Cicero Rotary "Make Dreams Real"

Bulletin – August 3, 2010Posted by admin on August 14th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

August 5th – PAV YMCA Golf Outing at Carriage Greens.
August 8th – Bowl for a Goal at Town Hall Bowl for Boys Club.

Rotary International News
Rotary International is a volunteer organization of business and professional leaders who provide
humanitarian service, and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotary club
members belonging to 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.

What is the purpose of Rotary?
Rotary clubs exist to improve communities through a range of humanitarian, intercultural and educational activities. Clubs
advance international understanding by partnering with clubs in other countries. Rotary also encourages high ethical standards in all vocations.

What do Rotary clubs do?
Rotary clubs address critical issues at home and abroad by providing health care and medical supplies, clean water, food, job
training, youth development, and education to millions of people in need.

District News

August 12 – Chicago White Sox vs. The Twins
October 28 – Taste of Rotary, Abbington, Glen Ellyn

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

There’s this drunk standing out on the street corner, and a cop passes by, and says, “What do you think you’re doing?”
The drunk says, “I heard the world goes around every 24 hours, and I’m waiting on my house. Won’t be long now, there goes my neighbor.”

Bulletin – July 27, 2010Posted by admin on August 4th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

August 5th – PAV YMCA Golf Outing at Carriage Greens.
August 8th – Bowl for a Goal at Town Hall Bowl for Boys Club.

Important Announcement: Second Posting of New Member!
The Rotary Club of Cicero board is proud to announce a new member as been approved to join the club.
Richard Romani is sponsored by Deb Sitz as his Rotary sponsor for the member classification of Florist.

Note: Dick is a former Rotarian with the Berwyn Rotary Club. Welcome back, Dick!

District News

August 2nd – Outgoing interviews for next years 2010-2011 Group Exchange. The city and country of the outgoing exchange is Tokyo, Japan, District 2750
August 12 – Chicago White Sox vs. The Twins

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Speaking of bad habits: Redd Foxx was once asked about his bad habits. He replied, “Health nuts are going to feel
stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing.”

Bulletin – July 6, 2010Posted by admin on July 22nd, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

July 7th – After Hours at The Sweet Spot at 5:30 PM
July 9th – Northwest Chicago Installation at Pierre’s on Harlem in Berwyn at 6:30, tickets at $40.00
July 10th – 1st Pig Roast at The Sweet Spot for the Ryan Womack Foundation
August 4th – PAV YMCA Golf Outing at Carriage Greens.
Girls Club Event at Hawthorne Park. See Rosa for details.

Rotary International comments:

Rotary International offers many resources to help club officers understand their roles and responsibilities and help their club achieve its goals. Effective clubs are able to:
* Sustain or increase their membership base
* Implement successful service projects that address the needs of their community and communities in other countries
* Support The Rotary Foundation through both financial contributions and program participation
* Develop leaders capable of serving in Rotary beyond the club level

District News

August 2nd – Outgoing interviews for next years 2010-2011 Group Exchange. The city and country of the outgoing exchange is Tokyo, Japan, District 2750
August 12 – Chicago White Sox vs. The Twins

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Q: What do you get if you divide the cirucmference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin Pi!

Bulletin – June 8, 2010Posted by admin on June 9th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Edgar Montiel was approved by the board as a member of Cicero Rotary. He will be installed at the installation meeting on June 29th.

Rosa needs items to put in prize baskets. Call her or email her at rosasiddiqui@hotmail.com

Installation program is in progress. Tickets are $40.00 a person. You can RSVP to Rosa Ibarra at rosasiddiqui@hotmail.com

Call her at 773-544-1432 to confirm. It will be our 90th Installation! Rosa has raised $1500 for the cause and has items for prize baskets.

June 25th – St. Frances of Rome Golf Outing Tamarack, Naperville. Check with Nancy Rivera for sponsorships.

Check out the website for sponsoring and golfing. www.sfr-school.org/golf

Nancy Rivera announced that she is leaving her position as of June 30th. She introduced Tom Byrne as her replacement at the School District.

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $500+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Message from our outgoing Rotary Intl President, There is so much we can do as Rotarians that will mean so much to others. And as important as it is to give material assistance – to help in the areas of water, health and hunger, and literacy – it is equally vital that we give that help freely, with true caring for others. Because often, simply caring is what helps others most of all.

As this Rotary year and my term as RI president draw to a close, I thank you all for your service to Rotary and your support. I have been honored to serve as your president, and remind you that The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands.

District News

June 27 2010-11 – DGE Robb Knuepfer Installation Dinner: Adler Planetarium
August 12 – Chicago White Sox vs. The Twins

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Maxine says, “Some people can have all the lights on, and still be in the dark.”

Bulletin – April 27, 2010Posted by admin on May 13th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

May 7th – PAV YMCA Teeter Award Dinner at Crystal Skye
May 7th РFundraiser at Pierre’s Banquets for Northwest Rotary.
June 25th – St. Frances of Rome Golf Outing Tamarack, Naperville

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $480+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

To help promote the growth of Interact , the RI Board has agreed to lower the age of eligibility for Interactors from 14 to 12.

