“Courage of the heart is very rare. Let it guide you.” – Sarah J. Maas – Author

 

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison – 1847-1931 – Inventor

 

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins – Author

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(notes provided by the erudite Mary Hodson)

 

President Charlie welcomed our Assistant Governor Marlys Scarbrough.

 

The Club presented a $5,000 check from our fruit sale to John Williams from Sola Gratia Farm.

 

President Charlie thanked Darrell for his donations to the Rotary Foundation and awarded him with the PHF plus four pin.

 

Membership Chair Paul gave the new version of the Rotary pin to four of our newest members.

 

Bucket Bucks for February will go to Meals on Wheels.   March Bucket Bucks will be directed to the Child Advocacy Center

 

Darrell announced the “Fill Bob’s Truck” one day diaper drive, March 3rd at Good Shepard Lutheran Church on Prospect Ave (10am-noon, 4-8pm).

 

The Membership Committee is in need of an additional member.   See Mary if you would like to know more.

 

SPECIAL NOTE

 

Mary Hodson submitted these photos in remembrance of CU Sunrise Rotarian Gary Olsen.

 

 

 

CALENDAR

 

February 24 – “That’s What She Said”

 

March 3 – “Fill Bob’s Truck” Diaper Drive at the Good Shepard Lutheran Church

 

March 2, 10 AM – 1 PM, Read Across America

 

March 16-17 – President Elect Training

 

March 19 – Books to Prisoners

 

April 6 – Feeding Our Kids

 

April 19-21 – RYLA

 

May 4 – District Assembly at the Carle Forum

 

May 4 – Fold papers for the Humane Society – Save your papers for Ed!

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Cary introduced Champaign Rotarian Salvation Army Captain Kenyon Sivels and Case Manager Aaron Bird.

 

Captain Kenyon told a story about a boy and his brother whose mother was addicted to drugs.   The Salvation Army helped her get on her feet and her two sons were the first in their family to attend college.   That boy was Kenyon.

 

The Salvation Army works in 134 countries.  Its mission is to preach the gospel and meet human needs in Christ’s name without discrimination.   In other words, the Salvation Army helps people without asking about their spiritual beliefs.

 

The Salvation Army has two local buildings.   The building at 502 N. Prospect serves a lot of immigrant families.   They offer ESL classes mostly to Congolese immigrants, most of whom already speak 3-5 languages.  They also offer youth programming.   For $30, a child can attend the Salvation Army Summer Camp in Kenosha, WI.   If you would like to sponsor a child, please contact the Salvation Army.

 

The building at 2212 N. Market St. is primarily a social services building.  They have a food pantry that served 19,579 families last year.   They also provided 400 back to school back packs filled with school supplies.  Captain Kenyon said that the food panty needs both volunteers and donations.  They will happily accept any excess produce from your garden.

 

With Title XX funding, they help people who have been incarcerated get reacclimated to society.   They have a twenty bed transitional men’s shelter and last year they sponsored a job fair.

 

Three nights a week, from 6-8 PM, they make a canteen run, giving out snacks, coats, mittens, hats around CU.   Kenyon said they also need more volunteers to help with the canteen run.

 

In addition, Captain Kenyon is often deployed to help with Emergency Disaster Services.

 

He thanked our club for helping with holiday bell ringing and reported that our members collected $519.26 last year.

 

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  Feb 22nd Feb 29th Mar 7th Mar 14th
Introductions Jerry Payonk No JP Thompson Ed Perry
Reflection Ata Durukan am Darrell Hoemann Michael Hogue
Greeters Jerry Payonk meeting JP Thompson Ed Perry
Ata Durukan   Darrell Hoemann Michael Hogue
Notetaker Crane   Perry Hodson

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee members listed in parentheses)

 

February 22nd – Lex Tate, the Evolution of Campustown (Joe)

February 29th – No AM meeting (5th Thursday)

March 7th – Jason Harden, Associate Race Director of the Christie Clinic Illinois Race Weekend (Michael)

March 14th – Larry Kenemore’s Rotary Action Group (Mary)

March 21st – TBD (Michael)

March 28th – TBD (Tom)

April 4th – Rabbi David Tiechtel (Joe)

April 11th – Tom Allen will introduce Al Nudo who will speak about the Willard Airport. (Cary)