President Debra called the meeting to order at 12:17.
Pledge Debra led the pledge.
Thought: Moha offered a commentary in Arabic that celebrated our Fourth of July as well as a wish for the upcoming soccer game on Saturday.
This Day in History: Debra noted facts from this day in history.
Announcements:
Debra recognized this year’s board members.
We are still selling raffle tickets @$20 (250 tickets only) to win an Ebike that Ken has donated to the club. Ken encouraged each member to sell or buy at least 5 tickets. Drawing will be on July 16, just two weeks away!
We heard from the founders of a charity that supports young adults in Kenya. Veer Arora, age 14, who spoke lives in Glencoe, spoke passionately about this grass-roots organization. It’s called Braveheart Charity.
The Peace Pole is up in the garden behind the Community House, near our pollinator garden. We will have a ceremony there soon.
Happy Bucks:
Barb is happy that the Cubs won big yesterday and the US won in the World Cup.
Moha is happy about Morocco’s win on Monday night.
Rich – asked for prayers for his friend Gen. Mike Devine, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia.
Robert noted that last year was the end of the Rotary year, marking his 26th year of perfect attendance!
Program:
Winnetka One was the featured presentation, presented by Jon Talty and Anders Rustin of OKW Architects. They took us through the history of the property over the past 20 years, and the exciting development that is nearing completion.
Mike Wurzburg's daughter, Beth Pyle, sent us this message: “Unfortunately, my dad had a stroke Monday evening and passed away Thursday morning, July 2. My sisters and my mom and I were with him. Would you mind sharing the information with the Rotary? He loved being a part of it.”
The 2025–26 Rotary year has come to a close! Thank you to everyone who supported The Rotary Foundation!
Your gifts come full circle—helping fund projects around the world: our club's: Women's Cooperative in Morocco, as well as right here at home, including Operation Warm, our food insecurity programs, and ShelterBox.
We give to receive. Through Rotary every contribution will continue changing lives.
312 626 6799; Meeting ID: 198 435 237; Password: 798428 (note, if asked for User ID, press #).
Reminder- you can give happy bucks, dig n grin, birthday donations and other donations to our foundation at https://wnrotary.org/page/donate/ or by texting DIGNGRIN to 44-321.
The Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield is teaming up with The Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Rabat in the capital city of Morocco to establish a women's clothing cooperative in the village of Tomoulilt. This will be a project funded in part with a Rotary Foundation Global Grant (GG#2571461).
The program's objectives are to:
Create a revenue-generating cooperative run by stakeholders of village women/girls;
Empower women to run and manage a long-term sustainable and profitable business operation.
The project funds new equipment and training for the cooperative's participants. Training will encompass technical use of the equipment, entrepreneurial skills, business planning and management, sales and marketing planning, and financial management. The program's vision is to create a self-sustaining long term business enterprise for the participating women in Timoulilt.
Overall program budget is $100,000. The club is seeking cash and District Designated Funds (DDF) support from Rotary Clubs and Districts.
At the March 6 meeting, Rich Lalley presented an overview of the work of our two foundations- the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Foundation (WNRCF) and The Rotary Foundation (TRF) of Rotary International. You can review that presentation here.
The club's board has set a goal of achieving 100% participation in supporting TRF this Rotary Year. To reach this goal, every active member needs to donate a minimum of $25 to The Rotary Foundation. You can do this online by clicking here.
We also aspire to be a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club. For member who are not yet a Paul Harris Fellow, once your donation level reaches $250 and you have made a contribution this year, our club will celebrate you with a Paul Harris Fellow Award.
We appreciate all of our members who have contributed generously to The Rotary Foundation and to our club's WNRCF foundation. Thank you!
Paul Harris Fellows
Bob Baker, Wes Baumann, David Birkenstein*, Moha Boucha, Debra Campbell, Ken Drummet, Tom Evans, David Grant*, Tony Kambich*, Marie Kuipers, Rich Lalley, Bill Leske, Robert Mardirossian, Ned Meisner, Chuck Norton, Lee Padgitt, ArLynn Presser, Fred Schwimmer*, Heidi Sibert, Peter Skalski, Liz Taylor, Barb Tubekis, Patti Van Cleave.
Bold indicates donation made this Rotary Year. * indicates Major Donor.
Let's work with the Winnetka Park District to help clean up the Green Bay Trail.
Meet at the pedestrian bridge to the Winnetka Train Station at the Lincoln Street entrance. Wear appropriate trail cleaning clothes :)
*After we're done: Head over to Little Honeycomb for lunch together!
Sean will have all the equipment with him we'll need. Once we're all there, we'll here what we'll do and how it will help. Need to keep it clean from litter and perhaps some strangling invasive plant species?
Please feel free to bring your significant other or a friend. We can always use more hands! Fortunately the beastly hot weather should not be upon us!
Please RSVP to this email or to Sean, Liz or me. We'll have a signup at this week's meeting in case you don't get back to us before then.
pedestrian bridge to the Winnetka Train Station at the Lincoln Street entrance
Please join our friend Ellie Schwimmer, her family, and friends as we celebrate the life of Fred Scwhimmer, a long time member of our club and important member of the Winnetka Community.
Please register here or let Rich Lalley know you (and any guests) will attend so we can give Ellie a count prior to the event.
The club's board has set a goal of achieving 100% participation in supporting TRF this Rotary Year. To reach this goal, every active member needs to donate a minimum of $25 to The Rotary Foundation. You can do this online by clicking here.
pedestrian bridge to the Winnetka Train Station at the Lincoln Street entrance
