Bobbie Botticelli is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her business Colonial Manor.  Congratulations, Bobbie!

Reading Rotary was well represented at the Boston Marathon.  John Doherty, who has been dealing with an injury, was able to run and finish the race.  John ran to raise funds for Rosie's Place.

 

Tyler Fleming, running for Title IX Girls, finished in an incredible time of 3:09.  Wow!  We are thoroughly impressed.

 

Rotary recently made a donation to St. Vincent De Paul Society.  SVDP is an organization run out of St. Agnes and St. Athanasius Churches in Reading and provides emergency assistance to community members in need.   Here SVDP Chair Bob Finigan and team are pictured with Rotarian Tim Kelley.

 

On April 26 a crew of Rotarians delivered trees to every 5th grade student in Reading Schools.  This is a tradition in our club since at least 1985, when Rotary took over the project from the defunct Jaycees.  Rotary partners with the Town, we purchase and deliver the trees, the DPW packages the saplings, as an important part of Reading's designation as a Tree City.  This year we gave out Eastern Redbud trees, a beautiful flowering tree.  Thanks to KC for organizing the project and the team of Bobbie, Mark, John, Pooja, Mike and Tim who delivered them to the students at the 5 elementary schools.  Pictured here is Bobbie with students at Birch Meadow School.

 

Rotary's Taste of Metro North event is scheduled for June 12 to be part of the Reading 375 festivities.  Brian Snell and Mike Bonsey are co-chairing.  They will be looking for help on this committee.  Mark your calendars now.

 

We will also be in the midst of planning for the 2019 Fall Street Faire and we will also need lots of hands for that planning, too.

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