“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa – 1910-1997 – Saint-Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

 

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882 – American Essayist-Poet

 

“Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Every day we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.” – Ian Lowe – President of the Australian Conservation Foundation-Scientist

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Notes provided by Allan Penwell)

 

The Urbana Rotary Club has suspended its lunch meetings at Clark-Lindsey Village.

 

Darrell presented Bob with his PHF+1, and we now have added 12 levels of the Paul Harris Fellow recognition in our club this year.

 

Todd is looking for bowlers and a cheering section for bowling on Friday, April 17th at Old Orchard Lanes. Time is 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

 

Bucket money for March is First Followers.

 

Eileen Jerutka of the Savoy Rotary Club has tickets at $5.00 each for their annual pancake breakfast on March 28th at First Baptist in Savoy.

 

PROGRAM

 

Jen Shelby discussed the latest venture of Shatterglass Studios which is a short film named Hammer Down about a truck driver. Film location is California, and the shoestring budget is $50,000. The producing partner with Shatterglass is Simon Hatt who is known for his work on Guardians of the Galaxy. One of the actors on Guardians was Chris Sullivan who arranged the contact between Shatterglass and Simon.

 

There were several challenges for the small budget film, including finding a location, a motorcycle gang, and a classic cab-over tractor-truck, also known as cab over engine. The truck was rented from a collector who had over 50 pristine trucks. Make-up was applied to the truck to make it look old and dirty for the film. To find the motorcycle gang, the answer was simple—just call the local San Bernardino H.O.G. chapter. The Harley riders did not have far to ride to the shoot location because it was likely one of their favorite hangouts called The Screaming Chicken.

 

Jen believes Netflix may have an interest in the short which then would morph into a feature length film. Other options are to show the short at film festivals to be picked up by a large producer.

 

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  Mar 19th Mar 26th Apr 2nd Apr 9th
Introductions No meating Once upon Ed Perry Rod Roberts
Reflection Know meating a time, Cary Woolard Charlie Smith
Greeters Know meetun a Rotary club Ed Perry Rod Roberts
No meetun sang, and Oktay Baran Michelle Barbey
Song Leader No meeting people wept. Adam Wright Oktay Baran
Notetaker     Perry Penwell

 

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)

March 19th – CANCELED – Evelyn Shapiro of Champaign Public Library (Ondine)

March 26th – CANCELED – Gabe Lewis, Planner, Champaign County Regional Planning Commission will discuss the U.S. Census (Tom)

April 2nd – Michelle Stallmeyer, Community Banking Officer, Busey Bank, will discuss Money Smart Week 2020 (David)

April 9th – Club Assembly

April 16th – Rotarian Greg Gustafson and the U of I Chapter of Engineers without Borders, EWB UI Chichimuch, Guatemala Water Supply Project (Mary)

April 23rd – Diane Marlin, Mayor, City of Urbana (Bob)

April 30th – No meeting

May 7th – Debbie Hensleigh (Phyllis)

May 14th – Club Assembly

May 21st – TBD (Cary)

May 28th – TBD (Charlie)

June 4th – TBD (David)

June 11th – Champaign Rotarian Craig Rost will speak about the Clinton Lake Sailing Association

June 18th – TBD (Ondine)

June 25th – Pass the Gavel ceremony