Guests: Nancy Krueger was a guest of Liz Taylor. Karla Garjaka was a guest of Thomas Applegate.
Announcements:
District Conference – Thomas and Rich attended last Saturday. Save the date for the world’s largest polio walk next year on Oct 24.
Ken shared Operation Warm thank you notes from yesterday’s distribution in Elk Grove Village. Rich, Ken, Moha and Patti attended.
There is a public image workshop this Saturday.
Bill introduced guests from the North Shore Art League. A few weeks ago they were here to work with members to create artwork. Linda, Sophie and Jill attended today as our guests and gave out the member’s artwork.
Rich requested donations for the 11/20 GNP food packing project. Donate now! Look for donations to Jamaica and Haiti through TRF or our foundation.
Rich presented a Paul Harris Fellow x3 pin to Ken.
Amy shared that Rock the House is tomorrow night.
Thomas invited us to a fun fundraiser fir CCNS at Guanajuato on Nov 19.
DNG:
David B – some bad, but funny puns.
Speaker:
Gail Eisenberg, NTT Supervisor, Bill introduced and shared her bio. Gail’s presentation was “What New Trier Township Does”.
She covered social services provided by the township and responded to questions.
Continuing our club's long standing Thanksgiving tradition, we will once again partner with the Volunteer Center to provide post-holiday groceries for families in transitional housing who are served by Good News Partners in Chicago's North of Howard neighborhood. We will purchase groceries in bulk at Costco before our meeting on Nov 20, so please donate by November 16.
Your gifts provide post-holiday groceries to these families in need. Donate by credit card or bank transfer here, or mail a check made payable to WNRCF to Rotary Club of Winnetka Northfield, 620 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093.
We hope to provide over 100 bags of groceries and have a fundraising goal of $2,500.
Donate here, or bring a check or credit card to a lunch meeting.
312 626 6799; Meeting ID: 198 435 237; Password: 798428 (note, if asked for User ID, press #).
Reminder- you can give happy bucks, dig n grin, birthday donations and other donations to our foundation at https://wnrotary.org/page/donate/ or by texting DIGNGRIN to 44-321.
The Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield is teaming up with The Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Rabat in the capital city of Morocco to establish a women's clothing cooperative in the village of Tomoulilt. This will be a project funded in part with a Rotary Foundation Global Grant (GG#2571461).
The program's objectives are to:
Create a revenue-generating cooperative run by stakeholders of village women/girls;
Empower women to run and manage a long-term sustainable and profitable business operation.
The project funds new equipment and training for the cooperative's participants. Training will encompass technical use of the equipment, entrepreneurial skills, business planning and management, sales and marketing planning, and financial management. The program's vision is to create a self-sustaining long term business enterprise for the participating women in Timoulilt.
Overall program budget is $100,000. The club is seeking cash and District Designated Funds (DDF) support from Rotary Clubs and Districts.
At the March 6 meeting, Rich Lalley presented an overview of the work of our two foundations- the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Foundation (WNRCF) and The Rotary Foundation (TRF) of Rotary International. You can review that presentation here.
The club's board has set a goal of achieving 100% participation in supporting TRF this Rotary Year. To reach this goal, every active member needs to donate a minimum of $25 to The Rotary Foundation. You can do this online by clicking here.
We also aspire to be a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club. For member who are not yet a Paul Harris Fellow, once your donation level reaches $250 and you have made a contribution this year, our club will celebrate you with a Paul Harris Fellow Award.
We appreciate all of our members who have contributed generously to The Rotary Foundation and to our club's WNRCF foundation. Thank you!
Paul Harris Fellows
Bob Baker, Wes Baumann, David Birkenstein*, Moha Boucha, Debra Campbell, Ken Drummet, Tom Evans, David Grant*, Tony Kambich*, Marie Kuipers, Rich Lalley, Bill Leske, Robert Mardirossian, Ned Meisner, Chuck Norton, Lee Padgitt, ArLynn Presser, Fred Schwimmer*, Heidi Sibert, Peter Skalski, Liz Taylor, Barb Tubekis, Patti Van Cleave.
Bold indicates donation made this Rotary Year. * indicates Major Donor.
