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Service Above Self

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Thursdays at 7:00 AM

Hanson Law Offices

1000 Hart Road, Suite 300 Barrington IL
info@barringtonbreakfastrotary.org
Barrington, IL 60010
United States of America

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If you would like to attend one of our upcoming zoom or in person meetings please e-mail us at info@barringtonbreakfastrotary.org with your request. We will send you a current list of meeting times, dates, upcoming Guest Speakers and a Zoom link/Hybrid with instructions.

Barrington Breakfast Rotory

is a proud Member of the

Barrington Chamber of Commerce

WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU ATTEND!

BBRC Co- Presidents

Terry Cullum & Joe Connelly Our 2023 Fundraiser

HYBRID MEETING MINUTES, APRIL 21 - 27, 2023

Rotary International 2030 Convention Coming to Chicago

GUESTS

Wisdom Addo – Rotary Peace Fellow

Jill Runkle – Peace Jam Representative

Basil Lewis - Rotary Global History Fellowship, Humberside, UK.

Nargis and Monohar Awatramani – Guests of Terry Cullum and Potential Rotary Members

Jackie McGrath - Guest of Jennifer Lucas and Potential Rotary Member

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Co-President Joe Connelly offered:

Thanks to all of the members that helped arrange and attended the White House/ Suzuki Strings event. This was a wonderful opportunity to socialize and further publicize Rotary in the Barrington community.

Also, kudos to those that attended Kid Fest and helped with the races. It was fun to watch the kids and see little Diego, a future Olympian.

Barrington Rotary Holds an Early Bird Event

The Barrington Breakfast Rotary Club hosted an Early Bird Raffle Event for our June 50/50 raffle at the Barrington White House Thursday Evening.

The Event was a thank you to the early raffle ticket purchasers to date.

The Grand "Summer Fun for the Lucky One" ticket drawing will be a 50/50 with $20,000 going to a lucky ticket holder and $20,000 going to our club to provide financial support to local charitable programs in need.

There is still plenty of time left to purchase your tickets

https://www.betterunite.com/rotaryclubofbarringtonbreakfast-alwayson

Our guests entertainment was provided by

Barrington Youth Orchestra & Barrington Suzuki Strings / The Barrington Music Institute

SPEAKER PRESENTATION

Wisdom Addo, Rotary Peace Fellow, was introduced by Jill Runkle from Peace Jam. Wisdom is from Ghana and shared his journey as a Peace Builder which has taken him throughout Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria focusing on Youth Development and Education. His objective is to provide an alternative to being used as a catalyst for violence by the governments that require a year of national military service. Wisdom's initial attempts to provide computer skills training in 2010 were unsuccessful.

Wisdom then learned of the Rotary Peace Fellowships. Without his home country's endorsement it seemed impossible to enroll in the Rotary program, but Wisdom persevered eventually securing the support of an Akron, Ohio Rotary Club and went on to take a 3 month program for Peace Fellows in Thailand. In 2015 an international youth award was presented to a group Wisdom was associated with for their work in cleaning up the environment post an Ebola outbreak in Ghana. COVID clean up and other health programs benefited from a similar effort.

More and more schools were exposed to a two day training session developed by Wisdom and his team culminating in a 2019 Youth Leadership Conference held with over 700 attendees. Wisdom went on to enroll in an extremely competitive Masters of Peace Studies in Japan with the support of a Cleveland Rotary Club.

In 2021 Peace Jam, a Nobel Laureate-led organization, was established in Nigeria. Wisdom has incorporated the Peace Jam approach in his programs. One of Wisdom's initial students is now a change agent and a Nobel Laureate.

These Peace programs are currently in 5 of the 16 regions of Ghana and Liberia, including 56 schools and 70K students. This success has brought about the need for a large, dedicated facility allowing students to come to learn, experience mentorship and develop leadership skills. The future West Africa Peace Center Phase I will require approximately $6M to be built on land provided by Wisdom's grandfather. Wisdom is hoping for continued Rotary support.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SziJlCeqFogwYd6RPHMT0nn9C0mo0vD_/view?usp=drive_web

https://thepointsguy.com/news/peacejam-ghana/

http://wacpfgh.org/

https://www.facebook.com/PeaceJamGhana/

FUNDRAISER UPDATE

Maria Coons thanked Pat Boquist and Jennifer Lucas for initiating the 100X project that generated approximately $5K for the Club.

