The Rotary Club of Chicago -O'Hare

meets weekly at 12:00 noon

The Great Escape in Schiller Park IL

On Thursday, July 20, 2017, the Rotary Club of Chicago O'Hare will enjoy a Club Summary PowerPoint designed by Mike Sullivan which was used at the District 6450 Conference “Pride Night” and the golf outing. A special addition is a video sent to us by Therese Owens of the LIFE Learning Program at West Leyden High School which will emphasize the importance of our Airline Surplus Project to their program. We hope you will join us for lunch at noon at The Great Escape Restaurant to review our many Club projects and to understand the Leyden's LIFE Program and it's purpose and impact.

Rotary Family Fun Night will be held this year on Tuesday, August 1^st at 7:10 PM at Guaranteed Rate Field at the Blue Jays vs Sox game. The game offers a night where Rotarians and Veterans are recognized and honored. So it is now time to buy:

*Rotarians and family members $24

*Donation to send a Veteran $32

*Parking $20

One order has been completed, but you can still order more for you, family and friends and for veterans. Please let me know if you have changes in your order or would like to add your name to the next order. patranttila@gmail.com or 847-648-1177

Diane Carroll, the Executive Director of My Joyful Heart will be at our July 27th Rotary meeting. Annually our Club participates in a “Back To School” Supply Drive at the Club meeting she attends. This year Ed Jacob has made this opportunity easier by pre-ordering in larger lots the items needed for the student needs list. The items he has ordered are 24 clear backpacks, 48 boxes of 10 pencils, 48 4-pack erasers, 48 blunt-end scissors, and 48 boxes of 16-pack crayons. If you are interested in helping with this, Ed calculated that $20 per member would cover the costs. You can bring cash or a check to Ed Jacob for your donation if you choose to participate. My Joyful Heart provides, for over 700 disadvantaged children in several CPS schools, gift events for each sponsored child including Valentine’s Day, Easter, Summer Vacation, Back-to-School, Fall, Christmas and Birthday. Our Rotary Club and several of our members sponsor a child in this program for $420 annually. Any additional school supplies and brown grocery bags you can bring will add to the event.

Make it a good day or not! The choice is yours!

Important Club and Foundation Board information:

• Club Board will meet at 11:00 AM on the third Thursday of each month except Thursday, July 27^th and Thursday, August 31^st. District 6450 Governor 2017-2018 Scott McAdam will visit our Board Meeting and speak to our Club on Thursday, August 31^st.

• Foundation Board will meet next on Thursday, August 3^rd.

Rotary International is requesting that we keep track of our Rotary Volunteer Hours for 2017-2018. Cruz Bernal-Albano, our President, has designed a new roster that we are going to implement starting Thursday that will include “volunteer hours”. Each week you can just jot down your information – including attending our meeting for 2 hours (travel, lunch, speaker) I would guess that collectively we will have an amazing number!! Thanks.

Opportunities for you to participate: