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The Newburyport Rotary Club also began its new year with new Club President,Chuck Withee, and Hampton Rotary Cloub's very own Brad Jett as District Governor.

The new year got off to a great start with The Rotary Club of Newburyport's Famous Chicken Barbeque. We Sold out earlier than prvious years. The weather was perfect. We are now onto planning for a successful and fun fundraising year.

Dear Fellow Rotarians:

Welcome to a new Rotary year! We look forward to a year of fellowship and sharing, as we come together to advance Rotary's goals of promoting literacy, clean water, ending immunization preventable diseases such as polio through education and innoculations,and reaching out to our local and global communities to make our world a better place for all of us. Rotary International President Dong Kurn Lee's theme for the year, decreasing infant mortality, captures the essence of Rotary.

At our weekly luncheon meetings we share friendship, happy moments and happy dollars, laughs and even robust singing. The Family of Rotary extends to our spouses, children and extended family and friends. We started the year with our Chicken Barbecue on Old Fashioned Sunday and the annual Kayak Raffle. As chairman of the Chicken Barbecue, Joe Sullivan received the secret recipe and supervised the making of the secret sauce, which everyone commented was especially delicious. Zack and Joe's explantion in the Newburyport Daily News how the sauce recipe has been handed down through the years was entertaining. David Hall did a great job lugging the kayak all around the City of Newburyport. Both events raised funds and awareness for Rotary!

The Golf Tournament in September was a huge success and kudos go to Austin Spinella for running a great event. On Friday, November 6th you are invited to join us for a fun-filled Comedy Night at the Firehouse Center. Please support our Comedy Night, which also serves as a fundraiser that enables us to do the many wonderful things we want to do in the community. On November 8th Rotarians and their guests are invited to participate in Rotary Day at the United Nations in New York City.

Attendance is important at our weekly meetings and we have gotten good feedback about the quality of our programs. A special thanks goes to our Club Secretary, Peter Johnston, for sending out those weekly reminders with the speaker information.

It has been a fun and rewarding start! I look forward to seeing you on Tuesdays!

Chuck Withee

Club President 2008-2009