It is now time to plan your Polar Plunge to raise funds for Polio Eradication! Here are the top ten clubs in Polio giving to date: 1. Beverly, $7,000; 2. Marblehead, $4,400; 3. Reading, $2,480; 4. Wilmington, $1,550; 5. Arlington; $1,100; 6. Lynn, $1,000; 7. Rockport, $931; 8. Andover, $550; 9. Lexington; $358.75; 10. Amesbury, $350.
We are inviting all clubs to organize a local Polar Plunge in their community (hence Distributed). Pick any date this winter (i.e. between now and Opening Day at Fenway Park). Plunge any way you want (ocean, dunk tank, swimming pool, jacuzzi, etc.)
Your club can do it alone or partner with other clubs around you. The Belle Isle Rotary and Parkway Rotary Clubs are organizing a joint event on Saturday, February 1, 2025. The doors will open at 9am and the plunge will take place at 11am (which is high tide and there is a ramp we walk down and plunge from!) So, if you want to join them, please reach out and RSVP to Joe Steffano, Vera Carducci, Tom Hankard or Terry Rezendes Curran.
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You are invited to join us at the White Mountain Hotel & Resort in No. Conway, NH from Friday, Feb. 28th to Sunday, Mar. 2nd for our Winter Getaway. Rotarians, their families and friends are all invited.
Thank you and congratulations to the Gloucester High School Interact Club for bringing back their annual Pathways Children's Holiday Party! The party provided fun, games, goodies, lunch, and a visit from Santa to the children served by Pathways for Children. An annual tradition for many years, the children's party was cancelled for several years due to the pandemic. 
The Rotary Club of Chelsea had as a recent guest speaker Laura Cardona, Executive Producer at NBC10BOSTON and TelemundoNI.
In November, the nomination committee selected Tim Kelley, from the Reading Rotary Club as the District Governor Nominee Designate (DGND). An email announcement went out to the entire District in November indicating his selection and asking for any challenges. No challenges were submitted by any club in our District by the December 31st deadline.
At a recent “Breakfast of Champions,” hosted by the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor, representatives of the extensive Marblehead sailing community and leaders in the effort to improve the environment were honored. Featured speaker was Maureen McKinnon, the Paralympic sailor who won gold in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. (The actual medal is an exquisite circle of jade.) 
All Rotary members should make promoting Rotary's Public Image a priority. Promoting PI is a proven strategy to increase your club's impact and add members.
At Beverly Rotary's last meeting in December, we had a wonderful atmosphere when the Beverly High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Adam Costa, came to add joy to our meeting. They played so many wonderful songs. We even got to sing-along! This is an annual tradition at our Club. We presented Adam with a $500 check towards expenses of the Jazz Club.
The Salem Rotary Club hosted its annual Department of Children and Families (DCF) Holiday party at Kernwood Country Club, bringing joy to foster families across the North Shore. The event featured entertainment including a visit from Santa Claus himself.
The Zone Membership Webinar Series continues January 6, 2025, at 7:30 pm. 
Each year Reading Rotary partners with ReadingCares and the Town of Reading to run the Adopt-a-Family project at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Christmas distribution day was December 19. These community partners coordinate this long-standing community giving program. Receiving families are matched anonymously with donor families and/or groups to provide meal and gifts at Christmas and meals at Thanksgiving. Donors drop off in the first shift, then recipient families pick up their food and gifts during a later shift.
Last week the Swampscott Rotary Club delivered over 85 Holiday fruit baskets to elderly, widowed and ill residents of Swampscott and Nahant.
The Wakefield Rotary Club recently announced the election of its new officers and directors at its Annual Meeting. The club elects new leadership each year in accordance with its by-laws. The 2025-2026 Board of Directors include Margie Daniels, Joie Gerrish, Mike Sullivan, Jill McWilliam, Craig Calabrese, Wendy Maguire (Immediate Past President) and Amy Luckiewicz (Past Presidents’ Representative). Suzanne Bowering will serve as Club Secretary, Barbara Worley as Club Treasurer and Frank Fiorentino as Sergeant-at-Arms. Paul Adams was elected Vice President/President-Elect and Kathy Boyle will serve as President for the 2024-2025 term.
This holiday season, the Winchester Rotary Club and Winchester High School’s Interact Club joined forces to deliver joy and warmth to our community. Together, they provided over 100 holiday meals to senior citizens residing at the Winchester Housing Authority.
Dear Rotarians:
The Rotary Club of Chelsea had as their guest speaker at a recent meeting, WBZ Meteorologist Jacob Wykoff. Mr. Wykoff gave a background on how he got into the weather forecasting profession, how weather is forecast, the expected accuracy rate and why the weather varies within the eastern Massachusetts region. He took questions for 15 minutes and answered most. Also hosted as guest of the Club were the 2024 -2025 officers of the Chelsea High School Interact Club. 
Twice a year the Rotary Club of Woburn takes over the kitchen at the Woburn Senior Center and cooks a hot breakfast for about 65 senior citizens. Lead by Rotarian and chef Jim Major, the Rotarians make scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes and strawberries while the seniors are entertained by the Irish/American musician Mossie Caughlan. Dunkin' helps to sponsor the event by providing coffee. It's always a fun time and the seniors appreciate and enjoy the morning with breakfast and sing-along favorite tunes by Mossie. 
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