Cicero Rotary “Make Dreams Real”

Article: Rotary District BeaconPosted by admin on February 15th, 2010

The Cicero Rotary Club, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary, and one visiting Rotarian greeted the Mayor of Montemorelos, Mexico and his wife. The Rotary Club donated 250 dictionaries to the 3rd grade of the Montemorelos school. One of the Rotarians, Rosa Ibarra, drove the books from Chicago to their destination. The Mayor pledged to the Club to meet with the Rotary Club in his city of 72,000 and work on projects between clubs that would benefit both communities. Many town officials of Cicero attended the meeting including Dennis Raleigh, Town Trustee, who is a Rotarian. The event was covered by two local Hispanic newspapers.

HELP FOR HAITI 6: Rotary Medical ClinicPosted by admin on January 27th, 2010

Dear District Rotarians:

Local District 6450 Rotarians working with partners in Florida and Haiti and the District HELP Committee have launched a sustainable plan for a medical mission in Haiti near Petit-Goave, near the epicenter of the earthquake. The Rotary Clinic will be built to high earthquake standards and serve as an enduring community clinic in about 8 months after funding.

We ask each District Club to consider a donation to this project. For a quick look at the area click on the following link:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1445915.html

In a disaster such as this, there are immediate needs and long-term needs to consider. This project hopefully will serve the longer term requirements of healing population. Please ask your Club Boards to consider project and donate to it today.

For additional information please contact:
Brian Andersen 630-985-4600
Paul Carlson 630-759-7636
Pat Merryweather 630-416-8693
Larry Stichweh 630-257-5888

Bulletin – January 12, 2010Posted by admin on January 27th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $350+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

You’re almost there, was the message reporter Penny LeGate gave to district governors-elect during the 2010 International Assembly in an update on Rotary’s efforts to eradicate polio.

LeGate, a news anchor and reporter for KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington, USA, has traveled with Rotarians to countries such as Ethiopia and India to participate in and report on National Immunization Days (NIDs).

“At this time in history, you’re in the home stretch, you’re walking the last mile, but it’s not proving to be easy,” she said during the fourth plenary session.

Since 1985, when Rotary launched PolioPlus, the volunteer arm of the global partnership to eradicate polio, the number of polio-endemic countries has declined from 125 to 4 — Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan — and the number of new polio cases each year has been
reduced from 350,000 to 2,000.

Important
Fellowship was such a success last month that we are doing it again on February 3rd at The Sweet Spot. See you there after 5:30 pm. See you there and bring a friend. Thanks to Randy Womack for his generous hospitality.

District News:
District wants every club to raise $2,000 per club for the Foundation for three years.
January 24 – Chicago Wolves at Allstate Arena – Help End Polio

February 23 – Rotary`s 105th Anniversary – Good Bye Polio Event at Wrigley Building – Reception & Dinner

Rotary Club of Downers Grove Wine Tasting Benefit & Silent Auction January 29, 2010: 4 – 7 p.m. Benefitting Alliance for Smiles
(Walter and Diana might be interested in this one)

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

“Sometimes I wake up grumpy, other times, I let him sleep.”

Photos from December Dictionary DeliveriesPosted by admin on December 15th, 2009

Bulletin – December 1, 2009Posted by admin on December 9th, 2009

MAKEUPS:

WE NEED YOUR MAKE UP CARDS FROM THE CLUB YOU VISITED TO GIVE YOU WELL DESERVED CREDIT.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Xmas Trees PAV YMCA is doing the Christmas tree sale at the Y after Thanksgiving. Price is $45.00 a tree.

Berwyn Development is doing the annual Piper Award on November 7th 6:30 at the Skylight West.

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $260+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Rotary launches PolioPlus to fund the operational, social mobilization, and training efforts required to eradicate polio. It is unveiled at the annual RI Convention, where Dr. Albert Sabin, who discovered the oral polio vaccine, urges Rotarians to maintain their commitment to immunization around the world. Sabin warns that without action, there could be an additional eight million cases of residual paralytic polio worldwide by 2005.

Important
Fellowship was such a success last month that we are doing it again on December 2nd at The Sweet Spot. See you there after 5:30 pm. See you there and bring a friend. Thanks to Randy Womack for his generous hospitality.

District News:
District wants every club to raise $2,000 per club for the Foundation for three years.

New Membership Announcement:

This is the second of two official postings on new membership:

Name: Luis E Pelayo
Classification: Legal Services
Business Address: 2137 So Lombard Ave #202, Cicero, IL 60804
Phone: 630-546-5695
E-Mail: poliudeg@aol.com
Sponsor: Rosa Ibarra

Welcome, Luis!

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

A man once answered an advertisement in the newspaper which said, “New Porsche — $50.00″ After paying for the car, he asked the woman why she had sold it at such a low price. She said, “My husband ran off with his secretary, and sent me a telegram saying, ‘Sell the Porsche and send me the money.’

