• DISTRICT WORLD POLIO DAY CELEBRATION, Berghoff, Chicago, October 24, 5-8pm  Let's CELEBRATE our polio eradication progress in Oktoberfest style with a drink and delicious Berghoff appetizers.  We'll have a live German band, complimentary shot glasses, raffles, and an update on polio eradication efforts.  Don't miss the fun!!  REGISTER HERE
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• Zones 25B-29 Institute October 18-22, 2023.  Our Zone Institute is a gathering of regional Rotary leadership from the Midwest and Texas who come together for Rotary and role specific education and training.  This year the Institute will be in Evanston at Rotary International Headquarters and RI Director Pat Merryweather is asking for district Rotarians to help in several ways.  Specifically, we need local Rotarians to serve as Greeters at O'Hare and Midway airports and to serve as Ambassadors in Evanston to help attendees get from local hotels to One Rotary Center, around One Rotary Center, and to our dinner venues during the 5 days. If you would like to rise to the opportunity to be a part of the 'Zone Experience' in these capacities, please contact PDG Osei David Andrews-Hutchinson at dg6450osei@gmail.com, who is serving as the Chair of the event.  For more information, see the attached file.
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• ASK ME ABOUT ROTARY! ASK ME ABOUT POLIO!, October 28, 10am-noon.  Walk and talk about Rotary.  Get more information here! 
   
• Zones 25B-29 Institute October 18-22, 2023.  Our Zone Institute is a gathering of regional Rotary leadership from the Midwest and Texas who come together for Rotary and role specific education and training.  This year the Institute will be in Evanston at Rotary International Headquarters and RI Director Pat Merryweather is asking for district Rotarians to help in several ways.  Specifically, we need local Rotarians to serve as Greeters at O'Hare and Midway airports and to serve as Ambassadors in Evanston to help attendees get from local hotels to One Rotary Center, around One Rotary Center, and to our dinner venues during the 5 days. If you would like to rise to the opportunity to be a part of the "Zone Experience" in these capacities, please contact PDG Osei David Andrews-Hutchinson at dg6450osei@gmail.com, who is serving as the Chair of the event.  For more information, see the attached file.

Club News

• Aurora United PBR Night for World Polio Day, Tuesday, October 24, 5-7pm.  Pizza/Polio, Beer, and Rotarians.  PBR Registration
• Rotary/One World Polio Day with Ina Pinkney. Tuesday, October 24, 12:10-1:20pm Join Rotary/One's special World Polio Day lunch and hear Polio Survivor Ina Pinkney.  CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
   
• Chicago Cosmopolitan invites you to join Food the World Over Cookin' 4 the Cure, October 26, 2023, 11:45am.  Donate and pick from 345 recipes from 223 countries to help eradicate Polio.  Meat, eat and hear update on Polio Plus from Michael McGovern, chair of the Polio Plus International Committee. 
   
• Woodridge Rotary Holiday Gala, December 6, 6:30-11pm.  The Rotary Club of Woodridge is hosting its second annual Holiday Gala Fundraiser to benefit the Woodridge VFW and Project Cure.  The event will  be on December 6, 2023 and include live  music.  To register for tickets and sponsorship opportunities, CLICK HERE.

• "One of the most critical needs right now is food. Migrants in the shelters are being fed but there are no consistent meals for those at the police stations and the areas surrounding them. I just got off the phone with a friend who lives in the south loop who said that neighbors are encountering migrants who come to them and simply say "food.
  
  ICDI is not equipped to hand out meals although we are distributing snack bags.  What we can do is hand out McDonald's gift certificates at the police stations we are servicing.  I will be collecting gift cards in denominations up to $10.  When we have enough to give to all of the migrants at a station our case workers will distribute them."
  
  Can we step up and find a way of getting these gift cards....soon.   The person to contact is Pat Motto.   patricia_motto@yahoo.com
   
• Maui Relief Fund, If your club and/or members would like to help those devastated by the wildfires on Maui, we have an important connection to help with the effort.  Heidi, daughter of Channahon-Minooka Rotarian Noreen Dollinger, is a resident of Lahaina and a member of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset.  The Rotary District 5000 Foundation has set up a Maui Fire Relief Fund.  Go to https://rotaryd5000.org/ to donate.