Additionally, everyone that has purchased or arranged for the purchase of 50/50 raffle tickets was congratulated. We are half way through the timeframe for ticket sales. Members are reminded to sign up to attend area Rotary clubs to sell tickets. Maria will send out the club visit sign up sheet in an Email, reminding people to always confirm the date, time, place of the respective club meetings. Be sure to remind everyone there is a 1:400 chance of winning $20K if all the tickets are sold. The winner will be drawn on June 22 at the Installation of new officers.

https://www.betterunite.com/rotaryclubofbarringtonbreakfast-alwayson

The winner of the interim $500, Joe Potts, was presented with his check

. He is a Rotarian from Bloomingdale.

https://www.betterunite.com/rotaryclubofbarringtonbreakfast-summerfunforaluckyonecashraffle

NEW CLUB MEMBER INDUCTION DAY 4/27

JULIE WILKINS

PDG Lyle Staab presided over the induction ceremony welcoming Julie Wilkins to the BBRC. Julie’s family exhibited their pride in her new role by participating in person and virtually. And Julie made a moving acceptance speech taking another step in her determination to make a difference and exemplify Service Above Self. Julie thanked her sponsor, Pat Boquist, and her Mentor, Carol Hannagan, as well as Co-Presidents Terry Cullum and Joe Connelly and her supporter Ibrahim La’ah.

BIO

Service above self started early for me.

While in high school, the majority of my extra curricular activities focused on service. By the time I graduated, I was the secretary and a 4 year member of Service Club; I started Amnesty International at my school, and I was presented with a prestigious award indicating I had modeled my life after a well respected community member who was dedicated to service.

BACOA PRESENTS TEEPA SNOW

Bacoa Present Teepa Snow:
Shining a Positive Light on Dementia

Tickets Now Available!

General Admissions: $75 (limited financial assistance available on general admission tickets for family caregivers only. Call 847-381-5030 for financial assistance information)
Professionals Receiving Six CEUs: $125 (CEUs available for nursing, social work, and physical therapy professionals)

BARRINGTON ART FESTIVAL

BARRINGTON ART FESTIVAL

Cook and Station Streets, Downtown Barrington

Saturday and Sunday, May 27-28, 10AM-5PM

FREE ADMISSION

https://www.barrington-il.gov/visitors/special_events/barrington_art_festival.php

FINAL CHATTER

BRAG BUCKS/ HAPPY DOLLARS

Jeanne Hanson announced that her little grandson is a whopping 2 pounds and doing great.

Bruce Grabenkort can't thank Steve Hollis enough for caring for his vintage car even while Steve dealt with some major dental issues.

Terry Cullum thanked Wisdom Addo for his inspiring presentation.

Joe Connelly congratulated Jeanne Hanson's granddaughter for selling every conceivable Girl Scout cookie imaginable.

Todd Sholeen encouraged our speaker, Wisdom Addo, to reach out to local Ghanaian Rotaries with his project and efforts.

FUN AND FROLIC

Margaret Debska challenged the group with some Memorial Day trivia. The members did very well! Fire up those barbeque grills!

RAFFLE

15 marbles remain in the $294 pot. Steve Olker won the first pull for $10. Carol Hannagan tried for the white marble, but no luck.

NEXT MEETING

Our next hybrid meeting will be 7AM Thursday, May 18, 2023, at the Hanson Law Offices, 1000 Hart Road, Suite 300, Barrington, IL. Our speaker will be Brian Prigge, newly elected Village Board member and Chief Technical Officer of Carepoint Pharmacy.

A BIG PS

The winner of the interim $500 drawing at the Early Bird Raffle was Joe Potts. Joe is a Bloomindale resident and was presented his check
Congratulation Joe.

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