The Rotary Club of Oxford Hills is proud to announce the 2014 Rotarian of the Year (ROY) is John Griffith.The selection committee, made up of the last 3 year's recipients, reviewed 15 nomination papers, and made their decision and choice based on several criteria: 1) Attendance 2) Club project participation 3) Community participation both as a Rotarian and as a non Rotarian 4) Promotion of Rotary within the schools and community 5) Committee involvement and follow through and 6) Club office held, quality of work, and committees chair. Some of the quotes used as 2013 ROY Curtis Cole made the presentation: "this person has been amazing to our club all year!” Another reminded us that “this person participates in ALL club projects.” Still another said that “everything he says he will do, HE DOES!” So congratulations to John Griffith. John is retired from serving Norway Savings Bank for many years as a loan officer. He resides in Norway with his wife, Shelley. Shown in the photo left to right, President Christina Twitchell, John Griffith, and Curtis Cole. Congratulations John!!
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our long-time member, Jack Richardson. Jack passed away on Thursday, Feb 12 at the age of 73. He was an Oxford Hills Rotarian who served as Club President, and then Secretary for many years, among the many other things he did for our club. He was Rotarian of the Year in 2005. According to the funeral notice in the paper, there will be a private memorial service for the family in the spring. Our thoughts are with his wife, Kathy and their family during this difficult time. Rest in Peace Jack, you will be missed by so many.
What a great way to support the Oxford Hills Community by using funds collected from our "Road Tolls" to buy food and deliver it to 4 of our local food pantries!
Shown here is Club President Christina welcoming our newest member, Joe Balchunas from Community Concepts along with his sponsor, George Rice. Welcome Joe!
Here is a photo of our new club t-shirts, to help make us more visible on our club projects and events. We want to help "LIght Up Rotary" with our new image!
Congratulations to Curtis Cole, (center) our Rotarian of the Year! Shown here, left is Ron Morse, last year's recipient and right, President Dave Preble.
Our Club will celebrate 30 years of doing the good of Rotary on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 5:30 pm. No morning meeting. It will be held at Tuscany Hall (formerly the Racquetball Club) 17 Olson Road, South Paris. BYOB social hour at 5:30, dinner at 6:30 followed by the program, including naming the 2013 Rotarian of the Year! For more info contact George Rice 890-3122 or President Dave.
We were awarded a Rotary Grant to help fund the new steel roofing job at the Alan Day Community Garden. Shown here are members during a work day. Many people from the Oxford Hills community benefit from the garden.
Several of our members joined 100+ other Rotarians and family members around the District for a Community Service Day Project at Camp Sunshine in Casco, Maine. Yard work, tree and shrub planting, flowers dug and replanted were among the many projects done. After the work was finished, a turkey/pig roast was enjoyed by all. What a great service project for a very worthy organization! Shown here, left to right, George & Patty Rice, Beth Abbott and President Dave Preble, in front, Beth's granddaughter Alexis.
Our entire Club would like to say 'THANK YOU' to the entire Oxford Hills Community for helping make our Annual Auction a huge success! From the many businesses and individuals who donated items, to Bessey Motor Sales and Ripley & Fletcher Ford who GENEROUSLY donated cars, White's Marina for the 2 boats and dock, to Young's Greenhouse for the many BEAUTIFUL plants, to WOXO, the Advertiser Democrat and the Sun Journal for their help with advertising, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Also to our many loyal customers, including Kiwanians and Rotarians, who came and bid high, and bid often! The Oxford Hills community is the BEST!!
The Oxford Hills Rotary Club is looking for good, clean, gently used items for their upcoming auction on Saturday, July 13 at 10 am at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. Acceptable items include wood furniture, collectibles of all kinds, tools, outdoor items, sports equipment, tools, antiques, jewelry, gift certificates and cash donations. Please, no major appliances, soiled or torn furniture, tires, computers, monitors or printers. If you or your employees, associates, family and/or friends have donations you’d like to make, or need items picked up, please call Curtis Cole at 461-3380 or Chris Summers at 577-8476. All proceeds help support the Oxford Hills Rotary Club projects including Dictionaries to all 3rd graders, May Day Play Day, Senior Cruise, Scholarships, Project Graduation, Holiday Food Baskets, Local Food Pantries and Students of the Month, to name a few.
