An organizational meeting for a Sycamore Rotary satellite club at Oak Crest Retirement Home will be held on Thursday, February 1st; it will be at 3 o'clock in the first floor Gathering Place room (use Door 4 on the west side of Oak Crest's main building).
Barry Schrader has been working to establish the new offshoot Rotary Club; he already has about 20 potential members lined up to participate, and more are always being sought.
If you would like to help with organizing this new Rotary Club, please contact Eric Jones or Paul Stromborg for more information.
The Sycamore Rotary Club's annual Hula-for-Loota draw-down raffle will be held on Thursday, April 19th; it will be from 6:30 to 9:00 at Chapel in the Pines, located at 15165 Quigley Road.
This annual evening of fun and furious negotiating will include dinner, cash bar, raffles, prizes and our featured drawing; there will be plenty of giveaways throughout the evening, so even if you're eliminated...you can still win!
Tickets will go on sale soon; all proceeds will go to the Rotary Club's scholarship fund.
As a reminder, the club is collecting your Rotarian Magazines (after you read them of course) to hand out to guests and others in order to share information about the great things Rotary does around the world.
If you have any spares, please bring them to one of our meetings and put them in the box by the badges.
The Sycamore Rotary Club plans on having a booth at this year's DeKalb-Sycamore Chamber Expo; it will be held on Thursday, March 29th from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the DeKalb High School Fieldhouse.
This event is open to participation by all DeKalb and Sycamore Chamber of Commerce members; the B2B portion runs from 3:00 to 4:00, and the event is then open to the general public from 4:00 to 7:00.
This will be a prime opportunity for our Rotary Club to show the public who we are and what we do, and perhaps convince some of our friends and neighbors to consider membership in Rotary.
We will be needing Rotarians to man this booth throughout the afternoon and early evening; volunteers will be sought during upcoming Rotary meetings -- please be sure to sign up, if you're interested.
Plans are beginning to take shape for this year's Rotarians at Work Days.
This project has evolved to the point that it can no longer fit into a single weekend; it will now be spread out over several weeks in April and May...giving Sycamore Rotarians, and everyone in our Rotary-affiliated clubs, the opportunity to take part in at least one project serving the community.
We will also be adding a new project to the line-up: the historic North Grove School one-room schoolhouse on Brickville Road (pictured).
Here is the projected schedule:
Saturday, April 21st -- Old North Grove School on Brickville Road, 9:00 a.m.
Saturday, May 5th -- Sycamore Park District Park Pride Day -- Rotary Park at Sycamore Lake, 9:00 a.m.
Saturday, May 12th -- Pay it Forward House, 9:00 a.m. and Kishwaukee Special Recreation Association at Hopkins Park, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, May 19th -- Youth Service Bureau Bicycle Auction at DeKalb H.S. Fieldhouse, 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (two shifts)
More information on each of these events will be released in the weeks to come; and Rotarians will be invited to sign up for at least one project...and lend their muscle, to help provide maintenance and other clean-up work for each of these not-for-profit organizations.
Attendance Report -- February 7, 2018
Attendance: 50.72%
Guests of Members:Darcy Eggleson (Mark Spiegelhoff); Jake Swanson (Chase Goodell)
Other Guests: Luca-Sophie Giese (exchange student); Taylor Hienbrecher and Kate Umekubo (Empty Bowls); Mita & Melana (Argentina exchange students)
