Last Regular Meeting: Steve Greene gave us a brief 40 ear history of the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra and described the upcoming concerts for the coming season.
On May 24th, the Rotary Club of Northbrook distributed 19 grants totaling $35,000 to local organizations that serve the Northbrook community.
Dave Masters chaired the committee that reviewed and determined grant allocations and served as emcee at the distribution event.
The following organziations received grants this year:
Boy Scouts of America
Cancer Wellness Center
Center for Enriched Living
Center on Deafness
Family Promise
GBN Grad Night
Hunger Resource Network
Josselyn Center
Keshet
Northbrook Historical Society
Northbrook Nursery School
Northbrook Symphony Orchestra
North Suburban Special Recreation Association
North Suburban YMCA
Northfield Township Food Pantry
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care
Special Gifts Theatre
Total Link 2 Community
Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook
News
Lucky Bucks winner: Carlos Frum
Rubber Ducky Race: Rubber Ducky tickets are available. Please see Ed Gordon to get your tickets. Watch your inboxes, volunteer signup sheets for ticket sales, 4th of July activities and race day will be out soon.
Mark Your Calendar
June 7th: Northbrook Chamber of Commerce Golf Outing. Volunteers are needed to may our tent at the golf outing. If you can help, please contact Scott Rose.
June 16th: Rotary Installation Dinner, Saturday June 16th at Sunset Ridge Country Club beginning at 6:00 pm. Plesae get your RSVPs into Elke as soon as possible. Remember, you get charged for the dinner even if you don't attend.
July 4th: Pancake Breakfast & Parade.
July 10th: Rubber Ducky Race at Village Green. There will be NO noon meeting on July 10th.
October 26th: Rotary 800
From the Community Service Committee
Volunteer opportunities:
Northbrook Public Library: Ushers for film and music programs.
GBN Grad Night Committee: Help decorate GBN for Grad Night on June 1st or 2nd.
If you’re interested in any of these projects, please contactDave Masters.
Register for the 2018 Rotary Convention in Toronto
When you’re in Toronto for the 2018 Rotary International Convention, from 23 to 27 June, build some time into your schedule to see the sights of this beautiful city.
The iconic CN Tower is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Toronto, welcoming about 1.5 million visitors each year. The tower has two observation areas and two restaurants, all of which provide breathtaking views. For the adventurous, the tower also offers a hands-free walk around the outside ledge of its main pod, which is 1,168 feet above ground.
For something easier on the nerves, stroll through St. Lawrence Market, which has dozens of vendors selling food products and specialty items, or the Distillery District, a restored historic area that has been turned into an entertainment and shopping district. You could also visit Gothic Revival-style mansion Casa Loma. Built in 1914 by a Canadian multimillionaire, it has almost 100 decorated rooms as well as secret passages and 5 acres of estate gardens. Once a private residence, the “House on the Hill” is now a museum and hospitality venue.
To enjoy nature, visit High Park – a huge green space with sunken gardens, hanging basket gardens, nature trails, and streams – or take a ferry to the Toronto Islands, which have meadows, woods, lagoons, and sandy beaches.
SHELTERBOXUSA Match Provided by District 6440 Rotarian
It is with thanks and gratitude that we announce that Marvin Feig, Northbrook Rotary, is generously offering to match 1:1 up to $5000 contributions made by his club and others in our Rotary District for ShelterBoxUSA. This match will be coordinated through Northbrook Rotary Charitable. Please contact Donna Lee Gulley (donnalee127@gmail.com/847480-9502) for coordination details.
Rotary’s commitment to eradicating polio worldwide won Best Nonprofit Act in the Hero Awards of the One Billion Acts of Peace campaign, an international global citizens’ movement to tackle the world’s most important issues.
The campaign is an initiative of PeaceJam Foundation and is led by 14 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Rigoberta Menchú Tum, with the ambitious goal of inspiring a billion acts of peace by 2020. Each year, the campaign picks two finalists in each of six categories for their work to make a measurable impact in one of the 10 areas considered most important by the Nobel laureates. Winners are chosen by people from around the world. Rotary and Mercy Corps were the two finalists in the Best Nonprofit Act category.
Rotary and the five other winners will be recognized at a ceremony on June in Monaco. Betty Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland, will present the award.
*The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
*It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
*The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications.)
*The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
*No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
* The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
*Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down hence the expression "to get fired."
*Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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