Just a reminder, our weekly meeting for Wednesday, May 15th will be held at the Oxford Casino, 777 Casino Way, Oxford ME. We will meet at 7:30 am in the dining area. Enter thru the South entrance and go to your left to the dining area. Our guest speaker will be from Healthy Oxford Hills. Please join us!
Shown here are our 3 newest members, left...Curtis Smith from U.S. Cellular, Chris Summers from Chris's Electric, and Jack Sours from Oxford Casino! Welcome!
Our club will host the Youth Exchange students for their annual 'Ski Weekend' March 7-10th. Thursday evening, 3/7 is the Pizza Supper at the Carter's in Oxford. Our regular breakfast will be held on Friday 3/8 so to meet and greet the students. They will be here for the weekend of skiing at Shawnee Peak and Carter's X-Country. For more info, see President Bob. If you can find the time, it is a great opportunity to meet these exciting, young adults and learn a little bit about their country, share a little bit about our country, and learn more about the Youth Exchange Program!
Mary Lou Burns has reminded us that Friday, March 1st is 'Read Across America Day' to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss! Let her know if you can spare some time to read to elementary students and share the joy of a good story with them.
Again this year, we are collecting for the Oxford Hills Coat Room. They are in need of any spare coats, sweaters, mittens, gloves, hats, scarfs, boots, fleece, snowpants and anything else warm! These can be for kids to adults. So clean out those closets and bring in your items. We will get them to Norway Laundry to clean before they deliver them to the coat room. Let's meet and exceed last year's goal of 100 items, we can do it!!
Our special guests on Wednesday, Dec. 19th were the members of the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Chamber Choir under the direction of Dennis Boyd.
We are again selling our Rotary Cheese Wheels. They are 2 pound wheels of Vermont Sharp Cheddar cheese and are delicious! Each wheel comes packaged in a decorative box and are $17.00 each. Orders are being taken now with a deadline of November 21st. Delivery date is November 30th. If you'd like to order one or more, please contact Ron Morse at 743-6944 or Paul Thornfeldt at 744-9383 or any OH Rotarian. Orders of more than 20 can get a 10% discount. Makes a great gift! Order yours today! Update: We have sold over 200 wheels, they have been picked up and are ready to distribute. See Ron to get yours. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SOLD AND ALL WHO BOUGHT!!
Shown here is Rotarian Patty Rice who sold the $1,000 winning ticket to Bob Bizier! Other winners were: $500 Jerry Major, $125 winners: Beth Abbott, Monica Laverdiere, Lynne Schott, Georgia Vallee and Stan Parsons. $100 winners: John Griffith, George Richardson x 2, Amy Marden, Mike Grace, Kathy Laplante, Carol Richardson x 2, Rebecca Dowse and Lois Strauss. A great big "THANK YOU" to everyone who helped us out with this Scholarship Raffle!
The Oxford Hills Rotary Club in partner with the Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club held another very successful auction & flea Market. Both clubs would like to say 'thank you' to all the members for their hard work, all the businesses for their generous donations and the entire Oxford Hills Community for their continued support! Proceeds from the auction and flea market will benefit the many community charities and programs supported by these two service organizations.
The winner of the 2 tickets to see the Boston Red Sox vs The Tampa Bay Rays is Mike McDonnell. Congratulations Mike! The game is Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011 at Fenway Park, Boston, Mass., seats are in the Loge Section 129, Row LL (about 10-12 rows up-behind home plate!).
During the month of June the Oxford Hills Rotary Club passed the hat at every meeting to raise money to send to Joplin. The Club agreed to match the members donations up to $2000.00. The membership was able to send off a total of $2407 & $275=$2,682 to The Tornado victims!
