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October 2019 meeting schedule

MEETING SCHEDULE

October 2019

Friday, October 18 ~ Board meeting 7:30am, Andover Center for History & Culture, 97 Main Street
Friday, October 25 ~ 7:30am Lanam Club
Tuesday, October 29 ~ Rotary Means Business, 6:00pm, LaRosa's restaurant, Barnard Street, Andover

Rotary Means Business

Rotary Means Business, Tuesday, October 29, 6:00pm at LaRosa's restaurant, 7 Barnard Street, Andover. Guest speaker Paul LaRosa, owner and entrepreneur, will speak on opening a business in Andover and navigating both the economy and all of the logistics to creating a sustainable local business. We will be charging a nominal fee, in which 100% of proceeds will go to fight polio.

Service Above Self

Drive for Lazarus house

Please remember that we have begun our drive to collect new underwear, socks, and hygiene products for Lazarus House. Lazarus House literally needs THOUSANDS of items.

This drive will culminate during the week of Thanksgiving, but we expect to have regular - if not weekly - car loads delivered.

Please think of other local organizations, religious institutions, or schools that may be willing to help.

Andover Cares

andover cares

Andover Day and Andover Cares are postponed to SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 10:00am -4:30pm.

For updates on Andover Day

For updates on Andover Cares

Between 2014 - 2016, Andover has lost over 20 people who died because of addiction and substance use that is gripping our town.

Andover Cares is a group formed by the Andover Rotary Club that has, as its goal, to raise funds to battle this epidemic by providing awareness, education, and intervention.

Click here to learn more about Andover Cares.

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Where doing good is serious fun

Service project spotlight

Join us for our monthly Wednesday evening meeting. Whether is a service project or a Rotary Means Business networking event, you're guaranteed some serious fun.

August service project was filling back to school backpacks for local students in need.

From President Demetrius Spaneas:

I want to thank everyone who participated our service event at Stone Hill at Andover. Through generous donations and many hands making light work, we were able fill 88 backpacks for local students in need. We had some left-over supplies that we were able to donate to the Andover school system.

Most especially, I wish to thank Doug Mercurio for spearheading this event, Karla Rossi and Stone Hill for hosting, and Claudia Soo Hoo and the Andover/North Andover YMCA for identifying and delivering the backpacks to the children.

What is Rotary?

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.

Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 110 years, Rotary's people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end.

Learn more about our structure and our foundation and our strategic vision.

What we do

Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:

Promote peace
Fight disease
Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
Save mothers and children
Support education
Grow local economies

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Our mission

We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

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 Doug Mercurio 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.