Photos from St. Francis and Our Lady of Charity DeliveriesPosted by admin on December 5th, 2009

Bulletin – November 10, 2009Posted by admin on November 18th, 2009

MAKEUPS:

WE NEED YOUR MAKE UP CARDS FROM THE CLUB YOU VISITED TO GIVE YOU WELL DESERVED CREDIT.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

December 8th – Xmas Party at Chew Chew Café in Riverside at 6:30 pm upstairs (no elevator) Price is $50.00. Menu to be passed around in advance. If you have a holiday song you would like played, email me.

Xmas Trees PAV YMCA is doing the Christmas tree sale at the Y after Thanksgiving. Price is $45.00 a tree.

Berwyn Development is doing the annual Piper Award on November 7th 6:30 at the Skylight West.

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $250+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Rapid HIV test: 70 cents. The Rotary clubs of Shanghai and Fremont, Calif., USA, teamed up with pioneering virologist David Ho in 2006 to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus in Yunnan, which accounts for a third of China’s reported AIDS cases – by far the highest of all provinces.

Important
Fellowship was such a success last month that we are doing it again on December 2nd at The Sweet Spot. See you there after 5:30 pm. See you there and bring a friend. Thanks to Randy Womack for his generous hospitality.

District News:
District wants every club to raise $2,000 per club for the Foundation for three years.

New Membership Announcement:

This is the first of two official postings on new membership:

Name: Luis E Pelayo
Classification: Legal Services
Business Address: 2137 So Lombard Ave #202, Cicero, IL 60804
Phone: 630-546-5695
E-Mail: poliudeg@aol.com
Sponsor: Rosa Ibarra

Welcome, Luis!

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was a salted.

Bulletin – November 3, 2009Posted by admin on November 9th, 2009

MAKEUPS:

WE NEED YOUR MAKE UP CARDS FROM THE CLUB YOU VISITED TO GIVE YOU WELL DESERVED CREDIT.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

December 8th – Xmas Party at Chew Chew Café in Riverside at 6:30 pm upstairs (no elevator) Price is $50.00

Xmas Trees PAV YMCA is doing the Christmas tree sale at the Y after Thanksgiving. Price is $45.00 a tree.

Berwyn Development is doing the annual Piper Award on November 7th 6:30 at the Skylight West.

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $200+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Prospective members should be introduced to Rotary’s history, ideals, and service and leadership
opportunities. All members should be encouraged to bring in new members to the club. A prospective member who has been introduced to Rotary by enthusiastic Rotarians and is informed about the club’s projects before joining is more likely to become involved and remain active.

Important
Fellowship was such a success last month that we are doing it again on November 4th at The Sweet Spot. See you there after 5:30 pm. See you there and bring a friend. Thanks to Randy Womack for his generous hospitality.

District News:
District wants every club to raise $2,000 per club for the Foundation for three years.
November 2-8 – Interact Week
November 7 – Foundation Seminar Tail Gate Party

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Sending out some cards…A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing “Love” stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them. His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says, “I’m sending out one thousand Valentine cards signed, ‘Guess who?’” “But why?” asks the man.

“I’m a divorce lawyer,” the man replies.

Bulletin – October 27, 2009Posted by admin on October 31st, 2009

MAKEUPS:

WE NEED YOUR MAKE UP CARDS FROM THE CLUB YOU VISITED TO GIVE YOU WELL DESERVED CREDIT.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

SRCA is doing a Fashion Show on November 1st at 11:00 am at Crystal Sky Banquet Hall. Donation is $30.00.

Berwyn Development is doing the annual Piper Award on November 7th 6:30 at the Skylight West.
Deb and Pat Makris are looking for your help in raising funds (up to $1,000) for dictionaries for third grade school students in Cicero. See Deb to donate funds.

Rotary International Comments:

Did you know, Itzhak Perlman, at age three, Perlman heard a concert on the radio and asked his father for a violin. Months later, he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. He walks with crutches and performs while seated. Throughout his career, he’s maintained a rigorous travel schedule, appearing at venues far beyond the concert halls of the United States and Western Europe. In 1987, he joined a groundbreaking tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary and Poland, and three years later
performed in the orchestra’s first concert in the Soviet Union. He toured China and India in 1994. Born in Tel Aviv in 1945, Perlman debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 17. Today, he’s one of the world’s best known and most honored classical musicians, often described as a “superstar.” He’s garnered four Emmy Awards and 15 Grammy Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.

Important
Fellowship was such a success last month that we are doing it again on November 4th at The Sweet Spot. See you there after 5:30 pm. See you there and bring a friend. Thanks to Randy Womack for his generous hospitality.

District News:
District wants every club to raise $2,000 per club for the Foundation for three years.
October 24 – World Polio Day
November 7 – Foundation Seminar Tail Gate Party

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that’s never been advertised. And there’s a reason — all of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.