“Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.”― Jonathan Sacks
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(notes provided by the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut, Ed Perry)
Rod thanked those who helped with the Rotary Habitat build last weekend and noted that help is still needed for the August 15 and September 12 Habitat house work.
Rod also noted that other volunteer opportunities are available at an Eastern Illinois Food Bank re-pack this Thursday evening (8/13) and for the Urbana Sweetcorn festival later this month. Contact Rod for more information.
Laura and Penn still have tickets available for the Champaign Park District’s New Car Raffle which will take place on the 22nd of August.
Cathy Rector, Assistant District Governor 6490 (area 7), invited new and old Rotarians to the upcoming Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) program on August 15, 2015. It takes place in Decatur and sign up is easy and needs to be done by August 11. Sign up on line at http://www.hoa-rli.org/.
PROGRAM
Our new District Governor, Surinder S. Sethi and his wife, Narinder, were welcomed to our club this morning. DG Sethi thanked us for our club’s past performance with our community and International projects and our continued support in The Rotary Foundation. He also thanked Gary, Mary, Rubin, Ata and Chuck of our club for their contributions to the Rotary District activities and Rotary International projects.
Using this year’s Rotary theme of “Be a gift to the World,” Sethi emphasized how we all can share our gifts to make our community and the world a better place to live. Through the use of matching grants both District and globally, is a great way to provide service to those who are in need. Sethi talked about the Rotary Polio Plus project and how we are this close to eradicating polio.
DG Sethi gave examples from his past on how we all can have Rotary Moments and lose ourselves in the service to others. One example was on a past District 6490 project in which a water well was built in a small village in India. He mentioned how a group from the District visited the village several years later and they were welcomed as heroes by the entire village. Sethi’s other Rotary moments included housing provided by Rotarians to his daughter’s friend in a time of need as well as his experience growing up with a brother who had polio.
DG Sethi encouraged all of us to “Be a gift to the world.”
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| Aug 13th | Aug 20th | Aug 27th | Sept 3rd | |
| Introductions | Robb Patton | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry | Chuck Reifsteck |
| Invocation | Curt Anderson | Laura Auteberry | Oktay Baran | Keith Brandau |
| Greeters | Robb Patton | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry | Chuck Reifsteck |
| Jeff Van Buren | Cary Woolard | Harold Adams | Curt Anderson | |
| Song Leader | Tod Satterthwaite | Mitch Schluter | Jen Shelby | Lou Simpson |
| Notetaker | Conforti | Chamblerain | ||
| Rotary Minute | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry | Chuck Reifsteck | Rod Roberts |
| Decker Weeding | Penwell | Perry | ||
| Next Weekend | ||||
| Decker Garden | Van Buren | Van Buren | Perry | Perry |
| Watering |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
August 13th – Rick Manner, Executive Director of the Champaign-Urbana Sanitary District
August 20th – Jaymeet Attaway, part of the Rotary Group Study Exchange team that traveled to Denmark
August 27th – Barry Pittendrigh, Department of Entomology, UIUC
September 3rd – TBD
September 10th – Dan Olson, Executive Director, Champaign County Forest Preserve Distrct
September 17th – TBD
September 24th – TBD
October 1st – TBD
October 8th – Jessica DeYoung, Director of the C-U Special Recreation Program
