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Peace Pole DedicationMembers of the Rotary Club of Hampton Bays and the community gathered on May 4, 2024 to commemorate the installation of a global Peace Pole. The Pole was installed at Good Ground Park in Hampton Bays in honor of Club Member Tom Crowley's 2023-2024 service as District Governor of Rotary District 7255 which encompasses Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The Club installed a total of 4 poles as part of the global Peace Pole Project. Three are at the 3 Hampton Bays Schools, and one at Good Ground Park, a green space located in the heart of the hamlet. See more photos by clicking on the album in the Photo Albums section.
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Spaghetti Dinner April 7th! |
Holiday Harmonies Coming Dec. 9th!Purchase tickets here on Eventbrite. Support all that Rotary does for the community and beyond! Admission is $35 prepaid on Eventbrite and $40 at the door. Sponsorship opportunities available, please download the event flyer on our home page.
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Oyster ProjectJulie Crowley, President of Hampton Bays Rotary, and her fellow Rotarians and friends were invited to help Sayville Rotary with their Oyster Reef Project. Hampton Bays Rotary was able to learn how to start their our oyster Reef Project. Thank you Chris Imperato, President of Sayville Rotary, and fellow Sayville Rotarians!
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2023 Spaghetti DinnerOur 38th Annual Spaghetti Dinner will be held Sunday, April 23, 2023 at Villa Paul Restaurant in Hampton Bays! Serving salad, garlic bread, spaghetti & meatballs, dessert and coffee or tea from noon til 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for children under 12, and $20 early bird senior citizens dinner noon to 3 p.m. Take out dinners always available! Purchase at the door, or in advance at Carolyn's Good Ground Cleaners or any Hampton Bays Rotarian. Questions? Call Tom Crowley 631-332-7390. For EVENTBRITE TICKETS CLICK HERE! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/38th-annual-spaghetti-dinner-tickets-596793033027
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2023 Installation 6/10/23Use the QR Code to see more details and reserve your seat or table on EventBrite and/or download event flyer in the download section on this website. Calling all PDG's to participate in a special "Pass The Gavel" event, and welcoming all District Clubs to hold your installation at this fun waterside event.
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2023 SuperBowl Fund Raiser!Get in on the fun and support a great cause! Download reservation form on the home page for your chance to win! 100 boxes, $100 donation per box, half supports Rotary, half to the winners. Boxes are assigned numbers by random drawing, and the box with the right last number for both teams' scores at the end of each quarter wins! 4 chances to win: $500 for 1st and 3rd quarter, $1500 for halftime, $2500 for final. Questions? Email dwillmott3@protonmail.com.
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Holiday Harmonies Coming Dec. 17th!Purchase tickets here on EventBrite. Support all that Rotary does for the community and beyond! Admission is $30 prepaid and $40 at the door. Sponsorship opportunities available, please download the event flyer on our home page.
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Holiday Harmonies back for 2021 |
Thank you 2021 Cocktail Party Sponsors! |
Fund raiser update, thank you sponsors! |
Little Food Pantry Installed!
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Cocktail Party 9/22/21 |
2020 Raffle 9/20/20!Contact Tom Crowley tom.crowley@cookmaran.com today! A few tickets still available!
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Spaghetti Dinner Is Postponed |
Spaghetti Dinner 4/19/20! |
Super Bowl Pool now open!Get in on all the Super Bowl fun and support The Rotary Club of Hampton Bays at the same time! Download reservation form on home page, or contact event Chair DJ Willmott | 631-356-3449 | dwillmott3@gmail.com
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Ponquogue Park Dedication 10/25/19 |
2019 Holiday Harmonies coming Dec. 14th! |
2019-2020 Installation at Jamesport WineryCongratulations to the Crowley Family who are all now Paul Harris Fellows, and many thanks for their support of Rotary Foundation! Thanks to the many District representatives who attended, welcome to our new members and much more. See all the photos in the Photo Album section!
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Flash Golf Raffle! |
Thank you, Holiday Harmonies sponsors! |
2018 Holiday Harmonies Community Concert |
12th Annual Autumn Evening by the Sea |
Spaghetti Dinner 4/8/18Our 34th Annual Spaghetti Dinner will be held on Sunday, April 8, 2018 from noon to 9 p.m. at Villa Paul Restaurant, Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays. This event benefits our Rotary Scholarship fund for Hampton Bays High School Seniors. The main Scholarship awards a student $1000 per year for all 4 years of their college career. Featuring salad, our almost-world-famous garlic bread, Villa Paul's fabulous meatballs, dessert and coffee or tea all for only $18 per person! $12 for children under 12, and $12 for the Seniors Early Bird from noon to 3 p.m. Take out dinners are always available. Tickets available at the Hampton Bays Library, Carolyn's Good Ground Cleaners, from any Rotarian or download the reservation form on this page.
