We'll be setting up in the parking area next to the Comfort Station on Friday afternoon.  Frank's General Rental crew will start setting up the tent around noon; Rotary volunteers will set up the grills after the tents are up, and we'll set up tables, wrap napkins and eating utensils, and to other get-ready chores later in the afternoon.   

 

This is our premier event each year.  A sign-up list has been passed around listing many of the tasks that need to be done, and hopefully many of you have signed up.  If you haven't, don't worry.  Just show up Saturday morning (and Friday afternoon), and there will be something for you to do.  We start serving promptly at 4 a.m., so we'll need people to help set up starting about 3 a.m.  

 

If getting up that early isn't your thing, we'll also need people to help with clean-up,  Some people prefer to arrive about 6 or 7 a.m. and stay until 9 or 10 (if it takes that long) to get everything cleaned up.

 

 

We have a number of activities coming up that will require an effort by all of us in order to accomplish our club service and fund-raising objectives.

 

During the current week (Sept. 19-23), Doug Marchio will be constructing the club's Riverfest Float, which we will also use for the holiday parade in downtown Bangor.  He will be working in Bugsy's barn and can use as much help as you can give him.  Our Thursday night meeting will be a pizza and work party at the barn.

 

On Friday and Saturday, September 23-24, Old Town will celebrate Riverfest.  

 

On Friday night, we'll be serving free ice cream at the Waterfront Park, starting about 7 and continuing until we run out.  We'll need volunteers to do this--please bring your own ice cream scoop.  Friday evening, Linda will need volunteers at her house to help parboil the chicken and otherwise prepare for Saturday's chicken BBQ.  On Saturday, Linda and Bugsy will need help cooking and serving the chicken.  Serving time is approximately 11 to mid-afternoon (or whenever the chicken runs out); but if you wait until then, you may have trouble accessing the park because of the parade.

 

On Saturday, October 1, we'll need volunteers to help out at the Juniper Ridge Landfill Open House, which is being organized by Old Town Rotarian Wayne Boyd, who manages the landfill for Casella.  8-10 volunteers will be needed to take tickets, help pre-cook french fries for the Fryolater, and perform other duties as assigned.

 

Then, for the month of October, we'll be hard at work preparing for our 66th annual Hunters Breakfast and selling ads for our Hunters Breakfast newspaper, which will be mailed to 11,000 homes in mid-October.

 

We'll also be participating with the two Bangor clubs on our "Purple Pinkie" project, to raise funds for and awareness of Rotary International's Polio Plus project, which seeks to eradicate polio from our planet.