Happenings:                                    

Board of Directors Meeting  March 15, Time 4:30 pm
                                            NOTE CHANGE IN DATE
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Zoom Membership Meetings -
March 1- Membership Assembly/Zoom Social, 
 4:30 - 5:30 pm

March 15 - 5 pm meeting
Joining us for the meeting will be Jon-Michael "Max" Muise, USDA Rural Development, Southern VT Area Director

Due to COVID-19 measures in Vermont we are currently meeting on Zoom only. If you are interested in attending a meeting contact us here

Physical Meeting Location:
United Methodist Church
108 Main Street, Poultney
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​Other Events - 
Everyone Eats!
 WEDNESDAYS, 5 pm, 
​first come, first serve

  LOCATION:
ST. RAPHAEL'S CHURCH PROPERTY.

            Poultney Rotary Service Project
                    Distribution of Meals 

Happy 116th Birthday Rotary
February 23rd

DRIVE THROUGH FOOD DRIVE - 12/22/2020

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https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-stop-along-a-poultney-rail-trail-now-features-free-hot-drinks/Content?oid=32143236

Winter Placemaking Projects Promote Livability for All Ages

Three Vermont communities have each received $3,000 in grants from AARP Vermont to jump start Winter Placemaking Demonstration Projects that focus on creating public spaces and streets that are safe and accessible for everyone. Proposals from Burlington, Wilmington and Poultney were selected from a host of applications for the initiative. This is the third year of AARP’s Placemaking Grant Program. The program aims to help communities build social capital that can help lead to permanent change that supports healthy, active lifestyles for people of all ages and abilities.

Poultney: REclaimED (Makers Space) will build a Rest & Recharge station along the D&H Rail Trail at 169 Main Street in downtown Poultney. During winter, the structure will offer self-serve hot drink making. It will be accessible year-round for information, relaxation and art.
This information is part of an article from:
Vermont Business Magazine
Thu, 12/03/2020 - 6:01pm -

Club Supported Event
ARC Barn Picnic and Dance 
First Group Outing in months
The Duffy's barn

See more images here

Rotary members keep fighting and preventing disease during the pandemic

6,000 more masks to come to Poultney Community in early 2021

PAUL HARRIS FELLOW +3 Recipient Bill S. with President Mandy

​ROTARY DISTRICT 7870 
Steve Puderbaugh- District Governor ​​ 2020 -21

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District Newsletter 2021, Number 7 (January)
We have made it through 2020 and we can really look forward to
great things happening in 2021. I am very impressed and proud of
the work that you are all doing across the district to make a
difference in peoples’ lives.
Our country and our world need Rotary more than ever with our
focuses on peacebuilding and avenues of service. A lot of good
things are being accomplished across the district, some of which are in this newsletter. Please make sure to check out what is happening!
There is hope on the horizon as vaccination efforts continue to ramp up. . Vaccinations have started and our Rotarians and family members 65 and older can schedule their Covid immunization injection starting January 22nd. We had our first district-wide membership event for new and prospective members on January 12th. We had a great turn-out and we will plan on doing this again in March. I want to extend a big thank you to PDGs Sandy and Carolyn for leading this effort.

A Look Back in Rotary History

PictureGlenn C. Mead

Five years after the founding of Rotary, in 1910, there were five bachelors living together in Philadelphia. One of them, W. Warren Shaw, music instructor, had been a classmate of Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris, at the University of Vermont. That was the connection and the reason for the start of the Philadelphia Club which joined the family of Rotary Clubs, soon to be known as Rotary International.
The Rotary Club of Philadelphia was chartered on April 30, 1911, only the 19th in the world. The club has been the home to two Rotary International Presidents--Glenn Mead, the first International President (1912-1913) and Guy Gundaker (1923-1924).  Soon after the Club began, the very active Philadelphia members had founded other clubs in Harrisburg, PA; Washington, DC; Baltimore MD, and Camden, NJ. Decades later, many of the more than 50 clubs in the Greater Philadelphia area can trace their roots back to the Rotary Club of Philadelphia.
https://philadelphiarotary.org/history