MV Rotary's Job Show Begins To Come Together

Shown are some of the crew of The New England Job Show as they are editing some of the hours of footage that was taken outside of the studio. The rest of the Show will be shot in the studio at Chelmsford, Massachusetts and will be ready for airing soon. For more information on The New England Job Show write to thejobshow@gmail.com

Chelmsford Man Stays Busy

In case you missed it, we have a new celebrity in our club. Ken was interviewed by the Boston Globe for a Vocational Project our club is currently running to help the unemployed. We've also created a blog for the project http://www.thejobshow.blogspot.com/ and it's listed in the current project on the sidebar.

Here's the Globe link.. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/02/12/life_without_a_job_1234392432/

Planning Begins For TV Show To Help People Get A Job

The MV Rotary is sponsoring the production of a television show that is designed to help people get a job. The show is mostly manned by individuals who are unemployed. The show will be tapped at the TV studios in Chelmsford, Massachusetts and will air on other cable stations around the area. Shown is Matt Scott, station manager, giving the crew an overview of how to produce a show. Stay tuned for updates on this project.

Back From Kenya...MV Rotarian Tells His Story

Late last year, Merrimack Valley Rotarian Carl Good went to Kenya on a trip with 70 Rotarians and non Rotarians to help people in that country impacted by AIDS and other illnesses. It was the largest such excursion in Rotary history. Carl recently made his presentation to the Club about this very special trip. If you want to learn more about Carl's trip (and his earlier trip to Bangladesh) simply type his name in the search widget at the top left of this page.

Rotary Announces This Year's Woodchuck Award Winner!

Dan LeBlanc won this year's Bob McDonald Woodchuck Award.

The Merrimack Valley Rotary honers one of its members with this award each year. The award goes to the member who had the tallest tale to tell during the year. The award is given out at the meeting closest to Ground Hog Day.

Dan won the award this year because of his stories of going into the woods every morning looking for a deer. But never coming back with any evidence to prove it! Congratulations to Dan! Shown is Dan (left) and Bob! Ask Bob how the award got started...he has a tale to tell.

MV Rotary To Air TV Show To Help People Get Hired!

The MV Rotary is sponsoring and creating a television show to help people who are unemployed find work.

The show will be manned by people who are unemployed and will feature experts in the job hunting process giving valuable tips on the challenges that the unemployed face. The show will also give individuals who are unemployed the opportunity to give a 30 second free commercial about themselves in the hopes that an employer will find them and hire them.

The show will be taped locally and will be shared with cable stations throughout the area. There will be two half hour shows each month that will be aired several times throughout the month. For more information contact mvrotary@gmail.com.

Blogging Rotaries Together...One Rotarian's Goal!

MV Rotarian Dan LeBlanc has been visiting Rotaries in the Merrimack Valley area of Massachusetts to promote the idea of creating and linking Rotary Club Blogs together.

Dan's goal is to have all the Blogs linked together for two reasons. First of all, anyone who is researching Rotaries in this area can easily serf from one to the other. And secondly, all the Rotaries in the area can easily keep up with the happenings of each other

Why Blogs instead of Web pages? According to Dan, because Blogs are much more flexible than Web Pages. Articles, photos, power point presentations and more can be easily and quickly added. to the Blog. Plus all members can contribute to the Blog whereas only a few people contribute to the Web page.

So far three Rotaries have created Blogs: Merrimack Valley. Westford and Bedford. Dan has more presentations to come in the upcoming weeks.