The monies collected will be sent to the Joplin Missouri Rotary Club to be used directly for disaster relief.
Thank you to all who made donations to help out those less fortunate.
Many thanks to all our members and customers who helped make our 25th Annual Lobster & Steak Fest a huge success. There was musical entertainment by the "No Name Banjo Band' along with juggling, and our own moon bouce for the kids. Thank you for your support of the Oxford Hills Community! A special thank you to Grover Gundrilling for their very generous ticket purchase!
During Governor Gary's official visit, George Rice was presented with the Unsung Hero Award for his tremendous support, compassion and long time dedication to the Ideals of Service Above Self. George is the only charter member that has remained with the Rotary Club of Oxford Hills since the very beginning.
George was recognized and honored for all the wonderful things he does, often behind the scenes and unheralded, both at the club and district level.
Thank you George, for everything you do for the Club and the District!
We did it!! During the month of January, 2012, club members cleaned out their closets to donate more than 100 jackets along with 29 hats and 19 scarfs to the Rightstart Coat Room!! We reached President Beth's goal of 100 jackets with ease. Great job everyone!! Shown here are members Paul Thornfeldt, Glenn Huntley and Ron Morse.
Shown here is our newest member, Susan Cairns, who is a cosmetologist and owns her own beauty shop, Country Expressions in Norway. Shown here are President Beth, Susan, and co-sponsor Patty Rice. Missing from photo is co-sponsor Lois Strauss. Welcome Susan!!
A special "Oxford Hills" THANK YOU to Bessey Motors of South from both the Oxford Hills Rotary Club and the Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club for donating this car to our annual auction!
Congratulations to our 2010 Rotarian of the Year, David Preble. He was a former member and Past President of the Bethel Rotary Club, before becoming to our club. They trained him well! He is currenty our Annual Lobster and Steak Fest Chairperson, along with being our Foundation Chairperson. His enthusiasm for all the good Rotary does, certainly makes him a great choice for this year's honor and recognition. Congratulations and thank you David! We salute you!
We are all excited to see how ClubRunner will revolutionize the way we manage our day to day club activities, as well as communicate more effectively.
ClubRunner is a database-backed membership communication tool. Accessible by all club members, it allows you to communicate much more effectively, as well as saves you valuable time. Online registrations for events and volunteer activities, automatic email services, and an integrated e-Bulletin, among other features, makes it easy to promote your club's activities.
The website features easy to use content management tools, where you don't need to know HTML or FTP to update it. Accessible by any club member with a browser and Internet connection, it stays current with less effort.
Doxess, the creators of ClubRunner, welcome any comments or suggestions, and of course, bug reports. All correspondence related to ClubRunner is to be forwarded to clubrunner@doxess.com. For more information on ClubRunner, visit their website at www.clubrunner.ca.
No need to worry. ClubRunner secures all your private information using the latest security technologies.
Private information is secured using unique logins and passwords. Access to information is also restricted, for example, a member can only see a list of membership in his or her club, and his or her own personal information.
Data on the server is protected by TCP/IP filtering, firewall and anti-virus software that protect against any unauthorized intrusion. Backups of data are made daily and stored off-site.
Your information is kept private; to review ClubRunner's Privacy Policy, visit www.clubrunner.ca.
The Rotary Club of Oxford Hills is proud to announce the 2014 Rotarian of the Year (ROY) is John Griffith.The selection committee, made up of the last 3 year's recipients, reviewed 15 nomination papers, and made their decision and choice based on several criteria: 1) Attendance 2) Club project participation 3) Community participation both as a Rotarian and as a non Rotarian 4) Promotion of Rotary within the schools and community 5) Committee involvement and follow through and 6) Club office held, quality of work, and committees chair. Some of the quotes used as 2013 ROY Curtis Cole made the presentation: "this person has been amazing to our club all year!” Another reminded us that “this person participates in ALL club projects.” Still another said that “everything he says he will do, HE DOES!” So congratulations to John Griffith. John is retired from serving Norway Savings Bank for many years as a loan officer. He resides in Norway with his wife, Shelley. Shown in the photo left to right, President Christina Twitchell, John Griffith, and Curtis Cole. Congratulations John!!
