Last week we celebrated Glenn's 40 years of service as a Buffalo Grove Rotarian. Congratulations Glenn, and thank you for all you have done as a very dedicated Rotarian with perfect attendance!! Our speaker was Cynthia Glensgard from Junior Achievement who told us about volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs that foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential. There are opportunities for volunteerism, so please contact her at cglensgard@jachicago.org if you are interested.
Imagine 70 Rotary Clubs, 40 (or more) Interact Clubs, and our Rotaract Club all performing Random Acts of Kindness on the same day – Saturday, February 17, 2018. That’s National Random Acts of Kindness Day and District 6440 will be on board. Post photos of your kind acts on your personal and club Facebook pages with #District6440KindAct.
President Ryan will be distributing the Random Acts of Kindness cards at our meeting on Thursday. Start thinking of your random acts now!
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!
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.
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/
