Thank you to Amy Calder from the Morning Sentinel for the great article about our Club's support of several food pantries in the area. Read her full story here: https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/11/22/practicing-service-above-self-in-waterville-column/ Welcome to our Club!
Service Above Self
We meet In Person
Mondays at 12:00 p.m.
Best Western Plus
375 Main Street
Mail: 50 Elm Street
Waterville, ME 04901
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Mail: 50 Elm Street
Waterville, ME 04901
United States of America
Thank you to Amy Calder from the Morning Sentinel for the great article about our Club's support of several food pantries in the area. Read her full story here: https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/11/22/practicing-service-above-self-in-waterville-column/ 
We are getting all the items ready for bidding! Save the dates for our annual online Fall Auction. Getting your holiday shopping done early! Bid high, bid often, and support a great cause. Funds this year are focusing on programs and projects that impact the youth of our community. The 62nd Online Auction is almost here!
On November 3 our club had the privilege of hosting our District Governor, Susan Pratt. She shared her background, passion, projects, and goals for the 2025-2026 Rotary year. The Club was very engaged and excited to hear about her focus on literacy and her project in Guatemala with Safe Passage, a nonprofit that helps the people of Guatemala City who live near the dump fight poverty through education and health care.
Later Sue took a tour of the projects that our Club is responsible for around town. She visited the South End Teen Center, where Rotary has supported many items in their kitchen, took a walk along the Riverwalk that our club cleans up every spring, and the StoryWalk at George J. Mitchell School.
We appreciate Sue's leadership and the challenges she set before our club. We look forward to making our District and Rotary International all #UniteForGood.
Last Friday was World Polio Day and our club raised funds to help the organization End Polio Now vaccinate children worldwide against Polio. Keegan Mills from WABI was at the KVCC location and spoke to some of the members of the Rotaract group about the event. Watch the segment here!
This past Saturday several members of our Club joined with the South End Neighborhood Association (SENA) to help with their fall clean up on Carter Memorial Drive. Thank you Rotarians for proving we are truly #peopleofaction!
Rotarians pictured are Karen Normandin, Andrea Pasco, Eric Brown, Jeff Melanson, Suzanne Uhl-Melanson, Matt Hunt, Lisa Roy, John and Jackie Dalton, Rick Mackenzie, and Roger Crouse. Others not in the photo included Scott Pasco, Tina Chapman, Kim Lindlof, Anna from the Teen Center and Manny, an Interact and Teen Center member. In just two hours, we collected17 bags of garbage along with some drywall, metal and a car muffler. We also found a very nice abandoned bicycle, which was given to Anna for the Teen Center. See the photo gallery for more photos!
Rotarians pictured are Karen Normandin, Andrea Pasco, Eric Brown, Jeff Melanson, Suzanne Uhl-Melanson, Matt Hunt, Lisa Roy, John and Jackie Dalton, Rick Mackenzie, and Roger Crouse. Others not in the photo included Scott Pasco, Tina Chapman, Kim Lindlof, Anna from the Teen Center and Manny, an Interact and Teen Center member. In just two hours, we collected17 bags of garbage along with some drywall, metal and a car muffler. We also found a very nice abandoned bicycle, which was given to Anna for the Teen Center. See the photo gallery for more photos!
Waterville Rotarians and Past District Governors Tina Chapman and Suzanne Uhl-Melanson posed with Governor Janet Mills at the September 8 Waterville Noon Rotary Meeting at Best Western. Governor Mills was in town to survey progress at the Head of Falls Village, a commercial and residential development that will eventually offer 63 new apartments in the downtown area. During her visit to the Rotary Club, she introduced Maine Economic and Community Development Commissioner Michael Duguay who spoke about recent projects and future plans to help spur development in Maine and the greater Waterville area. For more information about the Governor's visit to Waterville.
Do good, feel good & make a lasting impression on others and in your community this summer: Give blood or platelets with the Red Cross! You’ll feel good knowing your donation can help save more than one life. Join the Waterville Rotary Noon Club at their Blood Drive on Friday, August 1st at the Best Western.To reserve your donation spot visit https://rcblood.org/appt or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767)
Save the Date and plan to join Waterville Rotary and NAMI ME for Youth Mental Health First Aid Training. Registration opens soon.
10 members from our club as well as some from the Sunrise Club staffed our table at the recent Mid Maine Chamber of Commerce's B2B Showcase. Rotarians enjoyed the day in fellowship and were on hand to promote our club and prospect for new members and speakers.
Shown in the photo left to right:
Roger Crouse, incoming Club President Michele Prince and John Dalton
Some of the volunteers at the B2B Showcase
Front Row: Lindsey Carmeron, Suzanne Uhl-Melanson
Back Row: Ron Ducharme, Tina Chapman, Cliff Hannon, Tom Munson, Karen Normandin, Jeff Melanson, Kerry Smart and Matthew Hunt.
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