A reminder about our mini-fundraiser atBeelow's Restaurant on Tuesday, May 3rd from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Bartender tips will be donated to the Club (Club members will work as bartenders), and 25% of the proceeds from dinner afterward will be donated to the Club. If you plan to stay for dinner, reserve now at 847- 780-3300, Beelow's is at 1850 Second Street Highland Park, IL Space is limited, so kindly RSVP by April 28th to Joanne at joanne@familycoachingconsultants.com.
We will NOT MEET on Monday May 2nd.
Our Annual Fundraiser is set for Saturday May 14th at the Birchwood Club from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The evening includes dinner with wine and a cash bar as well as music designed to keep your toes tapping and perhaps twirl around the floor a time or two!Tables are available for purchase, so invite your friends and relatives. All are welcome!Tickets for the event are$75 each.Raffle tickets are being distributed and are $100 each. Like last year, each member is responsible for four tickets, so sell some to your friends!Contact Joanne Gordon at 847-338-2671 or joanne@familycoachingconsultants.com for Event and Raffle tickets.
SAVE THE DATE: The Annual Golf Outing is August 5th Mark your Calendars: Contact Jim Berardi
Fred Orkin announced hehad passed over his own house in lieu of fishing for Passover; Larry Block announced the Highland Park Strings Rotary Concert on May 22nd at 3:00 p.m.
This week our guest speaker was Jan Gibson. Jan is the manager of Genesee Theatre, a concert hall and movie palace in Waukegan, Illinois only 20 minutes from Highland Park. Originally constructed privately and opened on Christmas Day in 1927 as a vaudeville theater and cinema, it closed in 1989.
The city of Waukegan reopened the Genesee in 2004. It employs a staff of 100. It has seating for 2,433 people with additional rooms for private gatherings. It hosts many different music, comedy and corporate events to include weddings and bar mitzvahs. Additionally the stage is similar to that of the Civic Opera in Chicago one of the largest stages around...4600 feet.
It boasts an outdoor lounge and seven other rooms plus the oldest air conditioning system in the area (which still works). There is plenty of safe parking available.
The city of Waukegan owns the theater and leases it for one dollar a year, which it recovers with added sales and hotel taxes.
Jan Gibson giving the Club the lowdown on the Genesee Theatre.
A reminder to Club members that you can give back to our Club when you make shop on Amazon through Amazon Smile.
*The Amazon Smile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible Amazon Smile purchases back to the Rotary Club of Highland Park/Highwood*
Next up for Our Club:
NO meeting May 2nd - Fellowship at Beelow's a Mini fundraiser - Be there or be square!
My thanks to Bill Pigati for taking notes this month - He actually volunteered! - Mary Beth
