for the original art will also be available on-line at www.rcomh.org and at www.vnacarenetwork.org on November 10.
For more information, contact Jodi Vigneron at 781-631-1900, ext. 1363 or at jvigneron@vnacarenetwork.org or Jessica Barnett at 781-639-0624 or at jdharbar@comcast.net.
"Cheap & Chic" Fashion Show on the Harbor
Kim Carrigan from FOX 25 Morning News to MC “Cheap and Chic” on the Harbor
Marblehead Harbor Rotary Scholarship fundraiser at the Eastern Yacht Club
Save the Date – Thursday, September 15, 2011 Cheap and Chic Tickets!

Mablehead,
MA - Kim Carrigan, FOX 25 Morning News co-host will be the guest
celebrity host for the Marblehead Harbor Rotary Club’s “Cheap &
Chic” fashion show on Thursday, September 15. The event, which
is a fundraiser for the Marblehead Harbor Club’s scholarship
programs, will take place on the picturesque terrace of the
Eastern Yacht Club.
“We are absolutely delighted that Kim Carrigan, one of the North
Shore’s most popular news anchors and the epitome of chic, has
again graciously agreed to help us with our fundraising event”
said Cheap & Chic co-chair Vicki Staveacre. “The show will
feature a selection of stylish and affordable clothes and
accessories provided by fashion stores Madam Had’Em and DS
Designs. We have seven gorgeous models, most of whom run
businesses in town and they will have hair styled by Moore &
Moore, and make up by Euphoria Esthetics”.
The event, now in it’s third year, will again be held at Eastern
Yacht Club and music will be provided by local DJ and musician
MichaelAngelo.
The local residents who will be models for this year’s fashion
show are Liz Garthe, Madam Had’em regular and healthcare and
crash data analyst; Jodi Gildea, co-owner of the Con$ignments
furniture and home goods store on Atlantic Avenue; Lauren Comer,
owner of Scuppers children’s store; Grooveback girls Molly Brown
and Melissa Sherwood; Taj Tillah, owner of Taj Pilates; non
profit consultant Linda Fairbanks Atkins and Marblehead High
School freshman Holly Zmetrovich.
Cheap &
Chic will start at 6 00 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar
and conclude with a bucket raffle for prizes donated by club
members and local area businesses. Tickets for the event
priced at $40 each or $75 for two are available from DS Designs,
Madam Had’Em and Moore & Moore or online at
Cheap and Chic Tickets!
"Cheap & Chic" on the Harbor
Marblehead Harbor Rotary Scholarship fundraiser at the Eastern Yacht Club
Save the Date – Thursday, September 15, 2011 Cheap and Chic Tickets!
The
third annual "Cheap & Chic" fashion show of gorgeous and
affordable clothes and accessories will be held on Thursday,
September 15, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The event, which is a
fundraiser for the Marblehead Harbor Rotary Club’s scholarship
programs, will take place on the picturesque terrace of the
Eastern Yacht Club overlooking Marblehead Harbor.
“Marblehead fashion stores DS Designs and Madam Had’em have
again agreed to provide a selection of stylish and affordable
clothes and accessories while Moore & Moore will provide hair
styling and Euphoria Esthetics in Swampscott will provide
make-up styling to ensure our glamorous models look their best,”
said Becky Linhart, Marblehead Harbor Rotarian and co-chair of
the event. "We are also most grateful to the Eastern Yacht
Club for providing us with a very stylish waterfront venue.
With the combination of gorgeous clothes and accessories and a
venue with breathtaking views of the sunset over the harbor, we
are again expecting a sell out event.”
Last year’s Cheap & Chic fundraiser raised almost $6,000 for the
Marblehead Harbor Rotary Club's scholarship programs.
Every year for the past 10 years the club has awarded six $1,000
scholarships to graduating Marblehead High School seniors and
the club’s long term goal is to raise enough money to make the
scholarship offerings permanently sustainable.
