Rotary Bulletin August 7 (Jul. 28, 2025)

Meeting Notes July 31

Posted by Amy Skalinder

President Ken Drummet opened the meeting, welcomed everyone, and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Heidi Sibert shared a definition of patience as the thought for the day.

Ken shared a few announcements before lunch:

Our next date to pack lunches for Connections for the Homeless is Tuesday, August 5 at 6pm at St. Joseph's Church at Lake and Ridge in Wilmette. Sign up here.
Rock the Garden is coming up at the Community House on August 7, from 5pm to 8pm – a free event and a good opportunity for Rotarian fellowship. (And Amy Skalinder’s band is playing!)
We will have a table at the Winnetka Farmers’ Market on September 6. Stay tuned to sign up.
The District Governor, Marlene Frisbie, will be visiting us on September 18.
The Operation Warm benefit will be September 26 at the DoubleTree in Skokie. Rich Lalley is looking for volunteers to help with planning and securing auction items – please see him if you’d like to get involved.

Ken had a birthday and a rotary anniversary recently – happy birthday and congratulations to Ken!

After lunch, Bob Baker shared a few quotes for Dig-n-Grin. Moha Bouacha shared that he turned in the grant application for our Global Grant. Congratulations and thank you, Moha!

Ken thanked those who came to pose for picture with the newly installed bike racks in the area – we have a press release going out today.

David Grant introduced our speakers: Joan McCarthy Lasonde and Richard Porter from the Republican National Committee, Illinois. After being introduced by Joan, Richard shared his thoughts about the purpose of government and his political views, including his thoughts about the “Big Beautiful Bill”.

The meeting adjourned with our usual recitation of the 4-Way Test.

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.

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.

Meeting Assignments

Posted by David Grant

August 7

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

August 14

Greeter	Wes Baumann
Thought & Sgt.	Vicki Bittar
Dig-n-Grin	David Birkenstein
Scribe	David Grant

August 21

Greeter	Debra Campbell
Thought & Sgt.	Moha Bouacha
Dig-n-Grin	Terry Dason
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.