ALGONQUIN ROTARY CLUB ANNOUNCES.....Join us for an evening of fun, food and cards! 

Plan to run or volunteer on Saturday September 27 in our inaugural "End of Summer Run."  A fast flat race course begins and ends at Westfield Community School in Algonquin.

Start collecting aluminum cans now to save $5 off your race registration. Proceeds from Crush a Can for Cancer will benefit Phil's Friends, Christ centered cancer support.  www.philsfriends.org

Register now at   www.endofsummerrun.org  

Get ready for the Chicago Marathon, or just run for fun to help benefit our many local charities. 

 Dual “Bicycle” Event to help the Needy!

Donate Your Bicycles to Give OLD Bikes NEW Homes and Pedal for PADS Bike-a-Thon! 

Sunday September 22, 2013 9:00 am – 2:00pm

The Algonquin–Lake in the Hills Rotary Club is sponsoring a bicycle collection for Working Bikes, www.workingbikes.org an organization that rescues discarded bicycles and gives them new life, AND is co-sponsoring the 6^th annual Pedal for PADS Bike-a-Thon to help raise money for homeless services through Pioneer Center’s McHenry County PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter).  Community residents have two ways to participate!

Donate your old or non-working bikes in any condition to the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Rotary Club. Working Bikes donates over 6000 bicycles each year to international and local partners. Countless bicycles are discarded or sit unused in basements or garages in the US every year. In a developing country, a bicycle can truly change the life of an individual, their family and their community. Bicycles are also used for towing cargo, and even as a source of electricity through the creation of pedal-powered machines! In areas plagued by poverty, high levels of unemployment and lack of reliable, accessible transportation, a bicycle can help provide access to jobs, education, medical attention, and other resources. Working Bikes partners with homeless transition, refugee resettlement, and youth empowerment programs in Chicago to donate bicycles and put them to good use on our streets. Please donate and help us make this an annual event!

A red tent will be located at 1113 Pyott Road, Lake in the Hills in front of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Interfaith Food Pantry parking lot for easy drop off between 9:00 am-2:00 pm. Rotarians and Jacobs High School Interact students will help take bikes from vehicles. Signs will be posted. If you can’t drop your bicycles off on Sunday, please call Virginia Freyre 224-223-7236 to arrange a pick up before Sunday.

Don’t have a bicycle to donate?  Pedal for PADS www.pedal4pads.org event organizer, Larry Ferrarini, is recruiting bicycle riders and walkers of all ages and abilities to help raise money for the homeless. Participants will choose a distance from 1 to 35 miles of the McHenry County Prairie Trail to ride or walk. The cost is $10 per person, $30 per family, or $40 for a team of 6 riders or less. All participants are encouraged to collect additional pledges, and a grand prize will be awarded to the individual that raises the most money. Ferrarini hopes to raise $25,000 and says, “Bring the whole family, it’s a great way to get kids involved in charitable causes and instill, at a young age, a love for serving and helping those in need.” Riders need to return by Noon to enjoy music by No Left Turn, lunch, participate in raffles and a children’s bike parade. Rider check-in is  8:00-9:00 am. For online registration, sponsorship and donations please go to www.pedal4pads.org and click signup. Larsen Park is in Lake in the Hills and connected to the Prairie Bike Trail. Take Pyott Road to E. Oak Street to Creekview Lane to the parking lot.   Signs will be posted to direct attendees to the park.   Rain or Shine.

Foundation Chair, Chet Ward, acknowledged and presented our Paul Harris Fellow recipients.