President Chuck Norton chaired the meeting commencing at 12:17.
Guests: We did not have any special guests other than our speaker, Monica Dombrowski.
Eric Birkenstein offered the Thought for the Day: “The Congo has not had any new ebola cases in 45 days”
Birthdays and Anniversaries: Greg Nelson and Krysten Warren are celebrating birthdays this week. There were no Rotary Anniversaries.
Announcements:
Barbara Tubekis: While we are in Tier 3 shutdowns for Thanksgiving, Amy Skalinder said that for purposes of the Thanksgiving basket creation, the Community House is declared as a Food Pantry for the day. Rotary will be purchasing supplies, collating and delivering the Thanksgiving baskets on Monday and Tuesday.
Chuck Norton: WNRC is looking for a president or a co-president for the coming year. Please call Chuck.
Rich Lalley: Sleeping bags for the homeless is a Rotary of Wilmette raffle. Contact Rich for more details.
Dig and Grin: Amy Skalinder recited a series of “Bad Joke” groaners to the cheers of the audience.
Happy Bucks:
Robert Mardirossian thanked Barb and Amy for their work on the Thanksgiving baskets.
Barb Tubekis thanked the community for gifts of 30,000 items to charities
Speaker:
John Thomas introduced our speaker, the new head of the Winnetka-Northfield Library, Monica Dombrowski.
Monica has been working in the field of library science since 2013. Prior to that, she was active in corporate America. Monica joins W-N from the Sycamore library. While the population of the two districts are about the same, W-N is much more active with 210,000 visitors last year, 172,965 items in circulation and 46 staff members. Due to the new Tier 3 restrictions, W-N has transitioned to Curbside Pickup and a new service, the Personal Library Shopper.
Monica asked her management staff to give her their favorite “reads” (paper or digital). All of that information plus upcoming virtual programs can be found at:
The digital content available to library patrons is astounding. The Library can link to your computer, your nook or your kindle. Monica urged everyone to visit the Library and become A Friend of the Library.