GUESTS:  John Palmer of Mary Anna; Mary & Marcia Fidel of Sarah

The Club sang Amazing Grace and recognized a moment of silence in honor of Ray Brown.

HAPPY/SAD $$:  Helga Sad $ for the passing of Ray, she commented that the last photo taken of Ray was taken at Project Graduation and she presented a copy to Mary Ann at visiting hours;  Chris sad $$’s for prayers for MaryAnn; Bob Happy $$’s to have had lunch with Ray and MaryAnn at last weeks Kiwanis meeting where Ray spoke enthusiastically about exercising his horse.  Bob stated that Ray had a way of making everyone whom he knows feel like they were his best friend; Helga helped Stuart put his sad dollar in as he had missed it..it was for forgetting the 50/50 bag.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Auction – Reminder: Get solicitations for auction items done as soon as possible!  Red Sox tickets – we are only selling 500.  WE NEED AUCTION ITEMS BADLY!!  Phil C. is available for pick-up of auction items – Call Phil @ 592-0487 or 627-7151 Help us fill the trailers! Bob Bizier has several storage units that need emptying (up past Colby’s) and needs trucks and hands next Friday so that we can move the items directly to the auction site.  Hopefully this will help as have one trailer half full when we usually have 1½ trailers full by this time….We have plenty of items for the flea market.

Pancake Breakfast – Sarah has posters for the breakfast and Auction available; please help hang them up around the community. Tina has tickets if anyone needs them.

 Propaganda Table – Chris will be at the table with Kiwanis information, tickets, etc.

Reminder! Mark you Calendars…….

1. July 9th there will be no speaker as we will spend our time planning the “Big Weekend”!
   July 30 there will be no meeting.
   Aug. 6 meeting will be a celebration of the club’s 85th anniversary! 

Donation – The Ccub will be making a donation to the Grandstand Fund in West Paris in honor of Ray Brown.

SPEAKER/PROGRAM

Bill Stockwell introduced Katy Branch from Project Aware.  Katy is the co-founder of Project Aware that started five years ago with a grant from the State of Maine.  Project Aware started by creating an awareness of prescription abuse by teenagers by talking to schools all over the State.  When the grant ended, the project turned into a non-profit.  It was based in the Biddeford-Saco area which created two movies that were written and produced by the teens involved.  She then brought Project Aware to Oxford Hills.

Currently the group consists of seven teens here at Oxford Hills who have reached out to more than 950 teens and 75 adults last year in their presentations.  Katy shared a video with the group that had kids talking about the “Teens for Change Summit” which told the story of what the group was all about.  The mission statement for Project Aware is:  Empower Young People to Lead!

The group participates in the Open Mic Night at Cafe Nomad (started by this group) and how much success it had seen.  They will be doing a follow-up to the Summit to determine what the successes have been and the next steps.  For more information please visit their website:  www.projectaware.net   They continue to look for funding to establish a “home” in the Oxford Hills and allow them to continue to focus on our area.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Speaker Schedules:

07/09/09:  “Big Weekend” Planning – Sarah/Helga
07/16/09:  Julie Harlow – Spiritual Aims Committee
07/23/09:  Tom Winsor