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Comedy Night - Auction

Giggles Comedy Club at Prince PizzaThe Rotary Club of Hamilton-Wenham will be holding its Annual Comedy Night on Thursday December 3rd 2009 at 6:30 PM at Prince Pizzeria (Giggles Comedy Club) in Saugus , MA. All Proceeds from this event will benefit the club’s EDUCATIONAL Programs which include Annual Scholarships, the 3rd Grade Dictionary Project, and the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. The night includes a pizza dinner, cash bar, and a great compliment of professional comedians. We will also be holding an auction that includes some great items including a trip to Bermuda in a private oceanfront villa! This is a great opportunity to enjoy a fun night out, pick up some great holiday gifts and benefit a very worthy cause. Tickets for this event are $25 and can be purchased in a number of ways. They are available at Nazir’s Fine Jewelry, drop us a line and we'll make sure that you will have your seats reserved, or at the door. You must be 21 to attend. We will be listing all of the details and have a list of the auction items. Please join us and help make this event a success so that we may continue our educational endeavors. Thank You!

Raffle Calendar Call for Entries

Raffle CalendarRotary Calender Photo Contest - Thank you for entering photographs for last year’s calender. The Hamilton-Wenham Rotary Club’s 2009 Raffle Calendar was a big success. Approximately 650 calendars were sold. We are going to do a 2010 calender and wanted to give you another chance to submit photographs.

Here are the details for our 2010 Raffle Calendar photo contest:
Theme: Hamilton and Wenham in the four seasons of the year.
Winners: Cash prizes to be announced. Winning entries will be published in the Hamilton Wenham Rotary Club’s 2009 Raffle Calendar accompanied by the photographers’ names and captions.
Deadline for entries: The pictures must be received by August 1, 2009. The winners will be notified the following week.
Entries: Each participant should send an 8 x 10 glossy, hard copy print of no more than five pictures to: Hamilton Wenham Rotary, P.O. Box 2771, South Hamilton MA 01982; or contestants may drop off their photographs at the Hamilton Fire Station 265 Bay Road Hamilton. The third option is to send digital files of the photographs to info "atmark" hwrotaryclub.org. (Or use our convenient contact page.) In order to reproduce well at an 8 x 10 size, they would need to be at least 6 MP (megapixels) in size. Photographs cannot have been previously published. The photographs should include information describing the picture for a caption, the photographer’s name and address, and a telephone number or e-mail that Rotary can use to notify winners during the week of August 8.
Additional Information: The 2010 calendars will be sold for $20 each. The buyers of the calendar also have a chance for a $50 weekly drawing prize ($250 one week in June and one in December of 2010). Rotary plans to sell more than 650 calendars this year. Proceeds from this raffle calendar will be used for local educational purposes, including college scholarships, the third grade dictionary project, and Rotary Youth Exchange, as well as other worthy community and international projects. Four Hamilton-Wenham high school students went abroad to study for the school year under the Rotary Youth Exchange program. For further information, you may contact Philip Stevens at (978)468-0047 or E mail at pwsjr108 "atmark" hotmail.com (or again use our contact page). Thank you again for participating.

Wine Tasting - May 17th

Beverly Wine and Beer CompanyWe will host our second annual delightful evening of great food and wine tasting. The event is on Saturday, May 17th at the Hamilton Wenham Community House. The Community Package Store will help with the selections of wine that will be available for sampling. Funds raised will benefit various Rotary programs in Hamilton and Wenham. Tickets are only $50 and include all food and wine. There will be raffles of wine and other goodies. Come and join the fun.


Installation Dinner - June 20th

Incoming President Tom Ackerman gives a gift to outgoing President Tom Tanous. Our annual Installation Dinner was held Thursday evening at Pingree School in Hamilton. The officers for 2007-2008 took their oath of office. A number of members received perfect attendance awards. The Rae Scott Community Service Award was given to Heather Ford for the tireless energy she provides to a number of much needed local services. Bobbie Shaw, Leon Purrington and Charles Vorrias were awarded with Paul Harris Fellowships for their contributions to the club and for their "Service above Self". For more pictures from the evening, please visit our Photo Page, Installation Dinner Photos: Page 1 and Page 2.

Exhange Students Visit - June 15th

Exchange students Max Sklar, Anneke Johnson, Brianna Manzelli and Kelsey O'Connor

We were visited by the students who are partaking of the long-term Rotary Youth Exchange Program being sponsored by our club. Pictured above are Max Sklar, Anneke Johnson, Brianna Manzelli and Kelsey O'Connor. Max and Anneke are headed to different towns in Argentina. Brianna is headed to Finland. Kelsey is headed to India. Kelsey will be journaling her trip on her website. The club membership was impressed with the drive and intellectual curiousity exhibited by these students. We are looking forward to hearing of their travels when they return. Check out the Photo Section for more Youth Exchange photos from this morning.

BriannaBrianna has created a website to highlight her travels. Check out the photo pages.




KelseyKelsey's website is full of great images as well. It looks like she is having a great time in India.





A Very Successful Auction

Auctioneer Kirby Brand lets Jim Collett do the color commentary.

Thanks to everyone that made our annual Winter Fundraising Auction/ Comedy Night on Wednesday, January 31st, a success. We had a great turnout. The items auctioned and the admission proceeds helped us meet and pass our fundraising goals for the evening. Some surprise items added to the mix by an anonymous donor during the course of the auction caused a great amount of excitement. The proceeds raised will go directly for scholarships for graduating seniors at Hamilton Wenham Regional High School.

Thanks to everyone that attended and helped us reach and exceed our goals!

2/2/07 Wendall Waters

Wendall Waters of the Hamilton Wenham Chronicle spoke to the changing nature of reporting the news for a small community paper. She explained that the internet has affected even the weekly newspaper's delivery of the news. Some items are released to the paper's website before they are published in newsprint.



1/31/07 Winter Fundraising Auction/Comedy Night

Thanks to everyone that made our annual Winter Fundraising Auction/ Comedy Night at Giggles in Saugus on Wednesday, January 31st, a success. Comedians included Mark Riley, Bob Siebel and Kevin Knox. (And these guys.) We had a great turnout. We raised over and above our goals for the evening. The proceeds raised will go directly for scholarships for graduating seniors at Hamilton Wenham Regional High School.

12/16/06 Bell Ringing

Rotarians helped in the ringing of the bells for the Salvation Army this past December. Over $1000 was collected and nearly matched the efforts of previous years that were spread over two Saturdays. We would like to thank all those that contributed during the season of giving.


11/10/06 Celtic Sighting

On November 10th we were fortunate enough to be able to enjoy a visit by Boston Celtics great Jo-Jo White. As Red Auerbach passed on October 28th, Mr. White spent much of his time talking about Mr. Auerbach and the impact he had on Mr. White's life and the sport of basketball. Visit our Photos page for more.

10/20/06 Dictionary Distribution

The Hamilton Wenham Rotary Club supplied each of the Third Grade students of Winthrop Elementary School, Cutler Elementary School and Buker Elementary School with their own dictionary.

8/18/06 Scoreboard

The Hamilton Wenham Rotary Club raised over $5,000 to help provide the Hamilton Wenham Regional High School with a new scoreboard for the football and soccer field.


6/15/06 Gazebo Painted

The Hamilton Wenham Rotary Club funded and organized the painting of the Gazebo in Patton Park. The Gazebo is a popular location for band concerts in the summer. Many people also like to use the Gazebo for photographing their wedding parties, proms, and other special events.