Help us help families! We’re collecting diapers for local food pantries on Sunday, March 3. We’d prefer sizes Newborn, 5, and 6, since they’re the most requested, but anything will do. Drop them off in our front parking lot and help us fill “Big Red” – one of our volunteers’ pick-up trucks. The truck will be available 10-noon and 4-8 PM. If you need to drop off diapers at another time, contact the church office.
Feb 24 – Club social at the Virginia Theatre for “That’s What She Said”
Mar 2 – Read Across America
Mar 16 – District President and President Elect Training
Apr 6 – Feeding Our Kids
Apr 19-21 – Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA)
Apr 27 – Illinois Marathon with a possible service project at a water station
May 4 – District Assembly 8am to Noon
May 4 – Champaign County Humane Society Newspaper Folding
“I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.” – Oprah Winfrey – Actress – Talk Show Host – Producer – Philanthropist
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.” – Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
“Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.” – Rhonda Byrne – Author
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(notes provided by the erudite Mary Hodson)
July 30 4-8 PM – Lou Simpson Celebration of Life at the Rose Bowl. Please bring salsa and chips to share.
August 2, 7 AM – Zoom Board Meeting. Contact Charlie for meeting link.
August 21 – Tom Costello Memorial Golf Outing and Corn Roast at Lake of the Woods
August 26 – Rotary Leadership Institute
September 9 – District 6490 Conference
November 9 – CU Sunrise Anniversary and Veteran’s Day Dinner
Bucket Bucks – July – Feeding our Kids, August – CU at Home
Larry announced the passing of CU Sunrise past president and Shelter Box USA board member Gary Olsen on July 26.
Shelter Box Stock the Box Fundraiser – See http:// http://www.shelterboxusa.org
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
August 8, 5:30 – 7:30 PM – Assemble School Kits at United Way
August 21 – 26 – Diaper Drive
September 2, 9-11 AM – Salt and Light
September 9 – Feeding Our Kids
September 30, 3 – 11 PM, Octoberfest
October 14 – 6:30 AM – Noon, CU Sunrise Rotary Booth at Urbana Farmer’s Market – Save your Rotary magazines to hand out.
PROGRAM
President Charlie introduced a tape of RI President Gordon McInally at the International Convention.
President MacInally’s theme is “Create Hope in the World”. He said that performing acts of kindness is the most important thing we can do to improve our own sense of well-being.
This Rotary year, Rotary will prioritize mental health. President McInally shared that his brother Ian suffered from depression, and despite having a successful life, ultimately took his own life.
RI has started a Rotary Action Group for Mental Health. President McInally also talked about two new programs “Think Like Me”, an emotional literacy training, and “Wellness in a Box.”
President McInally asks all Rotarians to become champions of the effort to help erase the stigma of mental illness and to become caring friends for those who suffer.
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| Aug 3rd | Aug 10th | Aug 17th | Aug 24th | |
| Introductions | Paul Conforti | Lisa Crane | Diana Dummitt | Ata Durukan |
| Reflection | Robb Patton | Jerry Payonk | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry |
| Greeters | Paul Conforti | Lisa Crane | Diana Dummitt | Ata Durukan |
| Robb Patton | Jerry Payonk | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry | |
| Notetaker | Perry | Hodson | Crane | Conforti |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee members listed in parentheses)
August 3rd – Jared White, Executive Director of Prairie Lands Council of Boy Scouts (Cary)
August 10th – Kelly Russell from the Champaign County Home Visiting Consortium (Michael)
August 17th – District Governor
August 24th – Joe Rank, Taste of Northern Italy
August 31st – TBD
September 7th – TBD
September 14th – TBD
September 21st – Poets Corey Van Landingham and Chris Kempf (Thom)
September 28th – Jarrod Scheunemann will discuss his mission trip and park development project in Bilisht, Albania
October 5th – TBD
October 12th – Brittany Millington, Director, Champaign Public Library (Thom)
October 19th – TBD
October 26th – TBD
November 2nd – Dr. Dan Simons, Professor, Psychology, UIUC, co-author of “The Invisible Gorilla” and “Nobody’s Fool”
November 9th – no morning meeting – Anniversary Dinner at CityView
UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS
August 24 – Allan Penwell
August 30 – Darrell Hoemann
August 30 – Ed Perry
Dear friends of Lou and Trina, the Kranzs, have arranged a memorial tree to be planted near the Decker Garden next Thursday. Trina has extended this invite for the occasion to Lou’s friends and fellow Sunrisers:
Please join us as a Silver Linden will be planted in Lou’s name near Decker Garden on Thursday, May 11 at 11:30. Via Champaign Park District, a gift from Del & Dave Kranz. -Trina
Our club will be planting a memorial tree of our own but details are still pending.
