Events

Tim works for Connect M financial company and will  focus on the current wave of movement to Heat pumps and Solar (electrification and decarbonization) and the incentives available to homeowners and businesses.

Ron is going to speak on the topic of organizing one's calendar to get things done.

Join us for our annual Holiday Party at the Antique Table, $35 includes food and tip, cash bar is extra.  The traditional Yankee Swap gift limit is $20

An informal non-Rotary club lunch at Boo Birds in Manchester RSVP with Chris Shea
 

Dinner at The Village Restaurant in Essex. Scholarship awards to be presenred. Guest Speaker from Friends Forever International.

Steve Martineau, Director of Friends Forever International, will speak about their program and Rotary's involvment with it.

Join scholar and anthropologist Mary Ellen Lepionka to learn about the history of the land now known as Beverly, MA.

As Lepionka describes, The people living where Montserrat is now were the Pawtucket of Nahumkeak. They welcomed the “Old Planters” of Salem Village, today’s Beverly, and lived peaceably side by side with them during the first 50 years of English settlement. During the 18th and 19th centuries, however, their sites, history, homeland, and very identity were “erased.”

Mary Ellen Lepionka of Gloucester is an independent scholar researching the history of Cape Ann from the last Ice Age to around 1700 for a book on the subject. Some chapters have been published at CapeAnnHistory.org

Mary Ellen’s interest in local indigenous history and culture was sparked by Samuel de Champlain’s 1606 map of Le Beauport (Gloucester) showing a wigwam on her street. Mary Ellen is a retired college instructor, textbook developer, author, and publisher with a Master’s degree in anthropology from Boston University and post-graduate work at the University of British Columbia. She taught anthropology and world history at Boston University, Vancouver City College, Northeastern University, North Shore Community College, and Salem State College.

Articles by Mary Ellen appear in the Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society and the local history blogs Enduring Gloucester and Historic Ipswich.

Monthly Social Meeting at Cape Ann Lanes / Laneside Pub & Brewery. 

Meal Service at the First Beverly Baptist Church, Cabot St. Beverly. Full dinner served to approximately 40 clients.

This event is supported by Beverly Bootstraps. All volunteers welcome.

District Governor Alexandar Fallk will be at our regular morning club meeting to present the club with the Membership Award for attaining our growth goals in 2022. 
 

In 2007 Elizabeth Mehlin established Mehlin Conservation in Essex, Massachusetts.  Elizabeth has sixteeen years’ experience in conservation of oil paintings for government agencies, private institutions and individual clients in the US and Canada.

She received her Master of Art Conservation degree specializing in paintings from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts

She will be speaking primarily about the work she has done on the mural at the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester.

Here website is here

Dinner Meeting at Allie's Beach St. Cafe Manchester MA 

At Allies 6:30 PM

Come meet at Shea's in Essex this evening, its an informal monthly get together for members to socialize.  There is no formal agenda, just bring yourself and anyone else to get better acquainted with your fellow members. 

Martin Flood will be speaking about the project to restore the tennis courts at Memorial Park in Essex.

Back by popular demand, the 2nd Annual MERC St. Pat's Dinner & Irish Music will be held on March 11, 2023 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM at the Amaral Baily American Legion Hall, 14 Church Street, Manchester MA.  There will be corned beef and cabbage, music by The Erstwhiles and The Creaganmore Pipes & Drums, as well as Irish Step Dancing.  Tickets are $25 follow the registration or pay online on our website www.manchesteressexrotary.org on the payment button.  Music only $10 at the door. Proceeds to benefit the Amaral Bailey American Legion Post 113, Manchester MA.  50/50 Raflle to benefit the MERC Scholarship Fund.