Patti led today’s meeting.
Visiting Guests: Tom Tubekis and Jane Dowding
Dates to Remember:
- 5/6 our Club is participating in the ‘Walk for the Homeless’ organized by the Rotary Club of Wilmette. It will be held in Gillson Park, beginning at 10AM.
- 5/11 is a social meeting at Avli restaurant in the Laundry Mall in lieu of our regular meeting location of the WCH that Thursday for lunch.No speaker – so come to enjoy the company of fellow Rotarians.
- 5/13 is District Conference in Schaumberg.
Announcements:
- Remember to bring food items for the New Trier Food Pantry with you the next time you visit the WCH – there is a donation collection box in the lobby of the WCH.
- Rich asks all of us to consider donating for Don Crost’s Little Blue Truck trip from Florida to Evanston, which will support ShelterBox relief going to Turkey. There is a link on the website to donate.
- Bob solicited matching contributions for this year’s Foundation awards.
Happy Bucks:
- Fred will be in town and in-person at the next meeting.
- Barb is happy to be home from her long driving trip to Florida.
- Robert is happy to hand deliver a letter to Bill Leske – so in honor of saving $0.60 on a stamp, he is kicking in another $0.40 for a whole HB.
Speaker: Today’s excellent speaker is Winnetka resident Chuck Dowding. His topic is: “Combating Global Warming with Wind, Solar, Nuclear Energy and Batteries: Uniqueness of Winnetka & Illinois energy sources.” Among many themes, Chuck shared his insight about where we get our local power: 68% coal, 21% solar wind (replacing a recent coal contract with Vistra), and 10% other wind. We need more batteries because our power sources are intermittent. The Village of Winnetka is paid $1.4 million per year under a contract to provide peak power to the grid by turning on our Tower road power plant. By 2035 Winnetka will pay off the bonds that financed the power plant, and the Village will need to decide how much to invest in the plant and what to do with it in 2035. Review Chuck’s slides by clicking this link: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/2417/Documents/en-us/8bdb038d-4f0b-47ae-81ab-e766e307afda/1/