Announcements
(notes provided by Allan Penwell)
Phillip announced there will be another repack opportunity at Eastern Illinois Food Bank next Thursday, August 14th. Check your email for further info.
Rod thanked everyone who participated in the Habitat for Humanity project. Turned out there was real heavy lifting to be done.
Program
Our district governor, Les Mitkos, member of Litchfield Rotary, was the program last week. Les has a long resume of good works for community, church, the military, and people of the world. He is a parish minister in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. Les has a storied career as a military trauma chaplain. While serving in Kosovo, he developed 18 radio and 10 television programs on trauma to educate soldiers and caregivers about dealing with those traumatized by war.
Les’s passion is the eradication of polio. He is polio chairman of District 6490. He has been in 120 different countries and has the seen the effects of polio but also the success of making countries polio-free. The passion is very personal as his sister is a polio victim. When she was young, she developed the disease and had to endure iron lung treatment away from home for several years. She recovered and is now 70 years old. The goal of Rotary is to completely eradicate polio by 2018. Your contributions are important and please donate.
RI President Gary Huang has announced that his theme for the 2014-2015 Rotary year is Light Up Rotary. Les wants us also to think “Light up the family of Rotary.” We are all family, and as Rotarians, we can make a difference. We should be proud to be Rotarians as we are empowered to help the families of the world.
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| Aug 14th | Aug 21st | Aug 28th | Sept 4th | |
| Introductions | Ata Durukan | Bruce Hatfield | Mary Hodson | Phillip Holthaus |
| Invocation | Penn Nelson | Gary Olsen | Scott Paceley | Robb Patton |
| Greeters | Ata Durukan | Bruce Hatfield | Mary Hodson | Phillip Holthaus |
| Phyllis Mischo | Penn Nelson | Gary Olsen | Scott Paceley | |
| Song Leader | BJ Lytle | Ben Mast | John McDaniel | Jan Merchen |
| Notetaker | Hodson | Conforti | Chamberlain | Perry |
| Rotary Minute | Bruce Hatfield | Mary Hodson | Phillip Holthaus | Larry Johnson |
| Decker Weeding | Paceley | Chalifoux | Perry | |
| Next Weekend | Shelby | Family | McDaniel | |
| Decker Garden | Krchak | Perry | Perry | |
| Watering |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
August 14th – Molly Delaney will discuss the CU Schools Foundation
August 21st – Bruce Knight, Planning and Development Director, City of Champaign
August 28th – Celeste Choate, Director, Urbana Free Library
September 4th – David Thiel, Director of Content for WILL TV
September 11th – Dr. Judy Wiegand, Superintendent of Unit 4 Schools
September 18th – Todd Gleason, Farm Broadcaster, UIUC, will discuss the commodities markets
September 25th – TBD
October 2nd – Kevin Hambly, Head Women’s Volleyball Coach, University of Illinois
October 9th – TBD
October 16th – TBD
October 23rd – Dr. Paul Diehl, Henning Larsen Professor of Political Science, UIUC, will discuss international relations
