Paul Munk thanked Joann Gordon for the fellowship event at Casa de Isaac and Moishe last week.

 

He also announced a board meeting following this meeting today.

 

March 6^th, PETS Training - Cynthia Plouche will be collecting men’s underwear and socks needed before that date. This is to be sent to needy servicemen.

 

End Polio Now Event in Elgin March 7-8 – The Elgin Symphony donates 10% of the ticket price to EPN. Visit www.elginsymphony,org to order ticket for one of the two benefit concerts.

 

The District Conference this year is the weekend of April 10 -12, 2015 in ITASCA. More details to follow.

 

Frank Lomoro received a Paul Harris Society Plus 2 pin, and Len Tenner received a Plus 4 pin.

 

Today marks the 110^th Anniversary of Rotary.

Mike Mills led the Club in: “America the Beautiful”, “Edelweiss”, “Button Up Your Overcoat”.  Matt Jenetopulos accompanied with the piano.

1^st Place – Frank Lomoro

2^nd Place – Bill Siskel

3^rd Place – Yesim Sonmez

Paul Dean gave in honor of Rotary’s 110^th Anniversary and Family Services 85^th. Cliff Bergstone gave in honor of Ted Less and also in honor of Bill Siskel’s son Charlie being nominated for an Academy Award. Jim Berardi gave for the CBO golf outing and also because he got to golf with his daughter Jackie in Arizona and he also went to Dennison University to see another daughter’s play. Yesim Sonmez gave because she is happy collecting food for the Township. Paul Munk gave in honor of his son’s Cards Against Humanity game which is in 1^st to 6^th place on Amazon. Cynthia Plouche gave in honor of Diana Sotelo’s return after surgery. Frank Lomoro gave Happy Dollars in honor of the Paul Harris Award. Len Tenner also contributed Happy Dollars.

     Club member Joann Gordon is a Family Coach for children with behavioral issues and special needs. She first taught special needs children with emotional and behavioral problems.

     With a Masters degrees in Social work and Early Childhood development, she got into her current career because of her son and his needs.  He has an individualized education program or IEP after he had a manic psychotic break and was hospitalized. So she learned how to work the system and help other families.

     Joann likes helping families through their crisis better than teaching. She wants to help those children become more independent and have more self esteem. She coaches families in what is important, how to address self esteem issues and dangerous behavior.

     She usually tries to help when the children are young as early intervention is very important.