TO ALL CLUB PRESIDENTS

A proclamation will be signed by the Governor of the State of Illinois proclaiming February 23, 2012, as ILLINOIS ROTARY DAY.

Each District Governor is requesting that each of their Clubs help celebrate this Illinois Rotary day by performing a Service Project, place Rotary articles in local Media outlets and Celebrate Rotary Service to Its Community and the World.

Celebrate your local Projects and especially Celebrate Rotary’s success with the Program to eradicate Polio. My Home Club, Effingham “Noon” will be celebrating by doing a full days program with “Meals on Wheels”.

Thank you, DG Ron Schettler

Everyone is invited to this Rotary Leadership training. Please find attached the registration links, schedule for the day and directions to the classroom.

Want more information regarding RLI? Check out their home page  http://www.hoa-rli.com/

Valentines Charity Ball
The Charity Ball will be held Saturday, February 11th starting at 6pm, with a cost of $50 per person.
This Gala Event is being held at the Historical Allerton Mansion in Monticello, benefiting the “BackPack Program” feeding at risk children in our schools.
Auction Items Include: Time Shares, Illini Tickets, Art Work, Jewelry, Gourmet Dinners and much more!!
Tickets are available at CF&H Insurance, State Farm Insurance or by contacting Patty Woodham at 762-3330.
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Please join us on April 27^th o r 28^th in Champaign-Urbana to participate in the Illinois Marathon events.  You may run or walk the 5k or 10k, or you may run the half or full-marathon.   Each participant is asked to raise $500 for The Rotary Foundation for the End Polio Now campaign.  You are guaranteed the lowest entrance fee for this event when you register through us.  For $20 you will receive a special edition Illinois-Marathon-Rotary-End Polio Now-long sleeved Sport-Tek shirt. We want all Rotarians to wear this shirt during the event to promote Rotary and our fight against polio

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Please make sure your members’ e-mail addresses and other pertinent information are up to date on the district web site. The district newsletter and other important notices from district officers will go only to those whose e-mail addresses are correctly listed within your club’s directory on the district web site.

Please send all news/photos for the district newsletter to me at Billphyl@aol.com .

Thanks

Bill Wills
District 6490 Newsletter editor

To download and view the attachment, please click on the link below:
February 2012 newsletter.pdf

This event Dinner and Dancing the night away Brazilian style is only 5 days away. Send an email to confirm your spots to President Jonathan Cox (alumni association) at  jwc3@hotmail.com or me and if you cannot make it  please support this Rotary District 6490 Alumni Association Fundraiser for the Cancel Hospital of Londrina.

OLA! District 6490 Rotarians! PASS IT ON TO YOUR CLUB MEMBERS TODAY (VIA EMAIL OR CLUB RUNNER) AS IT WOULD NOT BE FAIR IF THEY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THIS COMING EVENT!

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Hi, I am Tiffany DeSpain and I am serving as chair of RYLA. I am a member of the Rotary Club of Savoy and am happy to say we have a committee of Rotarians from several clubs working in collaboration to put together a fantastic three-year curriculum for the RYLA participants. Some of the topics this year will be interviewing (learn skills to interview first), resume building, finance and budgets, diversity and inclusion programs, organization and time management, public speaking, conflict resolution and more. We will be needing volunteers from the different clubs that weekend; some to help facilitate the activities with the committee, and we will also need speakers on some of the above topics. If anyone from your club is interested in helping, please have them contact me at this email. The activities that will take place will be related to the topics the speakers present about.

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 Good afternoon,