Events

We have to tag each of the little duckies before they can be released into the wild.  This tagging will take place at the showroom of Ripano Stoneworks in Nashua at 5pm on October 4th and should take no more than 2 hours.

See you there.

Join us for our 45th Annual Spaghetti City at the Nashua Senior Center.

And evening of fun, fellowship and servicing our commmunity!

The Rotary Club of Nashua West will hold its Annual Spaghetti City on Tuesday, October 9th at the Nashua Senior Activity Centerat 70 Temple Street, Nashua, NH. The public is invited to share a
spaghetti dinner with family, friends, and the extended Nashua Community.

Doors open at 4:30 and full course Italian Spaghetti dinners will be served until 7:30 pm including cake and ice cream deserts served by High School and Community College students from Rotaract and Interact.

Rotary Nashua West has proudly produced Spaghetti City for 49 years and it’s become a perennial favorite to many Nashua area residents. The Club is appreciative for the Nashua Senior

Activity Center that allows use of their facility to bring this special dinner to attendees. With their downtown location and large parking lot, we can hold this fun event for all.

Dinner guests are invited to help select the winner of the Tenth Annual People’s Choice Awards. Local Rotary Clubs submit their own special sauce to be judged by the Spaghetti City
guests. At the end of the evening, the highly coveted Paisano Cup is presented to the Rotary Club with the winning sauce. That club has "bragging rights" as the best of Sauce from Spaghetti City for the whole year.

Nashua Rotary West is having the first annual Nashua Duck Derby on October 13th, 2018. 1,000's of little yelllow ducklings will be released into the Nashua River on Front Street and the first ducks to cross the finish line 500' away near the Main Street bridge will win prizes!

Purchase your racing ducks here

Come and watch your ducks race from the Main St. bridge.

The ducks will be launched from Front St. Nashua into the Nashua river and begin racing at 2:00pm. The first 3 ducks through the finish line win the race! 

Hands on meeting with Veterans Packets

Joint meeting with the Nashua Club for World Polio Day held at the Nashua Country Club 

THIS IS A MONDAY MEETING INSTEAD OF TUESDAY!
IT WILL BE OFFSITE JOINTLY WITH THE NASHUA CLUB AT THE NASHUA COUNTRY CLUB!

WORLD POLIO DAY OCTOBER 24, 2018 

Help us make 2019 the first year around the world as POLIO FREE! 

To make this effort we are asking that each member of your club pledge $20.19 toward Polio relief before 12/31/18. 

We would also ask that your club recognize this day and promote public awareness.   

To make a contribution you club foundation chairperson should be able to assist you on your giving's.  You can also visit Rotary International at: https://my.rotary.org/en/donate; select Polio donation. All Polio contributions are eligible for Paul Harris Fellow recognition also. 

Please also remember the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pledging matching money to Rotary’s contributions.  This district-wide effort is a team effort.  Let’s all come together to support Polio and end this disease.  We are so close.  You can help us! 

Please share with the Public Awareness committee your Polio efforts.  Promote your club’s recognition in your local papers and social media. 

Be proud of your club and its accomplishments!

The club will present our cards to Laura and hear a few words from her about the project.

Mealstone Wildlife Rescue Center overview

Today's meeting will be held at the the Arlington Street Community Center in Nashua

36 Arlington St. Nashua

The Novemebr 13th Meeting will be at the New Arlington Street Community Center.

Our lunch will be catered by JaJa Belle's of Nashua.

Please join us to learn more and tour the new commuinty center, 36 Arlington St. in Nashua

Our annual Literacy Project held at Barnes and Noble Nashua will be held on Nov 13th, 4:30 - 8 PM.  Please plan on joining us that night to purchase books that we will then donate to the  NH Woman's State Prison to give to their children for the Holidays.  This is also a great opportunity to get your holiday shopping done early, beat the crowds, and benefit Rotary!!  Win, win, win for us all!!  And if you cannot make it that night you can shop online for 5 extra days.

An added feature will be Storytelling Time for you children and/or grandchildren at 5:30.

Please use this ID:12448395 in the bookstore and cafe as it is good for food and drinks.  The code can be used until Nov 18th.

DISTRICT 7870

2018 ROTARY FOUNDATION GALAS

There will be two regional Rotary Foundation Galas:

• Thursday, November 8, 2018 at the American Legion Post 67, 3 Depot Street, Chester, VT
• Thursday, November 15, 2018 at the Courtyard Marriott Event Center in Nashua, NH

The Rotary Foundation Galas will take place from 6pm to 9pm.   

The Foundation Galas will have food stations and there will also be a cash bar.  During the Galas, Rotarians and Non – Rotarians will be encouraged to network with each other, view the displays, and enjoy musical performances and presentations. The Foundation Rotary Galas will showcase many of the Rotary Foundation Projects that our District is engaged in.  It is also an opportunity to learn about Rotary and the Foundation, as well as, using this event as a means of encouraging non-Rotarians to consider becoming members. 

