It's official, MVC will host the Antiques Roadshow

Tickets are now available for the upcoming Antiques Roadshow to be held June 6th from 7 - 9pm, at the Dracut Grange Hall on Route 38. This event is sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Rotary Club and you can contact any member for tickets to the the show.

Admission is $10 and if you'd like to have your item appraised, there is a nominal $10 appraisal fee per item. Appraisals must be pre-paid and registered by calling (978) 446-9366. Seats are limited as are the number of appraisals. Also planned is a 50/50 raffle and light refreshments will be available.

We have lots of interest so far, this one will be a sell out. Get your tickets early!!

A Funny Thing Happened At Rotary Today

The Merrimack Valley Rotary had two funny visitors at a recent breakfast meeting. The occasion was Funny Day, which was designed to be a meeting full of funny jokes, pictures, and moments. During the breakfast the members were entertained by Little Squirt, the clown and Little Nipper, the dog! Breakfast had never been so much fun before!

A Resounding Success !!!

This year's District Assembly was a resounding success!! 60+ members of our district attended the annual assembly to become better informed about the changes taking place as well as some excellent ideas for membership, public relations, Clubrunner.com and leadership. The event was well organized and very informative giving our new leaders a jump start on their club roles for the coming year.

Great job to those who organized the event!

ROTARIANS LEARN HOW TO GROW THEIR MEMBERSHIP

Vincent Borkowski, a member of the Southborough Rotary Club, recently met with the Merrimack Valley Rotary to discuss the importance of designing an ongoing and successful new member program.

Borkowski’s past experience includes working as staff member and regional officer of a national college fraternity. In this capacity,
he was responsible for training chapters in the management of their organization and new member recruitment.

One of his points, in his presentation to the Merrimack Valley Rotary, was that not having a good recruiting program would grow inactive membership. However, his key point was how to identify and communicate with a perspective member, and how to address their objections, thereby opening the door for Rotary membership.

In addition to understanding the methods of communication, he also spoke about finding hot pockets in order meet people and promote the Rotary. One important hot pocket he talked about was Town Meeting. He mentioned the fact that people who take the time to attend Town Meeting are also the type of people who will consider joining the Rotary.

Borkowski’s presentation to the Merrimack Valley Rotary was an abbreviated program, however it typically runs one day. For more information contact MVRotary@gmail.com

RI Presidential Conference - July 13th & 14th, 2007

http://www.rotaryzones31-32.org/Primary.htm - Please Review This And Register Now!

Jessica Glynn Ambassadorial Scholar

If you'd like to learn a little bit of the life of a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, read Jessica Glynn's blog about her life in Tanzania. Jessica is a current Ambassadorial Scholar studying in Tanzania Africa. Sounds like an interesting place and an incredible story!

The Link to her blog is posted in the blog roll.

District Website Meeting

The first meeting to discuss the future of the District website was held last night at the Piccadily Pub in Westborough. In attendance was Adam W., Greg R., Klaus H. and Dan L.

ClubRunner will be setting up a prototype environment for the team to test in. Greg will have the group questions and concerns answered at this Thursday's meeting with ClubRunner. ClubRunner will advise us when the test environment will be ready to test and Greg will hopefully have an update for us at District Assembly this weekend. The District goal is to be live and operational by July 1, 2007.

If everything goes to plan, ClubRunner will give clubs and the District some great tools and greatly simplify the RI and District reporting as well as help the club organization and exposure to the community.

Got questions?? Click on the header for a link to ClubRunner and see for yourself what it can do for your club. Neet stuff...

MV Rotary Learns The Hook, Line And Sinker Of Fishing

Fishermen and Fellow Rotarians John Duggan and Dan LeBlanc gave the members of the Merrimack Valley Rotary a lesson on April 4 in the basis of fishing. John casted out a hands-on presentation on the art of tying a knot and brought in a school of his rods to share with the group. In addition, Dan debuted a well-produced collection of fishing slides and video. Dan also shared with the group his collection of fishing rods which motivated the group to want to skip work and head towards the nearest fishing hole! The Merrimack Valley Rotary meets at Skips every Wednesday at 7:15 AM. For more information on the Merrimack Valley R0tary write to MVRotary@gmail.com Fish On!

Fishing for Dummies

Join us for a little fishing humor and instruction April 4th. The Merrimack Valley club will learn the secrets of the pro's with John Duggin and Dan LeBlanc as they try to de-mystify the art of angling. What will be presented is anyone's guess but one this is for certain, someone will be fined!!

Don't miss this Spring time fishing primer!