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Coopers Hawk

798 West Algonquin Road
Corner Golf Road & Algonquin Road
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
United States

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NEW 2019 ROTARY READS SCHEDULE

Posted by David Jaffe

Hello Fellow Rotarians,

Below is the Winter/Spring 2019 Schedule for Rotary Reads Held at Forest View Academy

We need (5) Readers for each of the following dates:

February 14

February 19

March 14

March 19

April 11

April 16

Please email- Rotarian Marc Poulos directly if you can volunteer for one or multiple dates. Email: marc@marcpoulospainting.com

Thank you for being a Rotary Reads Participant.

January 3, 2019

On January 3, 2019 our lunch speaker was Ivan Soberon Azuara, the 2014 inbound Rotary exchange student to our club. During his time here in 2014, Ivan stayed with the Ducheks, Paddocks, and the Mormons, and enjoyed various Chicago activities, including the Cubs game, a Bears game, and a Notre Dame football game.

Since 2014 Ivan has obtained several technical and business degrees, including an MBA, and is currently working on his PhD in business management systems. Ivan is employed by a helicopter company in Mexico that primarily provides helicopter service to the oil and gas industry. There are approximately 80,000 people living on the water in the Gulf of Mexico and working in the oil and gas industry. Ivan's company provides all kinds of standard and emergency transportation to the oil and gas companies and those many employees. The company also provides VIP transport, firefighting service, electricity powerline surveillance, and transport for geological surveys. Ivan is the training manager for dispatch, engineering, maintenance, and helicopter pilots. Ivan is also a Rotarian at his local club in Mexico.

First Meeting of the New Year Will Be...

Posted by rpjr on Jan 01, 2019

... A lunch meeting, and not an evening meeting as a First Thursday. Bring you best holiday story and enjoy getting together with Rotary friends for a relaxing post holiday meeting.

p.s., over the years Rotarians have found that through our friendships and acquaintances, we can do more than we can by ourselves !

Our Club's Service -- A Look Inside the Process

Posted by rpjr on Dec 20, 2018

Our most recent meeting brought lunch table discussions and exploration of the types of service we would like to do locally and internationally. We also explored the idea of a member service commitment/expectation. To read the purpose and process of the survey, click "Read more". There you will also see the year's service Calendar and the survey itself.

Our thanks go to the Community Service committee for this process.

The Rotary Foundation- Doing Good in the World

Posted on Nov 29, 2018

November is Rotary Foundation Month, and our own Bill Kmiecik, who also serves as the District’s Annual Fund Development Chair provided a very informative overview of the Rotary Foundation. One of the features that is unique to The Rotary Foundation is that fact that it is Rotarians around the world who determine how funds will be used, through a combination of global and district grants. If you missed Bill’s presentation, it is worth taking a few minutes to review it. You can download it by clicking here. You can learn about Rotary’s areas of focus, the different ways to give, levels of recognition, how funds donated today come back to the district for future projects and more.

Introducing ACE, Illinois’ First Inbound Global Grant

Posted on Nov 29, 2018

ACE, an acronym for Advancing Community Economics is the name of a recently approved Inbound Global Grant program sponsored by the Rotary Club of Schaumburg-Hoffman Estates. Visiting Schaumburg Hoffman Estates Rotarians Jean Schlinkman, Brian Berg, and Bill Kelley gave a brief presentation on the project. Our club is one of several area clubs that have helped to provide funding for the program which was developed to meet a need for hard to fill skilled labor positions while helping underemployed area residents. The program is being offered in partnership with Harper College. Over the term of the project, it is expected that eighty scholarships for a variety of certificate programs will be offered. One component of the program will include mentoring for scholarship recipients. If you are interested in serving as a mentor or finding out more, please contact Brian Berg at Brian.BergJr@berg-eng.com.

Announcements 11/29/18

Friday, November 30 is the last day to sign up for the Holiday Party at Rolling Green on December 6^th. There will be no regular meeting that day.
We still need volunteers for Holiday Gift Shopping on December 9th. This year we will be buying gifts for 12 families/50 people. As in years past everyone will meet at Target on Rand Rd. at 9 am. Unlike years past, this year’s post purchase wrapping will be at Peggy K. You can sign up on line, or contact Neil Scheufler.

Proposed for New Membership

Posted by David Jaffe on Nov 28, 2018

PROPOSAL FOR MEMBERSHIP 11-28-18

Proposal for New Membership

Sheila Quinn

VP of Intertek

Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends

Posted by JRS on Nov 13, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends

The oldest holiday run in the region is less than a month away! The Rotary Santa Run is set for Dec. 1^st in downtown Arlington Heights. Join thousands of your closest friends in a 5k run or 1k walk around the heart of the village. Have a blast helping to raise funds supporting worthy causes while decked out in the provided Santa suit or your holiday best.

