NEXT MEETING: March 13, 2025
12:00 p.m. at Stoneforge

🎉 Happy 104th Anniversary to the Rotary Club of Taunton! 🎉

We’re celebrating 104 years of service, friendship, and making a difference in our community. And what’s a birthday without cake? 🎂 Cheers to all our members—past, present, and future—who make our club so special!

After our meeting, President-Elect Bob was off to the PELS Conference in Framingham.

 

A message from Bob: 

What an Inspiring Weekend at Rotary Northeast PELS!

Attending the Rotary Northeast Presidents-Elect Leadership Seminar (PELS), formerly known as PETS, was truly inspiring.

I had the opportunity to deepen my understanding of Rotary, exchange ideas with over 500 leaders from seven Rotary districts, and network with fellow club Presidents-Elect. It was a pleasure connecting with our incoming District Governor Nicole Brien (Woonsocket), District Governor-Elect Joel Kopke (Plymouth Sunrise), District Governor Nominee Carl Alves (Dartmouth), and Area 7 Assistant Governor Darcy Lee (Fall River).

This year’s seminar, designed by the District Governors, embraced the theme “Learning with Fun and Adapting with Purpose.” The plenary sessions covered:

1. Engaging Humanity
2. Elevating Our Foundation
3. Rotary Action Plan:
   • Increase Impact
   • Expand Our Reach
   • Enhance Participant Engagement
   • Increase Our Ability to Adapt
4. Unite for Good
5. Membership:
   • The Club Experience
   • Partnerships
   • Satellite Clubs
   • Club Plans

Additional sessions focused on Foundation grants (both global and district), Public Image (including proper usage and storytelling), and aligning club plans with the Rotary Action Plan and its four priorities.

The sessions were dynamic and led by inspiring speakers, including the incoming Rotary International President, Mário César Martins de Camargo. He encouraged us to "Unite for Good" by embracing growth, service, and connection as part of a plan to expand “the best-qualified team of volunteers on the planet."

 

I look forward to sharing more insights from PELS in the coming days. Stay tuned for updates.

 

 

📍 Upcoming Rotary events that Bob will be representing the club at are below. Mark your calendars if you'd like to join:

• March 5 – District Assembly
• End of May – District Conference

Family Fun Day–  Sponsorship Forms Now Available!

Get ready for Family Fun Day 2025! 🎉 All necessary forms for this year’s event are now available for download on our Rotary Club’s website. Please help make this event a success by sharing the sponsor and ad forms with your networks! They are clear, easy to fill out, and can be downloaded below (or on our website) for easy printing and emailing.

Family Fun Day Sponsorship Letter Template 2025

Family Fun Day Sponsorship Form 2025

Family Fun Day Ad Form 2025

✅ Police detail is booked!
✅ Reached out to the new owners of the overflow parking lot – awaiting their response.
✅ Contacted H&L Bloom for a shuttle bus quote.
✅ Rotary insurance has been shared with Camp Riverside.

🎉 AHS and TMLP are officially on board as sponsors—thank you for your support! Since our meeting Co-Operative Productions and Mechanics Bank are in too!

How to Get Involved:
🔗 Use the links above to ask contacts in your network to sponsor this event.
📄 Need a paper form? Pick one up in person at a meeting!