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

Susan
Wornick – WCVB TV Channel 5 News Anchor – to be guest
host of
“Cheap and Chic” Fashion Show fundraiser
on
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at Tedesco Country
Club
Proceeds to benefit Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor’s Scholarship Fund
Marblehead, MA – Susan Wornick, anchor of WCVB-TV’s Midday newscast, will be the celebrity host of The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor’s “Cheap and Chic” fashion show featuring gorgeous and affordable clothes, at Tedesco Country Club in Marblehead on Thursday, September 17, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Proceeds from the event will go to Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor’s scholarship fund which benefits graduating Marblehead high school seniors.
Marblehead fashion stores DS Designs and Madam Had’Em together with hairstylists Moore & Moore will present an array of fashion ensembles and inspirations that are both trendy and affordable.
“We’re very fortunate that Susan will be joining us,” Vicki Staveacre, event chairwoman, said. “As a leading news woman in the greater Boston area, as an anchor, investigative reporter, and former consumer reporter, she stands for value and integrity, and is certainly a role model for today’s youth.”
The event will start at 6 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar and conclude with a bucket raffle for prizes donated by local area businesses. Event tickets are $30 each or two for $50, and will be available at DS Design, Madam Had’Em and Moore & Moore in Marblehead.
Susan
Wornick, anchor of WCVB-TV’s Midday newscast, will be
the celebrity host of The Rotary Club of Marblehead
Harbor’s “Cheap and Chic” fashion show featuring gorgeous
and affordable clothes, at Tedesco Country Club in Marblehead
on Thursday, September 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. Marblehead
fashion stores DS Designs and Madam Had’Em together
with hairstylists Moore & Moore will present an array
of fashion ensembles and inspirations that are both
trendy and affordable. Proceeds from the event will
go to Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor’s scholarship
fund which benefits graduating Marblehead high school
seniors. Tickets are $30 each and $50 for two, and are
available at the participating shops.
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


