“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” – Jane Austen – 1775-1817 – Novelist

 

“I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” – Jonathan Safran Foer – Novelist

 

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King – Former Tennis Player-Advocate

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(notes provided by Lisa Crane)

The District Assembly will be on April 29 at the Carle Forum.

 

April bucket bucks will go to CASA

The District 6490 Matching points campaign has begun.  It will run through June 16.  See the email for more details.

There will be an All-Rotary Booth at the Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, 6/17, at Douglass Park in Champaign.  More details to come.

There will be a Rotary golf outing on July 8th at the Lake of the Woods course in Mahomet.

 

There will be another golf fundraiser in August.  Stay tuned for more details.

 

 

SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES 

*Feeing our Kids June 10

*Memorial Day Cemetery Flag Placing.  More info to come

 

 

PROGRAM 

Mary introduced our speaker Danielle Chynoweth, Supervisor, Cunningham Township, who discussed housing insecurity and homelessness in Champaign County.

 

Danielle asked us what home means to us?

She shared responses to this question from kids, aged 5-14, who said home is (a): Place to put your stuff, place that is safe, predictable space and schedule.

What happens if that space is disrupted or interrupted?  By death/divorce/ violence/job loss?

 

A full-time worker must make $16.69/hour.  Minimum wage worker must work 60 hours a week to afford rent.

A person with a disability who qualifies and receives SSI must pay no more than $313 a month in rent to avoid rent burden. 

Forty percent of calls to 211, the help line for essential community services, are for housing support.

 

Danielle discussed rental assistance programs and her angel donor program in which all money donated goes directly to the program  and not for “paperclips.”

She was happy to say that, currently, there are no literal homeless families in Urbana.

 

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  May 4th May 11th May 18th May 25th
Introductions Allan Penwell Ed Perry Joe Rank Rod Roberts
Reflection Jacob Bilvin Eddie Bridges Paul Conforti Lisa Crane
Greeters Allan Penwell Ed Perry Joe Rank Rod Roberts
Michelle Barbey Jacob Bilvin Eddie Bridges Paul Conforti
Notetaker Conforti Perry Hodson Crane

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee members listed in parentheses)

 

May 4th – Club Assembly

May 11th @ 5:30PM – Janet Summers, will discuss the fall OLLI schedule (Bob)

May 18th – Jen Shelby will discuss making a movie

May 25th – Joe Rank will discuss his Honor Flight

June 1st – Club Assembly

June 8th @ 5:30PM – TBD (Charlie)

June 15th – TBD (Lisa)

June 22nd – Christopher Manson, VP for Government Relations at OSF, will discuss Ambulances for Urkaine (Lisa)

June 29th – TBD

July 6th – Club Assembly

 

 

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

 

May 29 – Phyllis Mischo