The Presque Isle Rotary Club
A CHARITY GOLF tournament, started in 2006 by a group of Presque Isle Rotarians who wanted to have an additional fundraiser outside of the traditional auction.
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It has raised approximately $49,000 to support the Megan Bradstreet Pediatric Care Fund and construction of a new handicapped accessible restroom at Mantle Lake Park.
During a Feb. 17 recognition dinner, local Rotarian and tournament co-chair Mike Thibodeau presented a plaque to President Stefanie Beaulieu of the Fort Fairfield Rotary Club for ongoing donations and support of the golf fundraiser and other projects.
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AUCTION PROCEEDS — The Presque Isle Rotary Club gathered Feb. 17 for the annual Rotary Auction Wrap-up Dinner where members celebrated the final step of the major fundraiser — check presentations to non-profit organizations. Among those presenting and accepting donations were, from left, Dianna Leighton of the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library, $3,750; Kevin McCartney of the Northern Maine Museuam of Science, $500; Joy Barresi-Saucier, auction co-chair; Stu Wyckoff of Aroostook Football, $4,000; Harry Hafford of the Northern Maine Veterans’ Cemetery, $1,000; Floyd Rockholt, PI Rotary president; Louise Calabrese of CANCER, $1,000; Frank Keenan of the PI Rotary Scholarship Fund, $1,500; Vaughn Martin of the Francis Malcolm Science Institute, $ 350; Jeff Pangburn, Auction co-chair; and Wendy Malenfant of the Easton School Department, $2,000.
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SPECIAL PROJECT — Representatives of Catholic Charities of Maine were in attendance Feb. 17 during the Presque Isle Rotary Club’s annual Auction Wrap-Up Dinner to accept a check for $26,367 to help replace/repair the food pantry warehouse roof in Caribou and purchase food for agencies around the region. According to Brian Hamel, Special Project co-chair, 100 percent of local Rotarians personally donated to the Catholic Charities fund, totaling $9,785. In the photo are, from left, Special Project co-chairs Tim Poitras and Gretchen Morse, Rotary President Floyd Rockholt, Hamel, and Dixie Shaw, Debbie Pelkey and Steve Letourneau of Catholic Charities of Maine.
