The Gloucester Rotary has published a 12-month Cape Ann photo calendar for 2025, featuring the photography of several local photographers. In addition to the beautiful photography, each calendar includes a raffle ticket for a $50 weekly raffle drawing throughout the year.  The calendars are $25 each and proceeds from sales will be used for the Gloucester Rotary’s many community and international activities.
 
The calendars are available for purchase at the Weathervane Gift Shop, located at 153 Main Street in Gloucester (phone 978-281-1227), at BankGloucester, located at 160 Main Street in Gloucester (978-283-8200), and from any Gloucester Rotary member. Calendars may also be purchased online at https://gloucesterrotary.org/page/calendar.
 

Gloucester Rotary Pancake Breakfast

Come for the Pancakes, Stay for the Waterfront Festival!

 
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Stage Fort Park
7:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Purchase Tickets

 
Dig into a fresh stack of blueberry pancakes at this year’s Gloucester Rotary Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at Stage Fort Park on Saturday, August 17, 2024, from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
 
This community-friendly tradition brings people together for a good cause and offers a hearty al fresco breakfast with stunning views from the bandstand. Finish up a plate of pancakes and head down the hill to the Gloucester Waterfront Festival, sponsored by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, running on Saturday-Sunday, August 17-18. A special free parking area is available for Pancake Breakfast attendees. For information on Gloucester attractions, visit www.capeannvacations.com.
 
Tickets for the Pancake Breakfast are $10 per person, $6 for children six and under, and are available in advance online or from any Gloucester Rotarian. Tickets will also be available on the morning of the breakfast.
 
Proceeds from the Pancake Breakfast will benefit local projects that support people. The Gloucester Rotary has served Gloucester and the world beyond for 100+ years.

Attention Professional and Recreational Photographers 

The Gloucester Rotary will publish a 12-month Cape Ann photo calendar for 2025 as a fundraiser.  All profits will go to the Gloucester Rotary’s many community and international activities.
 
2025 Calendar Theme: Flowers of Cape Ann.  In Order to publish a beautiful calendar, the Club is requesting high quality digital photos that reflect the natural beauty of Cape Ann throughout the year.  As we will be featuring one photo per month, we need images from each season:  winter, spring, summer and fall.  Photographs from Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Manchester will be accepted. (Click the "Read More" link below for full details)

Entry Deadline Tuesday, August 15, 2024, 12:00 PM  

The Gloucester Rotary is a group of civic-minded business and community leaders, whose mission is to support the community and the world beyond the North Shore. Celebrating their 101st anniversary in 2024, the Rotary has awarded $6,000 in scholarships to local students, donated $6,000 to international causes, and provided $67,000 to local projects in the past twelve months. Rotary President Tracy Arabian credits the generosity of spirit of the Rotary’s 55 members. “These amazing people donate their time, their money, and their knowledge to making the world a better place. It has been an extraordinary honor to have served the Rotary the past six months as President.” 
 
Local non-profit organizations that the Gloucester Rotary contributed to between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, include: 1623 Studios, Action Inc., Addison Gilbert Hospital Cancer Center, American Legion, Art Haven Teen Artist Guild, Backyard Growers, Bandstand Concerts at Stage Fort Park, Cape Ann YMCA, Care Dimensions, CORE Peer Recovery and Resource Center, Day by Day Adult Care, Gloucester Fireworks, First R, , Fishbox Derby, Fishermen's Memorial Service, Fishtown Horribles Parade, Generous Gardeners, Gloucester Adventure Girls on Adventure, Gloucester Education Foundation, Grace Center, Inc., Harborlight Community Partners, HAWC, Gloucester Holiday Parade, Maritime Gloucester, North Shore Health Project, Pathways for Children, Sawyer Free Library Children's Room, Sawyer Free Library Building Fund, SeniorCare Inc., St. Vincent DePaul Society, The Open Door, and Wellspring House Inc.
 
The Gloucester Rotary’s signature project is supporting the Stage Fort Park Playground and Bandstand. Since 2007, the group has gifted several major pieces of playground equipment to the City of Gloucester and has provided assistance with maintenance. In 2023, the Rotary celebrated its 100th anniversary and began raising funds for an expansion at the Playground. This spring, working with the City of Gloucester old equipment was removed and replaced with new. 
Rotary International’s motto of “Service above Self” is the basis of the Gloucester Rotary’s support of and involvement in numerous local causes.  

Photo caption: Rotarian Steve Buckley helps several children cut the ribbon to the Stage Fort Park playground expansion while Gloucester Rotary President Tracy Arabian and Gloucester Rotary Centennial President Mike Sarraf watch.
 
Carole Sharoff will be presented with the Gloucester Rotary’s Paul Harris Distinguished Service Award at a special dinner on Thursday, May 23, 2024, at Cruiseport Gloucester, located at 6 Rowe Square in downtown Gloucester. The Paul Harris Distinguished Service Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Gloucester Rotary and recognizes Ms. Sharoff’s many contributions to the community at large as well as to Rotary as a former club board member, secretary, and President.
 
Carole is the founder and CEO of Atlantic Vacation Homes and AVH Realty, Inc. and was recently awarded the vacation rental industry’s Pioneer Award with the notation that “This entire industry owes her a debt of gratitude for everything she has done.” She served on the Vacation Rental Management Association’s Board as Secretary and on the Executive Committee. She was a Presenter at the Annual Million Dollar Women’s Symposium at Salem State University Enterprise Center.  Locally, she serves on the board of Action, Inc., has been a board member of the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Discover Gloucester and was copresident of Temple Ahavat Achim when it was destroyed in the tragic fire of December 2007. Under her leadership, a new Temple rose from its ashes at its original site on Middle Street. In all areas of her service, Carole focuses on improving the organization’s approach to Diversity and Inclusion.
 
Rotary International was founded by Paul Harris in 1905 as a humanitarian organization. In recent years, it has led the initiative to eradicate polio and has helped to provide clean water to poor communities around the world. Locally, Rotary helps fund local charities and built and maintains the children’s playground in Stage Fort Park. 
 
Tickets to the Paul Harris Distinguished Service Award Dinner are $60 per person and may be reserved by contacting event Chair Steve Kaity at 978-879-1051. The dinner is open to the general public, and friends and colleagues of Carole are encouraged to attend.
 

Welcome to
Gloucester Rotary

We meet Tuesdays
at 12:00 PM
Cruiseport Gloucester
6 Rowe Sq, Lower Floor
Gloucester, MA  01930
United States
 
 
 
Speakers
Andrew DeFranza
Dec 17, 2024
CEO Harbor Light Homes
No meeting
Dec 24, 2024
No meeting
Dec 31, 2024
Business Meeting
Jan 14, 2025
Racial Justice Team
Jan 21, 2025
Sal Zerilli
Jan 28, 2025
Awesome Gloucester
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Oct 29, 2024 480
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Nov 19, 2024 161
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Dec 3, 2024 203
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