Announcements
(notes provided by the crafty and courageous Barb Lintner)
The Rotary Minute will continue this year but since we have all contributed biographical information, Tod has asked us to fill out 3×5 cards with questions for fellow Rotary members, things you might like to know about them. Some examples might be: favorite places to vacation, hobbies, etc.
This year’s all-area Rotary meeting will be at noon on February 25 at the Round Barn Center. We will not have our regular Thursday meeting that week. Bring a boxed or canned food for a food drive that day.
The District Conference will be in Champaign on May 2 and 3.
Harold Adams announced the Rotary Foundation Bowl winner. Dave Krchak received $100 with a $100 donation going to the Rotary Foundation.
The District 6490 Dyslexia Project in which our club participated was included in “The World” in the January issue of The Rotarian.
Speaker
Zarina Hock, retired Senior Editor and Director of Book Publications at the National Council of Teachers of English and member of a truly multicultural household, is a volunteer for the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen where she serves on the Board and as Crew Chief on Fridays.
The first soup kitchen in Champaign-Urbana was founded in 1980 by Ellen McDowell who served about twenty guests. In 1990 the kitchen became known as St. Jude’s Catholic Worker House and expanded to about sixty guests a day in a new location. In 2009 St. Jude’s decided to close the soup kitchen and the volunteers banded together to form Daily Bread at New Covenant Fellowship.
The church needs the space over the weekend so the kitchen operates five days a week. In the past few years heo numbers have increased significantly. In 2014 153,295 hot meals were served. In addition sack lunches can be had from a van on the weekends. New programs include working with guests to get bus passes, ID’s, and birth certificates. The guests represent a wide range of people including students, the homeless, and the working poor. A new building has been purchased at 118 First St. in Champaign which will become operational in 2016 so that food can be served seven days a week.
One third of Daily Bread’s expenses are for food; the rest include rent, utilities, and purchases to meet public health requirements. Food is donated by local businesses and purchased at low cost from the East Central Illinois Foodbank. It operates with 100% volunteers. To volunteer call 217-356-SOUP (7687) or visit www.dailybreadsoupkitchen.com. Visit this website for information on donations as well.
Fundraisers such as the annual Candy Foster concert help to keep the kitchen running. There will be a Trivia Night on January 31 from 5-8 pm at the High Dive. Zarina has compiled and edited a cookbook from recipes supplied by the Indian Cultural Society of Urbana-Champaign. It was published in 2012 and has raised $10,00 so far. “Home Cooking of India” can be purchased on Amazon with all receipts going to the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen.
Zarina closed her presentation with the following quote from Margaret Mead. “Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
At the conclusion President Tod presented a check for $5000 from our CU Sunrise fruit fundraiser to Zarina for the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen.
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| Jan 22nd | Jan 29th | Feb 5th | Feb 12th | |
| Introductions | Lou Simpson | Jeff Van Buren | Cary Woolard | Kris Young |
| Invocation | Reuben Chambers | Paul Conforti | Molly Delaney | Ata Durukan |
| Greeters | Lou Simpson | Jeff Van Buren | Cary Woolard | Kris Young |
| Alan Chalifoux | Neal Chamberlain | Reuben Chambers | Paul Conforti | |
| Song Leader | Laura Auteberry | Oktay Baran | Keith Brandau | Alan Chalifoux |
| Notetaker | Conforti | Chamberlain | Perry | Penwell |
| Rotary Minute | Kris Young |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
January 22nd – Antonia Rivera, Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) student from Chile
January 29th – Dr. Mosbah Kushad from the College of ACES, UIUC, will discuss his home country of Libya
February 5th – Nathan Montgomery, Executive Director, Salt & Light Ministries
February 12th – Barbara Gillespie-Washington, found and leader of Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO)
February 19th – Dr. James Leonard, CEO of Carle Hospital, will discuss the challenges with health care in the future
February 26ty – Sam Banks, CEO, Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club
April 9th – Denise Martin will discuss Cradles to Careers
