Rotary Bulletin October 30 (Oct. 22, 2025)

Meeting Notes October 16

Posted by Amy Skalinder

President Ken opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. Ben Sloane, a prospective new member, was welcomed as a guest. Liz shared a thought for the day. Since lunch had not yet arrived, we continued on to announcements:

Our October 30 Club meeting was previously planned to be an informal lunch at Little Honeycomb since the Community House is not available due to the Antiques+Modernism Show. However, we have a change of plans – we will meet in the conference room at Hadley (700 Elm St in Winnetka) and Hadley CEO Johnjoe Farragher will be our speaker!
The District Conference is coming up on November 1 – all are encouraged to attend. More information and registration is available here.
Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s harvest at the Glencoe Community Gardens as well as the happy hour event earlier this week. We hope to do more of both!

After Dig-N-Grin and Happy Bucks, our speakers from Connections for the Homeless were introduced: Ashli Wade and Julie Lanham. Connections for the Homeless provides a variety of services, from financial assistance to households facing eviction to long-term housing, food support, drop-in services, case management, and more. The sack lunches our Club packs on Tuesday evenings (along with the Wilmette Club) go to Connections for the Homeless for distribution to people who need them!

Ashli and Julie also shared that while Connections has some federal funding, they also have funding from state, local, and private sources. They also rely on individual contributions and a lot of volunteer help, and if you’re interested in finding out more, there is a great summary of “how you can help” on their website.

With excellent timing, lunch arrived just as Ashli and Julie wrapped up their presentation.

Meeting Assignments

Posted by David Grant

October 23

Greeter	Robert Mardirossian
Thought & Sgt.	Lee Padgitt
Dig-n-Grin	Barb Tubekis
Scribe	David Grant

October 30

Greeter	Heidi Sibert
Thought & Sgt.	Liz Taylor
Dig-n-Grin	Wes Baumann
Scribe	Thomas Applegate

November 6

Greeter	Michael Ambrose
Thought & Sgt.	Thomas Applegate
Dig-n-Grin	David Birkenstein
Scribe	Patti Van Cleave

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

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.

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.

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.