Last week our youth exchange student Gabriel gave a wonderful presentation about himself and his country. He is having a great year and we are so happy to be hosting him jointly with the Wheeling Club. Enjoy the rest of your year, Gabriel, it goes quickly!
We also had Becca Heller as our guest. Becca is the leader of the 5th grade Girl Scout Troop from Prairie School who are partnering with us for our Free Little Library that will be installed in the spring at Martha Weiss Park. The girls are decorating the library by painting plants and butterflies to keep in theme with the park's butterfly garden and they are doing a great job! A spring dedication will be planned by the Outreach Committee.
Dan Wolf and Stephen Legge received the following message from Steve Dudenhoefer re Ak Tenamit needs. Donations can be given to either Dan or Stephen. Thank you !
"It’d be great if you guys could put the word out for collecting pencils, pens, white-board markers, regular and permanent markers, tylenol, antibiotic cream, cold meds, allergy meds, and band-aids for our students - All are in very short supply "
District 6440 has announced that the 2018-19 Vocational Scholarship Application and Information forms are available. 15 Scholarships will be awarded in May and paid in July during 2017-18 Rotary Year. All applications are due by April 6th. District Interviews will be conducted the first or second weekend in May. Awards will be announced within the week following the interviews and the funds will be available to the award winners starting July 1 2018. The 6440 district website is not currently updated with the application, but please contact Martha if you have an interested candidate. Martha will be sending the information and applications to both BG High School and Stevenson High School and will assist in the interviews, etc. Last year our candidate was chosen!
Steve Solomon, our past Ambassadorial Scholar who is a Senior Annual Giving Officer for The Rotary Foundation, has just returned from traveling in India for the past two weeks visiting Rotary projects. He has included some links to some of his posts from the India trip. Feel free to check them out!
The Outreach Committee has a big event at Bowlero in Buffalo Grove for people with disabilities that Shawn and Bo are planning. We would appreciate as much member participation as possible for April 19th, from 6:00 to 8:00. There will be a signup sheet at our meetings that Lisa will be distributing.
Thank you to Rosemary for taking Gabriel to the Field Museum, another destination to be taken off of his wish list! Gabriel would still like to experience the Shedd Aquarium and the Museum of Science and Industry and any other activity that you may be doing and would like to invite him to join you!
You can follow Michelle (Jing's daughter and our outbound exchange student) during her exchange in Brazil. Click here for her blog!! https://iminbrazilexchange.wordpress.com/author/moobrien/
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