Rotarians will be gathering this Thursday evening at the Winnetka Community House 'Firsty Thursday.'
Thurs., September 8 from 5-8 pm in the Garden Come join the last Firsty Thursday of the season!Hang out with other Rotarians, neighbors and friends at thisFREE EVENTwith live music fromThe Mixaphors Five,featuringSteve Sanders, Maurice Gauthier, Charles Seymour, Steve Quick, James Todd, and a few special guest performers! No cover charge, no tickets — just come on over for a low-key, fun evening. Beer, wine and snacks available for purchase.
Patti thanked the club for participating in the ‘ Club Assembly’ the week before.
Reminder to all Board members that the next meeting is before the 9/15 meeting.
The club survey highlighted a desire to have more social events, so we are encouraging Rotarians to gather and socialize at the Winnetka Community House ‘Firsty Thursday’ event this Thursday, 9/8.See the Bulletin story for details!
Patti & Barb are forming a committee to explore starting a local ‘music mends minds’ group to help people with memory loss.Please contact them to join the committee!
Happy Bucks:
congratulated Terry Dason for the Saturday Farmers Market.
Fred also asked us all to support food pantries: as inflation is rising, the need is greater!
Sylvia brought two bags of donations for the New Trier pantry.
Speaker: Our speaker was Glenn T. Garlick. He is a proud member of the Buffalo Grove Rotary Club and the District 6440 Polio Now Chair. After the meeting he sent all our members the following email, which recaps his discussion:
Thanks for the time you took today in letting me speak at your Rotary club, about what's happening in the world pertaining to Wild Polio eradication. Rotary International has made Wild Polio Eradication the #1 cause for the last thirty years and we are very, very close to the end. I am also very excited about the new "game changing" vaccine that was recently developed. I have outlined below the process to join the PolioPlus Society. Please consider this promise that Rotary International has made on behalf of all Rotarians to all of the children of the world and consider joining the Polio Plus Society.
To Join the Polio Plus Society;
1) Sign in to Rotary6440.org
2) Scroll down on the Right Hand Side to the Polio Plus Society box and click on the box
3) You are then taken to the Polio Plus Society page
4) PLEDGE first - then go back and DONATE $100
If you would like to donate to Polio Plus but not join the Polio Plus Society please go to rotary.org and follow the "Donate" button. If you are currently unable to donate then I ask you to "Tell the Polio story" to your family, friends and co-workers. Perhaps they will give you a donation to prevent another "crawler" in the world. What is your Polio footprint? Thanks again for your time today.
A team of local citizens is throwing a benefit party to support the Operation Warm program of the Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield. This will be the fourth time in five years for this fun event that brings warmth, confidence and hope to Chicago area children living in need with the gift of a brand new winter coat.
The party will be held at Valley Lo Club in Glenview on Friday October 14 and features the soulful music of Gerald McClendon- “The Soulkeeper.” A buffet dinner will be served with a cash bar. A silent and live auction will enable attendees to acquire great items while supporting this important cause.
“Our club has partnered with Operation Warm since 2009 to bring new coats to thousands of Chicago area children,” said Barb Tubekis, Co-President of the club. “We are so grateful for the support of the community, especially the team of volunteers who plan this annual party that allows us to serve more children.”
“When I told my friends about our Rotary Club’s annual Operation Warm project, they immediately wanted to help.” Said Joe Nash. “They especially liked that many of these coats are given to children at neighborhood libraries, thereby connecting families with the great resources they offer.”
Tickets to the party may be purchased at http://tinyurl.com/OWBenefit2022. Donations may also be made. $20 provides a high-quality, brand-new coat to Chicago are child living in need.
Event sponsors include the New Trier Rotary Clubs- Glencoe, Wilmette, Wilmette Harbor, Winnetka-Northfield; Joe Nash of @Properties, VJ Killian Co, North Shore Community Bank, One80o, Sunset Foods, Mitch Kielser, Chuck Norton & Carole Barthel, Fred & Ellie Schwimmer, Nora Costello and the Kemper Educational & Charitable Foundation.
The Event Committee: Victoria Adams, Ron Bernardi, Laura Chaveriat, Mary Cooper, Nora Costello, Enza Fragassi, Melinda Harmon, Muffy Hostetler, Amelia Katz, Mike Kelly, Mitch Kielser, Rich Lalley, Joe Nash, Kelly Nash, Jackie Satherlie, JR Scassellati, and Wendy Sorrentino.
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.
For those of you who wish to support our fellow Rotarian Sam Badger in his time of loss, please consider making memorial gifts in Nancy's honor (Nancy Mack Badger) to either of these organizations:
• The Mesulam Center c/o Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E. Superior Street, 9th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611or at feinberg.northwestern.edu/giving or by calling 312-503-8933. The Mesulam Center offers world-renowned dementia and Alzheimers disease research and care on Northwestern's downtown Chicago campus.
• The Winnetka Northfield Rotary Charitable Foundation for its incredible impactful work globally, as you know.
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