Rotary Bulletin July 10 (Jul. 02, 2025)

Trivia Night Benefit at Valley Lo

Posted by Patti Van Cleave

Our foundation's fundraiser, supporting our Community Grants program, is coming up on July 17 at 6:00PM at Valley Lo in Glenview. Our Trivia Night will be a fun, casual event with beer and wine, buffet dinner, trivia event and raffle.

Here are THREE ways in which you can help:

Buy tickets for the event, $100 each. Buy your tickets here. NOTE THAT WE NEED A FINAL COUNT THIS THURSDAY, and as of today we have only 18 tickets sold.
Buy raffle tickets here.
Donate a bottle of wine to our raffle. (Please bring to lunch on July 10!) Or donate other items such as restaurant giftcards, sports tickets, or other items that YOU would like to win! Contact Patti if you have questions.

We want this to be a successful, and FUN event. We want YOU to be there!

Thanks for your support!!

Yours in Rotary,

The Planning Committee:

Bob Baker

Moha Bouacha

Debra Campbell

Ken Drummet

Rich Lalley

Bill Leske

Liz Taylor

Barb Tubekis

Patti Van Cleave

Dates to Remember:

This Thursday, July 10, is the next Rock the Garden date at the Community House from 5pm-8pm. It’s a free event and a great opportunity for Rotarian fun and fellowship. The band will be dadband and there will be food for purchase from Soul & Smoke (along with beer, wine, soda, and snacks).

Next Thursday, July 17 is the Club fundraiser at Valley Lo. Buy tickets for the event, $100 each. Buy your tickets here.

Attend the Weekly Meeting on Zoom

Posted by Rich Lalley

Here is the log-in info for today's Rotary meeting. Meeting starts at 12:15, with people beginning to gather around noon.

Thursday Lunch Meetings 12:15 pm -1:30 pm

If you log on with this link, you will not need a password.

https://zoom.us/j/198435237?pwd=NTNYbFg3WHpvNDkvVENOVlpaYUc2Zz09

Password: Win60093

Join by Phone:

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.

Homeless Lunch Packing Project August 5

Posted by Patti Van Cleave

The Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Club is collaborating with the Wilmette and Evanston Lighthouse clubs to prepare bagged lunches for Connections for the Homeless once a month, on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00PM. Location is St. Joseph's church at Lake and Ridge in Wilmette.

We ask club members to sign up here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904054AAAAC2AA1F58-56057223-lunchpacking#/

We look forward to your participation in this hands-on project to help the clients of Connections.

Questions? Contact Patti.

Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Club Creating a Women's Clothing Cooperative in Morocco

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.

For more information, contact Club Co-President Moha Bouacha at m_bouacha@yahoo.com. Cash contributions may be made online by clicking here.

Meeting Assignments

Posted by David Grant

July 10

Greeter	Moha Bouacha
Thought & Sgt.	Terry Dason
Dig-n-Grin	Debra Campbell
Scribe	Patti Van Cleave

July 17

Evening Benefit at Valley Lo

July 24

Greeter	Robert Mardirossian
Thought & Sgt.	Chuck Norton
Dig-n-Grin	Bill Leske
Scribe	Amy Skalinder

If you are unable to fulfill your assignment, please find a substitute.

Support The Rotary Foundation!

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.

Jul 10, 2025

Zbig Skiba, Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Member

Will Climate Tech Save the Planet & Grow the Economy?

Presentation: Can Climate Tech Save the Planet – and Grow the Economy?

Speaker Name: Zbig Skiba

Speaker Email: zbig@zbigskiba.com Phone: 847-404-0108

In person or virtually In-person preferred

PowerPoint presentation Yes

Presentation Description

Zbig Skiba will summarize the current state of climate technology and provide exciting examples. He will also discuss how climate tech can grow the economy – if provided adequate support.

Speaker Bio/Introduction

Zbig Skiba is a proud member of the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club and led the club’s planting of almost 300 trees in Evanston parks. Zbig has been passionate about the environment since he went on his first camping trip at the age of 14.

Zbig volunteers as the Chicago Ambassador for Cleantech Open, the world’s largest cleantech business accelerator. He acts as a mentor and judge for startup companies that participate in the program. Zbig has a Kellogg MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship and has worked as a CEO peer group moderator and business coach.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zbigskiba/

Website: https://www.skiba-associates.com/

Jul 17, 2025

No Lunch Meeting Today!

See you at Valley Lo for the Evening Benefit!

Jul 24, 2025

Alisa Martorano

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Richard Porter

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