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 2012 Valentine's Day Dance (VERGENNES, VT) – The Vergennes Area Rotary Club is pleased to announce the upcoming Valentine’s Day Dance, happening Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at the Vergennes Eagles Club at 67 New Haven Road. The dance will feature the band “The Hitmen.”
The fun starts at 7:30pm. A delicious variety of snacks, a silent auction featuring exciting items and a cash bar will be available.
Tickets are $20 each, or $30 for a couple. Tickets can be purchased by calling 877-6890 or by visiting Classic Stitching in Vergennes.
The Vergennes Area Rotary Club is pleased to announce the winners of this years Holiday Decoration Contest, an annual challenge for both homes and businesses to decorate their front yards and windows in a friendly competition for prizes.
 Father Yvon Royer & Ms. Bachmann
The winner in the home category of a $50 gift card to Shaws is Alice Bachmann. Ms. Bachmann is receiving a check for $50 from Father Yvon Royer of the Rotary Club.
 Susan Burdick (left) & Lynn Jackson-Donnelly
The winner in the business category of a $100 donation to the charity of its choice is Sweet Charity, who donated its winnings to Women of Wisdom, a local supporter of Hospice.
Acting Rotary President Susan Burdick (left) is presenting a check for $100 to Lynn Jackson-Donnelly of Women of Wisdom. The winner of the decoration contest for businesses was Sweet Charity, who named Women of Wisdom as their charity of choice to accept the prize.
 Join us for a Holiday Fundraiser and personalized Lia Sophia Jewelry shopping experience just in time for the holidays.
Your Hostess: Lynn Donnelly & Susan Burdick
Place: Lynn’s House – 8 Green Meadow Acres
Date: Friday 12/9 6pm
Please RSVP to (802) 877-2134
Proceeds from this event will be donated to the Vergennes Rotary Charities. If you can not attend the event and/or would like more information and to shop online – please visit the Lia Sophia website
(VERGENNES, VT) – The Vergennes Rotary Club in partnership with the Bixby Memorial Library announces the 2011 winners of the “Booked for Bikes” program. A joint literacy program designed to empower children ages 5-15 to read books during the summer months. Pictured above are the 8 winners along with respective family members. Maya Praamsma, Ben Praamsma, Daniel Anguish, Acadia Clark, Abigail Dobson, Alex Rice, Jacob Russell, and Richard LaFountaine. Each winner will receive a new Trek mountain bike provided by Earl’s Cyclery in Williston, VT. In the back row are program administrators Scott Gaines from Vergennes Rotary and Rachel Plant of the Bixby Library. Now in its 14th consecutive year, our program has empowered area youth to read more than 7,000 books and has given away 59 Trek Mountain bikes and 6 tricycles. Missing in our photo is another program sponsor, Safe Kids Addison County. Chuck Welch and his volunteers have donated more than 800 bike helmets and sponsored numerous bike riding programs – a great addition to our program and incredible support for our local youth.
(Additional photos of individual winners available)
For more information, please contact:
Scott W. Gaines CIC, AAI
Gaines Insurance Agency, Inc.
P. O. Box 133 – 154 Monkton Road
Vergennes, VT 05491
802-877-2878 Tel.
802-877-2682 Fax.
802-324-6409 Cell
scott@gainesinsurance.com
 (Left to right) Nancy Wood receives a check for $250 from Vergennes Rotary President Rob McNamara and member George Koplinka, who sold Nancy the wining ticket. (VERGENNES, VT) – The Vergennes Rotary Club is happy to present a check for $250 to Nancy Wood for having the winning duck in the annual Rubber Duckie Race held on Vergennes Day.
The 2nd place winner was Rachel Steponaitis, and 3rd place went to Linda Goodspeed. The winner of the Corporate Duck race was Classic Stitching in Vergennes.
The Rubber Duckie Race is the Vergennes Rotary’s largest fundraiser of the year, and allows the club to donate scholarships of $750 each to six local high school seniors. This year the club sold more than 1200 small ducks and 75 corporate ducks.
 The Annual Vergennes Day Rubber Duckie Race is fast approaching! And now you can purchase your Rubber Duckie online via PayPal today. Vergennes Day is Saturday, August 27 and the race will be at the Falls Basin Park at 3:30pm. Tickets are $3.00 each, or 4 for $10.00. The First Place prize is $250, Second Place is $100 and Third Place is $50. All proceeds benefit the Vergennes Rotary Scholarship Fund.
If you would like Tickets to be mailed to you, please add your mailing address on the PayPal form. Otherwise your numbers will be emailed to you and added to our Master Race list.
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 Rotarians & friends A group of Rotarians again met up early on May 7 – Vermont’s Green-Up Day to clean up around Vergennes.
 New Rotary Members & Sponsors The Club inducted two new members in April; Tim Vincent and Ian McGaughey are new Rotarians. Congratulations and Welcome, Ian and Tim. Ian was sponsored by Rotarian Tony Staynings. Tim was sponsored by Rotarians Lynn Jackson-Donnelly and Susan Burdick.
 On behalf of the Vergennes Rotary Club, we wish to thank all of our supporters of this year’s event. We are so grateful for the continued support of the Vergennes American Legion for allowing us to use their facilities. Thank you to our local merchants and businessowners for their generous prize raffle donations, and to the many card dealers, our craps table experts Tom Denecker & David Bannister, and to our door prize donors, Denecker Chevrolet, Landmark Financial Services, & Gaines Insurance Agency. We could not make this event happen each year without the continued and loyal support of our community. This annual event helps fund our student scholarship program, which is a major focus of our club activities. This year’s event generated $1,500, which we will use to fund our scholarship program.
Thank you again for your support and most importantly to our friends who attend the event. We hope to see you again next year. If you would like to learn more about Rotary and our club, simply e-mail us at info.@vergennesrotary.org.
Anthony Panella, Pres.
Rotary Club of Vergennes
“The Mavericks”
Nicole was a Rotary Exchange student for 6 months and has traveled to Tanzania, East Africa to educate and support the children of that region. She worked with kids elementary age through middle and high school. She currently is in her third year at Champlain College. She plans on traveling back to Africa at some point to continue supporting the young people there. An impressive and inspiring humanitarian experience.
View her PowerPoint presentation here
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