President Debra Campbell welcomed everyone and opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Ken Drummet shared a poem called The Dash Between by Linda Ellis as thought for the day. Guest Ellie Schwimmer shared that she would like to join our Club and cheers broke out across the room!
After lunch, Debra Campbell, Thomas Applegate, and Liz Taylor inducted Nancy Krueger of North Shore Community Bank & Trust into the Club. Welcome, Nancy!
Rives Collins shared a song called The Red Corvette by John McCutcheon for Dig-n-Grin. Happy bucks were shared by Rives Collins, Ken Drummet, and Moha Bouacha.
A few announcements were shared:
Visiting Rotarian John Baer is with us today, as is guest Ellie Schwimmer.
Rich Lalley shared that there is a group running a worldwide virtual golf tournament as a fundraiser for polio. Bob Baker, Debra Campbell, Ken Drummet, and Rich Lalley are going to participate by playing a round of golf on Monday in Glenview – all are invited to make a donation through our Club Foundation to support them in this cause.
Barb Tubekis reminded us that September 1 is our next lunch packing night for Connections for the Homeless. Sign-up sheets will be available starting next week.
Rather than a speaker today, Bridget Lewis, Executive Director of The Volunteer Center, led us in a service project in conjunction with The Backyard Flower Lab, which is a volunteer-run nonprofit right here in Winnetka. After Bridget shared a brief presentation about both organizations, we prepared bouquets to be shared at the Pearl Senior Living community in Evanston.
The meeting concluded with our usual recitation of the Four-Way Test.
The 2025–26 Rotary year has come to a close! Thank you to everyone who supported The Rotary Foundation!
Your gifts come full circle—helping fund projects around the world: our club's: Women's Cooperative in Morocco, as well as right here at home, including Operation Warm, our food insecurity programs, and ShelterBox.
We give to receive. Through Rotary every contribution will continue changing lives.
Mike Wurzburg's daughter, Beth Pyle, sent us this message: “Unfortunately, my dad had a stroke Monday evening and passed away Thursday morning, July 2. My sisters and my mom and I were with him. Would you mind sharing the information with the Rotary? He loved being a part of it.”
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.
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.
