President Patti hosted our traditional Holiday celebration featuring the New Trier Swing Choir under the leadership of Nate Landes.  Nate and the choir have sung for the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Club every December for the last 17 years.  This year 13 students started the concert with Carol of the Bells and finished with two different arrangements of Jingle Bells.

 

On another happy note, Rich Lalley announced that Operation Warm achieved a new milestone of distributing 5 million coats!

 

1. Call to Action! The New Trier Township food pantry needs our support. The pantry is low on essential items that support Township residents and workers. We will be collecting non perishable food items and hygiene supplies at each Thursday meeting. Donations can also be dropped off at the Community House every other day of the week. This service project will run through the end of September. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that we support and uplift one another. 

 

2. Additional items that we will be collecting at each Thursday meeting are pop tabs from aluminum cans and bread clips. The pop tabs will be donated to Ronald Mcdonald House for recycling and they go towards offsetting the costs of helping children and their families. 

 

The bread clips will be donated to 'Scarcely Resourced' who will be recycling them in partnership with 'Danielle Cares for Chairs'. A few thousand of these bread clips will purchase a wheelchair for a child in need. The bread tags are also now being utilized by a prosthetic clinic to strengthen the molding process of making a prosthesis.