Barb Tubekis chaired the meeting.

 

Visiting Guests:   Matt Butler was introduced to the Club by Robert.

 

Announcements: 

 

Happy Bucks: 

 

Speaker:  Carol Rosenstein is on a mission to start musical groups around the country for people with degenerative or cognitive impairments.  Rich and Bob met her at the Rotary International Conference and were impressed with her mission even before Carol appeared on the front cover the May edition of the R.I. Magazine.  Carol’s husband had Parkinson’s dementia, and his participation in a music group helped him.  Carol shared several videos with us.  During the pandemic, zoom saved their ‘Music Mends Minds’ program. She is now trying to help other rotary clubs start similar programs.  Do any of us want to help organize such a group?

 

For those of you who wish to support our fellow Rotarian Sam Badger in his time of loss, please consider making memorial gifts in Nancy's honor (Nancy Mack Badger) to either of these organizations:

 

• The Mesulam Center c/o Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E. Superior Street, 9th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611or at feinberg.northwestern.edu/giving or by calling 312-503-8933. The Mesulam Center offers world-renowned dementia and Alzheimers disease research and care on Northwestern's downtown Chicago campus.

 

• The Winnetka Northfield Rotary Charitable Foundation for its incredible impactful work globally, as you know.

Sam has been a faithful Rotarian for a long time. 

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/winnetka-northfield-rotary-charitable-foundation 

1. Call to Action! The New Trier Township food pantry needs our support. The pantry is low on essential items that support Township residents and workers. We will be collecting non perishable food items and hygiene supplies at each Thursday meeting. Donations can also be dropped off at the Community House every other day of the week. This service project will run through the end of September. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that we support and uplift one another. 

 

2. Additional items that we will be collecting at each Thursday meeting are pop tabs from aluminum cans and bread clips. The pop tabs will be donated to Ronald Mcdonald House for recycling and they go towards offsetting the costs of helping children and their families. 

 

The bread clips will be donated to 'Scarcely Resourced' who will be recycling them in partnership with 'Danielle Cares for Chairs'. A few thousand of these bread clips will purchase a wheelchair for a child in need. The bread tags are also now being utilized by a prosthetic clinic to strengthen the molding process of making a prosthesis.