The Cheap & Chic show will start at 6 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar and a bucket raffle for prizes donated by club members and local area businesses. The fashion show is slated to start at 6:45 p.m. Tickets for the event are $40 for a single and $75 for two and are available On-Line Here or from DS Designs, Madam Had'Em and Moore & Moore in Marblehead.
2011 Star-Spangled Pops - Wrap Up

May
14, 2011 Star-Spangled Pops presenting a Musical program to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of The
Civil War was a rousing success and great time for all. Thank
you to Dirk Hillyer and the Festival Orchestra and to all the
wonderful volunteers.
View the event photos on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10150201015694797
And on a terrific review on Patch.com at http://marblehead.patch.com/articles/a-musical-tribute-to-civil-war-america#video-6091353
Star-Spangled Pops Tickets Now On Sale
Star-Spangled Pops Ticket Form
Marblehead Museum & Historical Society partners with The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor to present 2011 Star-Spangled Pops Saturday, May 14
Musical program to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of The Civil War
Marblehead, Mass – The Marblehead Museum & Historical Society will be partnering for the first time with The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor to present the 2011 Star-Spangled Pops featuring Maestro Dirk Hillyer and The Hillyer Festival Orchestra on Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Abbot Hall. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
This year’s program is inspired by MMHS’s celebration of the 150 Anniversary of The Civil War.
“On April 16, 1861, three regiments from Marblehead were the first in Massachusetts to report for duty in the Civil War. 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War,” said Pam Peterson, the museum’s executive director. “As part of a national initiative to commemorate that event, the Marblehead Museum has planned a variety of activities to honor those who served and supported the war effort. We are very pleased to include the Star-Spangled Pops as one of our special programs.”
Tickets for Star-Spangled Pops will go on sale April 14. Floor tickets will be available exclusively by mail through the order form which will be published April 14 in The Marblehead Reporter and downloadable on April 14 at marbleheadmuseum.org and at rcomh.org.
Those who would like to place business or tribute ads in the Star-Spangled Pops program book can find rate information on rcom.org or can call Jessica Barnett, 781-639-0624. The deadline for sponsorship is April 10.
Star Spangled Pops Sponsorship Information and Form
Program Ad & Sponsor Size Chart
Contact: Jessica D.H. Barnett, President, 2010-11 Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor 781-639-0624 or jdharbar@comcast.net
Photo Caption Members of the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor and Marblehead Museum & Historical Society are bringing plans together for 2011 Star-Spangled Pops on Saturday, May 14 at Abbot Hall with Maestro Dirk Hillyer and The Hillyer Festival Orchestra. The group got a sneak preview of this year’s logo art, Ulrike Welsch’s photo, “Rigging of USS Constitution on Fourth of July.” Raffle tickets for the framed photograph and tickets for the concert will go on sale April 14. Visit www.marbleheadmuseum.org and www.rcomh.org for more information as plans unfold.
Left to Right, front row: Marguerite Frank, Fraffie Welch, Jessica Barnett, Judge Joseph Dever, Pam Peterson, Becky Linhart, Pat Roberts, Don Doliber and Pam Nottingham. Left to Right, back row: John Williams, Cyndi Kilbarger, Pam Foye, Mike Elkin and Al Arcuni.
2010 Holiday Pops - December 11
2010 Holiday Pops Ticket Order Form
Soprano Jean Danton, The Hillyer Festival Orchestra, the Marblehead Veterans Middle School Select Chorus and The Ovations
13th Annual Holiday Pops to feature Soprano Jean Danton, The Hillyer Festival Orchestra and Marblehead Veterans Middle School Select Chorus and The Ovations on Saturday, December 11 Balcony tickets and new concert gift baskets are available!
Marblehead,
MA – The 2010 Holiday Pops promises
to be an evening during which music
will accompany this year’s patrons
every step of the way…literally!
From the moment the doors of stately
Abbot Hall open at 7 p.m. on
Saturday, December 11, for the
Holiday Pops dessert reception,
Marblehead Veterans Middle School
Select Chorus and The Ovations under
the direction of Robert Tirelli will
welcome guests with melodious
caroling from the steps of the
historic building.
