The Wakefield Rotary Club is thrilled to announce its newest environmental recycling project: Junk in the Trunk. On Saturday, October 26th, pre-registered vehicles will park in the Lazarus Center for Healing Shrine (formally St. Florence Church) in Wakefield from 10:00am-12:00pm. Participants will open their trunks full of items for others to take. As Wakefield Rotary [...]
The Wakefield Rotary Club recently completed its multi-year project to collect and donate school supplies to benefit a Caribbean school. This year, the club selected the Sandy Point Primary School on St. Kitts. In just three weeks, Wakefield and Lynnfield Rotarians, friends and family collected school supply items to be hand-delivered to the school. Wakefield [...]
The Wakefield Rotary Club will again be hosting a Red Sox ticket chance at the WCAT Movies by the Lake. Thanks to a generous donation from Wakefield Rotarian Frank Fiorentino and Mahoney, Fiorentino, and Co., PC, raffle participants can win a once-in-a-lifetime pair of tickets for the Red Sox take on the Texas Rangers on [...]
A family fishing at Lake Quannapowitt The Wakefield Rotary Club hosted its annual Father’s Day Fishing Tournament at Lake Quannapowitt on Sunday, June 16th. The free event, open to all ages, welcomed about a dozen families fishing for various top spots. Wakefield Rotary Event Coordinator Gene Mullen explained, “The weather this year [...]
Paul Adams kicked off the new speaker series on April 9, 2024. The Wakefield Rotary Club has recently grown to welcome five new women into its ranks. The growth inspired incoming Club President Wendy Maguire to launch a new speaker series with the aim of getting to know our members on a more [...]
Interesting items were up for auction! They say "one person's trash, is another's treasure." Recently, the Wakefield Rotary Club put that idiom to the test during the club's Second Chances Auction. The internal fundraiser invites members to bring gently used or unwanted items in for donation. Other members can then bid on them, generally [...]
Patricia was installed by Past President Lisa Roderick. The Wakefield Rotary Club is pleased to announce its newest member, Patricia Birchem. Birchem was recently installed into the club earlier this season by Wakefield Rotary Past President, Lisa Roderick and her sponsor, Past President Amy Luckiewicz. Birchem is most interested in developing economic and [...]
Back row (left to right): Glen Duffy, Michael Sullivan, Barbara WorleyMiddle row (left to right): Amy Luckiewicz, Jill McWilliam, Margie Daniels, Joie Gerrish, Frank FiorentinoFront row (left to right): Suzanne Bowering, Wendy Maguire, Kathy Boyle The Wakefield Rotary Club recently announced the election of its new officers and directors at its Annual Meeting. [...]
The Wakefield Rotary Club completed its annual Autumn donation of dictionaries to every third grader in Wakefield. 314 copies were hand-delivered to all Wakefield public schools as well as Odyssey and St. Joseph’s School. Diligent Rotarians Suzanne Bowering, Barbara Worley, Tom Stapleton, Joie Gerrish, Paul Adams, Wendy Maguire, Lisa Roderick, and Jill McWilliam visited each [...]
Interact Advisor Bridget Hagerty, Wakefield Rotary President Glen Duffy, and Interact student leaders Ahmed Othman, Riya Patel The Wakefield Rotary Club recently contributed items to the Wakefield Interact’s Care Closet. The Care Closet is accessible to high school students and contains free clothes and other necessary toiletries for students in need. Rotarians donated items [...]