“This is another opportunity to expand the family of Rotary,” says J.R. Thompson, a member of the RI Interact Committee and the Rotary Club of Rocky Ford, Colorado, USA. “In my personal experience working with young people, they will put out the effort to reach a reasonable level of expectations. I found this is just as true of a 12-year-old as it is of a 14-year-old.‚  The Council approved creating a permanent committee of RI for Interact and establishing a fifth Avenue of Service, New Generations Service, to recognize the positive change brought about by young adults involved in leadership activities.

The Board‚Äôs policy for Interact states that the sponsor Rotary club must cooperate with school authorities in supervising the Interact club, and that the Interact club is subject to all the regulations that apply to other student organizations and extracurricular activities at the school. If the school where an Interact club is based includes students younger than age 12 or older than 18, they may also be members, the policy states. So, if a school serves students ages 10-13, 10-year-olds could also be members. “Strong clubs — whether they are Interact, Rotaract, or Rotary — are always looking for more good people willing to put their minds, backs, and hearts into Service Above Self,” says Thompson.

District News District Assembly will be held at the District Conference in Lincolnshire.

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Maxine says, “Money can’t buy happiness–but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.”

t

Bulletin – April 20, 2010Posted by admin on May 12th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

May 7th – PAV YMCA Teeter Award Dinner at Crystal Skye
May 7th РFundraiser at Pierre’s Banquets for Northwest Rotary.
June 25th – St. Frances of Rome Golf Outing Tamarack, Naperville

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $470+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary. The vote followed a decades-long effort of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow for the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.

In 1950, an enactment to delete the word male from the Standard Rotary Club Constitution was proposed by a club in India during the Council. From 1950 to 1989, the Council considered 13 proposals to allow women into Rotary.

In a lawsuit filed by the Duarte club in 1983, the California Superior Court ruled in favor of Rotary International, upholding gender-based qualification for membership in California Rotary clubs. But in 1986, the California Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision, preventing the enforcement of the
provision in the state. The California Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and it was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On 4 May 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Rotary clubs may not exclude women from membership on the basis of gender. Rotary issued a policy statement asserting that any Rotary club in the United States could admit qualified women into membership. The RI Board of Directors encouraged “all clubs in the U.S. to give fair and equal consideration to candidates for membership without regard to gender.”

In 1989, at its first meeting after the Supreme Court ruling, the Council on Legislation in Singapore voted to eliminate the requirement in the RI Constitution that membership in Rotary clubs be limited to men. The first female Council representative served in 1998. The 2010 Council is the first in
which a female RI director is serving, as a nonvoting member.

District News District Assembly will be held at the District Conference in Lincolnshire.

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

From the cartoon, Maxine, “Do you realize that in about forty years, we’ll have millions of old ladies running around with tattoos and pierced navels?” (Now that’s scary!)

Bulletin – April 13, 2010Posted by admin on May 12th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

May 7th – PAV YMCA Teeter Award Dinner at Crystal Skye
May 7th РFundraiser at Pierre’s Banquets for Northwest Rotary.
June 25th – St. Frances of Rome Golf Outing Tamarack, Naperville

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $470+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary. The vote followed a decades-long effort of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow for the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.

In 1950, an enactment to delete the word male from the Standard Rotary Club Constitution was proposed by a club in India during the Council. From 1950 to 1989, the Council considered 13 proposals to allow women into Rotary.

In a lawsuit filed by the Duarte club in 1983, the California Superior Court ruled in favor of Rotary International, upholding gender-based qualification for membership in California Rotary clubs. But in 1986, the California Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision, preventing the enforcement of the
provision in the state. The California Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and it was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On 4 May 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Rotary clubs may not exclude women from membership on the basis of gender. Rotary issued a policy statement asserting that any Rotary club in the United States could admit qualified women into membership. The RI Board of Directors encouraged “all clubs in the U.S. to give fair and equal consideration to candidates for membership without regard to gender.”

In 1989, at its first meeting after the Supreme Court ruling, the Council on Legislation in Singapore voted to eliminate the requirement in the RI Constitution that membership in Rotary clubs be limited to men.

District News District Assembly will be held at the District Conference in Lincolnshire.

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

From the cartoon, Maxine, “Do you realize that in about forty years, we’ll have millions of old ladies running around with tattoos and pierced navels?” (Now that’s scary!)

Bulletin – April 6, 2010Posted by admin on April 29th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

May 7th – PAV YMCA Teeter Award Dinner at Crystal Skye
May 7th РFundraiser at Pierre’s Banquets for Northwest Rotary.
June 25th – St. Frances of Rome Golf Outing Tamarack, Naperville

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $470+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary. The vote followed a decades-long effort of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow for the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.

