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OUR CLUB MEETS

Fridays at noon

at the

American Legion Hall

162 Winn Street

Burlington, Massachusetts

Lunch is served.....

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Previous year's photos

with captions/information...

Are archived by year in the Photo Gallery

INSTALLATION DINNER MEETING

June 27, 2008

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FOUNTAIN DEDICATION

June 23, 2008

The dedication ceremony for the fountain and resting plaza on the Burlington Town Common. A gift from our Club to to the town to commemorate our Club's 50th anniversary, this area will provide a pleasant resting place for folks visiting the Common. Shown here (l-r) are Town Administrator Robert Mercier, Selectman and Club member Walter Zenkin, Incoming Club President Beverlee Vidoli and current Club President John Tuccinardi, who is reading the dedication .announcement. The marker stone carries the words of Rotary's "Four Way Test." (Nicholas Karwan photo)

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CONCERT ON THE COMMON

June 18, 2008

Continuing a long standing tradition, our club provided free popcorn and fruit juice drinks to the attendees at one of Burlington's summer evening "Concerts On The Common". Shown here are Club members and spouses who helped with this year's program.

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BOSTON GLOBE NEWPAPER ARTICLE

June12, 2008

On June 12, 2008 The Boston Globe published a very positive article about our club in its Northwest section. The focus of the story was our Club's 50th anniversary and the fountain we are gifting to the town, but they touched on many other things about our club and Rotary International. If you didn't get a chance to read the piece in the paper, click on the link below to see the full version on the Boston Globe's website.

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A NEW GAVEL

June 6, 2008

Margaret Dougherty, President of the Wilmington, Massachusetts Rotary Club presents a new gavel to our Club's President John Tuccinardi in celebration of our Club's 50th anniversary. The Wilmington Rotary Club was our Club's sponsor 50 years ago.

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2008 GOLF TOURNAMENT

June 2, 2008

Held at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, New Hampshire. Club member Andy Weiner and the members of this event's committee held another successful fund raiser this year.

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A WORK IN PROGRESS

May 29, 2008

Construction of our Club's 50th anniversary gift to the Town of Burlington is underway. The gift, a fountain on the Town Common, is scheduled to be dedicated on June 23, 2008. Shown here (r-l) are Current President John Tuccinardi, Incoming President Beverlee Vidoli and Past President Bob Hogan.

50th Anniversery Meeting

May 16, 2008

2nd Annual Fashion Show

April 26, 2008

This event was a resounding success, attracting over 250 attendees who enjoyed an evening eating delicious snacks and deserts, while watching Rotarians and their family members, Interact Club members, and our Club's Burlington Pride Special Olympics Team players strut their stuff up the runway and onto the stage wearing outfits from Ann Taylor, Men's Warehouse and The GAP.

The venue was The Billerica Elks Hall where the guests relaxed around 30 banquet tables. To add to their enjoyment and our Club's fund raising, 30 different prizes were raffled off throughout the evening.

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Friday Night at the Fights

March 28, 2008

A spectacularly successful event, this year's "Friday Night at the Fights" amateur boxing event combined with dinner and raffles raised a significant amount of money the club will put to good use helping people this year.

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Passion Plunge

February 16, 2008

Burlington Rotarian David May (R-back row) joined with his friends Rick Murray and Fred Lonergan and over 300 other hardy souls who took a dip in the 38 degee water at Revere Beach to raise money for Special Olympics of Massachusetts (SOMA). Burlington Rotary sponsers and coach local Special Olympics Softball and Basketball players. David's supporters and the Burlington Rotary raised over $1000 in contributions to SOMA for his plunge. The air temperature that day was 20 degrees, brrr...

Senior Citizens' Dinner Dance

February 10, 2008

Burlington Rotarian Janet Sullivan Fitzparrick serves dinner to seniors, Dorothy Barron, Brita Flemming and Olive Bruce at the Senior Citizens Valentines Day Dinner Dance.

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Interact Club Fundraiser

February 5, 2008

Flatbread Manager, Sean Toomey, and a Burlington Rotary Club member too, pulls a Pizza from the brick oven during an Interact Fundraiser at the Bedford resturant, Interacters, Kyle Stanley (freshman), Tracy DiBona (sophmore) and Conor Murphy, Interact President (senior). (KarwanPhotos.com)

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World Peace and Understanding

Bookcase Project

January 11, 2008

The installation ceremony, the culmination of a project three years in the making, took place on January 11, 2008 at the Burlington High School Library. Our club donated this beautiful bookcase and the books in it to help BHS students learn more about one of Rotary's major goals, the furtherence of world peace and understanding between people of varied nationalities and ethnicities. DG Julia Phelps (R) attended the ceremony, along with many of our club's members, Interact students, and BHS staff.,

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