Marlborough Rotary Club Annual Wine and Chocolate Event

Marlborough Rotary Chocolate and Wine Event April 27 2012

Marlborough, Mass. – Marlborough Rotary Club is offering a $1000.00 college scholarship for a student who lives in Marlborough but does not attend Marlborough’s public schools. The Rotary Club invites anyone who is interested in the scholarship to apply using the application that is available on the web.

The application deadline is March 30, 2012 for this year’s award.

Marlborough Rotary Club also awards scholarships to graduates of Marlborough High School and of Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School. Applications for those scholarships are available directly from those schools.

For more information, please contact Elaine McDonald at (978) 838-9444

The Marlborough Rotary Club has been serving the youth, human services and charitable organizations of our community since 1922.

Download the 2012 Scholarship Application

Remember tomorrow November 20th is the Marlborough Rotary Club Turkey Shoot. Please join us at 6 p.m. at Assabet Valley Technical High School at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria for fun and chances to win many prizes.  All chances are $1.00 each and proceeds go to support local Marlborough charities.  See you there.

Assabet Valley Technical High School November 20th 6 p.m. Marlborough Rotary Turkey Shoot

Assabet Valley Technical High School November 20th 6 p.m. Marlborough Rotary Turkey Shoot

November 19, 2011 Assabet Valley High School 6 p.m. on. If you have never seen it, it’s amazing.  Tables of items such as blenders, electronics, gift baskets, turkey baskets, turkeys and more.  $1.00 raffle ticket gets you a chance at winning one of the items. Come and support the Marlborough community with the Marlborough Rotary Club for this fun filled event.  Ask anyone you know in Marlborough if they have been and they will tell you, you have to see it to believe it.

 Thank you to the many Marlborough attendees over the years who have supported the Turkey Shoot.  This is our 29th year and we would love to make it a great success for the Marlborough community. 

Funds raised from this event help to provide Thanksgiving meals and holiday toys and meals for Marlborough residents.

Please contact your local Marlborough Rotarian with any questions and see you at the Shoot!

Marlborough Rotary Turkey Shoot

Have you been challenged to find a way to get rid of that old toaster in the basement or the large CRT monitor that stopped working back three years ago?  The Marlborough Rotary club will be holding an Electronics Recycling Day October 22

What you missed August 11th, if you didn’t catch the Marlborough Rotary clubs program J:  Speaker Dr. Dawn Gelino, Scientist and Task Leader for Science Affairs at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, @ CalTech  
Dr. Gelino took us on whirlwind tour of the universe while explaining why scientists are fairly certain that there are other “Earths” in our galaxy and others.  In the words of Carl Sagan, “With ten billion trillion planets…it’s likely the universe is brimming with life.”  Dr. Gelino began with what we know – our Sun with eight planets orbiting, and only one with life.  But with 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and billions of galaxies…and they all have stars…it is easy to imagine other ‘earths’.
Stars are easier to see than planets; 564 planets have been found, but only four have been imaged.  The Hubble Space Telescope helps us get sharper images of stars, but it takes getting rid of the starlight to see the planets.

‘Planet hunters’ as they are called, are detectives! They find most planets one of two ways. Did you know stars wiggle?  They do if there are planets around them, exerting a gravitational pull.  Now planet-hunting scientists look for stars that are moving, exhibiting the pull of orbiting planets.  Or, they look for transiting planets, those crossing right in front of a star, blocking its light.  Transiting planets are very rare, and it takes a lot of time and patience to ‘see’ them.  The Kepler Mission has been staring at one patch of the sky for two years so far! It has found a system somewhat like our solar system…but it is very far away.  To cross our galaxy it would take about 100,000 years traveling at the speed of light (which we cannot do yet.)

NASA funds all kinds of projects, including looking at the earth!  The next big project, being developed now, is the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the next generation, ‘window on the universe’ for all of us and depends on our government’s commitment to space exploration.  To find out more about NASA and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, go to http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/.  Your explorations will take you out of this world!

This week Stephen Hitner, MetroWest Printing and president of Mass Alimony Reform gave the Marlborough Rotary Club an update on the status of alimony reform in Massachusetts.  The bill addresses laws on the Massachusetts books that have not been changed since the 1700’s. 

Through Hitner’s personal story about alimony he began the push to reform the laws and this past week, his efforts paid off with the Massachusetts House passing bill H.3617.

For more information:

http://www.massalimonyreform.org/

Each year around this time, the Marlborough Rotary club installs it’s new team. Led this year by Elaine McDonald of RE/MAX Prestige, Vice President Bonnie Doolin of the New England Credit Union League, President Elect David Walton of Patriot Ambulance, Secretary Peggy Sheldon of PS Events, Treasurer Marilyn Perry and Sgt at Arms Dave Brower of Marlborough Transportation.

Thank you to all who attended and thank you to WMCT-TV in Marlborough for recording the event.  See the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRIfglBKn4 

Rotary Theme 2011 - 2012

The Marlborough Rotary Club

Request’s the Honor of your Presence at …
The 2011-2012 Officer’s Induction Ceremony
Thursday June 30, 2011
12:15pm at Fish Restaurant and Wine Bar (Formerly Coral Seafood)
29 South Bolton Street, Marlborough MA (508) 460-FISH (3474)
We look forward to seeing you all there to start the new year in Fellowship and Service!

Marlborough Rotary Club
P.O. Box 186  •  Marlborough, MA 01752