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our long-time member, Jack Richardson. Jack passed away on Thursday, Feb 12 at the age of 73. He was an Oxford Hills Rotarian who served as Club President, and then Secretary for many years, among the many other things he did for our club. He was Rotarian of the Year in 2005. According to the funeral notice in the paper, there will be a private memorial service for the family in the spring. Our thoughts are with his wife, Kathy and their family during this difficult time. Rest in Peace Jack, you will be missed by so many.
What a great way to support the Oxford Hills Community by using funds collected from our "Road Tolls" to buy food and deliver it to 4 of our local food pantries!
Shown here is Club President Christina welcoming our newest member, Joe Balchunas from Community Concepts along with his sponsor, George Rice. Welcome Joe!
Here is a photo of our new club t-shirts, to help make us more visible on our club projects and events. We want to help "LIght Up Rotary" with our new image!
Congratulations to Curtis Cole, (center) our Rotarian of the Year! Shown here, left is Ron Morse, last year's recipient and right, President Dave Preble.
Our Club will celebrate 30 years of doing the good of Rotary on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 5:30 pm. No morning meeting. It will be held at Tuscany Hall (formerly the Racquetball Club) 17 Olson Road, South Paris. BYOB social hour at 5:30, dinner at 6:30 followed by the program, including naming the 2013 Rotarian of the Year! For more info contact George Rice 890-3122 or President Dave.
We were awarded a Rotary Grant to help fund the new steel roofing job at the Alan Day Community Garden. Shown here are members during a work day. Many people from the Oxford Hills community benefit from the garden.
Several of our members joined 100+ other Rotarians and family members around the District for a Community Service Day Project at Camp Sunshine in Casco, Maine. Yard work, tree and shrub planting, flowers dug and replanted were among the many projects done. After the work was finished, a turkey/pig roast was enjoyed by all. What a great service project for a very worthy organization! Shown here, left to right, George & Patty Rice, Beth Abbott and President Dave Preble, in front, Beth's granddaughter Alexis.
Our entire Club would like to say 'THANK YOU' to the entire Oxford Hills Community for helping make our Annual Auction a huge success! From the many businesses and individuals who donated items, to Bessey Motor Sales and Ripley & Fletcher Ford who GENEROUSLY donated cars, White's Marina for the 2 boats and dock, to Young's Greenhouse for the many BEAUTIFUL plants, to WOXO, the Advertiser Democrat and the Sun Journal for their help with advertising, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Also to our many loyal customers, including Kiwanians and Rotarians, who came and bid high, and bid often! The Oxford Hills community is the BEST!!
The Oxford Hills Rotary Club is looking for good, clean, gently used items for their upcoming auction on Saturday, July 13 at 10 am at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. Acceptable items include wood furniture, collectibles of all kinds, tools, outdoor items, sports equipment, tools, antiques, jewelry, gift certificates and cash donations. Please, no major appliances, soiled or torn furniture, tires, computers, monitors or printers. If you or your employees, associates, family and/or friends have donations you’d like to make, or need items picked up, please call Curtis Cole at 461-3380 or Chris Summers at 577-8476. All proceeds help support the Oxford Hills Rotary Club projects including Dictionaries to all 3rd graders, May Day Play Day, Senior Cruise, Scholarships, Project Graduation, Holiday Food Baskets, Local Food Pantries and Students of the Month, to name a few.
Just a reminder, our weekly meeting for Wednesday, May 15th will be held at the Oxford Casino, 777 Casino Way, Oxford ME. We will meet at 7:30 am in the dining area. Enter thru the South entrance and go to your left to the dining area. Our guest speaker will be from Healthy Oxford Hills. Please join us!
