“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” – Dolly Parton – American Singer-Songwriter-Actress-Author

 

NOTES
(notes provided by the unconventional and unorthodox Paul Conforti)

 

Bucket Bucks for August will go to Books2Prisoners.

Mary Kay noted the upcoming service opportunity: Feed Our Kids, Saturday August 28 from 10-noon at Champaign Church of Christ, 1509 W John St, Champaign.

Cary and Eddie will be our clubs’ main guessers this year.  Good luck them, good luck to all of us!

President Darrell said we clocked 192 service hours as a club in 2020. Our new goal is 10 hours per person or 300 hours as a club.

President Darrell announced that hybrid Zoom/Live meetings will start August 26.

Lou said our Club’s policy regarding memorials for deceased club members will be to plant a tree in any designated park in Champaign or Urbana. The tree will be marked with a plaque. Neal’s tree will be in Mattis Park near the Decker Garden. Lou has asked club members to each donate $5 to cover expenses.

Phyllis will try to schedule a Books2Prisoners volunteer event every six weeks.

Ed reminded us to bring our newspapers in every week. Bagging papers in Harvest Market type bags with handles would be especially helpful.

 

PROGRAM

 

Charlie introduced Mark Hanson, Curator for the Museum of the Grand Prairie at the Champaign County Forest Preserve District.  Mark previously was curator at the Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul.

The Museum of the Grand Prairie, which first opened in 1972, is located at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve in Mahomet. The museum offers dynamic exhibits, programs, and events rich in local history.

Over the past year the museum staff worked to mitigate the effects of the pandemic including improving the museum’s social media presence with Zoom and Facebook programs and developed Camp in a Bag that was sent to schools with projects designed to help children connect with the museum and local culture without actually being at the museum. Artifacts were also placed online; many exhibits were updated and the museum’s database was updated. A major upgrade was the construction of a new artifacts storage building which replaced a much smaller and very old building.

The museum reopened this past May. All COVID precautions are in place.

You can find out about current and upcoming exhibits and programs at their website: www.museumofthegrandprairie.org

 

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  Aug 19th Aug 26th Sept 2nd Sept 9th
Introductions Phyllis Mischo Scott Paceley Robb Patton Jerry Payonk
Reflection Ed Perry Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite Jarrod Scheunemann
Greeters Phyllis Mischo Scott Paceley Robb Patton Jerry Payonk
Jen Shelby Lou Simpson Charlie Smith Mary Kay Smith
Song Leader        
Notetaker Perry Hodson Conforti Perry
Decker Weeding Shelby Shelby Hodson Hodson

 

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)

 

August 19th – Rotarian Joe Rank will give a presentation about the Richmond Family Welcome Gallery at UIUC

August 26th – Gabe Lewis, Champaign County Regional Planning Commission (Ondine)

September 2nd – Club Assembly

September 9th – Dr. Ryan Burge, Professor of Political Science, EIU will join us via Zoom (Tom)

September 16th – TBD (Bob)

September 23rd – TBD (Cary)

September 30th – Club Social

October 7th – Club Assembly

October 14th – TBD

TBD – Normal Rotarian Drake Zimmerman, co-founder and chair of the Rotary Action Group Against Malaria, will speak about Global Grants of Scale (Mary)b