Weekly Programs

Our club’s first attempt at using Rotary connections to build friendships and understanding between different nations and cultures is just about concluded.  Here’s a look at that first Cultural Connection between our member Kris Wilson’s son Eli [...]

Rotary has been the international leader in the fight to End Polio for years.  To many, that's the only thing they know about Rotary.  Gary Aufdenkampe shares with us these two videos about Paul Alexander, one of [...]

The Rotary Club of Biddeford-Sacco, Maine in the U.S. invited PDG Sergii Zavadskyi to speak last Wednesday on what he and other Rotarians in Ukraine are facing and what they are doing as the war passes the [...]

The United Nations has designated March 22 as World Water Day.  One of Rotary's prime causes is providing clean water around the world.  We have two videos for you this week.  The first short one on World [...]

Rotary's theme for the coming year is "Imagine Rotary".  It means a lot of different things in different contexts.  In this speech from 2008, J.K. Rowling speaks of the power of both failure and imagination.  To quote [...]

Our program this week about speaking out when necessary uses the equivalent of Rotary's 4 way test to help us be brave enough to speak our truths.  Luvvie Ajayi Jones gives us some tools to use to [...]

Humor can help us deal with life in many ways.  Our program this week from Eloisa Robledo, features Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas on how to use humor in leadership.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKDipbCzdc

The goal of energy from fusion has seemed to be always "just 20 years away" for about 50 years now.  That timeline is becoming more realistic daily.  Chuck Hoffhine found this video from 2021 about Delivering Fusion [...]

Berenice Claassens was a Rotary Youth Exchange student who stayed with Jim & Sue Hunt.  Now she is a prosecutor in South Africa and she helped us find our first Cultural Connections student outside of our club.  [...]

In this week's program, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim talks of how combining cultural knowledge from her people in Chad with science can help to tackle climate change.  Our program this week was chosen by Jessica Stieritz.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3d_UsYgt1c [...]

In support of RI's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals and Black History month in the U.S., this week's program is a compilation of oral histories of some of the Tuskegee Airmen from WWII.  These brave gentlemen fought [...]

One of Rotary's prime causes is growing local economies.  This week's program is a TED Talk by social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson on the harm caused by economic inequality.  He uses a vast amount of data to illustrate [...]

Rotarian and polio survivor Ann Lee Hussey speaks to the RI International assembly in 2019 about her personal struggle with polio and her involvement in Rotary's worldwide campaign to eradicate the disease.  Our program was suggested by [...]

This week's program is brought to us by Marvin Whitfield. "In today's society, we often view at-risk kids without genuinely understanding the causes of their behavior. They are often seen as threats to society and thrown into [...]