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Reading Rotary is sponsoring the Festival of Trees again this year. The Festival of Trees is an event put on by our community partner Reading Education Foundation. It is held the weekend of December 6-7 at Parker Middle School. Hours are Saturday 10 am to 8 pm and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm.This annual holiday fundraiser is a great family event! Visitors will be delighted and inspired by a winter wonderland of decorated holiday trees that are raffled off to lucky winners.
Decorated trees are donated by local families, businesses, organizations, and schools. With a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and themes to choose from, there is something for everyone.
Decorated trees are artificial and tree size can range from tabletop to 11 feet high.
Don't miss it!
Thanks to DG Pooja Singla for visiting our lunch meeting at Kitty's this week. She gave us updates about District initiatives and committees. Thanks also to DGE Terry Curran and Governor's Aide Maria Bertolone for coming out.
At our November Morning Coffee Meeting, we put together backpacks containing winter hats, gloves, socks, scarves feet warmers to donate to the Outdoor Church of Cambridge, who serve the homeless. Thanks to all who contributed items.
Please join us for our Holiday Party on December 15 from 6 to 8 pm at Austin Prep. Please reach out to any of our volunteers to join us. Family and guests are encouraged to come.
On November 25, Stoneham Rotary hosted the Annual Joint Thanksgiving Football Luncheon with Reading Rotary. Featured were the high school teams football captains, coaches and athletic directors. Reading and Stoneham are traditional Thanksgiving football rivals, a matchup which extends well over 100 years.
Our longtime tradition of participating in Adopt-a-Family continued for Thanksgiving again. Distribution day was November 24. Reading Rotary partners with ReadingCares and the Town to organize, match and distribute complete holiday meals for local families who have a need. Shout out to our Sasha DiPietro from Reading Cooperative Bank who coordinates this wonderful giving project on behalf of our club.
We had our first Morning Coffee Meeting on October 27. Thank you to John Feudo and the Burbank Y for hosting. We are trying new things to see to engage our members.
Our second of three scheduled Snack Shack nights was this past Friday, October 3. We had a crew consisting or Rotarians Sheila Clarke, KC Latham, Phil Stewart and Tim Kelley together with friends, Meghan Frey and Lori and Ken Foley.
Reading Rotarians, friends, family, volunteers!