 On March 12 the Somerville Club welcomed Eileen Ryan, Founder of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston. Eileen gave an excellent and animated presentation on current and future environmental issues with plastics. She updated the Club on proposed bills in the Massachusetts Legislature and provided materials for members to become active in the process. The Club looks forward to following up with Eileen and Andrea Lacroix, the District Environmental Chair. Pictured here left to right are Sylvia Walker, Co-President; Gene Ferraro, incoming Co-President; Eileen Ryan, Beyond Plastics Greater Boston and Gilda Nogueira, Somerville Member
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Somerville Rotary Gets Update on Plastics and the Environment
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2024-03-29 04:00:00Z |
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Save the Date
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David Worzala
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2024-03-25 04:00:00Z |
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 Somerville Rotary supports RESPOND, a local organization working to end Domestic Violence. This organization provides a safe living environment for victims of domestic violence, including children. Rotarians collect much needed personal care items for adults and children at RESPOND’s residential facility. The long term relationship between Somerville Rotary and RESPOND helps support the well-being and safety of individuals and families in difficult situations.
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A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE CAN BE LIFE SAVING!
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2024-02-21 05:00:00Z |
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The Somerville Rotary Club is committed to supporting Rotary International’s END POLIO NOW campaign. Club members can be seen making donations in response to District 7930’s Get Moving for Polio campaign. Partnering with the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, Rotary is close to eliminating this disease which affects primarily children. More funding is needed to totally eradicate the disease with cases reduced 99.9% since 1988.
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Ending Polio - Still Important
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2024-02-21 05:00:00Z |
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One of the Somerville Rotary Club’s longstanding goals has been to help reduce food insecurity in the Somerville Community. Through Food Drives and Fundraising the Club delivers much needed supplies to local non-profits assisting needy clients. 
PROJECT SOUP STAFF WITH DELIVERY FROM FOOD DRIVE
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Tackling Food Insecurity
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2024-02-21 05:00:00Z |
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 Animals make a big difference in many peoples lives. In these challenging times many pet owners have difficulty purchasing food and supplies for their animals. The choice is often “Do I eat?” or “Does my pet eat?” Somerville Rotary Club has partnered with the Somerville Animal Food Pantry which is spearheaded by Morgan Redmond. This small but important entity collects and delivers food and pet supplies to individuals who need help caring for their pets. If you would like to volunteer to support this effort please contact Sylvia Walker at sjw.aflacgmail.com.
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Animal's Matter too
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2024-02-15 05:00:00Z |
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On April 11, 2023 the Somerville Rotary Club hosted a bowling fundraiser at Flatbread's in Davis Square as part of their Benefit Bake program to promote community organizations in Somerville. The evening was great fun and helped raise funds for local non-profits.
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Bowling for Rotary
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2023-04-20 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su, President 2018-2019 on Jun 06, 2019
On June 6, 2019 - Somerville Rotary's Installation Dinner of New Officers and Board of Directors 2019-2020 at the Mt. Vernon Restaurant & Pub in Somerville was quite entertaining thanks to our Master of Ceremony, Past-President, Gene Ferraro's rendition of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood! Congratulations to all the incoming Somerville Rotary Officers, Board of Directors, especially to 2019-2020 President Cyrus Amin, President-Elect Jen Atwood as well as Congrats to all the Honored Paul Harris Fellows! Lastly, thank you to all the Somerville Rotary members for making and achieving such a successful Rotary Year for me as your 2018-2019 President. THANK YOU! You can see the Installation Dinner pictures on our FACEBOOK PAGE LINK HERE. -Kevin Su, President 2018-2019
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Somerville Rotary Installation of Officers and Board of Directors 2019-2020 at Mt. Vernon Restaurant and Pub
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Kevin Su, President 2018-2019
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2019-06-06 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Jun 02, 2019
Thank you to Somerville Rotary's new member Jazir Jalal of Rockland Trust for representing Somerville Rotary at the East Somerville Main Streets CARNAVAL on Sunday, June 2 2019. Thank you for your service Jazir! - Kevin Su, President 2018-2019
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Somerville Rotary at East Somerville Main Streets CARNAVAL on June 2 2019
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Kevin Su
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2019-06-02 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su - President 2018-2019 on May 28, 2019
Thank you to Greg Jenkins from Somerville Arts Committee for speaking to Somerville Rotary. Greg’s presentation included the historical contrabiution in changing the diversity of Arts and Cultures of City of Somerville which is still evident today and beyond. Thank you Greg for making Somerville a better place and keep up the great work. - Kevin Su, President 2018-2019 
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Guest Speaker Greg Jenkins from Somerville Arts Committee
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Kevin Su - President 2018-2019
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2019-05-28 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on May 21, 2019
Guest Speaker Brooks Tomb of Sunshine Kids Foundation and Visitors from Visiting Guest from Rotary of Granite Bay, WonaMiniati and Potential Global Grant Guest from Rotary Club of Paris Hausmann, MiniKouame.
