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Club Information
Tuesdays at 12:30 PM
First Church of Christ, Congregational
25 Great Rd
Bedford, MA 01730
United States of America
Our meetings are hybrid! Contact us for the Zoom link. During the summer, we meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Please check our website to verify the meeting location and time (we occasionally have evening meetings or meetings in other locations).
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Upcoming Events
Board of Directors Meeting
Jul 16, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00)
 
Winter Community Breakfast Planning Meeting
Jul 24, 2025
6:00 PM – 6:50 PM
 
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Speakers
Jul 22, 2025 1:00 PM
Seniors4Seniors
Aug 12, 2025 1:00 PM
Hanscom's Integrated Prevention Director
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President's Message
Thomas Pinney
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Happy New Rotary Year! As we start this new year, let us take a moment to reflect back on this past year. Many thanks to Al for his dedication and service to the club as our President for the last two years. He stepped up and guided the club when we needed him and led us to Club of the Year! Also a huge note of Thanks to Jim Harrill and Katie Pinney for their time and commitment to the Board of Directors and to Diane Hughes and Lita Verrier for their support and dedication to the Trustees. A special Thanks to Marc Hamilton for his years of dedication as Club Secretary ensuring we were kept honest, reminded of what we agreed to and that everything was tracked, updated and reported out properly.
 
Paula and I are excited to kick off our year as Presidents for the Club. We look forward to continuing the work from our Visioning session and incorporating the feedback  into how the Club is run and what we focus on. We want to work on succession planning to ensure the Club continues to run smoothly in years to come. With your help we look to build on existing relationships with other clubs and community partners as well as build new ones to help support our projects and the community. We hope to encourage more members to get involved with our fundraising events so we can continue to financially support Annual Giving, RYLA, Scholarships, Special Projects and anything else we agree on as a priority.
 
We welcome Dawn Kociubes to the role of Secretary; Jacquelin Apsler, Diana Jarvis and Terry Parker to the Board of Directors; and Bob Cassidy and Victor Tom to the Board of Trustees. 
 
We invite everyone to join us at our Installation Tuesday, July 8th at Pam Brown's house where we will have the official changing of the guard, continue celebrating our Club of the Year win and start planning for how we can win it again this year!
 
Yours in Rotary,
Tom and Paula 

Bedford Day is Coming!

Bedford Day 2024 is on Saturday, September 21. We will have two booths together; one to showcase Rotary projects including Interact and the other selling pizza from Ken’s Deli (Thanks Marc!), drinks and snacks.

A Volunteer Sign-Up Genius will be coming soon! We will need volunteers for both booths to help with set-up (8am-10am starting at the storage area at 7:30am), during the Fair (10am-2pm) and take-down (2pm until finished with delivery back to the storage area). 

Please reach out to Tom Pinney with any questions.

 

Lighting Up Bedford

For the 3rd year in a row, we'll be handing out safety lights at the Bedford tree lighting. We are happy to do this in partnership with MassBike. Come join us! We'd love to see you! 

News from the Club
NEW! Interact Club of Bedford TV
2023 RYLA graduate Swetha Kaundinya now in grade 11, member of the BHS Interact Club also a mentor at Bedford TV motivated by RYLA indicated she would like to start an Interact Club in the Middle School. So as to include more students, we went with Bedford TV a community based Interact Club. That will automatically make both Lane and Middle School student eligible to be officially members of that club.
 
 
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Student Writing & The Rotary Club of Bedford
8th grade Bedford TV Interact Club member Taevy Malone wrote her first article for the Bedford Citizen just prior to her entering grade 5. This was the beginning of Covid and to assist her with the writing Molly Gilarde entering grade 12 offered to mentor Taevy. That article was on the project clearing Fawn Lake that was taking place at that time. This was the first focus on student writing development to take place. Taevy’s article was formally published. Since then Taevy has written two more news items of which one other has been published. Molly also wrote an article for the Bedford Citizen on the Bedford High JROTC Program. When emerging writers are mentored by older students powerful writing skills quickly begin to develop.
 
 
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Bedford Chamber of Commerce Trunk or Treat was DEFINITELY A Treat!
Bedford Rotary had a table at Trunk or Treat on October 25th and gave out over 300 pieces of candy and over 200 packets of milkweed seeds to attract monarch butterflies!
 
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And then we planted!
Finally, the fruits of our winter sow made it into the ground. We first spent some time weeding the area we had prepared last fall. Then, on 9/30, we set up a grid using wood, inspired by a trip to the Chelmsford Pollination Preservation Garden. Each plant species was planted in a 3'x3' square, although we expanded the area for some plants so we could have even more - those plants were in 3'x6' rectangles. 
 
We used a flag system to mark where each plant was to go, each plant species was identified by a different number, so when the plants grow in the spring, we will know whether it's a weed or the plant we want!
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