At 8 p.m. when Maestro Dirk Hillyer
raises his baton, the audience will
be treated to glorious holiday music
by Strauss, Cerulli, Berlin,
Tchaiskovsky, Copland and others
performed by The Hillyer Festival
Orchestra. Soloist and actress Jean
Danton’s soprano voice will delight
the audience with an array of
selections and then she will invite
the audience to join her to
sing-along to cherished holiday
favorites.
Danton has performed throughout
the United States and Europe in
opera, oratorio, recitals and with
symphony orchestras.
She has been a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra with Keith Lockhart and Bruce Hangen, Handel and Haydn Society under Christopher Hogwood and John Finney, Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling, and Boston Baroque with Martin Pearlman.
The Associazione Culturale - Storici Organi del Piemonte in Italy has invited her back for her third series of baroque concerts in the 2011 season.
Ms. Danton made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Masterwork Chorus and her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, in both instances performing Handel’s Messiah.
Ms. Danton’s operatic performances include roles with Boston Baroque, Greater Buffalo Opera, Cambridge Opera, Brown Bag Opera and Cambridge Community Chorus. She has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Opera Theatre and the Boston Early Music Festival.
She is often a soloist for Pops
concerts and musical theatre
appearing with the Boston Pops
Orchestra, North Shore Music
Theatre, American Classics, Hillyer
Festival Orchestra and New England
Light Opera.
Her versatility also extends to jazz and she is a passionate advocate of contemporary music. An acclaimed recitalist, she has performed on the N.Y. Trinity Church Concert Series in N.Y.C. and the Twentieth Century Music Series at the N.Y. Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. She has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Festival, Yale Center for British Art, and the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival on Cape Cod.
Danton has several solo
recordings on Albany Records and
Newport Classic. She can also be
heard as Jeanette MacDonald on the
newly released CD of New England
Light Opera’s world premiere
production of Yes, Yes Jeanette! Her
television credits include the PBS
documentaries The Nobel Legacy,
Apollo 13-To the Edge and Back,
American Experiences: Stephen Foster
and Mary Magdalen for Lifetime.
For more information about her
schedule and her recordings, please
visit
www.jeandanton.com.
The Holiday Pops evening includes a pre-concert reception at Abbot Hall beginning at 7 p.m.
Floor tickets have sold out. Balcony seats are $35 each and are available in person in Marblehead at Arnould Gallery and Framery, 111 Washington Street; The Garden Collection, 155 Washington Street; and at National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant Street. They are also available at VNA Care Network & Hospice at 5 Federal Street in Danvers.
Remaining tickets, subject to availability, can be purchased the night of the concert at Abbot Hall. Notecards and giclees featuring the 2010 logo art “Dusting of Snow” by Joan Colt Hooper as well as raffle tickets for the original painting are available through the downloadable form on-line at www.rcomh.org and at www.vnacarenetwork.org.
As a new feature this year, four dinner-and-a-show gift baskets are available and packaged for gift giving. The basket begins with a $50 gift certificate for dinner at either Jack Tar Restaurant in Marblehead, 5 Corners Kitchen in Marblehead, Caffe Italia in Marblehead or a $30 gift certificate to The Grapevine Restaurant in Salem. The show part of the gift includes two balcony tickets to the Holiday Pops concert at Abbot Hall, a paper fine art giclee print of “Dusting of Snow,” the 2010 Holiday Pops Logo art, this year painted by Marblehead’s own Joan Colt Hooper, a package of note cards featuring the 2010 artwork and 6 raffle ticket chances to win the original artwork. Baskets have an estimated value of $225 but are being sold for $125. The supply is limited to the four baskets. If you are interested, please contact Jodi Vigneron at 781-631-1900, ext 1363 or Jessica Barnett at 781-639-0624.
