Rotary Bulletin March 5 (Feb. 25, 2026)

Meeting Assignments

Posted by David Grant

March 5

Greeter	Karla Garjaka
Thought & Sgt.	Tony Kambich
Dig-n-Grin	Bill Leske
Scribe	Amy Skalinder

March 12

Greeter	Robert Mardirossian
Thought & Sgt.	Lee Padgitt
Dig-n-Grin	Moha Bouacha
Scribe	Thomas Applegate

March 19

Greeter	Chuck Norton
Thought & Sgt.	Peter Skalski
Dig-n-Grin	Heidi Sibert
Scribe	David Grant

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

Community Grants Announcement

Posted by Patti Van Cleave

Our Club’s charitable foundation, the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Charitable Foundation, recently completed our annual Community Grants process. We are pleased to report that this year with a budget of $18,000, we awarded 12 grants to local non-profit organizations that serve our community.

Those organizations are:

Counseling Center of the North Shore

Deerfield Free Store at Holy Cross

Hadley Institute

Hunger Resource Network

North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic

Our Place of New Trier

SaLT: Service and Learning Together

SamaraCare Counseling

Saroj Ghandi Sue's Pantry

TotalLink to Community

Volunteer Center

Youth Philanthropy Board

Grants will be presented at our weekly lunch meeting on Thursday, March 12 at noon at the Community House in Winnetka.

Guests are welcome to attend lunch on any Thursday to meet us and learn more about our Club. Contact info@wnrotary.org for more information.

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.

Mar 05, 2026

Project C.U.R.E.- Laura Conti

Medical Supplies for Ukraine

Project C.U.R.E delivers life-saving medical equipment, supplies and services to meet the needs of people in poverty, disasters and violence.

The Rotary Club of Wilmette-Aid to Ukraine thru Project C.U.R.E.

The RC Wilmette is supporting shipments of medical supplies to Ukraine in partnership with Project CURE.

A one-million-dollar donation from John Evans a Wyoming Rotarian has made matching funds available enabling Rotary Clubs to send a container of medical supplies and equipment to Ukraine for just $15,000. Each shipment has an estimated value of $300,000-400,000.

Donations will be matched by a generous gift from fellow Rotarian, John Evans. Every $15,000 raised sends a container to Ukraine. The Rotary Club of Naperville has joined us in this effort.

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and Project CURE acted without hesitation, delivering containers packed full of life-saving medical relief.

Nearly three years later, Project CURE has sent more than 225 large-scale shipments of life-saving medical equipment and supplies valued at over $50 Million.

Mar 12, 2026

Patti Van Cleave & Bob Baker

Community Grants Charitable Foundation Award Presentation

Mar 19, 2026

Megan McChesney

Winnetka Historical Society

Mar 26, 2026

Rotarians Behind the Badge

Moderator: Ken Drummet

Apr 02, 2026

Terry Dason, CEO Winnetka-Northfield-Glencoe CofC

State of the Villages