Events

Michael Thorbjornsen is a Wellesley High School golfer that won the US Junior Amateur Championship and participated in the US Open.

He will Speak to Rotary about his story.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.

Banquet for Seniors on the Wellesley and Needham High School Footbal Teams.

Meet President of MassBay Community College and hear about a pressing issue of food insecurity on campus. Many students arrive without breakfast and have little or no money to purchase lunch. What can our community do pitch in and help?

WELLESLEY, MA  (Date) --- MassBay Community College and the Rotary Club of Wellesley, Inc. have joined efforts to combat food insecurity at the college.  To launch this partnership, the two organizations will host a public community presentation entitled:  “Food for Thought:  Fighting Student Hunger on College Campuses.” The event will include MassBay Community College President, Dr. David Podell who will speak about the negative impact of food insecurity on students at the local campus, the initiatives MassBay has put in place to help students, and how the public can help in this effort.

 “MassBay conducted a student survey in 2017 and found 52% of the students who participated were experiencing food insecurity, which isn’t surprising given the national average of students facing food insecurity is 56%,” said MassBay President, Dr. David Podell. “We know if students are worrying about their next meal, they cannot focus on their studies.  If they are hungry, they won’t be able to concentrate.  In other words, hunger impedes students’ academic success.  We quickly began several initiatives on campus to help students have access to food, including snack bins for all students, access to frozen meals to take home, fresh fruits and vegetables at a monthly farmers market, and meal cards to our cafeteria.  We are extremely grateful for the Wellesley Rotary’s support, because together we are stronger.” (Dave Podell)

In Spring 2017, MassBay conducted a study and found that 52% of MassBay Community College students experience food insecurity.  To fight hunger on its campus, the MassBay Student Development Office in partnership with other college departments spearheaded SNACC (Student Nourishment and Care Committee), a program with various initiatives to ensure students’ access to food while on campus. The SNACC program hosts monthly Mobile Food Markets, provides Snack Bins available to all students, and supports a Student Hunger Assistant Fund.  The goals are to eliminate the stigma surrounding food insecurity, give access to healthy food options and eliminate barriers to college success.

This year, the Rotary Club of Wellesley is supporting this effort under its “Supporting Our Youth” program. The Club’s goals are to raise awareness about this critical issue among Wellesley residents and the business community, and to secure funding for varied food insecurity initiatives at MassBay.  The Food for Thought presentation of December 3^rd is the first in a series of events geared towards fulfilling these two goals.  The Club has already a secured a matching Rotary District Grant and is pledging a percentage of the funds raised the Taste of Wellesley 2020 to go towards supporting additional food insecurity initiatives. 

This event is free and open to the public. 

Come and celebrate the Holidays with your Rotarian Friends. Spouses and significant others welcomed. The Spoto's will be hosting the event at their home -  50 Cypress Road, Wellesley.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will address recent service project outcomes and upcoming volunteer opportunities.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will include a speaker.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will address recent service project outcomes and upcoming volunteer opportunities.

Health Benefits of Electrification

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will address recent service project outcomes and upcoming volunteer opportunities.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will include a speaker.

Repair Café

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). At the Repair Café event, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make most repairs. Repairs can be made on clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.

Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

There are over 1.300 Repair Cafés worldwide. 

Please register on the Rotary Club of Wellesley’s website. If you have an item to repair, register as a guest to attend the Café. Please list the item you want to repair in the comments section of the registration form.

If you have questions, feel free to contact John Adams at johnfadamsjr@gmail.com or 617-817-0314. If we can talk before the event, then we can make sure to have the necessary parts for repair available.

If you have repair skills and want to help out, please register as a volunteer.

Repair Café House Rules

·        The work carried out in the Repair Café is performed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand.

·        Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.

·        The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability. Neither the organizers of the Repair Café nor the repair experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Repair Café. The limitations set forth in these house rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liability arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.

·        A voluntary donation is greatly appreciated.

·        Any use of new materials such as leads, plugs, fuses, ready-made kneebends 
or applications will be paid for separately.

·        Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.

·        Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home.

·        Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.

·        Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.

·        Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.

·        To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair.

Why a Repair Café?

We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong, and which could get a new lease on life after a simple repair. The trouble is, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Society doesn’t always show much appreciation for the people who still have this practical knowledge, and against their will they are often left standing on the sidelines. Their experience is never used, or hardly ever.

The Repair Café changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting passed on. Things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products. It cuts CO2 emissions, for example, because manufacturing new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.

The Repair Café teaches people to see their possessions in a new light and, once again, to appreciate their value. The Repair Café helps change people’s mindset. This is essential to kindle people’s enthusiasm for a sustainable society.

Most of all, the Repair Café wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is. Why don’t you give it a go?

Who thought up the idea?

The Repair Café was initiated by Martine Postma. Since 2007, she has been striving for sustainability at a local level in many ways. Martine organized the very first Repair Café in Amsterdam, on October 18, 2009. It was a great success.

This prompted Martine to start the Repair Café Foundation. Since 2011, this non-profit organization has provided professional support to local groups in the Netherlands and other countries wishing to start their own Repair Café.

Not competing with professional repair specialists

The Repair Café Foundation sometimes gets asked whether access to free repair get-togethers is competing with professional repair specialists. The answer is; quite the opposite. Organisers want to use Repair Cafés across the whole country to focus attention on the possibility of getting things repaired. Visitors are frequently advised to go to the few professionals still around.

Furthermore, people who visit Repair Cafés are not usually customers of repair specialists. They say that they normally throw away broken items because paying to have them repaired is, in general, too expensive. At the Repair Café they learn that you don’t have to throw things away; there are alternatives.

Kiwanis Club to give an update on their service projects and programs. This will be followed up with our club reciprocating at their meeting on April 2, 2020. The idea is to bring mutual support of each clubs activities. 

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will address recent service project outcomes and upcoming volunteer opportunities.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will include a speaker.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will address recent service project outcomes and upcoming volunteer opportunities.

All are welcome for the light buffet and easy conversation beginning at 6:15 PM.  The 7-8pm meeting will include a speaker.