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Guest Speaker Brooks Tomb of Sunshine Kids Foundation
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Kevin Su
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2019-05-21 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Apr 23, 2019
Somerville Rotary is happy to announce a new member from the Somerville Community. Rockland Trust of Davis Square is a Corporate Member of Someville Rotary and their new ambassador is Jazir Jalal of Medford, Mass. Jazir shared his excitement of becoming a Rotarian and in his own words, "I am joining the Rotary club in order to help the community and promote involvement. I feel that this is a great opportunity for me to impact those around me and meet some great people." For sure Jazir is a promising Rotarian in the making. Somerville Rotary welcomes and congratulates Jazir Jalal of Rockland Trust of Davis Square and we look forward in Making A Difference for the Somerville community with you and Rockland Trust. - Kevin Su, President 2018-2019.
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Somerville Rotary Inducts New Corp Ambassador from Rockland Trust of Davis Square, Somerville
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Kevin Su
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2019-04-23 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Apr 16, 2019
Thank you to Assistant Regional Head Instructor Jon Goode and ARHI Sasha Craine from Somerville School of Oom Yung Doe for coming to Somerville Rotary to talk about their teachings of 8 Martial Art forms include: Kong Su/Tae Kwon Do, Aikido/Hapkido, Udo/Jujitsu, Samurai Sword, Tai Chi Chung, Bagua Chung, Kung Fu, Ship Pal Gae (18 Weapons). For more info please see link HERE
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Somerville Oom Yung Doe Instructors Jon Goode and Sasha Craine
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Kevin Su
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2019-04-16 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Apr 09, 2019
Thank you to Joann Bocca-Riviecco from Somerville Overcoming Addiction for speaking to Somerville Rotary today! There are people of all ages and groups suffering from this Addiction Pandemic, especially with opioid related ODs to most of the time, Death. There are help, support, as well as information out there for those who are facing such Pandemic and Joann & Somerville Overcoming Addiction are just doing that!
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Guest Speaker, Joann Becca-Riviecco
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Kevin Su
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2019-04-09 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Mar 28, 2019
Somerville Rotary Comedy Night at Giggles Comedy Club in Saugus on Rt. 1 South to support upcoming donations to the Somerville Community such as Somerville Homeless Coalition RespondInc, Somerville High School, SHS Science Fair, Catholic Charities and more! See all photos of the event on our Facebook link HERE
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Somerville Rotary Comedy Night
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Kevin Su
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2019-03-28 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Mar 19, 2019
Thanks to Guest Speakers Linda Cornell, President & CEO and Nancy Bergeron, Senior Director of Sales & Marketing from Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Somerville, MA for coming out to speak to Somerville Rotary today! VNA was founded in 1906 and continues bring care to people's homes for over a hundred years and now provides a home as well! If you have a loved one that is in need of such service and quality living, for more information, please contact VNA at (617) 776-9800.
