Colin LevinIt 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. 

Ray BrownBrown 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.

  • The Reception to Honor Bette Hunt - Holiday Pops Artist - at Abbot Library
  • Tickets for December 10 Holiday Pops Concert Go On Sale

Ticket Order Form

Holday Pops - By Betty HuntMarblehead, 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

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!

Kim CariganCheap and Chic ladiesMablehead, 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!

 

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. 

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 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 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.

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>

Star Spangled Pops 2010Featuring: The Hillyer Festival Orchestra

Under the direction of Maestro Dirk Hillyer

Dirk HillyerMaestro 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.

The DUCT TAPE REGATTA
Sponsored by SWAMPSCOTT ROTARY

Date June 26, 2010
12:00 Noon

PLACE- FISHERMAN’S BEACH, SWAMPSCOTT

The Rules 

  1. All boats must be home made.
  2.  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)
  3.  All participants must wear life jackets
  4.  All teams are made up of at least four members.
  5.  Each of the four team members must paddle their craft around the designated buoys and back to the starting gate in a relay race.
  6.  There will be prizes for the fastest team and the best boat design.
  7.  All boats and teams will be subject to inspection and review by the race committee.  All decisions of the race committee will be final
  8.  Boats and teams should pass the 4 way test of Rotary. (i.e. NO CHEATING)
  9.  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.
  10.  All proceeds will go toward Clean Water project sponsored by local Rotary Clubs.
  11.  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
  12.  Questions? Call (781) 631-6148 or  (781) 592-1620
  13.  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

Duct Tape Regatta Rules, Registration and Sponsor Form

 

Shelter Box ContentBy Kris Olson / marblehead@cnc.com
Posted Jan 20, 2010 @ 02:11 PM
Last update Jan 26, 2010 @ 11:40 AM
Marblehead —

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.

 

Pops Featuring: The Hillyer Festival Orchestra

Under the direction of Maestro Dirk Hillyer

 

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