Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor

The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor was chartered in 1996 and meets on Tuesday mornings at 7:15 AM for breakfast at the Tedesco Country Club, 154 Tedesco, Marblehead.

 

Membership of Rotary provides an opportunity to work with fellow business professionals and community leaders on a variety of fund raising and service projects at a local, national and international level.

Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives.

Rotary club contains a diverse group of professional leaders from the community that the club serves.

Dirk Hillyer conducting the Hillyer Festival Orchestra

he Hillyer Festival Orchestra at Abbot Hall for Star-Spangled Pops

Members of the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor joined forces with the U.S. Postal service recently to collect food for the Marblehead Food Bank. Town residents left food on their doorsteps to be picked up by local letter carriers.  They in turn brought the goods to the Masonic Hall where was sorted for pantry shelves. Volunteers from the Rotary breakfast club are pictured here. The letter carrier drive is a major effort to provide enough food to get the pantry through the summer months. The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor is observing its 15th anniversary by doing 15 public service projects this year. With the Food drive the mission has been accomplished.

The Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor has launched a campaign to send ShelterBoxes to Japan to provide emergency assistance and shelter to victims of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
 
Ed Bell, RCoMH member and ShelterBox volunteer who led last year’s campaign to send ShelterBoxes to Haiti, said that a ShelterBox Response Team was on the ground in Japan within 24 hours of the disaster to assess the areas of most need.
 
“An initial shipment of ShelterBoxes is en route to Japan and there are a further 5,000 boxes on standby,” Ed Bell said. “These will be shipped in as soon as we have a transportation and distribution network in place.”
 
An international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide, ShelterBox assembles and dispatches boxes which each contain emergency relief items for up to ten people.  This includes a tent, sleeping bags, blankets, stove, water purification equipment, basic tools and even an activities kit for children.

“Given what we know about the situation in Japan, it is clear that thousands of people have been made homeless and the need for emergency shelter is critical.  This is exactly what ShelterBox was founded for," Bell said.
 
Collection boxes for the ShelterBox campaign are at certain locations in the town, including at National Grand Bank and donations to the campaign can be sent directly to the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor, PO Box 941, Marblehead, MA 01945.  Checks should be made payable to RCoMH with ShelterBox in the memo line.