Shown here are our 3 newest members, left...Curtis Smith from U.S. Cellular, Chris Summers from Chris's Electric, and Jack Sours from Oxford Casino! Welcome!
Our club will host the Youth Exchange students for their annual 'Ski Weekend' March 7-10th. Thursday evening, 3/7 is the Pizza Supper at the Carter's in Oxford. Our regular breakfast will be held on Friday 3/8 so to meet and greet the students. They will be here for the weekend of skiing at Shawnee Peak and Carter's X-Country. For more info, see President Bob. If you can find the time, it is a great opportunity to meet these exciting, young adults and learn a little bit about their country, share a little bit about our country, and learn more about the Youth Exchange Program!
Mary Lou Burns has reminded us that Friday, March 1st is 'Read Across America Day' to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss! Let her know if you can spare some time to read to elementary students and share the joy of a good story with them.
Again this year, we are collecting for the Oxford Hills Coat Room. They are in need of any spare coats, sweaters, mittens, gloves, hats, scarfs, boots, fleece, snowpants and anything else warm! These can be for kids to adults. So clean out those closets and bring in your items. We will get them to Norway Laundry to clean before they deliver them to the coat room. Let's meet and exceed last year's goal of 100 items, we can do it!!
Our special guests on Wednesday, Dec. 19th were the members of the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Chamber Choir under the direction of Dennis Boyd.
We are again selling our Rotary Cheese Wheels. They are 2 pound wheels of Vermont Sharp Cheddar cheese and are delicious! Each wheel comes packaged in a decorative box and are $17.00 each. Orders are being taken now with a deadline of November 21st. Delivery date is November 30th. If you'd like to order one or more, please contact Ron Morse at 743-6944 or Paul Thornfeldt at 744-9383 or any OH Rotarian. Orders of more than 20 can get a 10% discount. Makes a great gift! Order yours today! Update: We have sold over 200 wheels, they have been picked up and are ready to distribute. See Ron to get yours. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SOLD AND ALL WHO BOUGHT!!
Shown here is Rotarian Patty Rice who sold the $1,000 winning ticket to Bob Bizier! Other winners were: $500 Jerry Major, $125 winners: Beth Abbott, Monica Laverdiere, Lynne Schott, Georgia Vallee and Stan Parsons. $100 winners: John Griffith, George Richardson x 2, Amy Marden, Mike Grace, Kathy Laplante, Carol Richardson x 2, Rebecca Dowse and Lois Strauss. A great big "THANK YOU" to everyone who helped us out with this Scholarship Raffle!
The Oxford Hills Rotary Club in partner with the Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club held another very successful auction & flea Market. Both clubs would like to say 'thank you' to all the members for their hard work, all the businesses for their generous donations and the entire Oxford Hills Community for their continued support! Proceeds from the auction and flea market will benefit the many community charities and programs supported by these two service organizations.
The winner of the 2 tickets to see the Boston Red Sox vs The Tampa Bay Rays is Mike McDonnell. Congratulations Mike! The game is Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011 at Fenway Park, Boston, Mass., seats are in the Loge Section 129, Row LL (about 10-12 rows up-behind home plate!).
During the month of June the Oxford Hills Rotary Club passed the hat at every meeting to raise money to send to Joplin. The Club agreed to match the members donations up to $2000.00. The membership was able to send off a total of $2407 & $275=$2,682 to The Tornado victims!
The monies collected will be sent to the Joplin Missouri Rotary Club to be used directly for disaster relief.
Thank you to all who made donations to help out those less fortunate.
Many thanks to all our members and customers who helped make our 25th Annual Lobster & Steak Fest a huge success. There was musical entertainment by the "No Name Banjo Band' along with juggling, and our own moon bouce for the kids. Thank you for your support of the Oxford Hills Community! A special thank you to Grover Gundrilling for their very generous ticket purchase!
During Governor Gary's official visit, George Rice was presented with the Unsung Hero Award for his tremendous support, compassion and long time dedication to the Ideals of Service Above Self. George is the only charter member that has remained with the Rotary Club of Oxford Hills since the very beginning.
