Events

Our speaker this week will be Janet Seckel-Cerrotti, Executive Director of Friendship Works, will be presenting about how FriendshipWorks reduces elder isolation by connecting volunteers with older adults for friendship and support. For further information, visit their website https://fw4elders.org/

Details for location, dinner, and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Agenda & Zoom link will be sent to Board members by Ken Goldstein.  If others wish to attend, please contact Ken.

Instead of our usual noon Club Assembly, we're hosting a 7 pm Forum with Mike McGovern, Chair of the Intenrational Polio Plus Committee.

For details and to register for the Forum, click https://brooklinerotary.org/event/rotary-7pm-zoom-forum/

THIS EVENT IS FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  Rotarian Mike McGovern, Chair of the International Polio Plus Committee, will be speaking about Rotary's response to the polio risks in the Middle East.

Sponsored by Brookline Rotary and co-sponsored by Needham, Cambridge and the Parkway Rotary Clubs, the event will be form 7 to 8 pm on Zoom.  

The Zoom link will be sent to those registered for the event. For information, contact Richard Segan 

There is no Club Meeting today.  Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday and weekend.

Jeannie Lindheim founded the Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe in 1996 which has entertained over 60,000 children..  She will talk about her trip to Russia with Patch Adams, share some valuable hospital clown techniques that you can use in your life, and tell some heart-felt stories of interactions with children. https://hospitalclowntraining.com

After Hurricane Katrina, Jeannie went to Houston to support the New Orleans evacuees there. She spent a week at the George R. Brown Convention Center clowning and doing “by the cot” visits to 1,100 people! She has also written The Art & Joy of Hospital Clown Training Program, that has sold in 23 countries. 

Jeannie Lindheim has taught acting, movement, improvisation, auditioning, and creativity for over 30 years at many educational institutions including Harvard University Law School (Theater in the Courtroom), Boston College, The Boston Conservatory, Wheelock College, Lesley College Expressive Therapies Graduate Program, Antioch College American University, and other universities.

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

As is our Club tradition, we are once again "adopting" several children through Brookline Community Mental Health Center (BCMHC).  Each year the counselors give us a list of children who, without our support, might not have holiday gifts.  

Any member who wishes to participate selects the child they wish to buy for, purchases some or all of the items on that child's wish list, and delivers it/them unwrapped -- but labeled with the child's ID -- to the BCHMC at 41 Garrison Road the week before Christmas.  The Club purchases wrapping supplies so that the mothers can wrap the gifts themselves for their children.  

This year, some of the wish lists have gotten rather expensive so Susan Rack has split these requests up and placed them on the volunteer sign up list with some options for where to purchase them.  

Please feel free to sign up for all of the items on one chlld's list or just a portion of the list.  Make sure you leave it unwrapped but with the childs first name on the package and deliver it to BCMHC at 41 Garrison Road by closing no later than December 20th.   Be sure to check-in at the desk and tell them you are bearing a child's holiday gift from Brookline Rotary so it gets to the correct spot.  

If you have any questions, contact Susan Rack By clicking her name on the website.

Jen Faigel, Executive Director of CommonWealth Kitchen will be our speaker at this in-peron evening meeting.

The mission of CommonWealth Kitchen is to transform the local food economy by strengthening capacity, creating connections, and unleashing the collective power of diverse entrepreneurs to start and grow successful food businesses. https://commonwealthkitchen.org/

Details for location, dinner, and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Details TBA

There is no meting this week.  Enjoy the holiday seaon!

Roy Balfour, District 7910 District Rotary Foundation Chair, will be speaking about the Rotary Foundaiton and Global Grants. For reference, click https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/rotary-foundation

Details for location, dinner, and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list,, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left

Agenda & Zoom link will be sent to Board members by Ken Goldstein.  If others wish to attend, please contact Ken.

The Hidden Cost of Plastic to Human Health 

Save the Date! Thursday January 16, 2025  6:30-8:30 PM

Hunneman Hall, Brookline Main Library 

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC with REGISTRATION

Mounting evidence indicates that plastics pose hidden risks to human health. Plastic can now be found everywhere- in the ocean, air, animals, fish and every part of the human body. Public health experts are connecting endocrine disorders, cancer, child development and fertility issues to plastics in our bodies. Yet plastic production is growing exponentially, with single use plastics the fastest growing segment of production. 

There are solutions! Learn what Brookline is doing and what we as individuals can do to improve our environmental and human health and work towards capping production of plastics.

The program begins with an interactive poster session offering opportunities to talk with experts and activists. Light refreshments will be served. This will be followed by a talk by Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician, epidemiologist and the Director of Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.  A panel will then explore community approaches to solutions with Sasha Palmer, Director of Food Services in the Brookline Public Schools; Miriam Gordon, a leader in the reuse movement and architect of innovative policy models; and Katie Weatherseed, Brookline’s Zero Waste Program Manager.  Louise Bowditch of Brookline Mothers Out Front will moderate. There will be time for discussion and questions.

REGISTER AT https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hidden-cost-of-plastic-to-human-health-brookline-responds-tickets-1080369838269?aff=oddtdtcreator

The program is sponsored by The Brookline Department of Public Works, Brookline Mothers Out Front, the Brookline Department of Public Health and Human Services, the Friends of Brookline Public Health, Brookline Rotary Club,  Climate Action Brookline, Elders Climate Action and Brookline Public Library. 

Julie Scolnik, Artistic Director of Mistral Music, will be our speaker presenting about Mistral Music and its unqiue contribution to the Brookline community and beyond.

Mistral Music is one of New England's premier chamber ensembles founded in 1997 by Julie Scolnik and her husband, physicist, Michael Brower.  Julie will discuss how and why she began this music series 28 years ago, how it grew to gain loyal followers from all over Massachusetts and even across the Globe through its videos on YouTube. She will further explain her process of finding thematic programs to share and why this music series is so important to her.

Members will gather for dinner and our annual Yankee Swap.

Karne Jacobs will guide us through the evening's festivities!

Location and details will be forthcoming.

Katie Weatherseed, Zero Waste Program Manager, will be presenting on DPW's waste reduction efforts and the Food Waste Drop-Off Pilot Program here in Brookline.

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Our speaker will be Celestina Pint, Treasurer and Fundraising Chair for the MIT Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

MIT-EWB works with communities around the world and designs solutions to problems using engineering. We are currently working with a primary school in Mkutani, Tanzania, a small rural farming village, to design and build an irrigated garden that we hope will increase school attendance, nutrition, and learning opportunities for students.

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Agenda & Zoom link will be sent to Board members by Ken Goldstein.  If others wish to attend, please contact Ken.

No noon Club Assembly this month. 

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Steve Fine, Founder and President of the Melanoma Education Foundation and Member of the Peabody Rotary Club will be our speaker for this noon Zoom meeting.

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Agenda & Zoom link will be sent to Board members by Ken Goldstein.  If others wish to attend, please contact Ken.

Club Assemblies are now on alternate months and are excellent opportunities to catch up on current activities and share ideas for future projects and initiatives.

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA.

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Agenda & Zoom link will be sent to Board members by Ken Goldstein.  If others wish to attend, please contact Ken.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.

Speaker TBA

Details, location and Zoom link will be sent to Members and those on our mailing list.  If you would like to attend and are not on our mailing list, please email brooklinerotary@gmail.com or contact Ken Goldstein by clicking on his name at the left.