BULLETIN – September 12, 2018

Past President, standing in for Diana Taylor opened the meeting, Teri Dreher gave the pledge and Greg Hill led us in prayer. Dennis Kratohwil tried to get us interested in a song: “Oh what a beautiful morning”.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

-Festival comments needed. Please ask your friends who attended.

-Wrap up meeting 9/20 at 5:30pm at Diana Taylor’s office.

-A fifth Wednesday occurs on 10/30. A fellowship event will take place at Rick Mittelman’s house with a Halloween theme. Get your costumes ready. No morning meeting.

-The Rotary Convention is in Hamburg, Germany in 2019.

-The club is in a good cash position and is considering putting $6000 in a fund to help in emergencies such as hurricane Florence.

BRAGS:

Tucker has been out of office so long he forgot to announce brags. Wheel?

FUN & FROLICS:

Pat Hart did an unorganized version of musical chairs. He wheeled Tucker for interrupting the game!

PROGRAM:

Today’s program was Pat Scheibler representing Crutches 4 Kids. He is a staff of one. He and his family moved to Libertyville when Pat was in Junior High School. He was injured playing football and his ankle never healed properly. He had 6 surgeries before having 2 more surgeries in 2012 to install an ankle replacement. In 2013 the replacement failed. In 2017 he made the decision to amputate his foot. He can now run again and do most of the activities he enjoyed with the aid of a prosthetic foot.

Pat has accumulated numerous crutches and other walking aids. He did some research and learned that crutches can be life changing to kids in the third world. 50 million kids can use crutches and 12 million are added to the list each year worldwide. Pat is affiliated with a group that started at a children’s hospital in New York City. They have shipped 9000 pairs of crutches to 47 countries.

Pat’s goals include raising awareness of the need for crutches. In 2017 he shipped 200 pairs of crutches overseas and raised $5000 for the cause. In 2019 he wants to raise more $ and ship crutches to needy kids. Most people have crutches they no longer need and don’t know how to dispose of them. The money would go to pay for prosthetics for needy kids and to pay to ship old crutches overseas. Marty Neal has agreed to provide a drop box at his office: 343 Merrill Ct. in Libertyville.

RAFFLE:

Daily: $32 won by guest Marty Neal.

Progressive: $561 (34 cards). Rich Babjak drew the 2 of diamonds. Rollover!

WHEEL:

Pat Hart will once again do Fun & Frolics next week!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.” Casey Stengel