Wednesday Rotary Club of Crystal Lake Dawnbreakers, 6:30AM @ County Inn & Suites, 600 Tracy Trail, Crystal Lake, IL Rotary Club of Algonquin, 7:15AM @ Port Edward Restaurant, 20 W Algonquin Rd, Algonquin, IL
Rotary Club of Lake in the Hills, 12:00PM @ Lou Malnati's, 8515 Redtail Dr, Village of Lakewood, IL
Thursday Rotary Club of McHenry, 12:00PM @ Buddys Pizza, 1138 N Green St, McHenry, IL Rotary Club of Cary-Grove, 7:30AM @ Cary Park District, 255 Briargate Rd, Cary, IL
Rotary Club of Huntley, 7:30AM 1st & 3rd Thursdays @ Village Inn Family Restaurant, 11713 E. Main St., Huntley, IL
Read a variety of current articles in our Programs section and/or choose articles from our Archived Programs list and/or information from our Avenues of Service pages. You will be required to answer questions. There is space on the makeup request form for up to three articles to be reviewed, however you will need to read more than three to meet your 30 minute visit obligation.
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At the end of your 30 minute visit click on Make-up Request Form from the drop-down menu at top of page OR the bottom of each make-up program.
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Read Makeup Request Form carefully, and follow instructions. A Make-Up Form will appear once you press the SUBMIT button (one time only) and an email copy will be sent to the email address you provided.
PRINT YOUR MAKE-UP FORM
Once your make-up appears, if you know the email address, you can also click on File, Send and email a copy to your club secretary.
2022 – 2023 Officers President - Dave Byrnes President-Elect - Breanne Pfrank Wicker Treasurer - Roscoe Stelford Secretary - Laura Cullotta Immediate Past President - Shawna Young
Directors
Luke Lohmeyer (Club Service)
Joe Starzynski (Youth Exchange Officer)
Jackie Speciale (Community Service)
Phil McKown (International Service)
Peter Knapp (Vocational Service)
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Greeter
Writer
Dec 9, 2022
Denise
Luke
Dec 16, 2022
Larry H
Kent
Dec 23, 2022
No Meeting
Phil M
Remember, as Greeter this week, you need to arrive at Olivers, to register visiting Rotarians, and guests (collect guest lunch fee of $16.00). You also provide the pre-meal prayer, check attendance, announce guests and visiting Rotarians, manage the marble drawing and provide "Fun & Frolics." If you are unable to fulfill your greeter obligation, please contact the next person in the greeter rotation to take your place.
Tag Day was back. A big Rotary thank you to Dave B, Gene W, Joe M and his daughter, Garret A, Steve R, Breanne P. W.. and Jim Potthast for stepping right up and tagging. Round figures: $400 in collections plus Jim P got sick the day of tagging and donated $200.00 to fill his role. $600.00 for a little over 6 hours of combined work.
The Woodstock High School Madrigals are live and in person this Friday, Dec 2 2022. Be sure and RSVP to Laura with the correct number of guests. Olivers is planning on a large crowd AND they still need an accurate count. This favorite program of Rotary has been COVID canceled the past 2 years. IT. IS. BACK! Be there and enjoy.
We have so much going on as a club. Below is a list (because, let’s be honest, I like lists) along with additional information, registration pages, email addresses, etc.
Giving Tuesday, November 29: We will be soliciting donations for this extremely important day. Studio D Jewelers has again generously provided a matching donation of up to $3000, so please help us get those funds in!
Thursday, December 1: Rotary + Red Cross Blood / Book Drive. Rotary Club of Woodstock will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross from 12pm to 5pm at McHenry County Fairgrounds. We need donations of both blood and books (that sounds weird). For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 1-800-733-2767 or sign up online at redcrossblood.org with sponsor code WOODSTOCK ROTARY. Need more granular information? Email Mimi (motroni@sbcglobal.net).
Thursday, December 1:Woodstock's Ladies Night Out. This has been a fun night for our Rotarians to gather, shop, laugh, libate! No official organizer at this point, but more information and tickets can be found here.
Friday, December 2: FIRST FRIDAY at 5:00! Luke and Kent are kind enough to host us at their office. They will provide snacks, music, and ambiance; they ask that you please supply your favorite beverage(s) of choice. Spouses, significant others, partners are also welcome!
Friday, December 2 – Friday, December 23: Santa will need Elves to volunteer at The Hut! Weeknights, volunteers are needed 4:30-7:30 and on weekends, we need volunteers 1:00-5:00. There will of course be a sign-up for volunteers, but for now if you need more details / information, please reach out to one of our three Premier Santas, Chris Cantwell himself (details02@sbcglobal.net). Our other two amazing Santas are Dave Byrnes and Al Schmitt.
Wednesday, December 7: District Holiday Party at Chandler's Chophouse in Schaumburg. Festivities start at 6 pm. Buy your tickets and read about the event here.
No specified date, just important information: Need Jeep Raffle tickets BEFORE the holidays? Looking to sell a few during Thanksgiving festivities? Please talk to Tom McGrath. You can send him an email at mcgrathtw@icloud.com to request tickets.
Got a creative streak? Enjoy the pen over the sword? Fancy yourself as A future John Grisham or Virginia Woolf? Or are you afraid to be a bulletin writer…WE NEED TWO OF YOU!
Aly Cullotta was in attendance last Friday. In fact, she did Fun & Frolics, on a college level. Her alumni K-12 teacher read the questions. First correct answer received candy!!! How many elements in the periodic table? How many of them are naturally occurring in liquid form (Hint: beer was not a correct answer). What is the symbol for Iron? Then the questions got tougher. As in University of Nebraska tougher. I didn’t get any candy… It was great to see her. Fun to see kids grow up in the Rotary family.
As I was beginning to write the bulletin and was removing old segments, one of the segments that has been in the bulletin for several weeks was product partners. This program has evolved and now raises money for the club, but even beyond the financial aspect, it has raised awareness throughout the community. Laura Cullotta began this program, nurtured it, grew it up and made it fun for all (She was ahead of the curve on the 5th part of the 4-way test). Natalie has taken the baton and kept it running on all 8 cylinders (will that still be a saying in this era of EVs?).
The population of Earth is around 7.8 billion. For most people, it is a large figure. However, if you condensed 7.8 billion into 100 persons, and then into various percentage statistics, the resulting analysis is relatively much easier to comprehend.