Proceeds from this gala event will benefit the philanthropic projects of the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor and Rotary International and the local patient care services of VNA Network & Hospice.
For more information, contact Jodi Vigneron at 781-631-1900, ext. 1363 or at jvigneron@vnacarenetwork.org or Jessica Barnett at 781-639-0624 or at jdharbar@comcast.net.
Kim Carrigan from FOX 25 Morning
News to MC “Cheap and Chic” on the
Harbor
Marblehead Harbor Rotary Scholarship fundraiser at the Eastern Yacht Club
Marblehead,
MA, August 11, 2010 – Kim Carrigan,
FOX 25 Morning News co-host will be
the guest compere for the Marblehead
Harbor Rotary Club’s “Cheap & Chic”
fashion show on Thursday, September
16. This year’s event will take
place on the picturesque terrace
of the Eastern Yacht Club
overlooking Marblehead Harbor.
“We are absolutely delighted that
Kim Carrigan, who is the epitome of
chic, has graciously agreed to help
us with our fundraising event”, said
MarbleheadHarbor Rotary President
Jessica Barnett. “We knew last year
that with our partners, Marblehead
fashion stores DS Designs and Madam
Had’Em and hairstylists Moore &
Moore, we had a pretty compelling
offering. This year, with Kim
Carrigan, who is one of the North
Shore’s most popular news anchors,
and our stylish waterfront venue at
the Eastern Yacht Club we anticipate
another full house”. Proceeds from
the event will help fund the Rotary
Club of Marblehead Harbor’s
scholarship programs.
Kim Carrigan began her broadcasting
career in St. Joseph, Missouri as
weekend anchor and reporter at
KQ-TV. She then anchored at several
TV stations in the Midwest before
moving to Boston in 1994. Carrigan
has established a reputation as one
of Boston’s most trusted
newscasters. She’s led breaking
news coverage, presidential election
and special event coverage, and has
traveled across the country to cover
major stories. Carrigan has won an
Emmy for her anchor work and was
named ‘Best News Anchor’ for two
consecutive years by Boston
Magazine. Kim and husband Randy and
their two children live on the North
Shore. She is a long time
spokesperson and supporter of Boston
Bakes For Breast Cancer, a grass
roots organization which raises
funds for the Breast Oncology Center
at the Gillette Center For Women’s
Cancers at Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute. She is also the
recipient of the North Shore ARC’s
Distinguished Service Award for her
contributions to people with
developmental disabilities.
Cheap & Chic will start at 6 15 p.m.
with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar
and conclude with a bucket raffle
for prizes donated by club members
and local area businesses. Tickets
for the event will go on sale on
August 30, and will be available
from DS Designs, Madam Had’Em and
Moore & Moore in Marblehead.
About Kim Carrigan
Kim Carrigan joined FOX25 Morning News as co-host in October 2004. She is one of the area’s most popular news anchors having held principal anchor posts in Boston since 1994.
Kim began her broadcasting career
in St. Joseph, Missouri as weekend
anchor and reporter at KQ-TV. She
then anchored at several TV stations
in the midwest before moving to
Boston in 1994. Carrigan has
established a reputation as one of
Boston’s most trusted newscasters.
She’s led breaking news coverage,
presidential election and special
event coverage, and has traveled
across the country to cover major
stories. Carrigan has won an Emmy
for her anchor work and was named
‘Best News Anchor’ for two
consecutive years by Boston
Magazine.
In addition to her anchor duties,
Kim has done extensive feature
reporting. She has gained the
attention of viewers and peers for
her interviews with high-profile
newsmakers and celebrities. Some of
her favorite assignments have been
one-on-one conversations with Boston
originals like Bruins legend Cam
Neely, Pops conductor Keith
Lockhart, Senator Edward Kennedy and
his wife Victoria, and Norman
Bridwell, author and illustrator of
the ‘Clifford’ children’s book
series.