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Holiday Harmonies 2017Thanks to our local all-star cast, the staff at Hampton Bays High School and to the Hampton Bays community for your tremendous support of this event. See more photos in the Photo Albums section.
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Holiday Harmonies is Saturday!Remember Holiday Harmonies is Saturday, December 9th! Tickets are available at the door. Thanks to our all-volunteer cast and to our generous sponsors. See you there! |
Welcome new members!PDG Marion Stark inducting our newest members Linda Amato and Bill Wright. Left to right, Marion Stark, Terry McGrath, Linda Amato, Bill Wright and Sheryl Heather.
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2nd Annual Holiday Harmonies ConcertTo download reservation form: On laptop or desktop: See Link at left under "Home Page Download Files" On mobile device: Scroll down below stories to "Home Page Download Files"
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Save The Date 9/21/17 for Autumn Evening By The Sea! |
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John Mitchell our newest Paul Harris FellowLong time Southampton Rotarian John Mitchell joined our Hampton Bays Club in December of 2016. Now a retiree and Florida snow bird, we're thrilled to have his many years of Rotary experience on hand to help educate our newer members. John recently sold some stock subject to Capital Gains tax. To help offset that tax liability, he made a generous donation to Rotary Foundation. Shown at right is Immediate Past President Tom Crowley on the right awarding John his Paul Harris Fellow credentials. Keep Rotary Foundation in mind for your giving!
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Water for South Sudan Update! |
Life Ring Project on Shinnecock CanalIn the late 1800’s my great grandfather Christian Holzman moved to Hampton Bays with the company hired to dig the Shinnecock Canal. This iconic Hamptons landmark connects Shinnecock Bay to Peconic Bay and provides easy access to the Ocean for those who live on the “North Fork”. After completing the canal my great grandfather settled in Hampton Bays buying property on the canal and raising a large “Duck Farming” family with descendants still occupying the original house and lands today. As President of the Hampton Bays Rotary Club for 2016-2017 I immediately was receptive when Tim Corwin of the Southampton Rotary Club reached out to me to see if we would enter into a joint project with Southampton to put life ring-life saving stations along both sides of the canal. Beau Hulse (SH President), Tim and I met and got things underway. Community contributions including the materials being donated by one of our members (Mike DiGaudio from Riverhead Building Supply), and lots of volunteer labor saw the project come to fruition. A ribbon cutting ceremony took place on Friday May 19th. Hampton Bays and Southampton members, our contributors, the Coast Guard, local politicians and the media all took part in the ceremony. Nothing but positive comments have come from the community since this work was completed and both clubs have a strong feeling of pride in accomplishing such a worthwhile project. A picture of one of the 22 stations we installed is shown below. A great Rotary community project that brought our clubs and community members together! - See more at: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/50046/Stories/ring-life-saving-stations-joint-project#sthash.B3YsyoUc.dpuf |
Water Is Life: Jan. 17th meeting reportJennifer Halsey of "Water Is Life" was our guest speaker on January 17, 2017. Read the full story to learn about her amazing projects!
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December 6th meeting: There's an app to find an app!Find a fun make-up meeting next Tuesday at noon as Bernie Buda and Howie Hunger of EZPZ Lifestyle present their new "app" that's designed to help you find apps that are useful for you. Join us at Villa Paul Restaurant on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays.
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Holiday Harmonies December 11th! |
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Helping people with disabilities make their own musicMusic has been an important part of leading an ordinary life for students at the Music School for Children With Disabilities in Honor of Paul Harris in Lublin, Poland. Founded by Rotary members, the school serves 20 students with various disabilities, including Down syndrome, autism, and visual impairments. The Rotary Club of Lublin-Centrum-Maria Curie-Sklodowska has provided funding with help from Rotary Foundation Matching Grants and the Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society, which houses the school.
After their son Mateusz was born with underdeveloped eyes, Mariusz and Joanna Kania looked for ways to help him be active. When he showed an aptitude for music, they looked for a teacher and were thrilled to find the Paul Harris music school.
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Finding Safe HavenFor years, Angalia Bianca had slept in abandoned buildings throughout Chicago. She stole. She did drugs. She spent time in and out of jail for forgery, theft, trespassing, and possession of narcotics. But after she landed in prison for the seventh time, something changed -- Bianca knew she wanted a better life. She just didn’t know how to make it happen.
After serving her time, Bianca sought help from a local homeless organization, A Safe Haven, and moved to its shelter in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Bianca followed the program closely -- she attended all the required meetings, passed drug tests, and volunteered at every opportunity.
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India celebrates three years without polioThroughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011. To mark this historic triumph, Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, "India is polio free."
The three-year achievement sets the stage for polio-free certification of the entire Southeast Asia region by the World Health Organization. The Indian government also plans to convene a polio summit in February to commemorate this victory in the global effort to eradicate polio.
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