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The Garlands

1000 Garlands Ln.
Performing Arts Center
Barrington, IL 60010
United States of America

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President’s Message Nov. 21

In the above picture Suzanne Gibson is with Terry Cullum and 7 others.

November 17 at 6:44 PM

30 People Of Action gathered for the Indoor Ride to End Polio and raised $5,000 dollars donated by local citizens. These funds will be matched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2:1 bringing the total dollars raised to $15,000. Those dollars will immunize 25,000 children who will never be paralyzed by Polio!

Thank you to Advocate Good Shepherdson Health & Fitness Center for hosting us and thank you to Jenkins our inspirational coach! And Kudos to Jennifer for chairing the event!

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The Dictionary.com defines the word Impact (mechanics) as the striking of one thing against another, forceful contact; collision. Okay, but if you look this word up in a Thesaurus it has these listed as other words to describe it: effect, influence, impression, bearing, control, power, and sway.

Any form of the meaning you want to take from above, describes what most of us who took part in the “Ride to End Polio” must had felt not only towards our efforts in helping Rotary with their goal of eradicating polio but to the persons who planned, organized, and solicited the full to capacity riders of last week’s event. To them my sincerest gratitude and admiration!

Our group of riders collected over $5,000!!

This Week’s Speaker: John Nepper Motivational Speaker Ignite Your Life!

John works with people that want to turn their maximum potential into maximum reality, and with organizations that want to dramatically improve employee and customer satisfaction.

Attentively, Kris Young is scheduled to present her (GLS) report on Jia Jiang (pronounced Jah Jahng) author and owner of Rejection Therapy, a website that provides inspiration, knowledge and products for people to overcome their fear of rejection.

(BHS) Associate Principal Heath McFaul will be accepting a check from our Environmental Committee’s budget in help paying for bike racks placed at BHS.

Barrington Giving Day We’ll be passing the Clipboard around these last 2 meetings. Please Sign Up we're committed to provide 16 volunteers throughout the morning to handle the "Bag Storage Detail" (same as last year) during the time frame of 7:30am -12:30pm on Saturday Dec.14 @ Station Middle School. PLEASE Sign-up

District Youth Assembly is this coming Saturday. Several of us will be meeting up with Dan along with the Interact Club at Forest View Education Center

A Plug for Fox Valley Sunset’s “Holiday Dinner” Fundraiser, Dec 7 Boulder Ridge Country Club in appreciation for last week’s guest speaker Rotarian Ellen Bruning. To buy tickets www.foxvalleyrotaryevents.com See you there!

Bell Ringing assignments for Friday Dec 6, Woodfield Mall:

10:00-11:00am Door 9 Pat & Susie, 12:00-1:00pm Door 9 Steve H & MM
12:00-1:00pm Door 10 Steve Li & (Maria P?), 1:00-2:00pm Door 10 Joe D & Joe C
6:00-7:00pm Door 3 Kris & Mike, 6:00-7:00pm Door 4 Mark & Suzanne
7:00-8:00pm Door 4 Mark & Suzanne

Rotary News:

Action Item: Please review and update your personal information on ClubRunner. Click here to update.

Dist. Youth Conference this Sat Nov 23

Any Rotarian who never has earned recognition as a Paul Harris Fellow can have his or her check for $500.00 that is made out to The Rotary Foundation matched with 500 points from the Jack Blane Fund so that she or he receives their first Paul Harris Fellow pin.

Action Item: To access more information and how to apply for these matching funds Click here.

(RAG)Rotarian Action Groups are international groups of Rotarians, family members, program participants, and alumni who are experts or are passionate in a particular field. To participate Click here

No Meeting next week but instead, have a momentous and reflective Thanksgiving Day!

Guest Speaker

Guest Speaker Ellen Hasegawa Bruning

Last Week’s Speaker, Rotarian & Club President of Fox Valley Sunset, Ellen Burning, speaking on America's "Forgotten Mistakes” - WWII Japanese Internment Camp Experiences.

Helen met Suzanne Gibson, our current District 6440 Governor, at the Central State Youth Exchange meeting and over a glass of wine shared the story of her families experience as Japanese Americans during WWII. Suzanne asked if she would tell her story to our club.

further announcements Nov 14th

Leadership Summit Brief

Joe Dorociak gave the GLA Summit Briefing. He highlighted the presentation done by Bear Grylls.

Bear is an outdoor guy who has sought physical challenges – things like climbing Mt Everest. In his presentation Bear indicated that there are four things that drive us. They are:

Fear. We all feel fear, the important thing is what we do with it. He uses his fear – he edges toward it – becomes friends with it to more through it.
Failure. He believes that failure can be transformative. It builds resistance. It is a doorway to help us build our life story.
Faith. He used the Indiana Jones quote – sometimes you need to take the “leap of faith.” Faith consists of knowing you’re loved, you can be forgiven, you are aware of yourself and it takes courage.
Fire. Keeps you moving forward. Sometimes it’s only an ember that grows. It keeps you from giving up.

We all have one chance at life – grab life with gusto.

Survival requires that we never give up – we just keep trying.

is being offered November 14-17. Do you know of any outstanding high school students who could benefit from developing their leadership skills? If so, encourage them to apply for sponsorship by your Rotary Club for one of the Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) retreats in Fall 2019 (November 14-17) and Spring 2020 (March 12-15 and April 2-5).

https://rotary6440.org/Stories/ryla-applications

Continuing effortsremain strong in BBRC’s collaboration with the Barrington Noon Club and School Dist. 220 “Stop the Bleed”campaign. The outcome of the recent tragic headlines is a poster to the significance these kits can be in potentially saving lives. Please continue to let family and friends know of our Stop the Bleeddrive https://barrington220.revtrak.net/Donations/Donations-Stop-The-Bleed#/list here