The Santa Run is proud to announce the renaming of our children’s race to the Goldfish Swim School Reindeer Run! The Goldfish Swim School is a new supporter of our event and we couldn’t be happier! Keep an eye out for schools of fish running the course.

Hey Nonny

Posted by Hoff on Nov 08, 2018

A Different Kind of Rotary Friendship Exchange

Posted on Oct 26, 2018

Rotarian Dr. Chris Wood and fellow Rotarians in his practice participated in the Rotary Club Host Project a collaborative effort between the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Rotary to provide educational opportunties for opthalmologists from developing nations. In this two week program, Dr. Wesam Shallaby, an Egyptian ophthalmologist, spent a week observing Dr. Wood and his colleagues. She also had a chance to see and experience sights around Arlington Heights and Chicago, and do a presentation to the club on Ophtalmology in Egypt. Next week she will attend the Academy's annual conference in Chicago.

Announcements 10/25/18

Next week’s First Thursday Meeting will be a celebrity cook-off at Waverly Inn. Spouses, as well as prospective members are invited to attend. Registration is required. Deadline for registration is next Wednesday.
Jon is looking for volunteers to help pass out Santa Run postcards at Trunk or Treat. Friday, October 26^th from 6-8:15. Contact Jon for details.
DECA service opportunity. DECA is a national business role playing competition where students compete individually or in teams of 2 in a variety of business disciplines. Judges are wanted for the practice competition (Friday Nov. 16, 8am-1pm at Forest View Educational Center), the District competition (Friday, Jan. 25, 7:30 am -12:30pm at the Stephens convention center). If you are interested in finding out more about this, contact Chuck Frankiewicz.
The District is looking for Salvation Army bell ringers for Friday, Dec. 7 at Woodfield Mall. Family members are welcome. Glenn Garlick is looking for tentative commitments by Monday, October 29.
Invitations to the holiday party at Rolling Green are out. Please RSVP.

New Payment Pilot Under Consideration

Posted by LBS on Oct 26, 2018

Wit

h fifty percent of respondents to the recent club survey indicating interest in a “Pay As You Go” payment plan, work is now underway to design a potential Pay As You Go pilot plan. Jason Ivy and Chris McClure presented conceptual ideas being considered for the pilot and answered questions. As a next step, President Jon will be sending an e-mail to all members with the details shared at Thursday’s meeting in order to see how many members want to participate. This information will be used to develop financial projections for the board to use as they consider and design the pilot. Watch for the e-mail from Jon, and be sure to respond if you want to participate in the pilot.

Six Weeks Until We #RunforaClaus; Teams Wanted

Posted by JRS on Oct 18, 2018

Santa doesn’t work alone… and neither should you! Create a team and run like reindeer on Christmas Eve at the area’s oldest holiday fun run! #RunforaClaus

The 2018 Rotary Santa Run will be held on Saturday, December 1st at 10 a.m. Start the holiday season off even merrier and get your family, best buddies, or coworkers to run with you!

While the 5k Run/1-mile Walk is open to folks of all ages and abilities, it’s also chip-timed for the more competitive members of your team. With over 2,000 Santa’s cruising through downtown Arlington Heights, there’s plenty of ho ho holiday cheer to go around.

Rotary Santa Run Registration Live!

Posted by JRS on Sep 24, 2018

Save Dec. 1st to participate in the oldest holiday run in the region: a 5K (3.1 mile) Run/Walk sponsored by the Rotary Club of Arlington Heights. Register today to keep your name off of Santa’s Naughty List. You might even say you’ll #RunforaCause !

10/18 Meeting Notes & Living a Commitment to Service

Posted by rpjr on Oct 18, 2018

Dr. Chris Wood gave his Classification Speech and told of his service work in Honduras, inspiring us with his varied experience, varied studies (we’ll ask him to play the trombone at one of our events), and his commitment to service.

His parents started him on that road, and his commitment continued with marriage and his wife Julie. He graduated from Yale and medical school at the State University of New York, with further study at University of Rochester Medical School and Loyola University Medical Center.

His recent charitable work was part of a partnership with other practitioners, medical organizations and locals in Honduras. As an ophthalmologist, he performed many surgeries on adults and children, symbolically and factually “an eye-opening experience!” He and Julie live in Prospect Heights. He is part of Northwest Eye Physicians (along with fellow shared-membership Rotarians) here in Arlington. To read more about the medical practice, service and for more details about his life, click "more"...

For announcements and our Charitable Fun Fine Master Terry Ennes, read "more"...

