Rotary Bulletin September 4 (Aug. 23, 2025)

Meeting August 28

Posted by Thomas Applegate

President Ken Drummet opened the meeting at 12:15pm, welcomed everyone, and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Tony Kambich shared a few inspirational quote for the day.

Ken shared a few announcements after lunch:

We will have a table at the Winnetka Farmers’ Market on September 6. We have 2 volunteers for each time slot, but others are more than welcome to come to the market to help out.
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. You can bid on items even if you do not attend. Locally Operation Warm gives out over 2000 coats. See Rich for details.

Dig-n-Grin, Robert Mardirossian shared a somber note. Robert’s heart is heavy due to the horrible shooting in Minnesota. He wants to do something, and it makes him think of the families who lost loved ones. The loss will be with them for the rest of their lives. “If people could feel the embrace of others at a time like this, then maybe there can be healing."

Happy bucks, Barb has been on the wedding circuit and is excited about taking the train to Colorado for the next one. Moha is happy to celebrate his 49^th wedding anniversary. Barb took the mic again to give a shoutout to Patti who is retiring from the Winnetka Congregational Church.

David Grant introduced our speaker, Erin Tegge from PEER Services. Erin shared comprehensive overview of their programs and answered questions.

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

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.

Meeting Assignments

Posted by David Grant

September 4

Greeter	Lee Padgitt
Thought & Sgt.	Peter Skalski
Dig-n-Grin	Chuck Norton
Scribe	Patti Van Cleave

September 11

Greeter	Liz Taylor
Thought & Sgt.	Barb Tubekis
Dig-n-Grin	Heidi Sibert
Scribe	David Grant

September 18

Greeter	Thomas Applegate
Thought & Sgt.	Wes Baumann
Dig-n-Grin	Michael Ambrose
Scribe	Amy Skalinder

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

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.