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Addison Rotary Meeting Members present:
Guests: Levonne Cescolini-Boyer, Peter Dziedzic, Mei Mei Ho The meeting opened with the Pledge, Rotary Motto, prayer and lunch. Don Hendricks made the following announcements: Mystery Dinner Theater event will be scheduled for Tuesday, May 27 at Alta Villa, 7:00pm dinner. The cost would be $45/person for the buffet dinner. Currently 20 people are planning to attend. A signup sheet will be passed around on May 7. May 31 Salt Creek Clean Up Day begins at 8:00am. Clean up begins at Irving Park Road east of Addison Rd. Volunteers are needed to work on this project with students from the ATHS Interact Club. Scott Helton announced that 28 students from the Interact Club volunteered at the Itasca PADS shelter, serving dinner and visiting with PADS guests. A student summit was held with discussion about increasing community service at Addison Trail. Scott spoke about the possibility of pursuing a partnership with Driscoll High School and their annual Help-a-Thon. Don Hendricks thanked the volunteers who helped deliver dictionaries to Addison 3 rd grade students and who helped serve breakfast to the senior citizens at the Spring Breakfast held at Wesley School on April 23. Scott Helton introduced LeVonne Cescolini-Boyer, social studies teacher at Addison Trail, who has worked with the President Classroom program for the past 10 years. This program allows high school students to spend a week in Washington , D.C. seeing the government in action. Rotary supports this program by helping to select students who will attend and by making a financial contribution. Peter Dziedzic and Mei Mei Ho were the two students who represented Addison Trail this year. They thanked the club for its support and they shared program materials, photos and information about some of their experiences in Washington . George Ellefsen suggested that the Rotary might want to provide next year's students with pins that they can exchange with other program participants. Don Hendricks shared the need for a cost increase for the weekly lunches at Alta Villa. The current cost of $10/meal has been in place for quite a while. Tom Geraghty moved, George Ellefsen seconded a motion to increase the meal cost to $12. Motion carried. This increase will go into effect July 1. Meeting adjourned at 1:17p.m. |