President Ken Drummet opened the meeting at 12:15pm and welcomed everyone. Moha Bouacha shared a few inspirational quotes for the day. A Rotarian, John Baier from the former North Chicago club, joined us as a guest.
Barb Tubekis shared upcoming volunteer events, join in and invite friends to experience Rotary service:
- “Share Your Bounty” grocery donations to Good News Partners is next Thursday, November 20th during our meeting, and we need monetary donations to purchase the groceries. Patti, Barb, Bob, and Moha volunteered to purchase groceries.
- Tuesday, December 2nd 6:00pm is lunch packing for Connections for the Homeless, and December is our club’s responsibility. We need volunteers to sign up for purchasing food, assembly of lunches and delivery of the lunches on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Rotary: Lunch-Packing for Homeless - Operation Warm gifting coats event: Saturday, December 6th at Edgewater, 6000 N. Broadway, 1:30-4:00. Sign up: Operation Warm Coat Gifting- Edgewater Library | Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield
- Also, you can bring your clear plastic food containers to our club meetings that we will give to Glencoe Community Garden for their fresh vegetable distribution.
Ken shared a couple of announcements:
- The club Nominating Committee has met to assemble the officer slate.
- Rotary International’s Annual Conference will be in Chicago in 2030, and a current project is to install peace poles. Think about where our club could sponsor a peace pole.
Ken invited Barb and Rich Lalley to go “Behind the Badge” and share a little of their respective life stories.
Early in her life, Barb went from Chicago to St. Louis and back to Winnetka. She loved her experiences at New Trier High School where she engaged in service, learned leadership, and was part of the water ballet team. At Depauw she continued her life of service. During her study abroad in Greece, their excursion to Egypt included a chance encounter with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, at the Cairo Hilton. She is proud to be a member of Rotary, and the club has been a big part of her life.
Rich believes that good things come from life’s challenges. Rich’s life journey has taken him across the country from the Naval Air Base at Norfolk, VA to Buffalo, NY, Edgewood Borough in Pittsburgh and Birmingham, PA, Arizona, Lansing (MSU), MI, Chicago, St. Louis, MO, Milwaukee, WI, and now Mundelein. Wow! Rich connected to our club when his banker brought him to lunch, and Rotary fit his commitment to service. He has worked with Operation Warm for 16 years.