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April 2019 meeting schedule

MEETING SCHEDULE

April 2019

Our April meeting schedule, check the calendar for speakers:

Friday, April 5 ~ 7:30am Lanam Club, North Main Street

Friday, April 12 ~ 7:30am Lanam Club

Wednesday, April 17 ~ 6:00pm location TBA

Friday, April 19 ~ 7:30am Board meeting, Andover Center for History & Culture

Friday, April 26 ~ 7:30am Lanam Club

Citizens Who Care Gala ~ May 1, 2019

Celebrate Andover's Unsung Heroes!

Citizens Who Care gala will be held Wednesday, May 1, 2019, Andover Country Club

Find out more about Citizens Who Care by clicking here.

Tickets are $65 each. Click here to purchase your tickets today!

Citizens Who Care is Andover's longest running program that honors outstanding community volunteers. Since 1996 the Rotary Club of Andover has honored 10 people each year who have contributed to the local community through their extraordinary volunteer contributions. Educator of the Year and Student of the Year are also recognized at the event. Those chosen exemplify what it means to be an "unsung hero."

Introducing the 2019 Citizens Who Care and a sample of the organizations they support:

Linda Carpenter-Ardito - Ironstone Farm, Andover Cultural Council, Andover Garden Club

Steven Crowley – Andover Youth Services

Philip D’Agati – Knights of Columbus

Brian Feeney – Step Up for Collen 5K Walk/Run

Ron Hilbink – Community InRoads, Essex Art Center

Bernadette Lionetta – My Own Voice choral group

Leslie Seaton Malis – Andover Arts Council, Andover Poet Laureate

Stephanie Maze-Hsu – Challenge Me Inc., Destination Imagination,

Moe Murphy and the Andover Chroniclers – Cable television show

Liz Roos – Principal of West Elementary School, Educator of the Year

Katrin Schneck – Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

2019 Andover Rotary Scholarship Applications

The Rotary Club of Andover is pleased to honor the memory of the late Philip Mercandetti, Barbara Dolan, and other former Andover residents by awarding scholarships in their names to deserving graduating Andover high school students.

To be considered, eligible students must reside in Andover, not be a direct relative of a Rotarian, and will be attending an institution of higher learning during the next school semester.

Deadline for application is April 2, 2019.

Click on the "Youth" link above to download an application.

Over $65,000 raised to help end polio! 2019 Polar Plunge

THANK YOU TO ANDOVER ROTARIANS FOR TAKING THE PLUNGE, AND FOR EVERYONE WHO DONATED TO HELP END POLIO!

February 9, 2019, Rotary District 7930 (eastern Massachusetts & southern New Hampshire) held its 9th Annual Polar Plunge to Eradicate Polio) in the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean at Long Beach in Gloucester at 11am.

All Polar Plunge donations are matched 2:1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To learn more about Rotary’s fight to eradicate Polio, go to www.endpolio.org. The Polar Plunge was originally inspired, and has been continuously supported by the Rotary Club of Gloucester since 2011.

Three Ways to Join Andover Rotary

The Andover Rotary's Andover Cares movement introduced the potential of Rotary to new people who want to make a difference in their community. However, for many, the traditional service club model of required weekly meetings and just doesn't fit into the busy lives we all live today. So Andover Rotary created two new membership levels.

A Service Membership has fewer meeting requirements, lower membership fees, and evening meeting options.

An Corporate Membership is very similar to our traditional membership option. The principal corporate member gets all of the benefits that are included with a traditional membership, along with the flexibility to send a designee/associate to meetings that he/she is unable to attend each month. Corporate members may also bring associates to help at Rotary service projects. We encourage all of our principal corporate members to attend at least 1 meeting per month.

Want to learn more about joining the Rotary Club of Andover? Please feel free to contact Membership Chair Maureen Burns-Murtha with any questions about these great options for busy local business leaders ready to join a great service club helping to improve our community.

Ready to apply for membership? Download an application here.

Andover Cares Fund seeking applications

For more information visit andovercares.org/grants

The Andover Cares Fund, part of the Rotary Club of Andover Charitable Foundation, is seeking grant applications. Andover Cares and the Andover Cares Fund were established in fall 2015, inspired by several members of the Rotary Club of Andover who lives have been touched by the heroin epidemic plaguing our community, our state, and our nation.

A Mother's Moving Plea to Her Son

" I kick it first...you have to bury me"