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Guest Speaker Linda Cornell and Nancy Bergeron from Visiting Nurse Association of Somerville, MA
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Kevin Su
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2019-03-19 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Mar 12, 2019
Somerville Rotary would like to thank our Guest Speaker today, Toby J. White from ARUP. Toby is the Fire Safety Engineer Consultant for the new Encore Boston Harbor Casino in Everett, Ma. which will be opening in June 2019. Toby's presentation of Fire Prevention in Homes, Organizations and Communities was informative and he had important need to know tips from smoke detectors, to fire extinguishers and Holiday Preventions such as keeping a Christmas Tree well watered when your away for a long period of time so your trees doesn't dry out and catch on fire! Again, thank you Toby J. White and #ARUP for coming out to Somerville Rotary!
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Guest Speaker Toby J. White from ARUP on Fire Prevention in Homes, Organizations and Communities
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Kevin Su
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2019-03-12 04:00:00Z |
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Posted by Kevin Su on Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019, Somerville Rotary had the pleasure of having Jessica Brayden, CEO of RESPONDInc. of Somerville and our keynote speaker of the day, Eliza Hopkins, Cooridinator of Community Intervention and Education Programs at RESPONDInc. to speak to Somerville Rotary about Teen Dating Violence (TDV) Awareness Month and what RESPONDInc is currently doing in our community. Eliza spends her day educating kids at the elemtary and at high school levels about the signs and ways of prevent TDV. It’s not an easy task giving the age ranges Eliza covers and Eliza deserves to be recognized for this! Thank you Eliza Hopkins and RESPONDInc. for speaking to Somerville Rotary!
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Guest Speaker Eliza Hopkins from RESPONDInc. on Teen Domestic Violence Awareness Month
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2019-02-26 05:00:00Z |
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Welcome to the Somerville Rotary Club website. Rotary is a service organization and is about "Service Above Self". It is an organization that operates on the local, regional and international level. Rotarians serve in the community, in the workplace, and around the globe. In addition to service work, Rotary promotes high ethical standards in all aspects of our lives and works to build goodwill and peace in the world. Our Rotary International motto this year is "Engage Rotary, Change Lives". Our club is one of over 34,000 Rotary Clubs worldwide with over 1.2 million members. Rotary clubs are open to people of all cultures and ethnicities and are not affiliated with any political or religious organizations. Somerville Rotary is a small but active club. Through our service projects we "engage Rotary" and in the process "change lives". Locally we support the Regional Science Fair at Somerville High School, give scholarships to Somerville students, support the work of many of our non-profit agencies, ring the bell for the Salvation Army during the holidays, and read monthly to elementary school students. Rotary members volunteer in communities locally and abroad to support education and job training, provide clean water, combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, eradicate polio, and many more projects to make this world a better place for everyone. The Somerville club has participated in joint projects with another Rotary club to provide a vision testing machine to a community in Columbia and has sponsored the purchase of a walk-in freezer for a Columbian orphanage that houses 40 children. One of the focuses of Rotary International is the eradication of polio in the world. This project began in the Phillipines in 1979 and since then more than 2 billion children in 122 countries have been vaccinated against the disease. The world is now 99% polio free with reports of the illness in only 3 countries. The Somerville Rotary Club has supported the Polio Plunge for the last two years, sponsoring Polar Plungers and raising money for the international campaign. Rotary is also about fellowship: meeting and working together with other professionals from the community. The Somerville Rotary Club meets weekly on Tuesdays at 12:15 at the Holiday Inn, 30 Washington Street in Somerville near Sullivan Station. We would love to have you join us - come to the Holiday Inn on the 2nd through 4th Tuesday of the month (the 1st is reading day). If you have any questions or would like more information, please use the link provided. Thank you, ChenKai Kevin Su
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Message From Our Club President - ChenKai Kevin Su
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2018-07-01 04:00:00Z |
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We will be participating as volunteers for various functions at the upcoming Somerville Homeless Coalition 5k. Mark will be speaking about this event and the impact it has on their organization at our Service Club Meeting on Thursday Sept. 29th at 6pm.
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Service Project 10/1/16
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2016-09-06 04:00:00Z |
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Superintendent Tony Pierantozzi Recognized by the Somerville Rotary Club
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Posted by Jeannie Scarpa on Mar 26, 2015
Here you can post little tidbits of information, reminders, or anything else!
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Mark Your Calendars!
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