George was recognized and honored for all the wonderful things he does, often behind the scenes and unheralded, both at the club and district level.
Thank you George, for everything you do for the Club and the District!
We did it!! During the month of January, 2012, club members cleaned out their closets to donate more than 100 jackets along with 29 hats and 19 scarfs to the Rightstart Coat Room!! We reached President Beth's goal of 100 jackets with ease. Great job everyone!! Shown here are members Paul Thornfeldt, Glenn Huntley and Ron Morse.
Shown here is our newest member, Susan Cairns, who is a cosmetologist and owns her own beauty shop, Country Expressions in Norway. Shown here are President Beth, Susan, and co-sponsor Patty Rice. Missing from photo is co-sponsor Lois Strauss. Welcome Susan!!
A special "Oxford Hills" THANK YOU to Bessey Motors of South from both the Oxford Hills Rotary Club and the Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club for donating this car to our annual auction!
Congratulations to our 2010 Rotarian of the Year, David Preble. He was a former member and Past President of the Bethel Rotary Club, before becoming to our club. They trained him well! He is currenty our Annual Lobster and Steak Fest Chairperson, along with being our Foundation Chairperson. His enthusiasm for all the good Rotary does, certainly makes him a great choice for this year's honor and recognition. Congratulations and thank you David! We salute you!
We are all excited to see how ClubRunner will revolutionize the way we manage our day to day club activities, as well as communicate more effectively.
ClubRunner is a database-backed membership communication tool. Accessible by all club members, it allows you to communicate much more effectively, as well as saves you valuable time. Online registrations for events and volunteer activities, automatic email services, and an integrated e-Bulletin, among other features, makes it easy to promote your club's activities.
The website features easy to use content management tools, where you don't need to know HTML or FTP to update it. Accessible by any club member with a browser and Internet connection, it stays current with less effort.
Doxess, the creators of ClubRunner, welcome any comments or suggestions, and of course, bug reports. All correspondence related to ClubRunner is to be forwarded to clubrunner@doxess.com. For more information on ClubRunner, visit their website at www.clubrunner.ca.
No need to worry. ClubRunner secures all your private information using the latest security technologies.
Private information is secured using unique logins and passwords. Access to information is also restricted, for example, a member can only see a list of membership in his or her club, and his or her own personal information.
Data on the server is protected by TCP/IP filtering, firewall and anti-virus software that protect against any unauthorized intrusion. Backups of data are made daily and stored off-site.
Your information is kept private; to review ClubRunner's Privacy Policy, visit www.clubrunner.ca.
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Shown here is Rotarian Patty Rice who sold the $1,000 winning ticket to Bob Bizier! Other winners were: $500 Jerry Major, $125 winners: Beth Abbott, Monica Laverdiere, Lynne Schott, Georgia Vallee and Stan Parsons. $100 winners: John Griffith, George Richardson x 2, Amy Marden, Mike Grace, Kathy Laplante, Carol Richardson x 2, Rebecca Dowse and Lois Strauss. A great big "THANK YOU" to everyone who helped us out with this Scholarship Raffle!
Shown here are the Rotary International President, Sakuji Tanaka shaking hands with our Club President, Bob Schott. 
During the month of June the Oxford Hills Rotary Club passed the hat at every meeting to raise money to send to Joplin. The Club agreed to match the members donations up to $2000.00. The membership was able to send off a total of $2407 & $275=$2,682 to The Tornado victims!
Shown here is our newest member, Susan Cairns, who is a cosmetologist and owns her own beauty shop, Country Expressions in Norway. Shown here are President Beth, Susan, and co-sponsor Patty Rice. Missing from photo is co-sponsor Lois Strauss. Welcome Susan!!
A special "Oxford Hills" THANK YOU to Bessey Motors of South from both the Oxford Hills Rotary Club and the Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club for donating this car to our annual auction!
