Rotary Club of Peoria-North

Join us tomorrow 8/29 as we hear from Bradley University's OLLI Program!

Lunch buffet opens at 11:45am and zoom at 12:15pm.

The Rotary North Social Committee has been hard at work planning fun activities for the year.

Join us for fellowship at the first Tastes & Toasts Monthly Membership Social of the year. Meet up with us on September 3rd starting at 5pm at Industry Brewing to network with other Rotarians and earn meeting credit.

If you have young teens learning to drive, make sure to check out Tire Rack Street Survival!

https://streetsurvival.org/

This week we will hear from Monsignor Jason Gray. Join us as we welcome Monsignor on his presentation called, “The Path to Sainthood” and an update on Bishop Fulton Sheen.

Lunch buffet opens at 11:45am, Program begins at 12:15pm. Interested in being a guest? Send us a message!

Despite being in a car accident on her road trip from Virginia, Amelia Stansell made it safe to Peoria. We hosted her for our weekly luncheon, where we finally met in person.

Amelia is a fellow Rotarian, District Governor, and Board Member of the Rotary Action Group Against Slavery who we have been working with for our global efforts in ending of Human Trafficking.

She is an everyday superhero who uses her skills, passion, and Rotary connections to make the world a little bit better.

Soon, we'll receive updates on where our donations went and the work they helped provide as they are gifted through RAGAS.

Today at Rotary North, Amelia Stansell with Rotary Action Group Against Slavery joins us in person!

Our inaugural Mardi Gras to End Slavery event donated $10,000 for RAGAS to implement their powerful mission. We'll hear more about what the group is doing and how our efforts are impacting people all over the globe.

A special thank you to Gene Olson for coming and talking to our club about the behind the scenes look at our local airports! Fly PIA
We are always learning about the various great things happening in our community.

Have a great program or local initiative we should all learn about? Send us a message, we'd love to chat.

Congratulations to all our Paul Harris Fellow recipients last week! It just so happens they were all past Presidents and we couldn't be more thrilled to celebrate their continued service with our club!

Congrats Alan, Jason and Scott! Thank you for all the ways you lead by example!

Join us this Thursday as we welcome Gene Olsen, Director of Airports at Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria.
Gene has been in charge of the Metropolitan Airport Authority since 2009! Can't wait to hear what he has to share with us.

Want to join as a guest? Send us a message!

Want another way to stay informed about Rotary International?
Listen to the podcast.

The latest episode, in partnership with the Rotary Magazine, is the article featured in the July edition about President Stephanie Urchick: The Playmaker

https://pod.link/rotary

Have you been considering joining a Rotary but unsure of the time commitment? Well you are in luck! Rotary-North has options that could fit within your schedule! For more information reach out to [email protected]. We would love to host you as a guest!

We had a Rotary club meeting like none we've ever had! Our guest speaker and author, Bill Engelbrecht, accompanied with his wife Helen, gave us all a lesson in not underestimating the global impact someone from Central Illinois could have! The life of Nelson Dean Jay is well depicted in the book Illinois' Gift to Paris and allowed us all to be surprised at just how many world events this man from Elmwood played a role in or shared a connection! Do yourself a favor and check out the book.

Last week's meeting opened the 2024-2025 Rotary Year.
We welcomed our 57th President, Ashley Schreck who has been a member of our club for 11 years.

In her Presidential address, she introduced The Magic of Rotary theme and shared her thoughts on what makes Rotary magic and the part we all play in creating it.

Rotary is so much more than what happens at our weekly meetings, but we'd love to have you join us and see what it's all about.

Find out more at https://peorianorthrotary.org/

We love hearing from local business owners about their dreams and visions for experiences in our community and Travis Mohlenbrink did NOT disappoint! If you haven't been already, make sure to check out his newest creative passion project in Downtown Peoria!

Join us this Thursday as we welcome local entrepreneur Travis Mohlenbrink as he discusses his passion projects of Spice Hospitality and Creating a Flavorful Community.

Lunch buffet starts at 11:45am and Zoom opens around noon.

Last Thursday we had a great opportunity to hear from Tom Cox regarding OSF Cancer Institute and Break-through Treatment Center. It's great to know cancer patients won’t
have to travel far to get the latest and best treatment.

One of our favorite things to do is to celebrate our Peoria Rotary North members and their achievements. Congratulations to the following award recipients on very much deserved accolades!

Gin Burwitz- Rookie Award
Jeffrey Allen- Past Presidents Award
Greg Harness- Fred Sweat Award
Tom Simpson- Peoria North Paul Harris Fellow
Kathy Schaeffer- Community Paul Harris Fellow

Keep doing great things! So proud to honor you all.

This Thursday we have a very special guest speaker, Emmanuel Ndolimana, President of the Rotary Club of Kivu Lake Rwanda. Emmanuel and his club have been involved with a successful global grant water project in the past (https://youtu.be/yYSikL60H-o?si=SAUzAJr_l1etuiWr). He will be speaking on the environment in Rwanda, the successful project, and plans for the Rubona project and global grant.

Please feel free to join as a guest! Lunch begins at 11:45am and zoom shortly after 12:00pm.

Some of our fellow Rotarians spent some time last week at the Peoria Friendship House of Christian Service, helping to build tomato kits to bring home and grow their own produce! What a fun way to start everyone on their way of being their own master gardeners.

A special thanks to Andrea Tortora and Jimmy Wetzel for taking the leadership for this project.

Join us tomorrow as we get the pleasure of hearing from Sam Miller with a presentation entitled: “Not You or Me, but Us” Promoting and Inclusive Culture.

Visit this website to learn more! https://www.dreamingmadesimple.com/

Lunch begins at 11:45am and zoom begins shortly after noon.

Community Foundation of Central Illinois The Women's Fund of Central Illinois Leader Luncheon was yesterday with nominee Rotarians Julia Ghantous and Andrea Tortora.

Special congratulations to Andrea Tortora who was selected as the Community Service award winner.

We are so proud to have you a part of our Rotary North family!

One of our favorite things to do each year!

Young Rotarians doing some amazing things!

If you have driven around our community then you are sure to have seen some of the work our speaker has been a part of restoring and rebuilding Central Illinois. Casey Baldovin, of Baldovin Construction, will discuss what he's been up to and what projects we can look forward to seeing.

Lunch buffet opens at 11:30 and zoom around 12:00pm. Hope you can join us.

Congratulations to our Winner (Les Hedgespeth) and Loser (Sorry Jim Wetzel) for our 2024 Hoops to End Polio Bracket Challenge! Les received another Paul Harris Fellow for his expertise in picking randomly the winners 😉

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Join us TODAY as we hear from Sara Ruder about the various options Gone Social has for fun and entertainment locally.
https://gonesocialpeoria.com/

Lunch Buffett Starts at 11:45 and zoom begins shortly after noon. Want to join as a guest? Send us a message!

Congratulations to TWO Peoria North Rotarians who were just announced as nominees for the Community Foundation of Central Illinois The Women's Fund of Central Illinois Leader Luncheon Awards!!!

Julia Ghantous & Andrea Tortora are both very deserving of their nominations. Congratulations on this honor and good luck!

We are excited to share this list of remarkable women! We hope you'll join us in celebrating our nominees at the Leader Luncheon on May 14th.