Our Club members enthusiastically live the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self” both locally and internationally. Recent projects include water well installation at schools in Angola, food packing and providing necessities to the homeless in Chicago, supplying ultrasound equipment and related training to people in Uganda, providing disaster relief supplies to hurricane, typhoon, and other natural disaster survivors, providing winter coats and shoes to low-oncome children, food packing for people in Guatemala and Central America, and supporting local food pantries, literacy efforts and diversity.
NOTICE: Our Noon meetings, the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, are at St. John's Church, Wilmette and Morning meetings, the third Wednesday of each month are at the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club. We also meet in-person on the 1st Tuesday of each month (for Lunch-packing) at 6pm at St. Joseph Church, Wilmette.
We’d love to have you join one of our meetings!
At our May 27 club meeting, George Pearce presented a scholarship award to Kelly Jacques, a Loyola Academy senior. Kelly is a remarkable young woman who during her high school years volunteered at Our Place working with developmentally disabled individuals. In her own words, Kelly believes this experience taught her to better understand “how important kindness, acceptance, and patience really are, and made me more aware of how important it is to create an environment that is inclusive for everyone.” She also worked at a pizza restaurant part-time gaining job experience while still in high school. Kelly will be studying psychology at Marquette University.
Wilmette Rotary member and Fire Chief Brian Lambel was the featured speaker at the May 27 noon meeting. He updated the club on the many critical activities of the Fire Department. In addition to providing fire suppression and emergency medical services to Wilmette residents, the Fire Department also now has a boat docked at the Coast Guard station that provides lifesaving operations on Lake Michigan. The boat is shared with neighboring communities. He noted that the department responds to clost to 4000 calls for service each year with more than 70% paramedic related. They also work closely with Vitalant (formerly LifeSource) on blood drives. Vitalant Executive Director Melissa Halcomb joined Chief Lambel at the meeting. Vitalant makes donations each year to the Firefighters Foundation in recognition of the support they receive from regional fire departments.
Three members will share the program this week. Tim Frenzer will give a Member Bio; John Kilner will talk about Medical Directives (that we all should know about); Nick Dallas will tell us about the legal aspects of TODI.
Our Motto: Service Above Self
Wilmette, IL 60091
United States of America