Announcement & "ATT Smart Cities"

Posted by rpjr on Oct 11, 2018

Our Fine Fun Fund Master, Jim Hassenplug, Happily did his duty for the club and charity, and reminded us of the remarkably large financial impact of the Rotary Foundation. Save the Date: 12/6 for our Rotary Holiday Fellowship Party (sign up will soon be available on the website). And Save the Date: 11/1 First Thursday alternate meeting format event at Waverly Inn here in Arlington. President Jon tells us there will be celebrity Rotary Chefs doing their thing for us as part of the evening. This particularly 1st Thursday event will be open to spouses and significant others too. The facility hasn't officially opened, so this is an early look at a "memory care" independent living facility which they say gives "all of the fun, and none of the cares." Someone joked, "Make sure your significant other promises to take you back home afterwards!"

Speaking today was Tricia Conway, Director - External Affairs, AT&T Illinois, talking about the concept of "Smart Cities" and AT&T's efforts in this regard. "Smart City projects have the ability to increase citizen satisfaction, safety, economic development, and sustainability. How? By enabling improvements across key drivers in transit, lighting, parking, security, the environment and infrastructure." To learn more about the concept and see her video overview , click here. The impressive presentation also prompted some thought and comment about the ramifications of a "connected" world. She can be reached at her Libertyville office via email at tf2748@att.com

Rotarians Are Also Creative ! ? : )

Posted by rpjr&JonR on Oct 11, 2018

Art from our recent 1st Thursday meeting at "bottle & bottega... Art Uncorked art studiio...." In addition to get-to-know-you-better good fellowship, our Rotarians created (admittedly, with a little help) pieces like these. These will be displayed in businesses in town to help promote our big Santa Run fund raiser. https://www.bottleandbottega.com/arlington-heights/

Our Supreme Court...and the other one!

Posted by rpjr on Sep 27, 2018

Today's meeting entailed important and impressive presentations on the service our club's committees do (what's in our Court, so to speak). We also had a Fun and Fund Raising Quiz on the Supreme Court. See separate story summarizing the reports.

Our elucidating Quiz on the Supreme Court's past, was presided over by our Master of Happy Fines (for charity), Terry Ennes. To try the fun and interesting quiz, read "More". Our own Court of members had some Happiness to share -- happiness for the birth of Terry's grandchild; announcement of a Daily Herald "Facts Matter" program at Forrest View Education Center; and appreciation for a great job done by our Chair of Admin., Dave, putting on and pulling off our end-of-summer fellowship "Steak Fry". And Thank You, Wendy, for the use of your beautiful yard!

Other announcements included the Chamber of Commerce's "Arlington on Tap" with a wide assortment of beverages 10/13 to try before peppermint schnapps weather kicks in. For details, click "read More". Snowbird Bill Borst and his wife are now happily residing nearby in the Moorings (President Jon says they encourage seniors to plan ahead. Jon, some of us think you're not old enough to have lunch over there yet!).

Reports on Service by Club Committees

Posted by rpjr on Sep 27, 2018

Our program for the day was an impressive outline of activities in our Court of service to our community and our club. Looks to be a great year! Whether you're a member of the club or a visitor to our website, to learn what our President is doing, read of the productive service work the committees are doing, read "More". A clue: being "social".

News and Announcements September 20, 2018

Posted on Sep 20, 2018

Everyone that is signed up for the End of Summer BBQ is asked to bring a donation of paper goods for the Wheeling Township Food Pantry.
Registration for the Santa Run is open.
One Rotary Summit will take place on October 20^th at Harper College. It is a training day that is open to all Rotarians.
The First Rotary Reads volunteer opportunity will be Wednesday, September 26^th. Please email Marc Poulos if you can attend.

Serving the Prision Population

In 2008, Chris McClure started volunteering with his church’s prison ministry, and he has continued to be an active volunteer ever since. At this week’s meeting, he educated us on things that most people don’t know about prisoners, discussed his own experiences as a volunteer, and shared ways that members interested in providing service to this population can get involved. Among the interesting, and in many cases disturbing facts that Chris shared:

The technical term for prisoner is offender
95% of offenders will be released, but 43% will be reincarcerated. Of those reincarcerated, 19% will be convicted of a new crime, and the remainder will be sent back on a technicality.
The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. In Illinois we currently have 40,000 inmates.
In Illinois, inmates must have someone claim their clothes and possessions within 30 days of incarceration or they will be thrown out. As a result most offenders are released in grey sweats with canvas shoes and $ 10.
The prison population is disproportionately minority and poor.

A Visit from Governor Julie for our First Thursday Meeting

This month's First Thursday meet and greet was at Cooper's Hawk. It was also Governor Julie's official visit to our club. Ever personable and enthusiastic, she jumped right in.

The SuperHero Collective

Posted on Aug 23, 2018

Imagine what it’s like to be a child fighting a

serious illness in the hospital. Then imagine how their face lights up when Batman enters the room, and they are transported to a world of wonder and amazement, temporarily leaving their illness behind. Inspired by a scary situation when his own son was hospitalized, SuperHero Collective founder Tim Brigham became committed to the betterment of sick children and giving them that chance to escape their illness. In addition to visiting hospitals dressed as Superheroes, the Collective has sponsored toy drives, and currently has its sights set on rehabbing a house for the family of a child fighting a serious illness. For more information, visit www.thesuperherocollective.com.