In 1950, an enactment to delete the word male from the Standard Rotary Club Constitution was proposed by a club in India during the Council. From 1950 to 1989, the Council considered 13 proposals to allow women into Rotary.

In a lawsuit filed by the Duarte club in 1983, the California Superior Court ruled in favor of Rotary International, upholding gender-based qualification for membership in California Rotary clubs. But in 1986, the California Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision, preventing the enforcement of the provision in the state. The California Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and it was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On 4 May 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Rotary clubs may not exclude women from membership on the basis of gender. Rotary issued a policy statement asserting that any Rotary club in the United States could admit qualified women into membership. The RI Board of Directors encouraged “all clubs in the U.S. to give fair and equal consideration to candidates for membership without regard to gender.”

In 1989, at its first meeting after the Supreme Court ruling, the Council on Legislation in Singapore voted to eliminate the requirement in the RI Constitution that membership in Rotary clubs be limited to men. The first female Council representative served in 1998. The 2010 Council is the first in which a female RI director is serving, as a nonvoting member.

District News District Assembly will be held at the District Conference in Lincolnshire.

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Maxine on “Driver Safety” “I can’t use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making gestures.”

Bulletin – March 30, 2010Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

May 7th – PAV YMCA Teeter Award Dinner at Crystal Skye
May 7th РFundraiser at Pierre’s Banquets for Northwest Rotary.
June 25th – St. Frances of Rome Golf Outing Tamarack, Naperville

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $470+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Rotary International comments: EVANSTON, Ill., USA (March 16, 2010) — Although the United Nations designates March 22 as World Water Day, Rotary members around the globe are focused on the issue 24/7, volunteering their time and resources to provide safe water and sanitation to communities
wherever there is need.

F. Ronald Denham, who chairs the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG), says Rotary is committed to helping achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal that calls for a 50 percent reduction by 2015 in the number of people with insufficient access to safe water and sanitation, a crisis that now claims more than two million lives each year, a majority of them children. From 1978 through 2009, The Rotary Foundation awarded 4,923 grants totaling US$52.7 million for water and sanitation projects worldwide.

* Three Rotary clubs in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska teamed up with a Rotary club in Guatemala to implement a water system for two rural villages in the mountains of southeastern Guatemala. The clubs completed an unfinished water tank and distribution system and devised a gravity-driven method to supply the operation by tapping into two mountain springs. Completed in late 2009, the project now supplies water to 85 percent of the area’s residents.

* In the Dominican Republic, Rotary members from 120 clubs in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean have helped bring 19,000 bio-sand filters to homes, schools and clinics in 300 communities, providing clean water to 100,000 people. Use of the simple and economical (approximately $60) filters can reduce the incidence of pediatric diarrhea by up to 45 percent.

District News:
District Assembly will be held at the District Conference in Lincolnshire.

Group Study Exchange is looking for volunteers to house incoming Mexican group exchange adults. See Inbound dates from Mexico April 10 to May 8, 2010
http://www.rotary6450.org/pages/groupstudyexchange.asp

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

Maxine on “Lawn Care” “The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.”

Bulletin – March 23, 2010Posted by admin on April 13th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 7th – PAV YMCA Teeter Award Dinner at Crystal Skye

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $460+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Rotarians in Haiti are laying the groundwork for the next phase of the recovery process: sustainable restoration projects that will enable long-term rehabilitation to begin.

The Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, a donor advised fund set up by The Rotary Foundation, has raised US$1.3 million to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure, which was shattered by the 12 January earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and left 1.2 million more homeless.

“We are now at the crossroads as we move from immediate relief mode to sustainable development,” says Past RI Director Barry Rassin, an account holder for the fund. “What is important is that we work with the needs defined by Haiti and always keep in mind that our help should strengthen their economy and not detract from it.”

District 7020, which includes Haiti, has flown more than 100 planes filled with medical equipment, food, water, clothes, toys, and tents into the cities of Pignon and Port-de-Paix. The district’s own account for recovery efforts has reached $400,000, which will be used for sustainable restoration projects.

District leaders say they will provide more information to clubs and districts about how they can work with the donor advised fund as soon as specific details of the recovery plan are approved by the Haiti Task Force and cleared with the Haitian government. Those interested in applying for a grant from the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund should complete a grant application form, which will be available on the District 7020 website.

District News:
4 way test essay contest due in by March 31st.
District Assembly will be held at the District Conference in Lincolnshire.

Group Study Exchange is looking for volunteers to house incoming Mexican group exchange adults. See Inbound dates from Mexico April 10 to May 8, 2010 http://www.rotary6450.org/pages/groupstudyexchange.asp

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

A father’s advice to his son:

“My teacher is really giving me a tuff time” Little Johnny was telling his father.
“Handle it this way Johnny,” his father advised. “Take special care with your personal appearance and attire, pay attention in class and do your assignments and homework promptly.” “I really don’t think that’ll help Dad,” Johnny sighed. “She hissed at me during study break that she’s 3 weeks overdue.”