Patti chaired the meeting.
Announcements:
- Patti thanked the club for participating in the ‘ Club Assembly’ the week before.
- Reminder to all Board members that the next meeting is before the 9/15 meeting.
- The club survey highlighted a desire to have more social events, so we are encouraging Rotarians to gather and socialize at the Winnetka Community House ‘Firsty Thursday’ event this Thursday, 9/8.See the Bulletin story for details!
- Patti & Barb are forming a committee to explore starting a local ‘music mends minds’ group to help people with memory loss.Please contact them to join the committee!
Happy Bucks:
- congratulated Terry Dason for the Saturday Farmers Market.
- Fred also asked us all to support food pantries: as inflation is rising, the need is greater!
- Sylvia brought two bags of donations for the New Trier pantry.
Speaker: Our speaker was Glenn T. Garlick. He is a proud member of the Buffalo Grove Rotary Club and the District 6440 Polio Now Chair. After the meeting he sent all our members the following email, which recaps his discussion:
Thanks for the time you took today in letting me speak at your Rotary club, about what's happening in the world pertaining to Wild Polio eradication. Rotary International has made Wild Polio Eradication the #1 cause for the last thirty years and we are very, very close to the end. I am also very excited about the new "game changing" vaccine that was recently developed. I have outlined below the process to join the PolioPlus Society. Please consider this promise that Rotary International has made on behalf of all Rotarians to all of the children of the world and consider joining the Polio Plus Society.
To Join the Polio Plus Society;
1) Sign in to Rotary6440.org
2) Scroll down on the Right Hand Side to the Polio Plus Society box and click on the box
3) You are then taken to the Polio Plus Society page
4) PLEDGE first - then go back and DONATE $100
If you would like to donate to Polio Plus but not join the Polio Plus Society please go to rotary.org and follow the "Donate" button. If you are currently unable to donate then I ask you to "Tell the Polio story" to your family, friends and co-workers. Perhaps they will give you a donation to prevent another "crawler" in the world. What is your Polio footprint? Thanks again for your time today.