“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” – Paulo Coelho

 

“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.” – Vannevar Bush

 

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(notes provided by the unconventional and unorthodox Paul Conforti)

 

 

Our club will have/had a recruiting booth at Taste of Champaign

 

Our club’s charter anniversary dinner will be October 29 at Biaggi’s. A signup sheet for club members and a guest was passed around. There is still time to get your name added. Just let us know.

 

The Decker Garden re-dedication will be September 29, 5:30pm at the Decker Garden which is in Mattis Park (which oddly enough is not near Mattis St). Mattis Park is on Devonshire about 1/4mi west of the Harvest Market gas station.

 

We have a new exalted football guesser who will finally guide our lost club to the top of the football guessing mountain.  The anointed one is Eddie Bridges! All hail Eddie!!

 

PROGRAM

 

The program this week was delivered by Mike Hirschi from the Champaign West Rotary Club.  Mike came to our club to talk about Rotary Foundation giving.

 

Simply put, giving to the Rotary Foundation allows Rotary to carry out its prime directive: “The Mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.”

 

The Foundation awarded $86 million in funding to 1,306 club and or district grants during fiscal year 2018. These grants supported things such as disease prevention, clean water initiatives, educational improvements, growing local economies, saving mothers and children and promoting peace. For as little as 60 cents, a child can be protected from polio. $50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness. $500 can launch an anti-bullying campaign and create a safe environment for children.

 

Polio eradication is one of the largest and longest running Rotary Foundation goals. Since 1986 when polio reduction efforts started new cases are down 99.9%. October 24, 2019 is “World Polio Day” and is an opportunity for the global polio eradication community to renew its promise to every child at-risk from this preventable, paralyzing disease and to realize a polio-free world for future generations. Rotary will have an announcement on the big scoreboard at Memorial Stadium during the homecoming football game.

 

Our club was down in Foundation giving from previous years. It’s pretty easy to get involved. Go to Rotary.org and select the “Give” button. You can even set up reoccurring payments.

 

 

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  Aug 22nd Aug 29th Sept 5th Sept 12th
Introductions Eddie Bridges No regular Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite
Reflection Lou Simpson morning Cary Woolard Charlie Smith
Greeters Eddie Bridges meeting. Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite
Paul Conforti Meet at 5:30pm Diana Dummitt Ata Durukan
Song Leader Oktay Baran at Decker Garden Michelle Barbey Keith Brandau
Notetaker Penwell for re-dedication. Penwell Hodson
Decker Weeding Baran Johnson    

 

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

August 22nd – Mitch Marlow from the Virginia Theater will speak to us about the Virginia’s upcoming season (Charlie)

August 29th – No regular meeting (5th Thursday) – Meet at 5:30pm for the Decker Garden re-dedication at Mattis Park

September 5th – TBD (Cary)

September 12th – Club Assembly

September 19th – Michelle Layser, Assistant Professor of Law, UIUC will discuss tax law and social policy (Tom)

September 26th – Meghan Gentry will speak about foster care in Champaign-Urbana (Ondine)

October 3rd – Lisa Wilson, Executive Director, East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center (ECIRMAC) (Mary)

October 10th – Club Assembly

October 17th – TBD (Cary)

October 24th – Rob Dalhaus from CU at Home (Charlie)

October 29th – Tuesday – C-U Sunrise Rotary Charter Anniversary banquet at Biaggi’s

October 31st – No regular meeting (5th Thursday) – 

November 7th – TBD (David)

November 14th – District Governor Julie Dobski

November 21st – TBD (Ondine)

November 28th – TBD 

December 5th – TBD (Bob)

December 12th – Club Assembly