We’ve always thought we were a special club with an active, engaged membership. Turns out, we were right. This Small Club of the Year Award is well-earned, and hearing outgoing DG Heather Stoa read the list of our accomplishments was impressive (and exhausting). Congratulations Sunrisers!
We enjoyed a club social mingling with the veterans at the U of I Chez Center. The Chez Center is the only residential campus veterans center in the US. The ADA accessible center is home to 14 veterans and provides services to many more. Garrett Anderson gave tours of the state of the art facility.
CU Sunrise Rotary Club members and Central High School Interact members assembled 400 hygiene kits that will be donated to C-U at Home. A District Rotary grant provided funds for the project.
“Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens efforts and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.” —James A. Baldwin – 1924-1987 – American novelist, playwright, activist
“I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama – Former First Lady of the United States-Author-Attorney
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank – 1929-1945 – German-Dutch Diarist-Jewish Holocaust Victim
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cary reminded everyone that there will not be a meeting this Thursday morning, 9/30/21 as we will have our social gathering at Pour Bros. Taproom 40 E. University Ave. Champaign starting at 5:30pm.
Jerry noted that he will be sending out an email to the club’s committee chairs asking for a report on what’s happening in their committee. These reports need to be sent to Jerry prior to the club’s monthly board meeting.
Ed passed around the signup sheet for the volunteer project of folding newspapers for the Champaign County Humane Society on Oct. 16th.
PROGRAM
Cary introduced Terri Reifsteck and Carly McCory-McKay who presented about the Chambana Welcome Crew. Terri is the Vice President of Marketing & Engagement for Visit Champaign County and Carly is the Executive Director of the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation.
Chambana Welcome Crew is the collaborative effort begun in June 2021 between the You’re Welcome CU, Visit Champaign County and the University of Illinois Human Resources. Its purpose is to help recruit and attract new members to our community and welcome them to our community by providing ambassadors who assist in providing a wide range of information in-person or virtually in the welcoming process.
Ambassadors are volunteers that are matched up with the prospective new resident by demographics and areas of interest. Terri and Carly’s program this morning focused on the need for ambassadors and explaining what their role is and how you can become an ambassador.
After filling out a detailed application that is used to better match an ambassador with prospective residents, the ambassador may invite them to a local event, give tours of the area, assist them in engaging with the local community, and suggest restaurants, shops, parks, etc. and share their own experiences in the community. A follow up a year later may also take place.
Ours is one of the fastest growing areas in the state of Illinois and we need to be ready to welcome new residents and workers to our community. If interested in more information about Chambana Welcome Crew and how to become an ambassador contact Terri at terrir@visitchampaigncountyedc.org or Carly at carly@champaigncounty edc.org.
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| Sept 30th | Oct 7th | Oct 14th | Oct 21st | |
| Introductions | No meeting | Joe Rank | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite |
| Reflection | this week. | Charlie Smith | Mary Kay Smith | Cary Woolard |
| Greeters | Social at Pour | Joe Rank | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite |
| Bros at 5:30pm. | ||||
| Notetaker | Drinks on Ed… | Perry | Hodson | Conforti |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)
September 30th – Club Social
October 7th – Club Assembly
October 14th – Dr. Charles Gammie, professor of astrophysics, UIUC, will speak about black holes (Tom)
October 21st – Normal Rotarian Drake Zimmerman, co-founder and chair of the Rotary Action Group Against Malaria, will speak about Global Grants of Scale (Mary)
October 28th – TBD (Charlie)
November 4th – Club Assembly
November 11th – Veteran’s One to One (tentative)
November 18th – Derek Peterson, Director, Allerton Park & Retreat Center (Joe)
November 25th – No meeting – Thanksgiving
December 2nd – Club Assembly
December 9th – TBD (Ondine)
December 16th – TBD
December 23rd – TBD
December 30th – TBD