There will be a formal program at each Gala with featured speakers on Foundation activities.  These speakers will be of outstanding quality. The formal program will begin at 7:00.    In addition to the Featured Speaker, there will also be several brief presentations by Rotary Clubs from our District that are sponsoring Foundation Projects and would be interested in other Clubs participating in the projects.

The cost is $30.00 per person for Rotarians and their Spouses.  Every Rotarian is encouraged to bring a friend, who could be a Prospective New Member, for free.  Tickets will be pre-sold to provide an indication of the anticipated attendance.  Please purchase your tickets on the District Website using credit or debit card.  Or mailing a check to Alan Kenegsberg, 9 Old Coach Road, Bow NH 03304.   

As the ticket pricing indicates, we would encourage you to invite a non-Rotarian to the Gala so that they may consider becoming a new member, as it will be a great way to introduce them to Rotary. 

Each Event Ticket will include one raffle ticket and the chance to win some excellent raffle prizes.  Additional tickets will be available for purchase for $5 each or 3 for $10.  Raffle tickets will be drawn – with replacement – in other words if your number is drawn and you win a prize – your number goes back into the drum – and in theory you could win every prize if you were so lucky. 

In advance of the Galas, the Club Presidents for 2018-2019, will be asked to commit to the following:

· Promote attendance at one of the Galas

· Provide a raffle prize equal in value to $25 or $1 dollar per club member whichever is greater

· Provide 3 to 5 pictures via email of club event(s)     

 for the purpose of being included in a power point presentation

We hope to see you all at the Rotary Foundation Galas. 

Parker will talke about Inclusive Healthcare

Meals on Wheels project work. helping package the Gift bags for the holiday Meals on Wheels deliveries.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve places to call home. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities.

No lunch Meeting, Holiday Party in the evening.Details to be announced soon!

This will be an offsite meeting.

 We will be packaging meals for End 68 hours of hunger.

No meeting today

No meeting today

White elephant yankee swap

Join us for some fun! $10.00 or more value!

If you forget your gift we will have some items for sale at the front desk for $5.00 each if you want to play!

January 15^th will be an Off-site Meeting at the new Liquid Therapy Brewery with co-owner Stan Tremblay-talking about opening a brewery and beer. Parking is available for all at 8-10 Temple Street lot next to the landmark building and the end of the 30 temple street lot near Liquid Therapy.

January 22nd will be at our regular Courtyard Marriott Room - Yvonne Dunetz will be sharing with us her film “Celebrate Nashua”.  

Mike will talk about the United Way.

Samantha will talk about the Nashua Community College and how it offers a wide array of degrees and course offerings for the Adult or "non-traditional" student.

Mickey Cockrell

Jared Barbosa will talk about the International Soccer Club

The Real Leadership Challenge

Paul Shea will talk about Greater Nashua Downtown.

Once again, this year we will be having a DIAPER DRIVE, with proceeds going to several non-profits in the Nashua community.   Right now we are targeting the following non-profits for this year's donations:

• Nashua Soup Kitchen
• Marguerite's Place
• Corpus Christi Food Pantry and Assistance
• Work Experience Program at Nashua High School South.

Staring March 12th through April 12th, Roy Rankin, Andrea Nelson and I will be collecting Diapers, Diaper Wipes, Diaper Coupons and monetary donations.

Just a Note:  The size of the diapers is very important.  Large sizes are what is mostly needed - Size 4 and larger, plus Pull-Ups.

Drop off is at Helen Honorow's office at 161 Kinsley Street, Nashua.  You can also bring any donations to one of our weekly meetings where we will be glad to collect them.

Please let's make this another successful fundraiser for our club.

"One profits most who services best"

Marty

Rotary Leadership Institute

No speaker today

Join us March 26th for our March after hours meeting (there will not be a luncheon meeting today).

It will be at City Moose Cafe. We will have appetizers and a cash bar.

This will be a mixer event for anyone thinking of joining Rotary or any Rotarians from other clubs that would like to join us! 

Special prizes and surprises!

The 4 Way Speech Contest will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club of Nashua.  We would love to have as many Rotarians as possible participate in this program as an official or simply to eat snacks and support the students who participate.   If you have a young person in your life who may want to some day participate we would encourage you to bring them along to the contest. 

If you would like to be a volunteer, please email Helen.  Also, if you know any high school students in Nashua who you think might be interested in participating, please have them complete the registration form listed on the left.

The Four Way Test speech contest is a competition for 9-12 graders. It requires each participating student to create and present a speech on a subject of their choice, applying the 4-Way Test to guide their thinking and their actions.

History of the 4-Way Test

From the earliest days of Rotary, Rotarians have been concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as Rotary International's president)  when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test for employees to use in making decisions in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with suppliers and customers. The survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways.

It asks the following four questions:

Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Leadership Insitute

Amy Medling will talk about publishing a book and personal branding.