“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin – Actress

 

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” – William Blake – 1757-1827 – Poet-Painter-Printmaker

 

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci – 1452-1519 – Painter, Inventor

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(notes provided by the distinguished gentleman from Urbana, Ed Perry)

 

Ata requested that members take a moment to answer these two questions and email your answers to him: Why are you a member of CU Sunrise Club? What does CU Sunrise Club mean to you?

 

Ata also shared the new membership cards that Scott designed and Paul printed for us to distribute.

 

Bucket Bucks for October: GSLC Operation Turkey Sandwich

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

10/4-5 – District 6490 Conference

10/5 – GSLC pumpkin unloading – time TBA 

10/8 – 5-7pm – EI Foodbank re-pack, sign up online

10/17 – Club Assembly

10/24 – World Polio Day

10/26 – 1-3pm – Sola Gratia Work Day

10/26 – Interact 5K + costume contest

 

PROGRAM

 

Joe introduced Tom Kacich as this morning’s speaker. Tom received a warm welcome as he is a person who is well loved in our community for his many years of service to our area through his work as a journalist with the News Gazette. Tom is known for his wealth of historical knowledge about our towns and state.

 

This morning’s topic was a historical review on how our area and state voted on presidential elections and the changes that have occurred.   Starting with Abraham Lincoln, Illinois historically had voted Republican for presidential candidates with a few exceptions from 1865 into the 1960s. Tom gave examples of the voting result percentages for many elections.

 

Today, Illinois is known as a strong democratic voting state as the higher populated cities carry the state over the rural districts which continue to vote Republican. Champaign-Urbana and Champaign County are now voting strongly for democratic candidates with some of the candidates running unopposed. Tom noted how Champaign County has voted with the state for several decades now.  For the elections in 2016 and 2020 the republican presidential candidate received 36% and 35% of the vote in Champaign County, the lowest percentage ever.

 

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  Oct 3rd Oct 10th Oct 17th Oct 24th
Introductions JP Thompson Cary Woolard Oktay Baran Eddie Bridges
Reflection Allan Penwell Joe Rank Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite
Greeters JP Thompson Cary Woolard Oktay Baran Eddie Bridges
Allan Penwell Joe Rank Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite
Food Ed Perry Ed Perry Ed Perry Ed Perry
Notetaker Hodson Crane Conforti Hodson

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee members listed in parentheses)

 

October 3rd – Dr. Michael Aiualasit, Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Archeology, Illinois State Archaeological Survey (Darrell)

October 10th – Michelle Gonzales, Executive Director/CEO, Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation (Michael)

October 17th – Club Assembly

October 24th – Bob Cloverdill will talk about finding the crash site of his father’s B-24 in 1944 (Darrell)

October 31st – Club Social

November 7th – TBD

November 14th – Veteran’s Dinner at City View

November 21st – TBD

November 28th – No meeting – Thanksgiving

December 5th – TBD

December 12th – TBD

December 19th – TBD

December 26th – No morning meeting

 

 

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

 

October 23 – Jarrod Scheunemann

October 29 – Robb Patton