Cicero Rotary "Make Dreams Real"

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.”

Bulletin – March 16, 2010Posted by admin on April 13th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $400+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

The Interact Club of La Jolla High School, California, USA, is making a difference by helping to build new homes for some of the poorest residents of Tijuana, Mexico.

Interactors and the sponsor Rotary Club of La Jolla have collaborated with Project Mercy, a San Diego-based nonprofit that brings groups to Mexico for a day to build simple single-family houses.

“This is a unique opportunity for the students to understand the incredible difference they can make in communities in need,” says Rotarian Calvin Mann, the La Jolla club‚Äôs youth service committee chair. “It’s a universally good experience.”

Through Project Mercy, Interactors have built 11 homes for families in the last three years. A group of about 15 to 20 Interactors, parents, and Rotarians can build a home in one day. Interactors raise $3,500 per home through school fundraising activities and Rotarian contributions.

Project Mercy works with communities to identify needy families, many of whom live in flimsy shacks with dirt floors and tarp roofs. The organization hires local construction workers to pour concrete foundations, then brings in volunteers to build the homes.

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:

Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good evening’, and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.

Bulletin – February 9th, 2010Posted by admin on March 4th, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Deb has Polio Plus stickers for $1.00 a piece. We are up to $400+ on the goal to reach $1,000.

Rotary International Comments:

Rotary International comments: As members of the Rotary Club of Chicago celebrated Rotary’s 105th anniversary at a downtown hotel on 23¬†February, the city’s historic Wrigley Building was illuminated in the background with an urgent message: End Polio Now.

The Wrigley Building joined several other iconic landmarks worldwide, each lit with an anniversary message or the three words¬†representing Rotary’s commitment to rid the world of the crippling childhood disease.

Joining Chicago Rotarians at the lighting ceremony were Illinois Governor Pat Quinn; the Reverend Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition; Dr. Ciro de Quadros, executive vice president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute; James Galloway, U.S. assistant surgeon general; and RI General Secretary Ed Futa.

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.

Rotary Club of Downers Grove Wine Tasting Benefit & Silent Auction

QUIP OF THE WEEK:

From One Liners…….A day for firm decisions! Or is it? A man on a date wonders if he‚Äôll get lucky. The woman¬†already knows.

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:

‚ÄúSometimes 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 РXmas 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 Рby 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.