Kim grew up in Missouri and is a
graduate of the University of
Missouri. She and husband Randy and
their two children live on the North
Shore. Kim is long time
spokesperson and supporter of Boston
Bakes For Breast Cancer, a grass
roots organization which raises
funds for the Breast Oncology Center
at the Gillette Center For Women’s
Cancers at Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute. She is also the
recipient of the North Shore ARC’s
Distinguished Service Award for her
contributions to people with
developmental disabilities.
About The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor
The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor is an organization of business and professional people drawn from all walks of life, bound by their mission of service to the community and the world. Founded in 1996, it already has an impressive track record of supporting Rotary International initiatives and serving the local community with major fund raising events including the Holiday Pops and Star Spangled Pops concerts.
For more information contact:
Vicki Staveacre (C) 781-249-7517
vicki.staveacre@gmail.com <mailto:vicki.staveacre@gmail.com>
Becky Linhart (C) 978-943-6393
rlinhart@comcast.net <mailto:rlinhart@comcast.net>
Hillyer Festival Orchestra to perform at 3rd Annual Star-Spangled Pops in a “Salute to Broadway”
Featuring: The
Hillyer Festival Orchestra
Under the direction of Maestro Dirk Hillyer
Maestro
Dirk Hillyer and the Hillyer
Festival Orchestra will enthrall the
audience with an evening’s “Salute
to Broadway,” and Rebecca Kenneally
will be the featured soloist. May 15
is also Armed Forces Day, and the
men and women of our military and
their families will be honored at
this fabulous Star-Spangled musical
evening celebrating American life.Floor-table tickets will be available by mail-in reservation only, and the form will appear in the April 15 issue of the Marblehead Reporter. Balcony tickets will be found at the Arnould Gallery, 111 Washington St., and the National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant St., after April 15.
Mail in Ticket Form for Floor Table Tickets
Watch the Reporter and MHTV for more information.
PURE WATER DUCT TAPE REGATTA
The
DUCT TAPE REGATTA
Sponsored by SWAMPSCOTT
ROTARY
Date June 26, 2010
12:00 Noon
PLACE- FISHERMAN’S BEACH, SWAMPSCOTT
The Rules
- All boats must be home made.
- Allowable
material:
30’ of 2x4 or 30’ PVC pipe
Rope
Duct tape
Recyclable bottles (milk jugs, juice and tonic of 1 gallon size or less) - All participants must wear life jackets
- All teams are made up of at least four members.
- Each of the four team members must paddle their craft around the designated buoys and back to the starting gate in a relay race.
- There will be prizes for the fastest team and the best boat design.
- All boats and teams will be subject to inspection and review by the race committee. All decisions of the race committee will be final
- Boats and teams should pass the 4 way test of Rotary. (i.e. NO CHEATING)
- All teams will be set a goal of $400 as a pledge amount. Please make your tax deductible checks payable to Swampscott Rotary /Pure Water.
- All proceeds will go toward Clean Water project sponsored by local Rotary Clubs.
- All applicants must submit their pledge forms and money by June 18th to Darryl R. Smith D.D.S at 26 Puritan Road, Swampscott, MA 01907
- Questions? Call (781) 631-6148 or (781) 592-1620
- Be prepared to get wet and have fun!
All pledged money must be submitted by June 18, 2010 to Dr. Darryl Smith, 26 Puritan Road, Swampscott, MA 01907. Please make your tax deductible checks out to Swampscott Rotary/ Pure Water
By Kris Olson /
marblehead@cnc.com Marblehead’s two Rotary Clubs have quickly ramped up fundraising efforts to send ShelterBoxes to help Haiti begin to recover from the devastation of a Jan. 12 earthquake and a second 6.0-plus quake that struck early Wednesday morning.
Each ShelterBox contains a 10-person tent, sleeping bags and mats for 10, a multi-fuel cook stove, pots, pans, cups, utensils, a tool kit, shovel and rope, mosquito netting, rain gear, a children’s activity kit, water-purification kit and more. The $1,000 cost to sponsor a box also covers the costs of delivery and having a “Response Team” on the ground to monitor the distribution and set up of the boxes.