News and Announcements, August 23

Posted by LBS on Aug 23, 2018

Bob Arnold celebrated his 56th wedding anniversary last week.
John Glueckert announced that the Illinois Department of Public Health projects that 2,155 Illinois residents will die from an accidental overdose in 2018. From August 27-31, 2018, advocates from across Illinois will band together to train 2155 people in overdose prevention and reversal strategies and equip people who need naloxone with a free kit. Here in Arlington Heights, Glueckert Funeral Home will be offering Training Classes in administering Naloxone, to reverse Opioid Overdose .Training will take place at Glueckert Funeral Home, 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd.
Monday 8/27 thru Thursday 8/31. 2 classes; 11 am and 6 pm.
Friday 8/31: Training Classes at 9 am, 11 am, 3:30 pm & 6 pm
No appointment is necessary and all are welcome.

The Good We Do

Posted by WHoff on Aug 16, 2018

Karen Baker reviews the Community Services Committee 2018-2019 plans.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROTARIANS!

Posted by Neil Scheufler on Aug 14, 2018

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS !

August 1 Sue Duchek

August 9 Mike Silverman

August 9 Harry Vaswani

August 15 Jim Hassenplug

August 23 Ron Walter

August 25 Glenn Garlick

August 29 Jason Ivy

Birthday Chair - Neil Scheufler

Was This Us? ... No, but close!

Posted by rpjr on Aug 02, 2018

It seemed like we had a similar crowd ! ... at our new approach for having one casual evening meeting a month. Though somewhat crowded, the outside patio venue at the Peggy Kinanne's had great weather and fellowship. We'll recall that one of the beliefs of Rotary is that through building friendships and acquaintance among us, we become even more productive in giving service to our communities -- relationship, trust and understanding help us work better together. An informal pole of several members said generally they were glad they had come and getting to talk and know other Rotarians better. They also shared some reflections/advice for our board as we move forward. As for this photo, it actually typifies the crowd at the two-day event which followed -- The Mane Event/Taste of Arlington. For a summary of sample comments and the attendance figures (including potential members), Read more...

GOOD TO KNOW- NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 7/27/18

Posted by LBS on Jul 26, 2018

Don’t forget that there is no meeting next week. Instead of our regular lunch meeting, we will be meeting at Peggy Kinane’s from 6-8 pm for our “First Thursday” social networking. Registration is required. If you have not yet registered, you can sign up by clicking here.
The club is exploring ways that our club can financially assist victims of the recent River Trails fire in Prospect Heights both through the District and directly as a club. For those wishing to provide hands on assistance, here are two opportunities to help sort and stock shelves with clothing and other items that have been donated:
- Ruffalo’s Grocery at the corner of Palatine Rd. and Milwaukee. Friday, July 28 10:00 am
- River Trails Condo Association Building, 811 Apple Dr, Lower Level, Prospect Heights, Friday July 28 9am- 9pm.
The Chicagoland Korean Club will be celebrating their 10^th Anniversary with an evening of traditional Korean entertainment to be held at Christian Heritage Academy, Northfield. The reception will start at 4:00 PM with a light meal of Korean cuisine followed by the performance at 6:00 PM. One of their sponsors has made it possible to offer special discounted tickets for all Rotarians to promote Korean music and dance. ($10 for the performance, $30 for the performance and reception). If you are interested in attending, please contact John Kim Johnkim797@yahoo.com.
Volunteers and foursomes are still needed for the golf outing on September 13. There will not be a regular meeting that day due to the golf outing, so if you are not a golfer, please plan to volunteer. See Brian Meyer for more information.

Reaching Out Can Help Save a Life

Posted on Jul 26, 2018

Every year, 45,000 Americans die by suicide.The rate of suicide is highest in middle aged white men (ages 35-64).For every recorded suicide, it is estimated that there are 25 attempts.The numbers are both staggering and tragic, but according to our speaker, Mike Bushman, a volunteer with the Illinois chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide should be viewed first and foremost as a health issue that can be prevented.

There is no single cause for suicide.There are however risk factors that place some people at higher risk.These include health factors such as mental health conditions, environmental factors such as prolonged stress and stressful live events, and historical factors such as previous suicide attempts, or a history of child abuse.

Many people who die by suicide don’t think much before they do it, so when it comes to prevention timing is critical.AFSP stresses that reaching out can help save a life.This entails learning about the risks and warning signs of suicide, talking in private to let them know you care, and helping direct them to resources like the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK).For more information and links to resources visit AFSP.org