Wednesday Rotary Club of Crystal Lake Dawnbreakers, 6:30AM @ Holiday Inn, 800 S Route 31, Crystal Lake, IL Rotary Club of McHenry-Sunrise, 7:30AM @ Stuckys, 4000 N Johnsburg Rd, Johnsburg, IL
Thursday Rotary Club of McHenry, 12:00PM @ McHenry VFW, 3002 IL 120, McHenry, IL Rotary Club of Cary-Grove, 7:30AM @ Cary Park District, 255 Briargate Rd, Cary, IL
Rotary Club of Harvard, Third Thursday of month 5:15PM @ Stanchion Pub, 300 W Front St, Harvard, 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.
Remember, as Greeter this week, you need to arrive at Woodstock Country Club early to greet members, visiting Rotarians, and guests. 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.
The summer fund raiser is over and what a great beginning to a new source of financial support for the club activities. Hopefully this project will continue to grow in the coming years. And now we have a short breather before Christmas Clearing House fires up. Granted, it is a lot of work and time commitment. However, I have found that projects that we support with physical labor rather than making a monetary donation to a cause result in closer relationships with our fellow club members. When we work together on a task we joke and kid and converse in a relaxed manner and become much more of a close knit family of service minded individuals. Rotary is all about service and when we are able to provide that service while having fun and interacting with our fellow Rotarians it is a beautiful thing!
And now for the "ramblings". Several weeks ago we had a speaker that talked about the restoration of the Loyola campus area on country club road. The big problem was the removal of invasive species from the marsh area. A comment was made from the audience to the effect that plant populations were migrating all the time so what is the big deal about invasives. I happened to be reading a book shortly after that presentation entitled "Bringing Nature Home". The message in the book was to use natural natural plantings in our landscaping and eliminate the exotic imports that tend to escape from the garden and create havoc in the environment. (examples: purple loose strife, plume grass, multiflora rose) And then the book re-enforced the argument by discussing the further ramifications of invasives. Invasive plants are not native here so they do not have any natural enemies. There are very few insects that will feed on them so the insect populations are reduced. So what is the big deal? Insects are the food source for many birds and they are genetically programed to feed on certain insects---the ones that live on our native flora. So if the invasives crowd out the natural flora then the insects that feed on them go too and then the bird population decreases. Amazing how our living world is all linked together. Food for thought.
The creation of West Side Story is the next presentation brought to us by the Musical Theater Charities of Woodstock at the Woodstock Opera House. Woodstock Christmas Clearing House is one of the 10 local charities who benefit from this programming. There will be two performances on Tuesday, August 14th one at 1:30 and another at 7:00. Please see the attached flyers for more details.
Discussion at last week’s meeting was that individuals who have been able to attend the past have been very impressed!
Future presentations:
August 14th – The creation of West Side Story
September 25th – The creation of Oklahoma!
October 23rd – The creation of My Fair Lady
November 27th – Making A List: The secular songs of Christmas
