“In calmness of mind is greatness.” – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.” – Goldie Hawn
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Notes provided by Allan Penwell)
Champaign Rotary has their corn roast on September 9th. Golf at Lake of the Woods if you are interested. DG Julie Dobski will be there as her official visit. Location is Rotary Hill at LOW.
The Rotary booth was successful at the Taste of C-U. There were 22 sign-ups of interested people.
The Decker Garden rededication is next Thursday in place of our regular morning meeting. See you there at 5:30 p.m. for a short presentation and then off to Lodgic for refreshments.
Cary announced that football picks are coming up. Since no meeting next week, you will receive an email. Go Eddie!
The September 12th meeting will be a club assembly. Please come as we will focus on membership, and it should be meaningful. There will be NO get-together-in-groups routine as done in the past.
Board meetings are now the first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 a.m. at Lodgic. Everyone is invited.
Bucket money for August goes for school supplies at Garden Hills Elementary School.
PROGRAM
Mitch Marlow is the Sales & Public Relations Manager at Virginia Theatre. Mitch updated us on goings-on at The Virginia. He teamed up with Larry Frederickson (more about him later).
The theater opened in 1921 as a vaudeville house which only lasted eight years. It became an RKO movie theater until 1960 when it was purchased by GKC. In 2001 the 1,463 seat venue was purchased by the Champaign Park District.
The Virginia has received two significant grants. A $50,000 grant was used to purchase an intelligent lighting system which many performers request. In the past this had to be rented when needed. The second grant was for a $750,000 sound system to be installed by next year. As with the new lighting, the sound system had to be rented if needed for performances.
Mitch also talked about performances this season. You can read about it on line or grab a brochure.
Larry talked about the Bob Nutt Tribute concert who was a Rock & Roll musician in C-U. The event is at The Virginia on September 28th when you can rock out. Read about Bob in this NG column by Jim Dey at
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| Aug 29th | Sept 5th | Sept 12th | Sept 19th | |
| Introductions | No regular | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite | Angie Schoonover |
| Reflection | morning | Cary Woolard | Charlie Smith | Mary Kay Smith |
| Greeters | meeting. | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite | Angie Schoonover |
| Meet at 5:30pm | Diana Dummitt | Ata Durukan | Eddie Bridges | |
| Song Leader | at Decker Garden | Michelle Barbey | Keith Brandau | Paul Conforti |
| Notetaker | for re-dedication. | Penwell | Hodson | Conforti |
| Decker Weeding | Johnson |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)
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
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