The Rotary Club of Chicago -O'Hare
meets weekly at 12:00 noon
The Great Escape in Schiller Park IL
*****On Thursday, March 9, 2017, the Rotary Club of Chicago O'Hare will welcome Lennie Jarratt, project manager for the Center for Transforming Education at The Heartland Institute, who will speak concerning “Could Be” Education Choice. Mr. Jarratt is the former managing editor (2013 - 2014) of Champion News, an Illinois based news website focused on reporting on Education and Illinois Politics. He was the managing editor (2004 - 2011) of Education Matters which researched education in local school districts across Illinois. Join us for an interesting discussion about the education of all children! The Bylaw/Constitution Committee will meet at 11:00 AM on Thursday before our meeting..
*****Thank you to Melissa Bukovatz, Rollo Dace, Jack and Pat Ranttila for attending the LIFE Program at West Leyden High School pizza party thanking them for their help to our Club. The LIFE Program is a transitional educational program for 18 – 22 year old young adults with disabilities helping them to bridge from high school to the working world. Through our Airline Surplus Project these students have sorted the opened amenity kits as an authentic job to gain experience interviewing, understanding work expectations, and gaining satisfaction of a job well-done. We were able to emphasize our appreciation to the students and the teachers that their work serves an important role in our Airline Surplus Project's ability to distribute sorted boxes of the separate amenities to our many partnering agencies.
*****Our Club's 2nd Annual HoopsMania fundraiser from 1/26/17–3/16/17. The last Club meeting before the end of the fundraising opportunity will be Thursday, March 9th. The goal has been set for each member to sell at least 10 tickets at $20 each. When selling, make sure that the buyer completes on the stub portion of the ticket and return it to Cruz with the money. Turn in your money and stubs as soon as possible. Every ticket sold means more $$$ for “doing good for the world!!” Cruz: albano.cruz@comcast.net The following information describes how each ticket holder can win:
Each game card is randomly assigned 8 teams (2 from each region) that will play in college
basketball’s national championship tournament. The teams are represented by their seed numbers
and regions in the tournament. To play the game, participants simply add up all the points scored by
their 8 teams throughout the tourney. The top 45 and bottom 4 scoring game cards all win prizes!
Opportunities for you to participate:
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March 9, 2017
3:30-5:30 PM
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Feeding Children Worldwide
West 3:30 PM
West Leyden High
1000 Wolf Road
Northlake IL 60164
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**Our Leyden Interact Clubs will be packing food packs for FCW and we need your help in managing this process. This is a great opportunity to get to know the students and advisors.
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RSVP to:
Pat Ranttila
patranttila@gmail.com
Please attend!!!
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March 24, 2017
Friday
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Junior Olympics
West Leyden Fieldhouse
1000 Wolf Road
Northlake IL
1:00 – 2:30 PM
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Jesse White Tumblers will perform at West Leyden HS thanks to our Club's donation of the Airline Surplus items for their “Trunk Party” for 500 disadvantaged college bound students.
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Frank Holthouse
will manage this activity. Check with him about attending the performance.
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04/20/17
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Danville Veterans Housing
Grand Opening
Mercy Housing Lakefront
Danville IL
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Bus trip to Danville Facility for ribbon cutting and connection with the Danville Rotary.
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Felix Matlock, Club member, will organize this opportunity. More information to follow.
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May 5-7,
2017
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Rotary 6450 Conference
Hilton Oak Brook Hills
Resort & Conference Center
3500 Midwest Road
Oak Brook IL 60523
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Conference to be held in convenient Chicagoland Oak Brook with the possibility to attend all days or those of your choice. Participants will get a partial reimbursement from our Club.
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Sign up now!
www.rotarydistrict6450.org
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June 10–14,
2017
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Rotary International Convention
Atlanta GA
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This is a rare moment in history when the International Convention is held in the USA. You will experience many renown speakers, learning opportunities, meeting Rotarians from all over the world, enjoying Atlanta, and visiting the Friendship House which houses exhibits and ideas for making our Club even better.
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Visit for more information and to register:
www.riconvention.org/en/atlanta
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To thrive in life you need three bones –
A wishbone
A backbone and
A funnybone