“Shelter Box delivers exactly the kind of aid that is desperately needed now in Haiti,” noted Ed Bell, the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor’s Shelter Box chairman.
At the club’s Tuesday morning meeting, it was announced that the club, with the help of some of its friends, had raised enough to contribute seven Shelter Boxes to the relief efforts.
The previous Thursday, the Rotary Club of Marblehead had voted to send four Shelter Boxes to Haiti, two funded out of the club’s treasury and two funded by “passing the hat” at the club’s lunch meetings. The club raised more than enough to purchase one box at its Jan. 14 meeting.
ShelterBox began as a grassroots effort in Great Britain, part of a Rotary International worldwide effort to honor the turn of the millennium with service projects. It soon went international, with founder Tom Henderson reaching out to the Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch near Sarasota, Fla. to become the primary Rotary administrator for the ShelterBox program in the United States.
The ShelterBox USA Web site notes that the organization has established an operations base in Port au Prince, Haiti’s capital, and is being assisted by a French aid agency to determine the areas in most dire need of the boxes. “Logistical hubs” in Miami and the Dominican Republic are serving as way stations for Haiti-bound supplies.
The Marblehead clubs’ efforts comprise part of the more than 3,300 ShelterBoxes that have been committed so far, enough to help up to 33,000 people. Beverly Rotary, too, has sponsored four boxes. But more help is desperately needed.
ShelterBox Head of Operations John Leach noted, “This is the largest, quickest and most complex deployment in our history. We are now very well organized across four countries [including the U.K.] to get ShelterBoxes to the people of Haiti quickly. We are now set up to channel aid to those in need efficiently and effectively in the days and weeks to come. This is a long-term commitment from ShelterBox and we have to sustain our initial push.”
Bell noted that what makes the program so easy to support is that “100 percent of the donation actually ends up on the ground with a tangible and direct impact.”
Rotary Club of Marblehead President Jeffrey Wargo agreed.
“This aid goes directly through Rotary connections in Haiti,” Wargo wrote in an appeal to members. “Consequently, these boxes do not end up in government warehouses or on the black market and is our guarantee that our sponsored boxes will actually help families in need.”
By sheer coincidence, Bell had set up speaking engagements scheduled for this week before Rotary Clubs in Danvers and Lynn long before the Haiti earthquake hit. Those talks will now take on a new urgency, he noted.
A retired media executive, Bell also recently produced a half-hour program on ShelterBoxes to air on Marblehead’s local-access station, MHTV. Upcoming air times are Tuesday, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1 p.m. on Comcast Channel 10 or Verizon Channel 28.
Both Bell and Wargo noted their clubs would be happy to serve as a conduit for donations to ShelterBox. Donations may be mailed to the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor, P.O. Box 941, Marblehead, MA 01945. Donations may also be sent directly to ShelterBox USA, 8374 Market St. #203, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 or made online at shelterboxusa.org.
2009 Holiday Pops Abbot Hall December 12, 2009
Featuring: The Hillyer Festival Orchestra
Under the direction of Maestro Dirk Hillyer
Friends Forever
Friends Forever Teens Visit Marblehead October 20, 2009
‘Troubles’
seem so far away: Teens from Northern Ireland spend
day in Marblehead
By Nikki Gamer
/ ngamer@cnc.com
Wed Oct 21, 2009, 09:30 PM EDT - Marblehead Reporter
Full Article
Over the roaring din of a lunch hour on a recent afternoon at Marblehead High School, students queued up, hoping to get in their midday meal quickly. The sound of laughter, chatter and the occasional clinking of dishware hovered over the massive cafeteria, while hoodie-clad teens with backpacks went this way and that, creating a flurry of activity. For most of the teens, it was a lunch hour just like any other. Yet for a few select high school students, the lunch was anything but typical.
Toward the back of the cafeteria, inside the teacher’s lounge, seven Marblehead high students were being introduced to a group of peers from Northern Ireland. Full Article

