Provides transportation for medical appointments to those in need.

Seniors enjoy the service of Rotarians during the April 2008 spaghetti dinner at Oyster Bay High School.

• Additionally, Rotary supports the Doubleday Babcock Senior Center by having a lunch meeting there once a month, hosting a spaghetti dinner for their members, and sponsoring the Day at the Races.

Rotarians donate their time every year to support the Mill Neck Manor’s Fall Harvest Festival. The Festival annually brings the best of the autumn season to Long Island, making a trip to the beautiful Mill Neck campus over Columbus Day weekend irresistible. This year’s Festival, held on October 11 and 12 from 9 am to 5 pm, promises to be better than ever, with the return of ripe apples, handmade country crafts, seasonable produce, grilled bratwurst, children’s activities and much more. 

Located on the grounds of a historic Gold Coast estate, between Oyster Bay and Bayville, the Festival, also known as the Apple Fest, has it all. Visitors enjoy a wide variety of apples and opportunities to learn about the Deaf, the Mill Neck Family of Organizations and its services.

Every year Oyster Bay Rotary donates dictionaries to the 3rd grade students of Oyster Bay's Vernon School, St. Dominic's School, and the Mill Neck School for the Deaf.

The Oyster Bay community can be proud of itself for coming out to support the second Relay for Life event, held on Friday, June 6 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on the grounds of the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School. The evening was devoted to raising money to find a cure for cancer, as well as to celebrate the survivors, thank the caregivers and to give courage to those fighting the disease. The money raised will be used for research and services provided by the American Cancer Society to those fighting the disease.

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http://www.theoysterfestival.org/

The 27th Anniversary Oyster Festival, sponsored by the Oyster Bay Rotary Club, is one of the East Coast's largest annual waterfront festivals. A major fund-raising event for local charities, the celebration returns to Long Island's north shore October 16-17, 2010 for its 25th year delivering its trademark mixture of new activities and fabulous food. Now THAT’S entertainment!

Interact membes at Oyster Bay east Norwich High School enjoy the service aspect the Club offers.

The Rotary Club of Oyster Bay sponsored twenty-one students from Oyster Bay High School and St. Dominic’s High School in the 6^th Annual Young Professionals Chamber of Commerce Business Competition, held at Farmingdale State University on December 3, 2008. The competition consisted of 180 students from 10 school districts across Long Island, and this is the first year Oyster Bay and St. Dom’s participated. Students were asked to present a three minute solution to a case study, followed by questions by a pair of judges. The students, in team of two, had to choose from the categories of sports marketing, sports management, fashion design, advertising, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, real estate, or health care. Rotarians Jim Werner and Ted Togensen helped organize the event with Sara Anderson from Oyster Bay and Steve Beovich from St. Dom’s. Rotary’s sponsorship of this event was made possible from funds raised at the Oyster Festival and exhibits Rotary’s continued commitment to the Oyster Bay Community.

• Provided funds to send eight children to summer camp at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center. These children were identified by the Youth and Family Counseling Agency whose families do not have the resources to send their children to camp.

• Refurbished seven of the Rotary benches in town, with the help from Eagle Scout candidate John Lampisi.  

• Established a web site with over 2000 hits in the last year, averaging 100 new visitors per month, www.oysterbayrotary.com

• Supported the Doubleday Babcock Senior Center by having a lunch meeting there once a month, hosting a spaghetti dinner for their members, and sponsoring the Day at the Races.

• Chaperoned the “Better Oyster Bay” community program for teenagers, and paid for the insurance.

• Hosted a lunch for National Honor Students from St. Dom’s and OBHS, recognizing the student’s academic accomplishments.

• Sponsored the OB Cooperative Preschool Wellness walk.

• Provided the Oyster Bay Community Band with a $1000 challenge gift to support their summer concert series.

• Participated in a Dictionary project, donating dictionaries to the 3rd grade students of Vernon School, St. Dominic's School, and the Mill Neck School for the Deaf.

• Supported international service projects by through Peter Casparian’s travels to Guatemala with WINGS, an educational group that is dedicated to provide health education for women in underserved areas of that country.

• Rotary answered the Youth and Family Counseling Agency’s transportation request to provide bus service to children for their summer camp scholarship program.

• Organized a backpack program, to provide selected school aged children with backpacks full of school supplies.

• Staffed the apple cider booth for the Mill Neck School for the Deaf annual Apple Festival, selling over 800 gallons of cider.

• Awarded $4,000 in academic and service scholarships to graduating seniors from OBHS and St. Dom’s. Congratulations to OBHS seniors Julia Tortora (Al Shapiro Scholarship), Maria Moreno (Interact: Service Above Self Scholarship) Kelsey Gallagher (Oyster Bay Rotary Scholarship), and to Danielle Fabian of St. Dominic’s (Oyster Bay Rotary Scholarship). 

•  Provided matching funds for the Shelter Box project, as requested by the third grade class at the East Woods School. The overwhelming success that the third grade class had allowed for them to send two Shelter Boxes to Haiti to provide relief for the earthquake victims. Shelter Box is a program that provides a tent, vitamins, water filtration, toiletries, and cookware for 10 people for six months.

• The vocational committee provided transportation, tuition, and chaperoned for 25 students from OBHS and St. Dom’s to compete in the Young Professionals Business and Leadership Competition at Farmingdale State University.

• Organized over 110 hours of bell ringing for the Salvation Army’s kettle at Stop and Shop. This is one of the highest grossing kettles in Nassau County. Thanks to Rotarian Tom Tetro for organizing the effort.

• During the holiday season, Rotary supported contributions to CSAC, the Community Social Action Council’s Holiday Sharing program and giving trees, North Shore Community Church, Christ Church, St Dominic’s, Community United Methodist Church, North Shore Assembly of God, Hood African Methodist Church, Mt Olive Baptist Church, North Shore Community Church.

Many of these programs are reoccurring program, but Rotary has also been developing new programs that will thrive over the next year:

• ROTARY RIDES! Is a program that will supplement the needs of seniors from our community that were affected by the discontinued Able Rides program through the MTA. Rotary will provide funding to start the program to offer 150 hours of bus service that will provide seniors with transportation to get the medical attention they need. This program will be supported by Harbor House, the Doubleday Babcock Senior Center, and Hendrickson Bus.
• Rotary has started a historical records project, to organize and archive 68 years of Club records. Rotary has supported the Historical Society’s “Angela P Koenig Research and Collections Center” currently under construction. The Historical Society will provide space for the Rotary to store the records, and work alongside a student from CW Post’s masters program in library sciences to help Rotary archive their records.

• Interact Club is the high school version of Rotary. OBHS has an active Interact Club, and in the Fall, St. Dominic’s will start a new Interact Club to be named in honor of Rotarian Tom Reardon.