Written by Patrick Hart
Our new president Richard Schoeneman opened this week’s meeting with a pledge and a prayer, followed by Dennis Kratohwil leading us in singing “God Bless America.”
GUESTS:
Visiting Rotarian and former member Terry Weppler joined us for breakfast, as did Danny Caldwell a guest of Jon Robb.
BRAGS:
Bill Taranowski bragged that his son was selected to attend a Boy Scout leadership conference and then went to Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan where he was elected senior patrol leader and helped repair the camp from the damage done by a recent tornado
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AWARDS:
President Rich Schoeneman presented Paul Harris awards to Rick Mittelman and Bob Zamor. For Rick it is Paul Harris plus 7, and for Bob it is Paul Harris plus eight.
Our president also passed out perfect attendance pins to a number of club members.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Our newly installed president began the announcements by reading an excerpt from his installation dinner speech:
Our Club is built on “Doing” and we’ll try to keep it that way throughout the coming year. Our focus will be on spreading the good word in every way possible to widen our sphere of influence, to grow our membership, grow our ability to assist those in need, and positively touch more people in our community and throughout the world.” The story needs to be told of all the things our Club does and will do, to better our community and assist others. I believe that by focusing on telling the story and getting the word out, that we will attract more members, have more attendance at our events and generate additional sponsors. Because of that growth we will be able to have a larger positive impact both locally and internationally. I invite all Club members to increase involvement in areas they are drawn to and share the story of our effort and accomplishments with friends, business relationships and family members.
This week our board voted to donate $67,900.00 to 31 charities. Representatives of the charities will be invited to our breakfast meetings in August, where the checks will be distributed. Tom Miller pointed out that this is only part of what the club has donated to charity in the last year.
Save the dates on October 2 and October 9, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for our North Shore Wine Festival at Main Street Social. There will be a maximum of 125 attendees at each session.
The fund raising committee will meet by zoom on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
We are looking for additional editors for the club bulletin. Contact Pat Hart if you are interested.
FUN & FROLICS:
David Potts held a trivia quiz on the British Open. The first British open was first played in 1860, and it has only been canceled three times since. Once was for Coronavirus, once was during World War II, and once was in 1871, when they could not find a trophy,
WHEEL TIME:
Bill Taranowski had to spin the wheel for showing up late for his greeter duties, and he had to pay $5.00.
John McDonald also had to pay $5.00 as punishment for his heinous crime of letting his phone ring during the meeting.
PROGRAM:
Our speaker this week is Doctor Jordan Leasure of North Shore Pro-Active Health in Libertyville, and her topic was how stress affects your health and immunity.
Doctor Leasure says there are three legs to health care: mental, physical, and spiritual.
On the mental level she advises everyone to figure out whether you are a carrot or a stick person, so you can best motivate yourself to take steps to stay healthy. In other words are you more concerned with the positive effects of adopting good habits, or the negative effects of ignoring them. For example some people might tell themselves to eat right so they will continue to be able to play golf in their eighties, while others might be moved more by the fear of getting cancer, if they eat an unhealthy diet.
Doctor Leasure says maintaining a set schedule and simplifying your life can also reduce stress. She mentioned several successful people who have little variety in their wardrobe, because they believe that by not having to choose what they wear each day, they can save this mental energy for helping other people.
On the physical level she says it is very important to get up and move, which many people fail to do enough in our modern society. Vigorous activities like walking or swimming are of course helpful, but she also thinks smaller movements throughout the day can prove beneficial, and she taught us some stretching and deep breathing exercises which she recommends on a daily basis.
Healthy eating is also important, and the doctor recommends a rainbow diet. By this she means you want multiple colors in what you consume. We all know that eating green vegetables are good for us, but it is even better if you add some color diversity with some red peppers or orange carrots. She also recommends vitamin supplements, especially vitamin D.
Our speaker also emphasized that when it comes to improving your eating it is more important to add the positive to your diet rather than subtracting the negative, and often when you add the positive the negative will start to fade away naturally. For example it is better to start eating more vegetables than to give up ice cream
On a spiritual level Doctor Leasure emphasized the importance of gratitude. She recommends keeping a gratitude journal in which you write down there things you are grateful for every day.
She says start every day with a smile and end every day with gratitude.
RAFFLE:
Diana Taylor failed to win the big pot of $676.00, when she drew the five of clubs out of 29 cards, but after all her recent winnings, no one thought she needed the money anyway.
Pat Hart won the weekly drawing of $30.00, and he intends to have fun with it.
NEXT WEEK:
Greeter and Prayer: Tom Stanczyk
Fun and Frolics: Bill Rickert
QUOTE FOR THE DAY:
“We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.” Dorothy Day
