Rotary Bulletin April 13 (Apr 05, 2023)

Meeting Minutes April 6

Posted by David Grant

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/

Meeting Assignments

Posted by David Grant

April 13

Greeter & Sgt.	Liz Taylor
Thought	Sylwia Pacyk
Dig-n-Grin	Lee Padgitt
Scribe	Keith Reed

April 20

Greeter & Sgt.	Amy Skalinder
Thought	Peter Skalski
Dig-n-Grin	Bob Sanfilippo
Scribe	David Grant

April 27

Greeter & Sgt.	Wes Baumann
Thought	John Zeddies
Dig-n-Grin	David Birkenstein
Scribe	David Grant

If you are unable to fulfill your assignment, please find a substitute.

Support for ShelterBox

At a recent club meeting, Donna Gulley gave us a great update on ShelterBox's disaster relief work in Turkey and Syria after the recent devastating earthquake.

Our club's Past President Don Crost (currently a member of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs) also told us of his upcoming fundraising drive in support of ShelterBox. Don will be driving his 1953 Chevy truck from Naples Florida to Rotary Headquarters in Naples, stopping to speak at Rotary Clubs along the way and generating news coverage and new supporters for ShelterBox.

Here's his first news story from the Southwest Florida NBC tv station:
https://nbc-2.com/news/story2share/2023/03/24/in-his-1953-chevy-truck-naples-rotarian-traveling-cross-country-for-worthy-cause/

At our recent meeting, we pledged to renew our support of ShelterBox. You may contribute to this critical disaster relief work by donating here:
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/winnetka-northfield-rotary-charitable-foundation/shelterbox-drive-for-hope

Thank you for all you do through Rotary to make the world a better place.

Community Service

Posted by Patti Van Cleave

The Community House is collecting non-perishable foods and household goods for the New Trier Township Food Pantry. Club members and visitors to the Community House are encouraged to bring items on Thursday or whenever you are visiting the Community House. A large bin for drop offs is located at the front desk. Club members are asked to monitor the bin and take items to the Food Pantry when full.

This new service project collaboration will be ongoing, with a new recipient identified quarterly.